What - that was NEVER fifteen minutes of fame! Come back...
Remember the two scumbags, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, who briefly got famous making allegedly damning (but actually doctored) videotapes of ACORN employees, making it look like ACORN approved of child prostitution and other crimes? No? You’ve forgotten about them already? Well, I wrote about them here. At the time, my brother Crab, who is smarter than me, said prophetically, “It’s just a matter of time before these a**holes get in real trouble.”
And was he right! *schadenfreude* We saw the little faux-whore Hannah making a fool of herself last week in Massachusetts, trying to get air time “investigating” “Democrat voter fraud” without any success. But more joyously, the smartass faux-pimp O’Keefe has just been arrested by the FBI for messing with the phone system in Senator Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office.
What’s that Art says? RUH-ROH! A promising career in Segretti-style “rat-f**king” (their own lovely term) comes to such an early and abrupt end!
Landrieu? One of the most conservative Democratic Senators, she has finally become one of the more outspoken defenders of the Senate healthcare reform bill. And ACORN? Bless their hearts, they continue with the thankless but heroic work of empowering America’s poor and building our democracy. You can donate to them here: https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/2749/t/4538/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=2769
I’ve copied the Politico story for your enjoyment, over the fold…
Anti-ACORN filmmaker arrested
Federal authorities have arrested four men on felony charges for attempting to infiltrate Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office, including one filmmaker who targeted the community group ACORN last year in damaging undercover videos.
Among those arrested was 25-year-old James O’Keefe, the conservative filmmaker, along with Joseph Basel, Robert Flanagan and Stan Dai, all 24. They were charged with entering federal property under false pretenses and attempting to gain access to the Democrat’s office by posing as telephone repairmen, according to a copy of an FBI affidavit unsealed Tuesday.
The complaint said that O’Keefe was waiting in the office when Flanagan and Basel each entered the premises, wearing light green fluorescent vests, denim paints and blue work shirts, tool belts and hard-hats. They informed a member of Landrieu’s staff that they were telephone repairmen and requested access to the main telephone at the reception desk.
At that point, the two men allegedly attempted to manipulate telephones and accessed the telephone closet, saying they needed to work on the entire system. The men, who said they left their credentials in their vehicles, and were later arrested by the U.S. Marshal’s Service soon afterward. O’Keefe was allegedly involved with planning, coordination, and preparation of the operation, according to an FBI news release.
According to the FBI, the four men could each face up to 10 years and a fine of $250,000 if they are convicted. The case, which is being investigated by special agents of the FBI and deputy marshals with the United States Marshal’s Service, is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jordan Ginsberg.
Michael Madigan, O’Keefe’s lawyer, told POLITICO Tuesday afternoon that he was still unclear exactly what happened at the senator’s office.
“I don’t know the facts yet of what exactly happened, but at heart James O’Keefe is a good kid,” said Madigan, a white-collar criminal defense lawyer who served as counsel to Sen. Howard Baker during the Watergate investigation and helped run former Tennessee Republican Sen. Fred Thompson’s investigation of the Clinton administration.
A spokeswoman for U.S. Capitol police said the department is aware of the incident and is maintaining close contact with law enforcement authorities. And a Landrieu spokesman declined to comment, saying Monday’s incident is part of an ongoing investigation.
In a statement, ACORN said O’Keefe’s arrest is “further evidence of his disregard for the law in pursuit of his extremist agenda.”
This was not the first of O’Keefe’s legal troubles: ACORN is pressing charges him with a six-figure lawsuit in Baltimore for videotaping its employees with a hidden video camera over the summer. The lawsuit is still ongoing, and the Philadelphia branch of the group alleged in federal court this month that O’Keefe and co-filmmaker Hannah Giles caused emotional distress, harm and injury in their publicizing of the videos.
Perhaps after a few years in federal prison ACORN will be kind enough to help these scumbags get back on their feet.
Why would they help anyone who exposes their corruption. Most likely because these kids ran the risk of jail time to expose ACON – ACON will not be around!
Unless ACON changes their identity like most crooks on the run – o yeah i heard from FOX news that what they were doing!
