BE HERE, OR BE NOWHERE!
Posted on 12/06/2006 2:39:59 PM PST by Tarkus2040
Good lord, that site reads like the ACLU's and/or the Southern Poverty Law Center's site, with all the "diversity" and "culture" speak.
http://www.bakerbotts.com/about/culture/
We believe in giving something back to the communities in which we live and work. We encourage our lawyers to be actively involved in pro bono, charitable and other community activities because it helps them to develop as better people and partners and because, quite simply, it's the right thing to do.
I wonder what exactly they're "giving back" to the Saudis? Here's an interesting and extremely telling article (from four years ago) regarding the cozy ties between the Saudi Kingdom and certain American corporations, such as Baker Botts:
Saudi Arabia, False Friend
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5222
Western politicians lie about Saudi Arabia all the time. "Saudi Arabia is a good and dependable friend to the civilized world," Britain’s Tony Blair declared during a tour of the Middle East in 2001. "Civilization" is a relative term to a high priest of post-modernism like Mr. Blair, but his enthusiasm for the House of Saud may be easier to understand if we consider that Britain’s arms merchants have their most lucrative buyer in the desert kingdom. And we are as glued to the same teat as the British: in only six years (1991-1997) there were $23 billion worth of arms agreements between the United States and Saudi Arabia. This means jobs, and congressmen, in places where defense plants are located.
The dirty little secret is that large sections of the American and European elites are being deliberately fed Saudi money, directly and indirectly, to bribe them to exert pressures at home favorable to Saudi Arabia. The Carlyle Group, for example, is a Washington D.C. investment bank that specializes in investing Saudi royal wealth abroad. It also has a convenient habit of employing people close to the Bush administration. Shades of Clintonesque corruption? To be fair, the smoking gun is not in view, but as citizens, we are entitled to wonder about what are politely called "conflicts of interest." Does anyone look at this and not "get" how the game is obviously played?
Saudi Arabia’s "royal" kleptocracy (a dynasty of antiquity inferior to most decent brands of whisky) owns huge parts of major American corporations, and that is the "big stuff." Suffice to say that the present U.S. Ambassador there is Dallas attorney Robert Jordan, a man with no diplomatic experience, but also the lawyer who defended George W. Bush in a probe of insider trading allegations in 1990. Jordan comes from the Dallas office of Houston law firm Baker & Botts, which has an office in Riyadh and whose client list includes The Carlyle Group. One of the Group’s directors is former President George Bush Sr., while James A. Baker III is the current Baker in Baker Botts. Baker was a classmate of Donald H. Rumsfeld at Princeton. Rumsfeld, the current Secretary of Defense, was the roommate of Frank C. Carlucci. Carlucci, who was head of the National Security Council under President Ronald Reagan, is currently chairman of The Carlyle Group. At least $2 million of Carlyle funding has come from the bin Laden family of Saudi Arabia.
The focus on the "big stuff" also allowed thousands of young Saudis easy access to American visas under various pretexts, many of them hell-bent on waging jihad against the unbelievers. The Saudi authorities issued them exit visas in the full knowledge what they were up to. At least they were keen to get rid of the potentially troublesome hotheads who could stir up trouble at home. Worse still, they may have considered the resulting mayhem, exemplified in the predominantly Saudi suicide teams of September 11, as not necessarily wrong or undesirable. Rather than prevent young Saudis from enlisting in military ventures abroad or silence the sheiks encouraging them, some officials say Saudi Arabia has mostly tried to deflect the problem outside its borders.
Pretty incriminating stuff!
Acutally you are wrong. I have been a listener of Rush and a fan of Mark Levin AND Savage (perish the thought!) for years. But since a few of you "trolls" decided to make it personal and portray Rush as some kind of Conservative icon and Savage as some sort of decadent freak, I felt I needed to set the record straight. Quite apart from their radio views, Michael Savage is a man who has been married to the same woman for over 30 years, and has two very successful children. Rush Limbaugh has been divorced 4 times, has no children and drugged himself deaf. How can anyone claim Rush is an icon or role model for our children with such a history?
YOU guys started getting personal...not us "Wienerheads".
Death toll in 2006 far overshadows total U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, Afghanistan
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53103
It is the devout "weinerheads" as you call them that follow the Democrat Doctrine of Relative Filth. You seem to accept any statement or behavior as acceptable so long as you can point out one other worse example. And, in Democrat fashion, when that fails you revert to name calling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGXaW_ngWnk
Illegals saving people from burning apartments that Americans won't do! LMAO!
Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That's 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001.
While King reports 12 Americans are murdered daily by illegal aliens, he says 13 are killed by drunk illegal alien drivers – for another annual death toll of 4,745. That's 23,725 since Sept. 11, 2001.
King also reports eight American children are victims of sexual abuse by illegal aliens every day – a total of 2,920 annually.
Based on a one-year in-depth study, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute of Atlanta estimates there are about 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States who have had an average of four victims each. She analyzed 1,500 cases from January 1999 through April 2006 that included serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides and child molestation committed by illegal immigrants.
According to Edwin Rubenstien, president of ESR Research Economic Consultants, in Indianapolis in 1980, federal and state correctional facilities held fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens. But at the end of 2003, approximately 267,000 illegal aliens were incarcerated in all U.S. jails and prisons.
In April 2005, the Government Accountability Office released a report on a study of 55,322 illegal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and local facilities during 2003. It found the following:
* The 55,322 illegal aliens studied represented a total of 459,614 arrests – some eight arrests per illegal alien;
* Their arrests represented a total of about 700,000 criminal offenses – some 13 offenses per illegal alien;
* 36 percent had been arrested at least five times before.
1st order of business- Baker Commission-Saudi connection
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