Without looking it up (or giving it away)... Do you know what "LIHOP" and "MIHOP" stand for?

[Renew Deal]

I'm wondering if DUers remember these terms.

Bonus points for BFEE

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[NuclearDem]

1. Made/Let It Happen on Pancakes

Jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough to melt buttermilk.

[Renew Deal]

3. lol

[RobertEarl]

5. Not surprising

Too see the two of you making jokes and laughing about 9/11.

Shameful exposition from you two.

[Renew Deal]

7. Yes, we're mocking 9/11

[RobertEarl]

11. And you're proud of it?

I see such things as being on Jeb's side. You should delete your posts.

[Renew Deal]

12. We're mocking conspiracy theories.

[RobertEarl]

14. Ahhh

So you are an expert and know everything, and.... and... you have full faith and confidence in what bush and the media have told you about 9/11.

And you proudly express your faith. Shameful!

[LanternWaste]

24. I like to pretend that people who disagree with me have full faith and confidence in Bush, too.

I like to pretend that people who disagree with me have full faith and confidence in Bush, too-- it also illustrates a dramatic lack of rational thought and mental discipline on our part.

Bit no doubt, we rationalize our imaginary and creative pretense as something both righteous and accurate, else why would we engage in such self-validating and petulant behavior?

[snooper2]

28. RobertEarl Never one to let us down LOL

you crack us up

[11 Bravo]

46. All I can say is ...

[ChisolmTrailDem]

26. The stolen election of 2000 is a conspiracy theory. nt

[Renew Deal]

30. Now you see why this stuff is dungeoned.

I don't consider 2000 a conspiracy.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

32. Is there proof it was stolen? Is it part of the public record that it was stolen? nt

[NuclearDem]

9. Now we'll NEVER get to the bottom of it.

[RobertEarl]

13. I'd say you are there already.

Shamefully making jokes about the matter.

[NuclearDem]

15. Fukushima radiation did 9/11.

It all makes sense.

[pintobean]

33. !

[Quackers]

39. Are you my mummy?

[Throd]

17. Can I make jokes about Pearl Harbor or is it still too soon?

[RobertEarl]

19. Do whatever you want

As I will then do the same and expose your posts as ridiculous if I see it that way.

Funny how that works, eh?

[Renew Deal]

25. You can make jokes about Pearl Harbor, but not PH conspiracies

Those are sacred (to some people)

[Octafish]

23. Funny how that works.

KA-CHING: The Company Getting Rich Off the ISIS War

For the Middle East, the growth of the self-proclaimed Islamic State has been a catastrophe.
For one American firm, it’s been a gold mine.

by Kate Brannen
08.02.15

The war against ISIS isn’t going so great, with the self-appointed terror group standing up to a year of U.S. airstrikes in Syria and Iraq.

But that hasn’t kept defense contractors from doing rather well amidst the fighting. Lockheed Martin has received orders for thousands of more Hellfire missiles. AM General is busy supplying Iraq with 160 American-built Humvee vehicles, while General Dynamics is selling the country millions of dollars worth of tank ammunition.

SOS International, a family-owned business whose corporate headquarters are in New York City, is one of the biggest players on the ground in Iraq, employing the most Americans in the country after the U.S. Embassy. On the company’s board of advisors: former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz—considered to be one of the architects of the invasion of Iraq—and Paul Butler, a former special assistant to Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld.

The company, which goes by “SOSi,” says on its website that the contracts it’s been awarded for work in Iraq in 2015 have a total value of more than $400 million. They include a $40 million contract to provide everything from meals to perimeter security to emergency fire and medical services at Iraq’s Besmaya Compound, one of the sites where U.S. troops are training Iraqi soldiers. The Army awarded SOSi a separate $100 million contract in late June for similar services at Camp Taji. The Pentagon expects that contract to last through June 2018.

A year after U.S. airstrikes began targeting the so-called Islamic State in Iraq, there are 3,500 U.S. troops deployed there, training and advising Iraqi troops. But a number that is not discussed is the growing number of contractors required to support these operations. According to the U.S. military, there are 6,300 contractors working in Iraq today, supporting U.S. operations. Separately, the State Department is seeking janitorial services, drivers, linguists, and security contractors to work at its Iraqi facilities.

While these numbers pale in comparison to the more than 163,000 working in Iraq at the peak of the Iraq War, they are steadily growing. And with the fight against ISIS expected to take several years, it also represents a growing opportunity for defense, security, and logistics contractors, especially as work in Afghanistan begins to dry up.

“It allows us to maintain the façade of no boots on the ground while at the same time growing our footprint,” said Laura Dickinson, a law professor at George Washington University whose recent work has focused on regulating private military contractors.

CONTINUED...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/02/the-company-getting-rich-off-of-the-isis-war.html

Has Corporate Owned News broadcast this story: REGULATING Defense Contractors?

As one who's been interested in this guy's comblicking companions in and out of government, including the cough Pentagon and cough cough cough CIA Wall Street Swiss banks cough Wendy Gramm of a combover War Party cough cough cough AKA BFEE, I hope they do. The traitors and warmongers who lied America into war may yet be held to account and face Justice.

Their friends who support them online? I wish nothing but the best for them, too.

