Fire Base USA! USA! 6 August 2011
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, Afghanistan War, Culture of Death, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, WAR!.trackback
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Kabul, Afghanistan: A man walks past burning tankers which were carrying fuel for Nato and US forces [Dar Yasin/AP]
The ”enemy” not only gets a vote, it is possible the ”enemy” placed a targeted vote:
By Associated Press,
WASHINGTON — The Associated Press has learned that more than 20 Navy SEALs from the unit that killed Osama bin Laden were among those lost in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.
The operators from SEAL Team Six were flown by a crew of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. That’s according to one current and one former U.S. official. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because families are still being notified of the loss of their loved ones. . . . .
Marisacat 
Will the president go golfing this weekend i wonder. I bet it was on the personal schedule…
Dude those Talibanies must have been pilling wood for a while…it takes a lot of sticks to get a good burn going like that one in the photo…
And it is from the current “24 hours in pictures” at the Guardian… seems some fuel tankers were attacked in Kabul, if the legend is accurate… and i just heard on an update that a supply base in NE Afghanistan has been hit now as well.
Everything is going so well.
Here it is, the attack in NE Afgh
http://bakhtarnews.com.af/en/index.php?news=6123
http://whoisioz.blogspot.com/
I cannot pick which to clip… I had not made it there, oh since Wednesday… and it is just a delectable feast.
I do love the one on USA!!USA!! (truly a new Heil, imo) language… yum.
I see Warren Buffet is kissing our boo boo away. He says Omaha still loves us and would love us with a big smacking 4 x A kiss.
IF it could. (Maybe he wants to buy a rating service)
Aw.
I think this tangent prolly fits under the “culture of death” tag:
Narcoshphere
You know if the bonfire gets too big in Talibanieland, when can always just decamp and head for Mexico, we seem to have our operatives already cooking up hot and spicy somethings with nuestros vecinos al sur…
i’ve read whatshisname, el presidente, has a ”relationsip” with one of the cartels… i would imagine a good chance we have thrown in with the same…
oh absolutely we have fomented yet another war
how soon til we hear some war cry that ”the way home is thru Chavez’ – or Evo’s – presidential palacio”
There is some deep gaming for sure, remember the warnings about Mexico being the next failed state™
Of course China and Brazil becoming such bosom chums it might complicate such things a little bit…
The way home is thru Rio. Then on to Peking!! (That should go REALLY well!!)
Everybody Samba!
Maybe we could forego war and have a winner take all cage fight between Ooobster and a real socialist, the current female President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff.an ex leftist guerilla who was being tortured for standing against the military while oobster was in ivy league finishing school…
she seems to b going the Neo liberal route… tho… not a big surprise, bit still….
neo liberal you say, damn.
I guess even dyed in the wool ex-revolutionaries sell out when it comes to plomo o plata…
One thing in the hills another in town.
Which is not say she will stop the day to day improvements put in under Lula, like the small subsidy to poor people and the numerous community health sites… and so on… There are others, I am sure, but those two basics come to mind…
BTW its presidente Calderon, carrying on a long tradition of favoring one cartel over another.
Many people believe was installed to aid in the privatization of PEMEX, the state owned oil company.
How they plan to do this without actually producing a failed state is beyond my comprehension. Fuel is subsidized in Mexico and the profits from PEMEX are a majority of the revenues gathered by the Mexican Government, iirc.
Calderon is the one who militarized the drug war, too
enh… here is the “story”… I think there are more details running around than in this CNN International Ed version. Seals, supposedly 3 Afghanis air controllers, a couple of officers, a dog and the dog’s handler… some mission… who knows what.
Okay, so a global rout. Coulda been worse.
Imagine if they had Mutual Funds.
Admiral Mook Mullen.
via BBC –
What a dumbfuck.
Imagine then, if they, uh, ~weren’t expecting it.
Oh and by the way, The NAVY!
A natural fit for Afghanistan!
The slogan could be:
Perfect! And So Inspiring!
How ’bout sumpin for the grunts?
And just for the Flyboys.
😆 ¡Salud!
snicker.
AND….
– GREAT SURGEONS!
PLUS!
– All You Can Eat Hospital Food and/or Parenteral Nutrition!
– I.V. ‘s and catheters changed regularly!
– FREE EMAIL! And Prostheses for College!!
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Fucking Death Merchants.
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… and should it be needed, we care lovingly for our Rendered A Vegetable Heroes…
We sure don’t hear anymore about “Ward 54” at Walter Reed, where the long term ‘left a vegetable’, but ALIVE!, fallen heroes are…
Death merchants indeed, whether a sloooooowwwwww death, or a rapid one, they appear to worship death and decay.
