18 Responses to “Friday OTB”

1. The Florida Masochist Says:
   November 24th, 2006 at 9:36 am

   Knucklehead Award Friday Part Four

   Today’s fourth winner is Associated Press.

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   November 24th, 2006 at 10:34 am

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3. Starboard!!! Says:
   November 24th, 2006 at 10:42 am

   Farmers Lose…Wetlands Win

   In yet another example of how the government take of private land extends beyond eminent domain, the Island County (Washington) Planning Department has enacted a…

4. Jibtrim Says:
   November 24th, 2006 at 10:55 am

   Cao,

   Idema? Seriously? Nearly every piece I have read on the man was completely negative — including posts from the SOCOM community. Guys from the 75th Ranger battallion have this to say, http://armyranger.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=8045&highlight=idema&sid=8926fbbfd1cef5e3aeaa9352fb90dccd

   Any idea why?

   Jibtrim

   btw…nice site

5. Cao Says:
   November 24th, 2006 at 11:22 am

   Yeah, and guess who was behind most of it? JOE CAFASSO. I’m sorry that you’re having a fit over it, but posting links to places where Cafasso (see At Fox News the Colonel Who Wasn’t) and his pals have planted BS on SOCNET and other message boards just motivates me even more to expose it as total and utter ********. Want more on Cafasso? There’s an excellent blog that has been exposing his antics, here. It appears as though Joe’s hayday of internet trolling and trashing are coming to an end.

   In some cases, under different pseudonyms, Joe Cafasso has had long conversations with HIMSELF on the internet trashing Idema.

   The only person that I can see who’s objecting so strongly to the truth being told are the posers and other jerkoffs who sit behind their computer terminals and have never seen a terrorist, or even been to Afghanistan, and are willing to pile on with Joe’s little campaign because they’re carrying a grudge of some sort, or they really wish underneath it all that they could be half the man that he is. Or…they’re sick sob’s just like Joe Cafasso. Either, way the result is all the same, isn’t it?

   Let’s let the other side of the story be told, and let people make up their own minds without ‘justamedic’ and the other idiots claiming Jack did all kinds of wild and crazy ****.

   Poor Joe is having a complete meltdown! Let’s all cry for Joe, that his carefully crafted campaign is literally going up in smoke.

   Popping smoke has popped his last obfuscation! It’s all being revealed and it’s not just me who’s doing it. So if you have an objection, please, talk to the hand. Join these posers in the smear Jack Cabal:

   I do not feel pissing contests on blogs and in chat-rooms are productive, or worth my limited time in life.

   I said what I wanted to say about Idema, and there it is, take it or leave it. It wasn’t for your benefit “Colonel” Cafasso, or for yours Mr. Warrington, or for yours Mr. Lock.

   I will point out these observations for readers that might think the three of you are the seat of all knowledge in SF:

   First, “Colonel” Cafasso told people, both verbally, and on his resume, that he was a Lt Colonel, who was at Desert ONE. That he dragged burning bodies out of the wreckage and cried over his fallen comrades. He said he had three Silver Stars, all with V devices. He said was in SFOD-D (Delta Force for average readers), and he wrote at great length about his heroism in Vietnam. He was caught, after Idema made a complaint to the SF Command. Spartan Group investigated Cafasso for FOX, found out he had only served 44 days in the Army, at Fort Dix, that he wasn’t old enough for Vietnam, and that he received a General Discharge for unsuitability for service. VERISEAL, also confirmed his phony credentials. The NY Times published a story called THE COLONEL THAT WASN’T in 2002. Cafasso was fired, promised to sue FOX and correct the record, and he never did. From what I understand, through simple searches on the internet, Cafasso recently adopted a new persona, Colonel Gerry Blackwood, also a war hero that not only never was, but does not exist. That sums Cafasso as a source.

