I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Heh!
Yay! I haven't been frist this week!
Rounding out for third...
Gotta wait those obligatory 20 seconds.
If I make 5th, I'll drink a 5th...and then some, in honor of Atrios' birthday.
I'll be damned. I guess I'm getting drunk today.
we're alone togther...
don't laugh...
And if I creep in at number seven, I shall truly feel lucky.
Will. I. Get. Lucky?
You snooze, you lose.
I get lucky with jdw!
I'm raining on this parade.
wow...shhhhhh...it'll be our little secret..
argghh! you kids..can't we get any privacy?
jdw,
We need to lock the door next time...
IOKIYAR
"We need to lock the door next time..."
guess so....
Why isn't it treason to do what Cunningham has done? The fucking Repugs are always talking about how free speech hurts our WOT - doesn't this kind of shit hurt a war, any war, effort much worse?
This should be treason, along with fucking with our elections.
The price of the US failure to control [Iraq] is patent economic failure. But it doesn’t end there. The cost of the war has exploded. Bush estimated that it would cost between 50 and 60 billion dollars. But 251 billion has already been spent according to a study by economists Laura Bilmes and Nobel prizewinner Joseph Stiglitz cited by Martin Wolf in the Financial Times. If the Bush administration decides to keep its troops in Iraq for another five years, it was cost $200 to $270 billion more. To this must be added the cost of care to the wounded, military pensions, and the replacement of military matériel estimated at 700 billion to 1.2 trillion dollars: ten times more than the net contribution by rich nations towards development assistance. Le Monde
Good morniing, photograph of Techprincess!
(Feb 18 1933, Yoko Ono born.)
Asians are hot even when they break up the Beatles. In fact, this only makes them hotter.
Atrios frames this well:
He was taking bribes for defense contracts during war. He was cheating our military, our government, and the taxpayers. He illegally profited on the war.
Duke profited, but nothing like Dick. Bigtime use Halliburton to rape our wartime treasury like the tinpot dictator of a 3rd world country. I mean, 8 BILLION dollars hides a lot of slush for you and your friends. And it's still happening.
This should be treason, along with fucking with our elections.
And the worst offense of all, blowjobs.
Profiteers and puppeteers...
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He illegally profited on the war.
if the death penalty actually has deterrent value, this would be a good time and a good case in which to test the proposition...
he's a fucking vet, too: an officer and a gentleman...
up against that wall, mutherfocker...wanna cigarette?
They're Trying to Not Be Evil
Fuck that
c|Net | Submitted by: anonymous
"Google lashed out at the U.S. Justice Department on Friday, saying that a high-profile request for a list of a week's worth of search terms must not be granted because it would disclose trade secrets and violate the privacy rights of its users." ... "Another reason for objecting to the subpoena, [Google says], is that government lawyers might share the information with the FBI for criminal prosecution -- say, of people who typed in search terms like marijuana cultivation or directv hacking."
up against that wall, mutherfocker...wanna cigarette?
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka
Works for me.
I'm a "take no prisoners" mood lately.
"Another reason for objecting to the subpoena, [Google says], is that government lawyers might share the information with the FBI for criminal prosecution -- say, of people who typed in search terms like marijuana cultivation or directv hacking."
Round up the thought criminals!
Of course in reality modern America is a nation more dedicated to war profiteering than to democracy.
Happy birthday, A-Man.
WF
not to try to turn this around, but did the dems ever try to introduce a bill that would establish an ongoing commission/panel/oversight looking into war fraud/abuse?
it seems to me that they'd want to do that, if for no other reason then to put the goopers on record as being 'pro-fraud/waste'.
Of course in reality modern America is a nation more dedicated to war profiteering than to democracy.
kei & yuri | Homepage | 02.18.06 - 11:43 am
if you start 'modernity' in 1862, you'll be onto sumpin, kids...
Hunting people by their search terms is desperate and stinks of the uniquely managerial manner of retardation identifying bosses. We cannot get past the friend in high school busted for searching for "breast" because she was doing a report on "cancer."
Of course in reality modern America is a nation more dedicated to ALL profiteering than to democracy, IMHO.
...And does the Dukester have a bad case of "Haggis face" or what?
Wow -- I feel honored. First, Jim Brady; now Paul Lukasiak (in comments).
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it seems to me that they'd want to do that, if for no other reason then to put the goopers on record as being 'pro-fraud/waste'.
jdw | 02.18.06 - 11:44 am |
Unless of course there are Democratic Warbucks out there... or worse, both those and Democrats more worried about their positions and making nice with their enemies than in doing their job.
We need a Harry Truman just about now.
Wow -- I feel honored. First, Jim Brady; now Paul Lukasiak (in comments).
You're a playa, man!
