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...defended a car company after they had hidden the fact that they discussed whether or not 400 lives a year was worth recalling 20 million cars or not. They decided that, profitability-wise they could take the loss of the class action suit. A piece of paper, an interoffice memo was kept away from the judge and the defense for something like, three or four circuit courts. These things do exist, these people do exist, this did come from a basis of reality...
...wrote my book Memo to the President Elect for the next President because they are going to have a very hard job to do. Our reputation is the lowest that it has ever been. This presidency has done a great deal of damage, and I'm very glad that it will...
...That predated the Gobie thing. In 1989 when Tom Foley became the speaker, the Republican National Committee put out a memo saying “Oh Foley and Frank are the same.” They were trying to hint that Tom Foley was gay, by linking him to me. And that’s when I said that if they thought being gay was so terrible, that I would give them a list of all the gay Republicans. And then I said that you have a right to privacy, but not a right to hypocrisy...
...privacy issues (there are, for instance, lots and lots of Social Security numbers in all of this material) and potential breaches of national security. Once the archivists scrub them, the documents go to Bruce Lindsey, the longtime confidant whom Clinton designated to handle them. (Lindsey wrote in a recent memo, "Currently, none of the FOIA requests NARA has processed and provided for my review involve Senator Clinton.") And then they go to the current President, who under a 2001 executive order can look at them as long as he cares...
...imagination. Out of the 17 songs on the album, 12 are nauseatingly earnest slow songs. “Unbreakable” clearly demonstrates that an entire album of synthesized boy band angst is just not a pretty listen. The Backstreet Boys didn’t seem to get the memo that they’re an aging boy band, not a collection of inspired musical artists. They appear to be operating under the premise that they are, in fact, still in their mid-twenties and one of the hottest bands alive. I certainly would have enjoyed grooving to such tracks...