Life in 3D

Semper Fi, Marine

Another Marine has been cleared of wrong doing at Haditha leaving only one left to go to trial.  All the other Marines involved have either had the charges dropped or were cleared at court martial.

Military Judge Col. Steven Folsom dropped all charges against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, who was accused of violating a lawful order and dereliction of duty, at a hearing at the Camp Pendleton Marine base in Southern California.

Folsom’s decision means that, out of eight Marines originally charged in December 2006, six have won dismissals of their charges and one has been cleared at court martial.

The accused ringleader, Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, still faces court martial. The proceedings against him, however, have been put on hold pending the appeal of a pretrial ruling.

Brutally Honest covers it very well too:

Many people speak of the terror and agony of combat. And of how it affects the psyche of men for the rest of their lives. Some call it post traumatic stress disorder. But what do you call a betrayal of faith and confidence by the service and the country that you served. Or the injury inflicted when your nation brands you a murderer up front, then slowly works it’s way toward the truth. Is there a medical diagnosis for that or an identified service connect disability condition? What about a treatment. Can you restore a man’s self pride, his honor or his feelings of honor and duty, after he has  been publicly shamed by his own country and vilified by those in the media and the US Congress? Those who had been all to eager to strip away his rights and condemn him of a crime for eternity, are now deafeningly silent.

These same people who were willing to scream ‘Murderer’ without knowing any of the facts are they same ones that  condemned a certain lacrosse team before an investigation was even finished.  People who are more interested in being right, even if they are wrong, than the are with truth and fact.

People like John Murtha are a disgrace not only to the uniform he used to wear, but the system of law he supposedly believes in.  I’ve gone to class with people like him, even when I showed them evidence that contradicted what they were sure happened at Haditha and Duke University they would not budge.  Evidence that did not fall into their pre-conceived ideas was summarily discarded and considered irrelevant.

Let’s see if Murtha will offer a public apology for what he said.  My guess is going to be a big “no”.

Bored, bored, bored…

I’m bored. 

There’s a lot going on that is just begging to be commented on, but I’m just bored and lack the motivation to do it.  I guess blasting through the semester and doing finals and a store opening at the same time must have given me a delayed burnout or something.  I haven’t even done any modeling in the last week or two.

And look at all the stuff out here to comment on, The AP is showing their ass in a big way (and Michelle Malkin is putting her foot up it) so I could probably do a whole post about that, but it’s already done so why bother?

Obama’s Security Advisor thinks that Winnie the Pooh is the way to look at national security and that is just ripe for some good bashing

In arguing that the country should back off a policy that causes too much pain, Danzig said, “”Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”

He read a section from the children’s book where Pooh Bear hurts himself going down the steps because he hasn’t stopped to think of another way.

But again, I’m too bored to do it so you’ll have to make up your own snarky comments.

I could talk about Jennifer’s post on Al “I’m saving the planet” Gore and how Gore is just a blow hard with an agenda to make some cash, but we already know this so I’ll pass.

What I need is something different, exciting, and unique.  Something that has sex, the law, lies, and more sex….. Well, the best I could find was this

As she was attempting to put on a Victoria’s Secret thong, a Los Angeles woman claims that a decorative metallic piece flew off the garment and struck her in the eye, causing injuries and a new product liability lawsuit against the underwear giant.

My first thought when I read the whole thing was “Here is a 52 year old woman wearing a thong with decorative metallic pieces on it???  WTF? 

Second, she’s putting the underwear on and the piece come off with enough force to give her an EYE injury?  Yea, maybe you should check and make sure you got the right size in the first place before you start saying the thing was defective.  I do find it very interesting that her lawyer would not let Victoria’s Secret see the garment at all – I would think if their case is valid that they would have nothing to hide.

I’m going to jump out on a limb here and say that I bet she and her lawyer are thinking they have an easy payday with this one which is why they are pushing it forward, and I hope they get spanked hard in court over it.

Well, that’s that then. I’m done blogging for the day.  Now I’m bored again.

bored, bored, bored…