tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post2374162633716835284..comments2024-03-28T23:22:41.774-05:00Comments on TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): The CIA delivered truckloads of cash to AfghanistanMinnesotastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-27421533002687869592013-05-09T10:48:04.143-05:002013-05-09T10:48:04.143-05:00Unfortunately, this is SOP (standard operating pro...Unfortunately, this is SOP (standard operating procedure) for the CIA and their brethren in the intelligence apparatus of the US.BekkaPoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02971810593410692392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-67973822462290104362013-05-06T08:28:26.196-05:002013-05-06T08:28:26.196-05:00Guess the CIA has never heard the phrase, "th...Guess the CIA has never heard the phrase, "the best government money can buy." Then again, the CIA seems to miss an awful lot going on around it.Steve Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00450550786810074858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-24983925783400961892013-05-05T17:27:16.962-05:002013-05-05T17:27:16.962-05:00On a related tangent, former DEA Agent Michael Lev...On a related tangent, former DEA Agent Michael Levine would often fondly relate how he would just be about to put the cuffs on a major drug king pin after years of active, deep under cover investigation- only to have a suit from the CIA burst through the door in the last second like something from a bad movie to inform him he couldn't do that because that bad guy just happened to be working for them. It happened so many times he quit the agency in disgust.<br /><br />http://www.expertwitnessradio.org/site/Stan B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17381743002180926900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-5703231360354837922013-05-05T16:23:57.884-05:002013-05-05T16:23:57.884-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Stan B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17381743002180926900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-11188594390117443982013-05-05T06:28:51.000-05:002013-05-05T06:28:51.000-05:00You might find this hard to believe but without ha...You might find this hard to believe but without having read the grandmother's comment that you reproduced above, when I sent an email this morning to some people about this story, I wrote this:<br /><br />"Perhaps it is illegal to give guns to children in the US. Perhaps not. Either way, if this gift idea was the father's, you can imagine what the mother must feel. Of course, it is all God's Will to some people. God just wanted the little girl up in Heaven."<br /><br />This final sentence was, of course, my assumption about what those people might say. And it turns out, in fact, that someone did say it. I guess they don't want to put the blame on the people who thought it was okay to give real guns to real children. The mother is probably in a state of nervous collapse and completely unable to face any of the hungry paparazzi and reporters in the modern media world. Who could blame her? It is probably the same for the father. He could well feel suicidal.<br /><br />There is still a Darwin Award potential in theory, since the parents, in giving such a dangerous gift, have removed the possibility for the now-dead girl to continue passing on their genes. That can now only occur through the son.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-25074629024869500352013-05-04T19:02:00.475-05:002013-05-04T19:02:00.475-05:00" What must the mother be feeling..."
I..." What must the mother be feeling..."<br /><br />I saw the story and decided not to blog it. I haven't seen a comment from the mother, but this was the comment from the grandmother:<br /><br />"It was God's will. It was her time to go, I guess," she told WLEX. "I just know she's in heaven right now and I know she's in good hands with the Lord."<br /><br />There have been some other incidents recently:<br /><br />"In early April, a 4-year-old boy in Tennessee shot and killed a 48-year-old woman, and just days later, 6-year-old Brandon Holt was killed in New Jersey after being shot in the head by his 4-year-old playmate."<br /><br />No Darwin Awards to be given here, because they are only granted to people who remove themselves from the gene pool, not to people who remove others.Minnesotastanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-69403613508178776552013-05-04T17:37:43.965-05:002013-05-04T17:37:43.965-05:00Thanks, Stan the Man, this didn't ruin my day ...Thanks, Stan the Man, this didn't ruin my day because it wasn't MY taxes ( I'm Australian). Is it possible that this money, or at least most of it, was simply printed for the purpose, without having the real value, with watermarks, etc, that cash printed for the US economy would have? It could be the equivalent of counterfeit? Who in Iraq would know or care among the people the paper money was ultimately given to?<br /><br />What ruins my day is the other story on that webpage about a five year old boy in Kentucky who was given a rifle, a real one, for his birthday and managed to kill his sister with it... All power to the NRA, I don't say! Or perhaps it is illegal to give guns to kids in Kentucky? What must the mother be feeling, assuming it was the gift idea of the father?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-17876778509116415492013-05-04T07:52:02.116-05:002013-05-04T07:52:02.116-05:00It's not a surprise because it was known years...It's not a surprise because it was known years ago. Here's a report from the Guardian in 2007 -<br /><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1<br /><br />"The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.<br /><br />The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.<br /><br />In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover."<br /><br />More at the link if you want to ruin your entire day.Minnesotastanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-55065174878378052582013-05-04T07:24:52.948-05:002013-05-04T07:24:52.948-05:00No comments? Are comments disabled for this post, ...No comments? Are comments disabled for this post, Stan? I have a comment: why is this not a surprise?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com