this is all well and good but I'd like to know who got the 2 trillion the Fed doled out without asking or telling anyone.

Sounds like a scammy scam scam.

Obvious, indeed.

So the Pentagon created a slush fund for itself on the backs of little kids who love Marvel Comics and Sesame Street characters.

You stay classy, GOP.

Heh. Check out Spiderman's package. And the lack thereof on Captain America.

Danger room indeed.

GoodHomer: Heh. Check out Spiderman's package. And the lack thereof on Captain America.

That's his web shooter.

GoodHomer: Heh. Check out Spiderman's package. And the lack thereof on Captain America.

Looks like the Captain is tucking.

Did anyone else stop reading (or downloading in my case) the Spider-Man comics after they retconned his life?

GoodHomer: Heh. Check out Spiderman's package. And the lack thereof on Captain America.

Vertical stripes are slimming.

"...according to a Department of Defense Inspector General report, obtained by Danger Room."
So the X-Men could have stopped it?

"'If you're serving overseas, and you watch the mainstream media coverage, sometimes you can't tell if America knows you're there,' one official overseeing the program says."
I don't think that's true - I think you might wonder if you're supported while you're there, but I think that America knows you're there. Depends on which version of the mainstream media you get in your area.

Rumsfeld says don't call Iraq a "quagmire," because calling Iraq quagmire makes Rummy angry, you no like Rummy when he angry. ARRRRGGHHH! Rummy smash puny liberal press! T-Shirt (new window)

/My very first Greenlit submission to fark.

lurkster: "...according to a Department of Defense Inspector General report, obtained by Danger Room."
So the X-Men could have stopped it?

"'If you're serving overseas, and you watch the mainstream media coverage, sometimes you can't tell if America knows you're there,' one official overseeing the program says."
I don't think that's true - I think you might wonder if you're supported while you're there, but I think that America knows you're there. Depends on which version of the mainstream media you get in your area.

I would take it one step further and say that America supports the troops while they are there, but most don't support the reasons they are there.

Ashtrey: GoodHomer: Heh. Check out Spiderman's package. And the lack thereof on Captain America.

Looks like the Captain is tucking.

And wearing a crappy muscle suit and the wrong gloves.

/Costuming Nazi
//And proud of it

The Gunslinger Roland: Did anyone else stop reading (or downloading in my case) the Spider-Man comics after they retconned his life?

You'd be missing out. Dan Slott is a pretty great writer.

Just re-label the recipients as holders of 'troubled assets' and you're golden.

The Gunslinger Roland:

I would take it one step further and say that America supports the troops while they are there, but most don't support the reasons they are there.

I'd agree with you 100% - most of America does support the troops (Jim Phelps & his cronies not included). It's the spin that the media (not just American) puts on everything that might make them wonder how we feel.

Yeah, watch out for these guys:


/actual pic from "Marvel Apes"
//I know

Ashtrey: GoodHomer: Heh. Check out Spiderman's package. And the lack thereof on Captain America.

Looks like the Captain is tucking.


The Captain's secret identity revealed?

Zafayal: Sounds like a scammy rummy scam scam.
FTFU

Is this thread really devolving into a discussion of Spidey's penis?

FTA:"Instead of focusing on its primary mission of showcasing and communicating support to the troops and their families, the ASY program focus [turned to] building or soliciting support from the public," the Inspector General's report notes.

Turned to? That presupposes that it wasn't conceived as a way to catapult more propaganda on the American people. Rumsfeld was the most incompetent miltary leader since Wile E Coyote, because he was strictly a politician. A poll watcher.

When he ordered Bremer to fire the Iraqi Army en masse, polls showed that even the man on the street thought it was stupid. So he calls Bremer back three days later and asks him if he can get the Army back. Seriously. This farking fool killed tens of thousands of people because he was playing politics on a battlefield. The man should be jailed for incompetence.

The proof: look at how much the situation has improved since Mr. Magoo left the Pentagon.

This is still chump change compared to the hundred of millions unaccounted for and vanished in Iraq. I still haven't seen any heads roll for all that vanished money.

I wonder what the count will be when historians tally up all the scandals that will be uncovered during Bush's Administration.

GoodHomer: Heh. Check out Spiderman's package. And the lack thereof on Captain America.


Spider-Man always has a package! I remember when I was a little kid he was at the mall and he had this ridiculous bulge. Gave me an inferiority complex. One The Electric Company, same thing. I guess he has some mutated super-spider cock.

