Alaskan teabagger hero Joe Miller ran away again when questioned about his service-connected disabilities, this time after a Sunday evening TV debate held at the Alaska Native Heritage Center Museum in Anchorage. The Republican candidate for Senate continued to ignore demands that he identify his service-connected disabilities and his official “percentage disabled.” How much is Joe Miller earning from the government in military disability money?
When approached at the end of the debate to answer this question, your correspondent was chest-bumped and blocked by Miller goon and high school dropout Mark Fish. An incognito Wonkette operative immediately intervened, allowing your correspondent to slip away and follow Miller, who pushed through several people as he made his initial escape.
Five times the question was posed to Miller, and five times he fled. Multiple witnesses expressed shock at the cowardice of the Tea Party favorite, who ran away from the same question last week after a meet-and-greet event.
Miller publicly revealed his status as a service-connected disabled veteran in a candidate questionnaire published by the Anchorage Daily News last week. In response to a question about the Veterans Administration, Miller wrote: “As a service-connected veteran, I personally know that there is a great need here in Alaska for more VA medical facilities.”
Miller could be collecting over $4,000 a month tax free, depending on the percentage of his disability. Of greater concern is the root of his disability. If Miller is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, then a taxpayer funded job in the U.S. Senate might not be a good fit.
Other questions regarding his military service have also come to light. Miller graduated with the West Point Class of 1989, paying for his education with a five-year active duty commitment as an Army officer. According to his discharge papers [PDF], Miller served only three years, three months and seven days. The separation code under which he left the Army (known as the “FND”) is defined only as “miscellaneous reasons.” Miller has not released the reasons, nor has he released amendments to his discharge papers that would detail his years in the Army Reserve.
What is wrong with Joe Miller? Are his problems physical, mental, or both?
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Don't ask. Hmmm. Where have I heard that question before in the in/out of the military context?
Apparently the disability does not impair his motor skills….
What's this? The Wonkett is now in the trenches, in the middle of the shit as it gets real? While I am titillated by accounts of Wonkett operatives being roughed up by goons, I am a little disappointed the only disruption attempted was the asking of a relevant question. Henceforward: exposed genitalia or GTFO.
He had to return some video tapes.
“miscellaneous reasons” is Armyspeak for "he's fucking insane."
Or hookworms.
Also bestiality.
You mean, because he did it to animals? Or because he wouldn't?
Chronic masturbator or bed-wetter.
Miscellaneous reasons: you know, eating his bullets, refusing to wear clothes, shaving his head and tattooing moon maps on his skull in reverse so he can read them with a mirror and escape the moon tunnels: this and that.
Misc. Reasons = Understands "Inception"
Maybe he's just, you know, GAY. Maybe he's GAY AS HELL. Maybe he wants to go marching around the square in a sundress. Not that there's anything wrong with that, UNLESS YOU ARE IN THE ARMY!
Bill, I think you're lucky you didn't get handcuffed, fake arrested & have your body cavities searched. Joe looks like he'd enjoy that kind of activity.
Also, WTH is up with a snark-free straight news story on Wonkette?
We're talking about the guy who shot footage of himself traipsing about aimlessly in the woods with several pairs of severed moose antlers. Any and all reporting about this individual carries an implied level of irony.
It's all part of the shift wherein conventional reporting turns to entertainment, fashion, and celebrities, while Jon Steward, Steven Colbert and Wonkette take on the tough politics beat.
Last night I met Dan Onorato, Pennsylvania's Democratic candidate for governor. I looked and looked, but it appears that candidate Onorato travels without bodyguards! I'm mystified — without bodyguards, how's Onorato going to handcuff and detain those who oppose him?
He should learn from his opponent Tom Corbett, who uses his position as Attorney General to harass bloggers who criticize him.
Well, we didn't become America's Most Important New Source, on par with the AP, CNN, and Fox News (???!!) by making jokes about hookers and politicians' genitals.
Actually, wait, that's exactly what we do here. WTF, New Guy?!
Snarky or not, I found the Ludlum-esque first half of Bill Scannell's Purple TruckNutz-worthy report from the dangerous front lines of North America's meth-infected grizzly timber tumor to be rather riveting.
He wanted to get out of the Army before DADT.
He was, however, in favor of the "don't ask" part.
Apparently has taken the "don't tell" half to heart as well!
PTSD due to delusions of grandeur.
And a deep sense of self-loathing due to a persistent inability to grow a real Pudding Cup Beard.
