Not sure where this picture came from but as a dog lover it is funny.
As an engineering manager (aka assistant) it is a common to get the short end of the stick.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Well Said Mr. Margulies
With Thanksgiving coming on and the fact that some people do not have enough money to buy the turkey they want, the President should devise a program where families receive a voucher for 1 pound of turkey per family member. Taxpayers have pay for 2 pounds of turkey per family member. The government will then invest the excess turkey dollars into minority run industries offering PETA approved meat alternatives.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Transgender Dander
Congress.org presents: MEGAVOTE, November 11, 2013 for Georgia's 13th Congressional District.
Recent Congressional Votes
Employment Nondiscrimination Passage Vote Passed (64-32, 4 Not Voting)
Senators passed a bill prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity on Thursday after a week of negotiations and close procedural votes. The bill would bar employers from firing, refusing to promote or refusing to hire workers because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. Similar bills have been introduced over recent years, and one passed the House in 2007 before dying in the Senate. This current piece of legislation extends equal employment protection to transgendered individuals for the first time. The bill exempts employers not subject to existing workplace discrimination laws concerning employees religions, primarily churches and religious schools. Before the final vote, ten Republicans joined the Democratic caucus in securing the three-fifths vote majority required to invoke cloture. The House is unlikely to vote on the bill.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss voted NO
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted NO
Like so much dried up old skin our wonder Senate saw fit to spend time voting for special protection for the sexually aggrieved. Most "protections" created by politicians are in reality punishments to the majority, there is example after example of how protections make systems less efficient, more costly and generally crappy governance. Here Democrats want to give special protections to a group that by definitions are aggrieved, homosexuals, lesbians, transgenders are all persons which have by nature or environment passed through or within a struggle about how to become comfortable and happy within themselves and their communities. Because of where, what and who they are, the nature of their experience puts them mentally on the outside of the bubble. Who in the world, of any orientation thinks that a government can make that component of individuals' psyches better.
The only things that governments do effectively is spend money, and favor one group over another.
Governments cannot fix things felt by the heart.
The house would be correct to table the bill.
Upcoming Votes:
Drug Quality and Security - H.R.3204
The Senate returns Tuesday to consider legislation that updates regulations of pharmacies that compound drugs.
Fiscal motivation for profit leads to improved products, lower prices for customers, and efficiency, not a place where politicians dwell.
Health Plans - H.R.3350
The House is scheduled to debate a bill that allows individuals to keep their health coverage plans, even if they have received cancellation notices. The plans may not meet minimum coverage requirements established in the 2010 health care overhaul, but would be grandfathered for another year through 2014.
Some of the Democratic talking heads on this topic have tried to tie this bill to Republicans being socialists. The bullshit never ends.
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PS:
After posting this above, received a new email almost simultaneously from the White House, the general tone was a list of all the things that Congress should be doing. This one went right for the nuts....
Recent Congressional Votes
- Senate: Employment Nondiscrimination Passage
- Senate: Drug Quality and Security
- House: Health Plans
Employment Nondiscrimination Passage Vote Passed (64-32, 4 Not Voting)
Senators passed a bill prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity on Thursday after a week of negotiations and close procedural votes. The bill would bar employers from firing, refusing to promote or refusing to hire workers because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. Similar bills have been introduced over recent years, and one passed the House in 2007 before dying in the Senate. This current piece of legislation extends equal employment protection to transgendered individuals for the first time. The bill exempts employers not subject to existing workplace discrimination laws concerning employees religions, primarily churches and religious schools. Before the final vote, ten Republicans joined the Democratic caucus in securing the three-fifths vote majority required to invoke cloture. The House is unlikely to vote on the bill.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss voted NO
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted NO
Like so much dried up old skin our wonder Senate saw fit to spend time voting for special protection for the sexually aggrieved. Most "protections" created by politicians are in reality punishments to the majority, there is example after example of how protections make systems less efficient, more costly and generally crappy governance. Here Democrats want to give special protections to a group that by definitions are aggrieved, homosexuals, lesbians, transgenders are all persons which have by nature or environment passed through or within a struggle about how to become comfortable and happy within themselves and their communities. Because of where, what and who they are, the nature of their experience puts them mentally on the outside of the bubble. Who in the world, of any orientation thinks that a government can make that component of individuals' psyches better.
