Is it sad that this doesn’t surprise me?

Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.

Of course it isn’t. Why? Because this is what Blackwater does. They take billions of taxpayers’ dollars in no-bid contracts, kill hundreds of innocent Iraqi civilians, and then bribe those Iraqi civilians they didn’t kill with, you guessed it, taxpayers’ dollars.

But they aren’t alone. KBR, Halliburton, Dyncorp, and Boeing do it too. They all use taxpayers’ dollars to get rich and fuck over Americans.

Yet people don’t care. They don’t care about the billions given to all of these corrupt business. They don’t care about human trafficking, gun trafficking, child prostitution, torture, rape, and murder being committed in their name.

But they do care about ACORN. And they do care about a retarded Alaskan politician that says the government is trying to kill old people.

Which is sad, because I find killing old people a fantastic idea.

How else would you explain this?

Defense contractor KBR may have exposed as many as 100,000 people, including US troops, to cancer-causing toxins by burning waste in open-air pits in Iraq, says a series of class-action lawsuits filed against the company.

The plaintiffs filing the lawsuits say they have suffered from health problems ranging in seriousness from shortness of breath to cancer. Russell Keith, a paramedic from Huntsville, Alabama, told the Senate Democratic Policy Committee his doctors believe his development of Parkinson’s disease was triggered by 15 months of daily exposure to the burn pits at Joint Base Balad in Iraq. Another plaintiff claims to have developed kidney disease as a result of exposure.

So, when will the teabaggers cry out to their corporate masters about passing legislation revoking KBR’s federal funding?

Number 1 on the list

Here is a list of people that need to have their throat slashed by a rusty thumbtack:

• People that say “libs” instead of “liberals”.
• People that shouted “terrorism” after the Ft. Hood shooting, but shouted nothing after Dr. Tiller’s shooting.
• People that use the term Islamofascism.
• People that complain about the cost of health care, but not the cost of war.
• Diane Sawyer
• People that think socialism, communism, fascism, and anarchism are the same.
• People that compare politicians to Hitler.
• People that think the Heritage Foundation is a non-partisan organization.
• People that say, “Bless our soldiers because they’re fighting for our freedom.”
• People that still believe Saddam Hussein had WMD.
• Thomas Friedman
• People that watch only Fox News.
• People that aren’t getting the H1N1 vaccine because Glenn Beck convinced them not too.
• People that call-in to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show.
• People that don’t criticize Obama.
• Joe Lieberman
• People that complain about ACORN defrauding the American people of millions, but say nothing about Halliburton defrauding the American people of billions.
• People that think marijuana should remain illegal.
• Everyone involved with the Twilight series.
• Stewart Scott
• People that think Alan Grayson is a thug.
• People that believe Sarah Palin when she says the government is trying to kill old people.
• People that are going to vote for Sarah Palin in 2012.
• People that are going to work on Sarah Palin’s presidential campaign.
• Sarah Palin

I’ve seen children with severe cases of Down Syndrome act better than Congressman Tom Price.

If you don’t find this ad funny then you’re a pedophile.

I agree, Glenn Beck should get repeatedly cock-punched. [The Rude Pundit]

Maine pulled a fast one on the gays. [Democralypse Now]

Teabaggers are crazy. [The Middle of Nowhere]

A letter to Larry Stickney. [Blanca DeBree]

Jesus approves of Goldman’s greed. [Matt Taibbi]

The liberal media is at it again. [Glenn Greenwald]

Chris Mathews is fucking retarded. [Hullabaloo]

These are the people who voted against gay marriage because their imaginary friend in the sky considers it a “sin” on par with cutting your hair, shaving your beard, having long hair, eating shell fish, eating pork, working on the Sabbath, wearing mix fiber clothes, being around your wife while she’s bleeding from the vagina, cheating on your wife, thinking about cheating on your wife, swearing on the Bible, and masturbating.

Of course these fat, ignorant pieces of shit aren’t going to outlaw any of those “sins” because their pastor/church leader/favorite politician/favorite Fox News media personality hasn’t told them to.  (Which is sad because I would love to see ads against masturbating.)

But if there’s one positive thing I can take away from this it’s that the South doesn’t have a monopoly on fat, ignorant, hateful retards.

Wait, now that I think about it, that’s not positive at all. Because that means fat, ignorant, hateful retards are spreading their seed. Which means they’re slowly taking over the world. Which means NASCAR and Jeff Dunham are going to continue to get popular.

FUCK.

I really wish Hitler would’ve slaughtered fat, ignorant, hateful retards that believe an invisible man wants them to deny civil rights to a group of individuals because they are different instead of slaughtering Jews. Because if he did that then he would have gone down in history as the greatest man that ever lived.

But unfortunately he did slaughter millions of Jews and we’re stuck with NASCAR, Jeff Dunham and these fucking asshats’ stupid fucking invisible man in the clouds.

And that means I’m either going to have to continue to smoke my weed, drink my scotch, and jerk-off to my 80’s porn, or shove my head in a wood chipper.