   Second, “Captain” Al Lock, whose alias is GREENHAT “Been There, Done That.” It is definitely appropriate, after all, he can’t use the term Green Beret, because he never was, either. He was a Captain in 11th Special Forces Group, a reserve unit, and completed his Special Forces training during that limited time in which a reservist could complete a correspondence course and be awarded the “S” identifier. I have no complaint with this. Many good men went into Special Forces the same way. But I think most people agree, it just ain’t the same as going through selection, and the real course. Next, he is indeed the Chapter President in Thailand. Which leads me to wonder, why as the representative of such an esteemed group of true war heroes, such as George P, he would involve Chapter 3 in this pissing contest. Perhaps Jack Idema should not have a lawyer write him, but instead submit a letter to the chapter, identifying Lock’s inappropriate remarks in chatrooms and blogs?

   As to the way Jack Idema fights, while Lock was drinking at the Safe House in Bangkok, Idema was with the Northern Alliance throughout the entire war. Even AP acknowledges that he saved hundreds of women and children during the Nahrin earthquake in the war. How many has Lock saved lately? I’m not sure if Apple Pie booths on July 4th in Thailand, or even handing out care packages a month after the Tsunami count in this evaluation. Let’s also make clear for the folks reading that Lock has never been to a combat zone, unless the FORT bar in Ayer, Mass counts. Lets also make clear that Lock did a total of 2 weeks a year, three times, with his team, on training in New England. And, a couple of years of weekend drills. Admirable in that he served his country, but please spare us the persona of Special Forces team commander with visions of night jumps in Baghdad. I do not wish to attack him personally, and so I leave out the pages of gory details I could post. Perhaps he should not allow SFA Chapter 3 to be used as a soapbox for the let’s hang Jack Idema squad.

   Lastly, I am not sure if anyone in the anti-Idema crowd has ever even met Jack Idema. You could have, during the time his team put ExLax in the coffee at that Staff HQ because they felt everyone there was posing during Operation Honey Gift while their team was doing all the work and the mission. Or, you could have been one of the Captains he knocked out when Captain (or was he a Major?) Luther Terry took an ***-whooping from Idema because they tried to get his team leader fired. That shows me loyalty in the boy, and balls. So I don’t think a man that has a long record of knocking people out really needs lawyers to fight his personal battles; maybe he is just tired of the loser in a fair fight running down to the police bleeding and crying. I saw that happen the last time he was at an SF event. So maybe Idema will give that chance to really have been there and done it?

   Third, Mr. Warrington’s (TRACY), credentials are impressive, but I think we know the truth. He was a CW2, not the “Commander” of a Counterterrorist Task Force, or CT Team, or any other actual counterterrorist group. He’s never been in combat, either, or ever been to a combat zone, or even visited Afghanistan for some sun, yet he proclaims to be an expert on it. He’s been out of the army since sometime around 1992. Hence, I doubt he would want to forego the chatrooms and ever throw down with Jack Idema personally. There is no history, evidence, or facts, to support Warrington’s claim that he was ever in an SMU.

   Or, like Colonel Cafasso, was all that just to damn secret to discuss, these 15 some-odd years later? Perhaps it is you posers that should post your DD214’s and your 201 Files. I find that most experts who have “People in key duty positions at the local, state, and federal levels listen to me when I make those assessments,” usually do make their resume public, after all, don’t all those people in key duty positions have a right to confirm you really do have all those extraordinary credentials?

   The last we all heard, Warrington was circulating emails a few years ago pissed off that Jack Idema took over a Russian mortar in Afghanistan all by himself and was killing Taliban and al-Qaida terrorists a month after 9/11. Except he added in some **** about him using a mosque for cover in violation of the Geneva Convention. I hope he did, the terrorists don’t follow the rules. I hope he executed the SOB’s if any were still breathing. That’s how you win a war. By killing the enemy.

