"O-o-o-o-o-o, speaking of Bigfoot----how's about getting me a date with THAT hunk."
Posted on 02/19/2009 9:09:43 AM PST by smoothsailing
Yes he does have to be Voted out.
To impeach him would lead to a cleaner Demrat replacement.
We need to leave the red meat out for Bill Russell to cook.
It just appears to perfectly define a “shell” company set up solely to extort taxpayer funds in exchange for campaign contributions. Quid Pro Quo.
| Requesting Member | State | $ Secured Solo | $ Secured w/Others | Total Credited | PMA campaign $ since 2001 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter J. Visclosky# | Indiana | $21,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $23,800,000 | $219,000 |
| John P. Murtha# | Pennsylvania | $31,705,000 | $2,400,000 | $34,105,000 | $143,600 |
| James P. Moran# | Virginia | $8,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $10,800,000 | $125,250 |
| Norm Dicks# | Washington | $11,330,000 | $800,000 | $12,130,000 | $91,600 |
| Bill Pascrell Jr. | New Jersey | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $73,200 | |
| Mike Doyle | Pennsylvania | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $69,400 | |
| Loretta Sanchez | California | $3,200,000 | $3,200,000 | $60,118 | |
| Tim Holden | Pennsylvania | $3,200,000 | $3,200,000 | $57,275 | |
| Tim Ryan | Ohio | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $54,250 | |
| Michael E. Capuano | Massachusetts | $2,000,000 | $800,000 | $2,800,000 | $54,000 |
| Chet Edwards | Texas | $6,040,000 | $6,040,000 | $48,734 | |
| Silvestre Reyes | Texas | $800,000 | $800,000 | $42,300 | |
| Christopher Carney | Pennsylvania | $5,900,000 | $5,900,000 | $38,500 | |
| Paul E. Kanjorski | Pennsylvania | $1,600,000 | $3,200,000 | $4,800,000 | $37,150 |
| Marcy Kaptur# | Ohio | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $34,500 | |
| Carolyn McCarthy | New York | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $31,500 | |
| Patrick J. Murphy | Pennsylvania | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $29,250 | |
| Allyson Y. Schwartz | Pennsylvania | $800,000 | $800,000 | $25,000 | |
| Jason Altmire | Pennsylvania | $2,600,000 | $2,600,000 | $24,500 | |
| Brad Sherman | California | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $15,500 | |
| Susan A. Davis | California | $800,000 | $800,000 | $13,750 | |
| Allen Boyd# | Florida | $6,400,000 | $2,200,000 | $8,600,000 | $12,000 |
| Sanford D. Bishop Jr.# | Georgia | $1,200,000 | $2,400,000 | $3,600,000 | $10,500 |
| Jane Harman | California | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $10,500 | |
| Jim Matheson | Utah | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $10,000 | |
| Steve Israel | New York | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $8,500 | |
| Jerrold Nadler | New York | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $8,500 | |
| Joe Sestak | Pennsylvania | $1,280,000 | $1,280,000 | $8,500 | |
| Jim Marshall | Georgia | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $7,000 | |
| Mark Udall* | Colorado | $2,000,000 | $2,000,000 | $6,533 | |
| Michael H. Michaud | Maine | $800,000 | $800,000 | $6,500 | |
| Tom Allen* | Maine | $1,800,000 | $1,800,000 | $5,750 | |
| Danny K. Davis | Illinois | $295,000 | $295,000 | $5,500 | |
| Robert E. Andrews | New Jersey | $1,500,000 | $1,500,000 | $5,000 | |
| Gene Taylor | Mississippi | $800,000 | $800,000 | $4,750 | |
| Nancy Pelosi | California | $2,000,000 | $2,000,000 | $4,500 | |
| David E. Price | North Carolina | $800,000 | $800,000 | $4,000 | |
| Steven R. Rothman# | New Jersey | $800,000 | $2,400,000 | $3,200,000 | $4,000 |
| Brian Higgins | New York | $3,400,000 | $3,400,000 | $3,000 | |
| Brad Miller | North Carolina | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $2,250 | |
| Brad Ellsworth | Indiana | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $2,000 | |
| Ed Perlmutter | Colorado | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $2,000 | |
| Phil Hare | Illinois | $6,800,000 | $6,800,000 | $1,500 | |
| Martin Meehan* | Massachusetts | $2,800,000 | $2,800,000 | $1,500 | |
| Howard L. Berman | California | $800,000 | $800,000 | $1,000 | |
| Carolyn B. Maloney | New York | $3,200,000 | $3,200,000 | $1,000 | |
| Ben Chandler | Kentucky | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $250 | |
| Shelley Berkley | Nevada | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | ||
| Dan Boren | Oklahoma | $2,000,000 | $2,000,000 | ||