#50 Michelle Quinn,
Thanks for proving my point about your being a LOW INFORMATION voter;
“No i think most people would prefer seeing contractors in Iraq getting the money, than ACORN who’s workers give advise on pimping out kids???”
You see a low information voter CAN’T distinguish between a REAL scandal and a MANUFACTURED one,in the Acorn scandal nothing actually occurred, just a couple of low-level employees (or volunteers) gave some advice during a set-up, as opposed to an actual scandal where actual CRIMES were committed,one where soldiers have DIED and been injured, involving contractors that electrocuted our troops, served them dirty water, locked a rape victim in a storage container, took bribes and have ripped billions off the American taxpayer.
Michelle, since you “read”, why don’t you educate yourself about a REAL scandal. This is an excerpt from Pro Publica on KBR;
KBR, the former Halliburton subsidiary, is the beast of all the military contractors; as of May last year, it had earned more than $24 billion. That’s nearly a quarter of the total amount the U.S. has spent on contractors in Iraq.
But KBR’s ubiquitous presence in ongoing U.S. wars has also generated a number of problems. It has been accused of bilking U.S. taxpayers on workman’s comp and engaging in the human trafficking of Nepali workers. It was accused of installing shoddy electrical wiring in barracks in Iraq and then ignoring warnings to fix it; 18 people have been electrocuted. A subsequent Pentagon investigation of the wiring determined that KBR was guilty of “serious contractual noncompliance.”
Around the same time that the Pentagon report came out, Military Times published a disturbing investigation of KBR’s massive “burn pit” at Balad, the largest U.S. base in Iraq. According to a 2006 memo from an Air Force official, the pit was burning plastics, paint, Styrofoam and medical waste, including amputated limbs. A resultant smog of toxic, cancer-causing chemicals hung over the base, and several GIs have reported illnesses. In late November, a former Air Force employee filed a suit against KBR. In addition to the burn pit, the suit alleges that KBR served troops rotten food, contaminated water and ice that had been transported in trucks that “still had traces of body fluids and putrefied remains in them.” KBR declined to comment to the Times.
KBR is also facing a lawsuit from 16 members of the Indiana National Guard who are accusing the company of knowingly exposing them to hexavalent chromium (the cancer-causing chemical made famous by Erin Brockovich) at the Qarmat Ali water treatment facility in Iraq in the months following the 2003 invasion.
I’m glad to see that the good Professor Juan Cole is branching out lately, and not writing exclusively about Middle East issues:
Rightwing Politics Is Mostly Dirty Tricks
By Juan Cole, Reader Supported News
Thursday, 28 January 2010 17:30
…James O’Keefe, the rightwing activist who tried to punk ACORN by dressing as a pimp, was endorsed in a resolution by 31 Republican congressmen as a role model. Yes, the very model of an upright gentleman.
So the political right wing ruled the United States for 8 years, holding all three branches of government during some of the W. era, and the result was a Democratic landslide in 2008. The more the Right is in power, the less it is liked.
But the Right in the US wants its way no matter what, and is constantly anxious that maybe the people will wake up to the scam that is being pulled on them by people who actually represent big corporations but claim to speak for the “people.” Politics nowadays is about fatally crippling Obama and rolling back the Democratic surge, by any means possible.
Thus, you had the Supreme Court ruling allowing corporations to defame at will candidates who don’t kowtow to them, deploying all the billions at their disposal. This overturning of a hundred years of precedent by five far-right Republicans on the court was a deliberate attempt to undo the 2008 Democratic victory.
And now you have a Watergate-style break-in by James O’Keefe and associates at the Louisiana offices of Senator Mary Landrieu, seeking to bug her office. [sic – Vern – the Professor obviously hadn’t yet heard the details of incredibly devious and ingenious scheme!]
O’Keefe played a role in attempting to discredit ACORN, an organization that aims at increasing voting rates among the poor (and therefore an object of hatred on the part of the Right, which thinks you shouldn’t feed ‘stray animals,’ much less encourage them to vote.)
Ironically, O’Keefe is now charged with a felony, whereas it was never proven that, despite unprofessional trash talking in O’Keefe’s videotape, the ACORN employees he sought to entrap ever actually did anything illegal.
