Archive for November 23rd, 2006


Gobble, gobble

Happy Turkey Day, all.

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Kleptocracy

Americans provide ’scrap’ Soviet arms to Iraqi Army

The American companies who won contracts to supply the Iraqi Amy found these antiquated weapons at rock-bottom prices in East Europe … This allows them to pocket the surplus from the massive appropriations designated for the creation of the Iraqi Army.

And if American troops die because these greedheads supplied them with inferior equipment, hey, their profits are up, and that’s what it’s all about, right?

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Voting irregularities in Pasadena?

Bill Paparian, Green Party candidate for CA-29 in Pasadena, has written a letter to the Country Registrar concerning possible voting irregularities.

Missing ballots, faulty equipment and a sinister plot to steal the votes of senior citizens — it sounds like a Third World election, or Florida 2000.

The Green Party’s candidate for Congress in that race, former Pasadena Mayor Bill Paparian, says he wrote the letter after several of his campaign volunteers and poll watchers documented voting irregularities both in and out of polling places.

We’ll keep you posted on what happens.

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Indeed

Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and, with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him

(Oh, man, this is so bad, it’s good)

a super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.

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