In Gone With The Wind

There is a scene Gone With The Wind where a carpet bagger is telling former slaves about how they are all going to get 40 acres and a mule. Congress is pretty much that dude these days, liars, which makes them just like the President.

Congress.org presents MEGAVOTE for November 23, 2015 and Georgia's 13th Congressional District.

Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: EPA Existing Power Plant Rule Disapproval -- Passage
• Senate: EPA New and Retrofitted Power Plant Rule Disapproval -- Passage
• House: Bank Mortgage Liability -- Passage
• House: Auto Loans -- Passage
• House: Federal Reserve Overhaul -- Passage
• House: Syrian and Iraqi Refugees -- Passage

The Senate and House will not be in session this week.

Recent Senate Votes:
EPA Existing Power Plant Rule Disapproval -- Passage Vote Passed (52-46, 2 Not Voting)
The Senate agreed to a joint resolution expressing disapproval of the rule submitted by the EPA concerning carbon emissions at existing power plants.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES
Looks like a party line vote, which total means common sense for one side and bullshit for the other side. A real vote would be one that approves having EPA employees take lie detector tests while repeating the oath of office. 

EPA New and Retrofitted Power Plant Rule Disapproval -- Passage Vote Passed (52-46, 2 Not Voting)
The Senate agreed to a joint resolution expressing disapproval of the rule submitted by the EPA concerning carbon emissions at new and retrofitted power plants.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES
Expressing disapproval, with no fucking teeth. McConnell you are the leader of a pack of fucking pussies.

Recent House Votes:
Bank Mortgage Liability -- Passage Vote Passed (255-174, 4 Not Voting)
The bill creates a safe harbor from lawsuits for banks that originate non-qualified mortgages that do not comply with ability-to-repay requirements, as long as the bank retains the mortgage in its own portfolio.
Rep. David Scott voted YES
Feels like old new, rule seems pragmatic, basically if the bank owns its own poison that is the risk it chooses to take.

Auto Loans -- Passage Vote Passed (332-96, 5 Not Voting)
The bill nullifies 2013 guidance issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regarding fair lending practices for indirect auto lenders, after the CFPB determined that car loans provided through auto dealers were artificially high and discriminatory.
Rep. David Scott voted YES
A load agency takes risks extending loans, lending to borrowers that are more unlikely to repay the loan pay more. So no politicians are going to decide what is a fair vigorish? Watch the loans dry up and the car lots disappear.

Federal Reserve Overhaul -- Passage Vote Passed (241-185, 7 Not Voting)
The bill modifies Federal Reserve operations and oversight in an effort to make it more accountable, including by requiring the Fed to develop detailed strategies with set goals for conducting monetary policy that would be reviewed by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and requiring the Fed chairman to testify before Congress if GAO determines that the strategy no longer complies with bill requirements. It also provides for GAO audits of all Fed activities, including its deliberations over monetary policy. The legislation requires Fed to conduct cost-benefit analyses of all proposed rules and limits the Fed’s emergency lending powers.
Rep. David Scott voted NO
Can't let anybody see what is going on in there can we David? The vote made it through, maybe even the Senate will approve, but the President has things to hide, a veto would be certain. Many suspect there are problems have be hidden by the Fed.

Syrian and Iraqi Refugees -- Passage Vote Passed (289-137, 8 Not Voting)
The bill prohibits refugees from Syria or Iraq from being admitted into the United States unless the individual has had a comprehensive background check and the government, including the FBI and national intelligence director, certifies to Congress that he or she does not pose a threat.
Rep. David Scott voted YES
Thank you for that vote David. Was more than straight part line. Suspect that it is all for naught, the President will do whatever the hell he wants, including approving refugees as vetted when it is not humanly possible without time consuming research.
No, lying is much easier.

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Butt Hurt

This seemed an amusing picture considering some of my recent travails.

What seems pretty obvious to me is the Black Lives Matter is more about attaining an upper hand that gives licence to acts of anarchy. There is nothing constructive here, only destructive.  I am aware of similar acts at other colleges that have not made major news, the timing is too synchronized to be what should be random acts of bigotry played out. Like everything, there may be some truth in the foundation, but acting out and making false claims is dishonest, arguably felonious.
If you are comfortable with being judged as dishonest, keep it up, I already think you are a bunch of spoiled brats. We can only judge you based on your behavior.

