i have nothing but the greatest respect for this blog and what folks like you do for this damned country .. i am your fan!!!!!!!

1. One of the e-mails is to and from a ‘JCC’ but there is no listing for a JCC in the Abbreviations Index. Who is JCC?

2. All the docs listed on the Index of Withheld Documents are being held by KS. The listing for KS in the Abbreviations Index is Kyle Sampson. If KS is Kyle Sampson, what’s he doing with these documents.

For a war profiteering Dutch megacorp.

U.S. Attorney in New York Reaches
Non-Prosecution Deal With Royal Ahold

NEW YORK–Prosecutors in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York announced Sept. 28 that they have reached a non-prosecution agreement with the Dutch food conglomerate Royal Ahold N.V. over an alleged scheme carried out by executives of the company’s U.S. subsidiary to inflate corporate earnings reports (United States v. Kaiser, S.D.N.Y., No. 04-CR-733, 9/25/06).

The agreement, contained in a Sept. 25 letter to counsel for Royal Ahold and its subsidiary, U.S. Foodservice Inc., frees the companies from the risk of criminal prosecution for their participation in the crimes alleged in a July 2004 indictment, (36 SRLR 1403, 8/2/04) and in a related Securities and Exchange Commission complaint. Also covered are false statements to the Defense Department or other U.S. agencies related to pricing of goods sold to them, which continues to be the subject of a civil investigation.

JF @ 5

Does anyone know anything about the USA in the Southern district of NY, Michael Garcia? He just dropped the insider trading case against Bill Frist. I haven’t heard much about the Frist case, lately, until today.

DROPPED IT?

Are you sure? I thought he was supposed announce an indictment (not necessarily of Frist) this week. WTF?

I am so confused.

Among the many reasons I despise my kitten torturing colleague is that puzzling out US Attorney’s Garcia’s “loyal Bushie” resume of servility and lethal ineptitude has now consumed over three hours of hiking time.

(I knew they’re all ecocidal bastards, but this is personal…/s)

Not to worry. When Comey left as US Attorney for SDNY to become Deputy AG, I’m sure Rove didn’t make a political appointment.

6/30. President Bush nominated Michael Garcia to be the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York for the term of four years. If confirmed, he will replace James Comey, who is now the Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice (DOJ). See, White House release.

And I despise the freakin’ WaPoo.

They learned NOTHING from freakin’ USA Taylor – IIRC – brought in from DOJ (or WH…as if there were a distinction) as USA for District of Columbia to give Griles the sweetheart deal.

Why am I doing the WaPoo’s fucking research?

Fancy pants Graham owes me a morning of hiking time – after the Oedipally conflicted little twerp gets done destroying the institution his mother built and loved.

What a hateful waste of human flesh – and a perfect mirror for Shrub.

Donald Graham and George W. Bush – cursed to hate and destroy what their most imposing parent most loved….

and never even know they are doing it..far less why.

[IIRC Graham even went about bulldozing the home and gardens his mother so loved.

Garden killer.

What a putz. Small wonder he protects a cat torturer - the core Rethugs hate the living world with a passion.

And they get in the way of my hiking and their rapacious timber rapers cut down our magical forests.

Bastards.]

Should I have more coffee?

My father worked with a man – European ancestry – who was so intolerant of lactose that he couldn’t have commercial yogurt, only home-made (where the reaction runs, as they say in chemistry, to completion: no lactose left).

I’d consider serving burgers, cheese optional, at a casual lunch, even for important guests. Better yet, serve it as hamburger steaks, to eat with knife and fork.

dreamcatcher @ 199

spurious @ 189

Second. Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate.

I think it is “Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch’entrate” (abandon all hope, you who enter). But I’m just picking nits. At least that is my memory from Italian 201.

You have to remember that Dante is writing early 14th century Italian and in the text, it’s “ogne” and “intrate”.

Reminds me of a company I worked for, which arranged an important meeting with a member of the board of directors of Toyota. They picked him up at the airport in a Honda.

The Japanese might still imagine that they can pull our feet out of the fire (while they commercially put the rest of us in a frying pan). One of their prominent think tanks has the motto “Deus ex Machina”. Mr. Bush can only dream.

Thanks again

[Mod: Would you please not use this term without the *s, it always gets caught in the filter. Thanks.]