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Soldier Who Read Conservative Books Now Faces Charges

Master Sgt. Nathan Sommers, a decorated soloist with the Army Band, is being charged under a federal law that permits commanding officers to conduct non-judicial proceedings for minor offenses.
Sommers is accused of giving a superior officer the wrong date for a doctor’s appointment. He’s also accused of failing to carry out an order. In order to comply with that order, Sommers would have had to disclose private information about his autistic son’s medical records.
The charges were handed down one day after Sommers told Fox News that he was facing discrimination and persecution because of his conservative political and religious beliefs.
“The timing does seem strange,” retired Navy Commander John Bennett Wells told Fox News. “It’s suspicious. No matter what’s happening it looks like a graduated attempt to build a case against him on some really ridiculous charges.
Wells is representing the 25-year veteran who, until last summer, had a spotless record.
The Military District of Washington disputed allegations that Sommers had been reprimanded or disciplined.
“The Soldier is not, and never has been, ‘facing retribution and punishment from the military for having anti-Obama bumper stickers on his car, reading books written by conservative authors like Mark Levin and David Limbaugh, and serving Chick-fil-A sandwiches at his promotion party,’” Public Affairs Director Michelle Roberts told Fox News in a written statement.

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  1. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    First!

  2. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    just barley!

  3. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Re: The link to the story
    While I do appreciate the notoriety, there are some discrepancies. I am not so sure that my name is Nathan Sommers. I have been known to exaggerate but truth be told i never made it to the rank of MSgt. i never played in the band. And I ain’t in the service and i am not facing charging.
    In short I would check your link Tedtam. 🙂
    /Damn fine looking picture of me just the same. Posh, debonair, suave and definitely a trend setter. 🙂

  4. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #3 Squawk
    LOL. Carry on.

  5. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    “The Soldier is not, and never has been, ‘facing retribution and punishment from the military for having anti-Obama bumper stickers on his car, reading books written by conservative authors like Mark Levin and David Limbaugh, and serving Chick-fil-A sandwiches at his promotion party,’” Public Affairs Director Michelle Roberts told Fox News in a written statement.

    Of course he isn’t. He’s probably facing retribution for his poltical donations just like everybody else.

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Sixth, ‘Bout dang time.
    Mornin’ Gang

  7. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    2 Katfish says:
    June 11, 2013 at 9:29 am
    just barley!

    Just oats for me! Morning, Hamsterville.

  8. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    LOL. I keep forgetting about that error 404 page. Still makes me laugh.

  9. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    TT must have been admiring that pic of Squawkie when she put the OC together this morning.

  10. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I fixed it for you, Tedtam.

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Thanks.
    busy, busy, busy over here…

  12. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #10 Link doesn’t work for me but I saw something like that on Drudge.

  13. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #12 hmmm, works for me.

  14. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #7 – B A R E L Y even……….SHEEEESH – is retirement already that S L O W? 🙂

  15. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    8 Hamous says:

    LOL. I keep forgetting about that error 404 page. Still makes me laugh.

    The 404 page seems appropriate for some reason. 🙂
    BTW BSue still gets a kick out of it too.

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Weird – I just saw a wisp of smoke and a burning smell. I screamed and jumped up, because it was right in front of my face and I thought something was burning in my lap. OH3 came over and we sniffed the keyboard and mouse, and looked all around my desk and saw nothing smoking or on fire.
    Scary. I guess I have to shut everything down when I leave now, just to be safe. That means I can’t work remotely until I feel safe leaving my computer on again.

  17. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    There is entirely too much excitement at The Dome.

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Livin’ the dream, baby, livin’ the dream.

  19. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    2
    There were three men came out of the west, their fortunes for to try
    And these three men made a solemn vow
    John Barleycorn must die
    They’ve plowed, they’ve sown, they’ve harrowed him in
    Threw clods upon his head
    And these three men made a solemn vow
    John Barleycorn was dead.
    A recent version…

  20. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    All you bible-thumpers need to keep your faith to yourselves.
    Sounds like she might have a reasonable case for a civil rights lawsuit against the IRS and the Federal government as a group and several government officials personally.

  21. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    NYTimes pulls Weiner story

  22. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #21
    Heh. Premature postulation?

  23. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #19 – outSTANDING version!
    Ole Stevie is just as clean as Clorox

  24. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #21: Just couldn’t stand up to the scrutiny

  25. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    If there is annnnnnnnnyone who can cover this and do it full justice – that would be Alison Krauss
    Can’t Find My Way Home

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I have determined that it is impossible to watch FoxNews for more than 30 minutes without seeing Fred Freaking Thompson pimping AAG reverse mortgages. Every commercial break, every day for over a year. Do the advertisers have any concept of diminishing or negative marginal returns? Ditto that for progressive insurance and LaQuinta hotels; as far as I am concerned all the above mentioned businesses can go out of business for abuse of the tv audience.

