VirusHead - Mutating bits of contagious discourse, because language is a virus.

I received an email today from Senator Saxby Chambliss, and I’m posting both his communication and my own.
Dear Ms. N: Thank you for contacting me regarding the National Security Agency’s (NSA) monitoring of conversations connected to terrorist activity and the treatment of military detainees. It is good to hear from you.
I certainly understand [...]

From TruthOut, news that the Department of Justice awarded former Attorney General John Ashcroft a $52 million contract, “among the biggest payouts reported for a federal monitor,” to help the US Attorney’s Office in New Jersey monitor leading manufacturers of knee and hip replacements.
$52M to help one state in one precise industry. Interesting.
I wonder [...]

Nancy A. Nord was nominated by President George W. Bush to be a commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) for a term that expires in October of 2012. The CPSC is supposed to protect the public against unreasonable risks of injury and death associated with consumer products. You know, lead. Things like that.
Nord [...]

Here is the original version of the editorial that ran on Op-Ed News. They had an exclusive for at least 48 hours on the pithier version - and it ran five days ago.
Note the current status of the situation:
1. There is now a video that shows that Blackwater USA guards opened fire against civilians [...]

Mitch has created a great extended list of Republican corruption and criminal behavior at Basket of Puppies.
Again… note the themes.
Take a look.
Thanks for commenting and letting me know about your list, Mitch!

Halliburton and KBR have broken up - and breaking up is hard to do. But no sad faces, y’hear? Everything’s A-OK for the billionaire war and oil profit set.
They are diggin’ the new headquarters in Dubai - way better than Houston. Texas is so over. Everything’s bigger in the United Arab Emirates.
Halliburton’s second quarter profits [...]

Sometimes when people pretend to be super-righteous in public they turn out to have a secret side - a double of all the things they have repressed and projected outwards in hatred of others. It’s a common phenom. I wonder why it so often takes a sexual flavor… Perhaps it’s a side-effect of the obsession [...]