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Paul Wolfowitz has a girlfriend? Sorry, the real news story here is what she is being paid and whether she was improperly advanced at the World Bank, headed by Wolfowitz. The questions arise in the midst of an anti-corruption campaign launched by Wolfowitz at the World Bank.
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By Allen, April 13, 2007 at 10:22 am Link to this comment
Great satire entitled, "Wolfowitz seeks medical solution to ethics problem."
By Robert, April 13, 2007 at 1:24 am Link to this comment
The neocons Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, William Kristol, Ari Fleischer, Elliot Abrams, David Wurmser, Kenneth Adelman, Scooter Libby, Richard Haass, Henry Kissinger, Michael Chertoff, Joshua Bolton, John Bolten and others who are/were in this administration…all played a role in manipulating U.S. policies & actions in the Middle-East; especially, the war on Iraq.
For their efforts and their zionist schemes, this has led to about 3,300 dead American soldiers, over 24,000 wounded, over 600,000 Iraqi deaths, hundreds of billions of American taxpayers dollars lost and wasted, chaos and destruction in Iraq, instability in the region and the world.
The ones who exited the pentagon and other areas after the Iraq war disasters, each one has himself a well placed paying prestigious job and position. These guys can still contact their buddies at the pentagon, state department & other areas in this administration ... for things to get done for them, such as, FAVORS.
Paul Wolfowitz surely had his hands busy pulling strings for his girl friend to receive a high paying job and out of this world pay raises. This guy has no shame & guilt. All the money is coming out of American taxpayers pockets.
Bush & Cheney just can't tangle with them & AIPAC. It will be disaster if they tried.
One wonders what these zionist neocons have on this administration! If there is something, it must be really serious.
I am also wondering why hasn't the "mainstream news media" been covering Wolfowitz's scandal?
May be the mainstream news medias don't go after AIPAC members scandals. If there is any information, usually its minimal "2-3 seconds" on the air and in small print in the back of news papers.
Notice that Cheney and Bush don't dare to speak out on AIPAC members!
Wolfowitz should resign and move to Israel.
By susan, April 12, 2007 at 9:33 pm Link to this comment
I saw the BBC this morning and burst into laughter. This white house should be called the 'little brown house that could'.
By vet240, April 12, 2007 at 8:00 pm Link to this comment
A lot of you people voted for bu$h. I can forgive the first election, but I'll never forgive you the second.
This sorry example for a human being is just another nail in the coffin. This sorry bastard is one of the people that is responsible for your children being in Iraq.
He says he's sorry for his mistake. H like the rest of bu$hes close friends and appointees, are just sorry for being caught.
It's time to impeach the bu$h administration for running a criminal enterprise out of the WhiteHouse.
By Kol Klink, April 12, 2007 at 7:45 pm Link to this comment
One more neo con bites the dust. Gotta love it.
By trantieungoc, April 12, 2007 at 6:25 pm Link to this comment
Does he have wife and what did she say about this ?
By Marmoset, April 12, 2007 at 5:44 pm Link to this comment
Wolfowitz is corrupt?????? The shock and heartbreak!!!!
It's not a big deal, considering his earlier nefarious activities pushing the US into the war, but if it'll take him down a notch or to, then fine.
By Quy Tran, April 12, 2007 at 4:38 pm Link to this comment
Wolfowitz suddenly became "Wolf" since he was #2 in DOD who's responsible for Iraq invasion. Now he used World Bank monies to please his girl friend did not make any surprise. Rudy now has a new buddy. Congrat!
By john doe, April 12, 2007 at 4:15 pm Link to this comment
commisar wolfovits did a fine job for his handlers. he deserves the order of trotsky for all he has done in the name of the socialist bund.
By samuel burke, April 12, 2007 at 4:12 pm Link to this comment
sometimes i wonder just how naive we americans can be, wolfowitz is a member of the club thats made for you and me…american zionist loving…russian communist hating for what they did to trotsky (stalin stole their revolution), leftwing socialist believer. he didnt get promoted to a position like world bank president making near half a million a year for not having done a good job in the middle east war lie. he played his role in getting the united states military involved in a war in which there is NO WAY OUT…and since there is no way out we are in it to take down powers in the middle east and leave in its place weakened nations that can not pose a threat to either israhell nor to americas quest for cheaper and guranteed energy to meet the requirements of our nation.
