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"Loyalty to country, always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it." -- Mark Twain
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August's Lowdown
Corporations scoff at workers' rights--even the right to come home from work alive
Their names probably won't mean mean anything to you, but these people ought to have some modicum of personal recognition: Jason Anderson, Aaron Dale "Bubba" Burkeen, Donald Clark, Stephen Curtis, Gordon Jones, Roy Wyatt Kemp, Karl Kleppinger, Blair Manuel, Dewey Revette, Shane Roshto, and Adam Weise. These are the 11 workers who were killed when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico on April 20.
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AL NEEDS A JOB
Poor Al--he's all resume, no job. Sort of a yuppified version of "All hat, no cattle."
And what a resume he has: graduate of Harvard law school; chief lawyer for the president of the United States; and then U.S. attorney general, America's top lawyer.
Alberto Gonzales can't get a job. Having been forced to resign as attorney general, the Texan who flowered in the manure of George W's corporate-financed rise to power has been putting out feelers to the very corporate law firms that fueled his rise to the legal heights. They are not returning his phone calls.
Gonzales confused personal loyalty to the Bush regime with public responsibility. Legalize torture? He'd find a way. Use the Justice Department as a political hit squad? He was okay with that. Go before Congress and play a dummy? Hey, count on Al.
Unfortunately, this tail-wagging loyalty to the Bushites caused Gonzales to be seen as, let's say, less than truthful, even to Republican lawmakers. Plus, he's facing possible criminal charges for his prevarications.