The Kingdom of George Bush - What ever happened to Equal Rights for the poor Working Class?

What does need to be done to balance Affirmative Action? Is it possible that in a majority office, be it by race, gender or age that a person could be discriminated against and how would you go about proving it.

United Steel Workers of America v. Weber
[443 U.S. 193]
Burger Court, Decided 5-2, 6/27/1979

Here is a fundamental and very easy to read attack on the policy that President Bush has taken on Islam.

Prophet of Doom


Saudi Prince says that his "intelligence" could have prevented 9/11. More pictures from the Huffington Post of President Bush's 2008 visit to Saudi Arabia and visit Saudi King Abdullah.

During the entire duration of the conflict in Iraq there has been question as to whether or not the reasons for going to War were honorable. I have all the confidence in the world that what happened on Sept. 11, 2001 was the cause for the invasion of Iraq, whether or not weapons of mass destruction were found or not, but the untruths told to the American people has caused such disillusion that I think it could be blamed on the state of not only our country but the economies all over the world. Although I know that our Foreign Service has long been looking for a "Super Embassy" since most in and around the Middle East have become such hazardous duty stations that hardly anyone wants to serve their tour there. I found that out on a bus coming back from a memorial service for the embassy personnel lost to a suicide truck bombing of the Beirut Embassy in 1983. If we had spent the time and effort in Afghanistan and captured or killed Bin Laden would not our spirit and the belief that an honorable consequence of what happened on Sept 11, 2001 had been accomplished? Now, eight years later, after what is being called a successful war in Iraq, another administration takes on the task of completing the revenge of September 11, 2001. Can we pay the price in American blood and can our economy stand that? Would the punishment of those that fabricated such lies be something to lift the spirits of those of us not fooled? I located a couple articles that Jay Taylor, whose views have influenced me as well as many others, online at HighBeam Research. See what he thinks, or thought at the onset of the War in Iraq.

You can find many video's of the General Colin Powell's speech here.

From the Washington Post Falling on His Sword - “On Wednesday, November 10, 2004, eight days after the president he served was elected to a second term, Secretary of State Colin Powell received a telephone call from the White House at his State Department office. The caller was not President Bush but Chief of Staff Andrew Card, and he got right to the point.
“The president would like to make a change,” Card said, using a time-honored formulation that avoided the words “resign” or “fire.” He noted briskly that there had been some discussion of having Powell remain until after Iraqi elections scheduled for the end of January, but that the president had decided to take care of all Cabinet changes sooner rather than later. Bush wanted Powell’s resignation letter dated two days hence, on Friday, November 12, Card said, although the White House expected him to stay at the State Department until his successor was confirmed by the Senate. Don't worry General Powell Vice-President Cheney has your six (pack). Only one before breakfast though. Is this White House really a HOUSE OF CARDS? OK I couldn't resist this site
Shades of the Past - Look for a major counter move by the White House or those that want to see our conflict with Iran continue.


Taxi, Taxi
On November 12, 2003, David Rockefeller presented Secretary of State Colin Powell with the George C. Marshalaward at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.

OK, remember the Catholic Priest that I talked about during the early seventies that was caught smuggling "something" across the boarder of Israel. If you will look up The Patriarchal Vicar of Jerusalem Archbishop Hilarion Capucci you might find who I was talking about. Tel Aviv - U.S. Department of Diplomatic Security Case

Christian sympathy for the Islamic Arab cause has ranged over the years from outright collaboration with terrorists, to financial and moral support. Two of the more infamous examples of the former involved a pair of Israel-based Christian leaders. Greek Catholic archbishop Hilarion Capucci smuggled weapons for the PLO from Lebanon to Israel in 1974. He was arrested, jailed, but released under pressure of the Vatican. For the family they will remember that he lost his wallet while sailing.

What would it matter to a country whether it's embassy was in Tel Aviv or in Jerusulem. Look at what the Costa Rican president says about moving their embassy out of Jerusalem. What matters is the business of the embassy and what is and is not allowed to pass through, right?

Here is another decision by a South American country. San Salvador decided to move its embassy in Israel from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. The U.S. has had funds set aside since 1995 to move the embassy to Jerusalem with the Jerusalem Embassy Act. Many notable Tennesseans were among those that in the author's words, "reduced Israel to fighting for its life in a guerrilla war". A good reason for Israel to dislike the U.S.

The Arab States have in fact said that it would severe relations with any country that transfered it's embassy to Jerusalem.

