Why don't you list the Salvation Army?

The Salvation Army is exempt under Internal Revenue Code from filing Form 990 as a "church or convention or association of churches." As a result, we lack sufficient data to evaluate their financial health. We know many donors are interested in this organization and have asked the Salvation Army to submit their financial data to us for review, and they have elected to decline, as they are allowed under federal law.

Estimates vary regarding the amount allocated for administrative costs, but the Salvation Army spends a bundle on those "fees."

Well, it looks like another one of Bush's "heckuva job," ineffective failures has bit the dust. 

Bush personally tapped Martinez as the Repub's first Hispanic RNC chairman, and he also named him as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Bush picked him for RNC chairman figuring it was a great opportunity to attract Hispanic and other minority voters.

I guess their phoney message that Republicans give a damn about minorities just didn't pan out.  It sure didn't help when the Repub candidates decided to skip minority-run debates either.

Poor Mel.  He should pick his friends with a little more discretion.

¡Gran sátira!

LOL!

Fred also said, at the Values Voter Summit, that after seeing a sonogram of his daughter Hayden, he "will never feel exactly the same again because his heart now is fully engaged with his head."

to sound like Democrats -- they don't belong to any organized political party!

So whom will this third group endorse? Probably no one, said Bauer. He expected the group to conclude this weekend that there would be no consensus nominee, freeing each of the members to make individual endorsements. "There was a moment of insanity about 18 months ago where we all thought that we could all agree," Bauer said. "But that is about as likely as herding cats."

If Mukasey is viewed as a decent man, the bar has been set so low that it means only that he could be fairly good but not excellent.

The fact is, Mukasey has been vetted, interrogated, coached, and hand-picked by the Cheny/Bush WH. He is intended to be their protection against investigation and possible prosecution for war crimes and other impeachable offenses.

Decent? I think not!

This Values Voter Summit may as well be named the Flip-Flop-Flim-Flam Follies.

These guys are pander perfect -- they say anything the super social conservative religious right wants to hear. Remember the guy in 2000 who said he opposed using United States military for nation building and promised (oh, so unfaithfully!) that he'd never start a war without an exit strategy?

Oh, but that's right...the Values Voters are not that interested in lies such as GWB told ad nauseum. Same sex marriage, abortion, and no new taxes are so much more important to these deep thinkers.

for the Republicans, fear is a renewable resource:

"It's not going to do me any good to be pro-life if I am blown up"

This country is totally insane. We get what we deserve -- good and hard.

Blackwater USA formally withdrew its membership in the International Peace Operations Association, effective October 10, 2007.

Sez IPOA in a press release: IPOA was actively engaged with senior management at Blackwater USA, both through our Standards Committee and our Executive Committee, to ensure that they were fully compliant with the IPOA Code of Conduct. On October 8, 2007 the IPOA Executive Committee authorized the Standards Committee to initiate an independent review process of Blackwater USA to ascertain whether Blackwater USA's processes and procedures were fully sufficient to ensure compliance with the IPOA Code of Conduct.

All IPOA member companies are required to follow the IPOA Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct is a set of ethical and professional guidelines for companies in the peace and stability operations industry. The Code stresses human rights, corporate ethics, International Humanitarian Law, transparency, accountability, and responsibility and professionalism in relationships with employees, clients, and partner companies.

Gee whiz, I wonder what IPOA's code of conduct says about tax evasion.

FROM IPOA'S WEBSITE:

The International Peace Operations Association (IPOA) is a trade association whose mission is to promote high operational and ethical standards of firms active in the Peace and Stability Industry; to engage in a constructive dialogue with policy-makers about the growing and positive contribution of these firms to the enhancement of international peace, development, and human security; and to inform the concerned public about the activities and role of the industry.

Sure thing. Anytime the bottom line is a consideration in keeping the peace and stability, you can bet mercenaries are running the show.

Do these sorry SOBs think we don't remember anything?! I guess they figure they can get away with flip-flopping (lying?) because they know their Dem opponents, are much nicer, kinder, compassionate people, and won't make gay marriage an issue.

New York Daily News

March 8, 2004

Rudy opposes gay nups ban

By James Gordon Meek, Daily News Washington Bureau

 WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani came out yesterday against President Bush's call for a ban on gay marriage.

 The former mayor, who Vice President Cheney joked the other night is after his job, vigorously defended the President on his post-9/11 leadership but made clear he disagrees with Bush's proposal to rewrite the Constitution to outlaw gays and lesbians from tying the knot.

"I don't think it's ripe for decision at this point," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"I certainly wouldn't support [a ban] at this time," added Giuliani, who lived with a gay Manhattan couple when he moved out of Gracie Mansion during his nasty divorce.

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Giuliani conceded he's "out of sync" with his party's conservative base, but likened himself to other moderate GOP stars like Gov. Pataki and Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.