Hey Gabbers...I've been mulling over some of the special individuals I think would be worthy of the 2012 YGS Tool of the Year. This has been a year that seems to have outdone others by a long shot. I've come up with so many different candidates I could award this to many of them and it wouldn't garner any controversy, but as you know we can have only one winner. With that said, I'm asking you all to give me the names of your leader in the race, the one guy, gal, team or organization that you think stands out from all the others. 

Post them below and I'll have the announcement on Sunday! See you then! 

Sully

Okay Gabbers, who do you have in mind for this weeks' Tool of the Week? There's a few that stand out to, let's see if we're on the same page. 

It really makes my skin crawl when I come across stories like this one Beeze pointed out to me. I come from a family of firefighters and have friends who are in various departments, all in the greater Boston area, my grandfather Joseph P. Sullivan was a Captain on the Malden Fire Department. While my dad was still in elementary school he and my ten aunts and uncles (yeah, lot of warm winters in the Sullivan household) lived in a double-decker just around the corner from the fire house. Whenever my grandfather went out on a call that was a large fire my grandmother and some of the other wives would throw together meals and bring them to the scene. I’ve heard lots of great stories about my grandfather, a tough ole Irishman who came to America newly married with one daughter and another on the way and found a living as most Irishmen did, in the Fire Department. He could drink you under the table and then carry you out on his shoulder afterwards.

We all have a special place in our hearts for firefighters especially since 9/11. On that day as I saw the first of the two towers come down I said to my wife, a lot of firefighters just got killed going up those stairwells. I don’t even think the news media caught that part nearly as quick as I did, but I’m sure anyone from a firefighter family knew it that very moment, and it was chilling to the bone to think about. It takes a special kind of person to walk into a burning building never knowing what’s waiting for them once inside.

Which brings me to our Tool of the Week, Jordan Liflander, he has none of the above mentioned courage, what he has for a resume is all lies and he was doing just fine going around telling anyone who would listen of his 9/11 heroics as a first responder and captain of Ladder 133 which lost 12 firefighters, until some actual NY firefighters heard that he had given a speech in Spartanburg, S.C. on 9/11 of 2011. He was asked to speak in front of a crowd at a football stadium by a group he was a member of, all former military, police and firefighters who did a mediocre background check on this jerk when he first became a paid volunteer in S. C., at that time it appears they only verified he was a firefighter but not his rank and certainly not if he had been involved in any way as a first responder, who claimed to have attended 42 funerals for the real fallen heroes of 9/11.

Liflander claims he just got caught up in the lie and wanted to stop, but from video I’ve seen and stories on the net I’ve read including interviews of friends, one who recommended him to speak at the memorial were blown away by these developments and none of them ever said he had came to any of them looking to “clear the air”, and I think it’s a safe bet he’d be pawing himself off as that same hero of 9/11 to this day if it wasn’t for actual NY firefighters calling the press and exposing this fucking fraud for what he is. There’s a special place in hell for guys like this and his spot is warm and waiting for him.

After reading this story it reminded me of the guys who go around telling everyone that they’re Navy Seals, in that story an actual SEAL who runs a website that researches upon request those who claim to be former or current Seal operatives. I forget the actual number of SEALS he claimed there were that were either active or retired but it wasn’t ‘a large number, we’ll say 5,000 but he claims he’s met all 250,000 former SEALS, meaning there’s more frauds than actual Navy SEALS. Since I couldn’t find a video of a fake firefighter, I remembered this one I was sent a while ago and dug it up, this is pretty funny shit so just pretend he’s Jordan Liflander instead of a SEAL team 6 member, they’re both TOOLS!

Okay Gabber's,it's  time to nominate your candidate for TOTW!!!

Who you got in mind?

You know what to do!

LET ME PREFACE THIS RANT BY SAYING IT’S GOING TO BE LACED WITH PROFANITY, IF THAT OFFENDS YOU I DON’T GIVE A SHIT, GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!

