It's official. For those that haven't heard, Halliburton - the inventors of neocon U.S. foreign policy, parking tickets, Monday mornings, crying babies, sagging tits, Richard Simmons, and just about everything else evil under the sun - is moving to Dubai. Even better, their new shiny headquarters will be located in one of the freezones where I happen to spend a good portion of my working hours. It's like living down the hall from Ghengis Khan ... only different.
"There's big news involving Vice President Dick Cheney's former company Halliburton -- the one that issued him a $34 million severance package. They're taking their over $10 billion in no-bid government contracts and moving their headquarters from Houston to Dubai -- a Middle Eastern city that's home to the world's largest shopping mall, the world's tallest hotel, an indoor ski resort with real snow, and an artificial archipelago where you can live on a man-made island in the shape of continents. And the guest workers there - civil rights free. How do they do it all while still being a plotting ground for the 9/11 hijackers? Well, let's just say that's what happens when Las Vegas and Saudi Arabia have a baby."
--Jon Stewart
--Jon Stewart