Dirty tricks are nothing new from the Right, and are necessary, since they don’t offer good governance and their main argument is that the Market will magically take care of everyone if only unscrupulous businessmen are left completely unregulated by the government.
This ideology is what got us into the present mess. So since the platform of the Right is obviously untrue, what is left but scummy attack videos and illegal office break-ins and bugging. The public after all has an extremely short memory or mostly doesn’t much care about politics, so why not try to manipulate them? Maybe you could even convince them in the midst of a Depression that the Market loves them and will put them to work if only the super-rich can be unleashed on their behalf again and the bad Government can be handcuffed.
Why, we should even let Bernie Madoff out of jail to vindicate himself – the pyramid really does work if only you let it go on, you know.
You see a low information voter CAN’T distinguish between a REAL scandal and a MANUFACTURED one,in the Acorn scandal nothing actually occurred, just a couple of low-level employees (or volunteers) gave some advice during a set-up, as opposed to an actual scandal where actual CRIMES were committed,one where soldiers have DIED and been injured, involving contractors that electrocuted our troops, served them dirty water, locked a rape victim in a storage container, took bribes and have ripped billions off the American taxpayer.
Really can you give me the links that prove the contractors did all these things that you alleged they did. Do you have court records, tapes, documentation, media on Low- wage contractors giving DIRTY water to troops…. DO YOU??
With the ACORN scandel, the workers were taped giving information and advice to break an array of laws including, but not limited to: child prosititution, evading taxes, smuggling, killing ones husband……But this is just a bunch of
low-level employees – WOW the next time i see a low-level worker i’m going ask them for Tax advice and if i ever have the need to smuggle some kids across the border, I know the people to go too.. Really Wiseup!
accused:
Meaning: to blame to bring charges against.
Its truly amazing how the Amerian left picks and choose which life is more important… Did you see the video showing Afgan women being shot in the head in a foot ball field or the 16yrs old girl in Iran being hanged using a crane… In world drinking dirty water and accusation that tittlelate your liberal views are just more important… AH
James O’Keefe, the rightwing activist who tried to punk ACORN ..
I don’t think he had to try too hard. ACORN are abunch of punks that got, VERY much PUNKED… Its was BRILLIANT, to say the least!
#54 …child prosititution, evading taxes, smuggling, killing ones husband…
LOL, Quinn even puts the “killing one’s husband” in there.
Quinn, we try off and on, but I think it’s safe to say, in the words of the Firesign Theater, “Everything you know is wrong.”
Shame on the educational institution that failed Michelle so terribly. That is the true abomination this thread has revealed.
Michelle Quinn,
Okay, you asked for it, put on your reading glasses;
***** KBR and TAINTED WATER;
Troops fall ill at bases using tainted water
Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using “unmonitored and potentially unsafe” water supplied by the military and a contractor…
By LARRY MARGASAK
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using “unmonitored and potentially unsafe” water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney’s former company, the Pentagon’s internal watchdog says.
A report obtained by The Associated Press said soldiers experienced skin abscesses, cellulitis, skin infections, diarrhea and other illnesses after using discolored, smelly water for personal hygiene and laundry at five U.S. military sites in Iraq.
The Defense Department’s inspector general’s report, which could be released as early as today, found water-quality problems from March 2004 to February 2006 at three sites run by contractor KBR, and from January 2004 to December 2006 at two military-operated locations.
It was impossible to link the dirty water definitively to all the illnesses, according to the report. But it said KBR’s water quality “was not maintained in accordance with field water sanitary standards” and the military-run sites “were not performing all required quality control tests.”
***** KBR and ELECTROCUTION
From Abbie Boudreau and Scott Bronstein
CNN Special Investigations Unit
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Thousands of buildings at U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan have such poorly installed wiring that American troops face life-threatening risks, a top inspector for the Army says.
These wires installed in Iraq are some of the most important to ensure safety. They all need to be replaced.