Taking bribes from companies whose main source of revenue is government contracts.
Your tax dollars being used to bribe Republican congressmen, who then direct more of your tax dollars to the same companies in gigantic contracts paying for....no obvious good or service of value.
Ain't the free market grand?
Vicki--trying to find the right words downstairs took me so long that everyone flew off...
Vicki, I'm so sorry. One of my closest friends has a seizure disorder. She travels with me and the girls to California each summer to visit my folks. Two summers ago, she had a seizure in the airport when we were coming home. It was pretty awful. Actually, she has had her two biggest ones in recent years after air travel. Her doctors said that there is sometimes a connection. Did your cousin fly to Colorado? Or even the change in altitude could be the culprit. It always so scary when no one can figure out the problem.
My thoughts are with you and your family.
whiskeyina | Homepage | 02.18.06 - 11:43 am | #
Isn't it true that producing 'war materiel' is one of the LEAST efficient uses of resources?
Gorilla knows why secirity's more worried about underdressed women than terrorism:
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We are putting six major ports under the control of a country that had citizens involved in 9/11?
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We need a Harry Truman just about now.
nora - 11:48 am
what we need is a fucking firing squad...
the motherfucker's a fucking HERO, for fuck's sake...
it would be very salutary to the discipline and morale of the services to see a fucking officer/flyboy/hero up against the wall, blindfolded, and awaiting the order to die...
Plus, after our "success in Iraq" we goota whole lotta Humvees, tankers, trucks, and helicopters to replace. Maybe this is why there's never any moolah for DOMESTIC programs?
Isn't it true that producing 'war materiel' is one of the LEAST efficient uses of resources?
For numerous reasons. The point of the military is that you worry about being able to move to and stay at certain places, rather than do things efficiently in a private industry sense. So food has to stay on the shelf for months, then be eaten all at once, and so on. Also, war itself is the most destructive thing a nation can do. We heard they didn't farm in France for years after each of the World Wars.
Oh, and more Gnashvegan snow photoblogging.
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Bobo's World
Chomp!
TwinCities.com | Submitted by: oddser5050
"Police arrested a 19-year-old St. Cloud woman Friday, saying she bit off a piece of another woman's nose in a fight earlier that day. Police in the St. Cloud suburb of Waite Park had to obtain a search warrant to recover the piece of nose, which was re-attached to the victim, a 22-year-old woman, at St. Cloud Hospital."
"We need a Harry Truman just about now."
yes. it seems quaint, but truman actually toured the country looking into defense waste in his own car...and i believe at his own expense.
it would seem to me that a smart dem(s)could do the same right now, and make sure they stop in the areas hit by katrina..make it a two-fer.
A little tiny rave for rats
BBC | Submitted by: Swern
"Listening to loud music exacerbates the effects on the brain of taking ecstasy, researchers have found. Italian scientists gave the drug to rats who were then exposed to music at nightclub noise levels. The researchers measured the electrical activity in the rats' brains and found that noise prolonged the effects of ecstasy by up to five days."
if you start 'modernity' in 1862, you'll be onto sumpin, kids...
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka | 02.18.06 - 11:45 am | #
WGG--Embarrassingly, I know very little about the Civil War. But it's been coming up a lot lately. Can you recommend a resource that illuminates your perspective? (P.S. In response to something from yesterday: Cormac McCarthy's "Suttree" is my favorite book...)
Duke profited, but nothing like Dick. Bigtime use Halliburton to rape our wartime treasury like the tinpot dictator of a 3rd world country. . l .
melior in France
I agree. And now Halliburton Dick is dicking NOLA.
...All that groovy 'depleted' uranium all over Eye-Rack fer the little Muslim kids to play on.
kei & yuri - ok, this is weird. There was a story in the Dallas paper today that a man bit off a woman's nose in Florida and swallowed it.
The couple were from California, but staying with relatives.
Either two women got their noses bit off yesterday or this story is all fucked up.
Why isn't it treason to do what Cunningham has done?
Oh, you poor, misguided soul. Treason is lying about fellatio in the Oval Office. Which is vastly more damaging to NATIONAL SECURITY than any war profiteering or outing CIA agents could ever hope to cause.
Treason is claiming you discovered the internets and Love Canal. Even if you didn't claim any such thing.
We heard they didn't farm in France for years after each of the World Wars.
kei & yuri - 11:53 am
every year, four or five french or belgian farmers get blown the fuck up by ordnance planted by cannon fire 90 years ago, and just exposed by wind and weather...just ploughing along and BOOM...
every year, four or five french or belgian farmers get blown the fuck up by ordnance planted by cannon fire 90 years ago, and just exposed by wind and weather...just ploughing along and BOOM...
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar
I'll say it again - war is humankind's most futile endeavor. Not one war has produced a lasting solution to the problem it was fought over. Not one.
