http://jonathanturley.org/2008/03/08/bush-vetos-ban-on-waterboarding-democrats-feign-shock/

Patty C 1, March 8, 2008 at 5:17 pm

Previously posted – from my ‘Greatest Hits’ Album…

http://thehill.com/david-keene/feinsteins-cardinal-shenanigans-2007-04-30.html
By David Keene

Posted: 04/30/07 06:24 PM [ET]
“Anyone who knows much about real power in Congress knows that almost every member of the House and Senate lusts after a seat on the Appropriations Committee and hopes one day to achieve the status of Cardinal. The Cardinals, of course, are the folks who chair the various Appropriations Committee subcommittees and literally control the billions of dollars that pass through their hands.

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) chairs the Senate Rules Committee, but she’s also a Cardinal. She is currently chairwoman of the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies subcommittee, but until last year was for six years the top Democrat on the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies (or “Milcon”) sub-committee, where she may have directed more than $1 billion to companies controlled by her husband…”

with that much money it is hard to keep a good handle on it and I am sure some got missused. Hopefully not billions and billions.

Do I go Baaaa Baaaa and stand in line for the next train to the Ozarks or do you? This link may be totally irrelevant but you might like the read. I will acknowledge that there are a lot of things that I am ignorant about. And when I learn that I don’t know something. I can and will look at an issue from all perspectives. Its one thing to know your case it another thing to know the opponents case better. Oh yes, this is from the USACE April 18, 2009 news letter.

http://www.grd.usace.army.mil/index.asp

Oh well Baa Baa White sheep. . . .

Well, at least we’re not hyper defensive boors who make incorrect assumptions about knowledge bases. And if you think Halliburton, with their non-competitive contracts, missing pallet of cash and suspicious relocation out of jurisdiction are Cheney’s FORMER company? Well, I’d rather be ovis aries than naive.

Yours truly,

A former Bechtel employee

P.S. None of that obviates that Pelosi sucks.

Everyone likes ragging on Halliburton because its Cheneys former company. But no-one seems to remember the tens of millions in personal profit that Pelosi’s husband made through his partial ownership in Perini— (contractor company in Iraq that charged $1 million per mile or road constructed in Basra).

The reality is that Cheney although not the First Commander In Chief but damn close. How do you divide that power? But suffice it to say, Cheney was running the Whitehouse. He was the current CEO of Haliburton, no I am sorry, he was technically the Veep but was running Haliburton and KBR is a wholly owned subsidiary of Haliburton Oil.

The interesting tidbit on this is Johnson, yeah Lyndon had connections to Haliburton through Lady Bird. Yes her family was them.

And a last part of this, Johnson during, drum rolls, Vietnam authorized Brown and Root at that time to do civil engineering and construction of the bridges, that our service men had to cross. Hummmm, maybe I was confused that was that not the Army Corp of Eng that were supposed to do that after the military landed and made the area clear?

Heck call me what ever you want, but do please cal me.