[kj] [OT] Friends in High places - Cheney's anus

[folk devil]

This is interesting, when you put the 2 stories together..but not surprising
 
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the record $2.5 billion in punitive damages that Exxon Mobil Corp had been ordered to pay for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska.
The nation's highest court ruled that the punitive damages should be limited to an amount equal to the total relevant compensatory damages of $507.5 million."
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSWBT00926720080625
 
"WASHINGTON -- Scores of highly credentialed young lawyers and law students were denied interviews for coveted positions at the Justice Department because of an illegal screening process that took political and ideological views and affiliations into account rather than merit, Justice Department investigators concluded in a report released Tuesday."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-justice25-2008jun25,0,1683417.story
 
 
 
 
 
"talk about alternative fuels...not something that's going to be completely exhausted in 10 years."
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