Category: Media

You know what I mean.  You simply can’t have opinions.  They must be THE opinion du jeur of that day.  I think many of us know which ones qualify.

Well, I’m adding another one; balloon-juice.

Yeah, I cause a row because the idiots wanted to make fun of the balloon boy story.  And, when I tried to tell them how many people, first responder’s, weren’t laughing, I hit a nerve.

Well, I sent John Cole my certs, I sent them to dougj, so the internet warriors would be embarrassed for their attacks.  Here is what I got back from John Cole:

John Cole

Jesus fucking christ, Gass. Take a picture of the god damned documents and put it on one of the 500 free image hosting sites. Or upload it to google docs. Regardless, I thought it was pretty damned clear I had seen the documents proving you are in fact Michael Gass when I said the following:

I just don’t feel comfortable publishing people’s personal shit like that, even if they ask.

Additionally, I’m sure I said something two weeks ago when this damned drama started.

At any rate. PLEASE. SEEK. HELP. I don’t know if you are still in law enforcement, but you should not be anywhere near a gun.  

I didn’t ask John to publish the documents.  I sent them to him so he could SEE the documents, read the comments, and say, “hey, he IS what he said, back off”.  And, he THINKS he said something.  Let’s find out.

Seymour Hersh has launched another bombshell into the public spotlight — that the Pentagon is working to undermine President Obama.

The military is “in a war against the White House — and they feel they have Obama boxed in,”

In case you don’t know, Seymour Hersh is the reporter that broke the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam, the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, and told us that Dick Cheney had a secret assassination team.

So, when Seymour speaks, we should be listening…

My wife’s company is one that still has health benefits.  They don’t provide health care plans for free, but, they do pay 50% of the premiums.  This year, her company spent $16 million dollars in their share of premium costs.  Next year, that will figure will double, as will our premium rates under Blue Cross/Blue Shield.

If you read my reply to Rep. Joe “You Lie” Wilson, you know that he is one of the GOP politicians against health care reform that helps Americans.  I received a reply to that email.  It was blank.  Utterly and totally blank.

If you can, go to this link at Firedoglake and help Jane Hamsher by signing her petition.

Now… what is going on with my health care premium…

As many of you have read, I created quite a stir on John Cole’s Balloon-Juice Blog.

While people thought the whole “balloon boy” situation funny, I, on the other hand, did not.  Reasoned arguments failed and as the comments went on, it got confrontational.  I ended up sending my copies of my credentials to John Cole and Dougj.  

In addition, Balloon-Juice decided to take a poke at me about html formatting.  If your biggest bitch is format, you are in trouble.

And this leads me to get indepth on exactly why this entire situation isn’t funny…

You know, after spending time in law enforcement, dealing with irate people in intense situations, you might think that I could handle anything.  I can’t.  There is one thing that really pisses me off — when people think to question my word, my integrity, or my credentials.

Yeah, I get it, on the internet everyone can be anybody.  All the guys are single, rich hunks.  All the women single models.  Unfortunately, that is the way it is — for many.

Not for me.

So, you’ll forgive this rant…

Cal Thomas, the conservative pundit, steps into something that he shouldn’t have; opining on DADT.

As you know, I’m a veteran.  I’ve been in the foxhole during wartime.  I saw war in Iraq in 1991 while in the military, and, then I saw war in Iraq in 2006 when I went back doing ordnance work as a contractor.

I also have a stake in gay issues due to family.  I’ll leave that to speak for itself other than to say, when someone in your family comes out as being gay, you simply have to decide whether they are family or whether you will succumb to bigotry.  Well, family to me is family regardless of anything else.

So, when Cal Thomas decided to give his opinion on DADT, these are two issues I know something about…

Did you read that right?  Resign?

I have an idea for how he can capitalize on all the attention, and do what generations to come will always be grateful for: resign.

Why, yes you did…

Just finished my blog reading and found this over at AMERICAblog News:

NBC just did a piece about today’s gay rights march in Washington. For the political context of the gay community’s ire, NBC went to Chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood. Harwood was asked if the White House was worried about “the left as a whole,” and concerns they have that the White House isn’t doing things that “the left” expected them to do. Harwood said the following:

   Barack Obama is doing well with 90% or more of Democrats so the White House views this opposition as really part of the Internet left fringe.

Harwood then went on to say:

   For a sign of how seriously the White House does or doesn’t take this opposition, one adviser told me those bloggers need to take off the pajamas, get dressed, and realize that governing a closely divided country is complicated and difficult.

So the gay community, and its concerns about President Obama’s inaction, and backtracking, on DADT and DOMA, are now, according to President Obama’s White House, part of a larger “fringe” that acts like small children who play in their pajamas and need to grow up. (And a note to our readers: The White House just included all of you in that loony “left fringe.“)

Now, I’m not one to cry wolf.  The actual quote came from NBC’s Chief White House Correspondent, John Harwood.  However, note that Harwood cites that he spoke with a WH advisor who slammed us “internet people”.

So, let’s start there…