Jul. 11, 2002 - 19:09 MDT

THE WONDERING JEW

Farcial Opera

IMHO (In My Horrified Opinion) The longer this series of exposures go on the worse it seems to get.

One Pol to another in Washington, "Yunno, a billion here and a billion there and soon you are talking serious money," doesn't seem so far fetched any more.

The list of those corporations now known about who are in financial and ethical trouble now stand at about eight. Qwest, Adelphia Communications Inc., Enron Corp., Global Crossing, ImClone Systems Inc., World Com Inc., Computer Associates International and Platinum Technology International. Ha, more on the eleven o'cock news -- Riiight.

Looks as if the words of an old hymn are beginning to come true, "And the walls came tumbling down." (Johsua Fit The Battle Of Jericho), what will come tumbling down here ? What will, I wonder, be the disastrous total of the lives financially destroyed. How many more associated businesses be discovered to be guilty of the same things ? How many will be bankrupted through no fault of theirs due to this horrible thing happening in our country now ?

Bush and his piddlin', failin' oil company which was parlayed into big bucks for his pocket. Cheney, top dog from 1995 to 2001 of Halliburton, and Halliburton largest oil well service company in the country are being sued now by Judicial Watch accusing Halliburton of overstating revenues by $445 million from 1999 through the end of 2001. Oh yeah, the accounting firms of Andersen Worldwide and Arthur Anderson LLP are named in the suit.

Judicial Watch has also sued for access to records of the Cheney-led energy task force that drafted the Bush administration's energy policy, and filed dozens of lawsuits against the Clinton administration. Wonder if they will have any success ? Or will all that stuff become mysteriously gone ? Will anything come of it ? Not if our administration has anything to do with it I guess. The Pres. and the Veep both in the kettle as it comes to a boil will probably come out lily white.

We have a leader who seems to be half acting a role and gives speeches that appear to be nothing but half hearted lip service. Surrounded by ? Lied for by ?

Rocky Mountain News' political cartoonist and a street smart knowledgeable guy put out a cartoon on July 10th that demonstrates an attitude showing up from most of us now. It is two panels. A small one with Twiggy at the podium saying, "I'm calling for a new ethic of personal responsibility in the business community." The next panel shows the sign on the wall behind the podium, "CORPORATE RESPOSIBILITY DINNER and RNC Fundraiser $10,000 a plate." And he says, "But seriously folks . . . ." And everybody at the tables are cracking up with big hee haws.

I don't know what the music is, I watch the crawlers on CNN when I watch televison with no audio and read the newspaper. The lyrics I guess are something like, "I ain't guilty, he ain't guilty and the little guy has to foot the whole damn bill." Holy cow, how long has this been going on ? I have read about war profiteers in the Civil War (where the word 'shoddy' gained a meaning), World War Two and to a certain extent in Korea and Vietnam. But this now is turning into a messy ball of worms and the more rocks turned over the more worms are squirming out.

So, without music and hearing all kinds of mixed words and damn poor costuming we are watching a big Farcial Opera . . . . . . . .

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