My blogs must really be boring or maybe I am just just boring since it get hardlly any responses.
Who has the best chance of making it through the next few years avoiding drug addiction, DUI's, rehab, bad marriages, foolish public behavior etc.
A. Lindsay Lohan
B. Britney Spears
C. Paris Hilton
My vote is C
A. Lindsay Lohan
B. Britney Spears
C. Paris Hilton
My vote is C
I find it tasteless and macabre that SG has chosen to just leave Benni's page as if she was still with us; her last post from March indicating maybe she has just not gotten around to writing a new blog. Dealing with death in any way is a difficult and sensative subject but just to ignore it seems very heartless to me.
The Administration that was going to bring integrity back to Washington D.C.
A rundown of Bush appointees who left under a cloud or face
> conflict-of-interest allegations
>
> _Scooter Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney,
> was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in a grand jury
> investigation into the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. His
> trial also implicated top political adviser Karl Rove and Cheney in a
> campaign to discredit her husband, Iraq war critic and retired
> ambassador Joe Wilson (news, bio, voting record). Libby, who plans an
> appeal, is awaiting a June 5 sentencing.
>
> . Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is fighting to hold onto his job
> in the face of congressional investigations into his role in the
> firing of eight U.S. attorneys. Two top aides have resigned in the
> investigation into whether the firings were politically motivated.
> Emails and other evidence released by the Justice Deparment suggest
> that Rove played a part in the process. Other e-mails, sent on
> Republican party accounts, either have disappeared or were erased.
>
> . Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank and a former deputy
> defense secretary, acknowledged he helped arrange a large pay raise
> for his female companion when she was transferred to the State
> Department but remained on the bank payroll. The incident intensified
> calls at the bank for his resignation.
>
> . J. Steven Griles, an oil and gas lobbyist who became deputy Interior
> Secretary J., last month became the highest-ranking Bush
> administration official convicted in the Jack Abramoff
> influence-peddling scandal, pleading guilty to obstructing justice by
> lying to a Senate committee about his relationship with the convicted
> lobbyist. Abramoff repeatedly sought Griles' intervention at Interior
> on behalf of Indian tribal clients.
>
> . Former White House aide, David H. Safavian, was convicted last year
> of lying to government investigators about his ties to Abramoff and
> faces a 180-month prison sentence.
>
> . Roger Stillwell, a former Interior Department official, pleaded
> guilty to a misdemeanor charge for not reporting tickets he received
> from Abramoff.
>
> . Sue Ellen Wooldridge, the top Justice Department prosecutor in the
> environmental division until January, bought a $980,000 beach house in
> South Carolina with ConocoPhillips lobbyist Donald R. Duncan and oil
> and gas lobbyist Griles. Soon thereafter, she signed an agreement
> giving the oil company more time to clean up air pollution at some of
> its refineries. Congressional Democrats have denounced the arrangement.
>
> . Matteo Fontana, a Department of Education official who oversaw the
> student loan industry, was put on leave last week after disclosure
> that he owned at least $100,000 worth of stock in a student loan company.
>
> . Claude Allen, who had been Bush's domestic policy adviser, pleaded
> guilty to theft in making phony returns at discount department stores
> while working at the White house. He was sentenced to two years of
> supervised probation and fined $500.
>
> . Philip Cooney, a former American Petroleum Institute lobbyist who
> became chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental
> Quality, acknowledged in congressional testimony earlier this year
> that he changed three government reports to eliminate or downplay
> links between greenhouse gases and global warming. He left in 2005 to
> work for Exxon Mobil Corp.
>
> . Darleen Druyun, a former Air Force procurement officer, served nine
> months in prison in 2005 for violating federal conflict-of-interest
> rules in a deal to lease Boeing refueling tankers for $23 billion,
> despite _Eric Keroack, Bush's choice to oversee the federal family
> planning program, resigned from the post suddenly last month after the
> Massachusetts Medicaid office launched an investigation into his
> private practice. He had been medical director of an organization that
> opposes premarital sex and contraception.
>
> . Lurita Doan, head of the General Services Administration, attended a
> luncheon at the agency earlier this year with other top GSA political
> appointees at which Scott Jennings, a top Rove aide, gave a PowerPoint
> demonstration on how to help Republican candidates in 2008. A
> congressional committee is investigating whether the remarks violated
> a federal law that restricts executive-branch employees from using
> their positions for political purposes.
>
> . Robert W. Cobb, NASA's inspector general is under investigation on
> charges of ignoring safety violations in the space program. An
> internal administration review said he routinely tipped off department
> officials to internal investigations and quashed a report related to
> the Columbia shuttle explosion to avoid embarrassing the agency. He
> remains on the job. Only Bush can fire him.
>
> . Julie MacDonald, who oversees the Fish and Wildlife Service but has
> no academic background in biology, overrode recommendations of agency
> scientists about how to protect endangered species and improperly
> leaked internal information to private groups, the Interior Department
> inspector general said.
>
A rundown of Bush appointees who left under a cloud or face
> conflict-of-interest allegations
>
> _Scooter Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney,
> was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in a grand jury
> investigation into the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. His
> trial also implicated top political adviser Karl Rove and Cheney in a
> campaign to discredit her husband, Iraq war critic and retired
> ambassador Joe Wilson (news, bio, voting record). Libby, who plans an
> appeal, is awaiting a June 5 sentencing.
