Entries from June 2008

June 30, 2008

Don’t talk to me about the LAPD

You know, it really is unfair. Other police forces are infested with their share of brutal thugs, but people always focus on the Los Angeles Police Department. Now it looks like the clowns of Prince Georges’ law enforcement agencies will get their moment in the sun (via The Washington Post):
The death of a 19-year-old man [...]

June 29, 2008

It’s official…

The US Army’s Contemporary Operations Study Team hates America (via The AssPress):
A nearly 700-page study released Sunday by the Army found that “in the euphoria of early 2003,” U.S.-based commanders prematurely believed their goals in Iraq had been reached and did not send enough troops to handle the occupation.
President George W. Bush’s statement on May [...]

June 27, 2008

I’ll see your fail and raise you $6 mil

Say what you like about bAdmin., it’s really creative when it comes to finding ways to blow your cash (via The Washington Post):
The Justice Department agreed yesterday to pay biological-weapons expert Steven J. Hatfill a settlement valued at $5.85 million to drop a lawsuit he filed after then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft named him a [...]

June 26, 2008

Blink

2003 - Yipee-ki-yay motherfucker (via The Washington Post):
“We will not tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea,” the president said confidently in May 2003, three weeks after declaring an end to major combat operations in Iraq. “We will not settle for anything less than the complete, verifiable, and irreversible elimination of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.”
2008 [...]

June 25, 2008

Introducing the GMC Flop Sweat

Strange and frankly inappropriate shit makes me laugh, so I got a chuckle out of this example of everything that has been wrong with the U.S. auto industry since about March of 1949 (via The Financial Times):
General Motors rolled out fresh incentives on Monday in an attempt to staunch plummeting sales of gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles, [...]