most writers like to have something called "a point". they put at the front of the "story" so people will "know what the fuck you are talking about".

then inside the story, you explain your point and give further detail.

there was a big dust up a few years ago when it turned out perchlorate was winding up in lettuce.

the problem was that the perchlorate facility, which is around the BMI complex in nevada, is a massively polluted pile of EPA superfund-ish nightmare.

on top of that, the private companies responsible for the pollution were able to shed themselves pf the environmental cleanup costs by shaving off subsidaries and then declaring bankruptcy. Carl Icahn is a master at this type of thing. so the government is the only one left to clean up this stuff and it cant get the money.

(of course the govt can pay a trillion dollars to invade iraq and spy on your google searches...)

intergalctic submicroscopic battle fleets.

i guess applying 'uncle bert's all natural organic martian skin juice' to my face for the past 50 years was a bad idea?

not to mention growing hairy palms.

what law did he admit breaking?

this is essentially going to apply the bizarre "declassification" regime we currently have to FISA law. its ridiculous. go look, for example, at the Inspector General report on the NSA's Trailblazer/Thinthread programs. It is pages and pages and pages of blacked out paragraphs, with a little number in the margin indicating which Exception to the Freedom of Information law the government used in justifying the blackout.

It is ridiculous beyond ridiculos. These senators are cowards of the highest order.

and you dont even know what law they broke.

you should probably step back for a minute and contemplate what you are saying.

and again, and again, and nobody ever seems to answer me. probably because what he did isnt illegal.

do you

a. go to prison for 30 years

b. pay a zillion dollars

c. get extradited

d. get a slap on the wrist b/c companies do it al the time

its really presumptous to say someone broke a law without a fair trial

when the US was first becoming industrialized by copying the english, im sure we had our own share of problems. watt, joule, ampere - which of these was american? none.

india has a mathematical tradition going back thousands of years. they pioneered the fucking decimal point for chrissakes. i woul dtake a bunch of indian dudes who are ambitious and poor over 20 cum-guzzling american NSA contractors, whose main job is to sit around figuring out which lobbyists will win the next round of contract negotiations so they can decide what kind of buzzword laden horse shit to spoon around all over their whorish, lie-filled resumes.

sorry these arguments about the 'exceptional evil in iceland' do not hold water. icelands banks had the same issues as goldman sachs, deutschebank, UK banks, etc. the same people were involved in some cases.

the handful of icelandic banks, which had controllers and boards and advisers of an international nature, went bankrupt, just like the US banks and just like the UK banks and just like the German banks.

they all got bailed out. none of them are any more crooks than any others.

secret courts are making a comeback in the US.