Posts Tagged ‘Pentagon’

Maybe you should read this after five, so you can do so with something alcoholic in your hand?  Just scanning headlines and reading some of the best blogs out there gives me fodder for using the “f” word more than once per sentence.  Is profanity the last option of the inarticulate?  No fucking idea…but it beats the hell out of grinding more enamel off my teeth!

!!! “Print and broadcast media are reporting that Defense Secretary Bob Gates will continue on in the Obama Administration for at least one year.”

Really, Barry?  I think that may be carrying this “let’s all get along” a bit far.  Get rid of the bastards that have been fucking the country for eight years and move ON.  And don’t even get me started on what I think of your forgiving attitude towards Joe Lieberman.  Don’t make me tell you “I told you so!” later when you realize why the first three letters of his name spell “lie”!

 !!! ” Federal authorities are warning law enforcement personnel of a possible terror plot against the New York City subway system during the holiday season.  An internal memo obtained by The Associated Press says the FBI has received a “plausible but unsubstantiated” report that al-Qaida terrorists in late September may have discussed attacking the subway system.”

 Well, no shit, Sherlock, of COURSE they do always warn us on the basis of an unsubstantiated report.  They’ve done that every time Bush had poll numbers in the shitcan.  Frankly, I’d like to see them look into more domestic threats.  Of course, a terrorist attack is ALWAYS possible, but for goodness sake, could we stop trying to sell the Fear Swill that the Al Qaida boogyman is the only baddie under America’s bed?

!!!”Somali gunmen have kidnapped two western journalists in the northern province of Puntland, local sources have claimed.  The journalists, one or both of whom are believed to be British, were captured on Wednesday in the semi-autonomous region that is used as a base for pirate gangs.”

I’m feeling really bitchy today.  The country of Somalia is only that in name, it is actually run by a bunch of blood-thirsty greedy bastards who could give a shit less about people who have to live there.  And the people themselves?  Well, they happily play in with all kinds of nasty religious sectarianism; it really is not a nice place.  We tried, before, to bring a bit of aid and sanity to that dump and the movie “Black Hawk Down” was considerably more pretty and optimistic than the actual event.  Shoot the freaking pirate ships up with enough holes to sink them.  Don’t spend money or lives for a country that doesn’t give a shit about saving itself!  Media outlets?  Stop sending your folks to hellholes like this…..half the time you don’t print the real story anyhow, so your folks are dying for nothing.

!!!  Best/worst for last.  “In a little-noticed regulation change, the Pentagon’s definition of combat-related disabilities is narrowed, costing some wounded veterans thousands of dollars in lost benefits.”

That sounds so innocuous, does it not?   Go read it all: http://tinyurl.com/5nygc2  It is not innocuous; it is insidious, invidious , imbecilic, inimical, inhumane, and possible inguinal—since it certainly is a kick in the balls to every military member putting it all on the line in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Now, that I have proved I do know more words to apply to this abortion of justice and violation of all the “support the troops” rhetoric we have been choking on for years now, I will go back to my more succinct mantra of screaming “fuck” loud enough to startle the pets.

My thanks to Earthbound Misfit and other fine bloggers who mentioned this.   The Pentagon sells out the troops again.  Gee, good thing those officers are not near any possibility of fragging, isn’t it?  Cause by damn….whatever sorry excuse for a human being brought this brainchild to life sure as hell deserves it.