“It was horrible — some of the worst electrical work I’ve ever seen,” said Jim Childs, a master electrician and the top civilian expert in an Army safety survey. Childs told CNN that “with the buildings the way they are, we’re playing Russian roulette.”
Childs recently returned from Iraq, where he is taking part in a yearlong review aimed at correcting electrical hazards on U.S. bases. He told CNN that thousands of buildings in Iraq and Afghanistan are so badly wired that troops are at serious risk of death or injury.
He said problems are “everywhere” in Iraq, where 18 U.S. troops have died by electrocution since 2003. All deaths occurred in different circumstances and different locations, but many happened on U.S. bases being managed by various military contractors. The Army has reopened investigations in at least five cases, according to Pentagon sources.
Of the nearly 30,000 buildings the Army’s “Task Force Safe” has examined so far, Childs said more than half “failed miserably.” And 8,527 had such serious problems that inspectors gave them a “flash” warning, meaning repairs had to be completed in four hours or the facility evacuated.
He said the majority of those buildings were wired by contractor KBR, based in Houston, Texas. KBR has faced extensive criticism from Congress over its performance in the war zone. KBR has defended its performance and argued it was not to blame for any fatalities.
Military electrocutions became a national issue about a year ago, after the January 2008 death of Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A decorated member of the Army’s Green Berets, Maseth was electrocuted in his shower at a U.S. base in Baghdad that once served as one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces.
His death was blamed on improper grounding and dangerous wiring on his living quarters. Soon after that, the Army asked Childs to help create “Task Force Safe,” a team of master electricians assigned to inspect Army posts for electrical dangers.
Childs said the “large majority” of the buildings the task force examined in Iraq had been wired by KBR, which he expected would follow American standards. But the results, he said, were “just horrible.”
In one building, “I had them pull a switch out of the wall to look at a switch, and when they pulled it out of the wall, the wires fell out of it,” Childs said. Thinking that was an exception, “We pulled the one next to it. They fell off,” he said. “It was just very, very poor quality work.”
***** KBR and RAPE
KBR’s Rape Problem
by KAREN HOUPPERT
This article appeared in the May 5, 2008 edition of The Nation.
April 17, 2008
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As news broke of the rape of yet another US military contractor employee in Iraq [see “Another KBR Rape Case” at thenation.com], the Senate Foreign Relations Committee convened a hearing April 9 to demand that the Justice Department explain why it has failed to prosecute a single sexual assault case in the theater since the Iraq War began.
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“American women working in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to be sexually assaulted while their assailants go free,” said Senator Bill Nelson, who called the hearing. Because squabbles about who has jurisdiction in these cases have proliferated, Nelson arranged to have representatives from the Defense, State and Justice departments sit down together in front of him. They were forced to listen while the latest victims testified.
Dawn Leamon, who worked for a subsidiary of KBR and had told her story to The Nation a week before, described–with her back to the packed room and her voice (mostly) steady–being sodomized and forced to have oral sex with a KBR colleague and a Special Forces soldier two months earlier. When she reported the incident to KBR supervisors, she met a series of obstacles, she said. “They would tell me to stay quiet about it or try to make it seem as if I brought it on myself or lied about it.”
Another woman, Mary Beth Kineston, who worked as a commercial trucker for KBR in Iraq, testified that she had been raped in the cab of her truck by a KBR subcontractor employee at night while waiting in line to fill her water tanker truck. She immediately reported the incident to her supervisors; no one did a rape kit test, referred her for medical treatment or even offered to escort her back through the dark to her quarters that night.
Also at the hearing was Jamie Leigh Jones, whose story made the news in December, when she alleged that her 2005 gang rape by Halliburton/KBR co-workers in Iraq was being covered up by the company and the government. Jones, who has formed a nonprofit to support the many other women with similar experiences, says forty employees of US contractors have contacted her with stories of sexual assault or sexual harassment–and accounts of how Halliburton, KBR and the Cayman Island-based Service Employees International Inc. (SEII), a KBR shell company, either failed to help them or outright obstructed them.
