Molly Does It Again

Molly Ivins sums up the real meaning of the "Kenny boy" Lay "Jeffy boy" Skilling convictions in her own inimitable style. Check it out via the link below.

Molly's Article

Just Digits!?!?

In the following article about telcom corporations turning over records of all our phone calls to NSA, a White House "official" is quoted as insisting "It's just digits." Well our credit card and social security numbers are "just digits." Our bank statements are "just digits." In this digital age everything we want to keep private is "just digits." The White House "official" who implied we shouldn't be alarmed about NSA having all our phone called numbers because they're "just digits" is just nuts.

CNN.com - Inside Bush's secret spy net - May 14, 2006

Detention Centers by Halliburton ?

If you learned that Halliburton now has a contract in the amount of $385 million to build a series of "detention centers", each to house up to 5,000 detainees, would you look askance? Yeh, me too. Here's the story: The Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) subsidiary of Halliburton has such a contract awarded by the Army Corps of Engineers last January. Yep KBR is the same outfit that overcharged for its work in Iraq. The "centers" would be used by the Homeland Security Department for "unexpected influx of immigrants; as housing for victims of natural disaster; and for new programs that require additional detention space." NEW PROGRAMS THAT REQUIRE ADDITIONAL DETENTION SPACE ?!?! What new programs? Do the new programs have anything to do with all those phone records AT&T et al have turned over to Bush and company? The mind boggles.