Upper Left

Claiming the tea party is taking over the Republican party is like claiming Xe took over Blackwater or that KFC took over Kentucky Fried Chicken.

America has no chance of being great again until this current Republican Party is gone, and its memory has vanished from the earth. Just saying.

Maybe Romney's problem isn't that he's a perpetual flip-flopper. Maybe his real problem is that he's completely amoral.

The Republican agenda includes elimination of Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, welfare, the insurance and security components of social security, public education, student loan and financial aid programs, abortion, environmental protections, food protections, safety standards, and, of course, unions.

Oh yeah…and the middle class.

Labels: Blackwater, Great Society, Middle Class, Mitt Romney, New Deal, Republicans, Tea Party, Xe

'Progressive thinking equity firm' buys Blackwater

Labels: Blackwater, Mercenaries, Xe

"Performance doesn't matter in Washington, just politics."

Labels: Blackwater, Erik Prince, Quote of the Day, Xe

Employing a prostitute, and charging the US for her, isn’t among the 10 or even the 100 worst things Blackwater has ever done.

Labels: Blackwater, Fraud, Mercenaries, Murder, Xe

Labels: Blackwater, Bribery, Corruption, Darryl, Hominid Views, Iraq, Mercenaries, Xe

During a visit to Iraq, Republican Senator John McCain called on the US Justice Department to appeal the dismissal of all charges against the five Blackwater operatives accused of being the shooters at the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad in 2007.

Labels: Blackwater, Bushco™, Credit Where It's Due, John McCain, Justice, Xe

Iraqis Angered as Blackwater Charges Are Dropped

Labels: Blackwater, Duh, Iraq, Mercenaries, Xe

Blackwater Xe is not a private security contracting firm. Call them what they are: mercenaries.

Labels: Blackwater, Mercenaries, Stop Loss, US Military, VetVoice, Xe

If ever there was a core government function that should not be contracted out, it is the right to use deadly force in our names.

H.R. 4102, the Stop Outsourcing Security Act, currently has 27 sponsors. The Senate equivalent, S. 2398, currently has 2 sponsors. I've listed them below. If your representative or senators aren't on these lists, it's probably time you asked them to be.

Labels: Blackwater, Darcy Burner, Jim McDermott, Mercenaries, WA-7, WA-8

...Prince's father is Edgar Prince, who founded the Family Research Council with Gary Bauer. Erik Prince's sister is Betty DeVos, who is married to Dick DeVos, the son of Amway co-founder and Mormon bigwig Richard DeVos. The General Counsel for Erik Prince's Blackwater parent company, the Prince Group, is Joseph Schmitz, the Pentagon's former Inspector General. Schmitz's brother, John Schmitz, Jr. deputy counsel to George H. W. Bush and who is married to the sister of Columba Bush, Jeb Bush's wife. The father of John and Joseph was extreme right-wing Republican Congressman John Schmitz, Sr. Their sister is Mary Kay Letourneau, a former Washington State schoolteacher jailed for having sex with a thirteen year old American Samoan student who she later married.

Labels: Blackwater, Erik Prince

"...acts of random negligence for no apparent reason."

Labels: Blackwater, Congress, Oversight

Blackwater, which has received over $1 billion in federal contracts since 2001, is charging the federal government over $1,200 per day for each “protective security specialist” employed by the company.

Labels: Army, Blackwater, Mercenaries

In MY world, "black water" is the tank where your toilet empties in the RV.

Labels: Blackwater, Iraq, Mercenaries