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A recent study by whom, & paid for by whom I wonder. I've heard a correction or two from Fox before, but do not think they often report such things as you've described. A funny thing about idiots - they exist in both parties. I have no doubt there are Republicans who believe all 9/11 hijackers were Iraqis and that Saddam Hussein was caught desecrating the Bible on video tape while casting a black magic spell that would result in the death of Dale Earnhardt. I also have no doubt that there are Democrats who believe that Bill Clinton is faithful to his wife, that U.S. troops defecate on the Koran with great frequency, and the U.S. Army routinely shoots at reporters in Iraq/Afghanistan. Idiots are idiots - regardless of ideology.

Nor does it mean Fox is non-objective. Why do you bring up Fox here, praytell? With regards to bias being easy to find, it is most easy to find left leaning bias in the media. Since you brought up Fox, O'Reilly was slamming the hell out of the Bush administration last night - not for the first time, either. Such a right winger, eh? Having quite of bit of knowledge myself about gov't contracting, I don't really have a problem wtih companies repeatedly winning contracts. The criteria for awarding contracts are fairly clearly spelled out in the FAR. Any company that has a problem with such an award has but to send a letter of protest to the GAO to get the matter reviewed, though for emergently awarded contracts such as these they are probably shit-out-of-luck. US$0.37 + paper&ink wouldn't really bankrupt any company with a legitimate protest, so when folks scream about such awards squelching competition due to some good-ole-boy network I tend to chuckle quite a bit. If you've a problem with these companies repeatedly being awarded contracts, please give us a few examples of contracts they've been awarded as well as competitors and why the competitor would have been a better choice. Truth be told, I'd like for all high $ gov't contracts to be awarded via competitive bid. Low $ too, with exceptions such as JWOD, but that isn't really feasible for myriad reasons. The hard fact is that competitive bidding is not always possible. Acquisition law realizes this and is written to accomodate that. Sometimes there is only a sole-source capable of product or service delivery in a satisfactory/timely manner.

Why ever would you say that, my dear kallend? One needn't sweat finding examples of media bias in the mainstream media - they are so plentiful and obvious. Disgusting, to be true, but obvious nonetheless. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Well, I'm on here a bit. They obviously don't know the difference between a 'dork' and a JACKASS. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Check this out: Clicky Reuters Firms with Bush ties snag Katrina deals Saturday September 10, 11:03 am ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President George W. Bush's former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast. One is Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE:SGR - News) and the other is Halliburton Co. (NYSE:HAL - News) subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root. Vice President Dick Cheney is a former head of Halliburton. Bechtel National Inc., a unit of San Francisco-based Bechtel Corp., has also been selected by FEMA to provide short-term housing for people displaced by the hurricane. Bush named Bechtel's CEO to his Export Council and put the former CEO of Bechtel Energy in charge of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Experts say it has been common practice in both Republican and Democratic administrations for policy makers to take lobbying jobs once they leave office, and many of the same companies seeking contracts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina have already received billions of dollars for work in Iraq. Halliburton alone has earned more than $9 billion. Pentagon audits released by Democrats in June showed $1.03 billion in "questioned" costs and $422 million in "unsupported" costs for Halliburton's work in Iraq. But the web of Bush administration connections is attracting renewed attention from watchdog groups in the post-Katrina reconstruction rush. Congress has already appropriated more than $60 billion in emergency funding as a down payment on recovery efforts projected to cost well over $100 billion. "The government has got to stop stacking senior positions with people who are repeatedly cashing in on the public trust in order to further private commercial interests," said Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight. So sorry Reuters! Looks like you didn't do your research! Perhaps you should have paid more attention to Dan Rather and Memogate! From Brit Hume: Reuters reports that companies with a web of connections to the Bush administration are winning the first contracts to rebuild New Orleans. The story notes that the Shaw Group (search) of Baton Rouge, which has been awarded $200 million in clean-up contracts, employs former Bush campaign manager and FEMA director Joe Allbaugh (search) to provide "general business consulting." The Shaw Group's founder and CEO is J.M. Bernhard of Baton Rouge, Louisiana who is the chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party and was co-chairman Governor Kathleen Blanco's transition committee, a fact left out of the Reuters story. Disgusting. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Check this out. Pretty cool. Gotta wonder what this fellow was thinking. Clicky Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Do NOT miss the Rijksmuseum. Fantastic. The Van Gogh museum is also a definite must see. Even if you don't like art, the Rijsmuseum is still really, really cool. The Stedelijk(spelling?) museum sucked IMHO. A canal tour is also well worth it. Didn't like Oranjeboom beer all that much. The Heineken Brewery tour isn't too bad, even if Heineken isn't your brew of choice. Hope you have a blast! I sure did when I was there. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Clicky Thoughts, anyone? Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

I hope his remarks made the race-baiters on the left very, very proud. Fucktards. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Quite a bit actually. The damage from the storm, as you stated, did not affect just N.O. but the entire Gulf Coast region. Dynamiting the levees would have induced a large level of flooding throughout the city, 'tis true, but without the mass of additional water carried by Hurricane Katrina adding to it. The damage from rough seas, damage to oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico, and massive wind damage would not have occured had the levees been dynamited. Also, an act of terrorism would have probably evoked a much more proactive response at the Federal level, as countering terrorism is a primary responsibility of the Feds - unlike natural disaster relief, which is primarily the responsibility of the State.

