We Americans should not think that the results of this Brexit vote are a reflection of admiration or lack thereof for our President Barack Obama. That said the continental press will freak out if the Brits exit the EU, and stateside, there will be criticism for the President's failure to push the trend in the globalist direction.
Brexit Causes Elites Angst -- But Britain May Leave EU Anyway
I am for whatever the citizens of Britain choose, sovereignty first.
On a vote like this, here in the states, the Democrats would be looking for a way to sneak it by the goalie.
Friday, June 17, 2016
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Gone With The Wind
Breitbart has taken journalism to new heights with the following story.
In an article titled Bar Brawl Erupts at Florida Sloppy Joe’s over Fart Police Say, a minor brawl is described.
Apparently, some regular farted, because he felt comfortable, I presume. Some nearby patrons took offense and things got a little physical.
Some people just cannot hold their gas.
In an article titled Bar Brawl Erupts at Florida Sloppy Joe’s over Fart Police Say, a minor brawl is described.
Apparently, some regular farted, because he felt comfortable, I presume. Some nearby patrons took offense and things got a little physical.
The other couple left the establishment before police arrived. Ultimately, McBride, who police say smelled of alcohol, received hospital treatment and no charges were filed. The fight is now gone with the wind.Been to the bar, its a great place. The doors are wide open and if there was some gas it would have been washed away like the happy memory of Ernest Hemingway.
Some people just cannot hold their gas.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Truth
Many of the social norms of today are anything but moral.
Speak out and you might be shouted down by a childish follower of fashion.
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Initiative for Civil Courage Online
My Ass!
Why is it that when progressives promote their policies focused on omnipotent bureaucratic control, it is disguised with labels that suggest the opposite of the intent.
In this case suggesting to subscribers that suppression of political dissent is in fact"change" for the positive. My ass it is.
The problem for the left is that in the last 20 years conservatives have found media that suits their predilections. This unifying comunication drives the left nuts, that they cannot, by obfuscation on the part of liberal major networks, pretend that version of life they put forth is monolithic. Challenged, they are getting pissy, frustrated with having their failures illuminated. Their frustration is the genesis for deceptiveness.
The EU is Coming to Close Down Your Free Speech
Countries in Europe are controlled by unelected bureaucrats. Citizens in some of those member countries have had a belly fully of it. Those citizens should have the freedom to decide what they want without being lied to by a bunch of duplicitous politicians.
But in Europe, politicians are just like they are in the United States.
Why is it that when progressives promote their policies focused on omnipotent bureaucratic control, it is disguised with labels that suggest the opposite of the intent.
In this case suggesting to subscribers that suppression of political dissent is in fact"change" for the positive. My ass it is.
The problem for the left is that in the last 20 years conservatives have found media that suits their predilections. This unifying comunication drives the left nuts, that they cannot, by obfuscation on the part of liberal major networks, pretend that version of life they put forth is monolithic. Challenged, they are getting pissy, frustrated with having their failures illuminated. Their frustration is the genesis for deceptiveness.
The EU is Coming to Close Down Your Free Speech
Countries in Europe are controlled by unelected bureaucrats. Citizens in some of those member countries have had a belly fully of it. Those citizens should have the freedom to decide what they want without being lied to by a bunch of duplicitous politicians.
But in Europe, politicians are just like they are in the United States.
Saturday, June 4, 2016
Snoop Dogg's Comments on the Remake of Roots
The drumbeat has become so persistent that folks with common sense are speaking out against concept.
With race relations, we are where we are, it is better than the past, and should be better in the future.
So just stop with promoting the culture of being a victim.
I'm So Excited
In the last ten years or so, I have been impressed with Mr. Broadus, as both a father and a man.
With race relations, we are where we are, it is better than the past, and should be better in the future.
So just stop with promoting the culture of being a victim.
