Scandalarama

Now that the Bush era is well established in its lame duckasy, suddenly the law establishments are going into overtime arresting respected community members who are turning out to be criminals. Turns out that rock solid investor and ex-NASDAC chairman, Bernard L. Madoff, has been running a Ponzi scheme for over 20 years and has committed fraud to the tune of over $50 billion. Yep, he alone could have bailed out the auto industry, but instead bought houses, yachts, and vacationed in the Caribbean.

Equally shaking up the world of New York lawyers, is the arrest of Marc S. Drier for swindling his major clients out of $380 million, and was caught selling fake promissory notes. I wonder what kind of printer he used?

According to the Associated Press newsfeed, there is a bright spot in the mess with Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. If the situation gets too tight here in the US, he can always go back to Serbia, where his family came from. "He must have been framed, it's all politics," said Dragan Blagovic, who says he's a distant cousin of the governor.

The cousin said his famous relative still owns some land in the village of Velike Krcmare, so "he can come to Serbia if he cannot take it anymore in America."

"He can have a cow or a pig or two, a chicken... He is always welcome."

According to the National Taxpayer's Union, over the last 25 years there have been 20 members of Congress convicted of crimes, and they are all still receiving pension benefits. Dan Rostenkowski is getting $126,000 per year of your tax dollars, while Randall "Duke" Cunningham is getting $64,000 for partying and playing with prostitutes at lobbyist's poker rooms...

Not to be outdone, the military tribunal lawyers are trying to load up the court dockets with Guantanamo cases, 17 within the last few weeks, to tie up Mr Obama's hands if he should decide to close the Cuban facility. Hey, we can't close this place, we have sooo much to do yet. And besides, it's so clean you could eat off of the floor! Here, watch...