Little known fact about David Vitter: he likes to wear adult diapers while banging prostitutes.

This guest post comes from Shane over at In Case You Missed It

As in David Nutt, (former) chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) in the UK, has been fired for doing his job. Isn’t it great to know that we haven’t made any progress since Galileo was forced to renounce his work and writings concerning the theories of Nicolaus Copernicus, who had suggested that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of the universe almost 400 years ago? Somehow this case seems even more totalitarian. A scientist, whose job is to give advice on drug law, has lost his job for giving the advice he was hired to give because it doesn’t fit in with the government’s get tough on drugs sales pitch to the deluded public. Yes, it’s not only America where you have to blow the populist trumpet hoping that the semi-literate masses will vote for you come election day, the UK it seems is every bit as bad.

It’s even worse knowing that things weren’t always so bad for the Labour Party and the UK. In fact it was only 2004 when the government actually listened to the advice given to them by their drug experts and downgraded cannabis from a Class B to C (the UK uses a system where A is the most harmful illegal drug and C the least). Since the reclassification didn’t result in an upswing of smokers and in fact saved an estimated 199,000 police hours, this action had its predictable reaction – the tabloid press hard sell along the lines of “drugs are bad, how can you be doing this to our children? Will someone please think of the children!” – this time mostly revolving around a scare story involving new and improved skunk weed which was so potent it caused psychosis. Enter a new British PM losing popularity by the day who is easily influenced by the polling numbers and suddenly you had the leader of a nation saying things like, “I think people know my view about cannabis and particularly about this lethal version of it, skunk.” Before you know it, the UK found itself back where it started, busting 72-year-old milkmen for delivering weed to old ladies as the government re-upgraded cannabis to Class B in January earlier this year. Of course this move came despite a report at the time from the ACMD recommending that cannabis remain a Class C drug.

So, what do you do when you are a scientist whose job it is to help formulate drug policy by providing unbiased scientific evidence only to see your work ignored? You try to draw attention to your cause, attempting to influence public opinion with facts and evidence; much to the dismay of the British government, David Nutt has been quite good at this. He was head of the team who devised a radical new system for classifying drugs – one based on harm to individuals and society instead of old-wives tales. Ultimately, it was this stance that forced Nutt’s resignation as he once again tried to remind people that drugs such as alcohol and tobacco are more harmful than LSD, ecstasy or cannabis. Additionally, he released a paper pointing out that ecstasy, a Class A drug, is in fact more benign activity than equestrianism. This latter report earned him a rebuke from his boss in the government, Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary at the time.

The influence of the tabloid press in Britain is something I don’t claim to understand very well. I picture it as having a British version of the Fox News effect in the US, an important tool in ensuring that the semi-literate view the world through a haze of confusion. In the correspondence between Nutt and Home Secretary Alan Johnson, the man responsible for demanding Nutt’s resignation, Johnson practically admitted that misinforming the public is part of the plan. Johnson’s letter to Nutt stated, “I cannot have public confusion between scientific advice and policy and have therefore lost confidence in your ability to advise me as chair of the ACMD.” Huh? Really? If ministers care so little for independent scientific advice, maybe they should save public money by sacking the entire group of experts and instead appoint a committee of tabloid editors. After all, rags like the Daily Mail are onside with the firing, publishing an article comparing Agassi smoking crystal meth to the ‘nutty’ Professor Nutt. Why do they love that term drug tsar so much?

The pandering of the current Home Secretary to the tabloid press is another sad example of the disconnect between public policy and facts. Alan Johnson and his government now face a mass revolt from the official drug advisory board. As resignations begin to come in, one has to wonder if this is actually what the government wants. Nasty facts get in the way, especially when your nation is facing an epidemic of addiction to legal prescription drugs – there are over 1.5 million over-the-counter addicts in the UK today. Who knows, maybe it’s a Scientology plot? Far be it for me to suggest that simply legalizing cannabis would be some kind of panacea but it would be nice if government policy, in all areas, were determined by facts instead of fear. Reefer Madness, here we go again.

This guy's a cunt.

Here are ten questions I wish the dickless David Gregory would have asked Timothy Geithner yesterday on Meet the Press:

1. Where has all the TARP money gone?
2. Why don’t you want Congress to audit the Fed?
3. Why is the derivatives market still not regulated?
4. Why do you take Wall Street’s phone calls before Congress’?
5. Why did you allow AIG to repay Goldman Sachs 100 percent on the dollar?
6. What would have happened if you took all the TARP money and gave it to the American people?
7. Why don’t you support an executive cap?
8. Will you be bailing out GMAC again?
9. How is it that Goldman Sachs is going to make 1 billion dollars off of CIT’s bankruptcy, and the American taxpayer’s going to lose 2.3 billion?
10. When Wall Street’s about to cum, do you wrap your lips around the entire dick and allow the cum to fill your mouth before swallowing, or do you hold the dick 4 inches from your face and let Wall Street use your tongue as a target?

Now I know that last question is too vulgar for a Sunday news show, but I think it should be asked because it will tell America a lot about Timothy Geithner.