Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Monday, September 15, 2008

The Cubicle Mercenaries

How, thanks to Reagan, Bush I, Clinton and Bush II, we now spend more to contract out wartime services than we spend on major weapon systems.

Much of the article is familiar stuff, including how KBR is so powerful and so corrupt that it is immune to being audited. But the allegations that KBR sub-contractors are engaged in slavery are new to me. I also didn't realize that the Pentagon is staffed more and more with "cubicle mercenaries," and that in one department, over 80% of the workforce are contractors.

The whirring sound you here is Dwight D. Eisnhower, spinning in his grave.

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