There just isn't enough space

Or time.

To offer up all the corrupt putrid crap that passes for human activity on this planet.

I'm even kind of tired right now of passing on just the major federal government level stuff in this country alone.

But...as my friend Jody (living in Honolulu - lucky sucker) says....one foot in front of the other.

That scumbag Cheney has come out from his undisclosed location lately to float all kinds of fecal matter all around the world. I guess he's trying to divert some of the attention that might be accruing to his corrupt business dealings.

Iran and Libya are called terrorist states by the U.S., which bans American companies from doing business with them. But Halliburton, General Electric, ConocoPhillips and other firms have set up off-shore mail drops so their "independent" subsidiaries can skirt the laws  News & Views article

Antonin Scalia and Dick Cheney are hunting buddies. They went to Louisiana together a few weeks ago to shoot ducks....

Two lower courts have ordered Cheney to turn over to the Sierra Club and Judicial Watch documents detailing who participated with the task force that crafted the White House's energy policy. Cheney appealed, and three weeks before the duck outing, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.

Federal law says a judge should disqualify himself in any proceeding where his impartiality could reasonably be questioned. Scalia has resisted. In a written response to the Los Angeles Times, he said social contacts with high-level executive officials have never been thought improper. "I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned," he said. Wrong.

There is no higher authority to review Scalia's decision. But a private, out-of-state getaway is different from a chat at a cocktail party. And Cheney is not an incidental party to the lawsuit: It was he who convened the task force, believed to have been top-heavy with industry players, and he who kept the meetings secret.

And who paid for the private jet that whisked Scalia to Louisiana? The Times said it was the owner of an oil services company. Scalia has been hopelessly compromised.  Newsday article

But don't get excited about the possibility of something resembling propriety.

Sens. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, a presidential candidate, and Patrick Leahy of Vermont asked Rehnquist last week to clarify disqualification practices...Rehnquist said that while justices often consult with colleagues when they are considering recusing themselves from a case, there is no formal procedure.

"It has long been settled that each justice must decide such a question for himself," he wrote in a letter sent to Lieberman, Leahy and each of the other court justices.

Rehnquist did not give an opinion about whether Scalia should step down from hearing the case, but made clear that it was up to Scalia -- and no one else -- to make that decision.

...The administration is fighting a lawsuit brought by watchdog and environmental groups that contend that industry executives, including former Enron chairman Ken Lay, helped shape the administration's energy policy.

The court will hear arguments in the case this spring, and the two lawmakers told Rehnquist that "when a sitting judge, poised to hear a case involving a particular litigant, goes on a vacation with that litigant, reasonable people will question whether that judge can be a fair and impartial adjudicator of that man's case."  Houston Chronicle article

No problem. There don't appear to be many reasonable people left to get in the way.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.