The Bush Administration, a legacy of malevolence with no real purpose other than being a jackass:
A high-ranking Interior Department official tainted nearly every decision made on the protection of endangered species over five years, a new inspector general report finds…Julie MacDonald, a former deputy assistant secretary overseeing the Fish and Wildlife Service, did pervasive harm to the department’s morale and integrity and may have risked the well-being of species with her agenda, Interior Inspector General Earl Devaney said in his report out Monday.
And, like so many Bush appointees, she was incredibly qualified to make decisions in the position she was appointed to:
MacDonald, a civil engineer with no formal training in natural sciences
And here is my favorite example of her "skills" as an administrator in action:
In once instance, the report said, MacDonald sent information about a contentious endangered species issue to a friend she had met in an online role-playing game. She told investigators she took part in the Internet games to relieve stress created by her job.
That could have come in handy if she was dealing with orcs or a AEI meeting.
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Thanks Attaturk.
Here’s another article on macdonald:
http://voices.washingtonpost.c…..v=rss_blog
Wonder in what mischief this nasty piece of work is currently involved?
Morning all,
Knock
Yet one more example of the constant derision and discrimination aimed towards players of RPGs.
Good morning, pups. Bob Herbert is off today [sigh] so Bobo gets to splash around in the op ed page all by himself. He used fingerpaints today, and smeared “Lost in the Crowd” all over the paper. He says Malcolm Gladwell’s social determinism is a useful corrective to the Homo economicus view of human nature. It’s also pleasantly egalitarian. I’m sure the extremely egalitarian Bobo will be chatting about it over the salad bar at Applebee’s at lunch today…
Here it is, if you have the stomach for it.
The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got a selection of bagels with cream cheese today. I’m tottering off to the kitchen for another cup of tea and to figure out what I’m bringing for lunch today. No fancy Applebee’s salad bars for this girl… [snort] Have a great day.
Or her boss
Um, I’ve got the 4, 8, 10, 12, and 20-sided dice and the “Fiend Folio” for AD&D to prove my RPG bonafides. ;-)
Looks like Obama is going to nominate CO Senator Salazar as the new head of Interior. Sure hope Ritter doesn’t try to sell the seat.
Joe Scarborough so badly wants Barack Obama to be guilty & connected to Blagojevich that he’s willing to overlook facts and make shit up!
gee Kay, STandard Operating Procedure for him
Attaturk, I heard yesterday on the radio that the Bush FDA has determined that fish should be part of our diets, even if it has mercury in it. It’s fine for pregnant women too.
http://www.marketwatch.com/new…..aspx?guid={BA4FD6FC-ABBA-4AF1-8436-813FAE6A748D}
Unfreakingbelievable.
Hi KayinMaine. How is your electricity, heat, travel etc etc. We were only out for a day and a half butb we live in in the civilized state of NH!!
I do hope you are OK. People I know in Elliot are still powerless and are cooking on their grill with car headlights guiding the way.
Good point. I just want to strangle him, though. He looks like a 6 year old child sitting there every morning lying his ass off so he can get a cookie from the RNC for being a good boy.
There is something about Mikas eyes that is weird. Not sure how to describe it but she sneaks a peak at the camera and then looks away.
I will be happy once this nightmare of an Administration has seen its last day on January 19, 2009. She deserves a shoe thrown at her. http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com
I just think there is faulty connection between his brain and his mouth which is ahy they have to put him on a seven second delay.
Good morning! We never lost power where we are for some reason (not sure why!). On Friday, I decided to go to work (it was raining, roads were fine), but ended up coming to a dead end when there was a tree across the road in Cumberland. I called my cleaning customer and the phone rang and rang and rang. I realized they had no power and went home. ;-)
My friend Jan and her two boys were on the news the other night during the thick of the ice storm, because when they were driving through Standish they came upon a huge tree across the road. They turned around and found that another tree had fallen across the road behind them! There were two other cars trapped with them. When the news showed up, one reporter asked Jan how long she and her boys had been trapped and she said, “Long enough to cry five times”. LOL! Another friend was without power from Thursday evening until Sunday in South Portland.
It was a doozy of a storm (nothing compared to the Ice Storm of 1998, though!). New Hampshire got walloped! You must live in the “good paht“? LOL
She’s a freak and for some reason she decided to act like a little sexy school girl who hangs with the boys for attention by acting dumb all the time. She sets the women’s movement back a year every morning!
