Waiting for Fitzgerald - Page 265

Hank Chinaski · 10-27-2005, 08:41 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/27/in...html?th&emc=th

U.N. to Detail Kickbacks Paid for Iraq's Oil

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 26 - More than 4,500 companies took part in the United Nations oil-for-food program and more than half of them paid illegal surcharges and kickbacks to Saddam Hussein, according to the independent committee investigating the program.

The country with the most companies involved in the program was Russia, followed by France, the committee says in a report to be released Thursday.

Wow. That surprising.

dtb · 10-27-2005, 10:36 AM

Harriet Miers withdraws her nomination. President Bush "reluctantly" accepts it.

SlaveNoMore · 10-27-2005, 10:48 AM

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dtb
Harriet Miers withdraws her nomination.

What do I win?

spookyfish · 10-27-2005, 10:55 AM

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What do I win?

Alberto Gonzales?

Gattigap · 10-27-2005, 11:07 AM

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Harriet Miers withdraws her nomination. President Bush "reluctantly" accepts it.

Moral of the Story: Harry Reid? Evil Genius.

Penske_Account · 10-27-2005, 11:13 AM

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What do I win?

The same thing as the country, a chance for a righteous nominee and justice. Woo hoo. The Babyjesuschristsuperstar has scored a major victory here.

Bloated drunkard killer Ted Kennedy is on Today right now bloviating his foul spewings. Apparently he claims that a litmus test is wrong. Remember that liberals!!

SlaveNoMore · 10-27-2005, 11:14 AM

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spookyfish
Alberto Gonzales?

Nah, as much as I want Luttig, I'm now going with Ted Olson

taxwonk · 10-27-2005, 11:22 AM

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Haven't the KGB archives shown that most suspected communists during the fifties actually were communists and were part of communist cells?

No. I think you're thinking of the J. Edgar Hoover files. You know, the secret ones burned along with his dress collection.

spookyfish · 10-27-2005, 11:25 AM

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Nah, as much as I want Luttig, I'm now going with Ted Olson

Is Olson a "caretaker" justice then, kind of like the current Pope, because he's pretty old, isn't he?

Penske_Account · 10-27-2005, 11:26 AM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Nah, as much as I want Luttig, I'm now going with Ted Olson

Janice Rogers Brown or Edith Jones.

Secret_Agent_Man · 10-27-2005, 11:27 AM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/27/in...html?th&emc=th

U.N. to Detail Kickbacks Paid for Iraq's Oil

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 26 - More than 4,500 companies took part in the United Nations oil-for-food program and more than half of them paid illegal surcharges and kickbacks to Saddam Hussein, according to the independent committee investigating the program.

The country with the most companies involved in the program was Russia, followed by France, the committee says in a report to be released Thursday.

Wow. That surprising.

You know, sometimes I read these things you guys post, and I wonder what's the point, are you sending messages to each other in code? Jihad starts tonight?

S_A_M

taxwonk · 10-27-2005, 11:28 AM

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What I find so interesting about the McCarthy era is:

1) The house of unamerican activities was originally started to ferret out Nazi and Nazi sympathysers. How come no ones has ever complained about any Nazis that were "Blacklisted".

2) The people that were investigated were never thrown in jail. When they were blacklisted that meant that certain employers, if they knew they were communist, would not employ them. But would anyone complain if they did that with Nazi's? Would Warner Brothers be condemned today if it had fired anyone it suspected of being a Nazi in the 1950s?

3) During WWII thousands of Germans were throwin into camps without trial because they might have ties to the German government. How come no one complains about that?

4) If it was OK to throw Nazi sympathysers in jail without a trial during WWII, why was it not OK for the US to throw communist sympathisers in jail during the Korean War when we were fighting communists?

In my mind the term Nazi and Communist are interchangeable. When people complain about Communist witch hunts, I won't ever take them seriously unless they also talk about Nazi witch hunts.

I think you are completely wrong if you think that nobody decries the internment of both Japanese and German Americans during WWII. Many Americans view that as one of the darkest periods of our modern history.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 10-27-2005, 11:55 AM

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What do I win?

More Miers.

sebastian_dangerfield · 10-27-2005, 11:57 AM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
What do I win?

What are they currently giving away for correctly predicting the sun will rise tomorrow?

sebastian_dangerfield · 10-27-2005, 12:03 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
What I find so interesting about the McCarthy era is:

1) The house of unamerican activities was originally started to ferret out Nazi and Nazi sympathysers. How come no ones has ever complained about any Nazis that were "Blacklisted".

2) The people that were investigated were never thrown in jail. When they were blacklisted that meant that certain employers, if they knew they were communist, would not employ them. But would anyone complain if they did that with Nazi's? Would Warner Brothers be condemned today if it had fired anyone it suspected of being a Nazi in the 1950s?

3) During WWII thousands of Germans were throwin into camps without trial because they might have ties to the German government. How come no one complains about that?

4) If it was OK to throw Nazi sympathysers in jail without a trial during WWII, why was it not OK for the US to throw communist sympathisers in jail during the Korean War when we were fighting communists?

In my mind the term Nazi and Communist are interchangeable. When people complain about Communist witch hunts, I won't ever take them seriously unless they also talk about Nazi witch hunts.

I think McCarthy is fascinating because never before had a demented alcoholic channeled his obvious disease into such a monstrous power grab. Hitler was crazier than shit, but he wasn't a drunk. To think that McCarthy held the country in a white knuckle grip while simultaneously holding a fifth of Dewars in a similar grip is amazing. I like to drink, and I could never get as far as McCarthy. I'd collapse under the weight of my own indulgences on the way up. I'd sell out and join a lobbying firm and fritter away my days didling secretaries.