  27. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Rubio-Schumer is a fraud.

  28. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #27 – Ya got THAT right Brother!

  29. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I wonder if Rubio has any clue why all “those people” are piling up dry wood around that stake?

  30. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Clapper Under Fire Over Testimony On Fed’s Massive Data Collection
    I can’t see this guy’s name without thinking of The Copper Clapper Caper.

  31. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Oh, goody.
    This is part of why Bronco et al. have been trying to bury anything Benghazi-related.

  32. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    They pushed real hard to topple Gadaffi, yet in an utterly predictable screw-up, they failed to first secure/destroy the dangerous weapons which they knew to be extant; prior to assisting in the diktaters downfall.

  33. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    What was the name of the al Qaeda leader we asploded in Iraq, the one that looked like Squiggy?

  34. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Aymin Aswad

  35. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Umbassday al Grispot?

  36. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    With all these scandals in Washington, unrest around the world and general mayhem on the roads I seemed to have developed a recurring nightmare.

  37. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I’ve been following with interest the recent disclosure of State Department folks soliciting prostitutes when they travel and so forth. I’m still confused though, because they make no mention of who the beneficiary(ies) of these solicitations were intended to be. For example, they seem to imply that some individuals might be conducting these solicitations for their own account, but no on ever asks if they might really be soliciting them for Hillary. Thus the only conclusion I can logically draw is that is who they were really for.
    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/06/hillarys-sorry-state-of-affairs.php

  38. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #31 – “Please put your tray tables in the upright and locked position and strap on your parachutes“

  39. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    SD: My newly acquired item has a very stout slide spring right out of the box. I imagine that it will loosen up a bit after it cycles a couple of hundred times under full power.

  40. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Blast from the past: Now don’t you nutmeg-sprinkling gourmets get all upset and high-tone on me, but we ate at Long John Silver’s tonight. Hard to believe now, how we used to love that greasy deep-fried fish. It still tastes great to me, but I could feel my arteries struggling to stay open. I am still very partial to the hush puppies, with malt vinegar.

  41. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Re Libya, haven’t heard too much follow-up about Gaddaffi’s weapons since he was killed by Arab Springers. What do people like Hillary think the purpose of high office is? If you can’t do the job, why do they think they are there? Cabinet positions should not be “ceremonial” or “honorary”.

  42. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I’m again reminded of one of my bigger mistakes, at least lately (not counting ex-wives, etc.) and that is my decision back when to vote for Pete Olson. I really thought he was one of the good guys, but he never misses an opportunity to prove me wrong. I’m so embarrassed.
    http://www.redstate.com/2013/06/11/rep-peteolson-repjoebarton-want-to-expand-government-with-the-rfsmandate/

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    37 ElGordo
    It just wouldn’t be the same without a Clinton sex scandal.

  44. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I can’t believe the TV station has broken into programming to inform us that the police were involved in a chase. By the time they went live, the chase was over, the cops were pulling the perp out of his car and dogpiling on him on the pavement, and cuffing him.
    I mean – really? We have to know the cops are doing their jobs???

  45. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Changes at PBS:

    Along with sending our own teams in the field, we anticipate building new relationships with a variety of locally-based freelance video journalists around the country,” Winslow wrote to staff. “Under no circumstances do we intend to abandon the mini-documentary reports that have become so critical to our broadcast. The NewsHour remains committed to delivering the same kind of in-depth reporting our viewers and supporters expect from us.”

    Freelancers, eh? Sounds like PBS is trying to avoid the ObamaCare they championed.
    No doubt that all those losing their jobs are certain they have nothing to worry about in the Obama economy their network has been happy-talking for the last five years.
    It is called funemployment, right?

  46. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Fires and cop chases are the best draws to pay for the maintenance of TV news helicopters.

  47. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #42
    Speaking of Republicans making us shake our head (yeah I said it), Cornyn (no surprise), McConnell and Rand Paul voted with the gang of eight.
    http://www.redstate.com/2013/06/11/the-chuck-schumer-republicans-roll-amnesty-train-down-the-cliff/

  48. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I like Long John Silver’s too. Like a Jack In The Box taco though, I don’t know why but I think it’s tasty. And yes, lots of malt vinegar.

  49. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    “1984” sales are up

    Book sales increased by more than 6,000 within the last 24 hours, jumping to the 123rd spot on book sales overall, from it’s spot at 7,636 the previous day.

    http://t.today.com/news/sales-orwells-1984-over-6-000-percent-after-nsa-news-6C10282307

  50. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I thought Cornyn had learned a lesson from Cruz, but I was wrong. I will help to defeat him in the midterms next year.

  51. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #39 Bones

    SD: My newly acquired item has a very stout slide spring right out of the box. I imagine that it will loosen up a bit after it cycles a couple of hundred times under full power.