I'm So Excited
In the last ten years or so, I have been impressed with Mr. Broadus, as both a father and a man.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
They Can Be Frustrating
But self service kiosks are not so bad as to take a shit on the scanner.
Myself, after advice from my brother, avoid the self scanning machines like the plague. He is an upper level IT at large multi-national and reports that the protection on those units is sketchy.
Regardless, think this story is funny.
Myself, after advice from my brother, avoid the self scanning machines like the plague. He is an upper level IT at large multi-national and reports that the protection on those units is sketchy.
Regardless, think this story is funny.
Man Pooped On Self-Checkout Scanner At Mart
Classic.According to criminal complaints, Murphy entered the Kroger and “stripped naked in front of” a male employee. The suspect, police noted, smelled of alcohol, had slurred speech, and staggered as he walked.After disrobing, Murphy “defecated on U-Scan it,” investigators allege.
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Catfish Hunter
Was the best of many great Oakland Athletics pitchers in the 1970's. Jim Hunter was the best of the bunch. Seeing two votes catfish legislation made me think of him and my mother-in-law's Ford Taurus. I just learned that Mr. Hunter was, like my brother Bruce, a victim of ALS.
Congress.org presents MEGAVOTE for May 31, 2016 and Georgia's 13th Congressional District.
Recent Congressional Votes
The Senate and House are not in session this week.
That will give Senator McConnell more time to criticize politicians that have more balls than all of he and forbears have had combined.
Recent Senate Votes:
Congressional Disapproval of Labor Department Rule on the Term "Fiduciary" – Passage
Vote Passed (56-41, 3 Not Voting)
The resolution of disapproval nullifies an Agriculture Department inspection program of domestic and foreign catfish. The joint resolution targets a rule that took effect March 1, 2016, and completed the shifting of responsibility for catfish inspections from the Food and Drug Administration to the Agriculture Department.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES
Congressional Disapproval of Agriculture Department Rule on Catfish – Passage
Vote Passed (55-43, 2 Not Voting)
The resolution of disapproval nullifies an Agriculture Department inspection program of domestic and foreign catfish. The joint resolution targets a rule that took effect March 1, 2016, and completed the shifting of responsibility for catfish inspections from the Food and Drug Administration to the Agriculture Department.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted NO
I do not know about you, but this looks like the same bill that was approved by a different vote count above.
Fiscal 2017 Defense Authorization – Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Vote Agreed to (98-0, 2 Not Voting)
The bill authorizes $602.2 billion for discretionary defense spending in fiscal 2017, including $59 billion for operations overseas. It allows the Defense Department to plan and design a stateside facility to one day house the detainees currently held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. However, it keeps existing prohibitions on Guantanamo’s closure, including blocking any funds authorized in the bill to be used for actually constructing a stateside replacement. The bill requires women to register for the draft, starting Jan. 1, 2018, and creates a commission to examine whether the Selective Service is still needed.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES
So happy that both of my Georgia boys are part of the "in-crowd". Is it not interesting that all of the Democrats that voted agreed to block the closure of and replacement of Guantanamo? For all of the liberal's demagoguery, even cynical damned Senators can be pragmatic about defense.
Recent House Votes:
Zika Vector Control – Passage Vote Passed (258-156, 19 Not Voting)
The bill temporarily modifies the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to prohibit the EPA or a state government from requiring a permit for the use of registered pesticides near navigable waters. It also temporarily alters the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to prohibit the EPA and states from requiring permits for the point source use of a pesticide, or the residue resulting from the use of a pesticide, that is registered under FIFRA.
Rep. David Scott voted YES
Thank you Mr. Scott, being in the glide path for these little mosquitoes may have been your motivation. A statement of the times that the Congress has to pass a bill to tell an agency to be pragmatic.
