perfidy

I can't let others get screedy for me by proxy. Click the "more" link for some screedy goodness from John Cole.

If I ever up and accidentally screw a couple million people out of a couple of billion dollars and perhaps cause a crisis in the market and perhaps send nervous jitters through an already skittish economy, I hope the Justice department is this easy on me:

Merrill Lynch & Company, in an agreement with prosecutors that let it avoid criminal charges over its role in the Enron debacle, promised today not to engage in business deals — even ones that appear legal — that it believes might be used to mislead investors about a company's financial condition.

The Wall Street firm also agreed to allow the government to monitor portions of its business for the next 18 months.

You got that? Their deal is, as punishment for helping to f--k over millions of people- they promise not to f--k anyone over in the future- at least for the next 18 months while people are watching them.

Justice is blind, deaf, and dumb. Meanwhile, Tommy Chong is going to jail for selling bongs on the internet. My head hurts.

For the record, GOP- this is how you drive people like me away from the party, you pompous, moralizing, a-holes. I also might point out that Tommy Chong's business employed 25 people- which, if I am to believe the employment numbers I read about every few weeks, means that the Bush administration is about three million, three hundred thousand TWENTY-FIVE jobs behind Cheech and Chong in the job creation category.

Priorities, Bush. Priorities. And pedants- spare me the exact number of jobs lost during the last four years and why we can't blame them all on Bush- I know my numbers are wrong, but I am venting. You get the damned point.