Potrero and evacuees

A Town Beseiged: Potrero Residents Battling Blackwater Now Suffer Ravages of Wildfire
by: Miriam Raftery
Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 10:54:43 AM PDT

The Harris fire started in Potrero on Sunday morning

The cause is under investigation

Harris fire red on map

Harris fire Google

Google fire map

I just had a friend call and I hadn't known that he had been evacuated to Qualcomm. While I was on the phone with him a caller to Thom Hartmann's show called in from Qualcomm to say she was being told by the police to leave, but wasn't ready to go home. This is still nuts.

Update: It's definite: Game's on Sunday at Qualcomm
The comments are a trip. Emotions are still running high.

A friend just told me that they announced over the loudspeaker that they were going to be checking ID's and a thousand people left. No doubt that not everyone that was there was an evacuee. That would be the
San Diego the Tourists Never See

On PBS NOW tonight:

God and Global Warming
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The Whistleblower

2010 R 112 minutes
Sent to Bosnia to train cops in the aftermath of that country's brutal civil war, American policewoman Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) uncovers evidence that U.N. peacekeepers are complicit in a flourishing sex-trafficking trade. But when she brings her allegations to light, she discovers that her foes are more powerful than the law. Based on a true story, this thriller from director Larysa Kondracki co-stars Monica Bellucci and David Strathairn.

Fucking DynCorp. My husband had a run in with those corrupt, arrogant, lazy fuckers when he was in the service, and he is next to impossible to piss off, and he was pissed when he got home from work. Anyway, I remember reading this article within a couple years of it being written. When the phrase "diplomatic immunity" showed up in the movie I had to take a break as I was picturing myself going after one of the characters in the movie with a baseball bat. "Immunize that, you fucker!" I thougt.

The DynCorp "See No Evil" Monkey
Posted: 02/10/2012 10:56 am
David Isenberg
Author, 'Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq'

Broken wings: both current and former employees of DynCorp, one of the federal government's largest contractors, have accused the company of taking a fly-by-night attitude toward maintenance of military aircraft
by Kelly Patricia O'Meara

Aug 02, 2011
Contractor Accountability and Human Trafficking at Center of Upcoming Film, The Whistleblower
"...Dyncorp employees ran a “prostitution ring” that imported prostitutes from Kuwait into Baghdad in armored vehicles and operated out of hotels along the Tigris River, according to Barry Halley, a former Dyncorp subcontractor. The women appeared to be adults from Eastern Europe, he said..."

And believe me, it aint just DynCorp:

‘Gentlemen, We Shot a Judge’ and Other Tales of Blackwater, DynCorp, and Triple Canopy’s Rampage Through Iraq

Mercenaries in Africa a new concept?

Oh fuck me running, get the fuck outta here.

Ladies and Gentleman may I present

Warren Zevon - Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner



Blackwater's New Frontier: Their Own Private Africa