Mr. Wolfowitz, your drawer is short

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Tuesday May 15, 2007 · 9:59 AM PDT

2007/05/15 · 09:59

WH spokesman Tony Snow said of the $60,000 raise given Paul Wolfowitz's girlfriend Shaha Riza at the World Bank - "it's not a firing offense." Not a firing offense? In the real world your average worker can get fired for being off 9 bucks total over the course of 3 months in counting your drawer.

Every day the cash in each cashier's register would be counted and compared against a master computer printout. The first time a cashier's register count differed from the printout by $3.00 or more, the cashier would receive a written warning. If another discrepancy occurred within 30 days of receipt of the written warning, the cashier would be suspended. A third discrepancy occurring within 60 days from the suspension would result in termination.

This is verbatim from Plaintiff vs. Menards, Inc. - a wrongful termination case where the ruling was in favor of Menards. A minimum wage worker can get fired for a nine dollar discrepancy over the course of 3 months. Why should Wolfowitz be excused for a $60,000 conflict of interest?

How many is September?

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Tuesday May 08, 2007 · 11:34 PM PDT

2007/05/08 · 23:34

There's some talk in Washington, DC about September being the time when Republicans (and some Democrats) in Congress are finally going to get serious about ending the U.S. occupation of Iraq. If you count all the days from today to the day until this September would it look like?

If it looks anything like the past 117 days the next 117 days will look something like this.

Predicted U.S. Military deaths in Iraq from May 9 to September 4, 2007:

May 9-31, 2007
2,10,3,1
8,3,2,4,5,5,3 - Mothers Day
1,11,6,1,1,3,1
6,1,5,1,5 - Memorial Day

= 88 total U.S. dead

Continued below...

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Monday March 26, 2007 · 9:26 AM PDT

2007/03/26 · 09:26

BBC, 3/26/07:

The British government was advised against publicly criticising a report estimating that 655,000 Iraqis had died due to the war, the BBC has learnt.

Iraqi Health Ministry figures put the toll at less than 10% of the total in the survey, published in the Lancet. [...] But the Ministry of Defence's chief scientific adviser said the survey's methods were "close to best practice" and the study design was "robust". [...] Another expert agreed the method was "tried and tested".

Here's President Bush lying about the same:

"The methodology is pretty well discredited,"

More on the sound science behind the Johns Hopkins Iraq mortality studies here and here.

Did Sen. Hillary Clinton read the '02 Iraq NIE?

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Tuesday March 20, 2007 · 5:07 AM PDT

2007/03/20 · 05:07

The Clinton and Obama camps' fight over the Iraq War vote has spilled over into the today's WaPo:

Mark Penn and Obama strategist David Axelrod engaged in a pointed and occasionally heated exchange during a public forum at Harvard University over the issue that has become the central point of dispute between the two leading candidates for the 2008 Democratic nomination. [...]

The Clinton campaign later supplied several Obama quotations from 2004 to buttress Penn's attack. One came from the New York Times, in which Obama declined to criticize the Democratic Party's presidential and vice presidential nominees, Sen. John F. Kerry and then-Sen. John Edwards, for supporting the 2002 war resolution. "But I'm not privy to Senate intelligence reports," Obama said, according to the Times.

All 100 US Senators were privy to the full classifed Iraq NIE complete with INR, DOE, and US Air Force intelligence dissents. Only 6 bothered to read it. Was Sen. Hillary Clinton one of the six?

Still finding bodies at WTC, still not finding Bin Laden

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Friday October 20, 2006 · 8:54 AM PDT

2006/10/20 · 08:54

NY Daily News 10/20/06:

NEW YORK - Construction workers tearing up a temporary roadway at Ground Zero yesterday made an astounding discovery - at least a dozen human remains and two wallets belonging to 9/11 victims.
The area at the northwest edge of the disaster site was supposed to have been searched long ago - and the Fire Department, which had supervised the vast recovery operation, could offer no explanation yesterday.
Even more stunned by the discovery of the remains - including large, partially intact arms and legs - were victims' relatives, who consider the land where the twin towers once stood sacred ground.

Bin Laden is still at large. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.

Our elected officials are not leaders. They are derelict in their duty. Read More

Lamont slams Lieberman as AWOL on Katrina leadership

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Friday August 25, 2006 · 2:43 AM PDT

2006/08/25 · 02:43

Ned Lamont just did the smartest thing yet in his campaign for US Senate. Lamont exploded the myth that Lieberman is a competent leader on Homeland Security. In fact Lieberman's been AWOL on his signature issue.

