Saturday, October 4, 2008

VP Job Opening: Large, Polluted Shoes to Fill

I have spent way too much timing thinking and writing about Dick Cheney. This may very well be my last post on the Angler, the most powerful VP in American History. My admiration for Joe Biden and my joy in John McCain picking Sarah Palin, are but mere shadows in the enormity of Dick Cheney. May he burn in hell, if indeed hell exists. When he dies, I'll stand on his grave and curse him forevermore.

1) Spearheading the effort to scare the media into compliance over the Iraq Invasion

2) "We will be greated as liberators in Iraq"

3) "The war will be paid for in oil revenue. $17 Billion tops."

4) Detainees in the War on Terror are not Prisoners of War

5) Domestic Wiretapping is good for Americans

6) The Bush Doctrine was really the Cheney Doctrine

7) Torture, lies and coverups

8) Cost-Plus, no-bid contracts for his former company Halliburton (KBR, Bechtel, etc)

9) Valarie Plame

10) Massive environmental pollution, pushed bills with such lofty titles as "Clean Air Act" while allowing environmental law-breakers to go unpunished

11) The list goes on and what we don't know could fill the oceans.

NYT Series explores the role of resources in African conflicts

A new series from the New York Times is delving into the role of natural resources in African conflicts.  The series begins in Congo, where...