June 2013
Today is Wednesday, June 19. This is World Sauntering Day, Eat and Oreo Day and Juneteenth. It's also National Dry Martini Day.
What week is this?
PolitiQuips
The Internal Revenue Service simply has no shame. After being held up to ridicule for the enormous waste of taxpayers' money on meetngs at fancy resorts where employees produced a "dance video" and has drawn universal criticism for targeting conservative groups, get this: the IRS is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses, despite a presidential directive banning such action because of the automatic spending cuts institute early this year.
Here's a bit of non-trivial trivia. Who are the three highest-paid employees on the Pentagon payroll? Not the Secretary of Defense. Not any generals or admirals. No, they are the Army, Navy and Air Force football coaches.
Stonewalling on administration scandals doesn't seem to be working very well for President Obama. A CNN poll shows a growing number of Americans believe the orders came from the White House for the Internal Revenue Service to target conservative political groups.
Just when we were almost able to pronounce Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran went and elected a new president. Hassan Rowhani's name isn't quite as intimidating. We'll have to wait and see about his policies.
"I choked after I learned the Republicans were being slaughtered by the Democrats in the congressional baseball game." - Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, trying to make light of a serious situation that occurred after a piece of popcorn got lodged in his throat. Several House colleagues and a staffer who doubles as a physician came to his aid.
PolitiQuips
President Obama's approval ratings are falling and even some of his most loyal supporters are turning against him. These include one-time Pentagon bomber Bill Ayers, the longtime friend who helped launch Obama's political career in Chicago with a coffee in his home. Ayers,in an interview, gave Obama a "failing grade" for his presidency and said he should be tried for "war crimes."
The Internal Revenue Service simply has no shame. After being held up to ridicule for the enormous waste of taxpayers' money on meetngs at fancy resorts where employees produced a "dance video" and has drawn universal criticism for targeting conservative groups, get this: the IRS is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses, despite a presidential directive banning such action because of the automatic spending cuts institute early this year.
Here's a bit of non-trivial trivia. Who are the three highest-paid employees on the Pentagon payroll? Not the Secretary of Defense. Not any generals or admirals. No, they are the Army, Navy and Air Force football coaches.
Stonewalling on administration scandals doesn't seem to be working very well for President Obama. A CNN poll shows a growing number of Americans believe the orders came from the White House for the Internal Revenue Service to target conservative political groups.
Just when we were almost able to pronounce Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran went and elected a new president. Hassan Rowhani's name isn't quite as intimidating. We'll have to wait and see about his policies.
"I choked after I learned the Republicans were being slaughtered by the Democrats in the congressional baseball game." - Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, trying to make light of a serious situation that occurred after a piece of popcorn got lodged in his throat. Several House colleagues and a staffer who doubles as a physician came to his aid.
Dick Cheney no longer is vice president but he's still important enough that someone tried to reach him by cell phone while he was on the air with Fox News interviewer Chris Wallace. Cheney was responding to a question about the IRS targeting of conservative groups when the phone signal rang out. The unflappable Cheney kept talking while glancing at his phone and presumably turning it off.
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