Thursday, December 16, 2004

Scary supreme justice rumors

This sounds scary - a method to get Bush's boys into the Supreme Court when the time comes.

And fun trivia:

Last week, President Bush nominated Jim Nicholson to succeed Anthony J. Principi as Secretary of Veterans Affairs. In what year was the Department of Veterans Affairs established as a Cabinet department?
1930
1946
1971
1989


Correct Answer
The Department of Veterans Affairs was established on March 15, 1989, following legislation passed and signed by President Reagan. The department replaced the prior Veterans Administration that was created by an Executive Order signed by President Hoover in 1930.


I thought for sure it would be 1946. But it was not '46 or '20 both of which I thought they'd probably be...

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