User talk:JimmB

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[edit] Current Projects

Cleaning up links that go to disambiguation pages, by pointing them to the correct page. Pages done:

In progress:

  • Eastern Time Zone --> North American Eastern Time Zone

JimmB 21:51, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Joke Edit

You put another President's signature (Bill Clinton) on another president's (I can't remember?). I thought it was vandalism, but you obviously were experimenting. I took off your warning --Bearly541 17:23, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't understand what you mean about "another President's signature". I have fixed a lot of links to Clinton, pointing them to Bill Clinton, as noted above, as well as a number of other presidents. I may have made a mistake fixing one of those links. If so, I apologize for the inadvertent mistake. It was not "experimenting". Again, I wish you had documented where you found it. Looking through your last 1000 edits, I don't see any page I might have touched. If you had looked at my other contributions, you would have seen that they were well-intended. JimmB 18:13, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 69.136.96.119

Hi. Please look at User_talk:69.136.96.119. This user has had several final warnings and is vandalizing again today. Other admins have been extremely lax with banning him. JimmB 21:14, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

If you have a user to report to an admin, please post it to WP:AIV rather than to an individual admin's Talk page. Regards,  (aeropagitica)  (talk)  21:30, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I did report him to WP:AIV, at 21:10, 4 August 2006. And have more than once. Other admins have put short term blocks on him. I have seen you take what I believe to be more appropriate action on similar vandals earlier today, so I thought I'd bring this to your personal attention. This is a particularly aggregious vandal! I won't bother you again. JimmB 21:39, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Ok, your reporting is in line with procedure, so that's fine. As you can see from [1], the IP address editor has been blocked until the sixth of August. Myself or another editor can review the situation if they begin to vandalise WP again after the block has expired. Egregious is the word to which you refer, by the way! Regards,  (aeropagitica)  (talk)  22:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barbara

Hi. I have returned back this guys' comment on Barbara's talk page and added my comment there. I consider this issue as solved. If you want to contribute with your ideas, do that at Barbara's talk page. I will always remove your comments from my talk page cause this is my right, to remove unwanted edits from my talk page. Have a nice end of weekend. - Admin Darwinek 12:01, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Senate Classes table

