Sorry I could not resist making the title for this post:
The head of the California Air National Guard, Maj. Gen. Clay Garrison, was relieved of command and replaced by Brig. Gen. Gregory Jones two months after a newspaper detailed the fallout from a scandal involving someone urinating in the boots of a service member. A Guard spokesman, Lt. Col. Jonathan Shiroma, on Friday confirmed the shake-up, but he did not have additional details.
The command change follows a Los Angeles Times report on allegations that whistleblowers at the Guard’s Fresno base suffered reprisals for questioning actions or conduct, including an incident in which a female guardsman discovered urine in her boots.
In interviews with the Times, several current and former members of the Guard described a culture of retaliation by high-ranking officers and mistrust in the inspector general system intended to hold them accountable.
You can read much more at the link, but this is just a weird case. First of all I don’t know of anyone that leaves their uniform in a urinal and I have also never heard of anyone ever urinating in someones boots which is extremely unprofessional. Then to top it off the bathroom was considered a “crime scene” according to the LA Times that required two Security Forces investigations and there was even demands for the FBI to investigate. Then there was even an effort to conduct a DNA test of the urine and then senior officers tried to cover up this stupidity by ordering the evidence destroyed.
This whole stupidity reminded me of back in 2003 when my unit was waiting to cross the berm into Iraq from Kuwait. The camp in the middle of the desert we were at had a number of porta-potties. Someone was going around and shitting all over the porta-potties and would leave messages taking responsibility for the mess. The perpetrator went by the name “Shithouse Bandit”.
It became a running joke trying to find out who the Shithouse Bandit was. I guess the porta-potties should have been sealed off as a crime scene, multiple investigations conducted, called the FBI and had DNA tests done to uncover who the Shithouse Bandit was. To this day I continue to wonder who it was crapping all over the porta-potties.
Here is the latest attempt by the Korean left to increase tensions with Japan and indoctrinate Korean children. Do not expect these attempts to increase tensions to stop anytime soon:
South Korea’s largest province is considering whether to stigmatize nearly 300 Japanese companies over their purported actions during World War II, by imposing an ordinance that requires schools to put alert labels on these firms’ products in their schools.
Twenty-seven members of the Gyeonggi Province council submitted the bill last week in an attempt to give students the “right understanding on history.” If passed, schools will have to place on the items stickers that say: “This product is made by a Japanese war criminal company.” The move is likely further deepen a diplomatic spat between Seoul and Tokyo, which are at loggerheads over territorial issues and the legacy of Japan’s 35-year colonization of the Korean Peninsula (1910-1945).
The list of 299 companies includes Nikon, Panasonic and Yamaha. The rule would apply to items such as projectors, camcorders, cameras and copy machines with a price tag of 200,000 won ($190) or more. Most of the companies on the list do not commonly supply products to schools — they include Tokyo Gas, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
You can read more at the link, but maybe the Trump administration should offer a compromise to the Moon administration to reopen the Kaesong Industrial Complex only if a war crimes label is attached to every product that looks like those grotesque ads seen on cigarette boxes.
Via a reader tip comes this bizarre story of an extremely obese American who flies on a Taiwanese airline in order to get the flight attendants to wipe his butt:
The obese American man who harassed and traumatized EVA Air flight attendants by ordering them to wipe him after defecating has, despite being banned, successfully booked more flights with the same airline.
According to Shanghaiist via Taiwan News, the unnamed man booked a two part flight with EVA Air for May 17, which would take him from Bangkok to Taipei and finally to Los Angeles. The man has reportedly booked over 20 flights with EVA in the past; in fact, this past incident was the second such incident recorded wherein the man bizarrely harassed flight attendants to wipe his butt after using the bathroom.
The owner of a Ford Explorer smashes his car with a baseball bat in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, Jan. 20. Yonhap
A Korean man has destroyed his new car worth more than 50 million won ($45,000) in a fury, claiming he was given a Ford Explorer that “wasn’t actually new.”
Jang Dong-min smashed his vehicle with a baseball bat in front of a Ford sales shop in Jeonju on Jan. 20, accusing Ford Motor Company of giving him a car with “traces of repair.”
“It was the last and only thing I could do after no one had believed me,” Jang told The Korea Times Tuesday. “Every time I looked at my car, I felt my heart swelling with anger … I couldn’t just let it go.”
