WTF Is It Now?!?

'My lawyer ate my disclosure forms'

As if.

Senate Majority Leader Tom "Isadora" Daschle remembered that he once had testicles and called on the Securities and Exchange Commission to release the file of its decade-old investigation into insider trading by the Crook from Kennebunkport when he was a corporate director of a Texas energy company. [T]he White House blamed a "clerical mistake" by lawyers for Bunnypants' failure to disclose an $848,560 stock sale in a timely manner, as required by federal law, when he was on the board of Harken Energy Corp.

The explanation was at odds with an earlier statement by Daddy's Widdle Doofus that he had filed all the required disclosure forms about the transaction, but the government had "lost the paperwork."

"The SEC took a look at (the sale) and concluded there's nothing there," White House spokes-tool Ari "the Liar" Fleischer said last week, not mentioning that the SEC at the time was owned by Poppy Bush and his cronies, while Bush-the-only-slightly-smarter was president.

The Bush-league misadministration also faces a potentially embarrassing probe by the SEC into accounting irregularities at the energy firm Halliburton, based in Dallas, when Vice President "dick" Cheney was the firm's chief executive. - Zachary Coile at the San Francisco Chronicle, and Tom Flocco, WND.



Springtime for Hitler, cont.: BFEE piece in UK paper angers US shareholder/crybaby

The Daily Mirror editor, Piers Morgan, has vowed to go on publishing articles critical of George Bush despite "concern" from an American shareholder.

Last Thursday's paper carried a trenchant article by John Pilger which called the United States a "rogue state" guilty of undermining international law. It referred to Bush's administration as a criminal gang which had killed twice as many people as died at the World Trade Centre.

Next day one of the major US shareholders in Trinity-Mirror, the group which owns the Daily Mirror, phoned chief executive Philip Graf to express disappointment at the tone and content of Pilger's polemic. Tom Shrager of the New York-based fund manager Tweedy Browne, which owns 4% of Trinity, began by stating that he respected the concept of freedom of the press. He did not threaten to sell Trinity stock, but he went on to say, in the most forthright terms, that his company was very unhappy with the Mirror for publishing Pilger's piece.

He was not available for comment yesterday, although he was reported in the Mail on Sunday as saying: "We made our views known as shareholders. We felt that management should know how we view such editorial material."

Morgan said yesterday: "We will continue to run articles by John Pilger in the current climate, but these shouldn't be misconstrued as anti-American."

- Reprinted from The Guardian. Pilger article: the Mirror.




Silly Cat Stories

Russ and Sandy Asbury of Whitewater, Wis., told an Associated Press reporter that their two cats, Boots and Bandit, now each 2 years old, have driven up the couple's water bill recently because they have learned to flush toilets. Said Russ, "We have to shut the bathroom door when we go to bed. Otherwise one or the other of the cats are in there flushing away all night." - From News of the Weird and the Los Angeles Times/AP, 2-19-02.

Jaffa somehow knocked over the huge finch cage while we were away, snagged himself a zebra finch, and ate it in the master bathroom. I found the room covered in little finch feathers, but at least there weren't any gory bits lying around. As I flushed the feathers down the toilet, he tried to catch them as they spiraled by. Rrrrrrrrrrrrr.