BTW- Congrats to VV Brandon Friedman
I meant to do this last week, and again this morning, and kept forgetting to do so. Here is Brandon from last week:
So here’s the big announcement: After a little over two years at VoteVets.org, I’ve accepted a position at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C. I’ll be working in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs. As most of you know, this is the office run by Assistant Secretary Tammy Duckworth. I start there on Monday, and, of course, I’m excited about the opportunity–not only for myself, but for the chance to directly impact the way in which VA interacts with veterans of all eras.
Good for him, and I hope he is sincere about wanting to help all veterans. I don’t neccessarily like him, but it’s about the job, not the person holding it. I’ll probably cross paths with him, and when we do, I hope he will forgive me for my farewell post to him:
For those worried about what this will do to VV and our abllity to blog them, fear not, the bomber bay doors are still opened, and they are locked and loaded with weapons grade stupidium:
Blackwater (Xe): Murder Inc.
by: jimstaro
Wed Aug 05, 2009 at 06:52:26 AM EDTCausing the Deaths and Maiming’s of our Soldiers in the Blowback, easing the recruitment of more insurgent fighters and support for same, and in the long term will cause the blowback of criminal terrorism anywhere, and done on our dime! We share the guilt of their actions even if these statements aren’t true!
Most of these mercs are ex-soldiers, yet for their good paydays they fought on an ideology completely uncaring of their brothers and sisters still serving!
Category: Politics
Grats to TSO for digging into his Coldplay vaults for the clip above. Coldplay, huh? Know how I know you’re…? Nevermind.
On to better and brighter:
“We share the guilt of their actions even if these statements aren’t true!”
That’s some fine verbiage.
That Staro fella has the worst case of cranial rectosis I’ve ever seen.
TSO Wrote: Staro’s real name is Bruce incidentally. Here is a video of him that I found:
Wow, Vote Vets quoting an article from The Nation. Who coulda saw that coming. Oh, here’s my favorite from the list of charges against Blackwater:
“Using his various companies, [Prince] procured and distributed various weapons, including unlawful weapons such as sawed off semi-automatic machine guns with silencers.”
Can someone please tell me WTF a silenced, sawed off, semi-automatic machine gun is exactly?
Bohica: Please tell me WTF anyone would want with a silenced, sawed off, semi-automatic machine gun in the first place? If I’m in possession of a machine gun, it damn well better be a machine gun, not some semi-automatic (which nullifies the machine gun part)! Set it on Rock and Roll, Baby!!!
Have any of you seen the video on the VV link? Anything that The Nation preaches as truth, my first instinct is to run the other way, but I’d like some more info on this whole “murder” accusation.
If this turd from The Nation is correct, that 2 guys who are former employees of Blackwater are under oath, making accusations of murder, this is pretty serious. Does any one have any links that doesn’t come from a source that makes me want to cauterize my eyeballs out?
Well if these two “anonymous sources” really did make statements under oath, then there MIGHT be something to the Blackwater story. But if they didn’t, then this is clearly a case of conspiracy mongering for political brownie points.
But let’s suppose these two sources are real and did make the statements under oath. It would then be proven that the the proper authorities are already involved in carrying out an investigation and it’s not unheard of for people to lie under oath(Bill Clinton anyone?)
So whatever the deal is behind this Blackwater story is, there clearly is some conspiracy mongering going on here in the interest of winning political brownie points.
I don’t mind saying, ColdPlay sucks. Royally…..
Old Trooper,
I don’t want it silenced either…..I want it loud as Fu@$ so the enemy pisses themselves before dying from led poisening…….
and ya Sponge, ColdPlay sucks!
Brandon,
Congrats on leaving VoteVets …. aka jonsoltz.com . Good to see you finally found your calling. Vote Vets already has too many house mouses.