Meet the New Boss...

Emanuel transition aide quits after ethics violation revealed

A veteran politician Rahm Emanuel named to his mayoral transition team resigned her high-level state job last summer and paid a fine for conducting political business on state time, according to a newly filed ethics report.

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Wow, hasn't even been a WEEK and he's already popped his corruption cherry!

...same as the old Boss.

TSA Outrage - Follow The Money

TSA Scanner Outrage

Follow the money. Who's making it, now?

Michael Chertoff, while he was the Head of Homeland Security under Bush, advocated and pushed for installation and implementation of the full-body scanners.
Once he was out of "public service", Chertoff's consulting company (Read: Lobbying Company) landed as a client, Rapiscan, the company that makes the scanners. There are multiple links to info about Chertoff and the scanner company. [Read more]

Don't act surprised when you see these things pop up at court houses, jails, and then museums and sporting events. Think I'm kidding? I wish!

The next step in tightened security could be on U.S. public transportation, trains and boats. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists will continue to look for U.S. vulnerabilities, making tighter security standards necessary.

“[Terrorists] are going to continue to probe the system and try to find a way through,” Napolitano said in an interview that aired Monday night on "Charlie Rose."[Read]

TSA Scanner Outrage - Who's beating the war drum to piss people off and make a big deal about it? Incoming House Transportation chief Rep. John Mica (R-Fla. [Full Story and his letter to Airports] Why? He wants private companies to be running the functions of the TSA. Why would he want that? Most likely, if you followed the money trail - I'm going to go on a wild guess and suggest that maybe he knows someone who - just maybe - would get the contract if some high powered new Transportation Chief could make the case that private security firm goons are only slightly less scary than government goons. Why else would he tell folks not to stage their protests on the day before Turkey Day?

My solution: Fly naked.

Cousins and Cronies Lose a Pig

Hevesi to Plead Guilty to Felony in Case on State Pensions

No surprise here, but Former State comptroller Alan G. Hevesi was in custody on Thursday morning and was expected to plead guilty to a felony count stemming from a state pension scandal, several people with direct knowledge of the case said. He was awaiting arraignment in Manhattan.

Mr. Hevesi has been a subject of a lengthy investigation focusing on allegations that his friends, family and associates sold access to the state's $125 billion pension fund, one of the world's largest, to reward allies, pay back political favors and reap millions of dollars for themselves. That is, the cousins and cronies... that I'm always wailing about.

Mr. Hevesi's plea would make him the highest-ranking state official convicted in the case. In 2006, he pleaded guilty to a separate felony after admitting that he had used state workers to chauffeur his ailing wife, but he avoided jail time in that case after he agreed to resign.

Don't be surprised if he pleads down and turns State Evidence on everyone above him who was doing the exact same thing.

On the bonus side, at least they caught this sonofabitch. The downside, is that there are thousand more waiting to pull up to the trough.