Blackwater kicked out of Iraq

February 12, 2010Bydm

The Iraqis have been working on this for years (and lied to about it) but it looks like they’ve finally pulled it off. Iraq’s interior minister expelled 250 of their employees from the country yesterday:

Making the announcement on Thursday, Jawad Bolani, the interior minister, said: “We have sent an order to 250 former Blackwater employees, who today are working with other security companies in Iraq, to leave the country in seven days and we have confiscated their residence permits.

“All of those concerned were notified four days ago and so they have three days to leave. This decision was made in connection with the crime that took place at Nisur Square.”

Separately, more charges of prostitution and fraud are being reported by the Washington Post :

In court records unsealed this week, a husband and wife who worked for Blackwater said they have firsthand knowledge of the company falsifying invoices, double-billing federal agencies and improperly charging the government for personal expenses…

In their suit, the Davises assert that Blackwater officials kept a Filipino prostitute on the company payroll for a State Department contract in Afghanistan, and billed the government for her time working for male Blackwater employees in Kabul. The prostitute’s salary was categorized as part of the company’s “Morale Welfare Recreation” expenses, they alleged.

If you’ll recall, not that long ago a big fuss was being made over alleged prostitution and fraud and canceling contracts with another organization:

Multiple bills were produced with many co-sponsors, with one eventually being passed and quickly ruled unconstitutional by a federal court. Legislation to simply restrict companies running wild with mercenaries has not been given nearly as much attention. In 2007, Illinois Representative Jan Schakowsky introduced a bill to do just that, titled the Stop Outsourcing Security Act . It was promptly sent to die in committee.

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According to FOX News, the Tea Parties are 'racist', 'fruitless'

February 10, 2010Byskiplogic

Check out the poll and vote, if you feel the need, here. I’d say that FOX News kind of has the kung-fu grip on the Conservative media reader’s pulse, so it’s not too far of a stretch to claim that this poll is very representative of what most Conservatives who read FOX News believe. Hell most polls that get quoted on television consist of a sample of maybe 100-150 people who get phone called by robots, but the almost 89,000 individuals (at the moment of taking the screen shot) who answered the question in this poll are nothing to sneeze at. Like any other poll you read about in the newspaper or hear about on television, internet polls, especially, mean jack shit in the overall scheme of things, but this poll and the way it is worded, and especially the 64% of people who believe that it’s a “fruitless mix of racism and conspiracy theories” above all the other possible options, does say something strong in my opinion.

So we all know that the Tea Party/Birther/White Nationalist movement is a pretty insular community who are very inter-connected through social media, which creates an echo chamber and make these same crazies think they make up a significant portion of Conservatives and voting Americans. If you read some other FOX News polls you’d probably get the sense that they’re as popular too. Unfortunately there is a whole mountain of evidence that runs contrary to the tea baggers idea that they’re millions strong, and even more so in the Conservative movement, I think we’re seeing a slight return to sanity in terms of folks distancing themselves even further from the dogma of a movement that started as a protest of lower taxes and government spending but has turned into a big heaping help of crazy radical bullshit over issues that don’t even exist, let alone make sense to argue.

We’re sure as heck not out of the crazy forest yet, but if 64% of FOX News readers, almost a super-majority if you will, agree that the Tea Party movement represents a racist and conspiracy-fueled lunacy unmatched by any supposed issue they might be aligning themselves behind, then I think it’s safe to say that the Birther tide is beginning to ebb in popular politics. Sure these folks will always be around so long as Ning.com lets them have their social communities and as long as they keep doing stupid stuff and Sarah Palin continues to say retarded things, but their market for new followers is starting to get a bit shallower. Oh, and this Rassmussen Report poll that was taken during the weekend of the CPAC convention shows that only 17% of voters would choose a Tea Party presidential candidate at the ballot box. There are some really good trends represented in this poll to, such as 48% of Republicans identify with the GOP now as opposed to 39% in December. Meanwhile among Democrats and Independent voters favorability ratings of the Tea Party still rank in the single digits (the high single digits!).

Like the teenage rebel whose mixed emotions led him to do some pretty stupid shit as a kid, Conservatives are beginning to grow-up and find their rational minds again.

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AmericanGrandJury.org – Obama never attended Columbia University

February 9, 2010ByTars Tarkas

Chinese stooges AmericanGrandJury.org and their new best bud convicted felon Pastor David Manning have just spend an exhaustive investigation of looking at pixellated Japanese porn and have concluded that Barack Obama never attended Columbia University.

