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Are Bernanke Or Geithner Guilty Of Purjury And Managerial Negligence?

In October of this year, Timmothy Geithner in Congrssional Testimony in answer to a question posed to him said: "I have never been a regulator." SOURCE Yet, in an article written by Ben Bernanke in the Washington Post this weekend writes:

Some people lose faith - but only bureaucrats can lose an Indian temple
Source: The Times

The custodians of India's archaeological treasures are to hire 10,000 attendants to patrol historical sites after an audit found that 34 monuments, including a cave temple, had "disappeared".

New Afghan Plan may be Like old Plan
Source: Military.com

WASHINGTON -- The Afghanistan war plan President Obama will announce next week won't stray far from the strategy he laid out eight months ago, say experts.

Mister Tough Guy
Source: National Review Online

Benjamin Disraeli's most famous advice to aspiring politicians was: "Never complain and never explain." For the greatest orator of our time, a man who makes Churchill, Lincoln, and Henry V at Agincourt look like first-round rejects on Orating with the Stars, Barack Obama se …

Medical malpractice reform savings would be small, report says -- latimes.com
Source: The L.A. Times

Tort reform is simply another attempt to maximize profits at the expense of those injured by acts of incompetence, negligence and malfeasance. If those who are guilty of such acts wish to lower the financial damages they can clean up their acts or appeal the jury award.

Man at centre of health scandal was under house arrest when hired
Source: Vancouver Sun

A key player accused of fraud in the health-contracts scandal was under house arrest and prohibited from handling other people's money when he was given a job overseeing a $9-million budget at Fraser Health.

Will Obama endorse an anti-Semitic, anti-American Islamic day of prayer?
Source: renewamerica.com

The imam who will lead the recitation of the Koran, Sheikh Ahmed Dewidar, is a Manhattan cleric who once said that "through the domination of Islam and its ideas, the White House will change," and spoke approvingly of another cleric who said that one day "the White House will bec …

Bitter Harvests to Come [ when amateurs play in the big league]
Source: National Review Online

If one were to sum up the Obama speech, it is the same old, same old formula: "I am a uniquely post-American fresh start; the era of Bush and our dreadful past is over; and because this is our moment, you, the world, owe me attention and support for my redefining America more to  …

Social Security: The Closer You Look, the Worse It Appears; Media Has Ignored for Months
Source: newsbusters.org

Back in February, the system also ran a deficit. It was bad news, but because February is an unusual month containing a full month of payments but only 20 days of collections, I didn't think it was an indicator of a near-term problem when I noted it in early April. I was wrong.

Bush Sums Up His Presidency

"A new book by a former Bush speechwriter reveals that President Bush fundamentally misunderstood his own TARP bailout proposal. "We're buying low and selling high," Bush kept saying. But it wasn't true.

Bad cop: complete with guns, hookers, total incompetence
Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Here's a bad cop story, complete with prostitutes, oral sex and total imcompetence.

Police defend secret payout in rape case
Source: abc.net.au

Victorian police are defending a decision to pay money to an alleged rape victim after a bungled investigation.

Mints Believed To Be Crack Land Man In Jail
Source: wftv.com

A man is suing the Kissimmee Police Department for an arrest over mints. When officers pulled Donald May over for an expired tag, they thought the mints he was chewing were crack and arrested him.

Homestead woman's house auctioned by mistake
Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

A bizarre series of mix-ups forced a Homestead woman out of her home when it was auctioned by mistake, WPLG Ch. 10 reports. On Wednesday night, Anna Ramirez was evicted by a man who bought her house — even though her house wasn't for sale.

47 trapped on 'nightmare' flight to the Twin Cities
Source: The Minneapolis Star Tribune

When Link Christin boarded a Continental Airlines flight from Houston to the Twin Cities on Friday night, he expected to be on the ground in about three hours and ready for a comfy bed.

Blundering banker sacked for 2nd mistake
Source: abc.net.au

A Westpac employee who credited a New Zealand man's account with about $10 million has been sacked after making another mistake on the job.

High Court shields database state from blame
Source: The Register (UK)

An entrepreneur whose fledgling business was ruined by a false entry in a court database has had his claim for compensation rejected by a High Court judge. The decision could set a broad and troubling precedent, because Mr Justice Bill Blair QC - brother of the former PM Tony Bl …

Family questions police shooting of dog
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A Kirkwood family wants to know why a police officer investigating a home alarm felt compelled to shoot and kill one of their 6-year-old black labs, Ciarra, Saturday morning.

Health Care in the New Millennium: It Sucks

One day in November of 2002, I began to experience chest pains. Not only were these pains uncomfortable, they also fit the description of some of the symptoms of a heart attack.

Jebus, how do these dingbats get elected?
Source: ScienceBlogs

The earth has been here for 6000 years and we haven't destroyed it yet, so we don't need no stinkin' laws to protect the environment!

Continental Puts 10-Year-Old Child On The Wrong Plane
Source: Consumerist

Sure, airlines misroute luggage all the time. But how about misrouting a ten-year-old girl to the wrong state?

Pelosi more disliked than Cheney
Source: Gallup

For all the venom that media spreads about Cheney, Pelosi is still disliked more. From her feckless leadership of the Senate under Bush and to her continued ineptitude, it seems many on both sides see her for what she is.

Rick Santelli Says to Watch This Video of Clueless Fed Inspector
Source: businessinsider.com

It's incredible to see such inept people rise to such positions. I'm not sure what questions she prepared to be asked, but I think she got her days in her planner mixed up.

VA doc: Other possible equipment errors reported
Source: The Washington Post

More than 10,400 former patients have been getting follow-up blood tests because of VA mistakes with equipment used in colonoscopies at Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Miami and at the agency's Augusta, Ga., ear, nose and throat clinic.

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