And the return volley....

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 09-30-2005, 19:08

It may be worth it though, clear out some of the more obvious crooks (not party sensitive). If the pork and graft is that obvious, the offenders should get hammered.

...isn't that what Clemenza said, that this sort of thing had to happen every 5 or 10 years to clear the air a bit.

Seamus

**Don Corleone** · 09-30-2005, 19:23

No, no rampage. Just a couple of items that came up at lunch that I wanted to share. I do live the blood feuds that come up every 10 years or so. I love that line by Clemenza.

**drone** · 09-30-2005, 19:35

"Leave the gun. Take the canolli."

Maybe it's time to fire up the ol' Ethics Committee. Anything to keep celebs out of the news.

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 10-01-2005, 04:21

Originally Posted by drone

"Leave the gun. Take the canolli."

Anything to keep celebs out of the news.

"Oh, Paulie...you won't see him no more."

One can only hope. Supermarket checkouts are chock full of "news" about Angelina adopting an alien baby or Brittany (sp?) whelping. Waste of perfectly good tree if you ask me. All the attention actually makes some of them think they are more important than a good plumber.

Seamus

**solypsist** · 10-01-2005, 07:41

for 2004-5

so we've got:

No WMDs
Halliburton no bid contracts
Afghanistan's Missing $700 Million Turns Up in Iraq
EPA WTC report censored to state unsafe air was safe (revealed)
John Ashcroft's Illegal Campaign Contributions
No-receipt electronic voting booths in swing states
Bogus Medicare "Video News Release"
Armstrong Williams, news columnist on GOP payroll
Mike McManus, news columnist on GOP payroll
Maggie Gallagher, news columnist on GOP payroll
Abu Ghraib
Jeff Gannon, male escort/planted reporter
Wiretapping the United Nations
Katrina, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job!"
Roves role in the Plame game
indicted House Majority Leader (R) DeLay on ethics charges

vs.

two priests are indicted for fraud for misusing money received from a grants arranged by (D) Reid in 1997
(btw, the prosecutor is a Dem)

(I'm sure I'm missing some more of the Bush administration stuff, but it's late and I'm tired)

**Red Harvest** · 10-01-2005, 07:51

Frist is having some trouble over the timing of some stock sales in his not so blind trust. (Selling HCA.) Too bad, there were a couple of things the guy was speaking out on that I actually agreed with.

**Red Harvest** · 09-30-2005, 19:38

Well, I've looked at the article, and the corrections they have made to it, and I'm not seeing what you are seeing/saying. Looks like a fairly common case of money being given to churches ending up lining the minister's pocket instead of going to its purported cause. Nothing new. That's why there is some auditing and such, to eventually uncover these things.