   That sums up everyone so far, except Terry Gwinn (CPTAUSRET). Terry, we all appreciate an opinion, but as far as we know, Gwinn did some time in the 101 Screaming Eagles, not SF, so I doubt he ever met Idema, although he may have spent a far amount of time in chatrooms listening to the diatribes by Cafasso, under various pseudonyms, Warrington- our CT Task Force Commander, Lock- the battle-torn reserve officer who never saw a bullet fired in anger, and their cheerleader, some nut named Artis, who also falsely claims he was “Green Beret and a Navy SEAL,” and was photographed at a West Point event wearing Bronze Stars and Silver stars that he was never awarded. That and the fact that Sir Artis, a self-appointed knight of the Realm, or was it the Vatican, admitted under oath that “it was just bar talk,” or something like that, and when faced with photographs, he apparently said, “well, my deceased dad got the medals in the mail one day and I just assumed I had been awarded them.” That might not be exactly the way he said, and we’ll never know, because Artis’ lawyer got the transcript sealed.

   So what a fine group of upstanding American heroes we have here on the internet. And did you all ever think about the 82nd Airborne trooper with Idema, a captain that refused to leave, even when Idema offered to get him out alone? Or the Afghan CIA Lieutenant that was released and refused to leave without Idema? Loyalty boys, hate the man, but you have to admire his ability to build a team.

   Bull Simmons, **** Meadows, and Nick Rowe were heroes of the most extraordinary nature who, in sum, represent possibly the three most respected men if SF, legends of highest order, and rightly so. All of us, every man that ever served a day, and every man that ever served in a SOF unit, can only inspire to rise to their heroism, knowing that no one will ever be able to rise enough, through any act of courage, to step outside their shadow.

   I don’t know if Mr. Gwinn actually rescued John Kerry, if he did God bless him, for all Americans are precious, regardless of their political views, that’s what makes our free country so damn great. But I do know he didn’t go try and rescue Colonel Nick Rowe. Hell, Gwinn can’t ever even remember the year of what would have been the most important mission of his career. Although I am sure it makes good bar talk and enthralls Nancy and Darby on weekends off from the highly stressful cable television business. Heck, no one can dispute it now, the whole team, Capt. “Rocky” Versace, 1Lt. “Nick” Rowe, and Sgt. Daniel Pitzer are all dead. Rocky is still MIA, so we can assume KIA, Dan died of cancer about 12 years ago, or so, and Nick was assassinated on April 21, 1989.

   Nick Rowe didn’t need Gwinn, or the 101, hell, Nick proved he didn’t need anyone to save him. When they took, by then Major Rowe, out to execute him in late December 1968, he killed his captors, walked out, evading the NVA and Viet Cong chasing him, made it to a clearing in the U Minh forest, and was picked up by US choppers. He later took over the new SERE course, and then went to the Philippines where he was assassinated by the Communist NPA on April 21, 1989. He remained friends with Idema until he died.

   Why the history lesson? Because I am going to leave you with this: Perhaps you should pick up the yellow pages and call Susan Rowe, Nick’s wife in Fayetteville. The last time I saw Susan Rowe she was sitting at one of the three head tables at the Special Forces Ball. Sitting next to Susan was Jack Idema, he never left her side during the dinner or the ball.

   Why? Because it was April 21, 1999, the ten year anniversary of Nick’s death. Apparently only Susan, Jack, and a few senior officers knew this. I do know what I saw. I saw Idema with her and making sure she was ok, non-stop. I saw Susan asked to speak about Nick, and she couldn’t get through it, ten years later to us, like yesterday to her. When she couldn’t finish and broke down, Idema was the one that caught her, picked her up and carried her back to her chair. Then he got up and explained for her, told everyone we needed to take care of families when we lose one of our own, something that no doubt eludes you fine men who want to trash Idema.

   So maybe its time you made some calls, and stopped letting your platform be used for ****, of the most piled high kind.

   In the meantime, Greenhat, Tracy, CPTAUSRET, Sharky, and all you little Socnet sewing circle girls- you can only dream of being half the man Idema is, with a hundredth of the balls he obviously has. Until then, stay safe at your little computer terminals.