He says Malcolm Gladwell’s social determinism is a useful corrective to the Homo economicus view of human nature.
C’mon Marion. Not befoe I’ve had my coffee.
I’m in the dark here!!!!!! Ya understand??!!!! I’m in the dark!!!!!!
Not really. Everything’s fine and I’m nowhere near cold weather. That’s just my favorite Pacinio and I say it every chance.
I’m not a woman so you might think these kind of things don’t bother me but…… But she gets the guys coffee!!!!!! That offends me. What a putz. She contributes nothing — good or bad — to that show. Nothing. Besides getting coffee.
But i don’t know that it’s an act.
Our temp here just climbed from -1 to 0.
LOL You sound like my mother during the January 1998 Ice Storm when 2/3 of our state had no electricity. She and my father went over 2 weeks without it (all their electrical lines were ripped off the house) and then one day she noticed her neighbors had electricity. She went outside and yelled, “Oh suuuuuure! Flaunt your electricity!”. Those with lines ripped off the house were the last in the area to get their lights turned back on. ;-)
When I went to bed last night it was 63, now it’s 36!
I was out walking in shirt sleeves last night.
We live in the most Democratic ward in the state, Ward 1 Portsmouth. The parking lot is filled with VW busses on election days!!!
My spouse’s business was out until Monday morning….a loss of revenue ill afforded at this moment and time…. but all is working now. Your friend Jan will have a tale to tell her grandchildren in years to come!! Glad all is OK with you.
I have this feeling Mika tries to be like us bloggers in a way. I swear that’s the role she’s trying to play. Rachel Maddow’s show is constructed like a blog thread, but it works. Mika? She just acts like a bimbo thinking this is what viewers are wanting. Maybe to the right wingers of America this is fine, but to those of us who have brains in our heads know Mika is an idiot in a skirt and tight sweater.
I just xcan’t believe- I mean I’m dumbfounded- that people are trying to link Obama and Blego… Blaga…. Blingo…. Blogo…. the scumbag governor of Illinois. Last night on Hardballs they had some putz from the ChiTrib on and to his credit Tweets asked along the lines of “What’s the story here?” She said it’s whether or not Obama or his people knew about ‘the scheme’ to sell Obama’s senate seat. Bullshit. If somebody did know, it appears they told those people to piss off. The only “connection” Obama has here, that we know, is that it was his seat up for sale. I mean, this guyw as just elected President. Why would he get involved in that kind of shit?
BBC reports
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7784908.stm
Ayup, you live in the good paht of New Hampchah. ;-)
The loss of revenue for businesses during a storm is not a good thing. Happy to hear your husband’s is back up and running! We never realize how much we love electricity until we don’t have it. It’s a ’snowball’ effect. ;-)
Made it up to 11 yesterday that was the warmest since sat when it was in the 60s
LOL. I was looking at one of those national weather maops the other day. In MN and other places in te midwest the temps were going from the 20’s/30’s down to 0 and below. Steep drops. Not fun.
2 weeks!!!!!!! Wow. Can’t imagine. I guess you guys aren’t looking out the window and saying “How pretty. That scene would make a wonderful Christmas card.”
Think they tried to model the show after Imus. That was a radio show that was televised.
The
republicansneocons are just desperate at this point to get Barack Obama out of office before the inauguration, because for the past 8 years they’ve told us liberals that we must bow down and worship George Bush, because he’s our president…right or wrong. They don’t want to take their own medicine at this point. It scares them so they’re looking for ANYTHING to keep Barack from putting his hand on the bible to take the oath of office!Poor things. I’m ecstatic. ;-)
It’s the right wing’s new White Water
Er, wife. I live in a liberated home where the woman does the work!!!!!!!!!!
I never noticed the tight sweater part. maybe I was a little hard on, er rough on Mika. I’ll have to take another look. But seriously she’s a dolt. And I never noticed Racjhel’s show was like a blog. Hmmm. Now that I thinka bout it, i guess you’re right. I love “Talk Me Down.”
Is that what they’re trying to do? Wow. They’re way off course! I’m not seeing the Imus Show at all, but then again, Joe is a right winger so in his warped mind he’s seeing it completely.