| Leonard L. Boswell | Iowa | $1,650,000 | $1,650,000 | ||
| Baron P. Hill | Indiana | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | ||
| Gwen Moore | Wisconsin | $400,000 | $400,000 | ||
| Christopher S. Murphy | Connecticut | $400,000 | $400,000 | ||
| Mike Thompson | California | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 |
| Requesting Member | State | $ Secured Solo | $ Secured w/Others | Total Credited | PMA campaign $ since 2001 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David L. Hobson*# | Ohio | $3,500,000 | $3,500,000 | $70,050 | |
| Jerry Lewis | California | $4,000,000 | $4,000,000 | $8,000,000 | $34,649 |
| Rodney Frelinghuysen# | New Jersey | $2,500,000 | $4,800,000 | $7,300,000 | $29,129 |
| Ander Crenshaw | Florida | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $27,300 | |
| Zach Wamp | Tennessee | $2,800,000 | $2,800,000 | $23,900 | |
| Todd Tiahrt# | Kansas | $5,000,000 | $2,000,000 | $7,000,000 | $21,250 |
| Tom Reynolds* | New York | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $12,000 | |
| Jack Kingston# | Georgia | $4,000,000 | $2,400,000 | $6,400,000 | $11,500 |
| H. James Saxton* | New Jersey | $2,000,000 | $1,500,000 | $3,500,000 | $11,500 |
| Jo Ann Emerson | Missouri | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $11,000 | |
| C.W. Bill Young# | Florida | $16,000,000 | $4,400,000 | $20,400,000 | $10,750 |
| Howard P. "Buck" McKeon | California | $1,000,000 | $4,000,000 | $5,000,000 | $9,500 |
| Heather Wilson* | New Mexico | $6,500,000 | $6,500,000 | $9,000 | |
| Jim Walsh* | New York | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $8,500 | |
| Mark Steven Kirk | Illinois | $390,000 | $390,000 | $7,750 | |
| Todd Akin | Missouri | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $7,500 | |
| Ray LaHood* | Illinois | $7,800,000 | $7,800,000 | $7,450 | |
| Jeff Miller | Florida | $1,600,000 | $2,200,000 | $3,800,000 | $7,000 |
| Duncan Hunter* | California | $15,200,000 | $15,200,000 | $6,500 | |
| Chris Cannon* | Utah | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $6,000 | |
| Kay Granger | Texas | $3,600,000 | $3,600,000 | $6,000 | |
| Joe Knollenberg* | Michigan | $2,800,000 | $2,800,000 | $6,000 | |
| David Dreier | California | $3,000,000 | $3,000,000 | $5,000 | |
| Jim Gerlach | Pennsylvania | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $4,500 | |
| Tom Latham | Illinois | $5,150,000 | $5,150,000 | $4,500 | |
| Joe L. Barton | Texas | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $4,000 | |
| J. Dennis Hastert* | Illinois | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $3,500 | |
| Roscoe G. Bartlett | Maryland | $400,000 | $400,000 | $3,000 | |
| Peter Hoekstra | Michigan | $3,700,000 | $3,700,000 | $2,500 | |
| Howard Coble | North Carolina | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $2,000 | |
| John T. Doolittle* | California | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $2,000 | |
| Kenny Hulshof* | Missouri | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $2,000 | |
| Steve Pearce* | New Mexico | $6,500,000 | $6,500,000 | $2,000 | |
| Bill Shuster | Pennsylvania | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $2,000 | |
| Frank A. LoBiondo | New Jersey | $1,500,000 | $1,500,000 | $1,500 | |
| Rob Bishop | Utah | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $1,000 | |
| Geoff Davis | Kentucky | $6,800,000 | $6,800,000 | $1,000 | |
| Virgil H. Goode Jr.* | Virginia | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $1,000 | |
| Doug Lamborn | Colorado | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $1,000 | |
| Kenny Marchant | Texas | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $1,000 | |
| Christopher Shays* | Connecticut | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $1,000 | |
| John Sullivan | Oklahoma | $2,000,000 | $2,000,000 | $1,000 | |
| Tom Tancredo* | Colorado | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | $1,000 | |
| Michael C. Burgess | Texas | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | $500 | |
| Ralph M. Hall | Texas | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | ||
| Doc Hastings | Washington | $1,600,000 | $1,600,000 | ||
| Sam Johnson | Texas | $1,200,000 | $1,200,000 | ||
| Todd R. Platts | Pennsylvania | $4,400,000 | $4,400,000 | ||
| Rick Renzi* | Arizona | $2,400,000 | $2,400,000 | ||
| Pete Sessions | Texas | $1,600,000 | $4,800,000 | $6,400,000 |
Great chart! No surprise that Murtha leads in securing solo earmarks.