As some of you have seen we had a little visitor while trying to celebrate the life of our friend 3^rd stone, most of you probably missed it though because just like at TSN he waited a few days for the blog to get stale and then came in and put in his two cents that way only the publisher, in this case Beeze, and those who commented would see it, and that’s only if you had checked the alert box. I’ve seen this punk mother fucker do it before, many times. Busch league crap like this has been a trademark of his for a long time. HE HAS NO BALLS!!! Who is it I'm talking about? BACKELL, or BACKASS as I like to call him, who else?

For those of you wondering what the title means, it’s referring to an incident when the preacher had crashed the server at Sporting News. On that night, I was doing a mock draft with NWolf and we were talking on the phone and he asked me if I lost the connection to TSN and I had, the whole site was down and stayed that way for a long while because it was well after midnight on the east coast, I want to say it was early in the a.m. on a Monday and more than likely only a skeleton staff was behind the scenes. The next afternoon when I went to see if things where back up and running I started catching wind of what happened and who was to blame, then I saw this TOOL (backell) wrote a blog explaining he did it and it was a ruse. First off it wasn’t a ruse as he’d claim, we knew he was inflating his page views for months by sitting there hitting F-5. He said, and this is my favorite part, it shows what kind of fucking liar he is, “that he taped down the Control and F buttons on his keyboard to keep refreshing”. Now when I read that, being a handy type guy I looked at my keyboard which was for a desktop computer and thought,  that isn’t happening, and it sure as fuck isn’t happening on a laptop either. Try it and get back to me, it won’t work. So it’s pretty obvious our TOTW was sitting there late at night, as usual, adding to his page view count when he must have gotten just a little carried away seeing how he had just added about 5,000 hits to his daily tally…shocking for a preacher to be padding his numbers and trying make himself something he’s not, don’t you think?

I’ve had more than a few run-ins with this piece of shit. This honorable preacher ran blog contests, collected the votes and always won for best blogger that came with a huge trophy he’d paste on his profile and also on the header to his blog. He did this so those who might have come across his post for the first time would think they stumbled across some award winning journalist…that’s a frickin hoot. A legend in his own mind is what he is.

Making an example of this fucking piece of shit isn’t hard, not when you come into our house and shit on our rug, especially when we’re mourning the loss of a friend, the same friend he claimed he respected after being sure he told us all that’s the only reason he signed up. He’s not the only one that did this either, the other guy did it twice in the same day. Yeah, lets’ roll out the red carpet for these guys, pat them on the back and make them welcome shall we? That’s not going to happen.  If folks want to continue to act like douche bags that’s fine, in fact there are those out there that I never expect to change and we’ve managed to go about our day’s just fine without them. We don’t give a fuck about what’s “politically correct” (and if I find out who it is that coined that pussy phrase they’ll be made an example of too), that’s just an easy way of saying I’m afraid to say how I really feel, well if that’s how you are we really don’t want you here, there’s plenty of places on the net you can go where they’ll open their doors give you a big hug, tell you everything you say is right and follow that with a pat on your back after they give you an internet hug and kiss. You can fucking have it. If shallow approval is what you need to get through the day you’ve got more problems that you can ever imagine.

What really has been bugging me about this, and it runs deeper than just a couple of comments on our tribute to 3^rd stone, it’s that it was probably more directed at me specifically than anyone else, and I’m a big boy I can handle myself just fine, what pisses me off is I haven’t joined any of these other places, I don’t go there and comment, I don’t have them bookmarked, I don’t care what they do. They don’t seem to want to offer any olive branches, and quite frankly I don’t feel like I would need to apologize to any one of them, and here’s the reason, most of these people I haven’t had a run-in with, they don’t like me for some reason and that’s fine, as I said, I’ve been going about my business without one thought either way about any of them, it seems they’re the ones who felt a reminder was in order. If that’s what was intended then be a fucking man about it, don’t post it on a blog 4-5 days after it was up so no one will see it, if you’ve got something to say come to me and say it and by all means don’t take it out on a whole group, message me directly, we’ll go from there. And  if you’ve got something you’d like to say to me in person, say where and when, I’ll be there, but don’t pull this chicken shit, back door pussy crap, because that’s what it is, and in the end all you will have gotten for your trouble is a “Tool of the Week” nod! Come again when you can’t stay so long asshole!