I’m not kidding. The GAO was investigating allegations of Civil Rights allegations, and their general council expelled them from the premises, and instructed Ag Dept. employees not to talk with them.
This is simply a mind %^$* beyond belief.
Category: Bureaucracy
Blair Unfit to Hold EU Position
Honestly, I would not trust him as my pastry chef, but the statements by former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and the former prime minister Edouard Balladur thatTony Blair is unfit to be the next EU president is rather refreshing.
One of their arguments is technical, they feel that the First EU president (the treaty is going the rounds) should go to a country that is a part of the Euro zone, but the other is that, “Both men [d’Estang and Balladur] say Europe’s first president must come from a country which is fully committed to all EU policies, including the euro. Mr Balladur – breaking publicly with President Sarkozy – also says Mr Blair is too close to the United States to be chosen as a “fitting spokesman for Europe”. Their views are echoed, off the record, by senior officials in Belgium and Italy.”
In other words, for this high profile, if largely ceremonial position, he’s simply Bush’s Poodle, and nothing can fix that.
TSA Detains 5 Year Old
Good for them. How do you know that this kid wasn’t a a Jihadist with a glandular condition?
Seriously though, this does no one any good:
When his mother went to pick him up and hug him and comfort him during the proceedings, she was told not to touch him because he was a national security risk. They also had to frisk her again to make sure the little Dillinger hadn’t passed anything dangerous weapons or materials to his mother when she hugged him.
White House Slapped By Magistrate in Email Lawsuit
From what I know of computers, I gotta figure that they are somewhere out there, and U.S. Magistrate Judge John Facciola’s order to determine whether or not the emails are on backup should reveal some interesting data.
There is dirt there, though with the fetish for secrecy, I’m not sure how much of it is that and how much is covering one or more criminal conspiracies.
London Tube Officials Have No Bloody Sense of HumoUr
Voiceover artist Emma Clarke, who has recorded announcements for the tube, was given the sack (her contract was terminated) after 8 years for making spoof messages:
- “We would like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loudly.”
- “Would the passenger in the red shirt pretending to read the paper but who is actually staring at that woman’s chest please stop. You are not fooling anyone, you filthy pervert.”
- “Would passengers filling in answers on their Sudokus please accept that they are just crosswords for the unimaginative and are not in any way more impressive just because they contain numbers.”
- “Here we are crammed again into a sweaty Tube carriage … If you’re female smile at the bloke next to you and make his day. He’s probably not had sex for months.”
“London Underground is sorry to have to announce that further contracts for Miss Clarke are experiencing severe delays,” a TfL spokesman told the Evening Standard Monday.
Her recordings are here.