Can you hear the do-do-do-do music? How about Rod Serling's voice? If not, just close your eyes and think about your current government. (Amazing isn't it?) Welcome To The HUB Zone.

A speeding limo filled with hookers races through the night in downtown DC. Has fate earmarked them for a smokey Mormon ritual? Or, is it just an escape from the clutches of a skin-eating-filthy hottub? do-do-do-do

Numerous companies in the DC area are granted HUBZone status & contracts even though their businesses model resembles a Cayman Islands phone booth operation.

Monitoring of the program by the Small Business Administration is practically nonexistant. This coincides with the nonexistant oversight of the SBA 7(a) Loan Program which last year took a hit for $77 million in fraud.

Adding insult to injury, any enhanced  SBA oversight was crippled by a Bushie 25% budget cut while SBA was still swamped with Katrina work and a 15% increase in loans.

The Hitee on the $77 million loan fraud
was Business Loan Express, a subsidiary of Allied Capital. On the board of Allied sits one Marc Racicot, ex-Chair of the RNC. (Can you hear Serling's voice again?)

And, if I'm not mistaken, the ex-Administrator of this mess, Steven Preston, is the Bush nominee to replace Jackson at HUD. 

On the Army side of things, we have LtCol Jim Blanco, who is their HUBZone Program Manager. I have no idea if this ties up with Abramoff's young crew, including Stephanie Ledger Short, who worked the HUBZone angle & then went to work for Governor Blanco.

But, so far into the HUBZone we've encountered the Shirlington Limo/ hookers caper, the Wilkes-Cunningham-Foggo poker games connection, the Marc Racicot money connection, & the Abramoff young guns selling the program as it relates to Indian Reservations.

Abramoff always seemed to go where the law, rules & regulations, restrictions, & oversight wasn't. He then worked to insure that non of than changed unless it was to his benefit: Indian Reservations, Guam, non-profits, & off-shore gambling boats. And, all of these being connected to the Interior Department.

Interior was the backdoor to the vault that was used by Abramoff, Mitch Wade, Commonwealth Research Institute & I'm sure that there must be many more.

Commonwealth was awarded their contract that is currently under investigation through Interior's National Business Center located at Ft Huachuca, Arizona, an Indian Reservation HUBZone.

So, tune in next time, or, just turn on Fox News, and you'll be transported to another dimension. But, hide your wallet - you may be entering a HUBZone.