"O-o-o-o-o-o, speaking of Bigfoot----how's about getting me a date with THAT hunk."
Plains Radio .. talking about Rosa Pulido RIGHT NOW! Saying how important it is that a conservative go after and win that seat.
http://www.plainsradio.com/chat1.html
Takes a few secs to load.
~~PING to above .. go get ‘em!!
I saw a clip of a revolt, thought it was a CNN newscaster, can NOT find video. Can you?
Doesn't matter at all. Murtha could perform human sacrifice on a newborn infant in front of the Capitol and the zombies in his district would still send him back.
Altoona and Johnstown are a disgrace to humanity.
# = Member of House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee in the 110th Congress
Democrats
Requesting Member State $ Secured Solo $ Secured w/Others Total Credited PMA campaign $ since 2001
Peter J. Visclosky# Indiana $21,400,000 $2,400,000 $23,800,000 $219,000
John P. Murtha# Pennsylvania $31,705,000 $2,400,000 $34,105,000 $143,600
James P. Moran# Virginia $8,400,000 $2,400,000 $10,800,000 $125,250
Bloomberg reports, today:
U.S. Sues UBS Seeking Swiss Account Customer Names (Update4)
By David Voreacos and Carlyn Kolker
Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. government sued UBS AG, Switzerland’s largest bank, to try to force disclosure of the identities of as many as 52,000 American customers who allegedly hid their secret Swiss accounts from U.S. tax authorities.
U.S. customers had 32,940 secret accounts containing cash and 20,877 accounts holding securities, according to the Justice Department lawsuit filed today in federal court in Miami. U.S. customers failed to report and pay U.S. taxes on income earned in those accounts, which held about $14.8 billion in assets during the middle of this decade, according to the court filing.
“At a time when millions of Americans are losing their jobs, their homes and their health care, it is appalling that more than 50,000 of the wealthiest among us have actively sought to evade their civic and legal duty to pay taxes,” John A. DiCicco, acting assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s tax division, said in a statement.
More:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=axZmpp36b_OA&refer=home
Unless all the accounts belong to Gerge Soros, DiCicco said.
.............................
There, that's better!
I keep the TV on CNBC during the day and I was home today but I must have been outside when it happened. However I saw an instant replay shortly after. It made my whole day. CNBC is the only NBC channel I watch.
From our friend Leo...
http://murthamustgo.blogspot.com/2009/02/murtha-political-equivalent-of-greasy.html
Check out the part about...
“If anyone really wants to follow the money they should look at Murtha’s
creation in Armstrong County. The Electro-Optics Center.”
I wonder what the Vegas odds would be that the next raid will be there?
Good piece by Leo, this Electro-Optics Center sounds very interesting. I wonder if the Feds will have anyone at that March shindig and also wonder if Murtha will show for his speech? :)
A list of the nearly 100 tenant organizations who call Fort Belvoir home reads like a "Who's Who" of the Department of Defense. No other Army installation in the world can compare to Fort Belvoir and its singular mission to provide both logistical and administrative support to such a diverse mix of tenant and satellite organizations.
Fort Belvoir is home to one Army major command headquarters and elements of 10 others; 19 different agencies and direct reporting units of the Department of Army; eight elements of the U.S. Army Reserve and the Army National Guard; and 26 DoD agencies. Also located here are a Marine Corps detachment, a U.S. Air Force activity, and an agency from the Department of the Treasury.
http://www.belvoir.army.mil/welcome.asp
The RSVP info is interesting, as well.