ChineseGrandJury.org declares:
1) Columbia University will not divulge whether the “alleged” diploma issued was in the name of Barry Soetoro or Barack Hussein Obama. No public record exists regarding the diploma.

2) Obama alleges he attended Columbia in 1982, 1983. But, the investigators have been UNABLE to turn up a single shred of written documentation for the years 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 that show where Obama appeared on a school roster, register, faculty memo, bulletin board, school awards, dean’s list; where Obama’s name appeared in a yearbook, club record, fraternity record, extra curricular activity member roster, student newspaper, student radio or tv activity; where Obama appeared in any records as a worker, employee, laborer in or about Columbia University; where Obama enrolled in any sports activity or program.

3) As a graduating senior in 1983 he does not appear in any Political Science (his major) or Granduating Class yearbook or invitation records.

4) There is absolutely no documentation of any kind to show Obama attended, lived, worked or played at Columbia University during the investigated 4 years.

5) Interviewed professors, college employees, students (who were at Columbia during the years in question) have failed to turn up a single person that can remember Obama. This is irrefutable evidence. Think about your own situation if Obama had attended your college? A “now-famous” person went to your school? Many would be able to say, “of course I remember.” At Columbia, not a single person has been able to say he or she remembers Obama.

One small problem, there is all this evidence that he did attend Columbia University. All easily found on Google in a matter of seconds. But no problem!

The commentors on the blog were ecstatic over the discovery…

If I declare everything about Barry Soetoro lies then I can claim anything!

It is a good day when people die, just like Jesus said in the Bible. Oh, wait, I meant Worf on Star Trek…

Barack Obama doesn’t keep his Columbia diploma in his back pocket to show to people, thus it doesn’t exist!

One guy=entire black community.

How dumb to you have to be to get banned from RedState.com?

Rev. Manning is part of the conspiracy of disinformation! He’s the real long-legged mackdaddy!

This guy can’t even spell birth certificate, much less know what one looks like

Go back to writing science fiction novels, Kevin Anderson!

The news hit FreeRepublic.com like a ton of bricks, and soon bricks were crapped in every direction as the crazies fought to be the most crazies while voices of reason were ignored like the RINOs they are. Only REAL PATRIOTS know that Barack Hussein Obama was born of a pod and had no real parents, only the genetic donations of Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Malcolm X, an actual black panther, and Dolemite.

We are seekers. Seekers of poo!

A black zombie, of course…

Galtoid is willfully ignoring the links I posted above, many of which are in that Freeper thread.

Speaking of which….But wait, that means Barack Obama roomed with Al Qaeda! I got you now, Barry S.!

Everyone is covering everything up. They even blew up the shuttle Columbia to help cover Obama’s Columbia records!

ETL is freaking crazy, but at least he doesn’t believe Obama is the Anti-Christ. And bonus “revenge against the libs” guy who will probably try to burn down your house if Palin is elected in 2012.

Barack Obama – armed truck robber! I think someone needs to stop watching Armed and Dangerous! No, wait, that movie rules. Everyone needs to watch Armed and Dangerous!

Sorry, I didn’t read this post, I was thinking about that scene in Armed and Dangerous where John Candy gets in the Semi and that cool dude starts driving through traffic….

“Everything will fall down like a house of cards” and similar phrases are in about 50% of these posts, so if you ever want to pretend to be a Birther you have to use that phrase every other post.

In 18 months, Missouri gal is going to be very disappointed.

What the frak is this crap?

Freeper poetry.

Only FreeRepublic.com can get to the bottom of this mess! To the Freepmobile! Wait, the Freepmobile is a rascal scooter…

mojitojoe, racist extraordinaire, I have saved your post to laugh at in 2012.

Of course, no man would have a mustache like that…

The most retarded photoshop conspiracy on Freep of the day belongs to…

Hey, you, guy with actual facts! Get out of here!

You see, the negroes are all such slores that they are all related due to childhood sex.

Just think of Kent Brockman screaming “It’s in Revelations, people!”

Luckily, we’ll be saved when John Candy shoots his 50 caliber handgun at the car with Palin in it and it crashes into the tanker truck filled with rocket fuel…

Yes, it is a mystery indeed!

Now With bonus Dr. Orly Taitz Birth craziness!

Rev. Dr. Mr. HM Orly Hussein Taitz Jr. Esq TE has uploaded this secret document sent to her of Barack Hussein Obama’s mother’s forged Social Security card. As you can see, this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt Barack Obama had no mother!

Thanks to User-Friendly and Seventyfour for the tips!

