Agreed! If it wasn't for Savage, I'd still be in the dark on several issues.
As a followup to my post 39 about Gore, it is a legally agreed on precept that legal contracts must be both legal, and have demonstrable, real valued consideration on both ends. There is no real quantifiable value to a "carbon offset". They define it and ascertain it's "value" in the same breath. Perhaps this explains why Gore's company is headquartered in Europe.
More on Libby and Rich, from Jamese777
"Libby's testimony:Lewis Libby comes to Marc Rich’s defense.
March 2, 2001
Lewis Libby, a top Republican lawyer who is now vice president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, told the House Government Reform Committee last night that he agreed with much of Bill Clinton's widely discredited op-ed article outlining the former president's reasons for pardoning fugitive tax evader Marc Rich.
In a session that stretched late into the evening, Libby, who represented Rich for several years ending in the spring of 2000, told the committee he believes Rich is not guilty of the tax and racketeering charges filed by federal prosecutors in 1983. Libby also said he "quite possibly" would have considered applying for a pardon for Rich had Rich asked him to do so.
Libby, who said his law firms collected as much as $2 million for representing Rich, testified he had nothing to do with the application that led to clemency for Rich. He declined to say whether he approved of the decision to pardon Rich, but he conceded that he called Rich on January 22, two days after the pardon, to "congratulate him on having reached a result that he had sought for a long time." Libby testified he made the call from his home to make clear that he was calling in a personal capacity, and not as a representative of the Bush administration."