This is a work in progress, summarizing the Classes in the US Senate


Class 1
next election 2012		 Class 2
next election 2008		 Class 3
next election 2010		 2004
Pres
Senator %
Vote		 First
Elected		 Senator %
Vote		 First
Elected		 Senator %
Vote		 First
Elected		 Bush/ Kerry
Alabama Jeff Sessions 69 1996 Richard Shelby 68 1986 63/37
Alaska Ted Stevens 79 1968(A) Lisa Murkowski 49 2002(A) 61/36
Arizona Jon Kyl 53 1994 John McCain 77 1986 55/44
Arkansas Mark Pryor 54 2002 Blanche Lincoln 56 1998 54/45
California Dianne Feinstein 59 1992(A) Barbara Boxer 58 1992 45/54
Colorado Wayne Allard(R) 51 1996 Ken Salazar 51 2004 52/47
Connecticut Joseph Lieberman 50 1988 Christopher Dodd 66 1980 44/54
Delaware Thomas R. Carper 70 2000 Joe Biden 58 1972 46/53
Florida Bill Nelson 60 2000 Mel Martinez 50 2004 52/47
Georgia Saxby Chambliss 53 2002 Johnny Isakson 58 2004 58/41
Hawaii Daniel Akaka 61 1990(A) Daniel Inouye 76 1962 45/54
Idaho Larry Craig 65 1990 Mike Crapo 99 1998 69/30
Illinois Richard Durbin 60 1996 Barach Obama 70 2004 44/55
Indiana Richard Lugar 87 1976 Evan Bayh 62 1998 60/39
Iowa Tom Harkin 54 1984 Chuck Grassley 70 1980 50/49
Kansas Pat Roberts 83 1996 Sam Brownback 69 1996(S) 62/37
Kentucky Mitch McConnell 64 1984 Jim Bunning 51 1998 60/40
Louisiana Mary Landrieu 46 1996 David Vitter 51 2004 57/42
Maine Olympia Snowe 74 1994 Susan Collins 59 1996 45/54
Maryland Ben Cardin 54 2006 Barbara Mikulski 65 1986 43/56
Massachusetts Edward M. Kennedy 69 1962(S) John Kerry 81 1984 37/62
Michigan Debbie Stabenow 57 2000 Carl Levin 61 1978 48/51
Minnesota Amy Klobuchar 58 2006 Norm Coleman 50 2002 48/51
Mississippi Trent Lott (R) 64 1988 Thad Cochran 85 1978 60/40
Missouri Claire McCaskill 50 2006 Kit Bond 56 1986 53/46
Montana John Tester 49 2006 Max Baucus 63 1978 59/39
Nebraska Ben Nelson 64 2000 Chuck Hagel(R) 83 1996 66/33
Nevada John Ensign 55 2000 Harry Reid 61 1986 48/51
New Hampshire John E. Sununu 51 2002 Judd Gregg 66 1992 49/50
New Jersey Robert Menendez 53 2006(A) Frank Lautenberg 54 2002 46/53
New Mexico Jeff Bingaman 71 1982 Pete Domenici(R) 65 1972 50/49
New York Hilary Clinton 67 2000 Chuck Schumer 71 1998 59/40
North Carolina Elizabeth Dole 54 2002 Richard Burr 52 2004 56/44
North Dakota Kent Conrad 69 1986 Byron Dorgan 68 1986 63/36
Ohio Sherrod Brown 56 2006 George Voinovich 64 1998 51/49
Oklahoma James Inhofe 57 1994(S) Tom Coburn 53 2004 66/34
Oregon Gordon Smith 56 1996 Ron Wyden 63 1996(S) 48/52
Pennsylvania Bob Casey, Jr. 59 2006 Arlen Specter 53 1980 49/51
Rhode Island Sheldon Whitehouse 53 2006 Jack Reed 78 1996 39/60
South Carolina Lindsey Graham 54 2002 James DeMint 54 2004 58/41
South Dakota Tim Johnson 50 1996 John Thune 51 2004 60/39
Tennessee Bob Corker 51 2006 Lamar Alexander 54 2002 57/43
Texas Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) 62 1993(S) John Cornyn 55 2002 61/38
Utah Orrin Hatch 62 1976 Bob Bennett 69 1992 72/26
Vermont Bernie Sanders 65 2006 Patrick Leahy 71 1974 39/59
Virginia James Webb 50 2006 John Warner(R) 84 1978 54/46
Washington Maria Cantwell 57 2000 Patty Murray 55 1992 46/53
West Virginia Robert Byrd 64 1958 Jay Rockefeller 63 1984 56/43
Wisconsin Herb Kohl 67 1988 Russ Feingold 56 1992 49/50
Wyoming John Barrasso 2007(A) Mike Enzi 73 1996 69/29
TOTALS
REPUBLICANS 9 -6 21 +1+1* 19 +5-1 49
DEMOCRATS 22 +6-1 12 -1-1* 15 +1-5 49
Independent/Dem 2 +1 0 0 2
PRIOR CYCLE
REPUBLICANS 15 20 15 50
DEMOCRATS 17 13 19 49
Independent/Dem 1 0 0 1

Key: (A)appointed to fill unexpired term (S)special election to fill unexpired term (R)announced retirement at end of current term


v • d • e
Current members of the United States Senate
   

AL: Shelby (R), Sessions (R)
AK: Stevens (R), Murkowski (R)
AZ: McCain (R), Kyl (R)
AR: Lincoln (D), Pryor (D)
CA: Feinstein (D), Boxer (D)
CO: Allard (R), Salazar (D)
CT: Dodd (D), Lieberman (I)
DE: Biden (D), Carper (D)
FL: Nelson (D), Martinez (R)
GA: Chambliss (R), Isakson (R)
HI: Inouye (D), Akaka (D)
ID: Craig (R), Crapo (R)
IL: Durbin (D), Obama (D)