As the number of women coming forward rises, Congress has begun to question why these crimes are not being prosecuted. In fact, there are several laws on the books that would allow these cases to proceed: the problem is not a lack of legal tools but a lack of will. “There is no rational explanation for this,” says Scott Horton, a lecturer at Columbia Law School who specializes in the law of armed conflict. Prosecutorial jurisdiction for crimes like the alleged rapes of Jones and Leamon is easily established under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act and the Patriot Act’s special maritime and territorial jurisdiction provisions. But somebody has to want to prosecute the cases.
Senator Nelson noted that the Defense Department, which has reported 742 sexual assaults against soldiers and civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, has claimed that it was unable to prosecute cases involving civilians–like defense contractor employees–until recently. (Even among those cases where it clearly had jurisdiction, a close look at the DoD’s own stats reveals a far from stellar record: among the 684 sexual assault complaints lodged by US soldiers in the Middle East, only eighty-three cases have led to courts-martial. Meanwhile, last year alone, 2,688 sexual assaults were reported globally against women serving in the US Armed Forces; disposition of these cases is pending.)
Worse, those figures represent only the official count. Given that so many women are now coming forward complaining that they have been hushed by their private-military-contractor supervisors, it’s clear that the real tally is likely far higher. Even in cases where the victims do report the incidents, most complaints never see the light of day, thanks to the fine print in employee contracts, which compels employees into private arbitration instead of allowing their charges to be heard in a public courtroom. Todd Kelly, a lawyer in Houston who is trying to fight the legality of private arbitration, says his firm alone has fifteen clients with sexual assault, sexual harassment or retaliation complaints (for reporting assault and/or harassment) against Halliburton and its former subsidiary KBR, as well as SEII.
Obviously, US military contractors have an interest in avoiding the bad publicity that would follow if these complaints were not kept secret. With huge sums hanging in the balance–KBR has an estimated $16 billion in contracts–the stakes are high.
But such a financial incentive cannot explain why the Justice Department has failed to act. Although it has the authority to pursue criminal cases involving US military contractor employees, it has hemmed and hawed over even the tiny fraction of cases that have made their way through the maze of obstacles to land in the Justice Department’s offices. Grilling Justice about these twenty-four civilian sexual assault cases, Senator Nelson demanded to know exactly how many cases Justice was pursuing–and whether there had been a single conviction. “I don’t know of any convictions for sexual assault,” admitted Sigal Mandelker, deputy assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division. But, she stammered, “we do have active investigations…somewhere about…somewhere upwards of…somewhere between four and six, I believe is the number.” (Leamon’s attorney just learned that the department is initiating an investigation into her case.)
At the hearing, Nelson dryly observed that there was a very quick way to make sure US contractors did not force employees into private arbitration, and an easy way to force contractors to follow established protocols for sexual assault and harassment: “This might be something you want to require and include in your contracts–before you award them,” he said. To which, in quick succession, the Defense, State and Justice department representatives responded that, well, they couldn’t respond because this was, er, beyond their area of expertise.
KBR Connected to Alleged Fraud, Pentagon Auditor Says
***** KBR and FRAUD
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
KBR, the Army’s largest contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan, is linked to “the vast majority” of suspected combat-zone fraud cases that have been referred to investigators, as well as a majority of the $13 billion in “questioned” or “unsupported” costs, the Pentagon’s top auditor said yesterday.
In testimony before the bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, April G. Stephenson, director of the Defense Contract Audit Agency, said investigators have sent to the inspector general a total of 32 cases of suspected overbilling, bribery and other violations since 2004.
IS THIS REAL ENOUGH FOR YOU MICHELLE????????
The education system that i went through might not have been the best… plus the fact that i grewup in the middle of a civil war did not help either and the fact that i am lazy at time’s and did not listen in class, are all factors that make me less than a steller writer…
But..I have done quite well for myself with what i like to call…Determination and the fact that i never listened to elitists the class i grewup in would be the class that i would remain in..even us low-wage workers break the uppercrust ceiling sometimes…
I would say the true abomination of this thread is that people like yourself have no sense of grace and humility!
By the way sue me:)
“Everything you know is wrong.”