AP: Lamont also says Lieberman, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, mistakenly agreed to put the troubled Federal Emergency Management Agency under the control of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
"I think FEMA worked really well when it had professional management as an independent agency," Lamont said in an interview this week. "And sure, it was Senator Lieberman who said, 'Let's redo FEMA.' It was Senator Lieberman who said, 'Let's put Michael Brown as No. 2 at FEMA.'"

I've been waiting for so long to hear that in a major media outlet. Joe Lieberman has been the worst kind of Monday Morning Quarterback on Katrina. I'll explain why on the flip... Read More

Lieberman can't call himself Democrat in general election

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Wednesday August 09, 2006 · 5:33 AM PDT

2006/08/09 · 05:33

Today, Ned Lamont is the only Democrat running for US Senate in Connecticut. Ned Lamont is the Democratic nominee for US Senate and will appear as such on the ballot this fall. Joe Lieberman will appear as anything but a Democrat according to CT Law:

Sec. 9-453u. (Formerly Sec. 9-378m). Reservation of party designation.
(b) The statement shall include the offices for which candidates may petition for nomination under the party designation to be reserved but shall not include an office if no elector who has signed the application is entitled to vote at an election for such office.
(c) The statement shall include the party designation to be reserved which (1) shall consist of not more than three words and not more than twenty-five letters; (2) shall not incorporate the name of any major party;

By law, Lieberman cannot run again and call himself any form of Democrat on the ballot. More on the flip... Read More

AP: 'Struggling Lieberman faces political abyss'

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Saturday July 29, 2006 · 2:11 AM PDT

2006/07/29 · 02:11

AP has a biting story on the troubles of Joe Lieberman in Connecticut headlined, Struggling Lieberman faces political abyss. How'd you like to get that headline with your morning coffee?

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. - Anti-war Democrats bailed in droves. Teachers unions left over vouchers. Men are drawn to his challenger, and women aren't all that crazy about the incumbent, either.
Once, Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut seemed on the brink of the vice presidency, a principled moderate in a party that didn't always warm to them. Now, hewing to his support for the war in Iraq, he confronts a political abyss, abandoned by all groups but the poorer, older and less educated Democrats in his state.

Please read the story on Yahoo and 1) recommend the story and 2) email the story to someone. This is the kind of 'ship is sinking' story that can push undecided voters away from a perceived loser.

The internal polling reported in the story is horrible for Lieberman so let's throw him an anchor.**Update** This story is #5 on the Yahoo most recommended stories. Nice work, kossacks!

CT-Sen: 80% of Joe dough from out-of-state sez NYT

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Thursday July 20, 2006 · 1:33 AM PDT

2006/07/20 · 01:33

Today's NYT has a piece on Joe Lieberman's out-of-state (and Republican) fundraisers. Sen. Lieberman gets nearly 80% of his donations from out of state, the most of any US Senator. I thought it would be fun to look at Connecticut and beyond to see where Joe gets his money (and where he doesn't...ahem). Here is a list of cities and towns alphabetically in CT and out-of-state with their respective donations to Joe Lieberman 2006 campaign.

Austin, TX - $47,700
Andover, CT none
Brooklyn, NY $37,350
Brooklyn, CT none
Chicago, IL $90,100
Clinton, CT none

City to city I'm running my rhymes on the flip... Read More

President Clinton slams GOP leaders as power-mad greedy elites

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Tuesday June 27, 2006 · 5:37 AM PDT

2006/06/27 · 05:37

This morning's Providence Journal has former President Bill Clinton speaking plain about what today's GOP leaders are all about in a campaign appearance for Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse's Senate campaign:

"I like Senator Chafee. I liked his dad [late Sen. John H. Chafee]. But the truth is, it's not their Republican Party anymore," said Clinton. "The people who run this government don't represent even the Republican Party . . . they represent a small sliver of the Republican Party today that is almost totally dominated by exceedingly conservative white males from the South and West. "Their number-one priority is to concentrate wealth and power," said Clinton. "They think secrecy and unacountablity is a virtue."

Linc Chafee and the Queens of Maine need to be shown the door. They are decent people who enable rotten people and that cannot stand. Read More

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CT-Sen: 80% of Joe dough from out-of-state sez NYT

President Clinton slams GOP leaders as power-mad greedy elites