This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here …but you can see it from here

Chief Tango sent us this video of Adam Kokesh’s arrest yesterday in Philadelphia at the pot rally. It appears that someone who is being arrested with Adam tries to stuff something in Adam’s clothes. Of course, the hippies say he’s a police spy. I think he’s just another hippie trying to get rid of his stash, but, whatever;

But Carolyn sends us another video in which Alex Jones thinks that the Feds have “disappeared” Kokesh;

Just having Alex Jones on Kokesh’s side makes it all suspicious, and knowing Kokesh like I do, it’s probably a big attention grab by that crowd. Jones even works the Bilderbergs into the scheme, and he says that the government is going to “disappear” us all. And, by the way, Alex, yes, I don’t HAVE to support Kokesh on this.

Me? I’m stocking up on tin foil.

So, for three months now, I’ve been trying to get leg braces, you know, so I could walk. Calling civilian medical supply stores, I got zero call backs, which is pretty frustrating you know, when you’ve left 20 messages on voice mail and get no call backs. So, I figured, I’d try the VA – the same thing. I’d leave messages at the prosthetic department in Martinsburg’s VA Medical Center because for some stupid reason, no one answers their phones anymore, and apparently they don’t return your call.

So last week after weeks of calling everyday and leaving my number, I found an email address where I could leave a complaint. So I did, explaining that I was calling the prosthetic department everyday and couldn’t get them to even call me back.

So, after sending my email, I got a call from the dentist at Martinsburg saying they had a cancellation that they could get me in. I said “Sure, why not”. I’ve been going to a local dentist and paying out of my pocket for the last several years, so I thought this would be a way to check up on my dentist.

So I went to Martinsburg today and they examined my teeth. While I was there, the hygienist asked how I got the appointment, because she couldn’t find any information on me in the system. I told her someone called and asked me if I wanted to fill the cancellation, and I agreed. It was all a big mystery to everyone how I got a dental appointment with virtually no patient information. Well, I got this email from the email complaint line, just this minute;

They can set you up an appointment but the VA does NOT do braces. Your inquiry has been forwarded to the Chief of Dental.

I guess it was my mistake, even though I said I was trying to get braces from the prosthetic department, I didn’t mention that the braces were for my legs and not my teeth. Sorry, VA, I’m so stupid. Or something. But, I still need braces, so, you know, I can walk.

OK, that time of the year again. Tourney to actually start probably next week with an unveiling of who made the big dance.

WHAT I NEED:
Need 5 more people for my seeding committee. If interested, email admin@thisainthell.us Must be able to devote about 5 hours to sorting through these peeps, and have a working knowledge of Excel. We’re going to have 10 members of the seeding committee, and it will be just straight mathematics on who ends up where. Lowest across the 10 seeds gets the #1 slot and so on.

READY TO NOMINATE?

Jonn has been listing them as them come through, but some of these appear to be repeats, and we’ve probably missed guys from other (non-TAH) links. So, feel free to nominate in the comments below. But for starters, this is Jonn’s list:
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The Associated Press reports that discharges for minor offenses are on the rise in the military in recent months.

The newspaper reported Sunday that the investigation based on Army data found that annual misconduct discharges have increased more than 25 percent since 2009, mirroring the rise in wounded. Among combat troops, the increase is even sharper.

Total discharges at the eight Army posts that house most of the service’s combat units have increased 67 percent since 2009.

“I’ve been working on this since the 70s, and I have never seen anything like this,” said Mark Waple, a retired Army officer who now tries military cases as a civilian lawyer near North Carolina’s Fort Bragg. “There seems to be a propensity to use minor misconduct for separation, even for service members who are decorated in combat and injured.”

Of course, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Marty Dempsey, disagrees that the military is drawing down for financial by booting their wounded first;

“I can tell you that 10-plus years of war has placed significant stress on many of our service members, sometimes manifesting itself in their health and even their discipline,” he said. “We go to great lengths to try to rehabilitate those who don’t meet or maintain required standards prior to initiating separation.”

An Army spokesman said the military branch does not track the number of soldiers wounded in war who were later kicked out.

I guess that’s Marty’s way of reassuring us that the government isn’t balancing the budget on the backs of veterans, like the President told us he wouldn’t, but then did.