The only things that governments do effectively is spend money, and favor one group over another.
Governments cannot fix things felt by the heart.
The house would be correct to table the bill.
Upcoming Votes:
Drug Quality and Security - H.R.3204
The Senate returns Tuesday to consider legislation that updates regulations of pharmacies that compound drugs.
Fiscal motivation for profit leads to improved products, lower prices for customers, and efficiency, not a place where politicians dwell.
Health Plans - H.R.3350
The House is scheduled to debate a bill that allows individuals to keep their health coverage plans, even if they have received cancellation notices. The plans may not meet minimum coverage requirements established in the 2010 health care overhaul, but would be grandfathered for another year through 2014.
Some of the Democratic talking heads on this topic have tried to tie this bill to Republicans being socialists. The bullshit never ends.
MegaVote is powered by the CQ-Roll Call Group (http://corporate.cqrollcall.com) Copyright (c) 2013.
PS:
After posting this above, received a new email almost simultaneously from the White House, the general tone was a list of all the things that Congress should be doing. This one went right for the nuts....
End workplace discrimination for millions of LGBT Americans once and for all. This isn't difficult: Nobody should be discriminated against because of who they are or who they love. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act would make it illegal to fire someone based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, and it passed the Senate earlier this year. Once again, no vote in the House.Yep, we cannot be open about what is in a national health care bill until years after the vote, hell even after it is active and these executive prima donnas have the audacity to lecture other groups of governance about right and wrong. White House, try putting forth a budget that every single representative doesn't reject. Once again, no vote, look at what that "leader" of the Senate has tabled in the last three years, every single budget proposal offered.
Monday, November 18, 2013
Yep
Henry was always good with the pithy quotations, this seems on spot...
"As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron."
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Wait Till Next Year
Last Christmas my mother gave me a$25 gift certificate for Barnes and Noble. After about six months a swung around there and in the discounted section found four books I really wanted to read. This is the first of those Wait Till Next Year is a short book written by Pulitzer Prize winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin. Published in 1997 this historian to Lyndon Johnson has put together a memoir that encapsulates he experience growing up in Brooklyn New York, in 1949 being taught by her father the love for baseball and specifically the Dodgers. In that period the Dodgers, led by Jackie Rodinson and Pee Wee Reese were talent laiden teal that had never won a World Series. The team's slogan was "Wait Till Next Year", for the author it would take six years until 1955 for the Dodgers to win it all, an unbelievably long time for a teen aged girl.
After the 1957 season Jackson retired rather than play for the Giants, the author's mother passed due at 51 and the Dodgers decided to move to Los Angeles. The author understandably shelved her enthusiasm for the game.
Later as a Boston occupant the author was introduced to Fenway Park and the Red Sox. The similarities between her new home and Flatbush were enough to make her a convert.
At the time of publishing, 1997, the Red Sox had not won a World Series since 1916, she would have to wait another seven years for the curse of the bambino to be broken.
I enjoyed this sweet rememberance of childhood love for family and baseball. Her other more famous work not so much, her being a flaming Yankee liberal and all. Luckily very little of that snuck into this work.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Good Man
Speaker Boehner gets it right with the statement that we aren't going to consider a one size fits all immigration approach. Bills that make most politicians happy mean that the backlash anticipated can be withstood, regardless of appropriateness or effectiveness. Chew on it a little bit at a time and that keeps the bullshit from entering in small print.
AG: The Affordable Care Care
Speaker John A. Boehner said Wednesday that House Republicans will not enter into negotiations with the Senate on that chamber's massive immigration bill, effectively killing chances this year for a broad bill that would legalize illegal immigrants and rewrite the legal immigration system.
Mr. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said the House will operate on its own timetable and won't be rushed by President Obama's suggested year-end deadline or the looming 2014 elections -- though he said he does still want to take some action on immigration.