IN: Lugar (R), Bayh (D)
IA: Grassley (R), Harkin (D)
KS: Brownback (R), Roberts (R)
KY: McConnell (R), Bunning (R)
LA: Landrieu (D), Vitter (R)
ME: Snowe (R), Collins (R)
MD: Mikulski (D), Cardin (D)
MA: Kennedy (D), Kerry (D)
MI: Levin (D), Stabenow (D)
MN: Coleman (R), Klobuchar (D)
MS: Cochran (R), Wicker (R)
MO: Bond (R), McCaskill (D)

MT: Baucus (D), Tester (D)
NE: Hagel (R), Nelson (D)
NV: Reid (D), Ensign (R)
NH: Gregg (R), Sununu (R)
NJ: Lautenberg (D), Menendez (D)
NM: Domenici (R), Bingaman (D)
NY: Schumer (D), Clinton (D)
NC: Dole (R), Burr (R)
ND: Conrad (D), Dorgan (D)
OH: Voinovich (R), Brown (D)
OK: Inhofe (R), Coburn (R)
OR: Wyden (D), Smith (R)

PA: Specter (R), Casey (D)
RI: Reed (D), Whitehouse (D)
SC: Graham (R), DeMint (R)
SD: Johnson (D), Thune (R)
TN: Alexander (R), Corker (R)
TX: Hutchison (R), Cornyn (R)
UT: Hatch (R), Bennett (R)
VT: Leahy (D), Sanders (I)
VA: Warner (R), Webb (D)
WA: Murray (D), Cantwell (D)
WV: Byrd (D), Rockefeller (D)
WI: Kohl (D), Feingold (D)
WY: Enzi (R), Barrasso (R)

[edit] Top Chef Season 2 table

This is a work in progress for the Top Chef (Season 2) page. I have moved the current working version to Talk:Top Chef (Season 2)

[edit] Scandals in the George W. Bush Administration

The following is being adapted from an article on Muckraker.com[Muckraker.com]. Once it is rewritten so as not to infringe copyright, I plan to post it.

[edit] Indicted / Convicted / Pled Guilty

  • Lester Crawford - Commissioner, FDA - resigned after only two months on the job. Pleaded guilty to conflict of interest and making false statements relating to stocks he owned in companies he regulated.[3]
  • Brian Doyle - Deputy Press Secretary, DHS - Resigned in wake of child sex scandal. Pleaded no contest to 32 criminal counts.[4]
  • Claude Allen - Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy - resigned in February, 2006, pleaded guilty to shoplifting from Target and Hecht's stores.[5]
  • Frank Figueroa - senior DHS official, former head of anti-sex-crime Operation Predator - pleaded no contest to exposing himself to 16-year-old girl in Florida mall. Girl says he fondled himself for ten minutes. Figueroa forfeited his badge, gun, and access to databases; employment status pending internal DHS review.
  • John Korsmo - chairman, Federal Housing Finance Board - pleaded guilty in 2005 to lying to the Senate and an inspector general. He swore he had no idea how a list of presidents for FHFB-regulated banks were invited to a fundraiser for his friend's congressional campaign. On the invites, Korsmo was listed as the "Special Guest." Got 18 months of probation.[10]

