Tim Blair

So. Her current state is not indicative of early onset Alzheimer's? Coulda fooled me.

Poor Chris Murphy...

RE: Enron
The government prosecutors are under heavy performance pressure. Their career advancement depends on their success. And, everyone is watching, 24/7, 365.

Martha Stewart experienced this earlier, and now the show goes on with Ken Lay.

Hey, it worked for Rudy Juliani when he persecuted Michael Milken!

Bad law, strongly enforced, destroys the respect of the people for all law, and for the people that make and enforce the law.

I would trust Ken Lay before I would trust any of that bunch.

Okay, rant over. Damn I feel better!

Frank in Okc

Margo discusses the SMH's offer with a co-worker

Or until senility. Whichever comes first.
Oops, too late.

OOH poor diddums. Margoyle is gone.
Maybe she can use the redundancy money for a head transplant, something a little less masculine maybe..

The US enforce oil agreements in contracts that were legally sealed and they are criticised world over. More over, those same detractors are the first to complain about higher petrol prices.

The UN make milliions out of the Oil for Food scandal at the expense of the Iraqi people and it hardly rates a mentiion with the left.

I guess i shouldn't be surprised..

I got a puncture in my tyre the other day, maybe it's G.Dubbya's fault!!! Why not the left have blamed him for just about everything else..

Re: Franklin;
"Their career advancement depends on their success. And, everyone is watching, 24/7, 365."

24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 weeks...?

I've also noted that people who get their news from the net are aware of the 'oil-for-all-but-food' scandal while those who depend on the regular media aren't as aware. When I meet someone who is not aware of the scandal, I use this as an opportunity to get them interested in using the net for news.

Many people are still unaware how badly most of our western media are at reporting news that doesn't fit their agenda. It's hard to convince people who are unaware of the media's agenda that there is an agenda and that the news they are given is filtered to fit the agenda. People must see for themselves.

Once someone reads the information available on the net and compares it with what they've been 'fed' by our media, there is usually a big reaction. The reaction is not one of love towards the main news outlets. People I've directed towards the Iraqi bloggers have the most extreme reactions. They are amazed at the HUGE disconnect between what the Iraqis are reporting and what our news media have been telling us.

(I am NOT implying that *EVERYTHING* one reads on the net is the gospel truth. There are rumors, lies, trash and agenda driven news on the net as well.)

It gets worse - the 7pm ABC news last night had a piece on the charges and Juanita Phillips ended the piece by saying words to the effect:

'Some commentators had not expected charges to be laid because of Mr Lay's connections with the Bush family'.

This is a bald allegation of official corruption. It would certainly be a high crime or misdemeanour that would justify impeachment proceedings against Bush - it really is not the job of Australia's government/public media organisation to peddle such baseless rumours, gussied up as a 'some [anonymous] commentators say'. Since when has Michael Moore been a source for the ABC's news?

May the Witch Queen pass into history unmourned.
Oops what if some of our elite historians get a hold of her,they will make her Saint Margot.

For what it is worth.

FOXNEWS Special Report w/Brit Hume has had several reports on the UNSCAM.

Actually, most of Giuliani's high profile prosecutions as US attorney for the Southern District of New York were failures. But of course his career continues.
His successes were mostly the semi-bogus financial scandal sort (though three brokers he had led from their offices in cuffs for cocaine charges had their charges dropped.) So even his most famous fusion case (financial + street crime) was a bust.
But by far his biggest problem was the mob. John Gotti's lawyer Bruce Cutler slapped him around for ten years.

Monco.. Hmmm, which is worse, my math or my spelling? Well it was a rant, whatchuspect?

chuck.. Thanks for the info. I didn't know that he was that bad, but I'm not surprised. What do you think of a requirement for a certain degree of success in the private sector before one can serve in the public sector. Of course, I want to be the one to set the rules.

Frank

Franklin, I wouldn't trust ken lay further than I could see him - one of the reasons I had no Enron stock. Lay was actually a golfing partner of both Bush 1 and Clinton. Bush 2 doesn't seem to have any special relationship with him. Things started going dicy under Clinton but Enron cashed in their chips with the Tres Sec. They tried the same trick in 02 and got slapped and that's when the brown stuff started hitting the fan. I don't know whether or how much Enron/et.al. contributed to the Reps, it didn't do them any good.