just one more thing: I'd like to once again announce the death of satire

Via Kos:

Loyalty, Rewarded
by Hunter
Fri Feb 4th, 2005 at 15:40:07 PST

President Bush wants America to stop hurting our kind, job-creating, market-driving entrepeneurs.

To make our economy stronger and more competitive, America must reward, not punish, the efforts and dreams of entrepreneurs. [...] Justice is distorted, and our economy is held back, by irresponsible class actions and frivolous asbestos claims - and I urge Congress to pass legal reforms this year.

-- President George W. Bush, State of the Union Address
Feb. 2nd, 2005

More than 100 families win $30 million settlement in asbestos case
Associated Press
Feb. 3rd, 2005

SEATTLE - More than 100 Northwest families have won a $30 million settlement in an asbestos lawsuit involving a subsidiary of Houston-based Halliburton Co.

The deal was part of a $4.3 billion global settlement encompassing Halliburton's past, present and future asbestos liabilities, Matthew Bergman, a lawyer who represented the families, said Thursday. [...]

Dresser Industries, a subsidiary of Halliburton acquired when Vice President Dick Cheney was chairman of the company, distributed asbestos products to shipyards, power plants and industrial facilities.

Plaintiffs alleged Dresser officials knew their products were harmful to workers in the 1930s but continued to distribute them through the mid-1970s.


ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME WITH THIS? It's a good thing Twain and Heller are dead; this is going to finish off Kurt Vonnegut. And I will blame this Administration for his death.