[edit] Resigned Due to Investigation

  • Carl Truscott - Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives - resigned. A report by the Justice Department's Inspector General found that Truscott wasted tens of thousands of dollars on luxuries, wasted millions on whimsical management decisions and violated ethics rules by ordering employees to help his nephew with a high school video project.[11]
  • Joseph E. Schmitz - Inspector General, Defense - Resigned amid charges he personally intervened to protect top political appointees.[12]
  • Steven Griles - Deputy Secretary at the Interior Department - resigned, under investigation (as of December, 2006) by the Justice Department for his ties to Jack Abramoff.
  • Susan Ralston - assistant, White House - resigned amidst revelations that she had accepted thousands of dollars in gifts from Abramoff without compensating him, counter to White House ethics rules.[13]
  • Ken Tomlinson, Board Chairman, Corporation for Public Broadcasting - resigned at the release of an inspector general report concluding he had broken laws in spending CPB money to hire politically connected consultants to search for "bias" without consulting the board.[16] He remains Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors where another investigation found he was running a "horse racing operation" out of his office, and continuing to hire politically-wired individuals to do "consulting" work for him.[17]
  • James Roche - secretary of the Air Force - resigned in the wake of the Boeing tanker lease scandal, after it was revealed he intimidated opponents of the $23 billion contract.[19]
  • Marvin Sambur - top contracting executive, U.S. Air Force - Druyun's boss, Sambur resigned in the wake of the scandal. Investigations cleared him of wrongdoing.
  • Thomas Scully - Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - shortly after Scully resigned in 2003, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General found that Scully had pressured the agency's actuary to underestimate the full cost of the Medicare reform bill by approximately $100 billion until after Congress passed the bill into law. Scully was also charged wtih conflict of interest allegations by the U.S. attorney's office for billing CMS for expenses incurred during a job search while he still headed the agency. He settled those charges by paying $9,782.
  • Michelle Larson Korsmo - deputy chief of staff, Department of Labor - Helped her husband (see Frank Korsmo, above) with his donor scam. Quietly left her Labor plum job in February 2004, about two weeks before news broke that she and her husband were the targets of a criminal probe.
  • David Smith - Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, Interior Department - resigned after shooting a buffalo and accepting its remains as an illegal gratuity. He eventually paid over $3,000 for the dead buffalo, but only after the internal inquiry had commenced.

[edit] Nomination Failed Due to Scandal

  • Bernard Kerik - nominated, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security - withdrew his nomination amidst a host of corruption allegations. Eventually pled guilty to a misdemeanor relating to having accepted improper gifts totaling tens of thousands of dollars while he was a New York City official in the late 1990's.
  • Timothy Flanigan - nominated, Deputy Attorney General - withdrew his nomination amidst revelations that he'd worked closely with lobbyist Jack Abramoff when he was General Counsel for Corporate and International Law at Tyco International, which was a client of Abramoff's.
  • Linda Chavez - nominated, Secretary of Labor - withdrew her nomination amidst revelations that an illegal immigrant lived in her home and worked for her.

Source: Muckraker.com

[edit] Theo Von

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[edit] WP:OH

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[edit] WikiProject Ohio Newsletter

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[edit] WikiProject Ohio Newsletter


Issue II - May 2008
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The Ohio Portal

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Selected Article: Indian Head Rock

There is a eight ton rock in Ohio that was removed from the Ohio River. This rock is known as the Indian Head Rock Dating back to the early 1800’s, this rock was seen sticking out of the Ohio River and used as a navigational mark for barges along the river. The names of citizens from the town of Portsmouth, Ohio are carved into the rock from the late nineteenth a early twentieth centuries. Some of the names were of well known families from Ohio. They would swim out to the rock, have their picture taken with it or simply carve their names into it.
With the advent of the Locks and Dams along the Ohio River, the rock eventually was submerged, but the legend lived on. A gentleman from Ironton, Ohio located the rock after searching a very long time for it, and he and a crew of scuba divers recovered the rock and took it to the shore to be donated to Ohio for historical value.
After hearing the news about the rock being removed, Kentucky introduced legislation against the removal of the rock. They also want the diver who found it to be prosecuted for removing the rock. Kentucky owns the greatest part of the land the river runs on. Even the Army Corp. of Engineers got involved as to how to move the rock without damaging it. Kentucky wants to have it returned to the river.
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