The only reason why I watch Joe’s show in the morning is it gives me practice in going after the neocons. Other than that, I learn nothing from these asswipes. LOL
Isn’t Imus the resident racist in NY?
Awesome! Me too. I proudly check off “Head of Household” on my taxes every year. ;-)
But not to change the subject…… I tought Kennedy had decided against running after she floated the idea a few weeks ago and it really wasn’t well received. Guess not.
I heard on the radio this morning that employees at Interior starting using McDonald’s name as a verb, e.g., he really McDonalded that. We’ve got a nice little hut in the middle of the Everglades that would suit her just fine. Lots of gators and mocs to play with. The Everglades, 10,000 sq miles of gators, snakes and frogs that bite.
Wow what a big surprise, MS with a flaw, who would’ve guessed. (Smug G5 user here)
Morning all :)
OT, ( but of course!)
Why does this NOT make me feel safer? hmmm..
‘IMAGINE swarms of aircraft patrolling the skies, zapping missiles, aircraft or even satellites in low Earth orbit with invisible, ultrapowerful laser beams.
Such laser battles in the sky may not be such a long way off, after a megawatt laser weapon was fired from an aircraft for the first time.
Although the Airborne Laser (ABL) was fired from a stationary plane at a target on the ground just a few metres away, the test marked a milestone for the weapon, developed by aerospace firms Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.’
BTW, didn’t Julie MacDonald bring a friend dressed in prison garb and black face to a Department costume party?
Oops, this may help. :)
Wow, need much more coffee…
http://www.newscientist.com/ar…..?full=true
Women’s health care for my sweet love. A vital business…. although not for profit
Rachel proudly says that her show is like a blog. It’s what makes her show great.
Beerfart, Mika is wearing a tight sweater blouse this morning. Can’t believe you missed it! LOL She always does. As pointed out above, she’s constantly sneaking peeks of herself in the camera’s lens. Revolting behavior. I suppose Sarah Palin does the same thing. Sarah & Mika have an up-do hairstyle to give off that sexy librarian vibe, when really, they’re about as smart as a pine cone!
I’ve always liked Imus going back a long time. He used to be better back in the day because he was considered kind of racy, cutting edge and all. I guess he was better when he was drinking. Alot of people have sort of copied him and improved on that schtick. Then again, I was a kid and I considered potty humor to be funny. Wait. I still do. Anyway, I don’t think he’s a racist.
I’m still a pretty new Floridian. What’s a moc?
Very impressive, Nomolos! Good for her for being able to stay in business even without a storm to interrupt it. Times are tough right now. ;-)
how soon till they start picking off people on the ground with one of those things?
Water moccasin, commonly referred to as a cottonmouth.
Morning. I watched the first 5minutes of Fox & Friends this a.m. The irony was too much for me. They did a whole thing on why people believe Obama is involved in the Blago scandal. They admitted that he is not…so why (they asked) do most viewers think he is? The whole time they showed either shots of Obama with Blago or a split screen showing the two. They’ve got this method downpat from all the practice they had during the Saddam/911 campaign.
Some folks I know who work for Interior are livid at the crap this administration has allowed to happen. Your place sounds like the perfect place for them. Just keep them away from here.
Smart as a pine cone??? LOL. Good to see you’re in the holiday spirit. Is that smarter than a chestnut or no? I get them mixed up. Sorta like imbecile, idiot, crtetin and moron. Can never remember which is lowest IQ.
But yeah. I think Moka and Palin would be great friends. Speaking of revolting…. the way Plain injected herself in that church fire by apologizing, for nothing really, just to keep her name in the news…… revolting.
I may have screwed up my comment ;), but I’ve opened the Digg :)
Thanks for that. I had always thought cottonmouth was what I get the morning after i get shitfaced. or used to. Not anymore.
A stationary plane? Now that would be something
That reminds me of my fave Xmas joke about Chet the humungous parrot. Have to start regaling folks with that one. Clean, too.
