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Ex-Representative Eric Massa (D-NY) revealed to the public that the shower curtains are missing from the Congressional Gym. Just when we thought the Congress cannot get any lower Massa broke the NakedGate on his weekly radio show... Big Bureaucracy created few designs that would be nice to implement in the House Gym to remind the people's reps what their mission is and prevent another Nakedgate.

Is it the War on Obesity or the cookies are now luxury in America? The sugar and the cookies are running inflation higher than the health care industry. Food prices were generally down last year. According to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for December 2009 the food prices were down half point comparing to the same period in 2008. Unfortunately the deflation is absent when sugar is involved. Cookies were 4.3% more expensive that the year before (compare with 3.4% yearly inflation of the health care). Cakes and cupcakes prices were up 2.7%. Generally the foods that make you...

The Department of Energy was created by President Jimmy Carter in 1977 after the oil crisis. The idea was to end the United States dependence on foreign oil. How’s that working out for you, America? Carter and every President after him promised Energy independence and never kept his promise. If the same old Department of Energy is not doing the job – it is time to reform the thing and hopefully save some bucks in the process. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has a blog named the Bottom Line. Big Bureaucracy entered their “spending challenge”. So far we...

In-Sync with the VP Generals Odierno and Petraeus with their Commander-in-Chief Annapolis Naval Academy: Obama greets McCain Jr, Bush greets the family of a cadet Standing with the troops Paparazzi

The White House official photos represent the way each US President wants to be seen, so let's compare the style of Barack Obama and George W Bush in similar situation. On the left will be the vision of the current President and on the right (pun intended) will be the photographs of the former one. Starting with War on Terror - George Bush is standing upon the ashes of the worst terrorist attack on American soil. He pledges that the voices calling for justice from across the country will be heard. Responding to the Presidents' words, rescue workers cheer and...

The evil heath insurance companies took a lot of beating in the public square during the debates over Obama Care.... It is time to stop the bashing of the industry. Every client receives the insurance policy terms and conditions upfront and by signing a contract they agree on it. Yes it is ugly that claims are denied, but most of the times the policy to which the customer agrees states those limits. In most of the cases the customers receive the service they paid for...Tax-payers already have established safety nets for poor, disabled, children and seniors through Medicaid, Emergency Medicaid,...

....The music series brought to the White House a string of celebrities that gave Desiree Rogers the opportunity to mingle with the stars. At the same time the First Lady Michelle Obama was stuck in her vegetable garden and the WH kitchen (I mean that not literally but image wise). Desire Rogers made it on few fancy magazine covers. That made the Washington DC rumor machine to circulate the idea that the Social Secretary is overshadowing the First Lady trying to keep her in the kitchen while Rogers was star rubbing....The question was even asked at a White House briefing....

.........Obama’s presidential campaign set the hopes unrealistically high. Folks quickly figured it out that Obama is just another politician and not a messiah. All it took was one bill full with nine thousand earmarks and the gigantic Stimulus package that couldn’t stop the unemployment reaching double digits. The Obama Greek columns turned to be a just a setting that fits the political elite while the rest of the country folks were left to make their paths through the boondocks. The rhetoric full of hope turned out to be empty promises. The King was naked and behind him the people saw...

After scraping the plans of building a missile defense shield in Poland and Czech Republic President Obama is working now on deploying defense missiles to another part of Eastern Europe: the Balkans. Romania and Bulgaria are both members of NATO and the EU. Last week Romania’s top defense body had approved Washington’s plan to deploy interceptor missiles. Bulgarian PM Boiko Borisov said Sofia should show solidarity and consider the Washington deal after negotiations with NATO and EU. After humiliating Poland the Obama administration realized they still need the land based defense structures designed to protect against current and emerging ballistic...

The U.S. Constitution gives the President the power to appoint individuals to government positions including personal advisers without congressional approval (the so-called czars). The system is called patronage and some may say it invites corruption, but the Constitution provisioned such system so the newly elected officials can have the power to implement changes they promised to the people. Every election at the beginning of America meant a sweep in the Washington DC bureaucracy. Elections were often and many servants had to clean up their desks and go back to their life beyond the federal government. It all changed when in...

