Report Faults Performance Bonuses for Contractors

Federal agencies have awarded billions in bonuses to contractors regardless of whether the work was deemed satisfactory

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/05/AR2009070502520.html

In addition to Boeing, John Deere, and PepsiCo, executives from U.S. oil majors ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and aluminum major Alcoa are traveling with Obama.

James Baker, Henry Kissinger, William Perry, George Schultz and Sam Nunn visited Moscow in March seeking to open business “opportunity.”

http://stateofthedivision.blogspot.com/2009/03/us-corporacrats-visit-russia.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/wtUSInvestingNews/idUSTRE5651KZ20090706?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/05/AR2009070502517.html?hpid=topnews

after one woman gave her excuses, norm told her it was interesting that she thinks sarah quit because of the negative press and to work on her ‘12 run – if she can’t handle it NOW, how could she handle it on a national presidential level…

so so stoopid.

well, there WILL be “republicans” because they are so stupid and stubborn…

and, unless there is ANOTHER major right wing party, those republicans, headed by their queen, Caribou Barbie, will appreciate the split in the left…

i wish it weren’t so…

Iowa has the second-lowest rate of uninsured in the U.S., said Ann Selzer, president of Selzer and Co., a Des Moines- based public opinion research company. “The crisis in Iowa is more about what’s happening with costs being shifted from employers to employees,” she said. “That’s the middle-class starting to feel this pinch and there are far more of them.”

Pay attention to reform details.

Biden is another terrible dissapointment, as are most of the political, war monging hack’s..Mckenna is still detained along with many others and no public out cry against Israel..Jeebos…I sure don’t see any good change….The people of the earth are being killed and left and right fight over trivial bull shit like pitiful palin and what she’s doing.

I will not vote for or back any more of these monsters….Our country and the souls of all people are being spoiled as long as we allow this to go on with out even a wimper….Sad times for an old Peace activest who helped stop the Nam genocide….Guess it truly is time to drop out of part of the human race..The Bear and I will join the Peace makers…..Question is, where the hell are they all now.? Oh yah~ they are locked up in an Israel jail……P. B. & J

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/exec-column.php

It’s totally bizarre. You can tell that she wrote it herself and didn’t have any help.

This thing would fail freshman comp for sure.

If I have learned one thing: life is about choices!

Except when you are not married or pregnant.

*((Gotta put First Things First))*

Yup, that’s in the speech, exactly that way.

Life is too short to compromise time and resources… it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: “Sit down and shut up”, but that’s the worthless, easy path; that’s a quitter’s way out. And a problem in our country today is apathy. It would be apathetic to just hunker down and “go with the flow”.

Nah, only dead fish “go with the flow”.

Ha ha. The quitter’s way out is to quit.

But at least she’s down with the ACES program!

And ACES – another bipartisan effort – is working as intended and industry is publicly acknowledging its success. Our new oil and gas “clear and equitable formula” is so Alaskans will no longer be taken advantage of. ACES incentivizes new exploration and development and jobs that were previously not going to happen with a monopolized North Slope oil basin.

Now, the posters who called me naive and an asshat for pointing out the lie they were trying to spread about the public option being taken off the legislative table, can suck on it.

You know who you are.

Toasterhead, sometimes nations, like the USA, use their “military to launch unprovoked and unnecessary attack(s) on other sovereign nation(s)” that “pose no threat” to them. The USA did it to Iraq. The question is, if there were a superpower behind the US, would the US still have had the right to invade Iraq?

Progressives already know the Iraq war was wrong. If Israel does attack Iran, it would also be wrong, but just because it is wrong does not mean Israel doesn’t have the right to be wrong.

Every nation has the right to do something stupid, We just got out of eight years of something stupid, who are we to talk?

July 6th, 2009 at 11:12 am
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There is a big difference between using your military to defend yourself, and using your military to launch an unprovoked and unneccessary attack on another sovereign nation. Iran poses no threat to Israel. Iran has been armed by Israel. And Iran needs Israel. Any threats Iran makes against Israel are just saber-rattling for the benefit of an underemployed internal audience, not genuine threats.

In my opinion, Israel is the greatest threat to America’s security. Jews steal land from Palestinians and then throw the Palestinian refugees into concentration camps controlled by the Israeli Army. Israelis have become 21st century Nazis.

I will make no effort to dispute any of your claims, in fact, I agree with everything you posted. Unfortunately, you are trying to change the subject.

While you might not like the relationship between the US and Israel, it does not change the reality that Israel is a sovereign nation, and they have the right to use their military to defend themselves.

Let’s propose that in the future, China develops a weapon that makes all other weapons virtually obsolete, and China provides that weapon to the United States because of our close trade ties. Let’s further propose that Canada is threatening to “wipe the USA off the face of the map” out using nuclear weapons.

Now, if the US had intelligence that Canada was about to launch a nuclear strike, should the US sit back and wait for it, or would we do something to prevent it?