Boss, More Head?

The staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan wiped out references to his broken term-limits pledge as well as information about his huge campaign war chest in an independent biography of the Lowell Democrat on a Web site that bills itself as the "world's largest encyclopedia," The Sun has learned.

The Meehan alterations on Wikipedia.com represent just two of more than 1,000 changes made by congressional staffers at the U.S. House of Representatives in the past six month. Wikipedia is a global reference that relies on its Internet users to add credible information to entries on millions of topics. Read More

A Bit Of Snatch...And A Bit Of Grab

A link to Amnesty's thoughts on Swedish complicity in American snatch & grab schemes. It's completely silent in Sweden on this issue while Europe is actually still up in feigning arms about it all.

Huckster of the Month

Another useful idiot of useful color* - Rohan Gunaratna. Let's run with him.

-Rummy




*James Frey is a semi-useful idiot of no color.

Moles In Our Holes!

Feith and Friends are spooky deep story characters we try to keep tabs on from time to time.

Raw Story posted the following:

As previously reported by Raw Story, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) inquiry -- titled Phase II -- is waiting on a report from the Pentagon inspector general as to Feith's alleged role in manipulating pre-war intelligence to support a case for war. Feith, who is also being probed by the FBI for his role in an Israeli spy case, resigned in January 2005. Read More

Gaza Goes Hamlet

...ever believe you'd live to see the day when Palestinians burned Scandinavian flags? Hej Kids of Gaza, beyond Norway, Denmark, and Sweden...well, there just ain't that many caucasian nation states left that are friendly to your causes and peoples.

But maybe that's the point. Something's PsyOpy in the state of Denmark.

Catch some unique flag burning on WebTV

Lille Skatt, En Valium Takk

The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade has allegedly decreed late Sunday evening that Danes and Swedes have 72 hours to get the fuck out of Dodge. They're passing out flyers in Gaza to that effect.

It's also being claimed from another cozy corner of the Israeli bantustan of Gaza that Islamic Jihad has announced that Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians have but 48 hours to pack up their meatballs and run.

Local chaos broke out in Denmark after the Danish rag Jyllands-Posten posted some inflammatory pictures of a certain muslim prophet late last year. A good many Danish muslims took heated offence and the game was on.

Now the controversy has seeped into Gaza. Previous Middle East reaction to the defamatory caricatures saw the launch of a boycott against the Swedish and Danish dairy cooperative Arla that conducts a significant portion of their biz in the general region.

Arla is now completely locked out of the entire region due to reactions to the illustrations. Arla is clamouring for the Danish government to make conciliatory statements to get the company back into the money (The boycott is slashing into Arla's revenues by about a million smackaroos/day).

The poor poor Swedes are getting corralled and prodded together with the Danes. All blondes look the same to me too but these Scandinavians can ramble on till meads end about all that differentiates them from one another.


Here's a link to a confused right wing Danish blog that nonetheless captures sentiments and interpretations of the unfolding story that don't exactly deviate much from your average ass-scratching Dane's perception of matters.

Fuzzy Meatball Factoids:

Danes are often seen as a more laid back version of Swedes. Danes also have the highest consumption of Benzodiazepines in Europe. They are also rather unabashedly rascist (...that means it only takes 2 Tuborgs to hustle their spooky theorems on race out of them).

They love to make a big deal about the Danish resistance during German occupation. At last count I believe the reality of their proud resistance numbered somewhere in the dozens (...that means an insignificant multiple of 12).

Perhaps occupation is not the most appropriate word for their flirt with The Reich.

Nonetheless, Copenhagen is pleasure city and the sun shines more in Faelledparken than on Key Biscayne. And the girls, oh the girls...

Lean Mean Meatball Machine

Anyone betting against SMC's prediction; a bit of shock 'n awe for Persia in Q3 07? We hear Bolton's up to 500 morning situps a day now.

The writing's on the wall.


It's been there a good while.

Swedish Meatballs my Ass!

President's Choice of Meatballs Ain't Swedish

Beef, water, textured soy protein, toasted wheat crumbs, soy protein concentrate, seasoning (contains autolyzed yeast extract, salt, disodium insinate and guanylate), flavour, onion and garlic powder, dehydrated parsley.

State of The Meatball

...still wiping away da tears

bin Mikey Nostalgia

Nostalgic Meatball Moments


Somebody has to do our dirty work. Life Cereal had their bin Mikey. Some in our intelligence communities had their bin Laden.

The idea of a useful freak is old news too many - but still seemingly incredulous to most.

Камрады Meatball

Excerpts from a recent interview with Karen Kwiatkowski, Ph.D., Lt. Col. USAF

The intellectual fathers of neoconservatism—what shapes their approach internationally—are the Bolsheviks. International revolution, international change—radical change, global revolution. And these same terms, these same ideas—of international change, revolution, transformation—these are the words of Michael Ledeen and some of the other articulators of neoconservatism. And the actual people, and they’re not ashamed to really say this, but guys like Irving Crystal and other intellectuals of the 30s had actually been Bolsheviks.

