Again crediting YRHT who posted both of these earlier--on the one hand, another wink and nod to oil industry executives...yes, those oil industry executives...this time it was (probably) Ted Stevens, professional asshole, who insisted they NOT be sworn in during testimony last week on Capitol Hill, probably because their subsequent lies about not meeting with Big Time would have had the inconvenient consequence of setting them up on a perjury rap:
A White House document shows that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 -- something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress...
In a joint hearing last week of the Senate Energy and Commerce committees, the chief executives of Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and ConocoPhillips said their firms did not participate in the 2001 task force. The president of Shell Oil said his company did not participate "to my knowledge," and the chief of BP America Inc. said he did not know.
But special perks for companies that added $20 billion dollars on the asset side of the ledger is business as usual...while, at the OTHER end of the economic ladder, unpleasantries like prompt, dignified handling of loved ones' remains is just too much of a chore. Besides, it's not like they were donors to the party anyway:
Dozens of families have returned to what is left of their homes and found, lying amidst the mold and the wreckage, a body, forgotten, abandoned. Maybe it's their mother or their grandmother, sometimes even their missing child.
It really is old-fashioned values after all.
No comments:
Post a Comment