I mean, how could he have known that Burris would end up on Armed Services?
MR. LEMNIOS: Sir, in the — as director of Defense Research and Engineering, my critical role would be to work technology strategy across the Department of Defense; to identify those key areas where the Department needs to strengthen and drive its technology strategies, technology efforts; to work with the services in their laboratories to foster a broad set of –
SEN. BURRIS: Excuse me. You’re saying that there is — services have their own research laboratories going, with research military personnel, or outside contracting personnel?
MR. LEMNIOS: Sir, I’ve seen combinations of both. Some examples include the Naval Research Laboratory, not too far from here, which includes certainly government employees as well as some contractors on site; include the Air Force Wright-Patterson Laboratory which, again, include many government researchers and outside contractors.
(Via Mere Rhetoric, via Hot Air)
Wired is appalled, although as usual I’m not sure why; it’s hardly a news flash that the Democratic Party would consider Armed Services to be the perfect backwater in which to put a Senator like Burris. I just refuse to believe that Blagojevich is that prescient. If he was, he’d still be in office.
Nonetheless, I cannot wait for the Democratic Illinois primary. Particularly the part where the national Democratic party bends itself into amusing rhetorical pretzel shapes to avoid talking about why they’re supporting/not supporting Burris in it. Trust me, they’re not going to want to talk about it, either way.
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Blago knew what he was doing
izoneguy (Diary) Friday, June 19th at 1:20AM EST (link)It is like a spoiled child who ruins the party for everyone if he does not get his way. Blago knew enough about Burris – so it was like throwing a stink bomb down Congress’s pants…
And Blago will be laughing all the way to the pen.
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This proves that Burris is incompetent
bk (Diary) Friday, June 19th at 2:42AM EST (link)He didn’t even demand that the guy stop using “Sir” and address him as “Senator”!
But that's because he didn't work hard
MNConservative (Diary) Friday, June 19th at 11:31AM EST (link)to get the title Senator.
Maybe somebody will notice this time.......... Senator Burris' Trial - Key Witness Dead - Single Car Accident.
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Friday, June 19th at 6:17AM EST (link)I put this up here at RS on June 14th……. birds chirping everywhere except The Chicago Sun Times………..
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Monday 9 June 2009, a gentleman named John Ruff of Sandwich Illinois died when his car struck a tree on Rogers Road in Plano (Kendall County) Illinois.
Forty-two years old, a father of four, Mr. Ruff’s funeral was today (ed. note: 14 June).
There are so many things I want to say and can easily imply to this event, but I’ll let The Chicago Sun Times do allot of it for me, by your reading what they don’t say in the article linked here………
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/burris/1614432,w-john-ruff-roland-burris-death-060909.article
Here’s just a little piece of the linked
cover uparticle.Deputy Kendall County Coroner Jacquie Marcellis told the Sun-Times that Ruff died of blunt head and chest trauma. No autopsy is planned.
Marcellis said that a friend of Ruff’s indicated to her that he had been diagnosed with a brain tumor, though it was unclear whether that had any bearing on the crash.
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Single car accident. No skid marks on the road surface. No witnesses whatsoever. The required ‘friend of a friend’s neighbor’s sister’s hairdresser’s son’s puppy’s trainer says the man had a deadly health problem. No autopsy planned………..
I bet nobody with any technical knowledge of vehicles was at the time, or will be allowed anywhere near the car in the future to have a look at the brakes, steering or other control systems. In fact, I’d bet dollars to donuts that the car has been crushed already.
Nah………. Nothing to see here…………..Hey, look………..American Idol auditions are on………..Ahhhhhh, it’s only one guy got killed, that’s too bad for his family………… There’s a sale at the mall, let’s go.
All other media in Chicago, or nationally (God forbid they care): – - – - – - – - -.
Kenny, the Kane county coroner is a Republican
Brian Hibbert (Diary) Friday, June 19th at 7:12AM EST (link)It’s the coroner’s office that decides if an autopsy is required in the case of a suspicious death. And the family also has the option to request one. While I would think that given a single car accident, they would want to determine of the man really did have a brain tumor or some other condition to cause the accident, I doubt the actual cause of death was disputable.
If there were a cover up, it would require cooperation from the coroner, the sheriff and his family to prevent an investigation.
That said, if I were the coroner his family, I’d want a better explanation of what caused his to veer off the road. But if the story of the brain tumor is true, it would explain why the family didn’t pursue it.
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