“Federal employees used government credit cards to pay for lingerie, gambling, iPods, Internet dating services, and a $13,000 steak-and-liquor dinner, according to a new audit from the Government Accountability Office…”
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The Washington Post has an article about the abuses of Government issued credit cards meant for purchases under $2500 that don’t have to go out to bid. Why are these cards necessary?
This is infuriating. It makes my Libertarian Vein throb.
This reminds me of that old Emily Dickinson Poem.
Beauty is not caused, — it is:
Chase it, and it ceases,
Chase it not, and it abides.
Overtake the creases.
In the meadow when the wind
Runs his fingers thro’ it,
Deity will see to it,
That you never do it.
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“Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.”
— Mark Twain
I finally replaced my stolen macbook pro, and am in the middle of insuring my new laptop. I am hoping to start posting again a bit more frequently now, and I’m hoping that going back to Grad School for Urban Planning will give me more time and reason to post here, and at my other tumblr (theurbanist.tumblr.com).
(Let’s hope the Scientologists don’t come back)
I often look at the unfollow button on jakob lodwick’s page, but just can’t pull the trigger. I feel like a tumbling jack twist…
I go through the same thought process everytime he posts something vain or pseudo-philosophical. But then I think that all blogs are at least partly ego driven (not to mention, I choose to read it) and it can be beneficial to be forced to remember why I think objectivism is so flawed.
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“I view that as a significant victory. I view it as part of the victory on the war on terror. After all, the ideologues can’t stand … free societies — that’s why they try to kill innocent people. That’s why they tried to intimidate people during the election process.”
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- Dubya talking about the recent elections in Pakistan in which President Musharraf’s party suffered serious losses.
Well I guess it takes one ideologue guilty of intimidating voters to know another one.
via: abc News
I saw this on simko’s tumblr (she has a great design aesthetic) and I had to re-post. I know ragging on dubya is like beating a dead horse at this point, and nothing can be entirely clever or original (because it’s all been said) but this is still pretty great, and an important reminder that we’ve been in Iraq for almost 5 years and for many of us our lives wouldn’t be any different if we weren’t there.
But like I said, there’s nothing original or insightful to this post. It’s all been said.
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“Arrogance is, after all, one of the coefficients of money.”
— Robert Caro in his epic biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker.
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