July 1, 2007 journal, the Smithsonian ripoff of all times, massive confusion government. Quoting from an article in the Washington Post written by James Grimaldi 7/1 "Internal Smithsonian documents offer a glimpse into what one senator called the "Dom Perignon" life style of the taxpayer supported institutions chief official, who turned in a $15,000 receipt for the replacement of french doors at his home and spent $48,000 for 2 chairs, a conference table and upholstery for his office suite. Smithsonian Secretary Lawrence M. Small's spending has been the subject of intense public scrutiny after the Washington Post published details last month from a confidential inspector general's report delving into his $2 million in housing and office expenses over the past six years. Spreadsheets and invoices obtained by The Washington Post include previously released details on expenses deemed by the Smithsonian board of regents to be authorized and "reasonable" under the terms of Small's employment agreement. Small spent nearly $160,000 on the redecoration of offices in the institution's main building on the mall shortly after he took the helm of the world's largest museum system in 2000. The expenses include $4,000 for 2 chairs from the English furniture maker George Smith, $13,000 for a custom build conference table and $31,000 for Berkeley stripe upholstery. Small has also received 1.15 million in housing allowances over 6 year. In return for agreeing to use his 6500 square feet home in Woodland Park for Smithsonian functions. To justify those expenses, Small has submitted receipts for $450,000 in utility bills, $275,000 in housekeeping services $273,000 in maintenance charges, including $2,535 to clean a chandelier. The home re-pair invoices show $12,000 for upkeep and service on his backyard swimming pool, in-cluding $4,000 to replace the lap pools natural gas heater and pump. The office expenses were permitted under Smithsonian policies and procedures, and the housing allows was part of Smalls employment agreement. The $160,000 in office renovations are part of $846,000 in total office expenses Small filed between 2000 and 2005. About $90,000 was found by the institutions inspector general to be authorized, including charter jet travel and transactions that "might be considered lavish or extravagant". The Washington Post reported last month. In addition to the $90,000, about 28,000 in expenses had insuf-ficient are no supporting documents. These were variously labeled as "reimbursement", "one time vendor" and "Smithsonian petty cash", documents show. Small, whose total compensation will top $915,000 this year, said in a statement that he is declining to comment while an ongoing Senate Finance Committee investigation looks at his expense. The controversial over Small's spending comes amid recent reports describing a board decline in the Smithsonian's physical plant and institution wide austerity measures order-ed in recent years. The Smithsonian, for example sent out an e-mail a year ago urging employees to save energy: "use task lighting instead of general lighting whenever poss-ible. Turn off decorative are accent lighting". Roger Sant, the chairman of the executive committee of the Board of Regents, has taken the lead in defending the secretary. Sant praised Smalls ability to raise money for the institution. "He has raised 1.1 billion and constituted more than half a million dollars himself", Sant said yesterday. "I don't think he does this stop for money. He has been generous with is all money and he's got other people to be generous with their own money ". Shat noted that small has strike and financial controls, reduce staff, increase productivity, open three new museums, overseen the opening of new exhibits, and updated " old and rundown clock " exhibits, hired undersecretaries of sine as an art, and directors at five museums and the National Zoo". Baghdad is at 140 degrees Fahrenheit temperature and is hotter than Phoenix or Vegas. U.S. casualties are increasing rapidly as the surge is fully in place, our troops are targets. This government is insane and there is nothing we can do about it except to pray to the true and living God. Central America is still flooding that is in the middle of this country. The commander n chief of Smithsonian is now discovered with his hand in their pocket. a simple search reveals lots of information on the North American Union but it may be like the Congressional bill passed in 1991 called Education Day USA, the 7 Noahide Laws making us a Jewish state if it's ever enforced. I never heard about it from the press during the time it was passed. It could be that the fall of the dollar is planned and not just a naive administration spending us to death on the war and Halliburton to protect Israel. The Great American International theocracy has many secrets up their sleeves.