I’m feeling so cynical now, it wouldn’t surprise me if the $$$$$UZ$$$$$$$ took down its own Helicopter. Certainly would be perfect timing for the MIC, oBombster, Tiny Tim and Congress to focus the coming hatchet job entirely on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, as they intended to all along. Hell, it wouldn’t surprise me if Tiny Tim, oBombster and Boner, et al, actively solicited the worthless and meaningless S&P rating, while both complaining it was unfair and irrational to the ‘Press’, yet demanding cuts be made to ‘correct’ it. .
In other nooz, from the ‘sidebar,’ this, while stunningly ugly, certainly isn’t a surprise:
well what has been reported about the tainted turkey meat? I have not paid much attention, but have only seen the names it was sold under or thru, not who PROCESSED it…
But it too was a non-acted upon reporting, they have known for months it was tainted meat…. They waited til someone died and have already said it was poor kitchen hygiene, not cooking the meat thoroughly that was the problem… thye point to the fact no one who ate the meat in a restaurant has died and thus the restaurants “followed proper hygiene”. YIKES.
Just great.
I’m feeling so cynical now, it wouldn’t surprise me if the $$$$$UZ$$$$$$$ took down its own Helicopter. – diane
Raised my eyebrows a bit when I read it was Seal Team 6, the Bin Laden baggers. Fuck. Truth? From the USG? If true, The irony as all this needless death over the years is that it IS at least? at best?… murder-suicide within the U.S. camp.
Fuck how it sounds. Fuck IT and the knee-jerk “Support the Troops” trope which only consigns them to more killing and dying there. The “Brave Heroes”… “who made the ultimate sacrifice for us” patently tacked on to ALL these stories…gah. Political Lies and alibis told by profiteers, murderers all.
We “must” be there? ” Just Until”. Obama-Tool says. Really?
Still shoveled out and accepted…. after 10 YEARS.
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And Diane, no doubt, the S&P downgrade will “work” for moneymen for a time as tacit agreement among global PTB exists to bond their serfs everywhere. Bummer about Ob and Geithner’s domestic political fortunes tho. Their demolition work is done. They’ll take the fall politically, of course whining a bit, and, unfortuneatley for us, probably get to live out the rest comfortable litlle prickish days…
I found it amusing the beginning of last week as some of the Admin floaters went out to press about Geithner.
Will He Stay? Will He Go?”
Which went down like the Hindenburg. Who Cares?
And after the week long runs of Market turds, everybody wants him FIRED. … 😆 from HuffPo to Michelle Bachmann to Sirota to Ron Paul.And the facility with which it has surfaced among the Pwog Bloggers is pretty telling. yeh I think the TPM has been sent out that Geithner is going to take the hit for the S&P.
Heckuva Job, Timmy! 😆
Basically with the S&P it means higher interest / higher yields at Treasury auctions. What’s not to love from the bankers POV?
Difficulty in finding buyers? Right now I think the S&P did the dirtywork for the Pols and their Finance Mins setting up another stick up. And the Banksters will do their thing, co-opt regimes willing and able to extract push more “austerity measures” upon their people. Among domestic investors they’ll hawk the shit to fools who think they made the cut: government retainers, doctors, sycophants left amazingly yet to be pruned from the corporate class. 😯 Those guys. LOL
They’ll push the paper on the same fixers at the Pensions in the remaining acts. Who will also put the fix in, (the KNIFE in their own beneficiaries back) when it does come time to stratify who gets paid and who doesn’t. Oh when it does all blow up and the dollar becomes as quaint a notion in settling international accounts as the British Pound in the 1920s,, they Bankers now bank on whatever rumps left minding things stateside will just “work out” who gets the lion’s share and who gets the hindmost.
Win that Future.Tho lets face it, the truly global elites have long been cultivating Victory gardens elsewhere. It’s been a while. Isn’t it about that time when, well, things just don’t work out so well? Isn’t it about that time to see some fleeing, haggard dick-folk as refugees?We could set up a Douchebag Default Swap System, Maybe China will take Geithner. France could get Strauss Kahn back if they took Kerry and Ireland got stuck with Dodd.. Iraq could get Rumsfeld , Cheney and Bush if Pakistan could take in Wolfowitz Summers. Greece should get first dibs on Blankfein and Rubin . And so forth. Obama and the Clintons , oh I dunno – I’m thinkin…Serbia?
just did a search, looks like the turkey has been traced to a Cargill plant, in Springdale, Arkansas ( see also). ‘Heh,’ Tyson is also headquartered in Sprindale Arkansas. Wouldn’t surprise at all if prison labor was involved, who better than to keep shit unreported/not ‘believable’ with, not like Cargill doesn’t enlist ‘helper’ entities, ….though good luck doing a search.
oops, the (see also) link re tainted turkey …jeesh and I was trying so hard not to send a comment out to that left margin, and cut off the comments below it ….sigh …….