Good People Good Food

I am sitting here watching UGA beat Tech, again.

Remembering announcers of old.  Al Ciraldo was Georgia Tech's man for play by play. Waffle House founded by Georgia Tech graduates has been a omnipresent advertiser

Al Ciraldo was heard to say many times

"Waffle House, Good People Good Food"

Rivalry Week THWG

What do a UGA grad and a bottle of beer have in common?

They are both empty from the neck up!

Rivalry Week THWG

A GT Grad walks into a bar. He goes up to the bartender and says "Hey, do you want to hear a funny joke about UGA."
The bartender says "Son, you see that guy over there, he is an all-american linebacker for UGA, the guy next to him, an all-american running back, and myself, a member of the 1980 Championship team. So do you really think that its a good idea to tell a joke about UGA here in this bar?"

The GT Grad answers " No, you are right. I don't want to have to explain the joke 5 times."

Wash Behind Your Ears

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who had dick so long
He could suck it
He said with a grin
While tickling his chin
If me here were a cunt
I could fuck it.

Minneapolis Men Join Isis

A mild mannered report on how a Muslim neighborhood in Minnesota was originally home for to two dozen ex-patriots, now ISIS members.

I find it interesting that the people interviewed were well spoken, articulate, men.
It would only be my extrapolation, but is seems logical that idle hands are for the devil's work.
That these communities resist assimilation, and huddle in close knit communities seems to exacerbate urban unemployment problems, leaving young men, without a career and searching for a purpose.
I am sorry that these people have come here looking for a better life only to feel like they belong only to the culture they left. That in itself is an argument against inviting more refugees.
Still, I am impressed with what is going on in Minneapolis, they are trying to improve cross cultural communication with exemplary role models.

Stay On That Thing

There was a young lady of Clewer,
who was riding a bike and it threw her,
a man saw her there,
with her legs in the air,
and seized the occasion to screw her.

The Old Gun in the Vagina Trick

Bizarre and brazen at the same time.
The darned thing was loaded and has no trigger guard.
Prison Ahead For Woman In Vagina Gun Case | The Smoking Gun
Amazing.

Watch What You Swallow

There once was a man from Leeds,
who swallowed a packet of seeds,
within half an hour,
his dick was a flower,
and his balls were all covered with weeds.

Marvel's Transgender Man

You hear about the newest member of the X-Men?

Caitlyn Jenner.

Let's Spend

Congress.org presents MEGAVOTE for November 16, 2015 and Georgia's 13th Congressional District.
Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Revised Defense Authorization -- Passage
• Senate: Military-Construction-VA Appropriations -- Passage
• Senate: Surface Transportation Reauthorization -- Cloture

Upcoming Congressional Bills

• Senate: Transportation-HUD Appropriations
• House: Auto Loans
• House: Bank Mortgage Liability
• House: Federal Reserve Overhaul

Recent Senate Votes:

Revised Defense Authorization -- Passage Vote Agreed to (91-3, 6 Not Voting)
The Senate cleared legislation that authorizes $599 billion for the Pentagon and defense-related programs for fiscal 2016, $5 billion less than both the president's overall request and the original conference agreement. It provides $33 billion of the original $38 billion in added funds for defense, including $8 billion through the Overseas Contingency Operations account. The measure authorizes $715 million for Iraqi forces fighting the Islamic State, $406 million to train and equip Syrian opposition forces and $300 million for lethal weapons for Ukraine. It modifies the military retirement system, blocks the Pentagon from retiring the A-10 Warthog aircraft and authorizes $11 billion for the F-35 Fighter.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES
Three dissenting votes.
A relatively small amount of money to train Syrians.
A relatively small amount of money to weapons to Ukraine.
Blocking a recommended obsolescence.

Military-Construction-VA Appropriations -- Passage Vote Passed (93-0, 7 Not Voting)
The Senate passed an amended version of the bill that funds veterans’ health programs and military bases. The measure, which contains nearly $80 billion in discretionary funding, also includes language that prohibits transfers from Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. homeland and a ban on another round of base closures.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES
No dissenting votes, and a statement that Guantanamo prisoners cannot be brought onto US soil.

