Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff once treated 14 beaming kids to a surprise visit to a National Hockey League (NHL) locker room, where a professional referee made himself available to chat with the young sports fans. Such an act of kindness was sufficient to stir the compassionate spirit of that particular referee, whom the Associated Press revealed had sent a letter to U.S. District Judge Paul Huck urging him to show mercy on Abramoff.
Huck then sentenced Abramoff to a six-year term in the Big House.
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Isn't it ironic that U.S. industry produces items such as mini armored troop carriers while simultaneously manufacturing bombs known as sensor fuzed weapons, which are made to destroy such human-delivery watercraft?
Come to think of it, they probably limit sales of this disparate combination of protective and destructive goods to just the good guys. So, there you have it: a natural and understandable balance to an otherwise contradictory production schema. Similarly, I have found such a logical balance in the attempted bribery of Congress, whose members -- such as my dear congressman Rep. Don Sherwood (R-Pa.), indicted ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), and incarcerated felons such as ex-Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-Cal.) -- have stood side-by-side to collect millions of dollars from the political action committees of global military-hardware behemoths such as Textron.
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