effort in the release

readin' on 'bout curly cued rand paul, his audacity 'n all. at first, i wondered whether reading a smudgy bio of this odd little twerp merited any time. but, actually, it's a hoot.

and why didn't he have himself called aynrand paul? randyayn paul (no, skip that.  seen her?  no randy there) or perhaps, randayn paul? that would be cool. looks very aryan. anyway ...

since rand paul does not occupy much of the time of any day, i'd forgotten about this little gem: at some point, and sometime after ... the maddow incident, ol' polly wolly found himself issuing a statement declaring that he, rand paul,

"will not support any efforts to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964."

gotta laugh at that one. ya find yerself in a position like that, well, ya gotta figure yer in a hole. not with your base, but with, well, normal folk. but, he probably doesn't know that. but, then, if he didn't know that, he wouldn't be issuing statements meant to assuage mainstream concerns about what one must grant are rather retrograde views on American civic policy, dog whistling views that appeal to a certain demographic of the American population. paul's runnin' fur senate in k'ntucky.

tea parties offer further proof that they're just like their Iraqi Sunni brethren: convinced they are the vast majority of the population, at 20%.

turnin wee

British Cuts to Military Concern U.S. Officials

Ha! Of course they do. The US is mightily concerned when any war fighting ally cuts military spending.

good grief, man! what are you doing? ya wussin out on the grand plan?

Well, actually, yes. Yes, we are. In fact, we'd like to bloody well toss the whole pointless exercise, a selfish, paranoid, and mean spirited money gullet we can ill afford. You'd do well to trim back your own. Oh, and bugger off! mind your own tumbledown.

Further down, the British defence minister, LIam Fox, said that the primary role of the British military was to be a capable ally of the United States.

we need to concentrate on where we think we can be best contributors as an ally for the United States as well as ...

blah blah horseshit follows. but this was top of the ticket.

dontcha find it amazing that the British defense minister thinks that the British military's primary role is to be the "best contributors as an ally for the United States"?

Do the Brits know this?

joker's never wild

fuckdatshit!

Administration officials are weighing whether to put a prominent corporate executive in the NEC director's job ...

that it should even occur a "weighing" were in order for a "corporate executive" to be appointed director of the NEC is troubling enough. for it indicates that the trajectory of the corporate-societal complex remains unperturbed.

summers job

tuna-shaped larry summers is buggering off to get some shuteye. things have been stressful, what with the summers-aided global financial meltdown. obama, in auspicious dipshit form, said this of larry summers:

"I will always be grateful that at a time of great peril for our country, a man of Larry's brilliance, experience and judgment was willing to answer the call and lead our economic team. Over the past two years, he has helped guide us from the depths of the worst recession since the 1930s to ..."

something. no one knows what yet. what obama said was "renewed growth," which is bullshit.

larry freakin summers has also helped guide us to the depths of the worst recession since the 1930s. it's like the whole global financial bubble-blow out was a giant make work scheme for ... larry summers!

done dirt cheap

readin' on this article called, shityaknot, "American Takfiris" by a guy who's yowlin' 'bout kos calling the nutwhacked xtian fundy conservative right "American Taliban." go figure.

anyway, hit upon this little blurb of neo-tribalism that ought to jolt:

It's worth noting however, that the Bush administration did not take full advantage of the wrongs that the lawyers in their Office of Legal Counsel would have enabled. My point is not to equate the deeds of AQ with the deeds of the Bush administration--merely to point out justification for acts that are on their face unjustifiable take a similar intellectual path.

firstly, how the hell does serwer know that the bush admin availed or did not avail themselves of all the "wrongs that the lawyers in their Office of Legal Counsel would have enabled"? It appears that they would have enabled anything asked. drill in the ass? drill baby drill! stomp some baby nuts? yaa buddy! now we know the CIA was using this program for human experimentation. it never fukking stops with them! hence all them vids that got themselves all blowed up: experimental data.

they were also quite awful, as one imagines, and when the shit hit the rim, well, the choice between "experimental data" and felony indictment became quite stark. a "no brainer," as they say. (It used to be the case that destroying evidence of a felony was a felony itself. Not for the CIA, it seems. 'magine that.) 'sides, the data can and will be recreated. probably is happening. like i said, they never stop.

but the real dipshit crap that yanks me askew is serwer's disastrous statement, one that exudes ritualistic, neo-triblistic American affirmation, the "My point is not to equate the deeds of AQ with the deeds of the Bush administration."

and why the fuck not, actually?

because such a task is, in fact, quite impossible.

given the broad swath illegality, mahem and death toll, one cannot possibly equate the "deeds" of the bush regime with "the deeds of AQ." how may one possibly equate with the "deeds of AQ" with illegal wars and hated occupations in two Muslim countries, illegal robot terror wars in at least three others, illegal surveillance, a global kidnapping ring, a global torture network, massive public indoctrination -- a generation of war and death?

trump that, "AQ."

black and princely sum

imagifukkinthat. erik prince's "former" shadowy Blackwater operation morphed into an intricate global "web" of multitudinous shadowy operations, front and faux, all still collecting those gushing US taxpayer/debt bucks, deniability "built in." socialism for the neosecurity state.

the limitless capacity for evil theory of human evolution would posit that this can only be considered par for the oft-trot course. Indeed, one might be disappointed had prince and his merry dotes not formed an intricate global web of shadowy companies, doing bad things by "built in" deniability proxy. To any naïve observer, this is surely the next course in what will be the long and shadowy life of erik prince.

success in the kush

Afghanistan Vote Count Begins Amid Fears of Fraud

NATO: Afghan Election 'Less Bloody Than 2009'

Bodies of Three Kidnapped Election Workers Are Found in Afghanistan

What's the upshot of all that? Why, it's a blazing sign of freedom!

Officials Portray Afghan Election as Success

The David tells us that all of this mismanaged, corrupted and deadly nonsense of fraudulently electing the Pentagon's favoured war/drug lords "sent a powerful message."

Yes, it did St. David. Yes, it did.