War just gives birth to a whole new set of problems and they are usually worse than the one that the fighting was about.
whiskeyina,
They flew
Speaking of profiteering -
"... one of the most shameful corporate exercises in American history, right up there with the robber barons ..."
Rep. Gene Taylor, D-MS
http://www.canofun.com/cof/forum...w.asp?
tid=16745
Also, one of Cunningham's bribers was a company contracted to develop counter-IED technology, whose qualifications would in any other context be hilarious.
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Not one war has produced a lasting solution to the problem it was fought over.
thus it is so infuriating to see some ignorant twit, the military equivalent of a racist in the rigor of his thinking, saying that "war never solved anything but slavery, fascism, communism, etc.."
Treason is denying the right of the Invisible Hand to pick the Treasury's pocket.
Democrats will never take advantage of situations like Cunningham's because many of them actually envied the money and control that Cunningham was getting. To attack this subject means risking not being able to rack in those same bucks and guarantees of campaign support down the line.
This is why almost all of the big name democrats have to go.
They're really just as corrupt as the repugs but are simply willing to toss more scraps from the table towards the lower life forms that work for a living.
MYOB'
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....and this court in sentencing Mr. Cunningham has to make an example of what will happen to any American who happens to be a decorated Veteran who happens to be a Congressman who takes bribes from a military contractor during a time of war: Mr. Cunningham you are sentenced to the maximum that federal law permits, 10 years in a federal penitentiary, with no possible time off, and upon release, your parole will have many restrictions including never having contact with any military contractor or lobbying firm. Further more this court rules that your picture or likeness will be used in dramatic PDS ads showing all Americans what a war profiteer who takes bribes during a time of war looks like.
A minute ago there were two new posts (one of them open), and then they disappeared.
Treason.
Anyone?
"Not one war has produced a lasting solution to the problem it was fought over."
I disagree.
And I think both the japanese and the Germans will disagree as well.
I also think the people of Kosovo would disagree as well as those around the former Yugoslavia which was in turmoil for most of the 90's until Clinton did something about it.
It's not that war can't solve it.
It's the reasons for the war, the way the war is fought, and the way the post-war is handled.
MYOB'
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QC - that was excellent.
Far cry from Helly Ba-buh and his fawning over the president after the storm.
To attack this subject means risking not being able to rack in those same bucks and guarantees of campaign support down the line.
This is why almost all of the big name democrats have to go.
They're really just as corrupt as the repugs but are simply willing to toss more scraps from the table towards the lower life forms that work for a living.
so true. the latest example being what harry reid and chuck schumer did to paul hackett. and let's not forget the failure to support congr murtha. the leadership squelches anyone who dares speak with passion who is in danger of eclipsing their facetime on teevee. i'm disgusted with nancy pelosi and find her latest chirpings about how they were responsible for the failure of idiot son's social security scheme. that's bullshit -- it's the fucking seniors in this country who know that program and revolted.
Starting a war is illegal. Period. And as the Onion said about Bush's budget cuts, if it doesn't explode, it's out. This is utter insanity!
What has war in Afghanistan and Iraq wrought other than death, destruction, plus more hatred and greater insecurity.
Throw the warmongers out. All of them, Democrats and Republicans, and give peace a chance.
And chimpy's granddaddy make a fortune bringing hitler to power and financing the nazi war machine...
what part of that don't you uinderstand?
My previous post about war being illegal should have been signed "The Dancing Kid." That's what I get for trying to be funny in an earlier thread.
Oh - a war profiteer.
Isn't that something else that used to be scandalous?
Arthur Miller is dead. Not just literally, but figuratively and philosophically...
All My Sons.
goddamn, that used to get you hung.
Atrios frames this well:
"He was taking bribes for defense contracts during war. He was cheating our military, our government, and the taxpayers. He illegally profited on the war."
Has Atrios always agreed with Bush that we at war?
Q: Who was the RepuG "big shit" congressman who came to the Dukester's defence and said he was the most honest congressman he knew?
A: I don't rtemember his name but the importance of his thoughts, in my mind, is that birds of a feather flock together and if the Dukster is the most honest of his buddies, what that does say for the rest of his buddies.
If I am wrong about this defending of Cunningham from a fellow Repug Representative, please correct me.
Blame the SCLM and in particular the LAT for this. A backyard story they were beaten on from the start and barely acknowledged.
The Dukestir QUIPS that he bought the boat, not the lifestyle?
Well, now he also has the lifestyle. Happy prison, you scum!
I don't understand why, even in the blogosphere, there isn't more outrage about the war profiteering. Lots of talk about contracting abuses, etc, but the words war profiteering should be repeated & repeated..call a spade, a spade. And then there is disaster profiteering....
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