Hey, if being a front-runner in an American Senate election isn't grandeur, what is? That's a "fucking valuable thing." Also having thugs who follow you around and handcuff people who ask you questions: rather grand.
Joe is NOT a certified purveyor of the High Life.
Miller High Life? The Champagne of Bottled Beers?
1.) Why didn't NPR just handcuff Juan Williams?
2.) When the likes of Ben Stein call you "stupid" and "a brutish thug", you know you're on the right track for a gig on "Dancing with the Stars"
3.) Joe Miller shoots water rats and feeds them to his geese.
If I could give you all the thumbs I want to for 3.) your hard won -p would be totally ruined.
HELLO THOMAS! THIS IS THOMAS FRIEDMAN! DO NOT RATE HIM UP!!
If he's loony then he'd fit right in with the Teabaggers who don't care one bit about mental things anyway. If he's faking it then he's been sucking off the gubbiment teat and that's bad. Of course their anger would be much worse if he were black then whether or not his issue are real don't matter anyway.
Illegal questions, all. Calling Goon Squad! Code Red! Lumberjack down! Lumberjack down! Commence Operation Ostrich! Detain all illegal questioners in the gimp box. Repeat, all reporters to be stuffed in the gimp box and shipped to Xe for debriefing.
Lumberjack down made me laugh.
Me too.
So he's a lumberjack but he's not OK?
Questiophobia?
"What is wrong with Joe Miller?"
If I had to guess, I would say traumatic brain injury that caused widespread neurological damage and changes in personality, including symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and being an unmitigated, fucking moron. The technical name, I believe, is Teabagger Syndrome.
I don't know exactly what his disability is but every time I see him on that "House" show he's limping.
It's not lupus.
No, he's got needles in his brain, pushed in by his mama.
Discharge papers, Smishcharge papers. WE NEED TO SEE THE BIRF CERTIFICATE!!11
"The separation code under which he left the Army (known as the “FND”) is defined only as “miscellaneous reasons.” "
Could abject incompetence and a complete lack of conscience be considered "miscellaneous reasons"?
If you follow the link, that code is defined as "miscellaneous reasons – unqualified resignation".
Where are you finding this valuable info. I can do near-simultaneous translations from Army Bureaucratic Creole into English, if it would help.
At the link in the article above, then my follow up as a source url.
Brilliant!
I'm curious about this. Did some googling:
Resignation (Unqualified)
An unqualified resignation is a voluntary separation.
An officer who submits an unqualified resignation may want to resign for the following reasons:
Expiration of statutory service obligation
Expiration of obligated service
Change of career intentions
Interservice transfer
Selected changes in service obligation
Retirement Discharge of a reservist to become a minister
An officer may also wish to separate for the convenience of the government for reasons such as the following: .
Conscientious objection .
Dependency or hardship .
Officers married to other service members
http://www.tpub.com/content/administration/14260/...
They don't just let you go two years early without a reason. Bet you he scammed a hardship release or something along those lines.
God, I want it to be conscientious objection. Because of Sufism. Hence the beardlet.
The PDF file shows he resigned under AR 635-120 Ch. 3. Isn't that a Section 15?
An Article 15 would be much more entertaining, from what I can tell from Google.
Well, that was interesting. Just out of curiosity, I asked three guys who have done military service about this kind of discharge. All three, independently, either snorted or laughed and said that's the kind of discharge an officer gets to allow him or her to leave the service while under investigation.
There were shitloads of "early outs" available to junior officers with service obligations in '92-'94.
There was actually a big stink at the time because the Army let like 50 Apache pilots get out immediately after they'd spent millions training them up.
It was sorta like when Sarah Palin took her early out just last year, after the RNC spent millions training her up.
He woke up one day and said: "You mean this is NOT the East German Army! Get me outta here!"
"abject incompetence and a complete lack of conscience"
have never kept anyone out of any country's military.
Nut n' Runner.
this yellow bastard might be taking the lead in the crazy-town senate candidate dept. Pretty stiff competition though.
Appareant disability: His whiskers will not grow more than 1/8 inch. Would anyone want to look like that, if he could help it?
My husband was an enlisted guy in the Army from 1985 -1992. He said the dumbest shitheels he ever dealt with were West Point grads. Completely devoid of common sense and no ability to process events-on-the-ground. What does this have to do with Joe Miller's disability, you ask? Nothing, but it's an interesting aside.
