in today's news...

Man Must Pay $2,000 In Katrina Fraud Case

A Colorado man accused of posing as a Hurricane Katrina victim to receive public aid has been sentenced today to four months in federal prison.

A U.S. District Court judge also ordered 49-year-old Roosevelt Gray of Aurora to pay $2,000 to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

In May, Gray pleaded guilty to theft of public money. Prosecutors said he received $2,000 from FEMA when he misrepresented himself as a Katrina refugee. Gray claimed he was from New Orleans, while in truth he lives in Denver.

Okay, fair enough. Stealing money intended for the use of those displaced by Katrina is truly vile. But I ask you, when are we going to see proportionate punishment for those who misplaced $9 billion in Iraq?

And doesn't it all just fit together into one big ugly-assed picture?

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Republicans muscled the first minimum wage increase in a decade through the House early Saturday after pairing it with a cut in inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates.

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The National Labor Relations Board will soon issue a major ruling that could jeopardize the ability of RNs to receive the protections afforded by CNA/NNOC representation...Why Is This Occurring Now?
Challenges to RN union rights have been pushed for years. Now, however, the Bush administration has finally succeeded in filling the NLRB with anti-union management attorneys who have already rolled back employee rights in a number of other cases.

I could, sadly, go on forever in this vein.