Not quite:)
Okay, Michelle, (you charming aficionado of projection, you), it’s time for you to show us some grace and humility and admit you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. Or, better yet, dazzle us with a retort to anonster’s #58. Your less-than-stellar writing has been forgiven, but now you’ve got to give us some more-than-lackluster reasoning. I have faith in you!
By the way, anonster, that was impressive!
#60 Longboobs,
Thanks for the complement, but I think we both know better than to expect humility and reasoning from Michelle Quinn, a bit like oil and water.
Troops fall ill at bases using tainted water
Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using “unmonitored and potentially unsafe” water supplied by the military and a contractor…
using tainted water – what does that mean?
Did someone piss in the water?? Was the water a drinking hole for animals??
People get sick all the time down in Mexico because of TAINTED water!
They are in the middle of a desert in the pits of the world ..
A report obtained by The Associated Press said soldiers experienced skin abscesses, cellulitis, skin infections, diarrhea and other illnesses after using discolored, smelly water for personal hygiene and laundry at five U.S. military sites in Iraq.
people in this country experience the same problems… the moral of this story is DO NOT wash or drink – smelly, discoloured water or your going to have the skitters!
It was impossible to link the dirty water definitively to all the illnesses, according to the report. But it said KBR’s water quality “was not maintained in accordance with field water sanitary standards” and the military-run sites “were not performing all required quality control tests.”
Really, i’m shocked they could not pin point all the illnesses on KBR’s water quality, but i bet they tried… SILLY
Thousands of buildings at U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan have such poorly installed wiring that American troops face life-threatening risks, a top inspector for the Army says.
You face life threating risk everytime you go into any building built in the Afgan DESERT.. the fact that they don’t have a home depot handy in the DESERT maybe a factor…
the Amerian military and American contractors have done amazing things in this pit of a country, but they are not super men/women.
A decorated member of the Army’s Green Berets, Maseth was electrocuted in his shower at a U.S. base in Baghdad that once served as one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces.
God love the poor man.
i think he too thought he was safe in a building built for a dictator.. the walls of gold might have given the military a false sense that the building must have good electrical instalation… NOT!
Childs said the “large majority” of the buildings the task force examined in Iraq had been wired by KBR, which he expected would follow American standards. But the results, he said, were “just horrible.”
I am not saying that KBR are Angles, but i dare say that they might have used Afgan men to wire the buildings.. in this case it would not be done by American standards!
684 sexual assault complaints lodged by US soldiers in the Middle East, only eighty-three cases have led to courts-martial. Meanwhile, last year alone, 2,688 sexual assaults were reported globally against women serving in the US Armed Forces; disposition of these cases is pending.)
Worse, those figures represent only the official count. Given that so many women are now coming forward complaining that they have been hushed by their private-military-contractor supervisors, it’s clear that the real tally is likely far higher.
Word of advise to women.. if you can’t handle a gun, are not trained to protect yourself and think that going into the desert with a bunch of horny men will not lead to using the above…DONT GO..
If you go into the military as a woman, you are no longer a woman, but a solider. If you can’t defend yourself against friendlies … Don’t go.. Its that simple
KBR, the Army’s largest contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan, is linked to “the vast majority” of suspected combat-zone fraud cases that have been referred to investigators, as well as a majority of the $13 billion in “questioned” or “unsupported” costs, the Pentagon’s top auditor said yesterday.
I will see if any of this is proved!
IS THIS REAL ENOUGH FOR YOU MICHELLE???????? NO its all hear say!
Okay, Michelle, (you charming aficionado of projection, you), Thanks, i am quite the devoted one! ????
it’s time for you to show us some grace and humility and admit you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.
You go first:)
Or, better yet, dazzle us with a retort to anonster’s #58.
I will just give you my opinion, i am not out to DAZZLE anyone.. Hope you like my retort – short, sweet and not googled!
I have faith in you!
I am sure you do!
oil and water. like a master piece:P
nite libs, take an Asprin!
“A report obtained by The Associated Press said soldiers experienced skin abscesses, cellulitis, skin infections, diarrhea and other illnesses after using discolored, smelly water for personal hygiene and laundry at five U.S. military sites in Iraq.
people in this country experience the same problems… the moral of this story is DO NOT wash or drink – smelly, discoloured water or your going to have the skitters!”
