tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post4535093460446228739..comments2024-03-29T07:19:11.970-04:00Comments on Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I : What's Happening in TX?Comrade Misfithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-22178538927676979352022-01-21T19:14:00.041-05:002022-01-21T19:14:00.041-05:00Azerbaijan rings a bell.
But the Mammadov family,...Azerbaijan rings a bell. <br />But the Mammadov family, in addition to its reputation for corruption, has a troubling connection that any proper risk assessment should have unearthed: for years, it has been financially entangled with an Iranian family tied to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the ideologically driven military force. <br />https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-dealJones, Jon Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09156079859977989586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-28809582640803792902022-01-21T15:36:00.389-05:002022-01-21T15:36:00.389-05:00 From NBC:
Rep. Henry Cuellar’s home and campaign ... From NBC:<br />Rep. Henry Cuellar’s home and campaign office in Texas were raided as part of a federal investigation into the country of Azerbaijan and a group of U.S. businessmen who have ties to the country, a senior law enforcement official said Thursday.<br /><br /> -Doug in Sugar Pinedinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-80162420455839334842022-01-21T10:14:27.433-05:002022-01-21T10:14:27.433-05:00It must be head-spinning to be a feeb these days.....It must be head-spinning to be a feeb these days....how do you know whether you're a good guy or a bad guy, whether your bosses are tools, whether your fellow feebs are "patriots", what investigations are rigged and/or show trial PR, whether the rot is inside the agency or out....and how the dice will roll for all of that tomorrow. <br /><br />I have a sig with some applicable quotes:<br /><i>"If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime" </i><br />- William Arnot<br />...or, more recently:<br /><i>"Once you've done away with integrity, the rest is a piece of cake."</i><br />-J.R. Ewing<br />...and:<br /><i>“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth,<br />impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor,<br />blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice.<br />Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”</i><br />― Joseph Heller, Catch-22Stewart Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06830186006689502072noreply@blogger.com