Rethink that a bit. Dynamiting the levees have had quite a different effect. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Not GA TECH. face it dude - you got served. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Two thoughts for you to ponder: - 9/11 and Katrina's aftermath are truly akin to the 'apples and oranges' comparison so prevalently used in today's vernacular. - if airline terrorism, in your opinion, is no more avoidable than a hurricane strike as you state in your post, are you in favor of the complete elimination of security screening at airports? I have others, but must to bed anon. yours in agave, Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

I like the metric system, but say 'Fuck the French' anyway. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

If I won millions of dollars, I would buy the province of Jalasco, Mexico, and set up a Kingdom there. Everyone would call me 'your JACKASSedness' and skydives would be plentiful. The capital would be JACKASSville. And my picture would adorn all Patron and Herradura and Cabo Wabo and Don Julio and Tres Generaciones bottles - among others. Ahhhh.... Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Brilliant!

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I've read Boortz' book and though I'm more in favor of a flat tax in conjunction with a National Retail Sales Tax than the FairTax plan Boortz and Linder advocate, I can't deny that the book is outstanding. Mike Adams wrote a great review. Here it is: Why Boortz and Linder must be purged A review of The FairTax Book by Neal Boortz and John Linder Review by Mike Adams September 6, 2005 Good afternoon, my dear comrades. We have a problem on our hands. It is a very big problem, indeed. A new book has been released that threatens the progress we have made in recent decades to transform the U.S. economy from a capitalist system into one more like the economy of our beloved former Soviet Union. In 1848, our father Karl Marx wrote that “a heavy progressive or graduated income tax” is essential to the sustenance of a communist society. If Boortz and Linder succeed in tearing out the American tax code and replacing it with something simpler, we all know what will follow. A reformed government with less government spending will be the biggest blow to the new world order since the fall of the Berlin Wall nearly sixteen years ago. The principal danger of this new “FairTax Book” is that it threatens to put an end to the woeful ignorance of American taxpayers who think that they pay less as individuals when businesses and corporations are hit with tax increases. Our methods of class warfare depend upon the uneducated American taxpayer who does not yet know that there is only one entity – the individual – who actually pays taxes in America. In 1802, our great enemy Thomas Jefferson stated that “We might hope to see the finances of the Union as clear and intelligible as a merchant’s books, so that every member of Congress and every man of any mind in the Union should be able to comprehend them, to investigate abuses, and consequently to control them.” But, since then, we have made slaves of the American people, forcing them to pay accountants and lawyers just to comply with the law. They have been slaves to a system they do not even understand. Think of the progress we have made, comrades. Today, about 5.8 billion work hours are spent per year to ensure compliance with the tax code. That means that yearly the lives of over 8700 Americans (assuming a lifespan of 76 years) are spent trying to figure out how to pay the government. It also means we have taken over 2.75 million people out of the capitalist system each year in order to figure out how to please the IRS. That is more than the entire work force of the auto industry, the steel industry, and several other major industries combined. But now, our heroic efforts to cripple the capitalist system are threatened by this ridiculous new book. Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this new “FairTax” plan is the prospect that American jobs and businesses that left years ago seeking friendlier tax structures overseas will return to America. That means America will be stronger. Clearly, comrades, if you want a stronger America you must join me in defeating this dangerous proposal. We have fought to keep certain secrets from the Americans for many years. For example, Americans spent over $200 billion in 2003 filing IRS paperwork. Approximately the same amount of money was spent that year calculating the tax implications of business decisions. That means over $400 billion was spent just to collect roughly three times as much in tax revenues. What an absurd but ingenious system! Think how we have been crippling the capitalists while the American people have remained ignorant. But now these inefficiencies have been exposed and this exposure threats to jeopardize the very existence of the IRS. And, needless to say, without the IRS we will never see a truly communist America. Our greatest fear is, of course, the effect that all of this will have on personal savings. When people no longer have to put money away in IRAs and 401Ks over the long term in order to avoid taxes, what do you think will happen? Clearly, there will be an explosion in personal savings. Such savings are always followed by explosions in economic growth. We cannot allow new jobs to be created unless the government takes all the credit. That is the communist way. And that is why these two authors are so very dangerous. And, now, just imagine what will happen to the average retirement nest egg after all of the world’s investors are able to invest in the American economy without tax consequences. This means that the many millions of “have nots” – the ones we have been exploiting for so long - will attain real wealth that they can pass on to their offsprings. We must get these two revolutionaries but even that will not be enough. Every existing copy of this FairTax book must be seized and burned. Then we must launch a propaganda campaign against the people of America. It will not be easy to fool the people but we must. It is for their own good – the good of the collective that we must act now. Individual freedom, autonomy, and self-reliance be damned. Our entire world is beginning to crumble, comrades. We must capture Boortz and Linder immediately. If they resist, we will kill them. If not, we will transport them overnight to Siberia. I have nothing against Congressman Linder. But I can’t wait to get my hands on that other guy. I can’t stand the vicious SOB.

Hey! This is a GT thread! What are you doing here? JACKETS! Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

I'm the tequila swilling JACKASS of the family. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Sorry to hear that. Prayers and vibes, Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

They won't listen - they're too busy race baiting and screaming that the Iraq war took all of the levee $$. Fidiots - apparently gov't appropriations is far too complex for them to grasp. Then again, what does one expect from such folks? Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

I don't need to climb a mountain to look for a moonshine still. I've got tequila - and my relatives in KY can get me some moonshine if I run out of tequila. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Don't really know a lot about the U.S. budget/expenditure process, do you? LoL. Read up on it a bit. This Iraq vs. New Orleans comparison is akin to comparing lingerie to meteors. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!