Wonkette
- America’s newest enemy in Iraq: electrical fires, which broke out 283 times in a single six-month period due to bad wiring by military contractors. [New York Times]
- Air Force bigwigs really really really want $16 million to spend on some weird luxury space-cabins they would put inside their planes to help fight the Global War on Terror, and Congress keeps saying no. [Washington Post]
- Missouri Treasurer Sarah Steelman is running for governor and all her fellow Republicans hate her because of her Global War on Earmarks. [Wall Street Journal]
- Nancy Pelosi wants another $50 billion for an economic stimulus package. [The Hill]
- Barack Obama has 300 people on his foreign policy advising team. Is this the beginning of a gloriously bloated bureaucracy? [New York Times]
- America has become a nation of whores willing to do pretty much anything — literally anything — for a free gas card. [Reuters]
DAILY BRIEFING
If these luxury pods use the same electricians as our bases in Iraq, then I’m all for them.
Blood for oil.
“When Jesus was at the wedding feast of Cana, the groom ran
out of wine, he produced the wine for them,” he said. “In that
spirit, we feel that this might be comparable.”
that’s funnier, but…Beatty, Nev, here i come.
Let this be a reminder that home electrical work really, really, really needs to be done by licensed and worthwhile electricians. Code-skipping is a great way to burn down what you have.
Actually, I’m hoping those pods can be ejected out the back of a C-17 in mid fight. Four generals working on it? A wonderful use of executive manpower, Air Farce.
See Paultards? Till you guys can figure out how one can use gold to power your cars then your Gold Standard is as worthless as the Ron Paul Bucks & Ameros you love and the Fiat currency you so despise.
“It was someone who was desperate,” said James Green, the church’s pastor.
Desperate to keep some money for beer and whores.
“All he had to do was come and ask us and we would have bought him a tank of gas.”
Or beer and whores. Just don’t huff our gas, please.
ronaldpagan:
Poontang for Oil!
We have gone from diamond whores to gallon whores.
Screw You AirForce, what’s next a goddamn doorman and velvet rope?
Monsieur Grumpe: So we should switch from whore diamonds to whore gallons?
EnBuenOra: It’s funny what some people on Wonkette find too serious for snark. For EnBuenOra, it’s substandard electrical work. Nothing wrong with that, EBO.
However, it’s not like the U.S. taxpayer got some kind of bargain price from Halliburton for this shit work.
I’d do pretty much anyting for free gas.
300 advisors? Well, according to Wikipedia, there are anywhere between 193 and 245 countries in the world. That’s one expert in each, plus and extra for the special, complicated countries.
NotMyRealName:
what? …between 193 and 245 countries…
why the confusion? are they still undecided about west virginia?
chezklosvakia? france?
ALIVE!: I didn’t say it was too serious for snark. The truth is when I listened to these horror stories of military electrical contracting, it reminded me of some near deadly things I’ve seen in peoples’ homes. Especially self-done work.
No, in return for corrupt, unreviewable contracts, you normally get shit work. But that was the goal, a feature, not a bug.
The Cast of “300″ is advising Barack’s foreign policy? Fuck it, we’re so going to war with Iran one way or another.
I give this post 2 whore gallons.
Mista Eko: So that’s why he’s been spending so much time in the gym lately…
Mista Eko: Iran and the thousand nations of the Persian Empire.
We’ll hope that Barry is well grounded when he goes over there.
Another economic stimulus package? Sweet! I could really use a new pair of earrings.
ronaldpagan: One time, I gave blood and I got a $10 gas card. It made me feel really American and patriotic.
What’s gonna happen when people start giving crackwhores gasoline for sex? Trailer parks all over this great nation, bursting into flames.
Someone has to say it: Thank Jeebus we’re having all of those electrical fires over there so we don’t have to have them here.
Sorry.
Ms. Steelman is wingnutty, but I would kind of like to do her. That’s wrong, isn’t it? I’m sorry.
so, all that Air Force generals really want is a pair of loose shoes and a warm place to shit?..
You gotta love the Air Force. Their only mission in these wars is to chauffeur the troops around and resupply them–the sort of janitorial/warehouse work that they’ve always considered beneath their dignity. So, with their spare time and all the money they can’t spend flying ulta-expensive and useless fighter planes around, they think up shit like “comfort capsules” to make sure their generals don’t have to look into the eyes of the soldiers they’re ferrying off to the real war.
masterdebater: For a Republican woman politician, Steelman is high on the do-able list:
http://archive.pulitzer.net/scripts/SCCMGCGI.dll/cd+sarah+steelman.JPG?command=GetPreview&library=Archive+Images&RecID=306644&Filename=cd+sarah+steelman.JPG
Way hotter than that Eskimo gal.
EnBuenOra: Re feature-not-bug, point well taken.
tsunami: Surprisingly, no one knows quite what to think about Micronesia. Some nations recognize its status as a countries; others believe it is the new 12 issue limited series from Marvel Comics.
The Air Force never disappoints when it comes to waste.
There is a Dr.Stranglovian quality about the Air Force’s detachment (literal and otherwise) from reality.
“At the Shady Lady Ranch brothel in Beatty, Nevada, clients who spend $300 or more this month will receive $50 gas vouchers as part of a promotion to beat the summer slump in business.”
Yes!!!! I’m so happy Shady Lady is doing well.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/4/5909814_c372f5f27a.jpg?v=0
Ohhhh, Nevada.
V572625694: You also forgot that the Air Force is really good about spreading the word of Jesus
Strangelovian, Demme. Sheesh!
DemmeFatale: Isn’t Stranglovia one of those disputed countries?
…oh, and Sara, when I first read the heading I saw Nation of Derelict Weasels…which would be a good band name.
Hooray For Anything: It’s a dirty job but somebody’s got to do it. Jeebus saves!
V572625694: NFW dude. Steelman = Skeletor with a wig made from bleached strands of Steven Tyler’s hair.
Those electrical shorts REALLY
Those electrical shorts REALLY pissed me off when I was in Iraq. Thanks to good old KBR, we had an electrical fire in our room, a shower stall that was unuseable due to bad grounding (you got a shock while taking a shower), and using wiring from IRAN (!?!?) to wire up some of our expesnive equipment. Each time I complained to KBR, the response was, “Well, it work now, don’ it?” <-not spelling errors…that was how they spoke. Meanwhile they lived in their own walled off compound on the base with their own sat TV/internet and bus service! (Full disclosure…I am a former contractor NOT with KBR who worked and lived with the Marines in Anbar, based out of Fallujah, for two years.)
BigLar: Great, I write a big screed about the electrical fired in Iraq, and only four words show up!
BigLar: Well, it show up now, donut?
wow, BigLar, glad you are OK.
Save money on psychoactive drugs, just electro-shock therapy for everyone?
ok, that was sick-sorry.
It’s good to know that Iraqi electricians are as good (and up on the code) as the drooling simpletons whose “wiring” and “electrical improvements” in my house make it look like an Edisonian house of horrors. I bet, though, that the Eye-Racki electros didn’t ground the whole system to a gas pipe. Hi-yo!!