More Heads Roll: DOJ official tied to firings "resigns"

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Tuesday March 06, 2007 · 9:00 AM PST

2007/03/06 · 09:00

It appears that the heads are continuing to roll after the controversial firings of 8 U.S. Attorneys who stepped down in January.

From The Buffalo News

Michael A. Battle, formerly the top federal prosecutor in Buffalo and now a senior official at the U.S. Department of Justice, called several U.S. attorneys from across the country Dec. 7 and gave them some unusual bad news.

It was time for them to resign.

Little noticed at the time, the unprecedented purge of eight of the nation’s 94 U.S. attorneys has caused a huge uproar in Washington that is culminating today in hearings on both sides of Capitol Hill. Democrats are alleging that the fired prosecutors, Republicans all, lost their jobs for political reasons.

Looks like someone else may have become a victim of the purge.......

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Friday January 13, 2006 · 9:18 AM PST

2006/01/13 · 09:18

Hey Kos, get ready for an influx of readers of the Middle East edition of Stars and Stripes!

Please forgive me for not linking; I got this directly from my paper edition.
I transcribe from a printed story under the heading "Blog It" on page 2 of the Friday Jan. 13th Middle East edition of Stars and Stripes.

Take a look............. Read More

TSA Wants to add Veterans to `Mental Defectives' Watch List (w/POLL)

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Wednesday December 21, 2005 · 3:48 PM PST

2005/12/21 · 15:48

If spying on us terrists isn't enough, adding our mentally disabled veterans to the boogie man roles to keep us running from our shadows seems to be the next step from the Ministry of Homeland Security......

From Larry Scott at OPEDNEWS.............

Military personnel and veterans with mental health issues could end up on the TSA's "Watch List" and be denied access to commercial flights - Who has access to the information is a primary concern.

The TSA's computer system is called the Transportation Threat Assessment and Credentialing Screening Gateway and accesses government record systems such as Social Security files and FBI criminal records.

But, this next step of looking for "mental defectives" in military and veterans' records presents multiple problems.

You know what to do and where we're going......... Read More

Bushco looking for handouts for Iraq reconstruction

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Tuesday September 20, 2005 · 12:44 PM PDT

2005/09/20 · 12:44

After raiding the treasury, Bushco is looking at the wallets of the compassionate among us.
I can't believe they have the gall to attempt this........oh.. wait...yes I do...

By Cam Simpson
Washington Bureau
Chicago Tribune

September 18, 2005

WASHINGTON -- From the Indian Ocean tsunami to the church around the corner, Americans have shown time and again they are willing to open their pocketbooks for charity, for a total of about $250 billion last year alone.

But now, amid pleas for aid after Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration has launched an unusual effort to raise charitable contributions for another cause: the government's attempt to rebuild Iraq.

Balmers response to Microsoft employees - the Anti-Discrimination Bill

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Saturday April 23, 2005 · 8:25 AM PDT

2005/04/23 · 08:25

I received this forwarded e-mail from a friend at the company.

Rick

From: Steve Ballmer
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 6:40 PM
To: All Employees of MS in Puget Sound; All Employees of MS in MSUS
Subject: Microsoft and the Anti-Discrimination bill

Over the past two days, there've been a lot of stories about Microsoft and our position on an anti-discrimination bill in Olympia.

I've heard from a number of employees, and I take all of the input on all sides seriously, so I wanted to talk directly with all of you about the company's position and how I view these issues.
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BamboozlePalooza going International

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Friday April 08, 2005 · 10:03 AM PDT

2005/04/08 · 10:03

Thanks for the op-ed in The NY Times

Imagine this: On his next trip to Japan, President Bush visits the vault at the Bank of Japan, where that country's $712 billion in United States government bonds is stored. There, as the cameras roll, he announces that the bonds, backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, are, in fact, worthless i.o.u.'s. He does the same thing when he visits China and so on around the world, until he has personally repudiated the entire $2 trillion of United States debt held by foreigners.

Mr. Bush rehearsed just that act on Tuesday, when he visited the office of the federal Bureau of Public Debt in Parkersburg, W.Va. He posed next to a file cabinet that holds the $1.7 trillion in Treasury securities that make up the Social Security trust fund. He tossed off a comment to the effect that the bonds were not "real assets." Later, in a speech at a nearby university, he said: "There is no trust fund. Just i.o.u.'s that I saw firsthand."

No Child Left Behind if You Lower the Bar

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Thursday March 17, 2005 · 9:26 AM PST

2005/03/17 · 09:26

This should be some more good election fodder-

From the Palm Beach Post:

"After 77 percent of Florida schools failed last year under the state's version of the federal No Child Left Behind law, Education Commissioner John Winn said Tuesday he's considering lowering student achievement standards under that law.

The changes would alter standards Florida set for itself under the federal law, something Gov. Jeb Bush and Winn said they wouldn't do just a few months ago."

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/epaper/2005/03/16/m1a_nclb_0316.html

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