A review of Bush Administration scandals

This was available off of Salon.com. It lists 34 scandals of the Bush Administration, just so y'all don't forget. The actual article is here, but you need to be a Salon member.

The scandal sheet
Print it out, send it to Harry Reid, or just read it and weep. Here are 34 scandals from the first four years of George W. Bush's presidency -- every one of them worse than Whitewater.
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By Peter Dizikes

Jan. 18, 2005  |  Once upon a time -- about five years ago -- conservative pundits often talked about "scandal fatigue." Remember scandal fatigue? It was an affliction supposedly either turning voters against Democrats or, alternatively, a weariness in the body politic preventing Republicans from pursuing even more grievances against Bill Clinton. By any objective measure, however, after four years of George W. Bush's presidency, the entire nation should be suffering from utter scandal exhaustion.
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More on social security

Alright, here are a few resources on the Social Security issue.

Various folks are doing the Social Security math, and it's not adding up, at least as far as a crisis is concerned. Given the article below, it's clear that the conservatives supporting this issue are misrepresenting themselves grievously.

The article is here.

For those who are interested in getting involved in fighting this issue:

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After last night's title involving the Arab Translator, I've got nothing that can top that tonight.

I now understand what people say about listening to classical music on a good sound system. Finding a coupon in my email this morning for Border's Books, I went over and bought a disc of Ravel's work by conducter Paavo Jarvi and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. I had brought along my classical music collection to assist me in choosing arrangements. Sure enough, Borders had none of them.

Bastards. So I got the CD with the cutest guy on the cover. Anyway, this disc is sounding quite lovely. It includes Pavane for a Dead Princess, La Valse, Empress of the Pagodas (one of my favorites), and Bolero. I've been wanting a copy of Bolero. Sure it's popular, but it's sexy. What can you expect from a 5 foot tall composer named Maurice?

Oddly, he never married, and seemed to love children. I'll leave it to scarcrest to find out how much he "loved" children.

I also purchased Mozart's Requiem, but I have yet to listen to it.

Today I purchased a pedometer at work. I lost my old one. This one is fairly nifty and easy to use. I walked 6089 steps today since 1pm when I acquired the pedometer. I guess the goal is to get up to 10,000 per day. This will include my workouts. It will be interesting to see how many steps I take during the course of my work day.

I'm thinking of taking a network job that came up at work. The down side: it's overtime exempt. The upside: I could come and go as I please, as long as I take care of business. And, being exempt means that for any errands I run leaving campus, I don't have to claim annual leave for that. On the one hand, I would hate to lose that overtime. On the other hand, I would learn something new (data networking in more detail than I currently do), and more flexibility. Hmmmm.