Would seem as though the SEC oversee’s their employees about as effectively as they did Bernie Madoff etc.
Odd’s are good they’ll get a pay raise.

I’m sure the government will be every bit as effective in the future with healthcare as well.

Well, Tim Z. Ank, we have a different government than we did when this was going on. I think during the last three (3) years of the second W Administration, no one did anything except internet porn or the like. There is a new sheriff in town, now. One who likes his job and performs it well.

If you honestly think the behavior of career government employees is affected in the least by ANY administration you are are an absolute imbecile. This is a systemic government problem, not an administration problem. It’s got nothing to do with Bush OR Obama and everyting to do with an over-bloated, unresponsive, wasteful, neglectful entity. This kind of shit goes on constantly no matter what sheriff is in town.

Three of the incidents occurred this year, ten in 2009, 16 in 2008, two in 2007 and one each in 2006 and 2005.

Apparently, it was a bipartisan “effort”.

.

It’s got nothing to do with Bush OR Obama and everyting to do with an over-bloated, unresponsive, wasteful, neglectful entity. This kind of shit goes on constantly no matter what sheriff is in town.

Exactly.

For some reason our “progressive” friends think that when they run things all of this (or most of it) will simply not occur.

And so they don’t care whether the government expands into all aspects of our lives. Because under their rule, it will always be beneficent and frugal and responsive and efficient. Of course, conservatives succumb to this as well especially when it comes to national security or law enforcement. They too believe that the state will usually use those powers responsibly.

History shows otherwise.

JUST Wait ’till the “newly 2-B-hired” irs “agents” hear about these ‘benefits’!

disgusted says:
April 23, 2010 at 11:24 am
JUST Wait ’till the “newly 2-B-hired” irs “agents” hear about these ‘benefits’!

Heh, yeah, just what we need, 17,000 more imbeciles @ $100k a year with a badge whacking off courtesy of the middle class taxpayer.

Heck, if the Kennedy brothers were still the big guns in DC they would move the WH and Justice Bldg to to the SEC offices and then the partying would really begin in earnest!

Man, who would have thought that there were liberals working at the SEC?

“If you honestly think the behavior of career government employees is affected in the least by ANY administration you are are an absolute imbecile.”

Couldn’t have said it better, myself.

This isn’t a government problem. This is a workplace place problem. This occurs all day, every day from government agencies to educational institutions, etc, etc,etc. Where there is internet, there is porn. Fire the offenders and put some filters on your computers. If I can manage to keep porn off of my 13 year olds computer employers can keep it off of their computers.

@ SteveMG: I don’t know how you got from point a to point b to point c. WTF? I do have to admit, however, your “Bipartisan effort” comment made me giggle…a lot.

According to a NY Daily News poll 30% of women admit to looking at internet porn. For men the number is 70%. So here’s an idea…get rid of all the men in the work place and replace them with women. Problem not solved, but greatly diminished.

batgirl2010 , they ought do do a poll on talking and gossiping at work. Women would win that hands down.

I don’t know how you got from point a to point b to point c. WTF?

It was in response to timzank’s response to RRK who apparently thinks that this type of stuff only occurs under Republican Administrations.

TRRK proves himself to be a complete (-) again.

16,000 times? That IS solid work ethic…

With nothing constructive to add, I’ll just say…………..Looks like the financial crisis wasn’t the only thing that “really heated up”! OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Attention Tea Party Members: This is a blatant attempt to distract you from the kind of financial system reforms your group advocates, but which flies in the face of Republican Party politics.

@ Munch: Point taken. I was joking about the whole get rid of men thing, though.
@SteveMG.: That clears up that question. I was still giggling about the bipartisan effort thing when I read your second post. In fact, I’m still giggling about it. I’m very easily amused.

@batgirl2010: I believe based on previous reports from when this story first surfaced about a month ago, the firewall stopped most direct access and the perpetrators employed a workaround.

One of the worst offenders used Google:Images as a workaround and while the kneejerk response may be to better the government censors to close that back door, I know from my previous blogging experience that people in closed societies have effectively used Google:Translate to get around their national firewalls.

Personally, as someone who advocates the free flow of information, I’d like to tread lightly in this area and instead of perfecting a software solution or cajoling Google into closing the hole, I’d rather just fire the guys, when they get caught.

Grammie says:
April 23, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Heck, if the Kennedy brothers were still the big guns in DC they would move the WH and Justice Bldg to to the SEC offices and then the partying would really begin in earnest!

-

Aren’t you lovely! Two assasinated men the target of your humor!

—
Olby Sucks says:
April 23, 2010 at 12:24 pm
“If you honestly think the behavior of career government employees is affected in the least by ANY administration you are are an absolute imbecile.”

