I saw this in the comments section of Michelle Malkin's website for the story, Crashergate, Desiree Rogers, and the Chicago Way: Land of no consequences.
I don't know if these numbers are correct, but if they are... well... this is just wrong.
Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers:
Mamie Eisenhower : 1 paid for personally out of President’s salary
Jackie Kennedy: 1
Roseline Carter: 1
Barbara Bush: 1
Hilary Clinton: 3
Laura Bush: 1
Michele Obama: 22
Paid by Taxpayer money...
Michele Obama’s personal staff:
1.. $172,200 – Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 – Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary for Mrs. Obama)
4. $102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $100,000 – Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 – Medina , David S. (DeputyChief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 – Lel yveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 – Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 – Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. $64,000 – Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and EventsCoordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 – Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500 – Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16.. $50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $43,000 – Tubman, Samanth a (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 – Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $35,000 – Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 – Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
(total = $1,591,200 in annual
salaries)
Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid
Grimes-Miles, 49, and “First Hairstylist” Johnny
Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to
Europe .
Monday, November 30, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Shit Sandwich on Fine China
I have been trying to think of what I was going to write about the jackass at Ft. Hood..... well, today I read an article on ABC News and decided it was time.
I have my issues with Governmental Health Care, but I must say that the Insurance Coverage we have with Tricare is good. We buy Dental Insurance and it is also good. So far, my experiences have been good. Not Great, but I don't have any horror stories.
Now, with that said, it does not matter how good the coverage is..... if you don't have the Staff to back it up then it's just a Shit Sandwich on fine china. And by Staff I mean everyone from the Head of the Hospital to the people answering the phones in Central Appointments. There have been times when I have had to make phone calls and wait for the Physician I wanted to see, but as a whole, I have had very few problems.
But what's so sad is that I was NOT shocked to read the following statement in an article on ABC News.
One of Hasan's commanding officers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Lieutenant Colonel Melanie Guerrero, told investigators she had considered failing him as an intern but "decided to allow him to pass since he was going into psychiatry and would not be doing any real patient care."
And there, my friends, is the problem with Governmental Medicine. They need to fill a spot and even though he had all the red flags, their reasoning said "he's not going to do any real patient care" so lets just pass him.
And that's the standard of care for our Military and their dependents.
They are serving a shit sandwich, but putting it on fine china.
Folks, it's still a shit sandwich.
I have my issues with Governmental Health Care, but I must say that the Insurance Coverage we have with Tricare is good. We buy Dental Insurance and it is also good. So far, my experiences have been good. Not Great, but I don't have any horror stories.
Now, with that said, it does not matter how good the coverage is..... if you don't have the Staff to back it up then it's just a Shit Sandwich on fine china. And by Staff I mean everyone from the Head of the Hospital to the people answering the phones in Central Appointments. There have been times when I have had to make phone calls and wait for the Physician I wanted to see, but as a whole, I have had very few problems.
But what's so sad is that I was NOT shocked to read the following statement in an article on ABC News.
One of Hasan's commanding officers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Lieutenant Colonel Melanie Guerrero, told investigators she had considered failing him as an intern but "decided to allow him to pass since he was going into psychiatry and would not be doing any real patient care."
And there, my friends, is the problem with Governmental Medicine. They need to fill a spot and even though he had all the red flags, their reasoning said "he's not going to do any real patient care" so lets just pass him.
And that's the standard of care for our Military and their dependents.
They are serving a shit sandwich, but putting it on fine china.
Folks, it's still a shit sandwich.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Blackmail Idiot
Does anyone else think that the guy attempting to blackmail David Letterman is a complete idiot?
Really people, why didn't he just sell the info in bits and pieces to the Star or US magazine? He could have cleared well in excess of $500,000. The love letters alone would be a great negotiating tool.
I guess that's why he's working for CBS.... Cable TV people would have played the tabloid game MUCH better.
Really people, why didn't he just sell the info in bits and pieces to the Star or US magazine? He could have cleared well in excess of $500,000. The love letters alone would be a great negotiating tool.
I guess that's why he's working for CBS.... Cable TV people would have played the tabloid game MUCH better.
Hello Old Friend
OK, it's been a while since I posted. Got caught up in the Facebook Craze oh, and the spouse deployed to the other side of the world, but other than that, I'm still Bat Shit Crazy.
LOTS on my Mind. Need to get it out so I can function again.
Hang on friends.... here I come.
LOTS on my Mind. Need to get it out so I can function again.
Hang on friends.... here I come.