Nothing kills the sex-talk faster than a hug between a mother and a son after a religious discussion. Tiger’s apology statement was one of the weirdest things I’ve seen in a long time and probably the most un-sexiest. It appeared as Tiger Woods’s mother told him: “Go there, you little rascal, and say you are sorry. And write 100 times “I will not cheat again and I will obey my religion”. It was so infantile that I guess every woman out there watching would be thinking – did Tiger get out of puberty? The word sex was notably absent. The...

Barack Obama does not believe in commissions. At least this is the impression he left during his presidential campaigns: "Just today, Senator McCain offered up the oldest Washington stunt in the book – you pass the buck to a commission to study the problem."..... We thought Obama will bring leadership – we took him for his word. Instead the President keeps pulling commission after commission out of his sleeves.... Stunt after stunt the trickster-in-chief is throwing dust in eyes of the observers in hope they will think he is actually doing something about the crippling US debt. President Obama has...

The creation of the Federal Department of Education is one of the biggest travesties in the American history. The schools in the USA are run by the states. The Local Governments license their teachers, approve the curriculum programs and manage the school system including buildings equipment, transportation, and food. Every problem and every question a mother or a student has can be answered on a State level. The school system is funded by state income, sale and property taxes.......... The intrusion of the Federal government in education began when Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education as a separate cabinet...

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty is a popular republican and often makes the list of the presidential contenders for 2012. His 5 step plan for Health Care......in the wake of Obama’s summit with the opposition does nothing to make the republicans look good... ........Step 1-2: Incentivize patients to be smart consumers and pay for performance. Who wouldn’t want that? This is not a new idea. In fact Obama’s Health Care Bill is rich in billions of dollars going to new bureaucracies that are trying to assess the health care provider’s performance. (Accountable Care Organizations). Let’s see what Governor Pawlenty personally accomplished...

What is it that makes it possible for Robert Gates to work efficiently with so many administrations that are so different politically? He worked for Carter and Reagan, for W and Obama. My first guess is: Gates understands that it is a dangerous world out there and the national security should stay above the personal bickering and political ideology. Robert Gates seems to have the ability to recognize that the official narrative of any administration is not the most important thing – it is just a side effect of the bureaucracy that needs to be dealt with. All that crap...

The war in Afghanistan is in its most important stage. American troops and NATO allies with Afghanistan forces tagging along are trying to smoke the Taliban out of their last strongholds. The surge is on in Afghanistan. Overseeing the operation is one of the most fascinating politicians in the history of the USA. I am not talking about Barack Obama. The person who gives us hope that the surge in Afghanistan will succeed is the Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Bipartisanship is a hype word in Washington DC nowadays but very few people really served this great country in a nonpartisan...

BBC reports that Dr. Vito Franco from Palermo University believes that Mona Lisa has a build-up of fatty acids under the skin of her eyes. That is supposed to be a sign of high cholesterol. The news is so absurd I decided to join the fray and come up with few matching thoughts of nonsense.... There was no McDonald’s back in the 1507 when Lisa Del Gioconda posed for Leonardo. I wonder what Mona Lisa’s diet was back then. What we know for sure is that Mrs. Gioconda did not eat French fries because the potatoes were imported from the...

Many Americans feel that some Republicans fail to understand them as much as the Democrats do. Shining example of it is the proposed health care plan by Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH).....Number one factor that makes the folks to distrust Washington is the inability of the politicians on both sides of the isle to call the things with their real names. For example, Senator Gregg, like President Obama and his friends Pelosi and Reid call the mandatory health insurance: “ENSURING ACCESS FOR ALL AMERICANS”. Mr. Gregg, your plan does not ensure access – it makes it mandatory for everybody over age...

Washington DC is covered in snow and the zillions of government bureaucrats can’t make it to their desks. Funny! The USA is running without the big chunk of the federal employees for a week and nobody really cares.....nowmageddon will prompt once more the federal government to ask for money to expand the distant workplace idea. This is a perfect way for Washington DC to grow government without adding new grand buildings to remind people how big the Bureaucracy of the federal government has become. Folks in DC are thankful to all firefighters, electric grid maintenance workers and the people who...

The White House press-secretary Robbert Gibbs has been torturing the nation with his weird sense of humor since day one on this position. The Gibbs’s gig was mainly mumbling on the issues and giggling when pressed for answers. President Obama should follow on his promise that the US does not torture and fire Mr. Gibbs. With third of the nation unemployed and two wars that our young man and women are fighting overseas Gibbs decided that it is wise to spend time mocking Sarah Palin during official White House briefing. During times when Medicare and Social Security are going broke...