Michelle, I gotta give you props. THAT was funny!
However, as a female cop who handles her weapon quite well, I don’t think I should EVER have to worry about defending myself against “friendlies”; sleeping with one eye open so I’m prepared to pop a cap in some horny guy’s ass if he tries to sexually assault me. First off, it’s naive to propose that women should tolerate sexual harassment, or worse, because they happen to be among horny men. There aren’t rampant sexual assaults in Alaska, where the ratio of men to women is similarly disproportionate. Sexual harassment detracts from any soldier’s ability (female or male) to concentrate on their task at hand. And, I think what anonster is aptly pointing out, any entity that tolerates and propagates this kind of behavior is simply archaic and incompetent.
Thanks for the new word: skitters. That cracked me up.
Yeah, Michelle, you got it! A master piece of skitters!!!!
However, as a female cop who handles her weapon quite well, I don’t think I should EVER have to worry about defending myself against “friendlies”; sleeping with one eye open so I’m prepared to pop a cap in some horny guy’s ass if he tries to sexually assault me.
That is my point, you would be well suited to the job of being in the desert with a bunch of horney men..Alaska is not the middle east and being in a war causes men and women to do unspeakable acts… Its the reality of war and strife.
I suggest the knee caps instead of the ass to bring the horney shite down 🙂
both knee caps!
Stay safe out there and be careful!
Thanks, Michelle.
#62 Michelle Quinn,
It’s hard to know where to begin with you, it’s apparent that rational, logical arguments don’t work, how do you reason with “mush-for-brains”?
Here goes;
****KBR and TAINTED WATER
“people in this country experience the same problems…”
The POINT Michelle, is that US TAXPAYERS PAID KBR to provide CLEAN WATER to our troops, we have the technology to purify water, KBR just didn’t think that our troops health was as important as their profits.
It was impossible to link the dirty water definitively to all the illnesses, according to the report. But it said KBR’s water quality “was not maintained in accordance with field water sanitary standards” and the military-run sites “were not performing all required quality control tests.”
“Really, i’m shocked they could not pin point all the illnesses on KBR’s water quality, but i bet they tried… SILLY”
This was from the DEFENSE DEPARTMENT INSPECTOR GENERAL’S report, KBR was NOT providing sanitary water, regardless of wether they could link all the illnesses to the water, it’s DISGUSTING, it’s NOT WHAT WE PAID FOR and if even ONE SOLDIER was SICKENED that’s MORE damage than anything your little pimp-boy dug up on Acorn.
*****KBR and ELECTROCUTIONS
“You face life threating risk everytime you go into any building built in the Afgan DESERT.. the fact that they don’t have a home depot handy in the DESERT maybe a factor”
“but i dare say that they might have used Afgan men to wire the buildings.. in this case it would not be done by American standards!”
Again, WE PAID BILLIONS to KBR to build these buidings to OUR STANDARDS, they were bringing the materials into Iraq and Afghanistan. Remember, a BILLION dollars is 1,000 MILLION, we weren’t paying for second rate shoddy construction, we were being RIPPED-OFF and our soldiers PAID WITH THEIR LIVES!!! THIS WAS CRIMINAL!!!
Thousands of buildings at US bases in Iraq and Afghanistan have such poorly installed wiring that American troops face life-threatening risks, a top inspector for the Army says.
“IS THIS REAL ENOUGH FOR YOU MICHELLE???????? NO its all hear say!”
Gosh, I guess the ARMY INSPECTOR’S aren’t credible enough for you, smarty pants,by your standards if you haven’t heard it screamed all over FOX News (and you NEVER will), it didn’t happen.
*****KBR and RAPE
“If you go into the military as a woman, you are no longer a woman, but a solider. If you can’t defend yourself against friendlies … Don’t go.. Its that simple”
Well, to begin with, these women were working for KBR and were NOT soldiers, but I find it really interesting that women being harassed, assaulted and even gang-raped at their workplace leaves you nonplussed, even going so far as to blame the victims, but when it comes to a PHONY PIMP getting tax advice, well that sets your hair on fire. What does THAT say about Michelle Quinn?
