Halliburton, Alberto Gonzales

Halliburton, which might as well be named Weyland-Yutani, is moving to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai, U.A.E. is known to be a place where you can get away with business practices that are illegal elsewhere. Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton, and left that position to become Vice President of the United States. Halliburton is relocating so it can do illegal shit without being investigated.

The Attorney General might be fired by Monday. At least, that's what Jim Cafferty of CNN said earlier today. Jim Cafferty is a gruff, Perry White-type guy who says things to Wolf Blitzer on CNN. During the news and bullshit cycle that had a lot of Anna Nicole Smith's dead body in it, he sarcastically asked Wolf Blitzer "Is Anna Nicole Smith still dead?" to which Wolf Blitzer responded "Yes, she is." To which Jim Cafferty responded "Oh, good. Because I can't get enough of the coverage of her death." That's the kind of guy we're dealing with here, with Jim Cafferty. A guy whom I recognize as an ally.
Anyway, here's the Alberto Gonzales story. He maybe masterminded a plan to get rid of some federal prosecutors who were insufficiently Bush-friendly and replace them with federal prosecutors who were Bush-friendly. And if he didn't mastermind it, then he's in a shitty situation, because it happened on his watch. And it's bad because those federal prosecutor positions are supposed to be protected from the nastiness of partisan politics. Many, many people are very upset over this because it's really unusual for federal prosecutors to be fired before their terms are over. Lots of Democrats want Gonzales to leave office. Even some Republicans don't want him to be Attorney General anymore.
The last item I have to report is connected to the Gonzales/federal prosecutor matter: some emails have surfaced which show that Karl Rove was involved in this federal prosecutor firing scandal. Which is a big deal, because Karl Rove is the chief Republican strategist, and meets with the President really often.
The President is trying to collect all the powers separated by the constitution into the three branches of government. Giving a historical account of why those powers were separated takes a really long time, but let's just say that the story of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe tell the story of why we've separated those governmental powers. And let's remember that the Thirty Years War was a part of that process, and that that was a war that killed about thirty percent of the civilian population in Europe. Also, that war was one of the reasons that we separate the church and the state in modern post-Enlightenment nations. George Bush is trying really hard to be a king.

* originally I identified Dubai as being in India, not in the United Arab Emirates. Some readers will want to know why I did this. The answer is simple. I am stupid.