Pius XII Memorial Library Government Documents

Yummy. According to a NASA researcher Mars is ripe for planting:
From the Science Magazine webpage:
“Earth-type life would be happy to live in this soil,” Phoenix team member Samuel Kounaves of Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, said at a media teleconference today. “You could grow asparagus but not [acid-loving] strawberries” in the alkaline dirt.

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Federal Computer Week reports that Federal Employees will be getting a 3.9 percent raise in the coming fiscal year. Look closely at your pay stub, are you beating inflation?

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The Census Bureau is ramping up for the 2010 Decennial Census and unfortunately it looks to be a miscount. The New York Times reports that not only is the count underfunded, but the Commerce department’s leadership is mismanaging the process. A Census “sweepstakes” is the most pathetic proposal (as detailed in the NYT). And a close read of the history [...]

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The US Special Forces counterinsurgency manual on keeping trouble spots under control has surfaced at WikiLeaks and helps explain why we have not been attacked since 2001. The defense establishment knows and teaches important lessons on keeping a lid on trouble makers — such as labor unions and political parties, and they know about “Population [...]

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The clock is ticking on the last months for this administration and the word on the street in D.C. is transition. Fortunately for the winner’s of the last eight year’s plums, the OPM is there to help the Executive’s executives.

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Of course the ‘maths’ here in documents land are somewhat weak but we figure Barack Obama has been a Senator for around a 1000 days. The first Senator to be in the running for the Presidency since JFK (he of a 1000 days) and one to be compared in his youthful demeanor to the late [...]

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Not a pretty statistical picture:
From the Federal Government Statistics section of www.whitehouse.gov…
Life expectancy in the United States was the highest ever in 2002, but infant mortality increased from a rate of 6.8 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2001 to a rate of 7.0 per 1,000 births in 2002, the first year since [...]

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In his weekly radio address the President attacked Congress for not funding the Pentagon adequately — specifically he said,
“At the beginning of next month, civilian employees may face temporary layoffs. The department will have to close down a vital program that is getting potential insurgents off the streets and into jobs. The Pentagon [...]

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Looks like a government employee can get in hot water by more than the old-style Hatch Act violations — like the time in 1964 when my dad, who worked at the VA, got the third degree for having a “what-me-worry, vote 4 Alfred E. Neuman” bumper sticker on his car.
Now the violation can [...]

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