   So are these the kind of guys you want to be cheering for on the internet?

   This is what the people who know Idema actually say, so why don’t you take your ******** and shove it up your ***. If you’re new to the story, maybe you should check out the other side of it in -as of today’s date- 289 posts here.

6. Tidbits And Treasures Says:
   November 24th, 2006 at 11:27 am

   Out of touch

   I just read Greg Crosby’s article over at JWR, entitled “Not my world”. Oh, how I identify with everything he is saying!

   I walk in the malls, or walk down the streets, and I wonder what has happened to people to make them want to dress like bums!…

7. Cao Says:
   November 24th, 2006 at 11:34 am

   One more thing; you could do us all a favor and leave your idiotic comments on an Idema post so that people who are interested can read your stupidity, rather than leaving it somewhere where most people won’t bother to look.

   What are you hiding when you don’t leave a comment like that on a relevant post in comments?

   That jibtrim wouldn’t belong to a ’40’s clipper ship, would it? Oh, I’m sorry, you wouldn’t know that Cafasso also claimed he owned a 40’s clipper ship in Newport. The guy is so full of BS in New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island, I’m surprised you can’t smell it in California.

8. Tor's Rants Says:
   November 24th, 2006 at 4:55 pm

   Jonathan Frakes, Genie Francis and the Meaning of

   Of course the former Will Riker is quite concerned about business near the service center, since his wife Genie Francis (yes, that Genie Francis) has recently opened a home furnishings store about a tenth of a mile from Jed’s. Here’s a satellite imag…

9. Jibtrim Says:
   November 24th, 2006 at 11:20 pm

   Cao,

   I did not intend to leave an idiotic comment on an unrelated post. I was simply responding to your post header, which read “Thank God I’m FREE! Thanks to guys like Jack Idema.”

   That’s all.

   My comment was intended to glean another side to the Idema story.

10. Cao Says:
    November 25th, 2006 at 6:08 am

    The’other side’ of it, as you call it, has already been told, jibtrim. You’re sharing a point of view that is made of lies that have been spread by posers and frauds. Guess you didn’t bother to read the long comment by someone who actually knows Idema, above.

    Why is it that people who don’t even know him aren’t willing to look around and check out the other points of view before they pile on the smear campaign? I just don’t understand it.

11. SSgt Yatahey Says:
    November 26th, 2006 at 10:42 am

    Just like everything on the ‘Net, Cao — one person say’s one negative thing about someone without presenting actual facts to back up their loud mouth, and everyone else jumps into the cesspool.

12. Cao Says:
    November 26th, 2006 at 1:54 pm

    Exactly, and that’s my point, I’d like to know why so few people even notice that.

    Hey, on another subject, I installed the smilies on all three skins, just for you Yat.

13. SSgt Yatahey Says:
    November 26th, 2006 at 6:28 pm

    Installed the smilies for lil’ ol’ me?

    I noticed that this morning, and it was greatly appreciated!

14. Cao Says:
    November 27th, 2006 at 5:43 am

    Woops, the smilies were already on the soldier-with-the-bible in his hands skin. Correction: I installed it on two skins.

    

    Have a great one, it’s back to work for me this week!

15. Daniel Gwinn Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 8:39 pm

    Hey guys, stumbling onto your website, I couldn’t help but notice an article on Terry Gwinn, and how he’s full of ********. Just wanted you all to know he is full of ****!! And I should know he’s my father. Beware of the ultimate fraud and scammer!

16. SF - all you need to know Says:
    December 21st, 2006 at 2:29 pm

    A real war doesn’t bring out the heroes, they have always been there. It brings out the pukes, cowards and posers.

