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» The Four Most Overpaid White House Staffers — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:24:44 +0000

[...] Page Summary: Carson – -People not bigger than the job they have to do and grateful for every day theu get to do it. Sounds like this adninistration is doing more than its share of interfering in the lives of Americans. Hundreds of thousands have died from the blow job in the white house today. Aptly, all of the 2050 history books will be wet and fungal from climate change.read more | digg story [...]

By: littlemind » Blog Archive » Lessons Learned: Will They Ever?

littlemind » Blog Archive » Lessons Learned: Will They Ever? — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:32:36 +0000

[...] A more apt tune: When will they ever learn?Â Â Blumenthal cites the irony of The Office of Lessons Learned and its apparent need to do more research.Â I canâ€™t find any official listing of an Office of Lessons Learned, but there has been much ado on the web regarding the Director of Lessons Learned (nice work if you can get it), Stuart Baker, and he was once on the staff of Katrina Lessons Learned (ha ha), and there is a Center for Army Lessons Learned (that also has its work cut out for it) that Baker doesnâ€™t have anything to do with.Â [...]

By: The Great Society :: White House Planning Pullout in Case of Full Scale Iraqi Civil War :: August :: 2006

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 03:34:02 +0000

[...] So either the ol’ Stewie, the Director of Lessons Learned, is starting to earn his $106,000 salary or Bush is reading the tea leaves on the pulse of Americans over the war and hedging his bets. My guess is the latter. [...]

By: The Great Society :: White House Planning Pullout in Full Scale Iraqi Civil War :: August :: 2006

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 03:25:11 +0000

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:19:41 +0000

If you (anyone) are making $5.15 in this economy, THAT IS ALL YOU ARE WORTH. Legislation will not make you worth more. It will only put your job at risk. Go back to school … learn a skill … take a risk … that is how you get ahead; not by just declaring that you want more. Stupid liberals.

By: jb

jb — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:25:29 +0000

Wow, Patton fought the Germans, not the Japanese. I see why you didn’t think the fact checker was important.

By: bob partlow

bob partlow — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:09:26 +0000

There’s no “liberal media” only bought and paid for right wing “swift boating” neo cons parroting the hate.

By: Clifford the BRD

Clifford the BRD — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:37:02 +0000

How do you think Patton beat the Japanese? Worry about ethics we did not.

I had forgotten that Patton developed the atomic bomb.

But maybe the director of lessons learned is actually earning their money since we haven’t invaded Iran (yet).

By: PISSED OFF

PISSED OFF — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:23:10 +0000

Hey WOW

In a previous life, you were Joseph Gobbels, head of Propaganda and Lesson’s LEarned for Adolph, Righ?

Here is a Lesson Learned that will not cost the taxpayer anything.

Iraq is a fiasco, Get out.

By: Zog The Obvious

Zog The Obvious — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:02:03 +0000

So now, when Bush makes a comment like, “It was instructive”, he can add, “Because the Department of Lessons Learned said so.”

By: paul

paul — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 03:13:15 +0000

I found the board

something tells me that they haven’t met to discuss any new business
or had any conversations with the director of lessons learned

By: Wow

Wow — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:25:54 +0000

You are all a bunch of idiots. You all make it seem like the ethics advisors should be doing more. That is completely wrong. We’re doing as badly as we are in Iraq because of the ethical restraints imposed by our horrendously biased, liberal media, which will not allow us to send more troops, threaten terrorists at all (considering what they do to us), or get anything realistic done. The world is not perfect. Fighting the current and trying to completely the realistic instinctually- and naturally-driven tendencies of our opponents (and us; in fact, all humans) will not work. How do you think Patton beat the Japanese? Worry about ethics we did not. The ethics counselers are paid too much because they have TOO much influence and do too much (as of course they are goaded by the idealistic newspapers around them). The lessons-learned job is also important. Obviously, we need to learn something from Iraq and save the next 2 trillion dollars that we spend on a Middle-Eastern war. The third job, fact checker, is admittedly not as important. However, accuracy and scientific fact is requisite in a world of increasing subjective “feel” and “hunches.” We are too sensitive. We guess too much. We are wrong. Look at the world around us. Are they all nice people that want our help and will help us in return? Generally, no. If we help Iraq and then just leave, they will turn on us. We need to give them democracy now that we’re in there. The newspapers will not forgive the fact that we made a huge mistake in going into Iraq (lesson learned) and you rustics who watch the Daily Show do not realize that our war on terror is real. And you think it’s going to go away? If anything, it’s worseningâ€”just look at the war Israel just started with the entire Middle East. AIM me at shoe1maukertuvvi

By: amphichon »

amphichon » — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:05:05 +0000

[...] Earlier this week, the Chicago Tribune posted an article discussing Rahm Emanuel’s critique of the Bush administration’s fiscal responsibiltiy in general, and specifically paying $100k a year for a “White House Director of Lessons Learned”. [...]

By: Slow Down

Slow Down — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:58:18 +0000

Stuart Baker, who works in the White House, is different from Stewart A. Baker, who works in the Department of Homeland Security.

By: PISSED OFF

PISSED OFF — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:36:50 +0000

Here is the mini-info from White House website re Stewart Baker whom we assume is the same guy who is the Director of Lessons Learned. You can cut and paste the link to go to the site.

The President intends to nominate Stewart A. Baker, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Policy). Mr. Baker is currently a Partner with Steptoe & Johnson, LLP in Washington, D.C. He previously served as General Counsel for the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. Prior to that, Mr. Baker served as General Counsel for the National Security Agency. Earlier in his career, he was a law clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Baker received his bachelor’s degree from Brown University and his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/07/20050713-8.html

By: gjdodger

gjdodger — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:41:38 +0000

I don’t know if he’s the same “lessons learned” guy, but there’s a Stuart Baker who’s held various NSA and Homeland Security jobs in between private law practice…and apparently is the guy who signed off on the Dubai port fiasco!

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:40:14 +0000

Since Republicans are the fiscally responsibility party, how do these salaries compare to the last Democratic Administration?

By: flipper65

flipper65 — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:47:05 +0000

This thread will definitely surpass Shakespeare’s works as the best Comic-Tragedy in history. Aptly, all of the 2050 history books will be wet and fungal from climate change.

By: PISSED OFF

PISSED OFF — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:05:24 +0000

Grumpy:

Thank you for the link. Very interesting. Here is my questions.

What lesson did the Dept. of Homeland Security learn that lead to the following edict.

“Lighters are forebidden on airplanes so as to stop terrorsits from setting off shoe bombs. Matches are O.k. to take on board your flight”

I am a somewhat smart guy but I do not think that even Einstein could figure this one out.

By: Grumpy

Grumpy — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:12:43 +0000

This help answer to the questions about the Director of Lessons Learned: The U.S. Homeland Security Dept. has a branch named Lessons Learned Information Sharing. Perhaps Mr. Baker is the Director of that group?