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Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Open the box


My current favourite song- Open the Boxoctosis #2, from The Real New Fall LP. Lyrics @: http://www.freehosting.hostrave.com/p/fall/realnew.html#box

This is just what my Californian honey has done, as a witness and victim of the Randy 'Duke' Cunningham corruption scandal. My honey's quote on Duke scored the headline on the San Diego Union Tribune Sunday paper, with this:
"Contractor 'knew how to grease the wheels'"
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cunningham/20051204-9999-1n4adcs.html


More Duke reports here
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cunningham/
and his highly emotional resignation speech on video here: a classic-
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cunningham/audiovideo/051128cunningham-hi.ram
Duke is a born-again Christian, and has spent many days with his co-conspirators in prayer.

Honey apparently got screwed sideways by Duke and his co-corruptees in the late 90s, and ended up in bankruptcy court when Duke's associates grabbed first their company name, and then their DoD contract to supply software. He predicts more shit to hit the fan later on the downstream effects of Duke's corruption and bribe-proneness. Like when he had to fire 40 employees when Wilkes and Casey grabbed the contract. And when these co-conspirators got the DoD contract, they farmed the work out to Germany so they weren't even supporting the local economy.

The ethics of working for a war machine to earn a buck are debateable, but the effects of political corruption incontrovertible. Learn more about 'Duke' here, at his unofficial and unauthorised website:
http://dukecunningham.org/