Posted on 08/23/2007 11:48:17 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
You listen to her long enough every moonbat talking point comes out of he mouth.
She has absolutely no credibility IMHO.
Grilling tonight?
As if you didn’t know files:
NYT Exaggerates New NIE Report - To Get Maliki
(in depth breakdown of what it does say)
http://www.sweetness-light.com/
Just for kicks, scroll down and see the post on Kerry’s stats vs. Bush’s re: Vietnam (you may want to save the pic)
Shameful.
Someone needs to do a Tonya Harding on him.
CHATTANOOGA — Four of five lawmakers convicted in the federal Tennessee Waltz corruption sting will still collect state pensions.
They are eligible for the pensions because they joined the state retirement system before the law was changed to strip convicted lawmakers of the benefit. The four former state senators and the amounts of their monthly pensions are:
—Ward Crutchfield, D-Chattanooga: $3,500.
—John Ford, D-Memphis: $2,700.
—Roscoe Dixon, D-Memphis: $1,456.
—Kathryn Bowers, D-Memphis: $1,000.
The fifth lawmaker convicted in the sting, former Rep. Chris Newton, R-Cleveland, is not eligible for a pension because he joined the system in 1997, four years after the law was changed.
Ford, Crutchfield and Bowers could not be reached for comment by the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Dixon is serving a five-year prison sentence in Federal Detention Center in Oakdale, La.
Begun in 2004, the Tennessee Waltz operation focused on E-Cycle Management, a fake company that was supposedly trying to set up business in the state buying and reselling used government computers.
FBI agents posed as E-Cycle representatives offering payoffs for a change in state law and for an inside shot at landing local government contracts.
A law passed last year revised the rules for pensions for convicted lawmakers. Under the sweeping ethics law that followed the arrests in the Tennessee Waltz sting, lawmakers must agree each time they are elected — or re-elected — that they will waive their pension if they are convicted of crimes related to their official duties.
But the new rules are not retroactive.
“About the only thing we could do was to say if you decided to run again and you were convicted, then you would be putting your pension at risk,” said Sen. Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge.
Jill Bachus, director of the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System, said legislative pensions generally are calculated at $70 a month multiplied by the legislator’s years of service
Good times? What good times during Clinton? I want a list.
“NYT Exaggerates New NIE Report - To Get Maliki”
Imagine my shock.
(I won’t bother with the /sarc/.......ain’t enough available.)
Probably fast-fooding it. Pool league
Hi bud.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush should announce on September 15 an initial pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq to spur the Iraqi government to take steps toward political reconciliation, an influential Republican senator said on Thursday.
Virginia Sen. John Warner said Bush should “announce on the 15th that in consultation with our senior military commanders he has decided to initiate the the first step in a withdrawal of our forces
$3500 a month for a PENSION???
Whattadeal!
ping
Reuters.... the official news wire service of Terrorists
8/23/2007 12:55:17 PM Iran’s Official media quoted the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics as saying that the country is ready to begin production of a 900 kg (2,000-pound) laser-guided smart bomb.
According to a Defense Ministry statement issued on Wednesday, the precision ordnance code-named ‘Qased’ (messenger) was successfully test-fired by F-4 and F-5 fighter jets. Iran’s Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar will inaugurate a production line of the indigenously built bomb next week, reports said.
Iran had announced last year that they have joined the few countries that possess precision-guided missile technology. The smart bomb was successfully test-fired during large-scale war games in northwestern Iran last September.
Hi, but I’m lurking on this thread only.
Sean gets into the commercials for the POTUS candidates, and my BS screening system kicks my radio stream over to some nice classical music......just finished a nice rendition of 1812 Overture.
Already had a snootful of politicians whose one and only qualification for office is that they never stop campaigning. Don’t TELL me leadership and integrity; DO ‘em.
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