:0) …. ;0) waidaminit …..look ^ … up in the sky! it’s a bird, … it’s a MIC suicide helicopter, …it’s the US Economy collapsing, ………and it’s another comment unexpectedly over in the left margin! above mine! ……….thanks boo! …. misery loves cumpany! ;0( :0) ;0)
(jeesh…and best to read to read this link: not like Cargill doesn’t enlist ‘helper’ entities, quickly, as it times out to a solication …..sigh ….sorry.)
BooHooHooMan …to be honest, my thought was the fuckers may have possibly done a twofer … and done away with the “team” that they ‘enlisted’ to “do” … “O” …or sumpin similiar ………. I couldn’t be happier if the fuckin earth opened up under most of DC, …outside of that hideous ghetto which suffers around it.
Taste Tainted Turkey;
Prisoners don’t boil rat shit soup
ALEC’s Pu pu plater
well the Evening News alone is gag worthy on the Seal Team 6. Bodies of Titanium, hearts of gold, minds of utter brilliance! Divine Gods that somehow tragically… DIIIIED.
Gee how did it happen, I wonder?
But oops!!Only so much time to mourn!! on to the S & P story!! Must move on ya know!!
ooops whoops! S $ P story is sticky TOO… did you know???
FRANCE now has a higher credit rating than we do? YES, it’s true!!
Norway too… and Canada………. and get this, the Isle of Man has a higher rating than poor deflated us!!
That must pinch. A lot.
July Broke Almost 9,000 Heat Records
omigod……….. global warming REALLY is coming for us!! It is emboldened due to our lowered credit rating…!! That damned muslim!! Those terrorist Tea People!! That Nancy!!! That Boner!!!
We need an adult in Washington!! (is there such a thing in the entire FUCKING COUNTRY!!!!!!!??????
LOL
We are in such a strange looney dreary place… I just caught the end of a segment on the radio, someone saying the Obby defenders need to get a grip, that much worse things were said about FDR than have been said about him, which is certainly true… One example I caught… The R said that Roosevelt was a cripple as Eleanor gave him syphilis which she got from sleeping with Communists.
Plus ca change. Etc.
But they will whine on.
I landed on a report somewhere, I guess in an opaque way Kerry complained about FOX and without naming her Greta V S, that they must or should stop saying this or that……. and she called him out on it and said “Stop Whining… come on my show, you’ve been invited many times and never respond, and confront me”.
And yeah, Kerry is a whiner. So is Slob… and Snob too. Knob is just an old Irish Bitcher… 😆
So dreary – – – – all of it.
they’re all whiners, and won’t fight … they want everything to be some kind of cotillion or something.
it’ gets old.
A musician friend just posted this elsewhere on the intertubes:
Invest Wisely…
best advice: drink…
Rachel Maddow, A Gentleman and a Scholar.
FFS,,,but.you know, O V E R – R E A C H.
defends her “overall thesis” about Limbaugh. 🙄 OLD.
Just STOP. Step away from the lipstick.
Talking Point Mistress. Eager to Serve. Sloppy.
Apologize for THAT.
oh I am positive Limbaugh cackled over that one. One of his routines, and sad to say a very good one too, is his staff catch a lot of what is said ABOUT him, esp by all the known names of Big Gasbag Punditry (he is just one, they are legion, LOL) retelling commentary he makes on air. He scoops it up, plays their telling of him.. THEN he plays his own archived words.
he catches them out all the time.
She played, STUPIDLY, right into his hands.
Crappy, slanted article link
‘Cause people who live in trailers don’t have real jobs and it’s their own damn fault for being so low-class…
At least this Koch brothers creation is good for a laugh or two every now and then
Don’t know if this was posted elsewhere:
When the Cavalry gets clobbered BEFORE they can ride to the rescue you know the Injuns have won the war…
Can’t forget to mention the London Riots. Evidently those damn uppity minorities from the former colonies have been swayed by a few bad apples with Twitter to let their bestial natures out.
From the lead-in:
Daily Mail
HA! Something half worth a damn on DK.
Plenty of good tids And,, LOL the diarist is almost past the Kubler-Rossian Denial Stage over Nader!.Been there, fellah!
Now you’re getting it! On to the Bargaining Stage.
Okay, so he’s stuck now in the Bargaining Stage – the folly of reform through the Party.. All he has left is the Depression and Acceptance and he’ll be fine! Let GO! Live with INTEGRITY the days you have!
And DING! goes the first comment.
Tho nicely slapped DOWN.
Oh I heard Leahy say in inteview he “regretted” his vote for Scalia… but that very week he voted YES on Roberts.
Any Democrat still with a brain who would sit down and read the whole back story (Jane Mayer book and her articles in The New Yorker and The American Prospect) on Clarence’s ascension to the court and how the vote went down in the senate, the horrid behind the scenes during the hearings, would “get it”.
