Archive for August, 2009
the Cost of Media Bias? 15 points
What would the 2008 election map have looked like without its 15 points of media bias?
job opening: INTERNMENT / RESETTLEMENT SPECIALIST
What’s missing in the job description is WHO the military prisoners to be interned may include. To watch the telling vid, visit NationalGuard.commahalo to maukakane -aloha! hepsy
Description
Internment / Resettlement Specialists in the Army are primarily responsible for day-to-day operations in a military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment facility. Internment / Resettlement Specialists provide rehabilitative, health, welfare, and security to US military prisoners within a confinement or correctional facility; provide custody, control, supervision and security to internees within a detention/internment facility; conduct inspections; prepare written reports; coordinate activities of prisoners/internees and staff personnel.
What’s missing in the job description is WHO the military prisoners to be interned will include!
a Czar by any other name is still a Thorn
Media skipped the transparent ink.
It chose bold, black ink, in the spirit of calling a Thorn a Thorn instead of a Blooming Flower.
Media chose a telling word to describe power bestowed to Presidential Elite: Czar. (It has a rather regal tone, doesn’t it?) Reagan had three (3) czars, Clinton nine (9) and GW, twelve (12). Russia, 1700-1900, had nineteen (19) czars. Current count for President Obama’s Czars, whose names are known: twenty nine (29) czars. (*updated 090823, now 30 czars) Not all czar positions have been filled, not all czars are identified.
Appointed czars do not need Congressional approval. They report directly to the president and have the power to shape National Policy. Senator Bryd pointed out that the presence of czars gives the president too much power.
Czars represent not the people, rather the president, which has been dubbed the Dictator Branch of Government. Maybe the Czars represent their own, self interests. There is no oversight of their actions or decrees. Maybe they are accountable to the president, maybe themselves, but not the public. They represent only power, not the people of the United States.
Obama’s Czars
- AIDs Czar — Jeffrey Crowley
- Afghanistan-Pakistan Czar — Richard Holbrooke
- Bank Bailout Czar — Herb Allison
- Border Czar — Alan Bersin
- Car Czar — Ron Bloom
- Climate Czar — Todd Stern
- Copyright Czar
- Cyberspace Czar — Melissa Hathaway
- Drug Czar — Dave Cook
- Economic Czar — Paul Volcker
- Education Czar
- Energy Czar — Carol Browner
- FCC Diversity Czar — Mark Lloyd *updated 090823
- Faith-based Czar — Joshua DuBois
- Government Performance Czar
- Great Lakes Czar — Cameron Davis
- Green Jobs Czar — Van Jones
- Guantanamo Closure Czar — Danny Fried
- Health Care Czar —Nancy-Ann DeParle
- Health Choices Czar
- Health Reform Czar
- Information/Infotech Czar —Vivek Kundra
- Intelligence Czar —Admiral Dennis Blair
- Iran Czar
- Middle East Peace Czar — George Mitchell
- Middle East Policy Czar — Dennis Ross
- Mortgage Czar
- Non-Proliferation Czar
- Pay/Compensation Czar — Kenneth Feinberg
- Regulatory Czar — Cass Sunstein
- Science Czar — John Holdren
- Stimulus Accountability Czar — Earl Devaney
- Sudan Czar — J Scott Gration
- TARP Czar — Herb Allison
- Technology Czar — Aneesh Chopra
- Terrorism/WMD/nonproliferation Czar — Gary Samore
- Urban/Housing Affairs Czar — Adolfo Carrion
- Violence Against Women Czar — Lynn Rosenthal
*updated 090823
source Byrd Calls Obama’s Czars Dangerous – Political Hotsheet – CBS News Biden Announces White House Advisor on Violence Against Women – Political Punch Obama fashions a government of many czars | U.S. | Reuters Counting the czars Czar Watch – FOX News – Truveo Video Search Czar Watch – FOXNews.com
originally posted at lindabutts.wordpress.com
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