ate Deputy Secretary Jim Cason, who told the Senate Indian Affairs Committee the idea was rejected in favor of reorganization of trust duties.
Yep. Gonna have to pry their sticky fingers off that money one at a time. But perhaps it can be done.
Incidentally, check out the Lalo Alcaraz ‘your visa is denied’ cartoon at Indianz.com. Your tax dollars at work, indeed. Check out the rest of the site too. A very different perspective and concerns with a lot of other issues you won’t hear about every day.
Finally someone asked a key question in the Indian Trust case
"The Department of the Interior has not placed a dollar value on the amount of the problems that have come from the mismanagement," [Interior Secretary Gale Norton] said in response to a caller who wanted to know where the money has gone.
Say what? The question: “Where did the money go?” Gets the answer: “We don’t know how much money has been lost.” Sounds like some boot-scootin’ side-stepping going on down in DC. A lot of fiddlin’ too.
Secretary Norton goes on to say that "most" of the payments to Indian beneficiaries have been made. "We've had to make some estimated payments for some types of those transactions because we didn't have the complete computer system going," she said.
Norton made her comments during a half-hour appearance on the C-SPAN program "Washington Journal." She was asked two questions about the Indian trust debacle.
Over a month has gone by. Another month. And still some people are waiting.
Says Elouise Cobell, plaintiff in Cobell v Norton: "I see Native people dying every day because they can't afford health insurance .. one woman I know has seven oil wells on her property, and she gets about $1,000 a year."
Yes, and that’s when she gets it. How would you like to have gone without a check of any sort since early December? This is the only income some of these folks have. $1000 a year. In the heart of the USA.
Hey! It hasn't been 12 months yet. Where did that ad come from? Of course, I'd gladly pay $12 a month. This has been very entertaining.
Oh baby, I’ll make the earth move for you!
Drop a burrowing bomb this big and it’s going to rattle the dishes 100 miles away.
Frankly, despite accusations of squishiness, given the ordnance we’ve expended already, I think Bush II is probably wise to start preparing people for the fact that we may never find the remains of OBL’s vaporized butt. But he’s got to be dead or we’d have gotten another tape by now.
Via His Unholiness, Incorrigible I, aka Stephen Green comes some unsurprising news: Harry Browne [Butt Weasel!] is at it again. Is there anyone left out there that doesn’t realize that this guy is a snake oil salesman of the first order?
Update: But please Stephen, don’t give up on the libertarian ideal. Harry Butt Weasel Browne doesn’t speak for all of us. He’s just a conman who’s hijacked a small part of the Party of Reason.
Yeah! The InstaPundit is weakening! ‘Senator Reynolds’ does trip right off the tongue..
Hmmm. I wonder if anyone’s told Tipper about what you hear when you play a CD backward?
The latest in PC
In this morning’s Red Star Tribune (no link to article) we have an article about the “Fightin’ Whites,” the UNC Greeley intramural basketball team. They’re now selling ‘Fightin’ Whites’ T-shirts! Cool, I think I’ll order one.
What’s so amusing? Well, here’s the original article, word for word with what the Star Tribune prints, except that somewhere between the original author, the AP, and my print addition, a slight spelling change has taken place. They’re actually the “Fightin’ Whities”! I've got to have one of those shirts.
Update: I notice in the article that they have to check the University guidelines before they can sell the shirts. I'll bet they're required to 'correct' the spelling..
Update II: Now I'm covered with embarrassment. It looks like this was the original article. Although it didn't appear in my google search it was linked at the bottom of the first article I linked, above. The article also states: "The intramural basketball team's official name is "Native Pride." But the t