Couldn’t have said it better, myself.

-

I dare say you are correct.

The Real Royal King says:
April 23, 2010 at 1:56 pm

Aren’t you lovely! Two assassinated men the target of your humor!”

Yes, assassinated by two leftists: Lee Oswald, a “Fair Play for Cuba” advocate and self-proclaimed Communist, and Sirhan Sirhan, a radical Palestinian angry with RFK for his support of Israel.

Yep, King, two of your finest leftists.

All that energy spent to figure out how to get porn at work. If only they had used that evil genius for the good of mankind instead of using it for a good time…hummmm.

It’s not Google’s problem, I agree, but there’s got to be a way for employers to lock down their systems. Employers have every right to control the flow of information feeding into their systems at their offices. As well they have every right to monitor what is being accessed on those computers.

I was unfortunate enough to have once been the recipient of several, unwelcomed sexual advances from a college director. My official complaint spurred a barrage of complaints from other coeds. Nothing was done until 2 years latter when the schools tech guy found porn all over said directors office computer. Only then was this man let go. I have a sneaking suspicion that the porn was there loooooong before it was found. Had there been better monitoring in place maybe I and who knows how many other young women could have been spared this perverts advances.

That said, let the firings begin!

Ah Munch your are quickly becoming one of my favorite commentators. I love your ability to bring every argument back to your apparent concerns of the “leftist” conspiracy to take over America. You last comment here, concerning Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan assassinating the Kennedy brothers, what point exactly are you trying to make? Are you possibly pointing out that in reality the politics of the assassinated brothers was irrelevant to the situation? Or possibly that the politics of the assassins was irrelevant because they wanted to simply make a statement of irony. Please by all means enlighten us. And what does it exactly have to do with the absurdity of SEC Regulators surfing for Porn during the current financial crisis? Here let me make a point for you, they were obviously influenced by the degradation of American society and its trend towards liberalism, and therefore its the lefties fault. Your so funny.

Socrates69 thanks for writing so much about nothing. You are now my favorite poster.

@batgirl2010: Ah, but if they can lock porn out of the government’s bureaucratic systems, then we’d also be denying the workarounds to our country’s soldiers and political dissidents from other countries.

Not to mention that three of the sites on the viewed list are blogspots, which would be a difficult hole to close and sites are generally banned by being added to a master list, which would never be 100% effective because there are new ones every day.

(And, if we encourage fetish sites to go more underground, it probably wouldn’t help with kiddie porn)

Oh, and Socrates, the point I was making on a post about internet porn surfing at the SEC??

“And what does it exactly have to do with the absurdity of SEC Regulators surfing for Porn during the current financial crisis?”

Nothing more than this did:

The Real Royal King says:
April 23, 2010 at 10:53 am

Well, Tim Z. Ank, we have a different government than we did when this was going on. I think during the last three (3) years of the second W Administration, no one did anything except internet porn or the like.”

The Real Royal King says:
April 23, 2010 at 1:56 pm

Aren’t you lovely! Two assassinated men the target of your humor!”

Your selective concern about mixing topics and bringing politics into the conversation is rather suspect.

Perhaps next time you will take off your blinders and read all the comments before coming to your baseless conclusions.

It is truly a mad world and this is a difficult problem. Now I’m left feeling like I should buy up the lot of this months Playboy and send them to our boys over seas. Remember when this was a print problem?

Sorates, I second Munch.

Perhaps you should try to emulate your namesake a bit more and at least know the history before commenting.

All that trivia that upset you was in response to TRRK just being him. Take it up with him!

Quite a few of these “staffers” are former democrat staffers and another a hillary backer.

LOL Munch…

“Your selective concern about mixing topics and bringing politics into the conversation is rather suspect.
Perhaps next time you will take off your blinders and read all the comments before coming to your baseless conclusions.” I didn’t draw any conclusions, more of just wondering where Porn surfing at the SEC was some how linked to Lefties assassinating other supposed Lefties. And Grammie…just because I didn’t comment doesn’t mean I didn’t read it, I honestly didn’t feel like it needed a response. But since you brought it up, and we’re playing what if history…what about the boys and girls George W. at the Dept of the Interior.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/washington/11royalty.html
Golly, its like they all do it. Can you honestly say that its not wrong?

I’d go on limb here, and say the former Bush Administration is still hands down the winner for excessive abuse of their position, but I will also concede its still early yet for the Obama Administration. LOL, you guys are sooo funny.

Socrates69

LMAO!

I got you to show you were nothing but a hypocritical libby!

Thanks- it only took 2 posts to expose you!

BTW, all the Kennedy brothers were philanders and JFK’s daddy supplied him with porn!

“But since you brought it up,”

No, no, no, dullard, the KIng brought history up.