    Are you talking to me?! Just kidding, OK, with modern springs, it will NOT loosen up until several thousand rounds, the spring that is. What kind of weapon is it? A straight “blow back” or a locked breech? Any blow back has a stronger spring than a locked breech but they are usually in the minor calibers, the only 9 MM blow back ever made, (that I know of) was the Spanish made Astra 400 and you had to be real pi$$ed off to rack the slide.
    FWIW; Almost all 22’s are blow back, pistols and rifles.

  52. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #42 El Gordo, I’ll see your vote and raise you three, count um, three donations to that Jack Wagon! Two in the primary and one in the general!! When he voted for the TARP bail out I sent him a letter telling him how displeased I was and he sent back a form letter!
    I did give money to his opponent in the next primary, to no avail….. 🙁

  53. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    One minute sermon;
    http://www.youtube.com/embed/WGnEuGwvXqU?rel=0

  54. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Iron Mary and Tim Tom
    I likes me some Long John Silvers, Arthur Treachers and Captain D’s frozen Codfish! Malt vinegar is da best! Oh and give me a couple of them greasy fried tacos for .99 cents!
    FWIW; When the boy got out on his own he lived on Ramen Noodles and Jack in the Crack Tacos! He’d go get 8 tacos for $4.00! 😀

  55. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I thought Cornyn had learned a lesson from Cruz, but I was wrong. I will help to defeat him in the midterms next year.

    YUP!

  56. phil Avatar
    phil

    Rand Pablo is another RINO traitor to the USA.
    Rand Pablo + John Corned-Hen + MarcO Rubi-O’s_athletic_supporter = Great big gobs of greasy, grimy RINO Schitt!!

  57. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #56, phil, dang, tell us how you really feel, don’t hold back. 😉

  58. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Blast from the past: Now don’t you nutmeg-sprinkling gourmets get all upset and high-tone on me, but we ate at Long John Silver’s tonight.

    I was just reminded of another restaurant from my yoot. I think they’re only in the Southeast. Maryland Fried Chicken. They had 21 secret herbs and spices. That was some good stuff, better’n KFC. Ima hafta git me some next week and see if it’s as good as I amember.

  59. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I just read an amazing post to the FB Group for my subdivision. Written by the new president of the board, after the resignation of the b!tch I could not stand when I was prez, who took over after I left 1.5 yrs ago. There were 2 other resignations, but 3 homeowners have been recruited to step into the 3 vacancies. I hope to hear the details of what happened, and I hope it was a palace revolt. Nothing like this has happened in the 18 yrs I’ve lived here.
    There has been no deed restriction enforcement for 1.5 yrs, or much of anything else done either. The area has started looking like Dogpatch.

  60. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    And nutmeg wasn’t one of the 21.

  61. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Ha!

  62. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    How do you know if’n they was secret?

  63. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #59 Saw this yesterday and thought of you.

  64. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    How do you know if’n they was secret?

    I axed ’em.

  65. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #63 Hammy
    I understand, HOA is not popular. I still have a photo of the house of a gal who lives on my block, taken when a metal gutter came loose on one end and was hanging down in the yard. With deed restrictions, that gutter was removed in about 2 weeks. W/O deed restrictions, I do believe the dangling gutter would still be there.
    Those who want to have loose gutters hanging off the front of the house, should buy out in the countryside where maybe no one will care.

  66. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    It’s hard for me to imagine 21 different herbs and spices that go well together. Back when I cooked, most recipes I used that called for spices, it was maybe 2 or 3.

  67. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #65 I’m reminded of one of Wino’s stories. He had neighbors that left their Christmas lights up all year round. He got fed up and waited for them to leave, got his ladder, and started taking down their lights for them. About half way through the front door opened and the lady came out and said “Uh, what are you doing?”

  68. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #67 Hamous
    And what happened after that? Ladder pulled away? Police summoned?
    Neighbors called? We need the rest of the story. 😉

  69. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    That’s all I remember 😉

  70. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I was going through an old file tonight, and came across two of my evaluations from my period with a large consulting firm. One of them was glowing, where I “met expectations” occasionally amongst the “outstandings” and the “exceeds expectations,” and where my communication skills with my team members and clients was lauded on every page. My ability to juggle training my coworkers in their new language, documenting the help desk function, keeping my superiors updated on my status, learning new skills – these were repeatedly my best skills and the only criticism – that I expand my skill set – was there because my manager told me that she “had to find something critical to put into the report”.
    Then there was the second one, where I met expectations often, exceeded occasionally, and had a few “needs improvement”. The criticisms included communicating appropriately with my team members and managing my time on the project. Of course, the major delay in the project was a hardware problem that the seniors on the project were trying for weeks to solve with software. I tried to tell them to get new computers to do what they wanted, but I was repeatedly ignored, so I went back to doing what I could do until they got their collective head out of their collective butt, and got the new computers. That was put into my evaluation as my fault, and for the first and only time in my life, I DEMANDED that it be removed.
    Perhaps that was why the rest of the report was not so glowing.

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