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WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Labor today announced grants to 22 states and Puerto Rico totaling $6,008,840 to improve their unemployment insurance (UI) information technology security.

"Unemployment insurance plays a critical role in helping workers persevere through tough times," said Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao. "This funding will boost states' efforts to secure UI systems against fraud and ensure that those in need receive assistance."

Today's awards will promote states' use of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's guidelines to identify security weaknesses in UI systems and achieve security certification and accreditation. Funding also will be used to correct specific security concerns identified through Federal Information Security Management Act audits conducted by the Office of Inspector General in several states.

Yo sé que mi tocayo, el gobernador, ha defraudado a muchos. Yo me incluyo en esa lista. Sin embargo me enconjona sobremanera el que le quieran endilgar a el solito la responsabilidad sobre el fiasco que ha sido la implantación del impuesto sobre las ventas y el uso; el dichoso IVU.

Feliz Cobrando El IVU

Sin embargo, no podemos perder de vista que la legislatura tiene tanta culpa del desastre que es el IVU. Sino es que más. Siento que debo puntualizar lo dicho anteriormente porque me parece que hay mucho odio en la calle dirigido hacia Acevedo Vila. Odio que debería estar dirigido a otros. A la gente que amapuchó la ley, para que nos hiciese más daño.  read more »

Via BBC News: Tories want open source Whitehall

Nota: 600 millones de euros es igual a 797 millones de dolares.

Forget. Forget Katrina. Forget about Bush. Forget his inaction. Forget that the world's most powerful and wealthy nation could not provide for their own countrymen when they needed it the most.

Read. Read an article. Read about the Corpse of Union Street. Read something that seems to be lifted straight out of a Stephen King novel. Read about the ghastly ambiance which permeates this new New Orleans.

Remember. Remember a rotting corpse. Remember a victim of it's own country. Remember always, that it is the corpse of what was once a black man.

Now try to forget that Bush is white...

I just don't talk about politics in this blog. Even when that might attract a much larger readership than I would otherwise get (I think!). One reason is that I want to be... Huh.. Err... politically correct. By not talking about the subject I also think it would be more probable to keep my job. You know, the virtues of public service and all. And last but not least, there are others that are doing a much better job than I think I would do.

I want to state, however, the conditions under which I will cast my next vote. I will further clarify that I seldom vote. Yes. I am one of those people, you know... non-voting people. Indecisos, we sometimes call them here. Though none of them really are, I bet. Non-affiliated would be a better name for such as the likes of me, however. Yes, I know that's hard to believe; but I have never been affiliated with any political party. And I don't expect that to change anytime soon.

Anyway, the prerequisites for my next vote are... simple. I will vote for the person (I won't use the term politician; since that gives them an air of respectability none of them has actually earned)... Sorry, got sidetracked there. I will vote for the person, or persons that vow to do less. Yes, you know... less.

Less politics.
Less laws.
Less bickering.
Less promises.
Less grand-standing.

Less. Less. Less!

Any senator, no matter what ideology he begets, need only make this one promise: "I will only make laws that simplify or derogate other older laws."

Anyone who runs for governor that, instead of having a more-with-less mentality, says he (or she) will do less with less; will instantly get my vote.

I know it's hard... Huh... Well; that isn't hard at all...

The information soldier is politically correct, respectably so