Single What? Female...

someday, I'd like to be able to forget...

that I made $21,500. According to Wonkette and Yahoo News, columnist Maggie Gallagher, was paid by the Department of Health And Human Services $21,500 to do research on marriage issues. And she didn't think to disclose this. And kinda forgot about it. Yeah, I'd like to be able to forget that I made $21,500, let alone forget it so conveniently...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=115&ncid=742&e=7&u=/ucmg/20050125/cm_ucmg/aquestionofdisclosure

It's kind of like the tsunami...he had all these people criticizing him first before George said "By the way, we got this long term plan to help out the victims..." NOW he's urging federal agencies to stop "pundit payola" after being chastised by Democrats including Nancy Pelosi and an independent group looking to start an investigation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39872-2005Jan26.html?referrer=email



IN THE MEANTIME...

Condoleeza Rice was sworn in as Secretary of State in a "private ceremony at the White House last night"...hey, they said that on the news this morning, not me...who's upping their bets on news of the affair? anyone? anyone?

The headline from Newsday is "It Hurts...but it's worth it" with a picture of George wincing/perhaps trying to cry. Yesterday, 37 solderis were lost in the fighting, 31 of whom died in a helicopter crash...and 27 of those Marines in that crash were from one base-the one at Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii. I would like George to call each of these people's families and tell them exactly why it was worth it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6875173/


And speaking of things George is unaware of...he was asked yesterday about the case of a Jordanian who was sentenced to two years in prison for speaking out against the goverment. "I was unaware of the case" he said. And literally, this is sure to be the case as 1) George is on vacation a LOT and may have missed the catch-up memo and 2) His people could have left that story out.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39783-2005Jan26.html?referrer=email

And in the "Things George doesn't want to hear" category, Douglas J. Feith is leaving his post for "personal reasons". Who is Douglas J. Feith, you ask? Basically this guy was one of the "key architects" of the Iraq war. A Washington lawyer and loya neo-con, he definitely had an in for Saddam Hussein, and it is rumored that is was his office that "exaggerated" the pre-war threat of Saddam. Tommy Franks apparently called him "The stupidest guy on the face of the earth..." Um Tommy, you looked in on your boss lately?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39517-2005Jan26.html?referrer=email


And speaking of Iraq...you might want to keep your ears open about USIP. They are the think tank that said "Okay, we're in Iraq. Here's what's going to happen if we stay with the present course of things...." They were ignored, and all their predictions came true, so now people are goin' "Um, hey, can we look at that report again?"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39763-2005Jan26.html?referrer=email

People are paying attention, folks, so KEEP E_MAILING!!! E-mail, call, write, fax your friends and family, the press and your Congressfolk and let them know that YOU ARE PAYING ATTENTION!! And as always, pass it on, pass it on, pass it on!

One last thing. Please take a moment to remember the soldiers lost yesterday, and those lost everyday over there and also to remember those lost in WWII as today we remember the liberation of Auschwitz.

Peace --Alex

posted by funkweee @ 8:12 AM