Thank you Dominick Dunne
I loved all of Dominick Dunne's Books. He wrote about peoples lives... really rich people with realy rich people problems... a good escape.. a great Lifetime movie!
I didn't understand his obsession of the OJ trial until I heard about his life story. I loved him even more when I read a copy of his 1982 Vanity Fair story about his daughter's death and the trial of her murderer. It will break your heart. (His daughter- murdered by a stalker - Dominique Dunne - the teenage girl in Poltergeist.)
Anyway... I smiled today when I heard he had passed. I hope he finds some peace. I also hope Ted Kennedy is at peace. They both lived life in the fast lane.
Dominick Dunne and Ted Kennedy died on the same day. Why is that of any interest? Has anyone read A Season in Purgatory. One of Dunne's Bestsellers - Made for TV Movie. A good, Lifetime type of movie with politics, sex, murder, large Irish Catholic Family..... you get the rest....
The following is a copy of the book review from Entertainment Weekly - April 16, 1993.
....Readers are hereby enjoined from heeding malicious speculation. There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that A Season in Purgatory, Dominick Dunne's highly entertaining if rather salacious novel about a criminally rich clan of Irish Catholic New Englanders with dynastic political ambitions, is meant to represent any family you ever heard of. All characters and incidents portrayed are purely imaginary. Any and all resemblances to Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy of Boston, Hyannisport, Palm Beach, etc., their heirs and descendants, courtiers, and hangers-on are wholly and purely coincidental.
Okay, so there are some resemblances: Paterfamilias Gerald Bradley — an almost comically ruthless tycoon with a habit of slipping into the beds of his daughters' bridesmaids, then doling out mink coats and hush money-may appear to have been lifted from the pages of Nigel Hamilton's controversial biography JFK. Ditto Bradley's shallow, social-climbing, ostentatiously pious wife, Grace. Or their huge brood of toothy, charming, athletic children-including the martyred Kevin, killed in a war he could have avoided, and poor mad Agnes, sequestered among nuns and forgotten. But there are big differences from the Kennedy saga too. The Bradley boys, see, attend Yale, not Harvard. They go to Congress from Connecticut, not Massachusetts. And they don't play touch football. They play softball.
And it's with a softball bat that handsome, charismatic Constant Bradley, his father's favorite, is said to have bludgeoned to death a 15-year-old neighbor named Winifred Utley late one night in 1973. According to the Bradleys and their sycophants among the press, it's a vicious, entirely false accusation made nearly 20 years after the fact by one Harrison Burns, a scholarship student befriended by Constant at prep school and given an Ivy League education at his family's expense. And besides, the wench was a tease. ''A youthful prank that got out of hand,'' Constant's father and brothers think.
I didn't understand his obsession of the OJ trial until I heard about his life story. I loved him even more when I read a copy of his 1982 Vanity Fair story about his daughter's death and the trial of her murderer. It will break your heart. (His daughter- murdered by a stalker - Dominique Dunne - the teenage girl in Poltergeist.)
Anyway... I smiled today when I heard he had passed. I hope he finds some peace. I also hope Ted Kennedy is at peace. They both lived life in the fast lane.
Dominick Dunne and Ted Kennedy died on the same day. Why is that of any interest? Has anyone read A Season in Purgatory. One of Dunne's Bestsellers - Made for TV Movie. A good, Lifetime type of movie with politics, sex, murder, large Irish Catholic Family..... you get the rest....
The following is a copy of the book review from Entertainment Weekly - April 16, 1993.
....Readers are hereby enjoined from heeding malicious speculation. There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that A Season in Purgatory, Dominick Dunne's highly entertaining if rather salacious novel about a criminally rich clan of Irish Catholic New Englanders with dynastic political ambitions, is meant to represent any family you ever heard of. All characters and incidents portrayed are purely imaginary. Any and all resemblances to Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy of Boston, Hyannisport, Palm Beach, etc., their heirs and descendants, courtiers, and hangers-on are wholly and purely coincidental.
Okay, so there are some resemblances: Paterfamilias Gerald Bradley — an almost comically ruthless tycoon with a habit of slipping into the beds of his daughters' bridesmaids, then doling out mink coats and hush money-may appear to have been lifted from the pages of Nigel Hamilton's controversial biography JFK. Ditto Bradley's shallow, social-climbing, ostentatiously pious wife, Grace. Or their huge brood of toothy, charming, athletic children-including the martyred Kevin, killed in a war he could have avoided, and poor mad Agnes, sequestered among nuns and forgotten. But there are big differences from the Kennedy saga too. The Bradley boys, see, attend Yale, not Harvard. They go to Congress from Connecticut, not Massachusetts. And they don't play touch football. They play softball.