"'If you're serving overseas, and you watch the mainstream media coverage, sometimes you can't tell if America knows you're there,' one official overseeing the program says."
I don't think that's true - I think you might wonder if you're supported while you're there, but I think that America knows you're there. Depends on which version of the mainstream media you get in your area.

Guess what, farktard? The ONLY media outlet you get overseas is the farking U.S. military-run American Forces Network, which seems to consist entirely of Fox News and pro wrestling.

Pyynk:
Ashtrey: GoodHomer: Heh. Check out Spiderman's package. And the lack thereof on Captain America.

Looks like the Captain is tucking.

And wearing a crappy muscle suit and the wrong gloves.

/Costuming Nazi
//And proud of it

Yeah, we know who you are.

So, all this "misappropriated" money was spent on public rallies? Subby made it sound like they blew it on booze and hookers, the way Democrats would have. Pretty boring, as scandals go. A little mission creep, at worst.

Sgt Otter: "'If you're serving overseas, and you watch the mainstream media coverage, sometimes you can't tell if America knows you're there,' one official overseeing the program says."
I don't think that's true - I think you might wonder if you're supported while you're there, but I think that America knows you're there. Depends on which version of the mainstream media you get in your area.

Guess what, farktard? The ONLY media outlet you get overseas is the farking U.S. military-run American Forces Network, which seems to consist entirely of Fox News and pro wrestling.

Wow, farktard - I don't think I quite deserved that. I wasn't aware of that - I stand corrected. So it's run by one news outlet and not the military's own news source? And how does it portray the support from back home?

Funny how threads like this are miraculously Freeper free.

It, uh... actually sounds like a lot of what they were doing was legal. I mean, okay, no, not laundering money through a pentagon-funded newspaper, no, but hiring a PR firm to help the business expand and thrive? Isn't calling them out on that a little bit like calling out Coke for buying airtime for commercials instead of using that money to make Coke? As long as the program is still supporting the troops, then where is the problem?

As an aside, I've also never understood the media outcry over rich people hiring their friends to do work for them. There is a marked benefit to working with people you know and trust, and isn't being able to forward a little cash to your pals here and there WHY you get rich in the first place?

Oops. I said subby made it sound bad, when I meant the author. Sorry, subster. Ol' suberoo. The subimnator.

Pyynk: Ashtrey: GoodHomer: Heh. Check out Spiderman's package. And the lack thereof on Captain America.

Looks like the Captain is tucking.

And wearing a crappy muscle suit and the wrong gloves.

/Costuming Nazi
//And proud of it

Don't forget the lack of scale mail, and that Cap wears denim jeans, not a leotard.

/honestly, get the costume right if you're going to show it off!
//heh, zombie Cap would have been truer, and more fun

Freepers don't read comics?

therhinodep: So, all this "misappropriated" money was spent on public rallies? Subby made it sound like they blew it on booze and hookers, the way Democrats would have.

Not a typical Republican scandal either: they would have blown it on male prostitutes.

Sgt Otter: Guess what, farktard? The ONLY media outlet you get overseas is the farking U.S. military-run American Forces Network, which seems to consist entirely of Fox News and pro wrestling.

I don't know where you were stationed, but where I was it was those stupid AFRTS commercials and a two week old ball game of some sort. And for reasons I cannot guess, Dharma and Greg.

The Gunslinger Roland: Did anyone else stop reading (or downloading in my case) the Spider-Man comics after they retconned his life?

I stopped reading them when they killed Gwen Stacey. Then I missed the first appearance of the Punisher.

//sigh... - still don't have it

Klingon Penis: The Gunslinger Roland: Did anyone else stop reading (or downloading in my case) the Spider-Man comics after they retconned his life?

You'd be missing out. Dan Slott is a pretty great writer.

I agree. At first I did not care for the relaunch, but I have found the new storylines fun and 70'sish.

lurkster: Sgt Otter: "'If you're serving overseas, and you watch the mainstream media coverage, sometimes you can't tell if America knows you're there,' one official overseeing the program says."
I don't think that's true - I think you might wonder if you're supported while you're there, but I think that America knows you're there. Depends on which version of the mainstream media you get in your area.

Guess what, farktard? The ONLY media outlet you get overseas is the farking U.S. military-run American Forces Network, which seems to consist entirely of Fox News and pro wrestling.