I hope these generals remember that it was the combat veterans who stayed after Vietnam who trained the force that went to Iraq in 1991. The Colin Powells, the Schwarzkopfs, the McMasters, and the nameless thousands who became squad leaders and platoon sergeants and taught my generation how to soldier.

Chief Tango sends us a link to the story of a 17-year-old who was killed by a passerby when the youth attempted to rob a third person in Wisconsin (as near as I can figure);

Police say the shooter, a 60-year-old man who apparently overpowered the robber, stayed on the scene and gave a statement to police. Capt. Victor Beecher said the investigation indicated that the younger man had a shotgun, but the older man got control of it in a struggle, and the robbery suspect was shot.

The shooting took place just before midnight in the 3500 block of N. 23rd St, police said.

“The . . . robbery suspect died despite efforts of the Milwaukee Fire Department who treated him at the scene,” said a statement from Beecher.

Tman sends us links to the news that two members of the Federal Bureau of Invstigations’ Hostage Rescue team died in training in Virginia on Friday.

The accident happened off the coast of Virginia Beach on Friday, the FBI’s national press office announced in a statement Sunday. No other details were given and the cause is under investigation.

The special agents were identified as Christopher Lorek, 41, and Stephen Shaw, 40. Lorek joined the FBI in 1996 and is survived by a wife and two daughters, 11 and 8. Shaw joined in 2005 and is survived by a daughter, 3, and son, 1.

Yet another reminder that training can be as deadly as real life.

You probably remember that we noticed that the president of the Korean War Veterans Association, James Ferris was wearing awards he didn’t earn. When we notified the Syracuse Post Standard of this after they wrote an article about Ferris going to the White House, they sent a reporter to Ferris’ house in Liverpool NY to confront him. Ferris told the reporter, as well as the board of the KWVA that he had been wearing his brother’s medal to honor a deathbed promise. One of those medals was the Combat Action Ribbon, another was the New York State Conspicuous Service Cross. We discovered from Albany that neither James nor Francis Ferris had been awarded the New York State medal and we just got Frank Ferris’ records, and he hadn’t been awarded the CAR either;

Frank served in the Marines from January 1944 until May 1946 and he went back into service from 1957 until 1965 and spent his entire career as a cook, not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it’s awful difficult to imagine that somehow he earned a Combat Action Ribbon that wasn’t somehow annotated on his records. So it looks like James Ferris not only lied in wearing medals he didn’t earn, he also lied to the reporter and the KWVA Board about his brother’s awards.

Bumped back up to the top because Mailahn wants us to take it down. He threatened us with a law suit until I sent him our attorney’s email address and now he just wants me to be cool (You used to be cool). Just some background; he’s behind on child support, he stole $12k from his daughter’s Little League Association. He got fired for making $800 worth of phone calls from the fire station where he worked for phone sex – but I’m the reason he can’t find a job.

Lately, every time I try to be a nice guy, I get it stuck right in my ass, so those days have passed and Mailman is a fixture here. I think he started in again because the Stolen Valor Tournament is gearing up this week and he’s shooting for another one seed. But he even failed at winning the tourney last year.

Yeah, that’s Sgt. Major Ronald Mailahn who claims to be the youngest sergeant major in the Marine Corps. He’d have to be with only nine years in the Corps, according to his hash marks on the sleeve. The good folks at POW Network decided that he needed broader exposure so they sent him to us.

They tell us he’s a 43-year-old car salesman who lives in his mother’s basement. He was a fireman until he ran up the firehouse phonebill with more than $800 in telephone calls to phone sex numbers and they fired his horny ass. According to his own profiles, he graduated from high school when he was 20 years old – a real over-achiever.

Did I mention that he was arrested for embezzling over $12,000 from the Barrington New Jersey girls little league association? Well, he did – that over-achiever thing working for him again. his defense in that case? He’s a Marine and he’d never violate his code of ethics and do something like that.

Well except that the NPRC has no record of him ever serving. Ever.

He has a philosophy that the more websites that he posts this information, the more credibility he has. So here’s his information posted on yet another website. let’s see how that philosophy works for him.