And it's with a softball bat that handsome, charismatic Constant Bradley, his father's favorite, is said to have bludgeoned to death a 15-year-old neighbor named Winifred Utley late one night in 1973. According to the Bradleys and their sycophants among the press, it's a vicious, entirely false accusation made nearly 20 years after the fact by one Harrison Burns, a scholarship student befriended by Constant at prep school and given an Ivy League education at his family's expense. And besides, the wench was a tease. ''A youthful prank that got out of hand,'' Constant's father and brothers think.
Wal Mart Critter
I would have given him a much fancier french name... like Raimond or Henri.
Abbeville Meridional
Abbeville, Louisiana
Woman sues Wal-Mart over nutria in store
By Chris Rosa
Posted April 30th, 2009
A nutria like this one was seen in Wal-Mart The last thing one expects to see running down the aisles of Wal-Mart in Abbeville while shopping is a nutria. But according to a lawsuit filed this week, a nutria called “Norman” is what Rebecca White saw in an aisle.
Randal and Rebecca White of Abbeville hired Anthony Fontana to represent them in the lawsuit. According to the lawsuit, Rebecca was in the grocery aisle shopping on Oct. 11, 2008. Her basket was full of food when suddenly and without warning, a large nutria came from behind the Coke rack and ran straight towards Rebecca, the lawsuit said.
Rebecca, fearing for her safety, pulled the shopping cart towards her to protect her from the nutria andas she did, the cart rolled over her left foot causing her to stumble and causing her to suffer an injury.
Wal-Mart’s employees came to assist her and told Rebecca that, “she had an encounter with Norman” a name the employees had given the nutria, the lawsuit stated.
Rebecca was transported to Abbeville General by Acadian Ambulance for treatment.
The lawsuit state that Wal-Mart and its employees are negligent. The lawsuit said Wal-Mart did not:
• Warn her of the nutria prior to her entering the store.
• Did not take steps to protect her from the nutria.
• Did not warn her that she is shopping at her own risk because there is a wild animal loose in the store.
• Did not attempt to capture the nutria.
As a result of the above, White suffered:
• Pain, suffering and mental anguish.
•Fear of being bitten by a wild animal causing a panic attack.
• Painful disabling injury to her back and foot.
• Interference with her daily activities.
• Medical expenses past, present and future.
Abbeville Meridional
Abbeville, Louisiana
Woman sues Wal-Mart over nutria in store
By Chris Rosa
Posted April 30th, 2009
A nutria like this one was seen in Wal-Mart The last thing one expects to see running down the aisles of Wal-Mart in Abbeville while shopping is a nutria. But according to a lawsuit filed this week, a nutria called “Norman” is what Rebecca White saw in an aisle.
Randal and Rebecca White of Abbeville hired Anthony Fontana to represent them in the lawsuit. According to the lawsuit, Rebecca was in the grocery aisle shopping on Oct. 11, 2008. Her basket was full of food when suddenly and without warning, a large nutria came from behind the Coke rack and ran straight towards Rebecca, the lawsuit said.
Rebecca, fearing for her safety, pulled the shopping cart towards her to protect her from the nutria andas she did, the cart rolled over her left foot causing her to stumble and causing her to suffer an injury.
Wal-Mart’s employees came to assist her and told Rebecca that, “she had an encounter with Norman” a name the employees had given the nutria, the lawsuit stated.
Rebecca was transported to Abbeville General by Acadian Ambulance for treatment.
The lawsuit state that Wal-Mart and its employees are negligent. The lawsuit said Wal-Mart did not:
• Warn her of the nutria prior to her entering the store.
• Did not take steps to protect her from the nutria.
• Did not warn her that she is shopping at her own risk because there is a wild animal loose in the store.
• Did not attempt to capture the nutria.
As a result of the above, White suffered:
• Pain, suffering and mental anguish.
•Fear of being bitten by a wild animal causing a panic attack.
• Painful disabling injury to her back and foot.
• Interference with her daily activities.
• Medical expenses past, present and future.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Pain in my ass!
When it rains it pours...... all I needed was an immunization card and I found myself in a maze of hospital files..... where is the file? who has the file? We are not under Family Practice. Oh, we are under Family Practice. Really, thought we changed that in the Fall....... Gotta LOVE the Government.
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