Friday, September 08, 2006
Drug Lord Housing? Now it seems that with the Afghan opium harvest at all time high record levels, the epicenter of this painfully profitable, war mongering Taliban murder machine is none other than Lashkar Gah, a modern city, the largest development project in Afghanistan’s history, called Little America by the Afghans. Why do they call it Little America? Because it was built by Americans with American dollars, THAT’S EFFING WHY!
Condoms Behind Bars Even with the AIDS infection rate five times that of the general population, in a number of states condoms aren’t readily available to inmates who want them. In fact, California lawmakers more intent on morality issues (don’t ask because I don’t have a clue) than in the prisoners’ safety and the safety of those with whom prisoners come in contact (the willing and the unwilling) once they leave prison don’t think condoms should be made available. Is this the dumbest thing you heard this week, or am I missing something?
Knock! Knock! “Who’s there?” Karl Rove. “Who?” Karl’s White House dummy and Dickie the bad might still be listening, but it seems an increasing number of Republicans are shutting their ears to Rove Speak. About time.
Happy Birthday! Blow out the Candles! Make a Wish! Here Come De Judge! That’s about how Lord Black’s sixty-second birthday party went. Included in his gifts was a Marvera order that curtails the lord and lady’s monthly allowance to C$25,000 each, all expenditures to be approved by the court. I feel sorry for them, don’t you? I mean, having to get by on so little. They’re used to dropping ten times that much, but of course it might have been pissed off shareholders money, part of the reason for the Marvera order. Black, accused of fraud and all other sorts of nasty deeds, is the deposed head of a newspaper empire.
Presto! Changeo! Guantanamo! With a flip of his political wrist, George the Illusionist made secret prisons, whose existence had been vociferously denied, suddenly appear; whisked fourteen so-called high-profile terrorist suspects (though I don’t why they call them high profile if no one other than spy guys has ever heard of them) being held in said secret prisons off to that bastion of human rights, Guantanamo; then just as suddenly made the secret prisons disappear again. It seems these fourteen prisoners will now be treated as humans now that the CIA and foreign agents have what they want. Hey, I don’t like terrorists either, but I’m damned sure not in favor of torture, our government lying to us about secret prisons and tortured prisoners; and cover-ups. Ya gotta ask: What other tricks does George the Illusionist have up his pre-election sleeve?
Hercule Poirot? No, Hewlett Packard. After the shenanigans revealed at Hewlett-Packard this past week, Agatha Christie might want to ink a new series. Leaks, guys in raincoats wearing dark glasses and fedoras worn low on the forehead, deals and side deals, cloak and dagger investigations, clashes, lawsuits, criminal charges, a disgruntled board member giving the board one finger and doing a lot of pointing with another; it doesn’t get any better than this. That sound you hear is the collective drool of corporate intrigue novelists sharpening their pencils.
Rotten Eighty-Two-Year Old Kid? Has Brooke Astor’s eighty-two-year old son, Anthony Marshall, been ripping off the estate in favor of his own pockets and lavish life-style? His son Phillip and JP Morgan Chase bank seem to think so, maybe to the tune of $25 million or so, and are pressing the issue in court. Marshall says the bank has shown unrelenting hostility, and one of his lawyers said, “It is a completely bogus and bloated claim that just piles on the kitchen sink, indiscriminately.” Huh? Well, piling up on the kitchen sink or not, it is all such a tawdry chapter in the life of a great and generous philanthropist who, at age 104 and ailing, will always be known as one of New York City’s most gracious ladies.
Wal-Mart, We Love You $o, $o Much It’s getting so you can’t trust anyone these days. Wait a minute, did I say ‘getting’; baby, we passed ‘getting’ a long time ago. It seems conservative research groups like the American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, and the Manhattan Institute, aggressive defenders of Wal-Mart to reporters and government, have been getting big bucks from the Walton Family Foundation run by Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton’s three children. Hey, we’re talking conservative research groups here; what did we expect? The problem is non-disclosure. We know what’s going on; we know your pulling a scumbag scam; just remind us once in a while.
Metro-Goldwyn-Amazon? There’s a raft of companies, Amazon now included, that want you to download movies on your PC. How can they hope to compete without lousy ten dollar popcorn and sodas, broken and dirty seats, and people talking on cellphones? It just won’t be the same.
Corporate Crook Update Bernie Ebbers, 65, deposed as CEO of WorldCom because of orchestrating a paltry $11 billion accounting fraud, has run out of wiggle room. On September 26th, he reports for twenty-five-year duty at a yet to be named prison. Let’s see: 65 + 25 = 90. Hmmm?
Microsoft Plays Scare Card Microsoft said regulators pushing the anti-trust suit against Microsoft in Europe might cause a delay in the release of Windows Vista in Europe because of unclear guidelines. If only we could be so lucky. My XP still isn’t working right. In fact, it’s getting worse. Maybe it has built in obsolescence, or maybe it’s suffering from Microsoft reaching out in the dark of night and unleashing little Gatesean bugs under the guise of auto update.
