Memnison Journal

Under Bush, OSHA backed off regulating business in a major way, because business might not like for them to support worker safety…and OSHA paid more  GOP-related consultants for doing little.
In 2006, Henshaw was replaced by Edwin G. Foulke Jr., a South Carolina lawyer and former Bush fundraiser who spent years defending companies cited by OSHA [...]

From Dick Meyer at NPR on Blago and Made-off:
As audacious as Blagojevich’s political gluttony is, it is easy to find far worse political corruption, much of it perfectly legal: Distorting intelligence to invade Iraq, torturing prisoners, failure to regulate Wall Street, and systematic pork-barrel boondoggling come quickly to mind. If you’re feeling expansive, how about [...]

Going back to my response posts,  I want to stress that I never assume that anyone voting against Obama is a racist, or that Republicans are racists, or that either on the Republican ticket is a racist.  I know better.
I’ve lived with serious racists, had racism and sexism used against me and mine (you do [...]

Bush officials at the Department of Interior’s Denver office that were ‘overseeing’ oil company royalty payments to the government and taking all sorts of goodies from the oil companies - sex, drugs, hot bubble baths, frat house beer setups, and par-tay par-tay.  Then they tried to rewrite the ethics rules to permit them to do [...]

…and besides, unlike the wife, I’ve never gotten through his works.
Regular readers will note that the tags I put on posts are plentiful and sometimes sound goofy; that may be because it’s conceptual shorthand to me. ‘kubler-ross’, ‘renmin’, or ’sep_reality’, for example. The first has to deal with posts on death and [...]

Years ago, some worthy said that term limits (all the rage then) change the dynamics of political life because lots of green-as-grass congresscritters would rely more on lobbyists. Lobbyists would do the hard work and give them a easy road to understanding the issues and what to vote for or against - according to the [...]

NYT: The militant Afghani nutballs and so on that the Pakistani military intelligence funded, supported and built up over the years are now turning against the Pakistani government.
ABC: 308,000 barrels of oil were sold and supposedly shipped to the US strategic oil reserve.  At present prices, that’s $308 million bucks worth of oil.  Nice retirement [...]

Articles in USA Today about how Congress-critters and their staffs badgered the Pentagon to increase the amount of explosive device protection that US soldiers had in Iraq.
“A jammer costs about $10,000, and it probably costs about $10,000 to bury a dead GI. I believe Americans would rather spend the $10,000 to prevent the GI’s funeral.”

Various information sources for people who are mapping / road folks:

Future Interstates and Potential Interstate Corridors Like with the little old lady that the boy scout insisted on taking across the street, whether she wanted to go or not, these are the plans on the front burner. Or even a little further [...]

$4 Billion here, $8 billion there - hey, a guy’s gotta eat.

Charges by an investigator in the GAO that the test results of the anti-missile tests (to see if it actually worked) may have been faked and the ‘didn’t work’ parts were deep sixed. I mean, you can’t admit that hundreds of millions of dollars were lost on a boondoggle that doesn’t work to stop incoming [...]