So, let me get this straight, Mr. Bush

[elfs]

Obviously, Bush and company do not ever learn their lessons, or believe that they can continue to get away with the most corrupt crap possible while living in a virtual panopticon. The only maddening aspect to this whole thing is that we haven't had a populace willing to do something serious about it, like tell our congresscritters to get off their asses and engage in a little oversight.

Senate Democrats urged President Bush on Thursday to withdraw his nomination of top lobbyist Michael E. Baroody from the National Association of Manufacturers to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission, saying the candidate was unqualified and the appointment posed insurmountable conflicts of interest.

In a letter to President Bush, Senator Bill Nelson of Florida and Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, both Democrats, said Mr. Baroody "cannot escape a serious conflict of interest" because he will receive a $150,000 departing payment from the association.

Mr. Fox, enjoy the henhouse. Here's your appetizer. Good grief, this isn't cronyism, it stinks of outright capital corruption. Isn't it time the whole "high crimes and misdemeanors" thing kicked in already?

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I've been listening to The Psychedelic Avengers, a group of Internet musicians who put together ad-hoc studio bands to record... something. It's good music that mixes all kinds of styles: rock, house, electronica. The title above is just a fragment: track five is actually entitled In which young space pilot Lex Hunter finds out that a beta booster sound system, two teenage psycho nymphs from Bebulas 5, three orgasmatron pills and zero gravity can make a pretty good party. Now that's a title!

Comments

[intrepid-reason.livejournal.com]

I had a coniption fit about this when I read an article about it in the NY Times. It made my head hurt...I stomped around my office to clear it.

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

Obviously, Bush and company do not ever learn their lessons, or believe that they can continue to get away with the most corrupt crap possible while living in a virtual panopticon. The only maddening aspect to this whole thing is that we haven't had a populace willing to do something serious about it, like tell our congresscritters to get off their asses and engage in a little oversight.

Hey, Clinton did the same thing and got away with it -- why would Bush think that he would be held accountable?

[hydrolagus.livejournal.com]

Much as some dislike Clinton and his policies, I don't think he came particularly close to the level of corruption that has occurred during Bush's administration.

[mundens.livejournal.com]

I play a character called Lex in a roleplaying game, who until recently wandered around in a female Japanese sex android body coz his original one had decomposed too much after he left it dead in a warehouse for a year.

Not that you needed to know that, but the track made me think of it.

[(Anonymous)]

GURPS Transhuman Space by any chance?

[mundens.livejournal.com]

Heh! I can see why you might think that, but no, it is a seriously twisted game of Heroquest, that began in the present day, with all the characters as students in a philosophy class at the University of Canberra.

I made a couple of IC posts as dead_lex just prior to when he left his body that time, which might give you an idea of the crazy :)