[RobertEarl]

38. Fukushima?

Read about it at ENEnews.com

But be careful... the news is NOT good.

[Octafish]

42. Smear Artiste.

Telling traits, theirs.

[RobertEarl]

47. I have sympathy for them

I think they are just scared. Scared to face Truths that go against their preconceived notions that government is there only to keep them safe.

"Suffer yee the little children"; are wise words to live by, and thus, we suffer the smears from those who are scared by real world realities.

[Octafish]

2. Taboo topics in mainstream media for some reason.

Trump didn't bring up either one -- but just mentioning that "Bush was president on 9-11" gets somebody, somewhere very, very scared.

Why? Because asking that question leads to two other questions: "What did Bush know and when did he know it?"

Which lead to: "Why didn't Bush stop the attacks of September 11?"

[Bucky]

4. Look, I Have Overthinking Problems and

Mental-Masturbating Is Hurting Our Party

[whatthehey]

6. Of course. Does silly and insane respectively give it away too much?

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

8. No. But if I look them up I might have a "Duh" moment

[Renew Deal]

10. It's been a long time and I suspected people didn't know the terms.

[Hortensis]

16. I didn't. Knew of the suspicions, but not the shorthand.

[Throd]

18. It means back away slowly from the person who just said it.

[RobertEarl]

20. Back away?

That's the same thing Jeb is suggesting. Bushes would be proud of you, Throd.

[Throd]

21. If I want to hear crack-pot conspiratorial rants I'll just visit my uncle Dennis.

At least he always has beer.

[RobertEarl]

29. And if I wanted 9/11 to be forgotten

I'd do like you, and Jeb.

The crack comes right from the bushes and some here smoke it. And try to sell it on DU. Shamefully so.

The company you keep.......

[Throd]

35. Who the hell is forgetting the events of September 11th?

Not buying into bizarre conspiracy theories doesn't make one a shill for the BFEE.

I'm still waiting to ride the 1000ft mutant Fukushima rocket squid from Tokyo to Los Angeles.

[RobertEarl]

37. You and Jeb

Sound the same.

As for Fukushima, since you brought it up, rad levels off the coast of California are 7 times higher than 2011. And the sea life is dieing off, much to the amazement of the biologists who are also in denial.

Read about it at ENEnews.com

[Throd]

40. IDHOP...(I don't HOP with you.)

[RobertEarl]

41. You hop with Jeb.

We see it. Don't know why you keep doing it, but there you go.

[NCTraveler]

44. I love that positn twelve funny as could be words.....

is all that's necessary for someone to tell you that the Bush family is proud of you. I don't think they get that in part is why your comment makes sense. Back way the hell away.

[3catwoman3]

22. I didn't, and after reading...

...this thread, I still don't.

[ScreamingMeemie]

31. ...(don't look if you don't want it spoiled)

LIHOP-Let it happen on purpose
MIHOP-Made it happen on purpose

Both of these ^ are referencing Bush (and company) and the events of September 11.

BFEE--I've seen it used for 2 things.

Bush Family Evil Empire

or

Bush Fucking Evil Empire (for the uncouth)

For the record, I believe that Bush etal (for he was a a stooge) knew something was going to happen to give them a reason for War Inc., but I don't think they had any clue it would be what it was.

And I really don't care what the friends upthread think about that.

[3catwoman3]

36. Thanks.

I was going to look them up, but your alacrity made that unnecessary.

I have often wondered if crucial intelligence may have gone unnoticed before Bush took/stole office because so much time was being wasted on President Clinton's sex life, to the exclusion of things that really mattered.

[snooper2]

27. Must Ingest Hops or Prunes

[Xyzse]

34. I thought it was LIHEAP rather than LIHOP.

Then I googled and figured out that I didn't know about it.

[NCTraveler]

43. What the hell is going on here WhaTHellsgoingonhere?!?!?!?!?!?!

Just kidding.

[SidDithers]

45. Yup i know exactly what it means...

Sid

[ileus]

48. What do you take us for? College Kids???

[Renew Deal]

54. We've got some of those

And many new comers. It hasn't been a hot topic since the 9/11 commission ended (2004)

[alcibiades_mystery]

49. ROFL

Something they talk about in the DUngeons, as I recall.

[CJCRANE]

50. Senator Bob Graham. nt

[Crunchy Frog]

51. Yes, and I remember figuring it out on my own while I was still lurking here

before I actually joined, based on context. And I remember BFEE too, though that's not one I would have ever figured out on my own.

[unblock]

52. LARGE international house of pancakes and medium international house of pancakes.

there is no small international house of pancakes. what, are you CRAZY??

[Renew Deal]

53. lol

[brush]

55. Combination of pancakes and interest rates?

Okay, I give.

What are they?

[Renew Deal]

58. Not exactly

About 9/11:
Let it happen on purpose
Made it happen on purpose

[brush]

60. Ahhh! Okay. Thanks for the info

Not sure which one but you can be sure Chaney/Bush were up to their necks in from the way they ignored the repeated warnings.

[treestar]

56. When first on DU, I had to ask

what they stood for.

[yellowcanine]

57. Dances from the fifties sockhops.

[Liberal_in_LA]

59. Nope