Posted on 03/10/2006 9:11:27 AM PST by Hi Heels
It looks great devolve. You've got a larger space in the center of them and about 5/8" left on the right. I would just go with the size you are using now, don't want it to run over.
ROFL! Dang, that was funny!
Oh boy, it sure is a busy night tonight.
Not hard to do since he's dead.
Exactly.
And it's not what SHE did for Wal-Mart that is going to be the problem; it's what THEY did for her and Bill.
And let's not forget about Tyson.
Hellary WILL be the dimmiecrat candidate in '08.
Karl Rove has willed it.
It will be so.
Biography
Bob Ortega is an award winning investigative reporter, who covered Wal-Mart for the Wall Street Journal for five years. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He previously worked at the Seattle Times and The Anchorage Times and has contributed articles to numerous other publications. He lives in Chandler, Arizona.
The director of the International Center for Journalists in Georgia, Robert Ortega
Bob Ortega, an independent journalist who was a Knight International Press Fellow in Paraguay in 1999. From 2000 to 2002, he was the Director of the Journalism School in Tblisi, Georgia, a program administered by ICFJ in Georgia. Ortega worked as a consultant for IREX in Belarus from 2003 to 2005. Previously, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and wrote several histories of Guatemala and Mexico.
Bob Ortega, a former correspondent in Guatemala for the "Wall Street Journal."
Robert Ortega, an American journalist who has done media development work over many years in Latin America, in Belarus, and in Georgia where he ran ICFJ’s part of the USAID-funded ProMedia program.
Hypocrites!
Wal-Mart hires Clinton staffer to fight health care legislation
By J. Holly Dolloff
Nashville Business Journal
Updated: 7:00 p.m. ET March 5, 2006
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has hired former Clinton administration staff member Dennis Alpert to lead efforts in Tennessee against a piece of legislation that targets large businesses.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11693887/
Dennis Alpert, was also Al Gore's advance man.
nephew of Baba Ram Das, known as Dr. Richard Alpert in the days when he was helping Timothy Leary push LSD was a raving Deadhead
Wal-Mart spokesman Dennis Alpert
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Hillary was placed in charge of the WalMart's "green" program to protect the environment
Hillary was invited onto the Wal-Mart board because Sam Walton was criticized for fostering a male-only culture. Walton called Hillary and said "I need a woman...will you be her?" Her husband had been very good to Wal-Mart as governor of Arkansas.
Hillary was supposed to be a "corporate litigator"
she also served on the board of Lafarge, a company that, burned hazardous fuels to run its cement plants
Hillary Clinton became the first woman appointed to the Wal-Mart board, and tried to get the company to hire more women managers and they ignored her.
Hillary Clinton, whose law firm also represented Wal-Mart
http://tinyurl.com/nudgm
When asked if she ever fought for “progressive” policies when she was a director of the company, she replied, “Well, you know, I, that was a long time ago, I have to remember… ”, adding that "obviously I believe every company should" contribute to benefit plans.
"Her tenure on the board ended nearly 14 years ago, and it's a very different company now," said Philippe Reines, a spokesman for Clinton.
And by the way, the Wal-Mart of today offers far more generous health benefits to its employees than it did when Hillary was a board member.
Wal-Mart political action committee (PAC) donated money to:
Hillary Clinton, Evan Bayh, Senate Minority Leader, Harry Reid and House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland.
Hillary was a show horse at the company's annual meetings
when founder Sam Walton bused in cheering throngs to celebrate his non-union empire according to the Village Voice in a 2000 article.
Hillary Clinton former Wal-Mart board member has called Wal-Mart "the best America has to offer"
Little Rock attorney Joseph Giroir, a director of Worthen Bank and Hillary Rodham Clinton's boss at the Rose Law Firm, began making deals in Asia for the Arkansas firms of Tyson Foods Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Don Tyson of Tyson Foods, and Jim Blair, the lawyer for Tyson Foods, a close friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton and the man who handled Hillary Clinton's commodity trades.
Hillary Clinton, retaining her maiden name for work, joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas. President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the board of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978. That same year, Bill Clinton was elected to the first of five terms as Governor of Arkansas. The following year she became a full partner at the Rose Law Firm.
Hillary Clinton's work as an attorney involved state funds and was actually unethical, and also profited from her husband's position.
Woodson "Woody" Bassett, a campaign operative for Bill Clinton.
His family's law firm, headed up by Woody's father and several brothers, did legal work for Tyson Foods. Woody's sister, Beverly Bassett Schaffer, is the former director of the Arkansas Securities Commission who received inquiries from Hillary Clinton when the latter was seeking information on behalf of Madison Guaranty, the financial institution which sat at the heart of the Whitewater affair. Beverly's husband, Archie Schaffer, handled public relations for Tyson Foods.