I'm on 10 percent disability, I get $123 per month because I banged up my knee during a 2-year hitch. I was separated from the army because I didn't make weight. I got the "Fat Guy" discharge. Honorable, but marked forever with "failure to follow instructions."
Shit. That was easy. Now vote for me, bitches! I'm better than Stubbleface!
Running for Senate is simply Joe Miller's way of staying on welfare forever and ever without anyone calling it welfare. He just loves that gummint teat juice!
The first sentence on Mark Fish's webpage:
During a recent door to door event I was asked why I was a Republican. My answer is, the Republican Party was founded to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority and there is no greater minority than the individual.
That might be the dumbest fucking sentence ever written.
That's absolutely awful. He didn't capitalize the M in minority.
Also, because Republicans are the minority, they are victims — woe be to me. And 1% is the lowest, victimized minority you can have, except the individuals, of course, so that is why the über-rich deserve the tax cuts.
Irony: The Republican party, founded in a schoolhouse in Ripon Wisconsin in 1854, stood in immediate opposition to states-rights democrats.Back then, their moral schtick alone banded the party together. I think their national loyalty superceded that of state loyalty. With the founding of the republican party you get the beginnings of the zeal of being American, and not merely being from a particular state.
I think anyway.
Stop it! You're making me wistful over college. & I don't want to do that.
You never go Full Gault.
That might be the dumbest fucking sentence ever written.
Uh, perhaps, but have you ever seen a Palin speech transcribed? Now there's some dumb fucking sentences of which to be proud (of).
No, these were real sentences with subject-verb agreement and everything. Palin does not speak in sentences. She gives Bill Kristol a handjob, he spooges in her palm and then she tries to read it, like a fortune teller reading chicken entrails.
I stand corrected. You are exactly right.
That was his daddy Herb, was it not? Ben's just a teevee game-show douche bag who happened to get lucky while standing on the set of "Ferris Bueller's Rich Jewish Kid Fantasy."
Ben Stein lawyered for Nixon and wrote speeches for Nixon and Ford. And he is either the only Jew in the world who believes in Creationism, or the only one dumb enough to say so publicly.
this only increases my suspicion that he's desperately concealing some dick whitman-level skeleton in his proverbial closet.
Thank you for making me think of Christina Hendricks on this rainy afternoon. *heavy sigh*
He was obviously discharged for unsightly facial hair.
Run, Forest Gimp, ruunnn!!
"Misc reasons (Unqualified resignation)" is what I came up with on my Army decoder ring for FND. He resigned before his commitment was up. This is "Not Good" in Army speak. USMA grads are on the fast track to Colonel unless they fuck up or break their Imperial conditioning. My guess is that he resigned for the good of the service to go do what he really wanted to do and the Army was glad to see him go. This is NOT a medical discharge code. Anything wrong with him would be like hearing loss or minor injuries while on active duty that hamper him in small ways. My guess is nothing over 20%, but he could have a number of those. Also, VA Math is not the same as Regular Math. In RM, 20%+20%= 40%. In VA Math, 20% + 20% means you have 20% plus 20% of what you have left (80%) so the answer is 36% which rounds up to 40%. He's likely not getting more than about 800/month from the VA.
All these statements are guesses, of course, but I think I'm going to be pretty close to the point. What he's trying to avoid is saying: "Well, I hurt my arm shovelling shit in Louisiana."
If he didn't shoot himself in the foot, I'm betting its a combination of a really nasty paper cut, sinus congestion, and a touch of insomnia.
He may have talked to someone about Jesus.
After reading Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down I discovered that Special Forces ops don't have to shave, the more to blend in with whatever populace they're among. And that Special Forces wannabees tended to adopt the same look and bravado in lieu of actual training and experience. So I'm guessing Joe Miller is exactly the same kinda shortcut-taking self-aggrandizing faux-shitkicker who gets everybody in serious shit because he pretends to be more than he is and then can't hack it when the going gets tough. Not that being a subsidy-taking hypocrite who's afraid to answer a simple question means anything though.
Yeah but Joe wasn't a snake-eating Special Forces guy (they study 'native' languages'n'shit), or even a Ranger (who in terms of sheer muscle and courage are probably the toughest guys in the Army*). Just an Armor guy who went to jump school–sort of the minimum expected of West Point grad. Pretty clear he wanted the free college degree. The prestigious degree from West Point is Engineering, but you gotta take maths and stuff, so it's hard.
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*Yes yes, there's Delta Force, but that's not the "real" Army; they just happen to sit at Fort Bragg, and actually have civilian members.