"We've made it clear that we're going to move on a common sense, step-by-step approach in terms of how we deal with immigration," Mr. Boehner, Ohio Republican, told reporters Wednesday. "The idea that we're going to take up a 1,300-page bill that no one had ever read, which is what the Senate did, is not going to happen in the House. And frankly, I'll make clear we have no intention of ever going to conference on the Senate bill."
Stick to your guns, broken down to realistic portions amnesty never happens.
AG: The Affordable Care Care
Speaker John A. Boehner said Wednesday that House Republicans will not enter into negotiations with the Senate on that chamber's massive immigration bill, effectively killing chances this year for a broad bill that would legalize illegal immigrants and rewrite the legal immigration system.
Mr. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said the House will operate on its own timetable and won't be rushed by President Obama's suggested year-end deadline or the looming 2014 elections -- though he said he does still want to take some action on immigration.
"We've made it clear that we're going to move on a common sense, step-by-step approach in terms of how we deal with immigration," Mr. Boehner, Ohio Republican, told reporters Wednesday. "The idea that we're going to take up a 1,300-page bill that no one had ever read, which is what the Senate did, is not going to happen in the House. And frankly, I'll make clear we have no intention of ever going to conference on the Senate bill."
Stick to your guns, broken down to realistic portions amnesty never happens.
Poor Choice of Words?
From a Nonwovens Industry trade website, the article title: Feminine hygiene market continues to grow
Feminine hygiene manufacturers continue to grapple with ways to expand their customer base in the already saturated markets of the developed world while responding to the ever-changing needs of customers in developing regions. The result has been a series of product introductions designed to woo new customers or keep existing customers longer.
http://www.nonwovens-industry.com/contents/view_features/2013-11-06/fem-hy-market-continues-to-grow/
Feminine hygiene manufacturers continue to grapple with ways to expand their customer base in the already saturated markets of the developed world while responding to the ever-changing needs of customers in developing regions. The result has been a series of product introductions designed to woo new customers or keep existing customers longer.
http://www.nonwovens-industry.com/contents/view_features/2013-11-06/fem-hy-market-continues-to-grow/
Monday, November 11, 2013
What's Happening
This weekend a rerun of the remake "The Longest Yard" was on television. There is a scene during the game where a players groin region is kicked and the Colonel Sander lookalike makes the exclamation "the even hurts my marble sack".
Here is a better example of a good case of sympathetic pain, as found on The Guardian website.
Performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky nails his scrotum to the cobbled road at Moscow's Red Square, then sits naked on Russia's most famous spot outside the Kremlin on Sunday. Police arrested him and took him to the hospital. Pavlensky says his protest was his response to Russia's descent into a police state and was timed to coincide with Police Day, which Russia's law enforcement officials celebrated on Sunday.Here is a link to the site which I cannot directly share the video clip from.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/11/artist-nails-testicles-red-square-pyotr-pavlensky?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=MB%2011.11.13
We know that the policeman is speaking Russian but it does sound like he repeats the question "what's happening?". We also know what has happened, self mutilation, caught on video for the casual study of foreign bystanders.
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Army Veteran Banned from Daughter's School
Local Georgia news, a mother is banned from visiting here daughter's school for exercising constitutional rights.
The whole story leads me to ask; with the constant pressure to conserve education expenditures, why are government employees, that are not in law enforcement, spending tax dollars to research the activities of parents?
I have no problem with the school having a firearms prohibition and would obey any such rule. For non-law enforcement government employees to be researching my presumed innocent lawful activity, and making access decisions based on my beliefs is WRONG.
NRA-ILA | Army Veteran Banned from Daughter's School after Facebook Posting of Concealed Carry Permit
The whole story leads me to ask; with the constant pressure to conserve education expenditures, why are government employees, that are not in law enforcement, spending tax dollars to research the activities of parents?
I have no problem with the school having a firearms prohibition and would obey any such rule. For non-law enforcement government employees to be researching my presumed innocent lawful activity, and making access decisions based on my beliefs is WRONG.
NRA-ILA | Army Veteran Banned from Daughter's School after Facebook Posting of Concealed Carry Permit
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