The content on this webpage contains paid/affiliate links. When you click on any of our affiliate link, we/I may get a small compensation at no cost to you. See our affiliate disclosure for more info -----------------------
Last updated on August 9th, 2017 at 05:08 pm
Mike Carlton uncovers the Giant Texan Conspiracy that delayed the return of Private Jake Kovko’s body:
The blunder is probably the fault of the American contractor hired to transport the casket from Kuwait to Australia, a firm named Kenyon International.
Here the plot thickens. Kenyon’s parent company, Service Corporation International (SCI), boasts that it is “the dominant leader in the North American death care industry”. It is based in Houston, Texas. You will not be surprised, therefore, to hear that SCI’s billionaire founder, one Robert Waltrip, is an old buddy of the Bush family and a big-money donor to the two Georges.
Back in 1999, when George jnr was beginning his run for the White House, SCI was embroiled in a grisly scandal known as Funeralgate. A whistleblower accused the company of “recycling” graves. Old corpses had been removed and replaced by new ones. At two Jewish cemeteries in Florida, bodies were exhumed and dumped in the woods to be eaten by wild hogs.
I am not making this up. The scandal ran through the Texas courts, reaching all the way to, yep, Governor George W. Bush. There were uncomfortable questions about the donations he had accepted from SCI.
Happily, the whistleblower was paid off and everything smoothed over in time for Dubya to win the Republican presidential nomination. SCI later paid compensation of $US100 million to its victims’ relatives.
And who fixed this? Why, none other than Harry Whittington, the Texas lawyer shot by Deadeye Dick Cheney on that famous hunting trip in February.
Don’t stop there, Mike. Two more paragraphs and you’ll have proof that the Bush twins detonated the World Trade Center.
(Via Alan D.)
- Here’s a Timeline , keeping in mind that the source is Salon…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 04 30 at 09:09 PM • permalink
- Reflecting, I’m very proud of Mr. Carlton for managing to work Jews into the whole thing, even if here they get to be the victim for a change.
Although I’m sure it wouldn’t take too much imagination for some twit to come up with a theory with it all being a Jewish plot to make SCI look bad in revenge for Funeralgate.
- #2 Cheesie
One of my proudest days (so… I live an unexciting life!) was being called a “MINDLESS DRONE” for believing that Al Qaeda was behind 9/11.
The are some very popular internet forums where you still would…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 04 30 at 09:27 PM • permalink
- On 27th April I submitted a little post on this that included, “GWB has escaped the blame for this one, it looks like falling on JWH, who apart from being the PM of Aust, is also directly responsible for every cut, bruise, STD, wound or death of any serviceman serving in Aust or overseas.”
Silly me. Wrong again, GWB was to blame after all.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 04 30 at 09:35 PM • permalink
- Oh my……Gawwwwd! I knew it, I knew it, I knew it: Dubya’s behind it all. Thankyou, Mike, thankyou. Goodnight.Posted by pick-your-pun on 2006 04 30 at 09:38 PM • permalink
- You’ll be interested to know that in 2002, a Georgia crematory owner was arrested for dumping corpses in the woods behind his crematory because the furnace was broken. Here’s the juicy part: SCI owned several of the funeral homes that used that crematory service.
I believe it’s a vast conspiracy by Chimpy McDeath Halliburner & Co. to prevent the nasty dead from being buried in (or scattered over) pure Mother Gaia.
Although I’m sure it wouldn’t take too much imagination for some twit to come up with a theory with it all being a Jewish plot to make SCI look bad in revenge for Funeralgate.
No no… The Jews were responsible for the corpses being eaten by pigs as well! This was deliberately done with the Jews employing an obviously non-Kosher animal so as to create an alibi and avert suspicion from the covert activities of this insidious group… [/moonbat]
- If Mike Carlton is seeking a good conspiracy story I would like to tell him about the unabashedly left-wing Sydney Fairfax columnist who is always telling us how ridiculous it is that ABC are portrayed as left-wing – without telling his readership that he is married to an ABC current affairs producer.Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 04 30 at 10:03 PM • permalink
- At two Jewish cemeteries in Florida, bodies were exhumed and dumped in the woods to be eaten by wild hogs.
Jews eaten by pigs. Savage irony.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 04 30 at 10:34 PM • permalink
- #16 lingus4
There was a Bush on the grassy knoll.
You might be joking, but there are many many others who are definitely not laughing.
I’m sure there’s a corollary to Blair’s Law in there somewhere…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 04 30 at 10:42 PM • permalink
- The need for complicated (not to mention convoluted!) conspiracies when a simple explanation will do is becoming pandemic. Mike Carlton demonstrates this. The moonbat theories around 9/11 are a classic example. Spiny’s Google search in #20 is further evidence that it’s nearly a serious problem.
We joke about this obsession in its many forms. Hell, I’ve joked about it! But some people are dead serious. Others are making money off this illness. Is our world so safe and comfortable that people have to develop what amounts to an obsession with conspiracies (if not a mental illness of some sort) to deal with it? Or is it some sort of coping mechanism to deal with the evil forces that are truly arraying themselves against our civilization?
