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Memo to Linda Kellen Biegel

Your attention to this matter will be appreciated.

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  July 15th, 2009 at 06:32 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

To: Linda Kellen Biegel, a.k.a “Celtic Diva”
Re: Ethics Violation

As you can see from the attached photograph, this federal employee is in clear violation of Sec. 2635.101 of the Standards Of Ethical Conduct For Employees Of The Executive Branch, Subpart A, “General Provisions” – which states:

(8) Employees shall act impartially
and not give preferential treatment to
any private organization or individual.

Millions of people around the world witnessed this federal employee wearing clothing with visible manufacturer’s logos. I call your attention to his Majestic jacket prominently displaying a large Chicago White Sox logo (We can discuss his Asics shoes at a later date). He brandished this logo jacket while acting in his official capacity as President of the United States and official starter of Major League Baseball’s 2009 All Star Game, where he became the fourth U.S. president to ceremoniously throw the first pitch.

Not only was he well aware that there would be extensive national media coverage, the president also knew that international magazine Sports Illustrated was covering the event and Fox was televising it live.

This makes the president’s wearing of White Sox gear while representing the United States the equivalent of a walking billboard, providing benefits to the Chicago White Sox at the expense of all other teams in MLB.

It also raises the question of how this federal employee came into possession of the White Sox jacket. If it was a gift, has he claimed it as such?

How can any reasonable person not believe that won’t translate to some type of benefit for the Obamas in the future? Will the family receive free tickets to White Sox home games? We find this very troubling.

Although you are the official DNC blogger for Alaska, I’m sure you agree with us that the need for good ethics in government rises above mere party partisanship.

Therefore, in the same spirit which you filed an ethics complaint against your state’s governor for wearing a jacket which displayed the logo of a snowmobile manufacturer, we are most interested in learning when you intend to file your complaint with the U.S. Attorney General’s office against this clearly unethical federal employee.

Your attention to this matter is appreciated. Since you are only interested in good and ethical government, we are confident that you will do the right thing. After all, we are sure that you are a person of personal integrity and that you expect that same integrity from all of our elected officials, regardless of political party affiliation.

Yours for ethical government,

- JP

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  • Deskpilot

    every day, but U.S. governmental policies come no where close to being open and transparent like AK’s. Additionally, BHO has circled the wagons of defense around him in more layers than a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier had during the cold war. The largest of these wagon trains is the media itself. Their circle of protection is as large and intimidating as the Capitol beltway (I95/i-495)the beltway is.
    The receiving mail orderly at the appropriate governmental office would run those documents through the first shredder they could find, and never even log them in.
    Linda Kellen Biegel (is that like beagle, as in inseam sniffing lapdog?) has neither the will, intestinal fortitude, but most importantly, not the marching orders from Geo. Soros to claim any misstep by anyone other than Gov. Palin.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evb489N11Q4

    Maybe she’ll file a complaint about our former federal employee providing favorable support for the FDNY.
    Don’t hold your breath

  • Scope

    aren’t we in a crises with Gorebal Warming? Rush said today that he wore the opposing teams jacket, because it would be a foil against any boos of him as the president. Josh, the picture is priceless- he looks like a pansy arse!

  • Scope

    He also said that he should have been wearing a salmon colored jacket when he sees this picture.

    • tjexcite

      even though it was the safest place in all of North America. There is always heaven forbid a John Hinckley or Mark David Chapman waiting somewhere. even more as it was in front of millions.

  • Old_Crow
    • izoneguy

      and I don’t think Frank Marshall Davis knew anything about baseball.

  • The Grognard

    …demands a photoshop caption contest. Stick some glasses on him, and he looks like Erkle (from that stupid TV show) tossing out the first pitch.

    • angryred

      I was just going to type that! He looks like he’s saying “ohhh, ahhh, throw ball, throw..”

  • reaganiterepublicanresistance

    Literally-

    Throw in a dozen donuts and the “Diva” will do whatever she’s told…
    just as soon as she’s done scarfing them down, of course

    http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/

  • http://www.AmericanThinker.com Hammer2008

    … I just like how CNN and other venues were quick to distort how the president threw the ball over homeplate…

    • Scope

      Did you wear your glasses when you saw what you saw? Or, did you miss the “girly throw” that probably couldn’t get much past his position?

    • Scope

      Did you wear your glasses when you saw what you saw? Or, did you miss the “girly throw” that probably couldn’t get much past his position?

