President Bush on Saturday said he was shocked and saddened to learn that former domestic policy adviser Claude Allen was charged with theft for allegedly receiving phony refunds at department stores - Source
its a lot more hilarious/pathetic(?) than that. Claude Allen was arrested a month after his sudden and unexplained resignation for attemting to claim refunds on goods not paid for with receipts for the same goods purchased earlier. Nor was it an one off offence - he had been watched since 2005 and is facing well documented charges of repeat offences. He was a Bush appontee as the Deputy Secretary for Health and Human Services, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and was nominated by Bush to be a federal judge but the Democrats blocked his nomination - is tom paine turning in his grave?
i sent you an em via 'contact us' tab & it disappeared into the ether once i clicked the tab 'submit' - how do i know you received it when it doesn't feature in my sent items folder
in any case it was a request to publicise an appeal to sign an online petition opposing the widely anticipated aerial bombardment of iran organised by http://stopwaroniran.org/
i know 30m+ people across the world were ignored in february 2003 but are we supposed to give up? really, is that an option?
do we really want to submit to a never ending war on 'terror', whatever that means, except it is also a 'long' war, whose strategic lynchpin is supposed to be counterterrorism but is essentially a policy of inhumane torture and illegal aggression
its a lot more
its a lot more hilarious/pathetic(?) than that. Claude Allen was arrested a month after his sudden and unexplained resignation for attemting to claim refunds on goods not paid for with receipts for the same goods purchased earlier. Nor was it an one off offence - he had been watched since 2005 and is facing well documented charges of repeat offences. He was a Bush appontee as the Deputy Secretary for Health and Human Services, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and was nominated by Bush to be a federal judge but the Democrats blocked his nomination - is tom paine turning in his grave?
i sent you an em via
i sent you an em via 'contact us' tab & it disappeared into the ether once i clicked the tab 'submit' - how do i know you received it when it doesn't feature in my sent items folder
in any case it was a request to publicise an appeal to sign an online petition opposing the widely anticipated aerial bombardment of iran organised by http://stopwaroniran.org/
i know 30m+ people across the world were ignored in february 2003 but are we supposed to give up? really, is that an option?
do we really want to submit to a never ending war on 'terror', whatever that means, except it is also a 'long' war, whose strategic lynchpin is supposed to be counterterrorism but is essentially a policy of inhumane torture and illegal aggression
what i find hilarious is the
what i find hilarious is the phoney refunds thing is taken directly from the 'how to be a junkie' playbook.