On Jan 1, 9:45=A0pm, Bret Cahill <BretCah...@aol.com> wrote:

The FRAP (federal rules of appellate procedure) require a "corp.
disclosure statement" in briefs so that any appeals court judge with
stock in an "interested party" can recuse himself.

(The corp. ***** media obviously has no such rules because everyone
knows all they ever do is the bidding of their corp. boss paymasters.)

The question here is, is a person who made his living for decades
sucking up to corp. bosses _really_ independent _after_ he retires?

After all, he's gonna have this lofty notion of himself, that he
_deserved_ his retirement because he was something loftier than a
corp. shill.

Bret Cahill

A kleptocracy (sometimes cleptocracy) (root: klepto+kratein =3D rule by
thieves) is a government that extends the personal wealth and
political power of government officials and the ruling class
(collectively, kleptocrats) at the expense of the population. A
kleptocratic government often goes beyond merely awarding the prime
contracts and civil service posts to friends (a common feature of
corrupt governments). They also create projects and programs at a
policy level which serve the primary purpose of funneling money out of
the treasury and into the pockets of the executive with little if any
regard for the logic, viability or necessity of those projects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy