It’s Not News Unless the Teabaggers Care
The Shocking! discovery:
A Bloomberg Markets investigation has found that Koch Industries — in addition to being involved in improper payments to win business in Africa, India and the Middle East — has sold millions of dollars of petrochemical equipment to Iran, a country the U.S. identifies as a sponsor of global terrorism.
The Loophole:
Internal company documents show that the company made those sales through foreign subsidiaries, thwarting a U.S. trade ban.
So the teabagger-funding Koch Brothers are — Gasp! — evil. But we already knew that. It’ll certainly be fun watching their supplicants dance around the news, but unless wingnuts take up the cause, this ain’t goin’ nowhere.
Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales [Bloomberg]
Teabaggers have a great capacity for denial. They’ll just Koch block it from their system.
Hey Nojo, there are news reports of a number of shootings in San Diego today. What’s up?
I blame George Soros. And Lady Gaga.
@Dodgerblue: All Quiet at the Remote Office. Unless you count my violent client fantasies.
@nojo: LAT says someone was taking potshots at motorists on the 805.
@Dodgerblue: Ah. Don’t remember the last time I was up that way. I get my daily fix of schadenfreude listening to the afternoon traffic reports.
TJ/Okay. WTF? I thought, Rutger Hauer, a Hobo with a Shotgun, “Sure. Why not?”
And then I watched the trailer and was like, “Wow. A simulated orgasm will get you an NC-17, but this stuff is streaming away.” I think it was released on only two screens in the US, but still.
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