In FEMA revelation, Michael Brown fudged his resume

Yep, this is the administration that was going to bring dignity back to the White House.

I can still take cupcakes into Emmett's class and Northern California usually leads the nation in food dictatorship

Funny you should mention that, since I just read that Diane Feinstein wants NyQuil and Sudafed to become controlled substances (only purchasable in person; must show photo ID; must sign a register).

At a time of national crisis, and the President already having signed $61 BILLION in disaster relief, we as a nation can't afford to pay $9 an hour to laborers?

Given that we are paying mercenaries a whole lot more than that to patrol New Orleans....argh! I may be overly suspicious, but I think the administration sees this as a way to get the minimum wage lowered. If they suspend it here and now, it's possible that a precedent will be set, and minimum wage will either stay suspended, stay at the new lower levels, or be suspended whenever the Executive feels like it.

All these scum fuckers who want to shrink the federal government,

Yet oddly so many seem to support Bush, who doesn't have much a track record of shrinking the government.

I'm more likely to keep it in.

Yeah, I'm not the most internal guy. Sometimes to my own detriment.

Yet oddly so many seem to support Bush, who doesn't have much a track record of shrinking the government.

This is the really mindbending part.

Sometimes to my own detriment.

And my style sometimes works to my detriment. No quarrels here.

Somebody said online "If there are no atheists in foxholes, there are also no libertarians when the levee breaks."

Sadly, this is proving false.

Nah. They just say neither party was able to build an effective levee. The wonderful thing about libertarians is that current events almost never sway their commitment to their ideology.

Mmmmm. Iced lemon cupcakes with lunch.

That was dessert. Lunch was lobster ravioli with wild mushrooms, as well as a shredded carrot-and-almond-and-cumin-and-currant salad.

Free.

I love "the cat's on the roof" joke and tell it quite frequently. If Nilly were here, she'd probably find where I told it on this very board.

Given that we are paying mercenaries a whole lot more than that to patrol New Orleans....argh! I may be overly suspicious, but I think the administration sees this as a way to get the minimum wage lowered. If they suspend it here and now, it's possible that a precedent will be set, and minimum wage will either stay suspended, stay at the new lower levels, or be suspended whenever the Executive feels like it.

It's been a while since I was really into the nitty-gritty of government contracting, but at a glance, I don't think this says what the linked site says it does.

The regulation in question states that the government must pay "prevailing wages" for a task/position. I.e., if the prevailing wage for electrician is $35/hour (numbers pulled out of my ass), then the government can't use it's position of strength to force contracts that pay $15 an hour. This is what's being suspended. And it still sucks. But it doesn't mean they can run around paying $2 an hour; it does mean that they're not tied into paying the $35 that might be in an existing contract.

I'm going back to read it again more carefully, so grain of salt this, but that's my initial take.

yummy, BHP!

I had a burrito that was not free. But it had its own burritoesque charms.