>
> . Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is fighting to hold onto his job
> in the face of congressional investigations into his role in the
> firing of eight U.S. attorneys. Two top aides have resigned in the
> investigation into whether the firings were politically motivated.
> Emails and other evidence released by the Justice Deparment suggest
> that Rove played a part in the process. Other e-mails, sent on
> Republican party accounts, either have disappeared or were erased.
>
> . Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank and a former deputy
> defense secretary, acknowledged he helped arrange a large pay raise
> for his female companion when she was transferred to the State
> Department but remained on the bank payroll. The incident intensified
> calls at the bank for his resignation.
>
> . J. Steven Griles, an oil and gas lobbyist who became deputy Interior
> Secretary J., last month became the highest-ranking Bush
> administration official convicted in the Jack Abramoff
> influence-peddling scandal, pleading guilty to obstructing justice by
> lying to a Senate committee about his relationship with the convicted
> lobbyist. Abramoff repeatedly sought Griles' intervention at Interior
> on behalf of Indian tribal clients.
>
> . Former White House aide, David H. Safavian, was convicted last year
> of lying to government investigators about his ties to Abramoff and
> faces a 180-month prison sentence.
>
> . Roger Stillwell, a former Interior Department official, pleaded
> guilty to a misdemeanor charge for not reporting tickets he received
> from Abramoff.
>
> . Sue Ellen Wooldridge, the top Justice Department prosecutor in the
> environmental division until January, bought a $980,000 beach house in
> South Carolina with ConocoPhillips lobbyist Donald R. Duncan and oil
> and gas lobbyist Griles. Soon thereafter, she signed an agreement
> giving the oil company more time to clean up air pollution at some of
> its refineries. Congressional Democrats have denounced the arrangement.
>
> . Matteo Fontana, a Department of Education official who oversaw the
> student loan industry, was put on leave last week after disclosure
> that he owned at least $100,000 worth of stock in a student loan company.
>
> . Claude Allen, who had been Bush's domestic policy adviser, pleaded
> guilty to theft in making phony returns at discount department stores
> while working at the White house. He was sentenced to two years of
> supervised probation and fined $500.
>
> . Philip Cooney, a former American Petroleum Institute lobbyist who
> became chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental
> Quality, acknowledged in congressional testimony earlier this year
> that he changed three government reports to eliminate or downplay
> links between greenhouse gases and global warming. He left in 2005 to
> work for Exxon Mobil Corp.
>
> . Darleen Druyun, a former Air Force procurement officer, served nine
> months in prison in 2005 for violating federal conflict-of-interest
> rules in a deal to lease Boeing refueling tankers for $23 billion,
> despite _Eric Keroack, Bush's choice to oversee the federal family
> planning program, resigned from the post suddenly last month after the
> Massachusetts Medicaid office launched an investigation into his
> private practice. He had been medical director of an organization that
> opposes premarital sex and contraception.
>
> . Lurita Doan, head of the General Services Administration, attended a
> luncheon at the agency earlier this year with other top GSA political
> appointees at which Scott Jennings, a top Rove aide, gave a PowerPoint
> demonstration on how to help Republican candidates in 2008. A
> congressional committee is investigating whether the remarks violated
> a federal law that restricts executive-branch employees from using
> their positions for political purposes.
>
> . Robert W. Cobb, NASA's inspector general is under investigation on
> charges of ignoring safety violations in the space program. An
> internal administration review said he routinely tipped off department
> officials to internal investigations and quashed a report related to
> the Columbia shuttle explosion to avoid embarrassing the agency. He
> remains on the job. Only Bush can fire him.
>
> . Julie MacDonald, who oversees the Fish and Wildlife Service but has
> no academic background in biology, overrode recommendations of agency
> scientists about how to protect endangered species and improperly
> leaked internal information to private groups, the Interior Department
> inspector general said.
>
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Thanks for your testimony Attorney General Gonzales
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So, is America ready for a black President or are there still too many rednecks and racists?
Music Recommendations:
1. Do the Boomerang (The Music of Junior Walker) Don Byron
2. Tambourine Tift Merritt
3. Test Pattern Sonia Dada
4. What's Goin' On Dirty Dozen
5. The Hidden Land Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Book Recommendations
1. Fiasco Thomas Ricks
2. The Great Deluge (Katrina) Douglas Brinkley
3. The Looming Tower Lawrence Wright
4. 31 Days Barry Werth
5. The Lost Gospel of Judas Escariot Bart Ehrman
1. Do the Boomerang (The Music of Junior Walker) Don Byron
2. Tambourine Tift Merritt
3. Test Pattern Sonia Dada
4. What's Goin' On Dirty Dozen
5. The Hidden Land Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Book Recommendations
1. Fiasco Thomas Ricks
2. The Great Deluge (Katrina) Douglas Brinkley
3. The Looming Tower Lawrence Wright
4. 31 Days Barry Werth
5. The Lost Gospel of Judas Escariot Bart Ehrman
