Archive for the ‘WTF’ Category
Since everyone is running around screaming about the horrors of radioactive contamination:
Via Say Uncle.
Military ‘diversity’: more DC silliness
It seems the problem is — wait for it — that the officer corps has too many white males…
“The commission believes that the diversity of our service members is the unique strength of our military,” writes the chairman, Lester Lyles, to President Obama, in a cover letter for the report. “Current and future challenges can be better met by broadening our understanding of diversity.”
Lester Lyles is a moron. Current and future challenges can be better met by fielding the strongest military possible.
Anyone who thinks anything else matters is, well, a moron like Lester Lyles and the Military Leadership Diversity Commission which was created by Congress in 2009.
The Plastic Pellet Incident is over and the perpetrator has been expelled for the “possession and use of a weapon.” He was also charged with three counts of assault by the local sheriff’s department.
And, in New Jersey, police are charging a student for bringing a gun school. He didn’t threaten or hurt anyone. He’s seven, and gun is a Nerf-type toy that shoots ping-pong balls. Dr. Dan Blachford, the Hammonton Board of Education superintendent, said
“We are just very vigilant…”
They are just very something, anyway.
Murdoc’s tolerance for this crap is about zero.
Plot to blow up Dearborn mosque foiled by tip to police
Not a Tea Party disciple of Beck and Limbaugh and Palin.
He didn’t “just snap.” He’d been snapped for quite a while.
Captured Afghan may have killed U.S. sailors
NATO says an Afghan insurgent leader linked to the killing of two U.S. sailors in July has been captured in eastern Afghanistan.
Also: Speaking of insurgents: Bullet holes found at Corps recruiting office
Oil platform explodes, catches fire off La. coast
This doesn’t even seem believable. No one was killed and the thing is still burning.
This is one of the not-a-bridges near Acala, Texas
Unguarded border bridges could be path to U.S.
ACALA, Texas — On each side of a towering West Texas stretch of the $2.4 billion border fence designed to block people from illegally entering the country, there are two metal footbridges, clear paths into the United States from Mexico.
The footpaths that could easily guide illegal immigrants and smugglers across the Rio Grande without getting wet seem to be there because of what amounts to federal linguistics. While just about anyone would call them bridges, the U.S.-Mexico group that owns them calls them something else.
“Technically speaking it’s not a bridge, it’s a grade control structure,” said Sally Spener, spokeswoman for the International Boundary and Water Commission, which maintains the integrity of the 1,200-mile river border between the U.S. and Mexico. The structures under the spans help prevent the river — and therefore the international border — from shifting.
They were built in the 1930s. If we aren’t going to actually do something to try and lock down the border, couldn’t we at least make them swim for it? What’s next, a slidewalk?
Though I’ll bet if the catwalk across the top of this was simply cut off and someone fell and drowned while trying to crawl across, there would be hell to pay.
I am constantly mystified by the lack of concern on the part of so many Americans about border security. If simple national security wasn’t enough of a reason, I guess I would have thought 9/11 would have convinced many that maybe it’s time to do more to establish a secure border. If 9/11 wasn’t enough, I would have thought the alarming level of violence just over the line into Mexico would do the trick. Is it going to take major drug cartel warfare in the steets of El Paso to convince enough people? Or won’t that even be enough?
Via Instapundit comes this story about Denver cops behaving badly:
Mark Ashford was walking his dogs near 20th and Little Raven in LoDo, when he saw police pull over a driver for failing to stop at a stop sign. Ashford told the driver he saw him stop and would be willing to testify in court. Hart says the officer overheard him and “wasn’t very happy.”
That’s when Ashford says the Denver police officers demanded his I.D. and detained him. Ashford tried to take a picture of the officers to document the incident, and a few second later he was on the ground.
Police charged Ashford with interference and resisting arrest. Hart says, the charges were later dropped because the officers violated Ashford’s 4th amendment rights, “they had no reason to stop him, take his ID or detain him.”
To serve and protect.
UPDATE: Also, “Guys in Jail Are Going To Rape You”
An undercover New York City cop threatens a man taking cell phone video with arrest for being disrespectful. He then explains that an arrest means a weekend in jail, where he’ll probably be raped.
You can’t make this stuff up:
TEHRAN – A top general declared on Tuesday that the Iranian Air Force is seeking a return of fighter jets it bought from the U.S. in the 1970s.
The United States sold 80 F-14s to Iran in 1974. However, it refused to deliver them to Iran after the Islamic Revolution.
“We want to take back bombers blocked by the U.S. because it is our legitimate right. However, this issue must be pursued by relevant organizations through relevant channels,” Hossein Chitforoush, the Air Force Deputy Commander, told the Mehr News Agency.
The Shah’s Iran ordered 80 F-14 Tomcats and got 79 of them before things went south. At least a few of them even still fly. This moron doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Some Iranian Tomcat posts on MO:
Teachers’ union fights to restore Viagra coverage, costing estimated $726,000 annually
Enough cash to employ 12 full-time teachers.
