Comments on: Quality By Design

By: T-

T- — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:45:57 +0000

Didn’t read thread…Brooks gave 25K to the National Republican Senatorial Cmte according to Open Secrets.
http://tinyurl.com/orwag

This can be hung around the necks of repiglicans along with the other dubyatrosses they bear.
Scream it far and wide.

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By: toofin

toofin — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:42:45 +0000

In the weeks and days leading up to the invasion of Iraq, the Pentagon seemed to go out of its way to train and supply the ‘journalists’ it would allow to cover its packaged assault on Baghdad. Some of that I did see on C-Span.Watching reporters duck and dodge planted smoke bombs seems a joke now given that we can all see what and IED can do.And I swear, it looked as if those ‘journalists’ were getting better supplies than the soldiers that would pay a price for not being supplied with the armor they needed when every step was a dangerous one.Obviously, the Bush administration and the Pentagon wanted to sell the invasion the way an auto dealer would try to sell a Hummer. Big and bold.

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:45:52 +0000

I am still trying to find the group that got a government contract for military underwear and gun barrels….This is incredible as well…An Illinois community service called C-4 that is funded by Illinois Taxpayers, the clients are all on Social Security Disability at approx. $600 a month which barely covers room in Chicago…..their medical is covered by medicare….These people are uninsurable because of mental illness. Some contractor got a federal government contract for gun barrels and underwear and they hired these disabled people at half of minimum wage. NOw, this is not a bad deal for the contractor to only have to pay 2.50 an hour which social security is deducted from…and the contractor does not have to pay any benefits….the taxpayer is paying the medical, the SSD, the cost of the community center salaries, and rent….The contractor pays half of minimum wage….gets a contract for full amount from the federal government….This is a scam on the taxpayer…and Illinois taxpayers…

By: larry birnbaum

larry birnbaum — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:20:27 +0000

I agree with Rainbo and (I hope) others above. The site you pointed to for the Brooks’ Bas Mitzvah photos is rather clearly anti-Semitic.

By: Sally

Sally — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:37:35 +0000

It’s grossly unfair to equate Martha Stewart’s (unfair) conviction with Ken Lay’s but almost always an applause-getter from an uninformed public unconcerned with the truth of the matter.

By: desertwind

desertwind — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 09:08:36 +0000

Hey! Don’t knock the drive-in wedding ceremony in Las Vegas.

By: Rain Bo

Rain Bo — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 07:44:26 +0000

“(A few pictures can be found here.)”

You ought to be a bit more careful about what kind of sites you are linking to.

By: Bobby St. Chomsky

Bobby St. Chomsky — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 03:25:51 +0000

I speak as the father of a bar mitzvah child and one who has attended quite a few, though I am not Jewish. Our son’s bar mitzvah I think cost us less than $2,000 and it was quite moving, people said
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I, myself, was Bar Mitzvah’d, for approx the same amount as your son and the event, to myself and all others present was also moving. My parents were Old Left Jews and my entire speech was in Yiddish, citing the struggles of the working class through the years. Haven’t been to a Bar Mitzvah in decades.