      • Aaron Gardner

        Hammer is not a troll, just look at his posting history Scope, or his sigline, or the fact that his comment was talking about how CNN distorted the pitch to make Obama look better.

  • stoicsophist

    …you’re right. That ethics complaint against Pailin is pretty stupid, and could almost be filed against any high-profile politician who ever wore anything with a logo on it. The sponsorshp angle gives it a slightly different wrinkle, but no a significant one.

  • Section9

    I do hear that Jay’s hotel is actually a nice place, although I’m not sure how the food is at the restaurant.

    Perhaps Art Chance might play restaurant critic?

    • Achance

      Sits out on the Chena River, you can eat on the deck and tie your boat up in summer or drive your snow machine up in winter. The menu specialty back in the Blue-eyed Arab days of Oil Boom Alaska was two cheeseburgers and a bottle of Dom Perignon for, I think, $150. The menu said something like, “we serve it because we can.” Gotta admit, I had it one night under circumstances about which I’d rather not provide further details.

      • AKSteveB

        One is the one Art mentioned, the other is a chicken wings place with waitresses outfitted as Hooters girls would be, if they shopped at Wal-Mart (good wings though).

        • Achance
          • Section9

            It’s Alaska, after all.

            Gotta have your wings!

            When I get up there, I swear I have to try Jay’s restaurant, just so I can say that I ate at Jay Ramras’ restaurant before he ran for U.S. Senate.

          • Achance

            by underestimating people’s taste.

            I’m proud to say that I’ve never eaten “wings.” Jay’s an OK guy and maybe he will be a senator, presuming of course we still have elections a few years from now. Now that we have perfect people in the government, there really doesn’t seem much further need for elections, does there?

          • Section9

            Seriously, the H.L. Mencken in you comes out when you reflect on the Bambi crowd. Scary when thinking about the True Believers who run D.C. now.

  • lthurwitz

    that basketball is his sport. Jump shot is much better than his arm, that’s for sure.

    • Rod_Patrick

      No pun intended to the courageous people of women’s basketball.

  • Rod_Patrick
    • izoneguy

      n/t

      • Rod_Patrick
    • Mario

      They said on the news that he was recently a broad, so that probably explains it.

  • http://xmmlbchat.blogspot.com katesmith

    The last president to throw in an All Star game was Gerald Ford. It’s not a traditional venue for US pres. MLB operates a legal monopoly and views itself as a global political force. They want to continue to rob people without government interference. They went to Obama, invited him to the game this year with the bait that they’d promote his social agenda of volunteerism. Am. Thinker had good piece about it. MLB sold off last year’s All Star game to global warming profiteers.

    • Josh Painter

      I stand corrected, as does the post.

      - JP

  • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

    The White House didn’t let the media film Obama playing basketball on the White House basketball court. I wonder why? Probably he’s not as good as his handlers say he is.

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/05/do-you-want-you.html

    • TNJim

      Well, that would fit in with everything else…

    • Rod_Patrick

      nt

      • penguin2

        by associating him with it! He’s ruining everything else he touches, what am I to do?

        • $peciallist

          pic later

          • Xasteius
          • $peciallist

            I am super jealous I didn’t come up with this…

            http://www.redstate.com/speciallist/2008/10/17/obamadible-thoughts-friday-open-thread/

        • Rod_Patrick

          Sorry! LOL!

  • Raven

    And his outfit makes him look like some suburban mom who has let herself go…

    • George Claghorn
    • bk

      Key moment is at 1:45…

      Here’s a fitting t-shirt – and it’s even in the White Sox “colors”.

  • Josh Painter

    who throw with “authority.” So “throw like a girl” now means an 8-year-old girl who has never seen a baseball or softball before and throws like it.

    - JP

  • Achance

    Now, first, I think the complaint over the Arctic Cat jacket was BS, but there is a point and it is a point you obfuscate in this post.

    Sarah Palin’s husband receives some considerable financial support from Arctic Cat, the manufacturer of snow machines that he uses. She actually has asked APOC and the Ethics Attorney to be releived of reporting just how much Todd Palin receives. Lots of really good people have foregone running for office in Alaska because they don’t want to disclose their spouse’s income or client list. If Sarah Palin bouth that jacket at the Arctic Cat dealer, that’s one thing. If she received it from Arctic Cat because of Todd’s relationship with Arctic Cat, that is another, and it is a reportable gift or compensation under the Ethics Act. You know the Ethics Act, Josh, the one she’s so proud of amending to clean up all us old boys.