Oh, by the way, he just sent the good folks at POW Network an email threatening to…guess what…sue if they don’t remove the information from their website that he himself posted on the internet;

U have my info on your site I want it removed asap I gave no permission to have any of my info pix or anything on your site I would also like to have the name of whoever put my name on there I have the collingswood police dept looking into to who put it up there but I want it removed forthwith

I’m sure that “forthwith” had Chuck and Mary shaking in their shoes. I know it gave me a feeling.

I will keep sending u my request till u do oh and I contacted my lawer if its not down with in 2s hrs I will sue u

If I ever start typing like a twelve-year-old girl, I’d hope that one of you fine people would put me out of my misery.

So, now his “info pix” are posted on yet another website…I wonder what his “lawer” will advise. I’d better call my “lawer” and tell him that there will be one more in the “I’m here to sue TAH” line at the Mineral County Courthouse next Tuesday.

The Orlando Sentinel tells the story of 37-year-old Chantal M. Lanton who pretended to be an Air Force officer deployed to Germany in order avoid paying her mortgage using regulations that protect deployed members of the military services from foreclosure proceedings while they are deployed;

Lanton never served in the Air Force or any other branch of the U.S. military, officials said.

Lanton pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of making false statements to a bank while applying for a residential loan and mortgage, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Wanting to leave Orlando and purchase a home in Pensacola, Lanton applied for a residential loan with Regions Bank in March 2005.

Investigators discovered she allegedly lied on her application, inflating her income and the extent of her education and provided false information about her debts, federal officials said.

As a result of her guilty plea, she faces a possible sentence of 30 years in prison and a fine of $1 million on each count.

I’d say sentence her to a career in the Air Force, but that would hardly be punishment, would it? I kid, I kid.

Yes, that’s how the Huffington Post tells the story of an inebriated 22-year-old Anastasia Adair in Denver the other day. Apparently, she was handing what the HuffPost calls an AK-47 (but who knows what the weapon was given the inability of the media to correctly identify any weapons and AK-47 is a catch-all phrase for scary-looking guns) back to her husband when she shot her self in the head. When she was struck by the bullet, Mrs. Adair dropped the weapon and it discharged again, hitting no one. It’s being called an accident.

Of course, the problem isn’t the gun, it’s irresponsible and untrained people handling a firearm. It probably would have happened with a bolt action, a lever action, or even a single shot rifle, but lucky for the media it was a semiautomatic rifle which killed Mrs. Adair. And semiautomatic rifle is too hard to spell, so HuffPost calls it an assault rifle to scare their readers.

They go on tell us how owning a gun makes us more likely to shoot ourselves

According to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, 606 people were killed by unintentional firearm injuries in the United States in 2010.

Additionally, the advocacy site quotes a 2001 study, “Firearm Availability and Unintentional Firearm Deaths,” that maintains the following:

People of all age groups are significantly more likely to die from unintentional firearm injuries when they live in states with more guns, relative to states with fewer guns. On average, states with the highest gun levels had nine times the rate of unintentional firearms deaths compared to states with the lowest gun levels.

The Adairs had purchased the assault weapon at a gun show in March, according to KMGH.

Oh, good, you know they were just prancing up a storm at HuffPost when they discovered that there was a gun show involved. That made their “assault rifle” more dangerous, you know.

But let’s look at the string of mistakes the Adair family made which actually resulted in Ms. Adair’s tragic death. Alcohol was involved, obviously she wasn’t trained to handle a weapon because she had her finger on the trigger, or her husband did when she handed it to him, and the weapon was pointed her head, alcohol was involved. Yeah, I know I said it twice, because it’s twice as important. Who drags out their loaded firearms and takes that firearm off of “safe” and starts passing it around during an alcohol-saturated party? Apparently Anastasia Adair, according to an article in Denver’s ABC Channel News;

Witnesses and the husband told police the group had been drinking in the garage of the couple’s home at 10024 Elliot St. when 22-year-old Anastasia Adair, a new gun enthusiast, went upstairs to a bedroom to get her recently purchased assault rifle.

Anastasia was walking back down the stairs into the garage when she reached out to hand the rifle to her husband, Shane Adair, who was below her on the stairs. The gun fired, striking her in the head, two witnesses and the husband told police.

Again, as always, it’s not the gun, it’s the people handling guns. At least Anastasia Adair was the only one who was injured by her own carelessness.