State Department calls Texas a foreign country

[Enrique]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/17/state-department-texas



The State Department has now corrected the error, but you can see the cached version here.

[ieoeja]

1. Why does the State Department maintain a list of countries visited by the Secretary? n/t

[Enrique]

3. why wouldn't they?

[Captain Hilts]

4. For the record. They've ALWAYS done that. The WH staff record when the prez and FL go to sleep. nt

[ieoeja]

9. I knew the White House did that. I was just surprised at state.gov.

I can't think of any reason I would go to whitehouse.gov looking for anything other than information about the Presidents and the White House. Though I suppose a link to all the department websites would be thoughtful.


I go to irs.gov, and the first thing I see are links to forms and rules.

I go to fda.gov, and the first thing I see are links on food and drug safety, etc.

I go to treasury.gov, and I see direct links to treasury business.

I go to state.gov, and the first thing I see is a scrolling panel of videos about the Secretary. Then the first half dozen Direct Links are the Secretary's bio, travel, etc. Once we get past all the information about Obama's Secretary, the web page finally gets down to business with links concerning passports, etc.

I would expect all of Obama's Secretary's to have their bio/etc on their department websites. But I would expect the home page to be a service provider first. Or worse case scenario, about the Department.

[Kalyke]

2. Well, Gov'nah Goodhair wants them to be!

:crazy:

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Doesn't their toursism bureau still use that slogan?

"Texas - It's a whole 'nother country!'

[DrDan]

6. looks like they have even labeled "Europe", "Asia", "Middle East" as countries

[Democrats_win]

7. Typical of how Republicans take responsibility: give us Bush then they bail.

That's really the big sorry state of the Republican party these days. They refuse to take responsibility for their failures. Of course they have so many failures, maybe they should all just bend over and stick their heads where the sun don't shine. At least there would be more justice in that than going out and complaining about people who are trying to fix their mess. That shows the every increasingly low character of the tea nutbags.

[AnneD]

8. I'm surprised they didn't include New Mexico......

that generally makes the list too.:rofl: