tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post7271323899312655405..comments2024-03-27T12:56:38.992-07:00Comments on The Skeptical Bureaucrat: See No Problem, Hear No Problem, Speak No ProblemTSBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02790614121966204073noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-89161996119704479622009-07-08T20:31:14.840-07:002009-07-08T20:31:14.840-07:00Very interesting comment by the Turk. I tend to ag...Very interesting comment by the Turk. I tend to agree with that.<br /><br />About buying ambassadorships, I heard the panel on the McLaughlin Group actually attempt to justify it by saying most of the posts bought are for insignificant countries and that's it always been the case in American politics. <br /><br />Strange rhetoric I must admit.<br /><br />Great blog and info!T.C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10275996524128634117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-69988799941619906152009-06-29T18:35:41.057-07:002009-06-29T18:35:41.057-07:00Ambassadors and other office-holders, courtiers, r...Ambassadors and other office-holders, courtiers, rent-seekers (i.e., Federal set-aside programs), jesters and Masques, peerages, royal successions ... sometimes I think the only difference between our present system of government and that of the Elizabethans and Jacobeans is that they wore fancier clothes.TSBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02790614121966204073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-15659417171632219642009-06-29T12:57:34.716-07:002009-06-29T12:57:34.716-07:00I liked that Turkish story =) Try explaining to hi...I liked that Turkish story =) Try explaining to him that awarding Ambassadorships to people who "donate" a lot of money is not "corruption".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com