    Cao, you really have it down to a science on the way a half dozen posers started and entire slam-Idmea campaign using phony names and anonymous handles. That dipshit above linked an article on the Ranger site, as if a REAL Ranger trashed Idema and Bennett. I was curious about circumstances, so I went back and checked the original article and it seems you posted it on the Ranger site within moments of it going up on the Columbia site. Coincidence? Then it went up on the SOCNET and two other army sites within an hour. Coincidence? Well, you aren’t the phony Colonel Cafasso, because otherwise you would be saying you were SF or a Ranger. So let’s look at who you are poser wannabe:

    “FireFinder”
    (Now that is cute)
    1. Joined: 30 Apr 2004
    (So apparently in April 2004, just when Cafasso, Artis and these other jabooni’s were gearing up the slam Idema campaign, this guy, name unknown, joins up a Ranger site- maybe part of the group, or maybe just a punk feeling impotent because while guys like me were in the sandbox actually fighting, he was home wanking off and dreaming about it)
    2. Total posts: 1225 [1.27 posts per day]
    (Real SOF troops might average about 1 post a ******* week, usually a month, yet this guy is exceeding 1 a day- get a life, because you obviously don’t have one if you spend that much time making your self into something on military blogs)
    3. Location: Putting 2 into your upper A-Zone!
    (Your upper “A-zone” ??? Oh my, I am impressed, you ******* puke. No shooter/door kicker in the entire Special Ops world talks like that. You obviously derived your skill from an IPSC magazine.)
    4. Website: http://www.arpc-ipsc.org
    (imagine that- go clean your toy gun *****)
    5. Occupation: Computer Geek
    (Well, I knew that already- so why are you on a Ranger site?)
    6. Interests: USPSA, Reading, computers, my kids
    (Opps, you answered my question- you like to read ********, play with your computer, and impress your kids with fantasy Ranger stories)
    7. Military: 13R2P B BTRY (TAB), 26th FA (ABN), 18th FA BDE (1984-1988) 11C (4.2″ Mortar) CSC 2/124INF, FLARNG (1988-1989)
    Now I am truly impressed, you were a ditchdigging shell stocker in the Four Duce Brigade- which means that even if you had been to war you would have been about a billion Klicks from the fight, but your dates indicate you were just mopping floors during those days in the army, and the CSC in the Florida National Guard? OOOOhhhhhh, I am so impressed. What a loser puke.

    So why is a puke like you on the Ranger site anyway? And as for Idema being Habib’s butt *****, well, his guys have already killed, maimed, and wounded about two or three dozen terrorists there according to news reports, and real operators I know, and survived a dozen AQ assassination attempts, so I doubt he has much to worry about. Butt I bet you could be their butt ***** (no pun intended- lol). And as to your other buddies on the “Ranger site” (aka wannabee poser chatroom), none of which are Rangers, why don’t you send your names to a friend of mine at: rangersgm_at_the_arc@yahoo.com

    He’ll arrange for you to meet some real Rangers and lets see if you stand ground or cut away, crash, and burn. You see, the other dickwads that read that drivel don’t look to fine points of your poser ****. Like having a Ranger class date the same year you got out. Impossible. Or being in Ranger Bat in Colorado when the unit was overseas or posting a class number so you look legit, problem was there was no such class number that year. You pukes need to go back to mommy.

    And Matador275, he just really gets me. In Iraq or Afghanistan? Yet you are averaging 5.62 posts per day? Where the **** are you working, the USO computer room? Yeah, RLTW alright, in your dreams you leg wannabe pukes. My idea, is that we take all the little geeks in these chatrooms, just yearning to be SOF killers and doorkicking badasses, and boot you all up, strap you all in, and load you down, and really send your little *** asses to Iraq and Afghanistan where you can live your dream, for about 5 seconds, then you can politely bleed, die, and move on to chatroom in the sky where you can tell them you were heroes.

    Life, one big cesspool of neverending asswipes, it is what is.

17. Sharky Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    Wow. Cao doesnt like me. Yawn.

18. Cao Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 6:37 pm

    Wow. Sharky leaves a comment on a trackback party from 2006….trying to squeeze out another intelligent thought…and trying to make a funny snarky comment.

    DUH.

    Sorry Sharky, it didn’t work.

    

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