Sunday, January 11, 2004
Report: Pentagon Auditors Altered Files
AP - "WASHINGTON - Pentagon auditors spent 1,139 hours altering their own files in order to pass an internal review, say investigators who found that the accounting sleuths engaged in just the kind of wasteful activity they are supposed to expose."
Oh, and this is rich:
"The defense agency, which audits government contracts, is the same one that recently reported that Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton, may have overcharged the Army as much as $61 million for gasoline in Iraq."
Fire them all.
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AP - "WASHINGTON - Pentagon auditors spent 1,139 hours altering their own files in order to pass an internal review, say investigators who found that the accounting sleuths engaged in just the kind of wasteful activity they are supposed to expose."
Oh, and this is rich:
"The defense agency, which audits government contracts, is the same one that recently reported that Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton, may have overcharged the Army as much as $61 million for gasoline in Iraq."
Fire them all.
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Saturday, January 03, 2004
Kucinich Bill Seeks to Prohibit Mind Control Weapons and Chemtrails
This simply has to be BS. Nobody is this stupid, not even idiot congressman Major Owen, or passive-aggressive senator Tom Daschle, or neuronally-challenged Maxine Waters, or... or... or...
Aw hell. I give up.
(thanks to Allah and the Kucinich Report)
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This simply has to be BS. Nobody is this stupid, not even idiot congressman Major Owen, or passive-aggressive senator Tom Daschle, or neuronally-challenged Maxine Waters, or... or... or...
Aw hell. I give up.
(thanks to Allah and the Kucinich Report)
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British Pilots Cower In Fear Of... Air Marshals
In another indication of the turmoil resulting from the increased security measures, an American official said that the cancellation of the British Airways flights was not in response to United States safety concerns, but rather was prompted by the refusal of British pilots to fly with armed marshals on board.
Fine by me. The US government's sole concern right now is protecting US airspace. This is as it should be. Sure, it's disappointing to hear that British pilots object to having armed air marshals on board. But that's their own craven pathology. I only hope they won't further embarrass themselves by spouting some anti-gun garbage.
I know this can be hard for some of our more, ah, "simple" friends to understand, but if everything went wrong that the pilots imagine, you end up with an aircraft with a few holes in the fuselage, and maybe some dead passengers. However, if everything goes wrong that's imagined by US authorities, then you end up with a crashed plane, a destroyed landmark, and thousands of people dead. Maybe those pilots should look up "no-brainer" at Dictionary.com.
Here, I'll help: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=no-brainer
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In another indication of the turmoil resulting from the increased security measures, an American official said that the cancellation of the British Airways flights was not in response to United States safety concerns, but rather was prompted by the refusal of British pilots to fly with armed marshals on board.
Fine by me. The US government's sole concern right now is protecting US airspace. This is as it should be. Sure, it's disappointing to hear that British pilots object to having armed air marshals on board. But that's their own craven pathology. I only hope they won't further embarrass themselves by spouting some anti-gun garbage.
I know this can be hard for some of our more, ah, "simple" friends to understand, but if everything went wrong that the pilots imagine, you end up with an aircraft with a few holes in the fuselage, and maybe some dead passengers. However, if everything goes wrong that's imagined by US authorities, then you end up with a crashed plane, a destroyed landmark, and thousands of people dead. Maybe those pilots should look up "no-brainer" at Dictionary.com.
Here, I'll help: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=no-brainer
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All 148 Aboard Killed in Egypt Jet Crash
I'd like to express my deep sympathies and sorrow at this sad news. I've been known rail at the French (the flight carried "mostly French tourists"), but when tragedy strikes it's time to remember our common humanity. I hope the families of those who perished can find some source of solace that will comfort them at this time of loss.
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I'd like to express my deep sympathies and sorrow at this sad news. I've been known rail at the French (the flight carried "mostly French tourists"), but when tragedy strikes it's time to remember our common humanity. I hope the families of those who perished can find some source of solace that will comfort them at this time of loss.
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Thursday, January 01, 2004
As one of my favorite bloggers often says, "Oho!" Hmm. What do we see here? Oh, yes. The asshat Palestinians have done it again. But wait! There's more! It seems our little Weasels of the West Bank have managed to piss off the Egyptians.
As always, our friends at MEMRI have translated some local commentators. So adjust your chair, turn up the volume and listen in to what the Egyptians are saying to each other...
"You beat the man who came on your behalf, and it is Israel that takes him to the hospital for treatment. What shame and disgrace you have cast upon yourselves and on your cause?!" -- Muhammad Foudah, in the Egyptian daily Al-Masaa
"Yes, these sinning assailants are deserving of the curse of 70 million Egyptians who yesterday watched this cowardly act on television ..." -- Galal Duweidar, editor of Al-Akhbar
"The contemptible attack on the Egyptian foreign minister ... causes many to ask whether the time has not come to focus on our domestic problems - many of which stem from the wars in which we participated for the sake of Palestine - instead of wasting efforts [in an attempt] to solve the problem of a people who are at odds among themselves and accuse each other, and others, of betrayal." -- Said Sunbul, Al-Akhbar columnist
"The Egyptian people will also not forget that Yasser Arafat danced with joy when the assassination of President Sadat was announced ...[those bastards sure do like to get jiggy wit it when their betters get killed, don't they? - ed] "We are fed up, Your Excellency [Arafat], sole spokesman of the Palestinian people, with your repeated statements [blaming] any anti-Egyptian act on the part of the Palestinians on a tiny, stupid minority ..." [doh! They figured out that one, too?! - ed] "Personally, I do not accept the apology of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat ... I demand that Parliament convene for a special session, with the presence of the foreign minister, to be dedicated to examining our policy regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict..." -- Ibrahim Sa-dah, editor of the weekly Akhbar Al-Youm
"... Are these scum of the earth capable of accomplishing something for the Palestinian people? It is reasonable to assume that they, like the supporters of suicide bombings, are the first to damage the Palestinian cause, and are bringing death upon the Palestinian people..." -- Hazem Abd Al-Rahman, in Al-Ahram
"Everything that happened to the Palestinians as a result of their being dragged after the leaders of words, who for over half a century waved the motto of complete liberation from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea, until we lost nearly everything and Palestine was left practically without a river and without a sea, was not enough for them ..." -- Mursey 'Atallah, editor of the Al-Ahram evening edition
They've even managed to piss off some Qataris...