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Teabaggers, mad as Hell that they are crazy, act more crazy!

February 7, 2010ByTars Tarkas

From the “You can’t make this crap up!” Department, this past week in Teabagger Nation has been an insane ride of crazy trying to top crazy, to the point where you had to keep notes on your hand to be the craziest. But more on that later…

Things started off innocent enough when DailyKos did a simple poll asking self-described Republicans (note: This is Republicans, not those who got so fed up with the Republican Party they now self-identify as teabaggers) some questions that showed that they are buying the complete garbage the Right Wing pundits are spewing 24/7.

I’ll steal this summary from HuffPost because of laziness:

# 39 percent of Republicans believe Obama should be impeached, 29 percent are not sure, 32 percent said he should not be voted out of office.

# 36 percent of Republicans believe Obama was not born in the United States, 22 percent are not sure, 42 percent think he is a natural citizen.

# 31 percent of Republicans believe Obama is a “Racist who hates White people” — the description once adopted by Fox News’s Glenn Beck. 33 percent were not sure, and 36 percent said he was not a racist.

# 63 percent of Republicans think Obama is a socialist, 16 percent are not sure, 21 percent say he is not

# 24 percent of Republicans believe Obama wants “the terrorists to win,” 33 percent aren’t sure, 43 percent said he did not want the terrorist to win.

# 21 percent of Republicans believe ACORN stole the 2008 election, 55 percent are not sure, 24 percent said the community organizing group did not steal the election.

# 23 percent of Republicans believe that their state should secede from the United States, 19 percent aren’t sure, 58 percent said no.

# 53 percent of Republicans said they believe Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president than Obama.

When the poll was release, a few right wing pundits went insane. Well, more insane than usual!

BillO said

On the left, we already told you about the crazy Kos people, but somehow folks like Arianna Huffington are now considered legitimate news sources. That’s what the president should be worried about.

And he has Karl Rove on to agree with him, because, why the heck not?

But the real fun began as the Teabaggers had their $549 a seat “for the people” National Convention which started off with a bang as Tom Tancredo called for the return of voter literacy tests! Holy Jim Crow, Batman!

The highlight of the Teabagger Convention (BagCon ’10) was Sarah Palin, fresh off her quitting of being offended over the term retard:

Palin gave an impassioned speech for two-year-olds, where she slammed Obama for using a teleprompter, then promptly read things that she had written on her hand.

This is not a double standard, this is a sextuple standard! Someone call Jon and Kate Plus 8, because we got too many standards!

Another funny story out of this convention comes from this blog about some of the seminars at BagCon ’10:

At a session called “How to Unite State Tea Party Groups”, the speaker slowly and deliberately guided the audience through a basic web search.

“In the space at the top of the computer, type in w-w-w-g-o-o-g-l-e dot c-o-m. That website will help you find what tea party groups near you. Then type, Florida Tea Party, then hit the Enter button on your keyboard.”

It was a slow, painstaking process. He had to repeat himself many times, as some could not keep up; others simply couldn’t hear him because their hearing aids were too low

—–

At the end of his “how-to” seminar, the speaker said, “Listen, if y’all can’t find your local tea party groups, just go to your local gun store. They’ll tell you where they are.”

If you think Teabaggers having trouble using Google is an exaggeration, here is some proof that it is exactly what they do, featuring TarsTarkas.NET!

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Our BO is approved…by Axe Bodyspray! This time, TarsTarkas.NET is the one doing the teabagging of some teabaggers! That’s what happens when you remember the Knights Templar!

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Wingnut Web – Kangaroo court time on the web Edition

February 6, 2010ByTars Tarkas

The cup of crazy runneth over at Resistnet.com. Thrill as Resistors call for violent overthrow of the government. Chill as the Resistors declare that speaking to Democrats is a traitorous action. Be dazzled as Resistnet turns on Sarah Palin. Watch in awe as Resistnet contracts a plague of nausea as Obama gives a speech. Complete with random multi-page rants by our new favorite crazy person, Melina. Plenty of old favorites including Gun Avatar Guy, John P., and the rest of the gang!

Gun Avatar Fuckwit #1 knows that Peaceful Resistance requires ZERO TOLERANCE and NO COMPROMISE!

You heard it here first, Scott Brown will not be allowed to be elected senator.

Pray against the marxist slims!

I thought Jesus was about love, not total genocidal war…

Tom Bergstand has respect for the dead

How can I convince Democrats to become total crazies?

Keep yelling crazy stuff and eventually they’ll go nuts!