Jang bought his first Ford Explorer in May 2017, but within a few weeks, a serious engine problem occurred, he said. So the company exchanged that car for a new one in August that year.
But he later found some traces, which he believes indicate that his car was not brand new.
After receiving an experts’ technical evaluation report that supports his claims, Jang eventually brought the issue to the court. But the judges did not accept his claims.
Instead of an emotional support animal this seems more like a way to draw attention to ones self:
Wally, an emotional support alligator, walks into the SpiriTrust Lutheran Village at Sprenkle Drive in York, Pa., on Jan. 14, 2019. TY LOHR/YORK DAILY RECORD/AP
On a recent Monday afternoon, Joie Henney walked into the Glatfelter Community Center at the Village at Sprenkle Drive, an assisted-living development north of York, with his emotional support animal on a leash. He walked by an elderly woman sitting on a bench by a window, reading a book. The woman glanced up from her book, took a look at Joie’s emotional support animal, shrugged and went back to her book. Which seemed kind of unusual. Joie’s emotional support animal is a four-and-a-half foot alligator. There must be some currency to the adage that if you live long enough, you’ll see everything. Joie paused in the hallway while residents and staff gathered in a semi-circle, an air of curiosity mixed with the terror of seeing a huge reptile, its sharp teeth visible inside its powerful jaws, and kept their distance. Joie said it was all right. Wally – that’s the gator’s name – wouldn’t hurt them. He’s a pretty mellow reptile, and he likes people in the companionship way, not the potential food way.
You can read more at the link, but I wonder how long before we will see even more exotic animals as emotional support animals and people demanding they be allowed on planes and in other public spaces?
#SouthKorea's EBS, education channel for kids, placed Kim Jong-un paper assembly 3-D dolls for sale online, causing controvery. EBS called him "the youngest head of state" & generally praised him. No mention of "human rights." The price was $3.https://t.co/izWA0ENWxk
A South Korean millionaire who founded & runs file-sharing sites notorious for sharing revenge porn/spycam porn videos is under probe for beating & abusing workers by forcing them to eat a handful of raw garlic, dye their hair red/green & kill live chickens with crossbows. https://t.co/icEI5raOxG
Depending on one’s point of view, this has to be the worst or best demonstration of CPR ever:
Men’s magazine Maxim Korea recently came under fire for putting a sexual twist on its video about the life-saving procedure of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Critics have lambasted the video, saying it “crossed the line.” A Twitter message critical of the video has been retweeted over 17,000 times with the criticism spreading to other social networking websites.
The 2 minutes 24 seconds clip shows two bikini-clad women demonstrating CPR with captions explaining the key steps to be taken in an emergency. [Korea Times]
It appears that Ambassador Harris is going to need to start packing a gun to protect himself after reading this article:
Habib House is the U.S. ambassador’s residence in downtown Seoul. Yonhap
What if it had been a terrorist?
That must be what crossed the mind of U.S. Ambassador Harry Harris.
About 10 p.m. on Sept. 3, an intruder was caught prowling Habib House, the U.S. ambassador’s residence in downtown Seoul.
It is said Harris is not happy with the intrusion and the lack of adequate follow-up measures by Korean police.
The intruder proved to be a Korean-Chinese woman who arrived in Korea two days before the break-in.
When discovered in the house, she was reportedly speaking incoherently and making an unfounded claim that she was a relative of former President Lee Myung-bak, now in jail and being tried for corruption while in office, among other things.
It couldn’t be confirmed whether the ambassador was at home when the intrusion happened. But he is said to be upset about what could have happened if the woman was an IS terrorist trained to harm him.
He is said to be dissatisfied with the Korean police response, not even offering written assurances promising no repetition of a similar incident.
The Namdaemun police station, which is handling the case, told The Korea Times that the suspect was released 48 hours after the incident and it was no big deal.
“Breaking in and entering is not a serious crime,” a police officer said. “By law we could hold the woman for 48 hours. So we released her.” [Korea Times]
You can read more at the link, but based on the police response to this incident, any crazy leftist could break into the US ambassador’s house to launch a protest against the Trump administration’s North Korea policies with no consequences.
What makes this matter even worse is that the prior US ambassador Mark Lippert was brutally knifed in the face by inadequate Korean security.