You are one dense, libby!
Bawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

And yes, libby: LHO and SS were leftists who did your boys in? LOL

And Socrates,Plato would also call ya a fool!

LOL

You are so stupid, but you are a libby!

Oh, I love it so.

And Socrates, while we are talking about history, hers is something from one of Barry’s close friends:

Over 150 youth and student activists gathered at Norman Thomas High School in New York City from March 5-7, 2010. Young Democratic Socialists (YDS) activists and progressive youth converged to discuss how to amplify left-wing pressure on the establishment. These young radicals came from Texas, Indiana to Kansas, Florida, Rhode Island, Oregon and more.

Bertha Lewis spoke at the Winter Conference of the Young Democratic Socialists in March. The ACORN CEO praised socialism and attacked .

bawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Hubba, hubba, libby!

One more thing, sosk,, which person currently in the WH has admitted he smoke pot and used cocaine?

Obama!

Obama had written in his first book, “Dreams From My Father” (1995), before entering politics, that he had used marijuana and cocaine (“maybe a little blow”). He said he had not tried heroin because he did not like the pusher who was trying to sell it to him.

LOL

You are such a blooter.

Love and kisses!

Socrates69 says:
April 23, 2010 at 4:56 pm

I’d go on limb here, and say the former Bush Administration is still hands down the winner for excessive abuse of their position,”

You must have forgotten Bill Clinton.

A is for Arkansas, where Bill Clinton got his political start, where Hillary Rodham Clinton worked at Rose Law Firm, and where Whitewater began as a land deal between the Clintons and Jim and Susan McDougal.

B is for Billing-gate, Hillary Clinton’s missing law-billing records. Those records — which raised questions about Mrs. Clinton’s role in the Castle Grande deal — were subpoenaed in 1994. They were missing until early 1996, when they turned up in a White House room next to her office. She says she doesn’t know how they got there.

C is for Cattlegate, Hillary Clinton’s mysterious ability to turn a $1,000 investment into a $100,000 profit on cattle futures, a feat experts say was virtually impossible in normal trading.

C is also for Castle Grande, a real-estate scheme that federal regulators say was a sham. A federal inspector general’s report found Hillary Clinton drew up the legal papers that were used to improperly funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to Seth Ward, father-in-law of her ex-law partner Webster Hubbell.

D is for Billy Dale, the career head of the White House Travel Office, who was fired along with six other career staffers, to make way for Clinton cronies in Travelgate. The White House then brought in the FBI to justify the firing, and Dale was hit with criminal charges that wrecked his life for two years. A jury cleared him in just two hours.

E is for Mike Espy, the former agriculture secretary who was forced out over charges that he got gifts and favors from Arkansas-based Tyson foods, whose owners were longtime Clinton backers. A special counsel has brought several indictments, though not against Espy.

F is for Filegate, the improper White House rummaging through 900 FBI files on Republican officials in the Bush and Reagan administration. The White House says it was an innocent snafu. Republicans suspect an enemies list. Whitewater independent counsel Ken Starr and several congressional committees are probing.

G is for Golfgate, ex-White House aide David Watkins’ improper use of presidential helicopters for a personal golf outing. He was forced to resign. In the 1992 presidential campaign, Clinton aides tried to use taxpayer funds to help settle a sexual harassment case filed by a fellow campaign worker against Watkins.

H is for Hillary Clinton, whose role has been questioned in Filegate, Travelgate, Billing-gate, Whitewater and Castle Grande. She denies any wrongdoing.

H is also for Hubbell, in jail after pleading guilty to bilking law clients on charges brought by Whitewater independent counsel Starr. Hubbell was previously the associate attorney general, the No. 3 Justice Department office.

I is for Indonesiagate, featuring the Lippo group, a firm with long-standing ties to Bill Clinton, Clinton cronies and Arkansas. Republicans want to know why an Indonesian couple — of apparently modest means — with ties to Lippo gave $452,000 to the Democratic National Committee and what the firm may have gotten in return. Lippo also hired Hubbell, at a reported fee of $250,000, for the five months when he left the White House and went to jail.

J is for Paula Jones, who accuses President Clinton of sexual harassment, saying he dropped his pants and asked for oral sex in an Arkansas hotel room while he was governor and she was a state employee. The U.S. Supreme Court will rule this fall on whether her case must wait until after Clinton leaves office, as he demands.

K is for William Kennedy, another ex-Hillary Clinton law partner who became a White House lawyer and was forced to resign after concealing his failure to pay nanny taxes. He was reprimanded for his role in Travelgate.

