President Bush's approval rating has dropped to 57 percent from 73 percent since April as voters soured on his handling of the economy

In one incident cited by the investigators, accounting executive Buford Yates (worldcom) told an underling who questioned the company's books: ''Show those numbers to the [expletive] auditors and I'll throw you out the [expletive] window.''

In one instance, WorldCom, a company built largely through acquisitions, spent $6 billion in September 2000 to purchase a company called Intermedia Communications. WorldCom conducted about 60 to 90 minutes of due diligence research before making the deal, which was rubber-stamped by the board after a half-hour meeting that was held on two hours' notice. One director called it an ''ego deal'' for Ebbers.

So, there's the picture: 100,000-plus priceless items looted either under the very noses of the Yanks, or by the Yanks themselves. And the only problem with it is that it's nonsense. It isn't true. It's made up. It's bollocks.

North Korea has the fifth-largest active duty military in the world, the third-largest ground force, and the largest commando force -- with many troops poised on hair-trigger status.

A Chapel Hill police detective who falsely presented a business card to a high school student that said he was an FBI task force agent made the card himself, although he had been previously warned not to use it.

The log could have a dual effect on the neighborhood, Overby said. Residents can let the city know about problems, which will then be addressed. And residents will know that their behavior might show up on a log and might start to act differently, she said.
"People tend to adjust their behavior if they think people are paying attention to it," she said.
"It's not at all like Big Brother spying on each other," said Code Enforcement Officer Ray O'Connor. "It's much more simple and ordinary."

"I don't want to sell pizza to people from those two countries," he said.

The government we allow is currently run by authoritarians, bullies liars and abusers. The people in the government have various conduct disorders; that is why we expect them to lie, expect them to exploit us and expect them to abuse our freedoms.

Pinter said the US government was the most dangerous power that had ever existed.

Every one of the trough-swilling headline-hunting swine currently hounding her is a disgrace to their office, and I hope a day comes when Ms. Stewart is able to sue each of the slimy bastards into a poverty approximating that of their souls.

Defence chiefs are resisting calls for British troops to be sent to join American forces in Baghdad because they could be "sucked into a quagmire".
remember when dummy mocked aobut the quagmire...? being smug rarely pays...

howard: "...defended his "difficult and lonely" decision to commit troops to Iraq without a further United Nations resolution approving it, and castigated Labor for not backing him.... They were voting with the fanatical anti-American left of the Australian Labor Party - and that will never be forgotten by us," Mr Howard said."
agree with us or yuo are bad, and we will get our revenge - and the public are 'fanatical' - astonishing, dangerous hubris my friends...