The Llama Co., a local investment banking firm, owner is Alice Walton, Sam Walton's daughter, an early member of the Northwest Arkansas Council and a woman who raised millions for Clinton's presidential run. Llama employs a host of local heavy hitters, including lawyer Field Wasson, Clinton's cousin. When Clinton won the presidency, Wasson served as the liaison between his administration and that of Jim Guy Tucker, who replaced Clinton as governor.
Ozark International Consultants principals are Lindsey and his wife, Carol, who was one of Clinton's campaign advisors during several of his gubernatorial bids.
http://tinyurl.com/p5aq6
Clinton, Tyson, Wal-Mart and the Arkansas Poultryport
BTTT
BIG BTTT
November 1, 1996
Candidate Bill Clinton vowed to get to the bottom of the Iraqgate scandal. By Kenneth R. Timmerman Author of The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq (Hooughton Miffin) and publisher of Iran Brief, a monthly newsletter.
The American Spectator November 1996
Whatever Happened to IRAQGATE
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Marianne Gasior maintains that the Lafarge Corporation, the U.S. Subsidiary of a French multinational chemicals concern, provided key services for the covert arms export network that supplied Saddam Hussein. To prevent exposure of that secret supply line, and collateral damage to Hillary Clinton-who joined Lafarge board in 1990, just as the arms pipeline was being shut down-Gasior alleges that the justice department was told to bury the investigation. John Hogan hotly denies this. But investigators from other U.S. government agencies who worked on the case say they were "waved off" whenever they got too close to exposing the direct involvement of the intelligence community in the arms export scheme.
Gasior, however, believes the investigation was squashed because of Hillary Rodham Clinton's involvement with Lafarge, both as a member of the Board of Directors from 1990-1992-for which the soon -to-be-first lady earned $31,000 per year plus expenses-and possibly earlier, when sources say she did legal work for the company through the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock. Evidence of her ties to Lafarge appears on the billing records from the Rose Law Firm that mysteriously "reappeared" two years after congressional investigators had subpoenaed them. They are now under scrutiny by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, sources told TAS Starr's office wouldn't confirm or deny that it was investigating the First Lady's ties to Lafarge, and the White House has repeatedly refused to answer questions about this matter.
But Gasior claims John Hogan-the Reno deputy who wrote the final Iraqgate Report-told her in August 1995 that Kennametal case had been referred to Starr, "because anything involving the First Lady or Vincent Foster has to be referred to the Office of the Independent Counsel." Hogan told TAS it would be "inappropriate for me to comment." He did note, however, that the investigator who had worked the Kennametal case for him was subsequently detailed to Starr's operation. That investigator also refused to comment, "because that would indicate it has been referred here."
Gasior claims that Senate investigator Jack Klum-who represented her when she testified on Kennametal before Hogan's task force in 1993 and 1994-phoned then-White House Counsel Abner Mikva in August 1995, and then warned Gasior not to talk to Kenneth Starr or congressional Republicans, "or else I would get hurt. "Gasior says that her car was broken into that weekend in Washington, D.C., and documents stolen, and that when she returned to her home in a small rural community after Mikva's warning she found an 18 wheel truck in her driveway discharging a stream of diesel fuel in what may have been an arson attempt. Asked about Gasior's allegations, Mikva told TAS, "I have no knowledge of any of this. I don't know any of these people. Gasior? Jack Blum? I'm not even sure I know him." But Blum says the two were in frequent contact, and acknowledges that he told Gasior to drop the case-not for reasons of safety, but to "get on with her life." Asked about Kennametal and Lafarge, Mikva quipped; "I've heard of a Madame Lafarge, but that's about it."
One thing is certain: If Kenneth Starr isn't investigating Hillary Clinton's ties to Lafarge, somebody is going to an awful lot of trouble to make sure the story of her involvement is consistent. When asked how she came to join the Lafarge board, a company spokesperson said Mrs. Clinton was recommended by Lafarge board member Edward H. Tuck, who had worked with her on a report on the state-run child-care system in France while she was president of the French-American Foundation. Tuck repeated the same story almost word for word. He added that the company "regretted" Mrs. Clinton's decision to resign from the board, because of the "valuable contributions" she had made as a director, and her "active involvement" in Lafarge. A Business Week reporter who queried the White House was told the same story, including the bit about child care.
Tuck, who is now with the New York law firm Shearman & Sterling, declined to be more specific about that "active involvement." (His firm was retained by the Rome Headquarters of BNL, shortly before Hillary Clinton joined the Lafarge board, to represent the bank before federal regulators once the scandal hit the fan in August 1989) But Jack Blum believes the allegations regarding the First Lady's involvement with Lafarge border on the absurd. "If you were Hillary Rodham Clinton," he says , "and Lafarge were actually involved in a clandestine arms export operation, would you want to protect them? On the contrary, if you became aware of such information you would have every interest in exposing them. What does she get out of covering-up?" Besides, he argues, "would anybody involved in such an operation be so stupid as to inform members of the board of directors that such things were going on?"
