The Australian goverment is about to fall, the principal policy of the premier's rival being his stated intention to pull Australian troops out of Iraq.
Oh, darn it anyway. This is just such a sad story.
Quote:President of Evangelical University Resigns
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 24, 2007
TULSA, Okla., Nov. 23 (AP) ?- Facing accusations that he misspent university money to support a lavish lifestyle, the president of Oral Roberts University has resigned, officials said Friday.
Robert S. Cross/The Tulsa World
Richard Roberts, of Oral Roberts University, is said to have misspent university money.
The resignation by Richard Roberts was effective immediately, according to an e-mail statement from George Pearsons, the chairman of the university's Board of Regents.
Mr. Roberts, the son of the televangelist and university founder Oral Roberts, came under fire with the university after three former professors filed a lawsuit last month that included accusations of a $39,000 shopping tab for Mr. Robert's wife, Lindsay, at one store; a $29,411 senior trip to the Bahamas on the university jet for one of Mr. Roberts's daughters; and a stable of horses for the Roberts children.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/24/education/24oral.html
blatham wrote:Oh, darn it anyway. This is just such a sad story.
Quote:President of Evangelical University Resigns
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 24, 2007
TULSA, Okla., Nov. 23 (AP) ?- Facing accusations that he misspent university money to support a lavish lifestyle, the president of Oral Roberts University has resigned, officials said Friday.
Robert S. Cross/The Tulsa World
Richard Roberts, of Oral Roberts University, is said to have misspent university money.
The resignation by Richard Roberts was effective immediately, according to an e-mail statement from George Pearsons, the chairman of the university's Board of Regents.
Mr. Roberts, the son of the televangelist and university founder Oral Roberts, came under fire with the university after three former professors filed a lawsuit last month that included accusations of a $39,000 shopping tab for Mr. Robert's wife, Lindsay, at one store; a $29,411 senior trip to the Bahamas on the university jet for one of Mr. Roberts's daughters; and a stable of horses for the Roberts children.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/24/education/24oral.html
Whats so sad about it?
If he misspent the schools money,not only should he resign but he should also be prosecuted.
Are you an alumni?
Is that why the story is so sad for you?
I guess it because another leader in the 'christian values community' has paid to be sodomized or taken funds from the parishoners for an airplane or whose wife is humping the school kids or some other sad thing. It grieves me so.
Grieved as you are, I'm sure you realize this thread isn't the ideal place for you to just park any sad story you run across.
Or maybe you thought this was the "Christian values" thread?
Or maybe you just lumped everyone who supports Bush as a bible-thumping evangelical?
No, some of them have different demerits.
Ticomaya wrote:Grieved as you are, I'm sure you realize this thread isn't the ideal place for you to just park any sad story you run across.
Or maybe you thought this was the "Christian values" thread?
Or maybe you just lumped everyone who supports Bush as a bible-thumping evangelical?
But I do think it exactly the ideal (meaning, most appropriate) thread for this sort of sad news. Too many of you who have supported this administration and the conservative movement as it has evolved have been far too slow in facing up to the inconsistencies between claim and fact and to the immense damage done to the US. Heck, it ought to be enough just to consider the damage done to the Republican party. But the first is much worse in consequence and will take much longer to repair. I like you, tico, and I'm sorry we've bumped into each other under the sort of circumstances that exist presently. What happened to Aznar in Spain, to Blair in England, and now to Howard in Australia is a consequence not merely relating to Iraq, even if that is the most significant element. Free peoples don't like war mongering but they also don't like deceitful, corrupt and extremist leaders. Not for long, at least.
Bernie-
It is a mere incident. It is of interest only to those who's money the bloke was spending.
He seems, if anything, to be one of those men of which there are too many, who cannot say "No!" to a female.
Your use of it as a grindstone on which to sharpen your axe, an entirely narcissictic activity, is self defeating as it can only serve to polarise your opponents even further due to you having insulted their intelligence so crudely.
One can no doubt surf cyberspace and find incidents which will serve any side's purpose. wande does it all the time.
You will never win friends and influence people that way. Not the movers and shakers like us lot anyway. Your neices maybe if you have any.
Quote:At least 20,000 U.S. troops who were not classified as wounded during combat in Iraq and Afghanistan have been found with signs of brain injuries, according to military and veterans records compiled by USA TODAY.