A huge component of Thomas’ being placed on the court was Biden.
Emergency Meetings Today!
The G-7 Finance winkies.. And the ECB, We are so Bessed!™.
Just a few words of advice to any Finance Chieftains who may be reading. 😆
Stay by the phone. Remain calm.
Try not to rape the maids.
Dude you keep visiting over there and you will go blind,..er…grow hair on your mouse/touch pad….just kidding.
Isn’t Dkos almost finding religion now like Moctezuma et al beginning suspect that the guest coming to the banquet isn’t Quetzlcoatl?
:lol:. Oh I know. But nothin a little mortification of flesh doesn’t clear up. And I’ve been good, I have. LOL. But a little peek, a little tug, and what can I say?
It will be BARRELS of laugh over the next year I think.
I might have to look for some type of helpful device. LOL.
By Election Night? Oh my GAD.
re; election night
yeah it will be OBSCENE!
both parties have endorsed surgical implantation of the new procedure and device (who needs the FDA, not us!!) The Laff Band.
Pig Wrasslin’.
Michael Lazzaro, aka “Hunter”.
Remember, the guy who said he would leave the Party if there was no Public Option. 😆
Yeh him. Still at it. Such the quick study.
F E E L™ the Confidence, man.
😆 ,Now if there WERE enough lipstick for this pig…???
I see Hugh Carey has died… and the lead piece at Google Snooz credits him with ”saving NYC”. Or maybe the entire Eastern Seabord. Tho honestly, who can save Florida. So maybe not the entire ES.
Gah….
This brightened my day a bit, we need this all over the map … in the United States of America:
45,000 Verizon Union Workers Strike in Contract Dispute
Any minor stockholder, with any integrity, needs to make some kind of statement, dump their stock ….make a phone call ….something. (The major shareholders, are in on the Austerity abuse.)
Truly fucking hideous and stunning, 32 years of loyal work and the $$$$$$UZ$$$$$$$$ can’t do fuck to prevent her from dying in poverty? in fact …the $$$$$$$$$$UZ$$$$$$$$$$$, is more than jolly to allow the word Entitlements!!!!!!!!!! to be used for old age protection people actually were FORCED TO PAY FOR.
so glad I despise seeing blood flow; don’t own a gun and live in DC, … cuz I might try to take every single one of those lying mother fuckers out …. on a ‘moody’ day.
Anywhoodle, …supposedly only ‘vets’ are worthy workers! ….yeah, …..I guess that’s why oBombster hasn’t brought back all those grunts, in those 6+ wars now, which the MIC has ‘lovingly’ provided with PTSD, …as they have been so thoroughly traumatized, they might just take up arms against their betrayers …………….’n after all oBombster knows all his high techie buddies won’t be hiring those homeless vets, anytime soon ….(as in never), outside of one obligatory vet to deal with security badges.
(and yeah, hear ya BooHooHooMan about those ethers fuckin wit ya I’ve tried to post this comment about six times now, and I don’t think it’s just the dial-up, that’s giving me the blues …..)
It sat in Moderation for an hour – I was sound asleep, til a few mins ago.. all day I wake up but go back to sleep immediately… too frantic a week I think…
oh, it wasn’t the moderation hon, certainly nothing you did or didn’t do (I wasn’t able to even post a comment to sit in moderation for five out of six attempts), ……it was the fact that every time I linked to the thread, I wasn’t able to even post a comment. When I accessed the thread to post a comment to it, either the box for the email and name entry was missing, or my internet access ultimately disconnected right before I was going to post, though I was having no disconnect problems accessing other sites where I might comment.
and yeah, truly a frantic week …I see they let that mother fucker Graner (of Abu Graib infamy ) out on good behaviour (apparently code words for sick sociopath in PA) ….sigh ….
in re Graner
way way back, in the immediate aftermath of AG breaking and the identification of the low level people… (not like trials and incarceration went any higher than the lowest levels) a prisoner who had been released, 100% exonerated by DNA test after serving 22 years for rape came forward to talk about Ganer. How brutal he was inside the prison (a wholly unexplored reality of AG, it mirrors our prison system, in too many instances) and had talked of going to Iraq to get some ragheads.. etc. (which of course is nothing more than what the war was all about, if we are truthful)
I heard the exonerated prisoner exactly ONCE on CNN, and they did do online interviews and vid with him at their sites. But that was it.
And …well yeah, there is that worst travesty, …that Rumsfeld, et al, …never even went to prison, and they deliberately, with full knowledge of the consequences, placed scum like Graner in positions where hideous abuse reigned….knowing scum like Graner would have the public in such an outcry, that the public would feel surely that the DOD had been duped by a bad apple, when all long, the DOD/MIC deliberately placed ….that bad apple………
yes I saw that too… Graner I mean.
I just saw clips of them protesting…
New
LINK
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