Whatever. The bottom line seems to be that chaos seems more important than order, exactly the opposite of what people claim they want.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 04 30 at 11:00 PM • permalink
- Formaldegate, after following the scent (pardon), has more “Wheels within Wheels” than even Mike Carlton’s piece would suggest.
Read the full Salon story (thanks, Mr. Mcenroe)
The entire tale (ok, there were unlicensed embalmer’s apprentices, and USD $445k fine is being contested) is a fascinating look into the inner workings of the Texas State Democratic Party, the uncanny acumen of professional whistleblower defence attorney(s), etc.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 04 30 at 11:01 PM • permalink
- Carlton is great at these long bow drawings.
Kenyon is only a subsidiary. Subsidiary is not like saying you are the the same company. He then moves back to the founder of the parent. I assume then that this founder no longer has an active role in the parent of Kenyon as he would have said chairman or ceo.
Wow the founder donated to Bush. How unusual that a major texas billionaire would know the Bush family and support them. Of course for all we know, like many wealthy people and companies, they might donate to a variety of candidates.
And the scandal only touched bush in as far as he’d received some donations. So now receiving donations means you are tainted by the conduct of everyone who donates to you.
And the whistleblower paid off, sounds like they got caught and paid huge compensation. Not quite like paying someone to make it all go away.
This is like playing six degress of kevin bacon. You could play this game with pretty much any major figure.
What is Carlton’s point. Does he really get paid for this stuff?
- I read the Salon “Timeline.”
This that game, Six Degrees of Separation, isn’t it? Only with Bush in place of Kevin Bacon.Am I the only one who thinks that someone sticking their head out the door and yelling something like “Hey, Bobby, are you still having problems….” does not constitute a “substantive discussion” of anything? That is their smoking gun that proves Bush is involved in a cover-up?
I agree that too many people seem to prefer a conspiracy theory to the truth. Perhaps people have come to think of reality as some kind of movie where they can continuously upgrade the story to one they like better. Obviously, none of them have heard of Occam’s Razor.
- # 22 T_R_Jeffs, I agree. All this conspiracy stuff is now way beyond a joke. This has happened before. The mental atmosphere is similar to what it was in the thirties. Things that only 20 years ago were beyond the outer limits, only whispered between consenting lunatics in private, are now knocking on the door of the mainstream. Reading what they are prepared to write for public consumption, you can only imagine what they are saying among themselves in private. I choose not.
Question is what do we do about it? To ignore it is risky. To respond to it rationally is perhaps dangerous because it gives exposure and status to something which afterall is not at all rational. Probably also futile because conspiracy theories, by their nature, are immune from rational criticism. They simply absorb the criticism and it becomes a part of the theory. These things are as immutable and material as a cloud on a windy day.
The phenenomen itself needs analysis and as you have suggested that is in part in the field of morbid psychological behaviour especially crowd hysteria. In the meantime parody and ridicule are probably as good weapons as any. Ant other suggestions?
- No suggestions, geoff, just an attempt to inject rationality into the maintstream.
CraigC, may I suggest straight jackets as well? Might be a fortune to be made there.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 01 at 01:41 AM • permalink
- And the Reverse Vampires and UFOs are trying to eliminate the meal of dinner.
We’re through the looking glass here people.
Posted by The (WHMECDM) President on 2006 05 01 at 02:41 AM • permalink
- Eh, geoff, I’m blogging way past bed time, never mind me……zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzPosted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 01 at 02:54 AM • permalink
- #26 The mental atmosphere is similar to what it was in the thirties.
How so, Geoff? I think I know what you’re getting at but I’d be interested to have you expand on the point.
—Nick
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 05 01 at 03:23 AM • permalink
- Mike Carlton is a Nimitz-class Howard/Bush/Blair Hater. Has his column next to Alan Ramsay’s and both are quite rabid and irrational in their unabridged hate for Howard and Bush.
Mikey however is a strange spear carrier for the Left. Lives in a very pricey suburb (Whale Beach) and lives a totally bourgeois lifestyle.
More power to him! But the hypocrisy is breathtaking.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 05 01 at 06:27 AM • permalink
- Ya know, the left REALLY doesn’t want to start playing silly buggers with conspiracy theories centered around the handling of bodies. Ya see, Blanco in Louisiana hired SCI after Katrina. That story tries to blame Bush for SCI’s involvement in Louisiana, but it was Blanco that cut the deal.
I especially like the attempt to tie the whole thing to the Georgia crematorium fraud. Um, sure, SCI-affiliated funeral homes sent bodies to that place. Lots of funeral homes did; the guy was running a fraud and LOTS of people were caught up in it. Might want to look a the politicians who kept licensing him…
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 05 01 at 07:52 AM • permalink
- At least now we know why Deadeye Dick tried to clip Harry Whittington.Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 05 01 at 09:20 AM • permalink
- Dear Geoff, I feel your pain. Experience has taught me to do an “edit/copy” before I hit “submit”.Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 05 01 at 12:37 PM • permalink
Page 1 of 1 pages
Commenting is not available in this weblog entry.
