Phillip Jennings (bewigged):Roy Oatway? Roy Oatway? Air Force Security.
Emmet (also bewigged):Let me ask you something. When you were in high school, in Topeka, did two cheerleaders ever ask you to go at with them under the bleachers? When you were at MIT, did two gorgeous women ever pick you up at a bar, take you home, and screw your brains out?
Phillip: It’s a question, Roy. It’s a real question.
Roy: No…
Emmet: What about when you were chief budget officer for Bendix Corporation, overseeing anti lock brake technology. How many babes were you banging then, Roy?
Roy: Um… Not a lot.
Phillip: What do think’s so different about tonight, Roy? New Cologne? Or is it just since you started working for Lockheed?
…
Emmet: … and you’re going to switch out the codes on your office safe and briefcase to a rotating number system we give you that’s going to change every six weeks. Okay. You’re fine. Put your clothes on.
KA CHING!
From The Americans. Season 2. Episode 1.
If Sterling is sentenced to years in prison, could his lawyers use Petraeus’s sweetheart deal as part of an appeal of the sentence on 8th Amentment grounds? I’m no lawyer but it seems to me that being sentenced to decades in prison while someone who committed a similar crime was sentenced to probation fits the definition of “cruel and unusual punishment”.
To be fair, after zealously pursuing other leakers, they had hardly any punishment left to give him. Luckily, they still had plenty of leniency, so that had to do.
Providing the identities of the lawyers at the misnamed department of justice that are culpable in this blowing of powerful criminals would be helpful. Any such lawyer can and should be reported to the relevant disciplinary commission for unethical conduct. Corruption comes in many forms, favoritism is one of them. The constitution is not being upheld by differing treatment of defendants. The judge did not have to accept the plea agreement. the judge’s identity would be helpful. the crooks need outing. cheers.
You know, a friend was once telling me about how he likes to give coworkers crap by saying, “You’re a sad, sad Panda”, and how one would get really offended.
I asked innocently, “Is he Chinese?”
Apparently that was incredibly hilarious.
I often can’t tell when I am being unintentionally witty, or if people are high.
In June 2010, when Obama named Petraeus to head US and NATO in Afghanistan, MoveOn.org immediately scrubbed its website of any reference of its excellent General Betray Us campaign. My utter contempt for both war-mongering Republicans and shameless DNC bootlickers like MoveOn.org continues unabated. MoveOn.org is a decently effective propaganda branch of the DNC, but I would not go so far as to pretend that they actually have principles.
