ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 16 2007 | news, bush sucks, impeach cheney
If the Bush administration succeeds in its latest request for funding for the war in Iraq, the total cost would rise to $611.5 billion, according to the National Priorities Project, a nonprofit research group.
- ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 14 2007 | security, fire, news, iraq, bush sucks
When prosecuting the 'war on terror', the administration doesn't let niggling details like whether what they are doing is legal or constitutional (or moral or proper for that matter) slow them down. But when it comes to investigating private guards suddenly they have to be sure there really is a law that covers these guys before they can do a thing.
Quoted: Agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwater personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians found that all but three of the shootings were unjustified, officials said.
- ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 29 2006 | news, national parks, geology, bush sucks
OMG
Quoted: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is a national non-profit alliance of local, state and federal scientists, law enforcement officers, land managers and other professionals dedicated to upholding environmental laws and values.
- ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 28 2006 | news, politics, bush sucks
This is an organization I would join!
Quoted: Organizers of the group, Scientists and Engineers for America, said it would be nonpartisan, but in interviews several said Bush administration science policies had led them to act.
- ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 27 2006 | news, blogs, video, bush sucks
click to playThe hardest hitting indictment I have yet seen of Bush.
Ouch, the truth hurts.
Quoted: Olbermann tells it like it is. Video courtesy of www.Crooksandliars.com
- ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 21 2006 | fire, news, environment, roadless rules, bush sucks
A rare step forward on the environment..
Quoted: A federal judge in California reinstated Clinton-era protections against logging and mining in forests.
- ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 12 2006 | news, geneva convention, bush sucks
smackdown!
Quoted: The Bush administration conceded for the first time that suspects had a right to protections under the Geneva Conventions.
- ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 11 2006 | news, guantanamo, geneva convention, bush sucks
Well if you aren't going to do it because it is the morally proper thing to do, at least you can do unto others as you have them do unto you...
Quoted: The Pentagon has decided that it will follow the minimum standards spelled out in the Geneva conventions, a senior defense official said.
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UPDATE : spoke with the management company just now about ending our lease. they basically stated that in order for us to break our lease we would pay $150 + any month they can't find a new renter for the unit. BUT the would rent out all the other units (the ones whose leases end) first and then ours... so basically when we move and they can't find a new renter for the apartment we would still have to pay $1600 + per month until they find a replacement renter.
i told them considering the circumstances i didn't think that was right. they tried to explain that :
A. our fire alarm on the 22nd floor didn't go off because the fire alarms are localized to the floors... since the fire was on the 13th floor only the 12th, 13th and 14th floor fire alarm went off.B. the fire department were the ones who came assessed the situation and turned off the fire alarm.
my response :
A. we have a friend who lives on the 12th floor. she was up having breakfast getting ready to go to work and she heard the fire alarm for all of 5 - 10 seconds (same as us) and presumed that the fire alarm was faulty. i asked the management people. are you trying to tell me that the time for the fire alarm to alert the fire department. for the fire department to come to the apartment, assess the situation and manually turned the fire alarm off took all of 10 seconds?B. if it's the alarm system to only set off localized fire alarms based upon floors and if the fire department isn't going to evacuate the whole building and i can't change either of these things then the only thing i can change is my place of residence.
i asked the management person. IF the fire had spread and finally my 22nd floor fire alarm went off (the 21st floor would have to be on fire/have smoke in order to set off my floors fire alarm) then i would have to take the stair well down 22 flights?! while fighting all the other people who are also trying to escape? i told them i would rather be informed (regardless of how 'contained') immediately about a fire so i can get my ass out of there. if they control it - great, no big deal - better safe then sorry. if it spreads - great, i had more time to get the fuck out of there.
they stated they can not do anything and i have to talk to the manager... who of course is on vacation and won't be back til Thursday. i couldn't even make an appointment with her and have to call her on Thursday morning in order to schedule a meeting to discuss getting out of the lease.
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