McDonalds coffee was totally fucked up. I stopped drinking it because by the time it had cooled off enough to be drinkable, I usually had forgotten I had a cup of coffee still waiting to be consumed. And if you did drink it, you discovered the rather obvious fact that superheated coffee tastes like SHIT once it’s cooled off.

Once the rightwing started mocking that old woman for her burns, it was obvious to me that no lie would ever be too much for them to handle, and I was proven right. Rape? hey — at least half the people involved had a good time, right?

Pigs. All of them. And I say that as a former Iowa farm kid who used to raise hogs. You can feed a pig every day of its life, but if you fall down and hit your head in the hoglot, those same fucking pigs will eat you alive. That’s because they’re pigs. They don’t know the meaning of the word loyalty, chivalry or anything other than “dinner’s here!!!”

WHETHER?????

By Farah Stockman
Globe Staff / March 6, 2008

CAYMAN ISLANDS – Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation’s top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in this tropical tax haven.[…]

Halliburton/KBR seems to have devoted far more time and resources in devising a plausible excuse to avoid hundreds of millions in payroll and unemployment taxes on salaries paid to its thousands of staff in Iraq and Afghanistan. Guess we know what’s important to Halliburton/KBR.

They what, now?

Probably pissed off because he’d been left out of the fun.

In BushWorld, admitting an error or a crime makes it a fact and threatens liability, the thing Shrub has avoided since childhood. Not acknowledging its existence makes it go away. That kind of fantasy most parents help their ten and twelve year-old children grow out of. For Halliburton/KBR, as well as Bush, it’s a fantasy that’s been highly profitable, until now.

Halliburton/KBR may not be in the business of raping, except perhaps its principal client, the US Government and, indirectly, US taxpayers. It is, however, in the business of managing its people, whatever it asks them to do, and in ratifying or affirming its employees’ conduct. It’s ratified the rapists’ raping in several ways. The WT ignores them as if it were John Yoo ignoring a steely Supreme Court opinion that didn’t support his fantasy version of the law.

Halliburton/KBR’s principal failure was not responding to the alleged criminal wrongdoing among its employees. Arguably, its managers then obstructed justice, engaged in kidnapping and illegal intimidation. Each step in these apparent multiple cover-ups involved a higher level of management. Each step implicated them by their apparent approval of the wrongful actions in that they failed to take reasonable steps to stop it and to punish the alleged wrongdoers, several of whom it has rewarded rather than punished.

Some would call that a pattern of deception at Halliburton/KBR, protecting its employees who were alleged criminals, destroying evidence, intimidating adverse witnesses, ad nauseum.

Halliburton/KBR seems to have devoted far more time and resources in devising a plausible excuse to avoid hundreds of millions in payroll and unemployment taxes on salaries paid to its thousands of staff in Iraq and Afghanistan. Guess we know what’s important to Halliburton/KBR.