The telephone belongs/belonged to Penn State Materials Research Institute Senior Scientist of Physics, Karl A. Harris, at the Applied Research Laboratory 165 Applied Research Laboratory Building University Park, PA 16802
From a report by Dr. Harris in a March 2004 newsletter:
The Electro-Optics Center conducted a 2 ½ day Fiber Optic Acquisition Training Course for the Naval Air Systems Command at Titan, Inc. from February 17-19 in Lexington Park MD near the Patuxent River Naval Air Station. Dr. Karl Reichard, head of the Penn State University Applied Research Laboratory Electro-Optics Research Group and Assistant Professor of Acoustics, taught the class.
Thirteen professionals supporting the EA-6B, F/A-18, Joint Strike Fighter programs and the Office of Naval Research attended this initial class. The class was structured as a pilot, with continuous interaction between the audience and the instructor. Valuable feedback was received from the attendees and it will be used to add to and improve the course content.
This class, which was initiated by NAVAIR under the Office of Naval Research Manufacturing Technology Rapid Response program, is designed to give program management and program technical personnel the knowledge necessary to understand and effectively specify fiber optic
For questions concerning the technical content of the class contact Dave Ditto, Assistant Director for Fiber Optics Technology, at dditto@psu.edu , for questions related to scheduling a class for your organization or future planned classes, contact Wendy Gilpin, Director of Education, Work Force Development, and Outreach at wlg5@psu.edu. An Electro-Optics Alliance member based in Chatsworth, CA, Sabeus Sensor Systems, has established a high technology R&D and manufacturing facility near the Electro-Optics Center in Freeport, PA specializing in the automated production of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) arrays for sensor applications. For further information contact Dr. Michael Teter at Sabeus in Freeport at 724-295-4600 or Mr. Jim Andersen at Sabeus in Chatsworth at 818-407-6000
-snip-
It is hard to imagine that five years has passed since the Electro-Optics Center (EOC) was established in February 1999. The EOC operations began with an initial 4 employees and 2 technical projects. At that point, the Electro- Optics Alliance (EOA) consisted of eighteen companies, nine universities and three government research centers. While I am sure that the original planners for the EOC had planned some growth, I am also sure that none of them had foreseen how much would be accomplished in such a short period.
During the last year, the EOC has continued on its course of growth and expansion. FY03 saw an increase in the number of EOC personnel; the number of projects; the number of subrecipients and subcontractors receiving awards; the amount awarded to subrecipients and subcontractors; and the number of EOA members.
Here are a few points to illustrate the Center’s growth. In 2003, the EOC Staff increased from 29 full-time personnel to 41. Of this increase, over 90% were added to the Technical Staff. The number of Technical Projects underway increased from 41 to more than 65, an increase of more than 55%. As you can see from Table A the amount of annual awards to the EOC has increased from $7M in FY99 to over $56M in FY03. The number of Subrecipients and Subcontractors awards has increased from 1 in FY99 to 35 in FY03. The amount of funding that these Subrecipients and Subcontractors have received, has increased from $2.7M in FY99 to over $25M in FY03. In the ManTech Projects, approximately 80% of all project dollars received go to the EOA members. At the same time the number of EOA members has increased from 30 to over 225.
http://www.electro-optics.org/Docs/newsletter-mar-04.pdf
But now, which of the following is the actual description for the "eoa" in the RSVP listed on Pusateri's site [eoa@eoc.psu.edu]
EOA Equal Opportunity Advisor EOA Ethics Officer Association EOA End Of Address EOA Esophageal Obturator Airway EOA Effective Orifice Area EOA End of Auction EOA Early Operational Assessment EOA Exclusive Operating Area EOA Early Onset Alzheimer's EOA End Of Availability EOA Embassy of Aesthetics EOA Engines of Aggression EOA Excess Ordering Authority EOA Exercise Operating Area EOA Elites of Annihilation EOA Estimate of Alternatives
A list of the nearly 100 tenant organizations who call Fort Belvoir home reads like a "Who's Who" of the Department of Defense. No other Army installation in the world can compare to Fort Belvoir and its singular mission to provide both logistical and administrative support to such a diverse mix of tenant and satellite organizations.
