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Story from The Washington Independent:

Employees of the CIA-connected private security corporation Blackwater diverted hundreds of weapons, including more than 500 AK-47 assault rifles, from a U.S. weapons bunker in Afghanistan intended to equip Afghan policemen, according to an investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee.  On at least one occasion, an individual claiming to work for the company evidently signed for a weapons shipment using the name of a “South Park” cartoon character.  And Blackwater has yet to return hundreds of the guns to the military.

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According to the committee, at the behest of the company’s Afghanistan country manager, Ricky Chambers, Blackwater on at least two occasions acquired hundreds of rifles and pistols from a U.S. military facility near Kabul called 22 Bunkers by the military and Pol-e Charki by the Afghans.  Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of all U.S. military forces in the Middle East and South Asia, wrote to the committee to explain that “there is no current or past written policy, order, directive, or instruction that allows U.S. Military contractors or subcontractors in Afghanistan to use weapons stored at 22 Bunkers.”

On one of those occasions, in September 2008, Chief Warrant Officer Greg Sailer, who worked at 22 Bunkers and is a friend of a Blackwater officer working in Afghanistan, signed over more than 200 AK-47s to an individual identified as “Eric Cartman” or possibly “Carjman” from Blackwater’s Counter Narcotics Training Unit.  A Blackwater lawyer told committee staff that no one by those names has ever been employed by the company.  Eric Cartman is the name of an obnoxious character from Comedy Central’s popular “South Park” cartoon.

Blackwater personnel invoked their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.

via Attackerman.

A Washington man was in a single car accident last Friday, ramming into a power pole.  The 50-year-old man suffered no major injuries in the accident and called family to come help him get his car out of the ditch.

While waiting for his family to arrive, he decided to go “see a man about a horse”.

One can only imagine what happened next, and since the Seattle Times did a poor job speculating, I will provide the following as my reenactment, beginning after the phone call to family:

“Well, son of a bitch. This sucks and I gotta take a piss.  Well, they’ll be here soon, I’ll just hold it….  Oh, god they’re never gonna get here…  That’s it I’m gonna just pee into the ditch.

(sidenote: He doesn’t see that he has knocked a powerline into the ditch and it’s live.)

zipppp….. pssssss……  “Ahhhhhh…..”

“YEOWWWW!!!!!”

The Seattle Times picks up the story at this point indicating that, while an autopsy is planned, the burn marks seem to indicate a direct path of travel of the electricity.

Ouch, this has got to be a terrible way to go.  Remember to look where you pee, you never know when the reaper is gonna come for you.

Fans of Mr. Fish (self-proclaimed upholder of Truth and Horseshit) can now find his comics and animations on his new blog, Clowncrack.com.

Check it out today.  I spent several minutes on the animations page and highly recommend you do the same.  Watch “Piece,” “Jesus Time,” “BushPresidencyCondensed,” and:

Oh just watch them all.

And visit Clowncrack often.

On the blogroll now too…

I’ll remind you once and a while.

A couple days ago I was chatting with a friend bouncing ideas off each other and he was asking me what I thought about the website icanhascheezburger.com ?

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

I told him that I thought it was a pretty funny site.  He next asked me what I would think about a site that posts porn images with funny LOL speak captions.  As we discussed this,  would we both started laughing and determined that it was a fun idea. After all, what could be funnier than LOL porn?

From that conversation, LOLzPorn.com (Not Safe for Work) was born. From the site:

At LOLzPorn you’ll find the Interweb’s funniest sex pictures. Because breathing heavy and laughing are nearly the same thing!

Here is a redacted version of an image on the site (Clicking image will open NSFW version):

In a nutshell, LOLzPorn is a fun place to find hot nude pics with silly captions added.  You’ll ROFL from some of the clever captions on the images.  The site has everything from sexy pics to shocking photos.  This is a twist on the classic porn images found all over the internet.

I really like Kanye West.

But, last night he was a huge dick on the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards show.

While the lovely Taylor Swift was accepting her award for Best Female Video, Kanye came on stage, took the mic and said “I’m sorry, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time”.  By the time he was done, Taylor had no time left for her 1st Moonman acceptance.

Here is what Katy Perry said in her tweet:

Fuck U Kanye. It’s like u stepped on a kitten.

Over on MTV.com, Taylor is quoted as saying:

Well, you know, I was up there and I was standing there and I saw Kanye up on the stage,” she explained. “I was really excited … and I kind of wasn’t excited anymore.

According to MTV.com, when Beyoncé won for Best Video of the Year:

This is amazing,” said B, recalling her first VMA nomination at 17 with Destiny’s Child. “It was one of the most exciting moments in my life, so I’d like for Taylor to come out and have her moment,” she added, in one of the classiest moments in VMA history. Accepting a big hug from B, a beaming Swift joked, “Maybe we could try this again,” thanking all her fans for their support.

So, in the end everything worked out hunky dory and I don’t have to delete all my Kanye mp3s.  :-)

BUT….Is it possible that this was all one big publicity stunt?  I wonder cuz, as Taylor Swift attempts to break out of the “country singer” mold and gain a wider audience, is it not possible that Jay-Z, Kanye, and Beyoncé were all intended players in the huge buzz that this has created? Only time will tell.

In somewhat related, but weirder news, it has been revealed that Kanye also interrupted Obama’s recent speech.

In what appears to be a nod to Janet Jackson, Lady Gaga experienced a slight wardrode malfunction (more precisely – a lack of function) during her award acceptance at the 2009 MTV VMAs.  During the show, she changed her wardrobe no less than5 times but only this outfit offered the classic Nip Slip (technically it didn’t slip, but who cares.)

In somewhat related, but weirder news, during her live performance one of her dancers paid homage to the upcoming Swine Flu Pandemic by wearing a white surgical mask made out of a g-string…

Some people will do anything for attention.

For a quick summary of all the crazy talk coming from the stars of the Lunatic Fringe and their equally impassioned but uninformed devoted followers, go to Salon.com and read this week’s edition of This Modern World.

I just finished designing and coding my friend’s new website Viva La Jackson.  The site is selling Michael Jackson/Che Guevara mashup T-shirts.  They are really awesome shirts and can’t wait to get my hands on one.  I hear that there are other designs in the works.  Stay tuned.

From the website:

Michael Jackson was the KING of POP, he led the POP REVOLUTION for millions of fans worldwide.

Show the world you’ve joined the revolution with this iconic Michael Jackson/Che Guevara mash-up T-Shirt.

Last night I watched the rerun of the Monday night Daily Show during which Jon Stewart went after Fox News twice.  First he rebutted Joe Scarborough’s rebuttal of a Daily Show piece from last week that ridiculed “Morning Joe” for bringing on Starbucks as a sponsor, using Starbucks product placement in their show, and inviting Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz on as a guest.

Next he goes after Gretchen Carlson who was deeply offended by Brüno’s (Sacha Baron Cohen) performance during the MTV Movie Awards.  Watch to see how Jon portrays Gretchen as an ass-hating, ass-loving hypocrite.

The whole show was excellent.  Just watch the whole thing.