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From the daily archives: Friday, January 25, 2008
“The Illustrated President” by Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine)
George W. Bush is famous for his attachment to a painting which he acquired after becoming a “born again Christian.” It’s by W.H.D. Koerner and is entitled “A Charge to Keep.” Bush was so taken by it, that he took the painting’s name for his own official autobiography.
Uh, George? That painting doesn’t mean what you think it means….
… the conclusion you jump to may be your own:
FOXNews.com – Angry Employee Deletes All of Company’s Data
Call it a tale of revenge gone wrong.
When Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, of Jacksonville, Fla., saw a help-wanted ad in the newspaper for a position that looked suspiciously like her current job — and with her boss’s phone number listed — she assumed she was about to be fired.
So, police say, she went to the architectural office where she works late Sunday night and erased 7 years’ worth of drawings and blueprints, estimated to be worth $2.5 million.
“She decided to mess up everything for everybody,” Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office spokesman Ken Jefferson told reporters. “She just sabotaged the entire business, thinking she was going to get axed.”
It didn’t take Steven Hutchins, owner of the architectural firm that bears his name, much time to figure out who’d done it — Cooley was the only other person who had full access to the files.
So, was she really going to lose her job?
Lemme guess: Her boss was hiring an assistant for her. Wasn’t this in Reader’s Digest a few years back?
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