    Now, if Comrade Obama or a member of his family is being paid to do something for the White Sox and they gave him that jacket, you have some ethics issues with him too. If they gave him the jacket in the expectation that he would do something for him, and he performs on that expectation, there is a federal ethics issue. If they gave him the jacket and he took it home, there is probably some gift reporting obligation but it has been too long since I was a fed and I don’t remember the limits.

    The truth is always good enough.

    • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
      • Achance

        What Josh is saying is apples to oranges unless he can say that BHO is deriving some benefit from the White Sox or from whatever the sneaker maker was. Most of us wear labels around, public figures wear labels; Gov. Palin’s Naughty Monkey shoes and whatever those eyeglasses were made both companies famous. That is no big deal. However, if Gov. Palin had been in a financial relationship with Naughty Monkey rather than just buying them at a shoe store in Juneau, there’d be an issue.

        Todd Palin has a financial relationship with Arctic Cat and Sarah Palin is responsible under the Ethics Act for that relationship. If she bought the Arctic Cat jacket at the dealer, it is no different from the Ralph Lauren pony that used to be on a lot of my dress shirts back when I worked for government. But, if Arctic Cat gave Todd or her that jacket because of Todd’s relationship with them and it is worth over, I think $50, and I assure you it is, then it is a reportable gift under the Ethics Act.

        She made this world, Neil. She was Little Miss Ethical, Miss Open and Transparent, Miss Investigate Me. Maybe I’ll scan and post the s#$tgram I got from her Ethics Attorney so people here will understand a little better. I’ve never filed one against her, something I can’t say for her against me, but I’ll guaran-damn-tee you that if I did, I’d win.

        • AKSteveB

          she gets the obsessives on both sides. We’ve talked about the PalinBots ad nauseum, but some of her local enemies are pretty out there too. The email request and the Troopergate complaints are/were utterly valid. Most of the rest are such nonsense that the fact that there were and are legitimate ethical issues has gotten lost. I kind of envy whatever it is about her that manages to make so many people utterly batsh*t.

  • http://briansimpson.wordpress.com Brian Simpson

    Add these to your list of offenses:

    and

    • bs

      ;-)

      • http://briansimpson.wordpress.com Brian Simpson

        Those two pictures are about two years apart (2004 in St. Louis and 2006 in DC) and tell me if I’m crazy here. Isn’t Bush wearing the same pants and same shoes in both?

        • $peciallist

          I betcha he’s not afraid to throw inside.

          • Aaron Gardner

            He makes Obama look like the hack that he is. Heck Obama probably had to burn a Kool after all that exertion

          • randy streu

            nt.

    • Josh Painter

      - JP

    • Rod_Patrick

      Of-course, Obambi is just a phony Bruno in baseball.

  • http://www.americenema.com americenema

    The real crime is that the leader of the free world is throwing like a girl. No, actually I know girls that throw better than that. He looks like he’s tip toeing through the tulips. Probably has never slung a baseball in his life! He was too busy slinging dope on the corner.

  • Aaron Gardner
  • Dencal26

    First of all I am always a little skeptical when someone calls themself a “DIVA” and after seeing photos of this woman I now know why. She should be sued by citizens of Alaska for wasting taxpayer dollars on worthless frivolous lawsuits. Lets start a fund to sue this DIVA.

  • constitutionalistconservative

    It is pretty sad being a 35 year old man that has grown up watching many of his male friends and family members turn into a bunch of effeminate metro “men.” Knowing guys are shaving their chest, legs, plucking their eyebrows, wearing makeup, getting manicures, pedicures and adding more hair product to their hair than the oil that spilled out of the Valdez is driving me nuts! The liberal MSM and extreme women’s lib movement have castrated today’s men.

    What’s worse is the fact that President Obama makes the “men” I reference above look like Brutus from Popeye.

    Oh, and by the way President Obama, my 100 lb wife can throw a pitch better than that!

  • LibRick

    pitch and the White Sox jacket, I turned to my wife and said, “Maybe there should be an ethics investigation.” Of course that’s absolutely ridiculous but it really underscores the impossible situation Governor Palin was forced to contend with.

  • jocelyn

    Palin pulled her (as well as the other dems in Alaska) meal ticket and 15 minutes of fame.

    I hope she tries something AFTER Palin steps down and gets sued into oblivion.

  • celticdiva

    …and it didn’t work.

    So, I posted it at the blog http://divasblueoasis.com

  • Scope

    and I gotta tell ya girl, you do need to do something about that body mass. This is surely a case of Palin jelousy. Have any more ethics complaints, stories, hope and change kinds posts there melting “diva.