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Army’s sex-assault prosecutor suspended for….
Yep, you guessed the rest of that sentence, didn’t you? The Stars & Stripes reports that Lt. Col. Joseph “Jay” Morse has been suspended from his job as the supervisor of the Army’s “special victims” prosecutors because of allegations that he groped one of his subordinates. Morse, chief of the Trial Counsel Assistance Program at […]
Wanted: Geoffrey Millard
We first wrote about Geof Millard back in 2008 when IVAW was a thing. I thought it was pretty much over with, but my moles in IVAW tell me he has been bragging about his CIB again, so I figure everyone needs a reminder that he’s a liar. Well, that and he’s buddies with Susie […]
Another heartwarming tale from Code Pink
The other day we reported that poor Medea Benjamin (born Susan Benjamin) was detained in Cairo airport and held overnight in a cell before she was deported to Turkey. She sends us an email today describing her terrible (yet, somehow delicious) treatment; Just the other day I hopped on a plane to Egypt, eager to […]
Friday morning feel good story
Amy sends us our feel good story this time from Houston and proves the theory that criminals need to do better background checks on their prospective victims; According to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, the shooting happened around 9 a.m. in the 500 block of West Road. An off-duty Houston Police Department Officer said he […]
Marine units not deployable
The Marine Corps Times reports that about half of stateside Marine Corps units “were at an acceptable level of readiness last September” as a result of sequestration budget cuts. The data comes from the Marine Corps’ Defense Readiness Reporting System, said Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Eric Flanagan. The system, established as a concept across the […]
Plus ça change . . . .
. . . plus c’est la même chose. It sure does rhyme: US reaction to Moscow aggression echoes Carter’s in 1980 Title kinda says it all. On a related subject: the following two articles might be of help in understanding the background of the current Crimean situation. The Transfer of the Crimea to the Ukraine […]
Nigerian phony soldier scammer indicted
Mary sends us a link to the Associated Press about Adagun Moshood Olalekan who was indicted on four counts of wire fraud in Saint Louis this week related to a scam to defraud women posing as a widower sole-parent soldier; Investigators say he set up fake online profiles from September through last month, including one […]
International Impotence
As the much of world eagerly awaits the results of the face-off between a pinkly-pectoraled Putin and our metrosexual commander in chief in this mother of all Mexican standoffs, there is much to ponder. While Putin’s ongoing media campaign to present him to the world as a real man, physically strong and constantly engaged in […]
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