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

"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, A/K/A Dolt-45,
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

Monday, March 31, 2014

Governmental Scumbag of the Year; "Intelligence Edition"

The 2013 Rosemary Award was awarded to James "Jimmie the Perjurer" Clapper, for blatantly lying to Congress about the scope of collection of Americans' telephone data.

He had a lot of competition, including Emperor Alexander, who lied about the usefulness of what the NSA was doing, and the Department of Justice, for classifying quotes from the Constitution as "Top Secret". The list of "also-rans" for the award is impressive, including Admiral William McRaven, who ordered the destruction of Federal records (a bit of a felony) and the DoD, for classifying statements that had been made publicly during the Cuban Missile Crisis (which happened over fifty years ago).

The award is named for Rose Mary Woods, Richard Nixon's secretary, who "inadvertently" erased 18-1/2 minutes of the Watergate tapes.

(H/T)

2 comments:

The New York Crank said...

The New York Crank said...
The Rosemary award! What a wonderful idea! How about also a Tricky Dicky Award, in honor of Richard Nixon for the year's most emphatic public denial of a self-evident truth? (In case anyone has forgotten, I'm talking about, "I am not a crook.")

I'd give this year's Tricky Dicky to Chris Christie for his denials relating to certain traffic jams on the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge. Yes yes, I know he'll have to compete with those perpetual Tricky Dicky nominees, the Intelligent Design and Climate Denial folks. But this year, a flap over a mere bridge is a front runner.

Yours very crankily,
The New York Crank

FrankC said...

That missing 18 and a half minutes was perfectly explained by Arlo Guthrie in "Alice's Restaurant".