Posted on December 19, 2009 by yojoe
The White House sent members of the Illinois congressional delegation a
memo covering a series of questions they generated in the wake of President Obama’s order for the federal government to purchase the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois for a prison to house detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba.
Thomson would be converted to a federal prison run by the Bureau of Prisons
with the detainees held in a part of the complex to be run by the Defense Department.
yojoe out
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Posted on December 16, 2009 by yojoe
LtCol Jeffery Chessani, USMC, was the battalion commander when a number of Marines were accused of killing 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. LtCol Chessani was originally charged with dereliction of duty and violation of a lawful order. The charges were later dismissed by a military judge. LtCol Chessani then faced a Naval Board of Inquiry to determine if he could retire as a lieutenant colonel or be reduced to the rank of major. 
The board determined,
that Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani “demonstrated substandard performance of duty, but did not commit any acts of misconduct,” a Marine Corps spokeswoman, Maj. Erin Wiener, said in an email.
The panel, formed as a Board of Inquiry, made its decision on the sixth day of the hearing to determine whether Chessani was derelict in his duties following the civilian deaths in Hadithah on Nov. 19, 2005.
Marine Corps prosecutors contended that Chessani, who at the time commanded 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, balked at investigating the killings and didn’t file complete reports about the incident even after local Iraqi leaders complained of war crimes days after the deaths.
A broader investigation of the Iraqi deaths didn’t happen until January 2006, a few months before a Time magazine article detailed the killings, which happened when a 3/1 squad swept through several houses after a roadside bomb detonated, killing one Marine and injuring several others during a patrol. The Marines also had shot and killed five men in a car near the explosion. The dead included nine women and two children, and the U.S. military eventually made $38,000 in condolence payments to families.
Chessani’s defense attorneys defended his actions, telling the panel that the blast was one of a series of coordinated attacks by insurgents that day. Chessani, who they described as a respected officer, visited the scene the following day and notified his superiors of the civilian deaths, but the higher command did not investigate further, they said.
On a related note, LtCol Chessani’s lawyer Brain Rooney is running for Congress. Having served with Rooney, I can say that he would make a great representative for the people of Michigan.
yojoe out
H/T – CAAFLog
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Posted on December 1, 2009 by yojoe
Just when we thought it could not get any worse in Africa, after the reports of witches being burned to death, we learn of albino dismemberment.
From AP,
“Wherever I go people start talking about me, saying that my legs and hands can fetch a fortune in Tanzania,” said Owido, 36, a mother of six. “This kind of talk scares me. I am afraid of going out alone.”
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Posted on November 20, 2009 by yojoe
According to Fox News,
Ventura County authorities say the 39-year-old resident of Thousand Oaks, whose name wasn’t released, has made a habit of recruiting boys on MySpace to yell profanities at him, slap him and spit at him.
According to authorities his motive “wasn’t clear.”
His motive was not clear? His motive could not be more perceptible: he is a repellent ne’er-do-well bent on satisfying his sexual immorality.
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Posted on November 19, 2009 by yojoe
Quotes from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The D.E.N.N.I.S. System
The D.E.N.N.I.S. System:
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- D – Demonstrate Your Value
- E – Engage Physically
- N – Nurturing Dependence
- N - Neglect Emotionally
- I – Inspire Hope
- S – Separate Entirely
- Mac
- He has banged a lot of chicks.
- Separate entirely.
- Men stuff!
- I’m swooping in on your chick.
- So they can get to know each other more better.
- Sweet Dee
- He’s not D.E.N.N.I.S.ing me.
- Of course we have engaged physically.
- I don’t need you, I don’t need anybody. Shut up!
- Frank Reynolds
- I would have gone in and bought a box of Magnum condoms. Thus demonstrating I have a monster dong.
- I’ve got my Magnum condoms, I’ve got my wad of hundreds, I’m ready to plow.
- Hello, Dr. Toboggan.
- She don’t have a boyfriend.
- I’m ready to plow.
- That’s good, call me that from now on, Mantis.
- Dennis Reynolds
- I have a system, a fool-proof system for getting any chicks undying love and affection for life. I’m talking about the D.E.N.N.I.S. system
- The D.E.N.N.I.S. system is a comprehensive approach for seduction I have developed for years.
- I personally try to engage the girl physically without ever having gone on a date.
- And then, naturally, we bang.
- Have her car towed, or slash her tires.
- Welcome to hell.
- You been humping these chicks when I’m done with them?
- And then, naturally, we bang.
- Charlie Kelly
- Smooth. Very very smooth stuff, very classy. I’m learning a lot from you dude.
- Your getting played big time, big time.
- You don’t want to call the police. Read more »
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Posted on November 15, 2009 by yojoe
Attorney General Eric Holder, on 13NOV09, announced that the 9/11 defendants (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed “KSM,” Waleed bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi).
AG Holder also announced that five cases would be headed for the military commissions:
-Omar Khadr, born in Toronto, who was 15 when captured after allegedly killing an American soldier during a 2002 battle in Afghanistan. He is accused of killing U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer of Albuquerque, N.M., with a grenade. Authorities say he is the son of a slain al-Qaida financier.
-Ahmed Mohammed al-Darbi, who allegedly has met with Osama bin Laden, trained at an al-Qaida terrorist camp, and plotted to blow up a ship in the Strait of Hormuz or off Yemen. After his capture, al-Darbi says American troops subjected him to beatings, excruciating shackling, painfully loud music, isolation and threats of rape.
-Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, who is accused of acting as al-Qaida’s accountant, paymaster and supply chief during the 1990s when the terror network was centered in Sudan and Afghanistan. He allegedly worked later as a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.
-Noor Uthman Muhammed, who is allegedly a member of al-Qaida, trained at a camp in Afghanistan and later become a weapons instructor. From 1996 to 2000 he allegedly was deputy commander of at a terror training camp, where he oversaw its operations.
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Posted on November 13, 2009 by yojoe
Quotes from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Mac & Dennis Break Up
- Mac
- We’re more like a dynamic duo.

- I texted you 911, dude.
- Jason Statham’s physic is nothing like the lineup in Predator.
- It’s important to pack on mass.
- You think that not eating cat food is putting on airs?
- Sweet Dee
- Enjoy that movie, boners.
- You want a skinless apple bud.
- Wow, there are a lot of cats back here.
- Frank Reynolds
- I got your groceries, no cat food.
- Your throwing my toe knife out?
- We are the gruesome twosome!
- Dennis Reynolds
- I feel like I’m not flourishing.
- You couldn’t think of the word words.
- I swallowed some apple seeds today.
- I was told I would be meeting a woman with giant breasts.
- Charlie Kelly
- Cat in the wall, hey. Ok, now your talk’n my language.
- You got to have a sidekick.
- Cat’s don’t abide by the laws of nature.
- I got followed here by like ten cats.
- Let’s start think’n like a cat.
- I would throw up now. Read more »
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Posted on November 11, 2009 by yojoe
Basketball For Whites Only
Thank you Moose Lewis, for setting back race relations at least 50 years.
yojoe out
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