licentious radio

Wednesday, August 28, 2002
[10:56:11 PM]

Man, remember when the movie "Traffic" was a big deal? When the war on drugs was where the corruption was at? Aloha and Halliburton and WorldCom and Enron and the Bush-Bin Laden connection sure make drug corruption seem penny-ante.

[10:52:59 PM]

..."at ADM, whose every $1 of profits earned by ethanol operation is estimated to cost taxpayers $30." That's the way to make money: pay a cheap politician a penny to spend $30 of taxpayer money to give you a $1 profit. A 10,000% return on your investment, certainly, but a waste of $29.

[2:48:04 PM]

Go Molly: "Just for the record, George W. Bush had not just one but four Harken stock transactions worth more than $1 million during the time he was on the board. And in each case he was months over deadline in reporting the matter to the Securities Exchange Commission. Second, newly posted documents show that Bush, who claims he had no idea Harken was in trouble when he dumped his stock in late June 1990, was in fact warned twice.

"Even more egregious, Bush was clearly involved in the phony Aloha Petroleum deal. Aloha was a Harken subsidiary that was sold to a partnership of Harken insiders at an inflated price, a perfect little gem of an example of the kind of fake, pump-the-bottom-line transaction later perfected by Enron. Bush's business career is a small-scale model of exactly the corrupt corporate practices now under fire."

Bring us their heads, right now!

[2:43:28 PM]
Note to politicians: just give up on the word "cooked". For example: "They really feel the bill is not cooked and needs a little more work" -- to gut its effectiveness. Fine -- the bill's opponents have been donating tens of millions of dollars in a last ditch effort to give it "a little more work". But don't say "cooked", anymore. "Cooked" reminds us of "cooked books" now, not a cake that isn't quite done.

[2:38:58 PM]
Republican politicians should think carefully about letting Junior go to war. You know the oil price shock and economic uncertainty will sink the economy. You know it will take longer than two years to recover. So if you let Junior go to war, your party will be swept from Congress in 2004, and the Democrats could even have the White House. Supporting the war is not a smart long-term career move.

[2:35:34 PM]
Hey Republican voters! Are you better or worse off than two years ago?

[11:14:44 AM]
"Mr. Carville really made a mistake criticizing the president in time of war." That's Nazi talk, or 1984-talk, if you prefer. When is "time of war" scheduled to end? Never. What sort of democracy doesn't allow criticism of the leader?