Rove gets a raise.

I'm not makeing this up,I think the folks in D.C. have cooked what little brains they had in the heat ;)

Top White House staff, including Rove, get annual raises
John Byrne

The top pay for senior White House aides, including Chief of Staff Andrew Card, Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and Legislative Affairs Director Candida Wolff, mushroomed to $161,000 at the beginning of July, according to a list sent to Congress and obtained by National Journal,RAW STORY can reveal.

Democrats raised the issue on the Democratic Congressional Campaign website Wednesday morning. "Long live the era of personal responsibility!" they wrote. Rove and Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff Scooter Libby both got raises; each has been questioned by a grand jury about their role in the outing of a covert CIA operative.

"The top salary, paid to 19 aides, is up $4,000 from last year, barely matching the annual inflation rate," penned National Journal reporter Alexis Simendinger. "At the low end of the pecking order, some young staff assistants and correspondence aides earn $30,000 for the honor of sitting on the fringes of history."

Long May You Fly !!

Another bloger was bitching about the money the U.S. is spending on the space program,,,,get a brain!!





Warning,Rant ahead!!




We send people into space useing what is early 1970's technology after it was raped by the bureaucrats and politicians.Then the nomral guy on the streets,wonders why the shuttles fail.Duh....,they were made to last about 20 years(before they got cut),,,,anybody out there what do the math?Add to that the shit happens factor,you can do your best but random crap happens.Go ahead and "get the but it should not have happened"and "we should have fixed that before it failed"out of your mind,hind sight is always 20/20,we are human.
It is a frontier,people die,but that has not slowed down the human race up intell now.Think about it people,how many died founding the U.S. or any other country?LOL,do you think if you saw everybody killed in a auto wreck every day,would you stop driveing,or would you keep on doing what you have to do ?
Yes, the folks that strap a small nuke to their asses and then ride it into space are brave (IMO and hero's)are they braver than the folk's that put themselves into the hole of a 1800's sailing ship or walked across a iceage land bridge?Good question,but I'll let somebody else spilt that hair.
Realy,they all come down to one thing,resources.Very,simple realy.
Whithout numbers it is easy to see.

x = earth and it's resource's
y = is the number of humans


x (earth)is what we started with,,,it's not growing
y keeps getting larger


So,leaveing out alot of crap and double talk:

As time goes by,every person(y) gets a smaller peice of the pie(x),,want to guess what thats going to do for the human race?I will pass on the bitching about use of resourses and help for the 3rd world countries(and are the 3rd world countries going to help the problem?....another rant),Yes,the U.S. and other 1st world(is that a word?)use more of the worlds resourses,,,,,,and everybody else wants the tech we have,,,not going to happen inless we can make the (x) bigger.
How can any bureaucrat,politician,or anybody with a thought in their head for the next generation,say that we are wasteing money on space?

I could go on for a hell of a long time,,but one last thought.Do you what your kids,and grandkids looking back and calling you a bunch of loses,nuts(or worse),,,Hmmmmm,that is saying if there are people here.


Think,
DDNC

'Star Trek' Engineer James Doohan Dies

Wed Jul 20, 7:24 PM ET


James Doohan, who played engineer Montgomery Scott, the scrappy Scotsman who repeatedly gave the Starship Enterprise "all she's got" in the original "Star Trek" TV series and motion pictures, died Wednesday. He was 85.


Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. at his Redmond, Wash., home with his wife of 31 years, Wende, at his side, Los Angeles agent and longtime friend Steve Stevens said. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease, he said. Full Story


We will miss you Scotty ;(

More IT jobs going "off Shore"

Outsourcing overseas? How about only 3 miles from the U.S. coast?

What San Diego-based start-up SeaCode Inc. plans to do is nothing if not novel: anchor a cruise ship three miles off the coast of Los Angeles, fill it with up to 600 programmers from around the world, eliminate visa restrictions and make it easy for customers to visit the site via water taxi. The two men behind the venture -- Roger Green, who describes himself as an IT and outsourcing veteran, and IT consultant David Cook, whose job history includes a stint as a ship captain -- recently discussed their plan in an interview with Computerworld.

What is the business model? Green: The promise of the benefits of outsourcing in distant lands doesn't come free. Most of the gotchas are related to the geography and to the cultural difference.


What are some of those gotchas? Green: Communicating requirements, doing knowledge transfer [and] managing the project are very difficult to do even when you are in the same building, [let alone] when it's across the world.

That's the same argument made by nearshore providers in Canada. Cook: But we offer the price of India with the proximity of the United States -- that's the differentiator.


I see a lawsuit or two comeing ;)

Pentagon to share data with civilian agencies

WTF?
I just got done reading the "Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support" Link
I don't know if I should grab a gun or a beer.It is new Pentagon strategy for securing the U.S. homeland.The paper is asserting the president's authority to deploy ground combat forces on U.S. territory "to intercept and defeat threats."
Ok,it's the same goverment double speak,but they are talking about useing DOD assets to gather info on "terrorists" and putting boots on the ground in the U.S.,well and good,but who is to say who is a "terrorist".Read between the lines,and it is anybody old George W. says.
There is no over site provided for at all.I think they might have a problem getting around the "Posse Comitatus Act",but looks like they are going to pack the Supreme Court with who they want.LOL,but then the court has never been able to do much after the military is on the ground.

All Hail emperor shrub........


Screw it I'm going for a beer ;)

PC run amok!!

Ok,this realy is getting to be way to PC for me ;)

BBC edits out the word terrorist
By Tom Leonard
(Filed: 12/07/2005)

The BBC has re-edited some of its coverage of the London Underground and bus bombings to avoid labelling the perpetrators as "terrorists", it was disclosed yesterday.More

Well,what else you going to call them?I could think of a few things,,,but it's mostly a G rated blog ;)

Man arrested for hopping on to home Wi-Fi network

OK,if you have ever doubted that Fla. has taken over the job of nut house for the US from Ca. you should check this one out ;(

By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service
July 07, 2005

A man who allegedly accessed a home Wi-Fi network in St. Petersburg, Florida, from a parked car got logged off the hard way: He was arrested and charged with a felony.

Benjamin Smith III, 40, was arrested on April 21 outside the St. Petersburg home of Richard Dinon and charged under a Florida law that prohibits unauthorized access to a computer or network, said George Kajtsa, the police department's public information officer. A pre-trial hearing in the case is scheduled for Monday, according to the state attorney's office for Pasco and Pinellas counties.

Dinon saw Smith sitting in a parked sport-utility vehicle in front of his house and wondered what he was doing there, then saw he was using a notebook computer, Kajtsa said.

"What made him suspicious was, every time he looked toward the car, the guy closed the lid on his laptop," Kajtsa said. Dinon called police. When they came to the scene and approached the vehicle, Smith closed the computer again. The police asked him what he was doing and he finally owned up to it, Kajtsa said. Smith was arrested and the PC seized and sent to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement as potential evidence. More

I know they have Cox cable down there,,are they going to bust all the users,who pick-up the network from down the street instead of their own?LOL,another dumb law that can not be used for anything useful ;)