Discussion: Fired Nuke Commander Linked To Counterfeit Poker Chips

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“Giardina was observed taking cigarette butts out of public ash trays and smoking them”

This guy’s seriously disturbed.

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The bad news is that the admiral lost our nuclear arsenal to Putin when, after several bad hands, Pootie-Poot called his bluff while holding a full house.

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This guy has some very serious character issues all the more serious given his former job and responsibilities.

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Cigars, I can understand. Cigarettes? Ewww…

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Checking for DNA on the underside of casino chip labels? That’s some serious police work. These Navy guys must watch NCIS.

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Gee, and all these years they’ve been fearful of a gay man observing the showers…

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Seeya, copycat sock.

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I would be curious to see the exact wording of the have-you-had-sex-with-animals section of the national security clearance polygraph test.

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Jack Benny and Fred Allen used to accuse each other of being “so cheap that” they would smoke cigarette butts.

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But they probably didn’t mean somebody else’s butts lying in a casino ashtray.

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Given that he was trying to pass $1 poker chips as $500 poker chips, I’m surprised we haven’t seen this admiral’s butt lying in a casino ashtray.

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In my house when I was growing up was a book from the 40’s of jokes about Scots, all of which were about them being cheap. One that I remember is, a Scotsman is walking down the street smoking a cigar, with a hobo is following behind waiting for him to throw away the butt so he can get a few puffs. He keeps trailing behind, waiting and waiting, and finally the cigar goes out. The Scotsman then turns to the hobo and says, “Have ye got a match?”

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Aside to AP: It really is “Ceasars,” not “Ceasar’s,” however unlikely that may seem. Look it up.

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I believe Fred Allen said that Jack Benny would ride around in a glass bottom car so he could look for butts on the road.

Jack Benny said it was true but he was always running over Fred Allen’s hand reaching for the butt first.

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Aside to sbtheydd: It really is “Caesars,” not “Ceasars,” however unlikely that may seem. Look it up.

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'Cept in Reality World, Croupier Putin wouldn’t accept his marker using the US nuke arsenal as collateral.

Putin’s more than merely aware that he’s not got anywhere near enough able technicians to even account for let along secure and control whatever nukes that post-Soviet Russian internal security fears might be out there in the provinces. It’s a big contributor to why there’s been so many odd meetings, weird pantomimes and strange confrontation-like dynamics between Putin and the last two POTUS’, particularly the more recent and actually competent not-overwhelmed one. Remember the ‘hot mic’ incident between Obama and Putin consigliare Dmitry “Diplodocus Feet” Medvedev coming into the 2012 US presidential election, the more recent impression of Obama avoiding bull crap eye contact with Vlad the Ukrainer and the several times where Bush the Lesser stumbled around in Putin’s presence like a baby bunny cornered by a weasel? There’s CONSTANT dialog between the two countries over the logistics of this problem, and the thornier dilemmas are always left for resolution thru supposed personal head-to-head dialog between the chiefs.

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If I’m reading this correctly, this highly disturbed admiral (albeit, “only” two stars now) is STILL a member of the Navy?

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So what was his commanding officer doing all the while?

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The fact that this guy wasn’t caught until 6 years into the Obama administration is another hole in the idea that government can be competent. It may be that this administration is seeking out and cleaning out people like this, but it sure doesn’t look like it.