All the headlines yesterday about the US ‘reducing dependence on foreign oil by 75% by 2025″? Yeah, uh, “never mind” “This was purely an example,” Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said. Yeah, wouldn’t want to piss off our friends and shining example of democracy in action, the House of Saud. KRT Wire | 02/01/2006 | Administration […]
A moment for a more serious and boring thing: money. Specifically, the money that Israel (and presumably the US) is going to withhold from Palestine to punish their version of democracy? Some of our non-democratic friends are helping them out: Saudi Arabia, Qatar to Fund Palestinians Saudi Arabia promised $20 million and Qatar pledged $13 […]
Last time I was called for Jury Duty, it took us all day to pick six people to hear a drunk driving case. They found a jury in one day? Enron Trial : “Defying complaints from defense lawyers that an unbiased jury could not be seated, U.S. District Court Judge Sim Lake swore in the […]