Progressive Conservative Party leader Joe Clark pledged during the 1979 federal election campaign to move Canada’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. However, once in office, Clark was forced by pressure from the business community, Arab countries and senior Canadian bureaucrats to rescind the embassy transfer. Clark’s successors have shown no inclination to move the embassy.

The embassy in Nairobi (built in 1971) was one of the plain, unobtrusive and supposedly less vulnerable products of that era. I have pictures of the compound where my brother's family lived while stationed there as Regional Security Officer in the mid 1970's. He made a trip back to Nairobi before the bombing and took pictures outside the compound where they lived

OTTAWA, March 5, 1982, His Excellency Paul Heron Robinson Jr., Ambassador of the United States of America, Ottawa. Joint Marine Pollution Contingency Plan, Annex V. My short stint in Washington 1983 brother short stint as SAC, Washington, Field Office. Pueblo Court, next door neighbor teaches at War College. Agents find allies back in Tennessee, side with Teachers Union, make "big chief" very angry.

Having visited the Ottawa U.S. Embassy in early 1982 I found out that part of the business of the embassy there was that it refused to pass gas. Now from what I have heard and seen most of our middle eastern embassies require it's employees to pass gas before they are hired. Not sure about those South American embassies, they might have to pass a joint resolution. On my honour that is the truth. (If you do a search on this page you will only find the word "TRUTH" once, now twice.


Dr. David Northington along with a few other investors owned one of the Zack Yogurt chain of stores in Knoxville during the 1980's. I worked as Dr. Northington's General Manager for about 4 years and was pleased to have known him. He most definitely is a perfectionist and I know my mother would have loved to have seen the following pictures of Dr. Northington:
"A series of enthusiastically-received solo recitals of Chopin waltzes at the Miejski Dom Kultury in Katowice on May 17; at the Residence of U.S. Ambassador to Poland, Victor Ashe, in Warsaw on May 18; and at a heavily-attended open-air concert at the Chopin monument in Warsaw’s Lazienki Park on May 20. Dr. Northington is a Professor of Piano at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

1983 Mail and Pouch Center, U.S. Department of State
During eight months in 1983 I worked in Newington, Virginia for the U.S. State Department, Office of Communications. 

I lived in Burke, Virginia at 6124 Pubelo Court.

The Diplomatic Mail and Pouch Center was moved to Sterling, Va. In October 2001 a contract worker, DAVID R. HOSE, was infected with anthrax at the Diplomatic Mail and Pouch Center. In March 2009 a Federal Judge dismissed DAVID R. HOSE's case against the U.S. State Department for that incident. The plaintiff from Winchester Virginia, alleges that his exposure resulted from the federal government’s negligent handling of its anthrax supply and its failure to protect adequately State Department mail room workers after learning that anthrax-laced letters were traveling through the nation’s postal network.
I wonder why the Executive Branch of Government is holding back on cutting Saturday delivery of the U.S. Mail Service. I guess there trying to figure out how they want to SCREW the postal employees out of that extra day of Pay. It's very easy for the Executive Branch to SCREW MAIL Employees, much like they tried to SCREW my father Al. Then he proved it was all about the FEE by using his UNION.

Then they did HOSE me in '83. But I was cool and BUSTED free in '84. So if you think at times it's all about YEW just do this instead "Play it cool, stay in School."

OP/ED: Bob Wooten: Anthrax Survivor Entitled To Anger (Northern Virginian Daily, 4/4/2009)

David R. Hose sounds like a man without a country. More than seven years after Hose was infected with a deadly strain of anthrax, a federal judge this week threw out the Winchester man's claim against the government seeking $12 million in damages. The anthrax, which was traced to a U.S. Army research laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., was used in the 2001 attacks that killed five people, sickened 17 and triggered a fresh wave of terror just weeks after 9/11.

Hose, 66, who worked in a State Department mail sorting facility in Sterling, was one of that unlucky handful to be infected with anthrax spores that had been put inside letters sent to newsrooms, government offices and other targets. The letter Hose handled Oct. 22, 2001, almost claimed his life. Talking with Northern Virginia Daily reporter Alex Bridges about his lawsuit being tossed, Hose was blunt about how he thinks the government has treated him over the years: "They tried to screw me all the way through it." It's not the first time Hose has decried the government's handling of the anthrax investigation and its treatment of the victims. In a 2005 interview, Hose claimed the government was prepared to simply wait him out -- or worse. "I'll either have some mysterious accident or, if they wait long enough, I'll be dead," Hose said at the time. "Everything's been a stone wall." He's still fighting with the state over worker's compensation benefits. It's no wonder Hose is bitter. Before handling that tainted envelope, he had been leading a healthy, happy life.

