Because Democracy is Not Free — we all have to work at it
From an older post dated April 23, 2007, FAA Follies, a site that highlights conditions within the Federal Aviation Administration, writes of a whistleblower: . . . a fellow controller named Peter Nesbitt has made the news. He is the guy that filed the NASA report that described a too-close call at the Memphis airport; it wound [...]
I was recently reminded of a novel French proverb. Essentially, it was the idea that when a fishmonger has crabs for sale in a basket, he doesn’t need to worry about one escaping. Should one try, the rest of the crabs will drag it back down. Welcome to federal service, where no one should attempt to [...]
It is true, I’m a closet nerd. Over the past few months, I’ve put in multiple installations of various internet applications. I’ve researched and worked with WordPress, Mambo, Joomla and Drupal. I’ve built several sites for myself, clients and for friends. However, you don’t need to be a techie to have a voice. It is easy to [...]
CNN’s article on Efraim Diveroli starts out: Efraim Diveroli’s father hoped his son would become a doctor or lawyer. What he got instead is a 22-year-old international arms dealer who faces a congressional inquiry for allegedly selling old Chinese ammunition to the U.S. military to equip allies in Afghanistan. Gramps could not be more proud [...]
Every time I look at this site’s statistics, I’m floored. I just can’t get over how many people have been reading this blog. Even more astounding, I’m amazed at how many people will read it from cover to cover once they’ve found it. So that you can get a general idea, while I was at [...]
From the beginning of this year through March 5, 2008, The Western Region Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) has closed 149 files. More than half were dismissed. Tabulated by hand: San Francisco Regional Office Merit Systems Protection Board Data from 1/1/08 through 3/5/08 Table of Decisions in Favor of Parties Administrative Judge Data Total Amy [...]
One of the benefits of this blog has been the number of people I’ve met, and the information that has been shared. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to meet Joe Brown. So that you can etch a picture of Joe in your mind, think of Joe as the one time federal employee whose boat was stolen, removed from [...]
Well, you’ve got to hand it to DOL’s attorneys. Andrew Schultz has made good on his promise to try and get the Code of Federal Regulations thrown out. If you’re going to aim high, shoot for the stars. Using a little cited legal passage, Schultz is arguing that 29 C.F.R. § 1614.302 no longer applies to [...]
============= 4/08 – NOTE TO READERS: POTENTIAL DATA REVISION; It appears that the database service double-counts certain cases. After adjusting for duplicate case number, MSPB administrative judges are still very busy, but perhaps less so than these numbers indicate. ============= Several people have asked me about Merit Systems Protection Board decision statistics. For the longest time, I [...]
I’m setting aside my usual humor for the somber nature of this article I read today. From the article, Coming Home, one female veteran states, “It’s only recently that I started dealing with-started talking about in therapy-the sexual stuff, knowing that the longer this goes on the deeper this wound will go,” said Wolf, now 50. “You [...]