Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Monday, November 5, 2007

The Mercenaries' Kahuna Speaketh

Erik Prince, the overlord sole owner of Blackwater, thinks that calling his bloodthirsty goons a bunch of mercenaries is "slanderous."

Get used to it, bucko. Your employees are armed killers who fight for a paycheck. There is no other word for it other than "mercenary", unless you prefer "hired guns" or "paid killers" or the like. If they were indeed "Americans fighting for America," as you seem to think, they'd be in the armed forces, wearing the appropriate uniforms and subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the orders of the officers and NCOs over them.

But they are not. They take a paycheck, that is their sole reason for being there and they can quit whenever they want.

Viva la mort, viva la guerre, viva le sacre mercenaire.

They are mercenaries, or, quite possibly, "illegal combatants."

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