To: TigerPaw who wrote (309755 ) 10/18/2002 8:21:33 PM From: MSI Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670 SUCH CRAP ! Why is it just the foreign media that we read this from? What is it that keeps domestic media from obviously timely and relevant evidence of administration malfeasance (or whatever the current euphemism is for profiteering)In releasing the funding, President George W Bush waived the Framework's requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure it has not hidden away any weapons-grade plutonium from the original reactors. President Bush argued that the decision was "vital to the national security interests of the United States". news.bbc.co.uk It would be one thing if there were intelligent admission of previous policy not working, or such. But the confusion resulting from this titular dummy fronting for grasping mandarins in the shadows makes everyone look foolish. Here's some other terms to use for "malfeeeeaaance": criminality, criminousness[obs3]; deviation from rectitude &c. (improbity) misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas[Fr], peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break |![U.S.], capital crime, delictum[Lat]. offense, trespass; misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision; malefaction, malfeasance, malversation; crime, felony. enormity, atrocity, outrage; corpus delicti. Adj. guilty, culpable, peccable[obs3], in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable[obs3]; weighed in the balance and found wanting; exceptionable, red-handed, in the very act, with one's hand in the cookie jar.