THERE YOU GO AGAIN!!!

BUSH MESSAGE

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BUSH . . . FOLLOW ME???

USS STENNIS DEPLOYS TODAY

WE WISH THEM FAIR WINDS AND A FOLLOWING SEA

DO WE NEED OVERSIGHT OR WHAT

I saw this in the New York Times this morning. If you are one of those that think the republicans did a good job while they were in charge you need to read this article and perhaps, just perhaps rethink that.

This article plus the following video about the TROPHY weapon I talked about on 1/11/2007 makes me crazy.

TRACKING OUTSOURCED BONANZAS

The new Congress is promising far tighter oversight of Bush administration spending programs, and few targets are more in need of scrutiny and daylight than the outsourcing of government programs to private contractors. This highly lucrative world quietly ballooned by 86 percent - to $377 billion annually - during the first five years of the Bush administration, according to Congressional estimates. Outsourced spending, on Iraq, Katrina and other bonanzas, has grown twice as fast as other discretionary spending, according to Representative Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who is chairman of the oversight and reform committee.

Mr. Waxman is fairly itching to finally map the waste, fraud and abuse in private contracting that went largely ignored by the previous Republican Congress. Taxpayers should wish him well.

In a preliminary glimpse, 118 contracts worth $745 billion were found by government auditors to be rife with questionable award procedures, mismanagement, overcharging and skimpy to nonexistent oversight. Full inquiries and public hearings are vital if the rich and shadowy world of privatization is ever to be plumbed for the scandal it is nurturing. Taxpayers have only a vague notion of what's gone on, mainly through reporting on the fantastic good fortune of Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, whose contracts increased a whopping 600 percent across five years as the Iraq war costs cascaded. Not incidentally, privatization has been a cash cow in stirring campaign donations from successful contractors.

According to one recent audit reported in The Washington Post, among 49 privatized contracts, three out of five were awarded noncompetitively, lacked oversight, and raised questions of legality. What's been going on out there? This question cries out for an answer from the new Congress.

IT'S CALLED TROPHY AN ANTI-RPG WEAPON

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As my Post on 1/11/2007 points out this weapon has been tested and yet the Army wants to wait on a system that won't be ready until at least 2011, that's five more years.

This resistance needs to be investigated. Our troops are dying while the Pentagon is trying to protect a big time contractor.

NO PASSENGER ONLY FERRY FOR KITSAP

I keep reading about the upcoming election on the Passenger Only Ferries and what a great deal it will be for Kitsap County. New businesses and jobs galore will surly follow a yes vote. Seems to me this is the same argument they are using to justify the NASCAR Track, don't you think.

If they truly wanted to see Kitsap boom and provide a service to ALL of Kitsap County they would get behind a Bridge/Tunnel from Kitsap to Seattle via Vashon Island.

The trip across would be under 10 minutes and Kitsap Transit could provide what it's name implies "TRANSIT SERVICE". The state could close the Bremerton Terminal and Bremerton could build more high rises in it's place.

Oh yea, there would no longer be a need for that $35 million Golden Tunnel under downtown Bremerton. Can we think of more ways to waste money in this County.

Vote no on Passenger Only Ferries on Feb 6th.

WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

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Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.

PRETTY GOOD JOKES

PAPER CUTS

BOOKS YOU WILL NEVER FIND IN A BOOKSTORE

How To Spoil Other People's Fun

How To Spot a Creep From a Distance

How To Spot Truly Vicious People in Church

How To Start a Range War

How To Turn Unbearable Pain Into Extra Income

How To Wave Good-bye Without Moving Your Arms

I Gave Up Hope and Died and It Worked

I Suck You Suck

Let's Change the Alphabet

Marriage For One

Posted by thebscorner at January 16, 2007 07:24 AM