THE DAILY BLADE: Life Imitates “South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut"
In their 1999 full-length animated feature film, “South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut,” Trey Parker and Matt Stone depict Satan as Saddam Hussein’s bitch:
[Satan's bedroom. Satan and Saddam are in bed together looking at TV. Satan holds the remote]
News Anchor: What started as a spat between The United States and Canada is quickly turning into World War III. …
Satan: It has come to be! The Four Horsemen are drawing nigh! The time of prophecy is upon us!
Saddam: Aw, I love when you get all biblical, Satan! You know exactly how to turn my crank. … Yeah! Yeah! Man, I'm gettin' so hot! Let's f**k!
Satan: Do you always think about sex? I'm talkin' about very important stuff here!
Saddam: Ah, I'm just excited about taking over the world! Come on!
Satan: Is sex the only thing that matters to you?
Saddam: I love you.
Satan: I want to believe that.
Saddam: So whaddaya say we shut off that light and get close, huh?… [Satan wraps his arm around Saddam … The lights go out …]
Satan: A-agh!
Saddam: Yeah, you like that, don't you, bitch?
It’s not outside the realm of possibility that the "South Park" movie inspired one of the wackier CIA plots since the agency tried to assassinate Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar. In The Washington Post's "SpyTalk" blog, Jeff Stein reveals that planning for the 2003 invasion of Iraq included ways to “discredit Saddam Hussein in the eyes of his people” and one idea the CIA's Iraq Operations Group “kicked around” involved “creat[ing] a video purporting to show the Iraqi dictator having sex with a teenage boy, according to two former CIA officials familiar with the project”:
“It would look like it was taken by a hidden camera,” said one of the former officials. “Very grainy, like it was a secret videotaping of a sex session.”
The idea was to then “flood Iraq with the videos,” the former official said. …
The agency actually did make a video purporting to show Osama bin Laden and his cronies sitting around a campfire swigging bottles of liquor and savoring their conquests with boys, one of the former CIA officers recalled, chuckling at the memory. The actors were drawn from “some of us darker-skinned employees,” he said.
Eventually, “things ground to a halt,” the other former officer said, because no one could come to agreement on the projects.
They also faced strong opposition from James Pavitt, then head of the agency’s Operations Division, and his deputy, Hugh Turner, who “kept throwing darts at it.”
As it happens, after his capture U.S. Marines forced Saddam to watch the “South Park” flick numerous times while awaiting trial for war crimes. No doubt, he is now in Satan’s arms.
A New Twist On Reverse Discrimination
Northern District of California U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero ordered the Alameda County Superior Court to allow a woman of Indian ancestry who was fired from Infosys Technologies, an outsourcing company headquartered in Bangalore, to proceed with a lawsuit alleging that her U.S.-based managers discriminated against her for being American, reports The Recorder:
Promila Awasthi, 48, worked as a data warehouser in the 105,000-employee company's Fremont, Calif., office, where she says she was regularly harassed by management for being an American of Indian ancestry and for her gender. She alleges that she was mocked for celebrating American holidays such as Thanksgiving, and that the management also ridiculed her children for being Americanized. …
Awasthi is also alleging that the company failed to pay her overtime even though she was often answering phone calls from India late into the night and on weekends.
Awasthi’s attorney, Steven Tidrick, proffered a settlement offer of $1.8 million in December.
The Saudi Version Of “Man Bites Dog”
The Jerusalem Post reports on an incident that “Saudi women’s rights activists have dreamt of for years”: When a member of Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice asked a 20-something couple at an amusement park to confirm their identities and relationship to one another the young man “collapsed” but the young woman “allegedly laid into the religious policeman, punching him repeatedly, and leaving him to be taken to the hospital with bruises across his body and face.”
[Hat Tip: Reader Lemonfemale, an occasional contributor to this blog.]
We Fight Them Over There So We Don’t Have To Fight Them Over Here?: Part VIII
Hosam Smadi, 19, cut a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction in return for no more than 30 years in federal prison instead of the life sentence to which he would have been subject, reports The Associated Press:
Smadi has admitted leaving what he thought was a truck bomb in a garage beneath the 60-story Fountain Place building in downtown Dallas in September. The device was a decoy provided by FBI agents posing as al-Qaida operatives.
Smadi acknowledged in a written statement that he parked the truck in the garage beneath the skyscraper, activated a timer connected to the decoy, then rode with an undercover agent and waited to watch the explosion.
Smadi also admitted using a cell phone to detonate what he thought was the bomb, according to his signed statement. Instead, the phone rang an FBI number and Smadi was arrested.
The FBI said it had been monitoring Smadi after discovering him on an extremist website last year. Investigators said he acted alone and was not affiliated with any terrorist organizations. …
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, Smadi had come to the U.S. from Jordan in 2007 on a tourist visa, and was in this country illegally at the time he attempted to kill scores of American office workers.
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