NYPD Should Absorb DHS
Take Sullivan from LA Sheriff’s, the senior ex-CIA types from NYPD, and throw them around as Undersecretaries at DHS. Full firing/hiring authority, sit back, and watch the fireworks.
Of course, gutting the Soviet-esque structure and throwing the fat to communities across the country would be even more effective.
Austin Foreclosure Moratorium
Excellent. Support it.
NASA’s Not Cooperating?
NASA administrator Mike Griffin is not cooperating with President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team, is obstructing its efforts to get information and has told its leader that she is “not qualified” to judge his rocket program, the Orlando Sentinel has learned.
In a heated 40-minute conversation last week with Lori Garver, a former NASA associate administrator who heads the space transition team, a red-faced Griffin demanded to speak directly to Obama, according to witnesses.
In addition, Griffin is scripting NASA employees and civilian contractors on what they can tell the transition team and has warned aerospace executives not to criticize the agency’s moon program, sources said.
Griffin’s resistance is part of a no-holds-barred effort to preserve the Constellation program, the delayed and over-budget moon rocket that is his signature project.
Easy fix. Pull the plug and use an innovative system instead of arcane (proven failing) methods.
Major China Imports/Exports Drop
NYT –
Economists had expected exports to rise 15 percent and imports to be up 12 percent compared with November 2007. But the data showed exports fell 2.2 percent from a year earlier and imports dropped 17.9 percent.
Note the ongoing failure of the economist ‘profession’.
Wholesale Inventories Way Down
NYT –
The Commerce Department says wholesalers, the companies in the supply chain between manufacturers and retailers, reduced their inventories by 1.1 percent in October, the biggest cutback since a similar drop in inventories in November 2001.
The inventory decline was much bigger than the 0.2 percent decrease economists expected.
Sales at the wholesale level declined 4.1 percent in October, the largest decline on record.