Surface Transportation Reauthorization -- Cloture Vote Agreed to (82-7, 11 Not Voting)
The Senate agreed to create a conference committee with the House concerning legislation that reauthorizes surface transportation programs for six years.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted NO
An agreement to stop talking about creating a committee for study of a bill to spend money on roads.
Very often these bills are full of pork for home districts, this explains the nearly unanimous vote.
Have no idea what our junior senator's objection was, probably that he wasn't getting a new road built in south Georgia.

Upcoming Votes:
Transportation-HUD Appropriations - HR2577
The bill funds the departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. The measure, which contains nearly $56 billion in discretionary funding, also provides funding for such items as Amtrak and Section 8 housing vouchers.
Combining Amtrak and HUD appropriations, government created sinkholes.

Auto Loans - HR1737
The bill nullifies the 2013 guidance issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regarding fair lending practices for indirect auto lenders, after the CFPB determined that car loans provided through auto dealers were artificially high and discriminatory.
Legislation that will no deter car salesmen or automakers from screwing customers.

Bank Mortgage Liability - HR1210
The bill creates a safe harbor from lawsuits for banks that originate non-qualified mortgages that do not comply with ability-to-repay requirements, as long as the bank retains the mortgage in its own portfolio.
I guess if they are hanging on to the risk, they are the ones that stand to lose,

Federal Reserve Overhaul - HR3189
The bill modifies Federal Reserve operations and oversight in an effort to make it more accountable, including by requiring the Fed to develop detailed strategies with set goals for conducting monetary policy that would be reviewed by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and requiring the Fed chairman to testify before Congress if GAO determines that the strategy no longer complies with bill requirements. It also provides for GAO audits of all Fed activities, including its deliberations over monetary policy. The legislation requires the Fed to conduct cost-benefit analyses of all proposed rules and limits the Fed’s emergency lending powers.
On the way home last night, I heard the news blurb where a politician suggested that making the inner workings of the Federal Reserve a bad idea. 
It is universally understood that the amount of debt the country really has is much greater than reported. And that the Fed has played games with the public numbers, including the discount rate at the behest of Presidents, probably going all the way back to Woodrow Wilson.
These fights go all the way back to the 1st and 2nd Banks of the United States, and a huge campaign issue for Andrew Jackson, widely regarded as one of the greatest populist presidents. 
This bank was created, on a public level to govern (lessen) the wide swings in monetary value, on an internal level, to create a cheap credit source accessible only to high level borrowers. It is an expression of a fixed game.

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Liberal Self Loathing

Have said it before, the American liberal psyche, for white folks not in the ruling class, is based on, built upon, self loathing.
This article is a perfect expression of that.
The Campus Reform web site titled.....

The University of Vermont's Center for Cultural Pluralism held a three-day retreat so students could confront their “white privilege.”

The conference is described a vehicle for helping students how to live with their "whiteness".
Statements about the conference are conceptual and pretty narrow in scope, there is little description of the conference machinations....

• “recognize and understand white privilege from an individual experience”
• “conceptualize and articulate whiteness from a personal and systematic lense as well as the impact of white privilege on the UVM community and beyond.”
• “What does it mean to be white?”
• “How does whiteness impact you?”

Other papers offered by the center include....

• "The Invention of the White Race," 
• "White Privilege, Male Privilege in Race, Class, Gender," 
• "The Feminist Classroom," 
• "The Abolition of Whiteness."

This is not the first such conference, the same article reports a precedent conference held at Mount St. Mary’s in Los Angeles California.
First of all, if I found out that me son was taking a class focused on feelings, and having no preparatory value to a career, there would be an impact statement made making clear that if you waste your time and my money on that bullshit, you might as well go ahead and get a job right now, because the money is cut off.
Why in the world would a person spend time and money on something that teaches its participants ways to feel guilty about how they were born. There is enough hate and self loathing in the world without creating new cases out of thin air.
Total crap it is.

This is not intended to be dumping on the web site, which for the most part seems to be reporting the campus news.

WWII Veterans Passes

This past weekend I had the honor to stand in a Patriot Guard Rider flag-line for a departed veteran of WWII.
Mr. C. served for three years in the US Navy during the war, graduated from UGA, earned a post-grad degree at Northwestern a law degree from Atlanta Law School. e and his bride formed a strong and enduring family. The law led to a position as a judge. He was 99 years old.
These were brave men to risk their lives for our country.
Standing in line for a couple of hours seems a small way to honor a man.