And right nasty tempered critters they are….puts me in mind of cheney.
stationery plane
It’s called Subliminal Propaganda, Solai. While they’re saying that there is no connection….they’re also showing a picture of a half naked woman in the upper right hand corner. See? Fox News has done this kind of propaganda for years. Take a look….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..r_embedded
If the link doesn’t work, you can watch the video here: http://news.aol.com/political-…..n-content/
The original Brave New Films video of Fox News has been taken down from YouTube, apparently, because it was too racy! LOL I guess it’s okay to watch these images when Fox is reporting on the news, but no one else can is allowed to outside Fox News because it’s considered soft porn!
You got that right. I ain’t askeered a snakes but I steer clear of those guys. Bite ya just cuz they can.
LOL
I have this feeling the ladies at the church the day the fire started weren’t there to do crafts. Nope. I think Sarah sent them down there to set the place on fire so she could do a press release to blame the liberals and get her fans all in a tizzy. She’s disgusting!!!
Maybe it was the coffee maker that caught fire, Sarah? Nope! It was the liberals who did it! Maybe it was an electrical fire inside the walls, Sarah? Nope! The liberals did it! Maybe you had your lady friends set the place on fire so you could wear your sexy librarian up-do at the presser to rally your racist base in protecting your fragile little self? Yep! Maybe I did!
Just thinking. Comparing Mika and Rachel….. no comparison. Does Mika have prior TV or news experience? Seh must, yes? they wouldn’t just hire her off the street. Right?
Swim’s up.
Like I said……cheney. *g*
I think the church was hit with an aerial bombardment meant for a pack of wolves that went astray. Just a theory.
Her Daddy was an SoS
And an SOB.
Good theory. Hey, if Sarah can have her theories we can have ours! Personally, I think Sarah caused the ice storm this past week that cause 1.5 million people to lose power. I know she did. She doesn’t like those people in the blue states at all! Damn her!!!!
Okay, going to work. Have a great day everyone! ;-)
bye!
LOL.. :)
LOL :)
Asbadas James Watt.
The christain coalition buried moles all through the Bush”administration”. they don’t think it’s important to save species ( not even our own) as Tim Lahaye encouraged everyone to believe with his series “Left Behind” that the world would be destroyed by Christ and “made anew” for the 144,000 saved souls……………so, what did it matter if species became extinct?
GAWD would remake earth into a paradise for the “chosen ones”.
they also hoped Bush would start Armageddon and THAT’s why they had to drag Palin out of the woods to “energize” these nutcases”, their “base”.
PS: BushCO will never be prosecuted unless we urge Obama to ratify the International Criminal Courts Treaty, which Bush threw over his shoulder. The Dems, I believe are suffering form “Stockholm Syndrome” from all the years of being whupped on by the repukes.
How can Americans show their contempt for the entire Bish/Cheney administration. Shunning will be ineffective since they don’t run in my circles or class. We don’t even know the names of the lower level administration appointees- surely they will be on the job market. Are there enough republican shill think tanks & companies to absorb them? Will I have to stand in line at the grocery store with them? That’s where I find the most succinct political talk. Will they be able to swallow their loyalty to the B/C crimminal spree and listen without reporting us to Blackwater?
I’ll tell ya one thing. they ALL stick together. I met the former Attorney General of my state at my chiropractor’s the other day. She ran against Heather Wilson in ‘06. I introduced myself and told her how devastated I was when she lost.
then , I told her and her hubby what Wilson is doing now ( basically pouting and not doing her job) telling me in letters how “as you know WE were not returned to office and are breaking it down…blah balh.
I told Madrid that I sent an email to Wilson saying, “look Lady, you’re still taking our $$, so do your job or give it back. Madrid turend and walked away , but Hubby though it was pretty good, I could tell.
I thought hmmmmm, we’ll always be the hoi polloi to these people. they will never be on our side no matter what. they are a club and we are the outsiders.
All this, and a one-sentence loophole giving obscene bonuses back to corporate executives on the dole, TOO… (overriding the legislative branch in a way I truly had no IDEA was allowed in A-M-E-R-I-C-A!!!)…and we STILL have Democrats who whimper about the dshameful disrespect shown to Our President by a lobbed shoe in a ravaged country. (Rachel Maddow, I hope you were pretending!)
What would it take to make him NOT so much Our Beloved President, symbol of who we are and what we stand for, deep in our pathetic loser hearts!?
He can’t be this monstrous criminal organization gleefully flushing us all down a giant toilet, and also Our President. He ISN’T.