What was his major at West Point?
Don't think you can tell from the DD-214, but each newly commissioned West Point graduate picks or is assigned to a "branch" (Infantry, Armor, Artillery, Engineer, Finance–there's a whole bunch) based on class rank and preference. If he'd studied engineering, no matter what his class rank, he'd almost certainly have gone the Army's Engineer School at Fort Leonard Wood MO, rather than Armor at Knox or Mech Infantry at Benning. So my guess is his major was Humanities.
Getting assigned to finance: Army :: "I got a rock" : Halloween
Wikipedia says Bachelor of Science in Political Science, with honors, in 1989. So, Teabaggery Studies.
Is this the Teatard-Approved DADT? Geesh!
For our intrepid Alaskan correspondents, a couple of question for Max Fox next time you bump into him:
1) Since he had 20-years service in the Army and was discharged as an E-6, how many times was he busted in rank and for what.
2) If the answer to #1 is none, then who took the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)./ Army General Technical (AGT) tests for him since you need at least an IQ of about 70 min to get in. Maybe in todaze's volunteer is has slud.
If he was an Academy puke, how'd he end up an enlisted man?
Mike Fox (Fish?) is a 20 year vet but only made E6? Sounds like what we used to call some lifers ROAD, retired on active duty. Of course if part of that time is reserve time it's pretty common to make SSG and get stuck there.
Candidate Joe Miller is what we in the Profession refer to as a "Reluctant Prophet'—one who is not yet comfortable in this New Role God asks him to fulfill for the Greater good of His Dominion. I am certain that when Candidate Joe Miller seems to "run away" from a lamestream media inquisition, that he is actually trying to find a quiet place where he can have a Prayful Moment with God to seek His advice on a matter.
Jonah fell into this category, too, didn't he? Hmm. That does give me some ideas.
Trying to get Sarah on the phone?
This clown takes the 'ask' out of Alaska.
And then adds "seltzer?"
Alaska – ask = Ala which is basically Allah … he's muslin!
Alaska doesn't really exist. That's the funny part.
Why won't Joe Miller deny having picked up a weapon and screaming "Allah Akbar" every morning when he went to breakfast in the Army?
It should be clear to even Glenn Beck that Joe Miller is a practicing member of Al Qaeda.
I demand he shows all of his appendages. All of them!
Step right up! Got your Tom Eagleton disability check right here, folks!
“miscellaneous reasons” = "everyone just hated this fuckwit"
Those are the ones who get fragged.
sinus issues, insomnia, all of that counts to increasing your disability percentage.
My guess is he shot his own balls off in a 'firearms incident'. That's about par for the Teaparty arms freaks: all legalization and no skill. Well-regulated militia, my ass.
What 'percentage disability' is having your balls shot off?
Loss of Testis, both………30 % plus special monthly compensation is possible (about $64 per month) for "loss of use of creative organ.
Perhaps that is not a beard at all, but soot. Maybe his balls were burnt off?
At the very least we know his balls are missing, because that whole Stasi = cool act is just so much sackless overcompensation.
We do have a very nice Democratic candidate in this race as well.
Yes, McAdams is the obvious sane choice here…that's the problem. But I'm in Texas, the loneretard state, so I shouldn't say anything.
When approached at the end of the debate to answer this question, your correspondent was chest-bumped and blocked by Miller goon and high school dropout Mark Fish.
Holy shit! I went to that link and thought it must be a Halloween site. Now I know where the term "fish face" really comes from.
That boys got a face for radio, as we say in these parts.
Or an earnest small city mayor.
Mark Fish should be disqualified from holding public office based on the haircut alone.
Maybe the problem is with his teabag.
Joe's from Kansas, we Laskans didn't have the privilege of knowing him until after his premature discharge from the Army.
Someone else is behind the curtain to Joe's laudable military career before Alaska elevated him from dirtbag lawyer to Senatorial for a minute.
Bob Dole & Nancy Kassebaum were the U.S. Senators from Kansas, at the time. Might Ol' Joe be one of Bob's practical jokes?
Joe Miller's disability is Teabaggeritis. It causes you to uncontrollably denounce government while sucking up every cent you can defraud your way into.
It's obvious that Mr Miller is a big fan of Monty Python…RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY!!!
No wonder the right wing assholes are winning. Karl Rove and Fox News are allowed to go completely apeshit regarding any decent Democrat including just creating lies out of thin air and repeating them until they become part of the dialog.