More...
http://tinyurl.com/ez83t
5/4/2005
A cement plant in Ravena, New York, about 10 miles south of Albany, is seeking permission from the DEC to burn tires at its facility, too. Lafarge North America, the French-based owner of the Ravena plant, is the largest cement manufacturer in North America. The company recently applied for a permit to burn 4.8 million tires a year in its two cement kilns.
Although Hudson Valley environmentalists haven't had an opportunity to weigh in on that permit application, they are closely watching its progress. The reason: Apparently, Lafarge hasn't been a very eco-friendly neighbor.
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Senator Clinton hasn't taken a public stance on Lafarge's tire-burn application. But a corporate spokesperson confirmed last week that she sat on the Lafarge Corporation's board of directors between 1990 and 1992.
More...
http://tinyurl.com/znuna
The Clinton-Gore Incinerator
Evan Fitzmaurice
The American Spectator; THE NATION'S PULSE
June, 1994
Beginning in 1990, Hillary Clinton received $31,000 a year to serve on the board of the Lafarge Corporation, a French company that is the second-largest producer of cement in the United States. Lafarge's Systech burning units disposed of more than 400 million gallons of hazardous waste between 1979 and 1992. In September 1992, Lafarge's plant in Demapolis, Alabama, was fined $1.8 million under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act for violating just about every possible regulation that existed for cement kilns -- one EPA official described the plant as "totally out of control." A year later, the Clinton administration allowed Lafarge to settle the $1.8 million in fines for only $594,000.
When Lafarge obtained a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge for sand and gravel in a section of the Ohio River directly facing WTI, the circle of conflicts-of-interest was finally closed. Since at least April 1991, while Hillary was a board member of the parent company, Standard Lafarge has been permitted to dredge the Ohio River for sand and gravel to make cement. While the dredging clearly benefits Lafarge's cement-making operation, the consequent deepening of the Ohio River will allow waterway access to the WTI incinerator.
It would not be the first time toxic-waste burners with close ties to the Clintons have received preferential treatment. Ensco is a hazardous-waste facility in El Dorado, Arkansas, that was represented by the Rose Law Firm in the early 1980s. It was among the first firms to burn PCBs. While governor, Clinton kept in his office an antique rocking chair that was a gift from former Ensco president Melvin Bell. Environmental watchdog groups had sought prosecution of Ensco for years, but it was not until Bill Clinton took his rocking chair to Washington that an Arkansas case against Ensco was finally settled. On May 7, 1993, Ensco, while admitting no liability, agreed to pay $475,000 in cash and services for 200 instances of wrongdoing at the El Dorado plant. It was the largest penalty ever levied by the Arkansas Department of Pollution Control and Ecology.
Vertac, located in Jacksonville, Arkansas, manufactured the herbicide Agent Orange and was the first target for Superfund prosecution by the EPA in 1979. Shortly after Vertac was forced to destroy 30,000 drums of waste, including 3,000 drums of dioxin, Governor Clinton allowed taxpayer dollars to fund the construction of an incinerator in residential Jacksonville at tremendous financial benefit to Vertac.
Hugh Kaufman of the EPA's Hazardous Site Control Division, the man who blew the whistle on Love Canal in 1978, sees the Clintons' involvement in WTI as the result of a conflict-of-interest -- not a blunder. The Clintons, he notes, have a dozen years of top-level dealings with companies that are responsible for burning over three-quarters of the hazardous waste in the United States. "These are not people," Kaufman says, "who would make policy mistakes from a lack of first-hand experience."
http://tinyurl.com/zx7c3
Class-action lawsuits claim the barge caused the Industrial Canal levee breach because it wasn't tied down properly before Katrina. The suits target Lafarge North America, which had chartered the barge from Ingram to take cement to New Orleans from the Midwest.
http://tinyurl.com/hy2mu
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Hillary was one of five American directors of the huge French Lafarge cement company, which burns hazardous waste in the U.S. as part of its manufacture of construction materials. Hillary— who resigned during the campaign— claimed that "burning hazardous waste under the strict controls used by Lafarge converts the hazardous wastes to nonhazardous materials."
http://tinyurl.com/eng4f
When they said no to the Unions
I love this "nice" title. Like it's Hillary's right to be "quiet" about any subject.
If this were Bush, the headline would be "Bush blasted for Wal-Mart ties; activists call for his impeachment"
Didn't Hillary sit on some board of a cellphone company? I think I remember she got a bunch of stock in some communications company in Arkansas, too.
Ties to Tyson, big time. That's where her bogus $10,000 profit in cattle futures came from.
Pinz
Thanks, kcvl. I was actually expecting to see you on this thread. :-)
I really, really don't want to know all this stuff again. :-( We have enough entanglements to make a deck of Hillary Corruption playing cards!
Pinz
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