Dustin Ought to Love This

Sometimes, in the South, you find a backwards niche.
NRA-ILA | Report: City of Atlanta Illegally Stockpiling Seized Guns
Yes, Atlanta, a capitol city ignoring the laws of it's own state.
Georgia is conservative southern state, but he mayor takes his cue from the President.
No doubt if this goes to court you will see Department of Justice supporting Kasim Reed and the other members of the latest Atlanta city council cabal.

Mindless Award Fun

Yesterday morning, I saw a post on my Facebook, by a 18 year old young man stating that compared to his mother that had raised three sons, without the help of a father, Caitlyn Jenner had no rightful claim on being woman of the year. This young man, for whom I have great respect, has proper perspective. He sees a woman who struggles on behalf of others getting little recognition while a man receives false acclaim and spends his hours fussing over how his children are going to have to deal with it.  One parent sacrifices for her children, another parent sacrifices upon his children.
It sees that many people agree, at least and the places where I read.

No picture of the revised man will be shown, after all, that is exactly what what he desires, attention.
Bruce Jenner has the right to do what he wants with his body, as long as he doesn't endanger others or expect the public to pay for it, I am fine with it. His choice should not to be held out as a symbol of achievement, when it is in reality, an expression of mental illness. The condition Mr. Jenner has is real, no doubt the source of great mental anguish, in no way is this trivial
What he is not, is a woman, he is a man altered to look like a woman.
Simple as that.
Giving the man an award for being Woman of the Year, is akin to giving a freshly elected politician the Nobel Peace Prize before having served in elected role. These are better characterized as political statements than awards.
In the end they have trivialized their own dominion.
Not unlike Mr. Jenner has done to himself.

For this Glamour Magazine wind the long withheld Davis Cup aka Annus Rectum Award, aka AR Award.

Hillary Clinton Has Few Fans in the Military

On the bright side she is more trustworthy than Congress.
Rasmussen Poll: Hillary Clinton Has Few Fans in the Military
This is a no thought required conclusion for anyone associated with military personnel.

That said I have a relative who worked for Bush 43 and he came out for Obama. Haven't had a since to speak to him since 2009. I'm guessing his outlook has changed.

I remember officers leaving the forces in droves during the first Clinton administration. There is no doubt that this, if it comes to pass, would be more anti-military than the first, surpassed only by the current.

Those Pesky Second Ammendment Supporters

Clear is the difference between those who use observed evidence when forming decisions and those that that are unwaveringly guided by lofty principles.
For me those principals are impeded by human choice and weakly formed principles.

Keep Spending on Warthogs

Congress.org presents MEGAVOTE for November 9, 2015 and Georgia's 13th Congressional District:
Recent Congressional Votes:

• Senate: "Waters of the United States" Definition -- Passage
• Senate: "Waters of the United States" Rule Disapproval -- Passage
• Senate: Military-Construction-VA Appropriations – Motion to Proceed
• House: Revised Defense Authorization -- Passage
• House: Surface Transportation Reauthorization -- Passage

Upcoming Congressional Bills

• Senate: Revised Defense Authorization
• Senate: Military-Construction-VA Appropriations

The House will not be in session this week.
Good, give the new guy time to bone up.

Recent Senate Votes:
"Waters of the United States" Definition -- Passage Vote Failed (57-41, 2 Not Voting)
The Senate rejected a motion to invoke cloture on the McConnell, R-Ky., motion to proceed to the bill that would require the Obama administration to revisit its rule updating federal regulation of streams and wetlands.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES
Voting with the man, Mitch the Bitch, wants to stop talking about something that is a waste of time. Georgia Senators agree, as I am inclined. A vote against suggests something nefarious.

"Waters of the United States" Rule Disapproval -- Passage Vote Passed (53-44, 3 Not Voting)
The Senate agreed to a joint resolution expressing disapproval of the rule submitted by the Army Corps of Engineers and the EPA relating to the definition of "waters of the United States" and what bodies of water are subject to federal regulation.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES
Stopping executive government over reach, or at least making a show of it.