By Fadel Abdallah, April 12, 2007 at 3:42 pm Link to this comment
God might give respite for evil doers, all for a while. However, when He gets fed up He does justice!
This Zionist neocon has so much blood on his hands for being one of the architects of the Iraqi war. He was rewarded for his services by being sent to head the World Bank in the name of fighting corruption, when he himself is being morally corrupted to the bone.
If I am not mistaken, his so-called girl fiend sounds to be from an Iranian Shi'a background; a disgrace for Islam for being illicitly involved with such an evil beast!
Neocons = evil doers; Zionist neocons are indeed the ultimate evil! Thus Americas should wake up and realize that the words "conservative" and "patriotic" are two veils those evil doers use to hide their moral corruption! But a Just God will never be done with them! Just wait for the next big scandal; he (she) will always be a neocon.
By bill lees, April 12, 2007 at 3:36 pm Link to this comment
Be ready ,soon King George will tell him "you're doing a great job Brownie…er..Imean Wolfie.
By faith, April 12, 2007 at 3:11 pm Link to this comment
Why is it that an ordinary citizen/person who is brought up on charges by the D.A. can say, "I'm sorry", but must pay the required time for the crime, while many political individuals, who know the rules and laws, can say "I'm sorry", (for their wrongful acts) and the issue is dismissed?
The logic and the law must apply equally to politicians and private citizens. I raise the issue not only concerning Wolfowitz's hiring practices but also the white house staff's questionable loss of email records. Records that under the law must be recorded. Shouldn't all those parties involved in that "loss of governmental records be brought before the courts for fair and just adjudication.
By khps, April 12, 2007 at 2:52 pm Link to this comment
I'm waiting for Wolfie to announce he's going in to rehab. He'll join all his Rethug friends who have apologized for their transgressions, while claiming the booze made 'em do it.
By NotaBene, April 12, 2007 at 1:40 pm Link to this comment
I ask in all seriousness, has Paul Wolfowitz ever been right about anything? Dating back to his days as part of Team B at the CIA, he seems consistently to have reached the wrong conclusion and made the wrong decision about every matter he's been involved with, with this story just the latest link in the chain. How does a man with this kind of track record continue to rise so easily to the upper reaches of the policy-making establishment? There must be more to his past body of work than we hear about, no? You and I would have been kicked out the door if we had been so egregiously wrong about our projects as Wolfowitz was about Iraq. What gives?
By cg, April 12, 2007 at 1:21 pm Link to this comment
Somebody give this guy a medal!
By Patrick Story, April 12, 2007 at 12:37 pm Link to this comment
Wolfowitz, the slavering wolf and Iraq warmonger disguised in human clothing, former esteemed Undersecretary of Defence, now reappears in the spotlight as fond sugar daddy to his special employee over at the World Bank. Is there anyone more disgusting in public life today (the President excluded, as always)? Is there any hope that we will ever see him in the docket for ordering war crimes?
By Bob Hoffman, April 12, 2007 at 11:03 am Link to this comment
Wolfowitz is just a typical self-serving and know-it-all neocom talking a great game about bringing order (Their version of "Order" that is!) to everyone else while feathering his own nest, in this case a "love" nest! A sad commentary on this administration and all involved in it.


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The students develop relationships with the officers and are willing to divulge information "on a daily basis," said Andy Sterling, Lake City High School resource officer in the Coeur d'Alene School District. "It could be about a weapon or just about a fight after school. We are able to prevent a lot of the physical violence, and if we weren't sitting in that office, who would they report to?"
Abt Associates Inc., a Massachusetts research and consulting company, recently conducted a case study on school resource officers for the U.S. Department of Justice. The research found that officers in larger districts spend about 10 percent of their time on actual law enforcement duties and 70 percent talking with students, parents and faculty and teaching about laws. The other 20 percent is spent on activities such as paperwork or attending after-school events.
The percentages vary depending on whether there are formal law enforcement courses in a school, such as the D.A.R.E. program. Spokane Public Schools' officers do not teach courses, officials said, so they spend about 10 percent more time on law enforcement duties.
