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Monday, June 20, 2005

News Gleanings

Yet more criminality in the administration, the Washington Post reported that:

A top Justice Department official threatened to remove a government expert from its witness list if he did not water down his recommended penalties for the tobacco industry, the witness said in an interview yesterday.

The foxes are indeed in charge of the proverbial henhouse. I’m wondering when the smear campaign will start?

In other interesting news Joe Biden has promised that “If he has a clear chance of winning” he is planning to run for president. In a move seen as exposing his intentions, Jeb Bush immediately opened an investigation to see if Biden had been involved in Terry Schiavo’s collapse over twenty years ago and if he could account for forty some odd minutes on the morning that she did.

In the “Why the fuck there is little sympathy for you motherfuckers” department the recording industry of America has added another layer of “protection” on their CD recordings so that not just anyone can put the music they “bought” on just any listening medium. Of course if anyone finds out how to bypass this “protection” it is an illegal act, in this great free nation of ours, to tell anyone how to do it.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Borowitz? Is that you? Way cool. I thought "The Onion" too, on the recording industry...
Pls note: the country did not blink(!) when Bush Medicare was deliberately understated 170 billion dollars. Oh, and did I mention, the war?
Recently, NPR reviewed, briefly, the characteristics of people who take the big step and actually leave their country: with our great inflow, we benefit. With our low outflow, well... what's to be done?
It all being relative, who knows.