Military-Construction-VA Appropriations – Motion to Proceed Vote Agreed to (93-0, 7 Not Voting)
The Senate agreed to a motion to invoke cloture on the McConnell, R-Ky., motion to proceed to the bill that funds veterans' health programs and military bases. The measure, which contains nearly $80 billion in discretionary funding, also includes language that prohibits transfers from Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. homeland and a ban on another round of base closures.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES

Have to admit that I like the little bit about stopping the transfer of prisoners. That said, I don't think that it will stop our omnipotent President.

Recent House Votes:

Revised Defense Authorization -- Passage Vote Passed (370-58, 5 Not Voting)
The House agreed to legislation that authorizes $599 billion for the Pentagon and defense-related programs for fiscal 2016, $5 billion less than both the president's overall request and the original conference agreement. It provides $33 billion of the original $38 billion in added funds for defense, including $8 billion through the Overseas Contingency Operations account. The measure authorizes $715 million for Iraqi forces fighting the Islamic State, $406 million to train and equip Syrian opposition forces and $300 million for lethal weapons for Ukraine. It modifies the military retirement system, blocks the Pentagon from retiring the A-10 Warthog aircraft and authorizes $11 billion for the F-35 Fighter.
Rep. David Scott voted YES
Have to admit that David Scott has been better on this stuff of late.

Surface Transportation Reauthorization -- Passage Vote Passed (363-64, 6 Not Voting)
The House passed legislation that reauthorizes surface transportation programs for six years, with policy provisions including those that would replace the Surface Transportation Program with a block grant program, create a new grant program for nationally significant freight and highway projects, and make a number of changes to the environmental review process. It also would liquidate the Federal Reserve's surplus funds and redirect that money to the General Fund. Future money that would have been deposited in the funds would also be deposited in the General Fund. The more than $325 billion, six-year surface transportation reauthorization package also contains Senate amendments that offset to cover Highway Trust Fund shortfalls for three years and a reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank. Efforts to fully fund all six years of the reauthorization are expected to be made in conference with the Senate.
Rep. David Scott voted YES
Bookkeeping bullshit, basically spending money.

Upcoming Votes:

Revised Defense Authorization - S.1356
The bill authorizes $599 billion for the Pentagon and defense-related programs for fiscal 2016, $5 billion less than both the president's overall request and the original conference agreement. It provides $33 billion of the original $38 billion in added funds for defense, including $8 billion through the Overseas Contingency Operations account. The measure authorizes $715 million for Iraqi forces fighting the Islamic State, $406 million to train and equip Syrian opposition forces and $300 million for lethal weapons for Ukraine. It modifies the military retirement system, blocks the Pentagon from retiring the A-10 Warthog aircraft and authorizes $11 billion for the F-35 Fighter.
I do not like it very much when the Congress forces the Pentagon to continue buying equipment they have recommended against. That sort of logic leads manufacturers to be less than motivated on restraining cost.  The politicians keep the expenditures up because they don't want to lose votes. Now there might be some backhand crap going on her where the Pentagon is trying to look like they are working to save money while simultaneously getting their guys to torpedo the cut.  Who knows what to believe. What I know is that the Warthog has an air-frame that is very old in design, that it can be outclassed seems likely. I say call them on their bluff, cut it and appraise the reaction.

Military-Construction-VA Appropriations - H.R.2029 
The bill funds veterans' health programs and military bases. The measure, which contains nearly $80 billion in discretionary funding, also includes language that prohibits transfers from Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. homeland and a ban on another round of base closures.
If those prisoners come into the the continental borders of the United States. There will be a shit-storm of problems that result. Count on an endless line of lawyers trying to make money defending prisoners that ought to be lined up and shot. No doubt that if they were harmless, they would be free already.

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Stick It

I hope these aren't just big words coming out of a newly elected governor.
Could not agree more with what he has to say, but it is a lot tougher to remain pure when there are all of those carrots and sticks out there in the Federal government.
Matt Bevin Tells the EPA to Stick It
Frankly, I wouldn't put it past our President to apply a full court press, on both sides of the law, to achieve his green goals. The President is wrong, he is myopically focused on carbon emission minimization. The left does not want the "global warming" debate to continue because they keep loosing on the facts. The liberal political class sees this as the vehicle to taxes without borders.
Listened to Bevin before the election with Mark Levin, the Republican establishment hates him because he dented Mitch McConnell, as if the bitch didn't need denting.