Fort Belvoir is home to one Army major command headquarters and elements of 10 others; 19 different agencies and direct reporting units of the Department of Army; eight elements of the U.S. Army Reserve and the Army National Guard; and 26 DoD agencies. Also located here are a Marine Corps detachment, a U.S. Air Force activity, and an agency from the Department of the Treasury.
http://www.belvoir.army.mil/welcome.asp
The RSVP info is interesting, as well.
The telephone belongs/belonged to Penn State Materials Research Institute Senior Scientist of Physics, Karl A. Harris, at the Applied Research Laboratory 165 Applied Research Laboratory Building University Park, PA 16802
From a report by Dr. Harris in a March 2004 newsletter:
The Electro-Optics Center conducted a 2 ½ day Fiber Optic Acquisition Training Course for the Naval Air Systems Command at Titan, Inc. from February 17-19 in Lexington Park MD near the Patuxent River Naval Air Station. Dr. Karl Reichard, head of the Penn State University Applied Research Laboratory Electro-Optics Research Group and Assistant Professor of Acoustics, taught the class.
Thirteen professionals supporting the EA-6B, F/A-18, Joint Strike Fighter programs and the Office of Naval Research attended this initial class. The class was structured as a pilot, with continuous interaction between the audience and the instructor. Valuable feedback was received from the attendees and it will be used to add to and improve the course content.
This class, which was initiated by NAVAIR under the Office of Naval Research Manufacturing Technology Rapid Response program, is designed to give program management and program technical personnel the knowledge necessary to understand and effectively specify fiber optic
For questions concerning the technical content of the class contact Dave Ditto, Assistant Director for Fiber Optics Technology, at dditto@psu.edu , for questions related to scheduling a class for your organization or future planned classes, contact Wendy Gilpin, Director of Education, Work Force Development, and Outreach at wlg5@psu.edu. An Electro-Optics Alliance member based in Chatsworth, CA, Sabeus Sensor Systems, has established a high technology R&D and manufacturing facility near the Electro-Optics Center in Freeport, PA specializing in the automated production of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) arrays for sensor applications. For further information contact Dr. Michael Teter at Sabeus in Freeport at 724-295-4600 or Mr. Jim Andersen at Sabeus in Chatsworth at 818-407-6000
-snip-
It is hard to imagine that five years has passed since the Electro-Optics Center (EOC) was established in February 1999. The EOC operations began with an initial 4 employees and 2 technical projects. At that point, the Electro- Optics Alliance (EOA) consisted of eighteen companies, nine universities and three government research centers. While I am sure that the original planners for the EOC had planned some growth, I am also sure that none of them had foreseen how much would be accomplished in such a short period.
During the last year, the EOC has continued on its course of growth and expansion. FY03 saw an increase in the number of EOC personnel; the number of projects; the number of subrecipients and subcontractors receiving awards; the amount awarded to subrecipients and subcontractors; and the number of EOA members.
Here are a few points to illustrate the Center’s growth. In 2003, the EOC Staff increased from 29 full-time personnel to 41. Of this increase, over 90% were added to the Technical Staff. The number of Technical Projects underway increased from 41 to more than 65, an increase of more than 55%. As you can see from Table A the amount of annual awards to the EOC has increased from $7M in FY99 to over $56M in FY03. The number of Subrecipients and Subcontractors awards has increased from 1 in FY99 to 35 in FY03. The amount of funding that these Subrecipients and Subcontractors have received, has increased from $2.7M in FY99 to over $25M in FY03. In the ManTech Projects, approximately 80% of all project dollars received go to the EOA members. At the same time the number of EOA members has increased from 30 to over 225.
http://www.electro-optics.org/Docs/newsletter-mar-04.pdf
But now, which of the following is the actual description for the "eoa" in the RSVP listed on Pusateri's site [eoa@eoc.psu.edu]
EOA Equal Opportunity Advisor EOA Ethics Officer Association EOA End Of Address EOA Esophageal Obturator Airway EOA Effective Orifice Area EOA End of Auction EOA Early Operational Assessment EOA Exclusive Operating Area EOA Early Onset Alzheimer's EOA End Of Availability EOA Embassy of Aesthetics EOA Engines of Aggression EOA Excess Ordering Authority EOA Exercise Operating Area EOA Elites of Annihilation EOA Estimate of Alternatives
Oops.
Dang it. Meant to ping you.
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