Posted on 01/18/2005 4:53:02 AM PST by billorites
For some reason, I could not shake the image of Anita Hill from my head as I read the article...
The answer is in the article. Her husband is a Secret Service agent. You wouldn't believe how pervasive nepotism is among the federal agencies in DC.
There have been suggestions from her critics that Dr. Laura (Schlessinger) is not being entirely truthful with her title. She is not a medical doctor. She does not have a degree in medicine, psychology or psychiatry. Her degree is in physiology.
Physiology: 1 : a branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of life or of living matter (as organs, tissues, or cells) and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved
I was thinking more of Omarosa (sp), the one from Trump's reality show that worked for Gore. Wonder where her degree is from...
Like that ever happens...
I guess it doesn't matter if you know Jack about IT, what matters is that you have a sheepskin on the wall - and the gall to bluff your way through life.
Yes, that probably does explain it, unfortunately. Especially if one of his duties was not saying anything about Bill's - uh, activities.
Actual, I opened the article because of the "Dr. Laura" headline, but continued reading because it was darn interesting, so I guess it all worked out. Too bad that the only connection was the name "Laura".
< There have been suggestions from her critics that Dr. Laura (Schlessinger) is not being entirely truthful with her title. She is not a medical doctor. She does not have a degree in medicine, psychology or psychiatry. Her degree is in physiology. >
Do you think that every person with a Dr. in front of their name is an MD? Maybe since I have 2 Drs in my family who are not MDs I usually don't make that assumption. She does have a post-doctoral certification in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. She does add a disclaimer on her show at times to remind people that she is not a medical doctor.
Personally, to dispense the advice (and that's what she is...an advisor)she gives requires no degree. Just life lessons and common sense with some morality thrown in. My mom could do it too. Yes, I know her past, but that's the past.
This twit wasn't a Clinton political appointee. She was civil service.
Don't even civil service people undergo some sort of background check? It is my understanding they do.
And my point was that Clinton didn't even have background checks on all his appointees, which has never happened before as far as I know, and so why would he insist on any kind of accountability and even resume check for civil service?
Hey!!! I could be DOCTOR TWINKIE!!! For a price. . :o)
Ya'll take two aspirin and call me in the morning. - That will be $45.00, please.
The GSA may do it, but it's not something that the Clinton administration would be expected to do. They just do their political appointees.
And my point was that Clinton didn't even have background checks on all his appointees, which has never happened before as far as I know, and so why would he insist on any kind of accountability and even resume check for civil service?
Yeah, nothing like the fine tooth comb that the current administration gave Bernie Kerek, right?
That is a separate subject and certainly does not mean that Bush is not having the FBI vet his appointees. Whether he took the advice of the FBI or whether they gave him good information remains to be seen.
My point, for lurkers, is that Clinton did not permit the FBI to vet his appointees and many civil servants did not undergo even cursory background, resume checks. Most of Clinton's appointees refused to take drug tests as well.
THAT, I can assure you, is not happening in the Bush White House.
You know what I'm talking about.
ping to the White House email scandal
30 minutes on the internet and a few phone calls should have been enough. This worries me.
Yeah, I know. But let's not get into that here unless forced to do so.
The answer is in the article. Her husband is a Secret Service agent.
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NO! NO! NO!
She married Callahan AFTER she arrived in Washington. There is a much more interesting connection, reported in a previous FReeper post about a year ago, that Crabtree/Callahan, before she went to Washington to take over "Project X," was employed by the US Bureau of Mines, which was headquartered in the Oakland district of Pittsburgh, PA. That's the very same neighborhood in which Craig Livingstone worked as a bar bouncer, before he came to the Clinton WH to become the head of the WH Personnel Security, where he and an old Army buddy he hired to help him oversaw the infamous affair of improperly requesting FBI background files on numerous Republicans, which was later shrugged off as an "administrative snafu"....
She reportedly knew Livingstone during her days in Pittsburgh.
Another interesting coincidence: just as Callahan's first degree (associates in Liberal arts) was from a distance learning school, so too was Livingstone's (different schools, but both are "distance learning" institutions.)
This issue, of how Crabtree/Callahan came to be put in charge of "Project X," needs to be scrutinized in much greater detail. I think the results could be extremely illuminating.
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