L is for Craig Livingstone, the ex-bar bouncer with a history of drug use who was the head of White House security. Two FBI agents say it was Hillary Clinton who demanded his hiring, which she denies. Disgraced Clinton political guru Dick Morris’s hooker pal, Sherry Rowlands, claims Morris told her a “paranoid” Hillary Clinton was behind Filegate. He says he only told her that’s what polls show.

M is for Jim and Susan McDougal, the Clintons’ Whitewater partners, both of whom have been convicted of fraud. Jim McDougal is said to be helping Whitewater independent counsel Starr. Susan McDougal is in jail for refusing to say whether President Clinton lied when he denied knowing about an illegal $300,000 loan to bail out Whitewater. The loan wasn’t repaid, and taxpayers were left holding the bag.

N is for Bernard Nussbaum, the former White House lawyer who barred federal investigators from searching Vince Foster’s office after Foster’s death. Nussbaum also withheld Foster’s diary on Travelgate problems from federal probers for more than a year. Nussbaum was forced to resign for botching damage-control efforts.

O is for Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary, the frequent flier who drew up an enemies list of reporters, hired an image consultant at taxpayer expense, and has run up huge tabs on overseas trips.

P is for Pardons, which President Clinton has refused to rule out for individuals like Susan McDougal who potentially could provide evidence against him.

P is also for White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, expected to leave in a second Clinton term — with the prospect that his deputy, Harold Ickes, could replaces him. Senate Republicans want perjury charges brought against Ickes for his answers on Whitewater damage control.

Q is for all the questions — unanswered — on Whitewater, Filegate, Travelgate, Cattlegate and Billgate.

R is also for the Rose Law Firm, where Hillary Clinton, Vince Foster, Webster Hubbell and William Kennedy were partners, as was Joseph Giroir, a key figure in the Lippo group.

S is for Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater independent counsel probing Filegate, Travelgate and Vince Foster’s death. He has won 15 convictions or guilty pleas, including both McDougals and former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, who was forced to resign. Starr says his probes are active and ongoing, and there is widespread speculation he will have more indictments after the election, possibly including one of Hillary Clinton.

T is for Travelgate, the Clintons’ firing of career travel staffers like Billy Dale to make way for Clinton cronies. White House memos say Hillary Clinton was behind the firings — she denies it — and that she was spurred on by Clinton Hollywood pal Harry Thomason, who was seeking a piece of the lucrative White House charter business.

U is for undue influence and the question of whether that is what Lippo was seeking though megabucks contributions to Democrats. Lippo has close ties to Indonesia’s brutal dictatorship, responsible for near-genocide in East Timor, which it occupied two decades ago.

V is for Vince Foster, the former Hillary Clinton law partner who became a White House lawyer and was found dead, an apparent suicide with a gunshot wound to the head. He apparently was a central figure in Travelgate and Filegate and handled Whitewater matters for the Clintons. Starr is examining his death and has yet to confirm former prober Bob Fiske’s conclusion that it was a suicide in the park where Foster was found.

W is for Whitewater, the Arkansas land deal that started it all, with questions about whether the Clintons improperly benefitted from funds Jim McDougal’s Madison Guarantee savings-and-loan, which went belly up, costing taxpayers an estimated $60 million.

X is for the Xeroxed copy of Hillary Clinton’s law billing records that were found in the white House book room, two years after they were first sought. The pages had Mrs. Clinton’s fingerprints around the section on Castle Grande – there were red ink notations in the late Vince Foster’s handwriting.

Y is for the the young White House aides who were hired by the Clinton administration despite FBI background checks that found “recent” use of hard drugs like cocaine, crack and hallucinogens.

Z is for zippers — the one Paula Jones claims that the then-Arkansas governor undid (see J) and the one Gennifer Flowers claims Clinton undid during what she insists was a long-running affair. He denies the claims.

I live in Wash DC.
It’s no secret, Fed gov’t workers are the most useless, OVERPAID, lazy slackers on earth.
They should all get 50% pay cuts.

BTW, most gov’t workers are able to “telecommute” … “do work at home” …
which usually consists of doing yard work, shopping, waiting for furniture to be delivered, biking riding, or whatever strikes their fancy.
Our tax dollars at work … or .. er at play.

Barney Frank was playing with little boys when the banking industry failed!

Sorry for the long delay, I was busy exposing myself as a libby, and partying over the weekend. Now how did I expose myself again? Oh wait, I criticized the former President didn’t I. LOL. and JamesTaylor I did say I would go on a limb, and you pointed out how cracked it was admittedly. Although please stop using “gates”. I promise I get the idea that there were land scandals and corruption during the Clinton Administration. And I do appreciate the Alphabet lesson. Can you please tell me if you felt there were any abuses of power during the Bush Administration? Any as you so eloquently put before us in this recent post? Munch and friends this will be my last post on this story…keep on hatin, love ya.