The Department of Homeland Security recently sent out an entire book honoring former Secretary Michael Chertoff’s “Select Speeches” from 2005-2008.. Can anyone remember any thing from any of his speeches?
GrimJack 1,414 Posting Maven Featured Poster
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
Chertoff who???
vmanes 1,165 Posting Virtuoso
Never underestimate the ability of bureaucrats to do dumb stuff.
GrimJack 1,414 Posting Maven Featured Poster
I am sorry but these are not bureaucrats - they are worse, they are political appointees. "Another person pointed out to me that after Rice’s arrival in 2005 the tone of official State Department publications changed; they began to praise and glorify Rice. “No prior secretary,” said the twenty-year veteran, “did anything like this.”
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The Washington Post’s Al Kamen reports that last week, outgoing Interior Secretary Dick Kempthorne gave a farewell address to employees. However, it ends up it was little more than an homage to himself: “about 600 slides, each picturing the distinguished secretary, many of them taken at a national park.”
One “longtime employee” groaned, “Slide after slide after slide. It was special. That’s all I should say.”
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Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Alphonso Jackson has decided to honor himself with giant photo exhibitions in two of the lobbies at HUD’s headquarters. The images are each “about 2 feet by 3 feet” and many feature Jackson with President Bush. A picture of the display from the Washington Post (print version):
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Maybe (hopefully) someone will tear it down and replace it with homeage to Walt Disney for his lifetime achievement in the film industry. Or remove the pictures and replace them with grafitti.
Ene Uran 638 Posting Virtuoso
I am sorry but these are not bureaucrats - they are worse, they are political appointees. "Another person pointed out to me that after Rice’s arrival in 2005 the tone of official State Department publications changed; they began to praise and glorify Rice. “No prior secretary,” said the twenty-year veteran, “did anything like this.”
But than we never had a Secretary of State that could play the piano, dance and sing at the same time!
Ene Uran 638 Posting Virtuoso
Outgoing Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne has spruced up his office bathroom with $235,000 in renovations before he left.
The renovations included new plumbing, which did need to be replaced. Of course, a new shower came with the work. Other work included wainscot wood paneling from floor to the ceiling. Also included in the bathroom work was a cabinet holding a new refrigerator and freezer.
I guess, if you do a shiddy job, you might as well have a nice bathroom! This is the guy the banking industry should add to their CEO list.
GrimJack 1,414 Posting Maven Featured Poster
A freezer and refrigerator in the bathroom - the ramifications are cascading <*><*><*><*><*> stop the thoughts, oh gawd-please stop the thoughts
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