What *should* have been the lead story today, were it not for the Torture

[mcscajun]

Bill...

Report Links White House and Lobbyist

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 — A bipartisan Congressional report documents hundreds of contacts between White House officials and the corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his partners, including at least 10 direct contacts between Mr. Abramoff and Karl Rove, the president’s chief political strategist.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/washington/29abramoff...

In a sane world (which clearly we do not inhabit) This would be Banner Headlines on every newspaper in the country. It would be the first nail in the Bush Admin's coffin. As it stands, WHO is going to notice?

[MissWaverly]

1. I noticed and I would repost this late Friday when the lava cools

[mcscajun]

3. Good advice. I'll check back tomorrow evening.

[MissWaverly]

25. I think the American people have made up their mind &

will have none of this CASH and CARRY government, I am surprised the Abramoff scandal has not
pumped up the volume by now on government influence buying and wholesale bribery.

[Canuckistanian]

5. So many fronts, so little time

But the fight goes on.

Looking forward to your thoughts.

[MissWaverly]

23. Has any one seen the pics of Rumsfeld over on Yahoo!

the pics of him look truly awful; could it be that reality is catching up with the bubble
crowd.

Boss Tweed said (I am paraphrasing) The public is a sheep to shear; but if you insult it;
it's a wolf.

[hootinholler]

9. Iced tea, laptop, should never meet like that.....

It just ain't right.

The lava comment got me!


-Hoot

[MissWaverly]

24. Fortunately your laptop is more durable than Bushco policy

Did you hear the one about the 75 million spent for the Iraq Police Academy that the sewage
doesn't work and is leaking into the sleeping area and the building is crumbling and 2/3
will need torn down.

Good Luck with your laptop!

[nam78_two]

2. yeah also

earlier today someone posted here that Jackie Jack's prison sentence has been delayed yet again by 90 days

[mcscajun]

4. For the second time this week, I must ask "WHO???"

The first time was when the headline read:

T.O. Attempts Suicide.

Even when they spelled out who T.O. was, I still had to ask: "WHO???"

[Canuckistanian]

6. Here you go:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[mcscajun]

7. Oh, by now I've heard who T.O. is...still don't care who he is.

although I'm sorry when any human being thinks to end it all.

[Canuckistanian]

10. Nor I.

But you're right. Why do people think that self-nullification will solve anything?

[nam78_two]

11. Jackie Jack = Jack Abramoff

I always think of him as Jackie Jack cuz he is so adorable

[mcscajun]

13. Ah, thank you...I thought perhaps Jackie Jack was some American Idol

contestant.

Nothing like being so culturally out of touch you don't catch the odd reference to a name you know.

[nam78_two]

14. lol yeah-I am totally out of the pop culture loop too

I see now that, that was a little obscure...

I have been calling him Jackie Jack for ever now...
He is quite a character. ..even made a movie called Red Scorpion -which actually is quite hilarious (unintentionally)...about some communists and it had some person talking about how eating burgers is the essence of freedom or some such crap...

[mcscajun]

15. He made a MOVIE!?!! Tell me he wasn't In Front of the camera...

Please.

[nam78_two]

16. lol no-thank God! Abramoff the auteur

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

Aguy walks into a bar. The guy's a commie commando, a hulking Russian killing machine named Nikolai. The bar's in Africa and it's full of commie soldiers and the kind of loose women who consort with commie soldiers.

Nikolai stands in the doorway of the bar. He swigs from a pint of vodka. He burps. The burp is so loud that all conversation stops.

Nikolai -- who is played by Dolph Lundgren in this movie, which is called "Red Scorpion" -- stumbles around the bar. He sings in Russian. He knocks a guy off a bar stool. He head-butts another guy. He punches the bartender. He grabs a submachine gun out of a cop's hand and sprays the room with bullets.

"Are you out of your mind?" the head cop asks him when he stops shooting.

"No, just out of bullets," he replies. Then he lets out another thunderous burp.

Amazing! Not since Charlie Chaplin belched after eating his shoe in "The Gold Rush" has the lowly burp been used to such artistic effect. It's one of those rare moments of cinematic magic that leave you awed, wondering: Who is the genius behind this? Fellini? Spielberg? Stallone?

No, no and no. The correct answer is: Jack Abramoff.

That's right , the Jack Abramoff.

Before Abramoff was a powerful Washington lobbyist and Republican fundraiser, before he was indicted on fraud charges, before he became the target of a Justice Department investigation of his alleged rip-off of casino-rich Indian tribes, before he was summoned to a Senate hearing where he took the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify, Jack Abramoff was a Hollywood producer, a master of neo-"Rambo" cinema.


>>

When "Red Scorpion" was released, it was picketed by anti-apartheid protesters angry that Abramoff had shot the movie in territory controlled by South Africa's white supremacist government, using soldiers and military equipment lent by the South Africans. The protesters would have been even angrier if they'd known that the International Freedom Foundation, a right-wing group founded by Abramoff, was secretly bankrolled by the South African army -- but that wasn't known until a South African colonel revealed it in 1995.

[mcscajun]

17. I have only one comment on all that...

...BURP!

[nam78_two]

18. LOL...and don't miss the bit about it being funded by white supremacists!

!

[mcscajun]

19. Who else? I can't imagine any cineaste fronting big cash for

the likes of Dolph Lundgren.

Ugh.

[nam78_two]

20. good point/nt

[glitch]

8. It should be obvious by now, zombies are indifferent to nails in coffins.

We keep hammering the nails in, they just smash through the wood.

[savemefromdumbya]

12. I think you have to run a stake through the heart not a nail

[lonestarnot]

21. Makes me think of Indiana Jones with his gun and the knife guy.

I say a quick solution is always best.

[troubleinwinter]

22. Not a problem. Congress can just retroactively make GOP graft legal.