But when it is a Republican, particularly a teabag Repub, whose hair-trigger rage and uncontrolled psychosis should keep him from getting a driver's license and there is real suspicion about something as basic as military service and he makes statements about how East Germany did a great job of controlling their borders–the so called liberal media give him a pass.
It's as if we were trying to lose.
They've been doing that ever since Lee Atwater did it. It's not new!! Wise em, Dems, quite being so damn polite! What are you? Canadians, for fucks sake?
Wuss. Make with the funny or the rabbit gets it.
and what will happen when wonkette wins a pulitzer for all this quality work, hmmmm?
it's all fun and games til someone gets a prize…
the incessant arrogance will start
Maybe someone already addressed this but…..if he graduated from the Point in 89, how the fuck did he go to Air Assault school in 87 and Airborne in 88? Or are these just summer camp for Army doggies?
I'm wondering why no one's made a big deal about the Bronze Star in the awards section.
USMA and ROTC cadets could get Airborne and Air Assault slots during the summers at that time, and were encouraged to do so.
Not noted, however, is his graduation from Survival Evasion Resistance Escape (SERE) school… skills he is clearly able to still use today.
He probably did get that during the Gulf when the top brass were willing to hand out anything lower than an Silver Star for more or less just doing your job without blowing yourself up. It was a good year for the military ribbon and medals industry.
Seems like everyone's a hero, regardless of actual actions. Who's giving this stuff out, Oprah? "You get a star and you get a star and YOU get star!"
My grandfather served for thirty years, retired with two stars, has been dead for two years, and could still kick Joe Miller's ass.
Continuing the great Alaska tradition, started by Sarah Palin, of not fulfilling a service commitment!
Don't you all remember that thing that went wrong with his leg and he had to get a big chunk of his thigh taken out and now he uses a cane and is grumpy all the time and sits in his office popping vicodin and playing video games between solving intriguing medical mysteries?
Oh, wait… Never mind.
The name "Joe"
Third stage syphilis.
Breathing,
That's right, and we're not talking about just 25%. Candy-ass things like hypertension can be considered a disabling condition, even if it's well controlled. It's amazing how an officer can be receiving walk-on-water performance reviews one month, and retire with crushing disability the next, with a nontaxable pension, at age 42, ready to work for a government contractor for another 20 years.
Yep for all the hating on government the teabaggers sure loves them some government money. Cant get enough of it.
According to iPhone autocomplete teabagger=transfuse. Which explains alot.
Make w/ the funny or GTFO. Also, too.
"Five times the question was posed to Miller, and five times he fled."
Just like Saint Peter!
No Peter only denied the truth three times.
It is a well-known fact that you cannot be a anti-guvmint 'bagger without earning at least 70% of your income from some sort of social program sponsored by the guvmint. Them's the rules.
Also a fact: 'baggers do not care about people like this being on the dole. They do not care about big guvmint. They care about black people getting help from the big guvmint.
My favorite is Michele Bachmann who made her fortune taking money from the county for raising foster children in cages in her barn. While also getting crop subsidies. But you're right. She's white.
Our Washington 'bagger candidate for Senate was Clint Didier, a "small government" candidate who had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in farming subsidies over the years. He said that if he won, he would pay them back.
Thank goodness he didn't win, or he'd probably have to collect welfare now.
But he's white, so it's OK!
Nicely played. he'll fit in well with the GOP senate insane pervert caucus.
No, no, no. It's all about the ass, my friends. Like Rushbo's anal cyst. Joe is somehow working the classic right wing "assexuse" for wimping out on his duty. Like a good Repug should.
It seems obvious that Miller is just trying to get thru the election — and win — because it has to be harder to prosecute a U.S. senator (even a newly elected one who hasn't taken the oath yet) for defrauding the government than to indict a mere candidate on the same grounds. And he certainly is indictable on these false disability claims. Because if they weren't false, he'd be bragging about his "wounds." I have to assume that ADN (or at least Mudflats) is investigating as fast as they can — but hurry up!
Apparently his pee pee still works. Or at least the milkman's does.
untreatable VD?
Go easy on this guy, folks. We don't want to make Lisa Murkskskssa worth the Republithugs writing in. These two need to split those votes and give the wee Democrat a chance.
a mysterious discharge from the military ? sounds gay somehow …..
Why isn't this guy on the reality show circuit?
Ole Sam Spade thought that when his supporters were shouting "Run Joe Run" they meant it literally.
Joe was discharged for unnatural acts with depleted uranium shell casings.
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