The data, provided by the Army, Navy and Department of Veterans Affairs, show that about five times as many troops sustained brain trauma as the 4,471 officially listed by the Pentagon through Sept. 30. These cases also are not reflected in the Pentagon's official tally of wounded, which stands at 30,327.
Soldiers and Marines whose wounds were discovered after they left Iraq are not added to the official casualty list, says Army Col. Robert Labutta, a neurologist and brain injury consultant for the Pentagon.
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20071123/1a_lede23.art.htm
And then, for comparison, you'll want to take a look at the steadily increasing profits, since 2003, made by Halliburton.
You know, just to make you really fall in love even more with what this phucking administration has done.
In fact Bernie I can think of a few incidents from the years our "democrats" have been in charge. The £400 per roll wallpaper for our liberal Lord Chancellor's office for example. They always want the offices, particularly the usual ones, reburbishing when they get the chance. And don't they do lavish. Don't they just. Really tasteless styles mind you but still quite expensive. A large scale elaboration on the "change the toilet seats" principle
If Mrs Clinton gets going on the White House and Camp David and Air Force 1, 2 and 3 you will see some vanity spending.
Well- they have been laughed at a lot for not being posh so it's understandable. One can't expect the tastes of the liberals to be in tune with that of that load of (fill in as you please) they have just seen off.
They will be on a high. Ever seen a real new broom Bernie.
Why don't you read the She Who Must Be Obeyed series by Sir Henry Rider Haggard who's books I presume are now unread in American schools.
He did say he wrote them for big boys as well as little ones. I've read them in both modes. In the former state, one to be deplored I know, he has been been known to cause me to have to go for a stroll. Frequently.
He was cooler than the coolest cat you've ever met.
spendius wrote:Why don't you read the She Who Must Be Obeyed series by Sir Henry Rider Haggard who's books I presume are now unread in American schools.
He did say he wrote them for big boys as well as little ones. I've read them in both modes. In the former state, one to be deplored I know, he has been been known to cause me to have to go for a stroll. Frequently.
He was cooler than the coolest cat you've ever met.
Yes yes, quite right spendi and dear Bernie after reading Haggard be sure and refresh your viewing pleasure with "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death" as well as "Amazon women on the moon" and the entire Indianna Jones series.
How deep will this one reach in the party of the corrupt?
Quote:
PBS NOW: Alaskan Oil, Politics & the Corrupt Bastards Club
NOW takes a look at the FBI case against the "Corrupt Bastards Club," where cash and favors flowed between an Alaska-based oil services company and an Alaska Republican good-old-boy network that stretched all the way to DC.
Two state legislators have been convicted in Federal court for accepting bribes from VECO. The FBI has video and audio evidence that reveal VECO executives shockingly handing out cash to those legislators in exchange for promises to roll back a tax on the oil industry. But that may only be the tip of the oily iceberg. NOW's Maria Hinojosa learns that dozens more lawmakers are being eyed in the growing scandal, including one of the country's most powerful politicians, Alaska U.S. Senator Ted Stevens.
http://crooksandliars.com/
And those are only the tip of the iceberg. It's gonna get worse, so don't fret the "small" stuff.
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Iraqis may offer US deal to stay longer By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer
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BAGHDAD - Iraq's government, seeking protection against foreign threats and internal coups, will offer the U.S. a long-term troop presence in Iraq in return for U.S. security guarantees as part of a strategic partnership, two Iraqi officials said Monday.
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The proposal, described to The Associated Press by two senior Iraqi officials familiar with the issue, is one of the first indications that the United States and Iraq are beginning to explore what their relationship might look like once the U.S. significantly draws down its troop presence.
As part of the package, the Iraqis want an end to the current U.N.-mandated multinational forces mission, and also an end to all U.N.-ordered restrictions on Iraq's sovereignty.
Iraq has been living under some form of U.N. restriction since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the officials said.
U.S. troops and other foreign forces operate in Iraq under a U.N. Security Council mandate, which has been renewed annually since 2003. Iraqi officials have said they want that next renewal ?- which must be approved by the U.N. Security Council by the end of this year ?- to be the last.
The two senior Iraqi officials said Iraqi authorities had discussed the broad outlines of the proposal with U.S. military and diplomatic representatives. The Americans appeared generally favorable subject to negotiations on the details, which include preferential treatment for American investments, according to the Iraqi officials involved in the discussions.
Looks like Halliburton gets a long-term, non-bid, contract for their life time.
Fun headline of the day...
Quote:Cheney's Heart Back to Normal
