VoteVets.org, which often works with liberal groups, seized on Simpson’s statement this week questioning a recent Obama administration rule that would expand medical benefits for Vietnam veterans and cost $42 billion over the next decade. The rule calls for disability awards for veterans exposed to Agent Orange and suffering from heart disease.
But then he promptly whipped out his junk and stomped on it;
…Jon Soltz said Thursday that his group had been concerned about Simpson since he started calling for changes to Social Security; last month, he compared the entitlement to a “milk cow with 310 million tits”…
First of all, I appreciate Soltz’ concern for veterans benefits. if i believed for one minute that he would throw himself in front of MoveOn march against veterans’ benefits, I might shake his hand (even though I’m not sure where that hand has been), but Soltz tipped his hand when he started mumbling something about cows and tits. The real reason Soltz wants Simpson fired is because Simpson actually wants to reform social security – something the Democrats are afraid to let happen.
Solz has proven in the past that he’s only concerned about promoting a Democrat agenda, not about veterans. That’s why he’s spent millions trying to promote the Clean Energy bill when that money could have gone to non-partisan funding of veteran candidates for Congress. Show me a veteran of each party being funded at all by VoteVets. Thank you.
No, Soltz wants Simpson off of the panel for partisan reasons, not to help veterans. Or maybe Soltz thinks we’re talking about Grampa Simpson.
I can’t figure out how to turn off these stupid propaganda messages;
Somehow we’re supposed to vote for the Democrats in the Fall because Obama says he kept *a* promise. Not that he actually kept the promise, mind you. there are still combat formations in Iraq, but they’re camouflaged under a different title, and there’s fewer of them. It’s now called Summer’s Eve, or something (New Dawn, perchance?) and the units are called things like the 3rd Armored, Yet Non-Lethal, Advisor Contingent of Jolly Fellows ‘n Gals. They still sleep with their weapons and ammo within arm’s reach.
So actually, Obama made a promise three years ago to change the nomenclatures of the things we deploy to Iraq and after 18 months, he kept his promise. Yay!
A week or so ago, I wrote about SGT Alejandro Villatoro who was publicly complaining about the fact that he hasn’t trained his troops properly for combat. There’s an article in the Chicago Tribune today that continues his bathering;
Alejandro Villatoro, 28, is one of about 160 soldiers from across the Midwest in the 656th Transportation Company, based in Hobart, Ind. He said he didn’t want his unit to be unprepared like his was in 2003.
In Kuwait, Villatoro said, his unit conducted missions with trucks used in the Korean War and trained using Vietnam tactics, like digging foxholes. When his unit invaded Iraq, some soldiers did so with scant bullets.
Korean War trucks, I’m sure. maybe the design was from the Korean War, but the trucks themselves? Hardly. Everyone needs to know how to dig a foxhole, I don’t care what conflict you’re in. I dug foxholes in Desert Storm in the Forward Operations Base before we launched the Ground War. It only makes sense that soldiers are prepared for any contingency.
The article goes on to say that Villatoros has complained to Dick Durbin, his senator., and Luis Gutierez his Congressman. I hope he didn’t look too foolish when they discovered that his unit is slated for five more weeks of training before they deploy.
I understand his concern for his troops, if it’s real, but it appears to me that it’s more of an opportunity for him to protest the war and maybe preclude himself from the deployment. The more he runs his mouth, the more the latter looks to be the case.
I was in DC stuck in traffic near Walter Reed which is several blocks from the Discovery Channel Building. i watched the drama unfold on CNN in the Walter Reed lobby. I got home last night to find my cable and TV out. So it wasn’t until this morning that I found this picture of James J. Lee.
I was shocked when I saw that familiar face staring back at me because I’ve had a few encounters with him when I was filming protests last year.
I videoed him at the “Shoe Bush” rally the day before the inauguration last year;
You can read his comments on the video with his screen name “DCProtest”.
I had a long conversation while waiting for the Code Pink/IVAW protest last October;
Here’s what his sign said;
He was steeped in all kinds of Leftist blather. But he spewed out a lot of Ron Paul crap mixed with some Republican talking points – whatever fit his protest sign. He was a raving lunatic and I wouldn’t blame any political party for James J. Lee like some people have. He was just an average DC nut job.
You can see why the Montgomery County police shot him – his mood swings are kind of frightening. I remember during our conversation on the park bench last Fall, he’d be smiling and talking calmly one second and then become a raving lunatic the next. You can see that in the video.
So in the comments section for my last post about the Discovery Channel hostage-taker James Jay Lee Debra mentioned that Ward Reilly had posted a picture of Lee from an anti-war rally a few years ago. I went on Reilly’s facebook page and found this:
Classy.
Here is the FB post (if you can see it) where Reilly discusses his encounter with Lee. Of course Reilly, with his super-hippie powers, was able to deduce that he was a nutbag back then. Yeah right, I bet Reilly gave him a hi-five for that poster.
So this guy who took hostages today at the Discovery Channel building in Silver Spring, MD is truly in his own class of craziness. I am glad the cops were able to take him out without any of the hostages being hurt. All-in-all it was a good day for the good guys.
But lets be clear: politics/ideology didn’t have anything to do with this. Of course, the bums over at HuffPo started speculating immediately about whether he was Tea Party supporter or not. I shouldn’t just single out HuffPo either. I do not doubt that some conservative blogs have had posters who were happy when it came out that the guy was a fan of Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth.
Sometimes crazy people do crazy things for no other reason than they are fucking crazy. Simple as that. Be thankful no one got hurt and for the marksmanship skills of Silver Spring PD.
Tman wrote to tell us that Wikileaks terror chief, Julie Ass Mange, has been indicted again on the charges introduced a few weeks ago;
The case was dismissed last week by Eva Finne, chief prosecutor in Stockholm, who overruled a lower-ranked prosecutor and said there was no reason to suspect that Assange, an Australian citizen, had raped a Swedish woman who had reported him to police.
The woman’s lawyer appealed the decision. Director of Public Prosecution Marianne Ny decided to reopen the case Wednesday, saying new information had come in on Tuesday.
“We went through all the case material again, including what came in, and that’s when I made my decision,” to reopen the case, Ny told The Associated Press by phone.
As readers have pointed out previously, rape is a broad charge in Sweden. I think Assmange’s paranoia is hilarious, though. And since his last released was pronounced pedestrian by the MFM, I guess this might be his way of reestablishing his prominence in the news with the help of some Swedish lawyers.
Thanks to Gary for the tip. A spy who was busted trying to board an aircraft bound for China with sensitive documents on Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS) will remain in custody and transferred to Oklahoma according to the Associated Press;
Liangtian Yang, 26, of Lawton, Okla., is charged in Oklahoma with one count of theft of government property. During a detention hearing, investigators testified he had copies of two restricted Army field manuals on multiple launch rocket systems on his computer equipment when he was arrested last week at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Yang had quit his job days earlier after he lost his security clearance for failing to report his marriage, prosecutors said.
I don’t know why he was busted. China is a our greatest ally aren’t they?
“The irony (is) that the veterans who saved this country are now, in a way, not helping us to save the country in this fiscal mess,” said Simpson, an Army veteran who was once chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee.
So basically, Simpson is saying that, now that veterans have given their all, youth, limbs and organs, to the country, we should just chalk that up to the cost of doing business and sacrifice YET AGAIN? As I’ve been telling you since before the 2008 election, the government always turn to veterans to give up their benefits which they earned for their service before they turn to the millions of leeches whose idea of sacrifice is giving up an afternoon of Oprah to apply for more benefits.