Blair Benched! Tony’s boys give him the old thumbs down. He says he’ll leave within the year, but on his own timetable. We shall see.
That’s all for this week, my friends. Stay alert; don’t get screwed!
Condoms Behind Bars Even with the AIDS infection rate five times that of the general population, in a number of states condoms aren’t readily available to inmates who want them. In fact, California lawmakers more intent on morality issues (don’t ask because I don’t have a clue) than in the prisoners’ safety and the safety of those with whom prisoners come in contact (the willing and the unwilling) once they leave prison don’t think condoms should be made available. Is this the dumbest thing you heard this week, or am I missing something?
Knock! Knock! “Who’s there?” Karl Rove. “Who?” Karl’s White House dummy and Dickie the bad might still be listening, but it seems an increasing number of Republicans are shutting their ears to Rove Speak. About time.
Happy Birthday! Blow out the Candles! Make a Wish! Here Come De Judge! That’s about how Lord Black’s sixty-second birthday party went. Included in his gifts was a Marvera order that curtails the lord and lady’s monthly allowance to C$25,000 each, all expenditures to be approved by the court. I feel sorry for them, don’t you? I mean, having to get by on so little. They’re used to dropping ten times that much, but of course it might have been pissed off shareholders money, part of the reason for the Marvera order. Black, accused of fraud and all other sorts of nasty deeds, is the deposed head of a newspaper empire.
Presto! Changeo! Guantanamo! With a flip of his political wrist, George the Illusionist made secret prisons, whose existence had been vociferously denied, suddenly appear; whisked fourteen so-called high-profile terrorist suspects (though I don’t why they call them high profile if no one other than spy guys has ever heard of them) being held in said secret prisons off to that bastion of human rights, Guantanamo; then just as suddenly made the secret prisons disappear again. It seems these fourteen prisoners will now be treated as humans now that the CIA and foreign agents have what they want. Hey, I don’t like terrorists either, but I’m damned sure not in favor of torture, our government lying to us about secret prisons and tortured prisoners; and cover-ups. Ya gotta ask: What other tricks does George the Illusionist have up his pre-election sleeve?
Hercule Poirot? No, Hewlett Packard. After the shenanigans revealed at Hewlett-Packard this past week, Agatha Christie might want to ink a new series. Leaks, guys in raincoats wearing dark glasses and fedoras worn low on the forehead, deals and side deals, cloak and dagger investigations, clashes, lawsuits, criminal charges, a disgruntled board member giving the board one finger and doing a lot of pointing with another; it doesn’t get any better than this. That sound you hear is the collective drool of corporate intrigue novelists sharpening their pencils.
Rotten Eighty-Two-Year Old Kid? Has Brooke Astor’s eighty-two-year old son, Anthony Marshall, been ripping off the estate in favor of his own pockets and lavish life-style? His son Phillip and JP Morgan Chase bank seem to think so, maybe to the tune of $25 million or so, and are pressing the issue in court. Marshall says the bank has shown unrelenting hostility, and one of his lawyers said, “It is a completely bogus and bloated claim that just piles on the kitchen sink, indiscriminately.” Huh? Well, piling up on the kitchen sink or not, it is all such a tawdry chapter in the life of a great and generous philanthropist who, at age 104 and ailing, will always be known as one of New York City’s most gracious ladies.
Wal-Mart, We Love You $o, $o Much It’s getting so you can’t trust anyone these days. Wait a minute, did I say ‘getting’; baby, we passed ‘getting’ a long time ago. It seems conservative research groups like the American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, and the Manhattan Institute, aggressive defenders of Wal-Mart to reporters and government, have been getting big bucks from the Walton Family Foundation run by Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton’s three children. Hey, we’re talking conservative research groups here; what did we expect? The problem is non-disclosure. We know what’s going on; we know your pulling a scumbag scam; just remind us once in a while.
Metro-Goldwyn-Amazon? There’s a raft of companies, Amazon now included, that want you to download movies on your PC. How can they hope to compete without lousy ten dollar popcorn and sodas, broken and dirty seats, and people talking on cellphones? It just won’t be the same.
Corporate Crook Update Bernie Ebbers, 65, deposed as CEO of WorldCom because of orchestrating a paltry $11 billion accounting fraud, has run out of wiggle room. On September 26th, he reports for twenty-five-year duty at a yet to be named prison. Let’s see: 65 + 25 = 90. Hmmm?
Microsoft Plays Scare Card Microsoft said regulators pushing the anti-trust suit against Microsoft in Europe might cause a delay in the release of Windows Vista in Europe because of unclear guidelines. If only we could be so lucky. My XP still isn’t working right. In fact, it’s getting worse. Maybe it has built in obsolescence, or maybe it’s suffering from Microsoft reaching out in the dark of night and unleashing little Gatesean bugs under the guise of auto update.
Blair Benched! Tony’s boys give him the old thumbs down. He says he’ll leave within the year, but on his own timetable. We shall see.
That’s all for this week, my friends. Stay alert; don’t get screwed!
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