For your edification, the gory gang-rape details;
Jones began working for KBR as an administrative assistant in 2004 when she was 19, and started her contract of employment with Overseas Administrative Services, Ltd. in Houston, Texas on July 21, 2005.
According to Jones, on July 28, 2005, several of her fellow KBR employees offered her a drink containing a date rape drug, of which she took two sips. While she was unconscious, the men then allegedly engaged in unprotected anal and vaginal gang-rape upon her. She was able to name one of her attackers based on his confession to her, but was unable to identify the others due to her unconsciousness. Further, the lawsuit filed by Jones’ attorneys cites the following: “When she awoke the next morning still affected by the drug, she found her body naked and severely bruised, with lacerations to her vagina and anus, blood running down her leg, her breast implants ruptured, and her pectoral muscles torn – which would later require reconstructive surgery. Upon walking to the rest room, she passed out again.”[5] Jones’ account was confirmed by U.S. Army physician Jodi Schultz.[6] Schultz gave the rape kit she used to gather evidence from Jones to KBR/Halliburton security forces, after which the rape kit disappeared. It was recovered two years later, but missing crucial photographs and notes. [7]
Jones was confined by armed guards to a shipping container containing only a bed, under the orders of her employer, KBR. She says she was denied food, water, and medical treatment. After approximately one day, says Jones, a sympathetic guard gave her a cell phone and she called her father, Tom, who in turn contacted Representative Ted Poe (R-TX) who contacted the State Department. Agents were dispatched from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and removed Jones from KBR custody.[8] In May 2007, a State Department diplomat recovered the rape kit from Halliburton and KBR. However, notes and photographs taken by Schultz (of Jones the morning following her rape) were missing, undermining any chances of bringing the case through the criminal courts.[9]
****KBR and FRAUD
KBR, the Army’s largest contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan, is linked to “the vast majority” of suspected combat-zone fraud cases that have been referred to investigators, as well as a majority of the $13 billion in “questioned” or “unsupported” costs, the Pentagon’s top auditor said yesterday.
“I will see if any of this is proved!”
Pentagon, Schmentagon, you won’t believe anything unless you watch as Glenn Beck pulls it out of his ass!
Michelle, you are a fool and so am I for wasting time on you.
anonster, I’d like to thank you for time well spent providing extremely informative (and disturbing) information about KBR. Your comments have certainly educated me.
It’s hard to know where to begin with you, it’s apparent that rational, logical arguments don’t work, how do you reason with “mush-for-brains”?
I suggest you begin with logical and rational thinking..and your right to questioned the mush-for-brains – brains are spongy, not mushy – but thats ok you questioned the mushy part!
The moral of your hole speel on KBR is that all the facts you have presented are allegations and hear say and have not be found to be the hole truth and nothing but the truth… Remember in this Country you are inocent until proven guility. LIke i have said, some of the above are most likely correct.. but was it deliberate or human error?
Michelle, you are a fool and so am I for wasting time on you.
And you mate are a fool for basing your beiiefs on what you read..
let me see all the facts including phyical facts not just allegations and i will use my own judgement.. I listen to all and base my judgements on common sense and logic!
Pentagon, Schmentagon, you won’t believe anything unless you watch as Glenn Beck pulls it out of his ass!
If Glenn beck can pull physical evidence and guility verdicts out of his ass.. yes i will believe Glenn Beck.
I bet you will too!
#70 Michelle Quinn,
The WHOLE POINT of this argument is WHICH SCANDAL has MORE MERIT!!! One where a phony pimp gets advice on tax evasion or one where our SOLDIERS have been INJURED or KILLED and BILLIONS of dollars have been misused?
WHY is your hair-on-fire over ALLEGED ACORN misdeeds, that at best, are an ANTHILL compared to the MOUNTAIN-SIZED AMOUNT OF ALLEGATIONS PENDING AGAINST KBR , that is the question?
We know the answer, FAUX NEWS. They’ve got a ring through your nose and when they say JUMP, you respond like a prize pig!