You want to try to convert people? Traitor! Death to those who wish to talk to others! My Gun avatar has spoken!

And yet Larry & Stacy Braid can’t understand why someone wouldn’t want to be part of a group where a crazy chickenhawk fuck with guns will be screaming that they are traitors.

The Progressives eat our country for breakfast!

So God brainwashed America to vote for Democrats?

The WTF? Award goes to…

It’s a future 2010 Can’tidates entry!

Stay classy, Resistnet.com!

Spreme Court also threw out the spellcheck!

So for those of you who don’t follow the Teabaggers, they HATE John McCain, and Sarah Palin announced she will help campaign with him for reelection. The Teabaggers flipped the frak out and started to turn on Sarah Palin for showing loyalty to the guy who put her on the national stage!

Gun Avatar Fuckwit #1 starts us out…

Wanda sees through Sarah Palin now that she’s not the flavor of the month…

RG seems unaware the Democrats that lost those elections were horrible candidates, and suffers from NY-23 amnesia

Someone flipped Wanda’s crazy switch!

Sarah, NOOOoooOOOoOOOOooOOO!!!!

Wait, Mitt Romney is now the super-conservative choice?

Melinda is deluded into thinking Sarah Palin reads Resistnet.com or has even heard of it.

The DaVinci RINO code…

Choose Your Own Adventure: Crazytown Express to Hell!

Clear as inky mud!

Melinda continues

Obama winning an election is a war crime!

JoanO sees Melinda’s wacky comments and joins the fun!

Will you watch the State of the Union?

Sick to stomach #1

Hey, Confederate Flag Avatar!

Sure, that will happen…

A student of human nature

Wall of text fun!

How dare Obama try to make jobs?!?!?

Sick to stomach #2 and #3 (plus others I didn’t bother to copy) along with a guy joking about how many people are getting sick!

Sick to stomach #4 (bonus Onion action!)

Sick to stomach #5, Sick to eyes #1

Post-Turtle???

Sick to stomach #6

I am not sure of the point of this crazy fuck…

Hey, I thought you Teabaggers were all for the Free Market? Now you want Big Government to spend your tax money on rockets to the moon?

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2010 Can'tidates – Carly Fiorina has a habit of running shit into the ground

February 4, 2010Byskiplogic

Carly Fiorina is many things. She’s a God-fearing Christian woman who was once regarded as one of the most powerful women in the business world. She’s a fierce blond who leads with a “my way or the highway” attitude, a stubborn and callous leadership quality that has not always worked out in her favor. She’s one of the few Conservatives running for an elected position in 2010 who was actually called out by the Wall Street Journal for her horrendous 3 1/2 demon sheep campaign ad which Tars Tarkas featured yesterday. She also likes to refer to herself in the third person a lot when she tweets.

Speaking of bad decisions, Carly’s campaign slogan used to be “Carlyfornia Dreamin’!” which I guess is supposed to tap into that 20-35 male demographic of “dudes who love MILFs”. More recently, with her sheep ad, the slogan has changed to “FCINO“, which for obvious reason doesn’t make for that great of a slogan (considering that upon first reference no one knows what the fuck you’re talking about), but poor decision making has never gotten in the way of Carly Fiorina’s ability to run her operation (in a downward direction).

One of the best ways to illustrate Carly’s lack of proper leadership skills and ability to govern can be taken by example of how she ran her propsering Silicon Valley company, which she became CEO of in 1999, straight out to pasture (ha!). As the acting chief financial officer of Hewlitt-Packard, Carly quickly became one of the most loathed parts of the company for insisting that HP buy failing computer manufacturer Compaq. Her decision to go through with the aquisition, despite moans and groans from her board of directors as well as her employees, earned her the title of “worst CEO in Silicon Valley history“. Her reputation and leadership was so bad in fact that when she was booted from HP in 2005 the stock price of the company shot way up. Calbuzz also made reference to some dubious business she was behind with Iran, selling tens of millions of dollars worth of HP equipment to a country that was on the Axis of Evil list, while still seated as CEO.

Besides her horrible attack ad, there isn’t much to discuss when it comes to Carly Fiorina and politics. This is mostly due to the fact that she has had no real career in politics, yet she’s running for a senate seat in the most populous and biggest economic state in the Union. Otherwise this article would be chock full of political punditry. It makes you think though, if Fiorina was so hated and despised as CEO of HP for her awful business decisions, how much more ire would she draw from the citizens, or employees if you will, of California if and when elected? I just hope that she doesn’t send her army of techno-killer sheep after us when she loses the primary.

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