After being infected, he spent 16 days at Winchester Medical Center, where doctors struggled to bring his fever, rapid pulse and spiking blood pressure under control.

He was back in the hospital in the fall of 2002, comatose and suffering from a severe case of pneumonia. Over the years, he's also suffered from blood clots in his lungs, stomach ulcers and other ailments he attributes to the anthrax infection.

Meanwhile, the investigation into the case went down one false trail after another until last summer. The FBI says a Fort Detrick researcher who committed suicide in July had become their prime suspect. The scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, may have sent the deadly letters out in a twisted attempt to further his own research into developing a vaccine for anthrax, which remains one of the most feared bioweapons in the world.

Hose's experience stands in stark contrast to that of the victims and survivors of 9/11. A 2004 study by the Rand Corporation estimated the government, nonprofits and insurance companies paid out $38 billion in compensation after the attacks.

One wonders whether the feds would have held David Hose at arm's length all these years if the anthrax that nearly killed him had come from Osama Bin Laden instead of a lab at Fort Detrick.

I worked what was known as the Wednesday line, the heaviest and most demanding line with exception to maybe the Friday line that was the Middle East embassy mail. The Wednesday line included all of Pakistan, Afghanistan and parts of Northern Africa. Places that once were far off places that someone might like to travel too, Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi were among my embassy mail line that loaded into a semi-trailer and was taken to the airport on every Wednesday where it would be flown to far off places by a Diplomatic Courier. This being the same center where my supervisor brought a .45 caliber in to shoot a rat and employees enjoyed beer on the loading dock on hot evenings, where sophisticated x-ray equipment had never been used. I filed a grievance but not against my supervisor bringing a gun and firing it in a government facility or against other employees drinking on the job, but against the unhealthy conditions in which I was required to work and the inability of any employee to operate the sophisticated x-ray machines. Friends, this was during the bombing of the Embassy and the subsequent Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. The State Department finally decided that it was unwise to let me remain with them for the entire contract NTE 03/1984 and ABOLISHED my job.
 John W. S. Channell told me when I took the job that I would be considered for Diplomatic Courier and if I wanted an administrative position after being hired full time.  About all I did was get in better shape by loosing lots of weight.
the wrong side of politicis. 
I was getting ready for the 1984 Olympics
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Jerlene Bailey had the entire Middle East Diplomatic Mail line and after the Beiruit Embassy was hit by a suicide bomber the mail that was headed for Beiruit stacked up against the back wall of the Newington, Va Center. Those Diplomatic Pouches are made by C.R. Daniels Rutledge, Tennessee. Kinda made me homesick seeing that on every pouch I loaded. Each of the six lines loaded about a half semi truck load of mail a week.
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My brother George (Eddie) Payne wanted me to see this feature story in the State Department Newsletter.
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About 3 months after I left the Mail and Pouch Center a study of how to better serve the Diplomatic community was undertaken. The Newington facility where I worked was poorly heated during winter and poorly cooled during summer. It also was dirty and overseas mail was not only improperly marked there were food and expensive gifts being routed through the bulk center where we were not allowed to open. I feared that more than just gifts and food could be slipping through.
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Carl Leech was second in charge of the facility. When I asked Carl for instruction on the large x-ray machines he said that they were inoperable even though they had only been there about a year. No one knew how to operate them.
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Janice Single-ton Clement, a very nice African American lady was my Personnel Spcialist and if I am correct I had worked with Miss Singleton while employed with the U.S. State Department during 1972-1973. My original contract was for an entire year but after only eight months the Personnel Office decided to "Abolish" my job. After working a Security job with the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles I worked again for the Federal Government (F.D.I.C.) in 1985 thru 1987.
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Most of what I found wrong at the facility I filed in a grievance with John W.S. Channell. This caused a problem with my immediate supervisors at the bulk mail facility in Newington.


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I was sure to get a recommendation from Mr. Channell so that my time there would not be considered wasted.
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I was very interested in the function of the Comminications Department at State and had been offered a postion there before leaving in 1975. I had hoped to continue working there but that was not to be. Senator Howard Baker and I had some disagreement on the positioning of our Marines in the Middle East and the safety of Foreign Service personnel.
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I wanted to return after my two years with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and applied. I obtained a very high recommendation from Senator Jim Sasser, with who I had comminicated for over 10 years. He is probably one of the greatest men I have ever known.
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