Dude, use GMail for your attacks on The Man if you're a state employee and The Man owns the email servers. Do we really have to tell you this? "A Wisconsin state employee has been fired after he revealed that a Department of Transportation official had instructed workers to not notify citizens that IDs necessary for voting could be obtained for free. ... State employee Chris Larsen told radio host John "Sly" Sylvester that his bosses at the Department of Safety and Professional Services (DSPS) had become upset because he sent an email to other employees Thursday to remind them that photo IDs were supposed to be available without charge. ... "Do you know someone who votes that does not have a State ID that meets requirements to vote?" Larsen asked in his email, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "Tell them they can go to the DMV/DOT and get a free ID card. However they must ask for the free ID. a memo was sent out by the 3rd in command of the DMV/DOT. The memo specifically told the employees at the DMV/DOT not to inform individuals that the ID's are free. So if the individuals seeking to get the free ID does not ask for a free ID, they will have to pay for it!!" ... Just a day earlier, The Capital Times had revealed the memo written by Department of Transportation's Steve Krieser. ... "While you should certainly help customers who come in asking for a free ID to check the appropriate box, you should refrain from offering the free version to customers who do not ask for it," Krieser told Division of Motor Vehicle employees. ... Moments after being fired, Larsen spoke to Sylvester in an interview. ... "I decided that I thought it would be prudent as a fellow citizen of the state and just a decent human being in general to send out an email to all of my constituents where I work that they should be informed," Larsen recalled. "As a result, I am not apparently employed.""
The New York Times just published this graphic.
To gloss it here, it documents what we have spent—in money—to respond to the attacks of 9/11.
Here's what it comes to:
The cost to al Qaeda of staging the 9/11 attacks?
About half a million dollars.
Cost to the United States incurred as a direct result of the damage done in the attacks and the immediate economic impact?
$178 billion.
Cost to the United States to implement the Homeland Security state?
$589 billion.
Cost of the wars fought in the wake of the attacks, current and to come?
$2.5 trillion. With a "t."
That would be roughly the size of the deficit reduction package agreed in the debt limit hostage crisis negotiation this summer.
The total federal debt?
Approximately $14.7 trillion.
The accumulated price in dollars of of 9/11 is in excess of one fifth of that total. The price in lives lost and damaged? I can't even begin to count.
Those that followed? Self inflicted and ongoing.
We're talking about cutting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, and the Army is hiring golfers for $38,000 a year. I love the job description - apparently, the Pentagon has 54 golf courses and pro-shops:
As a Professional Golf Management Trainee, you are given the opportunity to learn how Morale Welfare and Recreation (MWR) golf operations function. On-the job-training programs vary according to the opportunities available at the installation but will focus on: Overall operations of the golf course; proshop operations to include ordering, visual merchandising of resale items, planning, and conduct of play; outings and tournaments, ensuring that the facility is clean, safe, and meets standards of a quality golf operation; participates in regular meetings with the Golf Advisory Council; maintain relationship with the golf course maintenance staff; assist with operation of the golf car fleet; and, oversee certain aspects of food and beverage operation to support outings and tournaments. MUST SIGN A MOBILITY AGREEMENT. ENROLLMENT IN THE LEADER DEVELOPMENT ASSIGNMENT PROGRAMN IS MANDATORY. Training WILL NOT take place at an Army Installation located in your state of residence.
Nosferatu is venturing out into the sunlight to relive the happiest moments of his life:
WASHINGTON — Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani urged polarized Americans on Thursday to "rediscover our unity" as he prepared to mark ten years since the September 11th attacks with a national speech.
"We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united," he said in a statement, warning: "It's a strength that must be guarded and nurtured."
"We must rediscover our unity," said Giuliani, whose take-charge response to the attacks made him a national figure during an all-too-brief period in which superheated partisan rhetoric cooled in the shadow of the tragedy.
Small problem here: In Ghouliani's world, "unity" = "fascism," sooooo let's not take his advice, mmmm-kay?
Jesus tits, I can't fucking wait for it to be 9/12 already.
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Frank Luntz lies about the Bush legacy on terrorism: "Yes [9/11] allows us to appreciate George Bush And Dick Cheney For Keeping Us Safe."
How can anyone possibly say this?! The biggest terrorist attack on American soil which occurred during the Bush/Cheney presidency is a reminder that they kept us safe?! In fact, they kept us less safe than anyone since the British invasion during the War of 1812! 3,000 American civilians died on their watch, and in subsequent months and years, the nation was gripped in fear of more attacks, while thousands of Americans were being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Kept us safe?
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