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Once again what we see from you are hysterical assertions not based on anything that could be considered rational or credible.
All these stories are based on one single report that the inspector, Devaney, uses asinine emotional Hyperbole to apparently justify his wasting everyone's time and money on an investigation that uncovered what amounts to almost nada.
This story charges no one but rather implies that there is corruption SHORT of anythgin criminal. I am sorry, if there is no criminal activity and no rules broken, I am struggling to comprehend where this supports your hysterics.
“Simply stated, short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of the Interior,” charged Earl E. Devaney
Gee, give me a great big DUH.
This story is pure hysterics, much like your rants:
The investigation uncovered a "culture of substance abuse and promiscuity," Devaney said in a memo to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne.
The alleged misconduct involved at least 13 current and former employees of the department's Minerals Management Service (MMS) accused of rigging contracts and accepting gifts and engaging in "illicit sexual encounters" with subordinates and industry representatives, Devaney said.
Danielle Brian, executive director of the non-partisan watchdog Project on Government Oversight, said that "given the billions of dollars at stake, and the number of people involved, this is easily the worst instance of government misconduct that POGO has seen."
Yet the Department of the Interior employs more than 72,000 employees. I am betting that any major corporation in America would see this as a positive thing that out of all the investigations, only 13 current and FORMER employees were seen as violating company policy. Let’s do some math here……13 divided by 72,000 equals OMG, the percentage is so small I can’t put enough zeros in front.
Good lord, you have to laugh at the assertions of DeVaney; what a pile of chicken little bile.
Here is the REAL story quoting someone with a brain and lacking the emotional hysterics of your rants:
Randall B. Luthi, said that he takes the report "very seriously" and added that the small number of people implicated "does not represent a culture" in an agency of about 1,700 employees. The royalty-in-kind program, where the lapses cited in the report occurred, has about 50 employees.
It is obvious that Devaney has a political agenda, however, let me quote the memorandum to point out this hysterical conclusion he arrived at:
While the dollar amount of gifts and gratuities was not enormous (In other words MINOR),
these employees accepted gifts with prodigious frequency.
Gee, I guess someone better start enforcing the rules then and/or charge these people with the humungous crimes they have committed eh?
I think you should crown yourself; the "Epic Fail" is on your typical emotional hysterics which latch onto a report that hysterically makes absurd claims and then in its own report acknowledges the amounts were minor.
In any major business in America, this is an anomaly that can easily be rectified by strict enforcement but hardly the signs of, how did you and Devaney describe it? Oh yes;
“easily the worst instance of government misconduct that POGO has seen."
This is the level of “chicken little” reporting and outrageous emotional nonsense we are getting used to from Liberal Democrats and people like you. It is to the point where it is not just laughable from a credibility point of view, but more like the little boy who kept crying wolf where after a while we just find it extremely hard to take anything they say serious.
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I have to laugh at your link as well; Jay Yarrow?
P.S. This story will end up in the same place as the other efforts to impugn Bush Administration officials; in the crapper because there is no substance to the asinine allegations.
Come again? Did I explicitly state republicans? Besides, the Department of the Interior has a long and "illustrious" history of corruption. Warren G. Harding anyone? And interesting how you think that it will end up in the crapper when several interior department members are in jail. J. Steven Griles anyone?
Once again, when you have a bureaucracy that contains over 72,000 employees and have a few examples of criminal activity which has been prosecuted, that would be considered a fairly good percentage; unless of course you are a naïve inexperienced person who wears your emotions on your sleeve and are apt to erupt into emotional hysterics about the vast corruption of the empire of Amerika.
Typical TD. Argument from position of absolute sheer ignorance.
Typical OC argument; basing your entire emotional rant on a single report that itself contains more in the way of emotional hyperbole than anything it claims is within the report.
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Carry on your populist tirades about those evil corporations and corrupt politicians though; it is amusing at best.
And I said this where? You know, just because you're partisan hack doesn't mean that everyone who points it out is one as well.
OC, every time you post we are subjected to your emotionally charged hyperbole about how corrupt AmeriKa is with widespread rampant corporate greed and corruption and the collusion with the evil corporations with the widespread corruption within Government. Please stop pretending this is not an ongoing method of debate with you.
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Not because they don't exist, but because to listen to you everything is corrupt and that there is some perfect mythical place where corruption doesn't exist, companies only do what is good for communities regardless of profits and Government officials are of the highest integrity and intelligence and money is not a part of any process.
Gotta wonder where I ever said this. Could you please show me anything resembling this in any of my posts?
You imply this with your emotional hysterics. Perhaps if you read the gobbledy gook you post you would see it yourself? Just a suggestion; and by all means, carry on.
