When the Fug Girls do Karl, my heart goes all a-twitter.
Link pilfered from Wrenlet on the bpal.org forum!
Theft, hookers, melting down Iraqi gold to make cowboy spurs—all in a day’s work for private military contractors in Iraq?
By Bruce Falconer
May 2, 2008
Mother Jones
Allegations of widespread mismanagement and corruption among private contractors in Iraq are nothing new; if anything, tales of cronyism, over-billing, and embezzlement have become so frequent that our national tolerance for them seems only to have increased as the Iraq War has drawn on. Even so, the testimony earlier this week of three whistleblowers before the Senate’s Democratic Policy Committee (DPC) stands out for the sheer outrageousness of their accusations—namely that U.S. private contractors looted Iraqi palaces and ministries, stole military equipment, fenced supplies destined for U.S. troops, and even operated a prostitution ring that may have contributed to the death of fellow contractor. Yet despite its focus on such salacious matters as sex and corruption, the session earned little media attention.
CNN Poll: More disapprove of Bush than any other president.
Surprised?
Click on the idiot for the full story.
My LJ is starting to look like the feminine hygiene section at Rite Aid.
In the most high-stakes voting-rights case since Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Indiana’s hotly contested voter-fraud law.
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Has anyone else seen Sunshine? It passed through the theatres so fast — and I was so morning-sickness’d-up at the time — that I ended up having to Netflix it.
It was only 3% less depressing than I thought it would be.
In other news, our President is still a douchenozzle.
Found on Will Work For Food.