Wow, farktard - I don't think I quite deserved that. I wasn't aware of that - I stand corrected. So it's run by one news outlet and not the military's own news source? And how does it portray the support from back home?

Sorry, I misread this as a quote from TFA. I was hoping someone who gets paid to do this would know about it, hence the insult.

I take back the farktard comment.

AFN takes a bunch of various programming from channels back home and runs them, without commercials.

I'd only catch a glimpse of it the few times I was able to actually meals in the FOB's dining facility, and it seemed to consist entirely of Fox News, Hannity & Colmes, Bill O'Reilly, Mixed Martial Arts, and WWE Wrestling. There's also a military news segment, hosted by actual soldiers, sailors, and Marines who read off military-related news.

It was the usual blah-blah-blah bullshiat "we love the troops, here's a clip of some Corporal giving an Iraqi girl a teddy bear."

You know? Most of us don't give a flying fark what people back home think.

The only news that really affected us was the nice little present of getting an extra three months tacked onto the farking year we were already doing.

If it's getting better, we see it and feel the affects of it. If it's not, well the same shiat. I honestly don't give a shiat what someone who has zero clue what we do, and what our missions entailed, what their opinion is. It be like some cardiologist giving a flying fark what some doofus who watches way too much ER thinks about the way he does a heart transplant.

...and yes, there was plenty of clips of senile rednecks thanking of us for goin' over there and gettin' Saddam for what he done to us on Septemmer Elebbin.

Mugato: Spider-Man always has a package! I remember when I was a little kid he was at the mall and he had this ridiculous bulge. Gave me an inferiority complex. One The Electric Company, same thing. I guess he has some mutated super-spider cock.

Well, that was Morgan Freeman in the Spidey costume, so you don't have to feel too bad about it.

pvd021: I wonder what the count will be when historians tally up all the scandals that will be uncovered during Bush's Administration.


I don't know, but I imagine Dr. Evil will put his pinky to his lips before announcing the final number.

HAHA Your own "AdScam"!!!

Looks like Rumsfeld got away with this one, too!

Klingon Penis: The Gunslinger Roland: Did anyone else stop reading (or downloading in my case) the Spider-Man comics after they retconned his life?

You'd be missing out. Dan Slott is a pretty great writer.

I disagree. the retcon ruined spiderman. he moves on, grows up, gets married, sides with tony stark in the civil war and reveals his identity. it all made him a a more engaging character, they had him step out of the "never changes" mold in most comics. then, they just go and retcon it all away and now he never changes. booooooring.

therhinodep: So, all this "misappropriated" money was spent on public rallies? Subby made it sound like they blew it on booze and hookers, the way Democrats would have. Pretty boring, as scandals go. A little mission creep, at worst.

And funneling money to "friends" of the DOD. And not actually spending some 9 mil on the troops, but having it vanish. And paying 15,000$ for Gary Sinise's band.

If you are going to have "superheroes" at a high publicity event, do not dress them up in 40 dollar knock off costumes. Get some decent costumes and do it properly, or don't bother. Cheap costumes are for Halloween.


/ not a purist
// but come on
/// c'mon

lurkster: I'd agree with you 100% - most of America does support the troops (Jim Phelps & his cronies not included). It's the spin that the media (not just American) puts on everything that might make them wonder how we feel.

GoodHomer: Heh. Check out Spiderman's package. And the lack thereof on Captain America.

Anyone who has ever worn spandex, knows that there's a reason why superheroes tends to wear underwear on the outside of their spandex. Things might feel as if they're nice and tightly packed, but they are still rather clearly visible to the rest of the world.

Okay, the Armed Forces Network is very USA-can-do-no-wrong biased, but it DOES portray the troops and people back home in good light. I will say though that it has the production quality of my highschool morning news. They just need to show things that people WANT to watch. It's pretty much like not having cable in terms of the shows it offers, but add in a few channels of military propaganda and some amazingly horrid "commercials". I used to watch the Bahrains local TV instead of AFN even though I couldnt understand any of it.

/served my time
//off my lawn

It is shiat like this that gets me bent out shape!

I go to anti-war rallies and some political pundit types call us traitors and bash us for not 'not supporting the troops'. Where is the outrage from those pundits when shiat like this happens within the governing administration?

Walter Reed, declaring victory to reduce troop pay, this crap, stop-leave measures, etc. and no outrage! WTF?

How many times do these assholes need to prove they have no regard for the troops for their cheerleaders to realize this?

Stupid questions I know, but come on!