"I don't need to repeat what others have said, that is, that the attack was organized by the Israelis. Such an allegation is first of all nonsense, and emanates from some peoples' addiction to turning the facts upside down, and burying their heads in the sand." [or somewhere more immediately aft-facing - ed] -- Al-Raya columnist Abd Al-Karim Hashish
And the Lebanese as well...
"Once again, we realize that the Arabs are their own worst enemy - just as the worst enemy of the Palestinian cause is the Palestinians , who have endorsed a policy of refusal and fundamentalist extremism as a way of behavior." -- Jubran Tuweini, editor of the daily Al-Nahar
Does all this mean that the Arabs have finally (surprise!) discovered what the rest of the (thinking) world already knows? C'mon. Get real.
It'd be nice to be wrong, though. Wouldn't it?
(Thanks to World Net Daily)
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As always, our friends at MEMRI have translated some local commentators. So adjust your chair, turn up the volume and listen in to what the Egyptians are saying to each other...
"You beat the man who came on your behalf, and it is Israel that takes him to the hospital for treatment. What shame and disgrace you have cast upon yourselves and on your cause?!" -- Muhammad Foudah, in the Egyptian daily Al-Masaa
"Yes, these sinning assailants are deserving of the curse of 70 million Egyptians who yesterday watched this cowardly act on television ..." -- Galal Duweidar, editor of Al-Akhbar
"The contemptible attack on the Egyptian foreign minister ... causes many to ask whether the time has not come to focus on our domestic problems - many of which stem from the wars in which we participated for the sake of Palestine - instead of wasting efforts [in an attempt] to solve the problem of a people who are at odds among themselves and accuse each other, and others, of betrayal." -- Said Sunbul, Al-Akhbar columnist
"The Egyptian people will also not forget that Yasser Arafat danced with joy when the assassination of President Sadat was announced ...[those bastards sure do like to get jiggy wit it when their betters get killed, don't they? - ed] "We are fed up, Your Excellency [Arafat], sole spokesman of the Palestinian people, with your repeated statements [blaming] any anti-Egyptian act on the part of the Palestinians on a tiny, stupid minority ..." [doh! They figured out that one, too?! - ed] "Personally, I do not accept the apology of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat ... I demand that Parliament convene for a special session, with the presence of the foreign minister, to be dedicated to examining our policy regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict..." -- Ibrahim Sa-dah, editor of the weekly Akhbar Al-Youm
"... Are these scum of the earth capable of accomplishing something for the Palestinian people? It is reasonable to assume that they, like the supporters of suicide bombings, are the first to damage the Palestinian cause, and are bringing death upon the Palestinian people..." -- Hazem Abd Al-Rahman, in Al-Ahram
"Everything that happened to the Palestinians as a result of their being dragged after the leaders of words, who for over half a century waved the motto of complete liberation from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea, until we lost nearly everything and Palestine was left practically without a river and without a sea, was not enough for them ..." -- Mursey 'Atallah, editor of the Al-Ahram evening edition
They've even managed to piss off some Qataris...
"I don't need to repeat what others have said, that is, that the attack was organized by the Israelis. Such an allegation is first of all nonsense, and emanates from some peoples' addiction to turning the facts upside down, and burying their heads in the sand." [or somewhere more immediately aft-facing - ed] -- Al-Raya columnist Abd Al-Karim Hashish
And the Lebanese as well...
"Once again, we realize that the Arabs are their own worst enemy - just as the worst enemy of the Palestinian cause is the Palestinians , who have endorsed a policy of refusal and fundamentalist extremism as a way of behavior." -- Jubran Tuweini, editor of the daily Al-Nahar
Does all this mean that the Arabs have finally (surprise!) discovered what the rest of the (thinking) world already knows? C'mon. Get real.
It'd be nice to be wrong, though. Wouldn't it?
(Thanks to World Net Daily)
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And this one goes out to our favorite Islamofascists:
In other words, HA frickin’ HA you pathetic wankers! You see those pictures, you barbaric, knuckle-dragging apes? In the streets across America last night people danced and cheered. Freely. Openly. Defiantly! And there were women out in the open, too! Not even veiled!
One big, upheld Digitus Impudicus in your face, loosers.
Ya, ya, I know. You’ll get us next time. Uh huh. Talk to the hand, biotch.
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In other words, HA frickin’ HA you pathetic wankers! You see those pictures, you barbaric, knuckle-dragging apes? In the streets across America last night people danced and cheered. Freely. Openly. Defiantly! And there were women out in the open, too! Not even veiled!
One big, upheld Digitus Impudicus in your face, loosers.
Ya, ya, I know. You’ll get us next time. Uh huh. Talk to the hand, biotch.
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