Tuesday, September 18, 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHRIS!

age 6 or 7 months, 1979

1979, about the same age

Christmas '79, 1 year old


Broken leg, age 2 1/2, 1981


Spanish Fork Fiesta Days, City of Fun Carnival

Salem Duck Pond

Off in his own little world


School Pic


Camping

At the Provo Temple


at Disneyland, summer '89



at the MTC, 1998




Uruguay



Our Family


Chris is married to a lovely woman named Susan and they have a cute little daughter named Hattie Mae. She's a year old. They have a blog, check it out.
Happy Birthday, Chris!

ABOVE THE LAW

John Murtha, Jim Moran, Peter Visclosky:

These people are above the law. They’re untouchable, unreachable, unassailable, and they know it. They make muggers and thieves look honest by comparison.

From Don Surber:

You want to make the big bucks? Rent a congressman. Your return on your investment can be as high as $75 for every dollar invested.
Just ask the good folks at PMA Group, a lobbying firm. They sank $1,333,074 into the campaigns last year of 3 Democratic members of the House defense appropriations subcommittee and walked away with $100.5 million in defense earmarks for PMA clients

That means for every buck they spent, their clients got back $75.39. In less than 1 year.


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Money is not the only object. The firm was founded by Paul Magliochetti, who worked for Murtha on the defense appropriations subcommittee. Richard Kaelin went from being Visclosky’s chief of staff to lobbying for PMA.

Culture of corruption? Congressional Democrats seem to have invented it.
(Bold Mine.)
Please read the whole post.