Dinesh's take of WaPo news: The State Department's inspector general has warned the department that $6 billion in contracting money over the past six years cannot be properly accounted for and cited "significant financial risk and .â.â. a lack of internal control."
The warning was the second "management alert" in State Department history, both issued by new Inspector General Steve Linick. Linick took over the job in late September, after it had been vacant for nearly six years.
I think I'm beginning to see a correlation. Hmmmm who were the Sec of State back then and now?
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Considering most government agencies are little more than legalized theft organizations these days...
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Contract money? Ok, so whom at Foggy Bottom serves as Contracting Officers Representatives (COR)? Should be easy enough to track down.
Difficulty with tracking it down? Start at the other end. Build a compendium of contractors and examine the State Dept. signatures on the contracting documents.
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Oh, I've no doubt that the State Department spent it in the interests of foreign relations. I'm not sure how, but the picture of a slurry mixture of small ice crystals and liquid water keeps coming to mind.
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Everywhere the Clinton machine touches, you find the systematic, clever, looting of some part of the public treasury, feeding their criminal enterprise (CGI) and through "speaking fees" their lavish, entitled lifestyle.
[Iran Press TV] Hawkish American commentator Bill O'Reilly has vowed to flee to Ireland if Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... becomes president of the United States.
On his Fox News show on Thursday, O'Reilly argued that Sanders wanted to "dismantle" Medicare and the Affordable Care Act "in the sense that it would be Berniecare and it would be much more than it is now."
"If Bernie Sanders gets elected president, I'm fleeing ... I'm going to Ireland. And they already know it. ... I shouldn't say it publicly because that will get Sanders more votes," O'Reilly said.
"I shouldn't say it publicly because that will get Sanders more votes, but I'm not going to pay 90 percent of my income to that guy," added the blustery talk show host, who is proud of his Irish roots. "I'm sorry, I'm not doing it."
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Anyone saying they plan to flee their country rather than stay and fight proves they aren't much of a patriot. This is my country, I'd rather fight for it than leave it.
[Legal Insurrection] Clinton surrogate to demand Sanders release medical records
A top surrogate for Hillary Clinton is prepping a new attack in an intensifying and increasingly personal war against rival Bernie Sanders -- calling on the 74-year-old to release his medical records before the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 1.
Clinton defender David Brock -- founder of the Correct the Record PAC, which coordinates directly with Clinton's campaign -- is expected to hit the airwaves this weekend from Charleston, the scene of the third Democratic debate on Sunday night, and challenge Sanders to cough up a clean bill of health and doctor's note in the next 16 days, according to a Democrat familiar with his thinking who was not authorized to preview any strategy.
Clinton released her medical records, showing she is "fit to serve as President," last July. A spokeswoman for the Clinton campaign declined to comment on the strategy.
But hours later, after this report was published and Brock's planned tactics were widely criticized on Twitter, campaign chairman John Podesta distanced himself from the surrogate's attack.
Bernie Sanders is only six years older than Clinton, so it was probably wise of her campaign to disavow this tactic. The last thing she wants is people asking questions about health. Of course she wants Medical Records discussed. It's her legitimate back door out of the race.
[CSM] WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Saturday proposed changes to the US unemployment insurance system that he says would offer more security to the jobless and encourage experienced workers to rejoin the workforce, even if it means taking a pay cut. It's the old community organizer in him. He simply can't help himself. Having never held actual employment, he views communism redistribution as the cure for all social inequity.
"We shouldn't just be talking about unemployment; we should be talking about re-employment," Mr. Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address.
The president's proposal would require states to provide wage insurance to workers who lose their jobs and find new employment at lower pay. The insurance would replace half of the lost income, up to $10,000 over two years. It would be available to workers who were with their prior employer for three years and make less than $50,000 in their new job. Part-time employment wage subsidy, how innovative.
The proposal also would require states to make unemployment insurance available to many part-time and low-income workers, and it would mandate that states provide at least 26 weeks of unemployment insurance. Nine states fall short of the benchmark, the White House said.
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Bzzzzzt! Sorry Barry but that's what you constitutional lawyer types call an unfunded federal mandate. But thanks for playin and don't forget your lovely parting gifts backstage.
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You open America to the global market and then you jack up the American minimum wage so high that American workers are legally prohibited from competing in it. Then you print more funny money to keep those workers from starving. Ain't we some kinda exceptional?
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"And where does Mr. Obama expect the insurance money to come from?"
The Magic Money Tree out back the White House, #3 Pappy.
You know, the tree the unicorns sleep under.
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^ yes, scroll up to "Liberals Are Simple-Minded"
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[Iran Press TV] Hawkish American commentator Bill O'Reilly has vowed to flee to Ireland if Democratic presidential candidate 