....during the Reagan era, the ‘Cold War’ was their vehicle for credibility—this evil enemy that we must face, or else the end of
the world is coming. They cannot work without this global enemy, almost a kind of class warfare. You can’t just have a mere enemy; it has to be a monstrous enemy, something that can destroy us. They’ve found that in, or rather cultivated it, in what is called ‘Islamic Fascism.’ Unfortunately this doesn’t exist. No one advocates it. No one articulates it. In the 1930s, Hitler had fascism and he talked about it. Islamic Fascism is a made up thing. . But it doesn’t matter: what matters is that it’s useful in generating fear, and serves that same larger purpose—providing a platform from which to operate.

The whole idea with Iraq was to destroy Iraq. It was not to rebuild it, turn it into a democracy. It was simply to take a country that had no navy, no airforce, and a very small—you know—fourth rate army and turn it into a country with no navy, no airforce, and no army. We did this...
Read the entire interview at DJI's website



Dr. Kwiatkowski presently teaches at James Madison University, and writes regularly for MilitaryWeek.com

A Beast in A Belly

President Jonah by Gore Vidal

Yet another meatball salute to Effwit

Crouching Meatball Hidden Abramoff

I was trying to write this one myself in under 15 minutes when I found a huge favour done by the Huffington Post and The New Republic Online.

Nineteen eighty-six marked the height of Dolph Lundgren's powers. Following his triumphant portrayal of Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, Hollywood pundits touted Lundgren as the Swedish Schwarzenegger. With his girlfriend, the flat-topped Jamaican actress Grace Jones, he formed a muscle-bound glamour couple that paparazzi could hardly resist. Therefore, it made little sense that Lundgren would follow a rookie producer into a small African kingdom to make a B-movie called Red Scorpion.

Read More of The NRO article at The Huffington Post.

Meatball Factoid. Last year Dolph Lundgren and wife were rated #54 on a tabloid list of most desirable guests at velvet rope hotspots in Stockholm.

Hey Meatball - Walk Your Talk and Arrest the Fucker!

Sweden's female minister of defence Leni Björklund (circled right) posing with accused human rights violator Col. Boris Podoprigora (circled left).

As reported earlier, the Russians held their first joint military exercise with the Swedes on Swedish territory today. Of course this is all about conjuring up a modicum of expressed empathy for Russian sensitivities to the fact that the Swedes have for all intents and purposes abandoned any semblance of own military defence and sought all but publicly admitted protection by NATO.

Still neurotically claiming to be non-aligned in peace with the intent of remaining neutral in war the Swedes are trying their darnest to unruffle at least a few Ruskie feathers by feigning even-handed ways through their hosting of Russians for war games.

However in their rush to coo the Russians they've managed to commit a public relations disaster for their lingering and self-proclaimed titel as the consciousness of the free world. Of all the units in all of Russia, they just had to pick the notorious 138th Rifle Brigade to play tag with in the Swedish winter wonderland.

Now get this... the Swedish minister of defence is today blaming her own military for not informing her about the specific niceties of the Russian guests chosen to visit.

Col. Boris Podoprigora finds northern Sweden to be the wrong forum to discuss atrocities that occured under his command in Chechnya.

To Screw With A Klingon Fleet Commander Or Not To...

It wasn't that long ago various European governments were feigning indignation over CIA rendition activities on their sovereign territories. Of course Swedish Meatballs Confidential had to call these Eurowhiners and their faux self-righteous ways out.

For once we agreed with what we weaned to be the essence of her speech at Andrews last December as Condy admonished the Euromeatballs to "...shut the fuck up and sit down cuz we have the goods on you duplicitous electorate-pandering Eurofreak freeloaders."

Now, the Council of Europe concludes that indeed, '...it is highly unlikely that European governments, or at least their intelligence services, were unaware of the ''rendition'' of more than a hundred persons affecting Europe'.

Hate to be the Meatball that says, "Don't fuck with a Klingon named Condy"

Yes, I Still Dream Of Doing Mommy

When Andy's not filing his elbows and knees or shaving his pronating ankles then he's most oft out on snitch-bitch duty.

Didn't the best and the brightest of the brown shirts also compulsively dream about their mommies? I could have sworn...

Blame It On Those Wild & Crazy Birds

Much has been written in recent months about the role of wild birds in spreading the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus. But there is a distinct lack of evidence to support these assertions.

"The case against wild birds looks flimsy indeed. Few would disagree that better biosecurity is the key to halting the disease's spread." —Dr Richard Thomas, BirdLife International

Read More at Birdlife International

Daddy's Invariably Insane in His Membrane

For more than 18 years, Russ Tice worked on some of the most secretive, covert intelligence programs operated by the U.S. government. Now the 43-year-old former intelligence officer says he wants to "spill [his] guts" to Congress Read More at GovExec.com

Also, read the NSA's congratulatory letter to Tice. (pdf)

Hat tip to EFFWIT