Random Neural Firings
It’s Monday – I’ve written too much about A*P*E to have actual thoughts so some things from the passing parade.
It’s cold and dark a lot in Finland – it does things to people:
HELSINKI (Reuters) - A Finnish member of parliament is aiming for re-election by campaigning with a translation of his Web site into Klingon, used in the TV series "Star Trek."
The web site – for those with an interest is http://www.kasvi.org/ –
It’s hot and humid a lot in El Salvador – that does things to people:
“JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after he was found bound, drunk and nude, a spokeswoman said Monday.
Two weeks ago, El Salvador police found Tsurie Raphael in the yard of his residence, tied up, gagged and drunk, Israeli media reported. He was wearing several sex toys at the time, the media said. After he was untied, Raphael told police he was the ambassador of Israel, the reports said.”
I’m fairly sure that right after Tsuire said he was the Ambassador of Israel – the cops said whatever is the Spanish language version of “right, and I’m Marie of Romania” and tossed him in the squad car. Yeah they were probably reamed when it turned out he was the ambassador of Israel – but really what were the odds?
A case of rats leaving the ship?
“WSJ - DUBAI -- U.S. oil services giant Halliburton Co. will shift its corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai, Chief Executive Dave Lesar said Sunday”
So why are they doing this?
One possibility:
“Federal investigators said last month that Halliburton was responsible for $2.7 billion of the $10 billion in contractor waste and overcharging in Iraq.”
I’m not sure what the legal ramifications are here but it has to be harder to prosecute an overseas company than it is a US Corp.
Now mind you the $10 BILLION in contractor waste and overcharging (read fraud and theft) is the amount they are willing to admit – and remember each and every dollar of that comes either from taxes that people paid or money the government borrowed that will have to be paid back via taxes.
Meantime (I mean it’s hard to keep up with these guys) – troops are being sent back to Iraq who are still suffering from injuries – it isn’t clear how many but if you ever wondered what fingernails scraping the bottom of the barrel sounds like – this is it.
Newt admitted that he was having an affair at the very moment he was pushing for Clinton to be impeached because he had an affair. While this news would if it was about a normal person would be a head exploding example of sanctimonious hypocrisy not usually seen outside a novel by Charles Dickens – with Newt, you kind of expect these things.
Robert Gonzales has found himself – because he is dumb – in the middle of the storm over the White House firing regional federal D.A.’s because or what looks like crass political motives. He is apparently the one who told W this was okay to do, but again this isn’t surprising - before he became Attorney General his job was telling president “yes you can do that” whenever the president wanted to do – torture, kidnapping, violating laws, he may have changed offices but as he didn’t change jobs.
The only thing that will top Walter Reed (and eternal shame on the congressman from Georgia who tried to suggest it was the wounded troops fault the place was a mess) would be the discovery that they’ve been dumping the dead troops into mass graves to save money. And given this crew – I except to read that news soon.
The really depressing thing about W and his crew in the government is that I can add a new verse to our protest song “Ethelred the Unready” every damn week.
Anyway:
We’re playing Thursday March 15th at the
Waltz Astoria Coffee shop
23-14 Ditmars Boulevard
Astoria, New York 11105
718.95.MUSIC
There is a $7 minimum per person. It should be a very interesting session more relaxed than our usual 13 songs no waiting treatment – some of the songs – per the enemy below have interesting back stories which we plan to share.
Hope to see you there.
It’s cold and dark a lot in Finland – it does things to people:
HELSINKI (Reuters) - A Finnish member of parliament is aiming for re-election by campaigning with a translation of his Web site into Klingon, used in the TV series "Star Trek."
The web site – for those with an interest is http://www.kasvi.org/ –
It’s hot and humid a lot in El Salvador – that does things to people:
“JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after he was found bound, drunk and nude, a spokeswoman said Monday.
Two weeks ago, El Salvador police found Tsurie Raphael in the yard of his residence, tied up, gagged and drunk, Israeli media reported. He was wearing several sex toys at the time, the media said. After he was untied, Raphael told police he was the ambassador of Israel, the reports said.”
I’m fairly sure that right after Tsuire said he was the Ambassador of Israel – the cops said whatever is the Spanish language version of “right, and I’m Marie of Romania” and tossed him in the squad car. Yeah they were probably reamed when it turned out he was the ambassador of Israel – but really what were the odds?
A case of rats leaving the ship?
“WSJ - DUBAI -- U.S. oil services giant Halliburton Co. will shift its corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai, Chief Executive Dave Lesar said Sunday”
So why are they doing this?
One possibility:
“Federal investigators said last month that Halliburton was responsible for $2.7 billion of the $10 billion in contractor waste and overcharging in Iraq.”
I’m not sure what the legal ramifications are here but it has to be harder to prosecute an overseas company than it is a US Corp.
Now mind you the $10 BILLION in contractor waste and overcharging (read fraud and theft) is the amount they are willing to admit – and remember each and every dollar of that comes either from taxes that people paid or money the government borrowed that will have to be paid back via taxes.
Meantime (I mean it’s hard to keep up with these guys) – troops are being sent back to Iraq who are still suffering from injuries – it isn’t clear how many but if you ever wondered what fingernails scraping the bottom of the barrel sounds like – this is it.
Newt admitted that he was having an affair at the very moment he was pushing for Clinton to be impeached because he had an affair. While this news would if it was about a normal person would be a head exploding example of sanctimonious hypocrisy not usually seen outside a novel by Charles Dickens – with Newt, you kind of expect these things.
Robert Gonzales has found himself – because he is dumb – in the middle of the storm over the White House firing regional federal D.A.’s because or what looks like crass political motives. He is apparently the one who told W this was okay to do, but again this isn’t surprising - before he became Attorney General his job was telling president “yes you can do that” whenever the president wanted to do – torture, kidnapping, violating laws, he may have changed offices but as he didn’t change jobs.
The only thing that will top Walter Reed (and eternal shame on the congressman from Georgia who tried to suggest it was the wounded troops fault the place was a mess) would be the discovery that they’ve been dumping the dead troops into mass graves to save money. And given this crew – I except to read that news soon.
The really depressing thing about W and his crew in the government is that I can add a new verse to our protest song “Ethelred the Unready” every damn week.
Anyway:
We’re playing Thursday March 15th at the
Waltz Astoria Coffee shop
23-14 Ditmars Boulevard
Astoria, New York 11105
718.95.MUSIC
There is a $7 minimum per person. It should be a very interesting session more relaxed than our usual 13 songs no waiting treatment – some of the songs – per the enemy below have interesting back stories which we plan to share.
Hope to see you there.
One of my favorite pics of Diana Rigg
Peace, Love, No Apes.
Peace, Love, No Apes.
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