"It's our job to provide a safe environment, and make the students and staff feel like they are protected," Sterling said. "I love what I do. I like working with kids – making differences in kids' lives."
A small city
A school resource officer is like the police chief of a small town with a population of several hundred 5- to 18-year-olds with a small group of adults mixed in.
"The benefit of this job versus having city officers visit the schools is I'm not going to deal with a kid one day. We're here every day; and it's to our benefit to develop a relationship," said Wilkey, Ferris High School's resource officer. "You learn their mannerisms, their hangouts and you know where they are going to be the next day. We get to know their families."
When the school recently had a drug awareness week, "we had kids self-reporting. That's how comfortable kids are with us," Wilkey said. She was able to direct the students to professional counseling.
Said Sterling, "You have to build a trust with the kids. You are law enforcement, but you are also a mentor. If you don't have the confidence from the students, then your job as an SRO (school resource officer) is going to be tough. Kids are not going to come in and tell you about another kid who may want to hurt themselves or mom and dad doing drugs."
Students will also confide about abuse at home, and tell officers about other students having weapons and threats to others in the school.
"The scariest part is the unknown," Wilkey said. "Is the threat real or not?"
The statistics
A resource officer in Spokane Public Schools – student population of 28,200 – responds to an average of 20 calls per day and more than 3,500 per academic year, school officials said.
The 12 officers can respond to calls for counseling, weapon reports, tobacco, drug and alcohol incidents, misdemeanor and felony arrests, trespassing and truancy.
An officer in the Coeur d'Alene School District, which is about one-third the size of Spokane Public Schools, responds to an average of seven calls per day.
Mark Howard, Spokane Public Schools security supervisor, said: "A majority of the misdemeanors are marijuana possession. A majority of the felonies are assault, theft and prescription drugs."
Those trends are consistent throughout Inland Northwest school districts.
Between September 2010 and January 2011, there were 38 felony arrests and 165 misdemeanor arrests in Spokane Public Schools, including middle and elementary schools; there were a total of 39 arrests in the Coeur d'Alene School District. East Valley, West Valley, Central Valley and Mead school districts each had about 50 or fewer total arrests.
The bulk of Spokane's misdemeanor arrests – 112 – occurred at Rogers High School.
"The numbers are higher partly because there are two officers, so they are able to respond to more calls," said Jason Conley, Spokane Public Schools' director of safety, security and transportation. "The other reason is they're taking a more firm stance at that school."
By comparison, the calls for counseling students, parents, community members and school employees numbered in the high hundreds and thousands, according to data from several Inland Northwest school districts.
Officers are typically stationed at high schools and middle schools, and respond to elementary schools as needed, but it varies by district.
"Our high schools are about the same size as some small cities (over 1,500 students), and it makes sense to have an officer in that city," Conley said.
Officers in Spokane Public Schools are district employees, but they are commissioned officers. In East Valley, West Valley, Central Valley, Mead and Coeur d'Alene school districts the resource officers are local police department or sheriff's office employees who work in the schools during the academic year and rotate back into patrol during the summer.
Either way, the officer's role is considered vital in the schools by the administration and even the students.
Scott Wortley, a 2011 Lewis and Clark High School graduate, said: "You can tell that the students know when the school resource officer is not there, and they sort of take advantage of it," causing a little more trouble than usual.
He adds, "Without him (the resource officer), we wouldn't have the safety for our kids. We wouldn't have the safety for our school."


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Study backs nonsurgical way to fix heart valves
WASHINGTON -- A new study gives a big boost to fixing a bad aortic valve, the heart's main gate, without open-heart surgery. Survival rates were better one year later for people who had a new valve placed through a tube into an artery instead.
The results were reported Saturday at an American College of Cardiology conference in Washington and prompted some doctors to predict that in the near future, far fewer people will be having the traditional operation.
"It's going to be very hard to tell a patient that if they need an aortic valve, surgery is going to be their best option," said one of the conference leaders, Dr. Prediman K. Shah of Cedars Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles.
Several hundred thousand Americans have a bad aortic valve, which can stiffen and narrow with age, keeping blood from passing through as it should. Until a few years ago, the only solution was a major operation to open the chest, cut out the bad valve and sew in a new one.