Clarifying Congressional Intent in Providing for District of Columbia Home Rule – PassageVote Passed (240-179, 14 Not Voting)
The measure repeals the District of Columbia law that modified D.C.'s home rule charter to allow locally generated funds to be spent without congressional approval, and it modifies the 1973 D.C. Home Rule Act to further specify that all city funding is subject to Congress' annually appropriations process. It also alters the 1973 law to specify that the District has no authority to change the District's budget process as it relates to congressional review and approval.
Rep. David Scott voted NO
When you get down to it, governing the city of Washington DC is a pain in the ass. All the political juice lives in the suburbs and leaves the city government in position only slightly more autonomous than the city of Detroit. They shouldn't be their own state, I guess they are doomed to a future of sucking the Federal teat. My guy voted no, but that is not unexpected, Democrats run the city government, therefore anything that might restrict the rights of that government must be protected.
Energy Policy Overhaul – PassageVote Passed (241-178, 14 Not Voting)
The bill includes all or parts of 37 House-passed measures including legislation that promote the accelerated development and construction of natural gas pipelines and hydropower projects by increasing the authority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, require the agency to set hard deadlines for environmental reviews and permitting, and require the designation of at least 10 corridors across federal lands in the Eastern U.S. where pipelines could be built.
Rep. David Scott voted NO
Democrats resist industrial growth unless it is in China or Mexico.
Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Federal Contractors and Sexual Orientation Discrimination Vote Agreed to (223-195, 15 Not Voting)
The amendment bars federal contractors from discriminating against employees on the basis of sexual orientation. However, the amendment could not violate certain portions of the Constitution.
Rep. David Scott voted YES
Did you see that, an appropriations bill takes a left into sexual orientation. Shifty little buggers.
Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Passage Vote Failed (112-305, 16 Not Voting)
The bill provides a total of $37.4 billion in funding subject to discretionary caps for fiscal 2017 for the Energy Department and federal water projects. The bill appropriates $6.1 billion in new funding for civil projects of the Army Corps of Engineers. It provides $12.9 billion for the National Nuclear Security Administration and almost $6.2 billion for environmental management activities. It also bars the use of funds in the bill to close the Yucca Mountain license application, or to irrevocably remove Yucca Mountain as an option for repository.
Rep. David Scott voted NO
And I thought they were going to pass everything this week.
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Congress.org presents MEGAVOTE for May 31, 2016 and Georgia's 13th Congressional District.
Recent Congressional Votes
- Senate: Congressional Disapproval of Labor Department Rule on the Term "Fiduciary" – Passage
- Senate: Congressional Disapproval of Agriculture Department Rule on Catfish – Passage
- Senate: Fiscal 2017 Defense Authorization – Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
- House: Zika Vector Control – Passage
- House: Clarifying Congressional Intent in Providing for District of Columbia Home Rule – Passage
- House: Energy Policy Overhaul – Passage
- House: Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Federal Contractors and Sexual Orientation Discrimination
- House: Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Passage
The Senate and House are not in session this week.
That will give Senator McConnell more time to criticize politicians that have more balls than all of he and forbears have had combined.
Recent Senate Votes:
Congressional Disapproval of Labor Department Rule on the Term "Fiduciary" – Passage
Vote Passed (56-41, 3 Not Voting)
The resolution of disapproval nullifies an Agriculture Department inspection program of domestic and foreign catfish. The joint resolution targets a rule that took effect March 1, 2016, and completed the shifting of responsibility for catfish inspections from the Food and Drug Administration to the Agriculture Department.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES
Congressional Disapproval of Agriculture Department Rule on Catfish – Passage
Vote Passed (55-43, 2 Not Voting)
The resolution of disapproval nullifies an Agriculture Department inspection program of domestic and foreign catfish. The joint resolution targets a rule that took effect March 1, 2016, and completed the shifting of responsibility for catfish inspections from the Food and Drug Administration to the Agriculture Department.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted NO
I do not know about you, but this looks like the same bill that was approved by a different vote count above.
Fiscal 2017 Defense Authorization – Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Vote Agreed to (98-0, 2 Not Voting)
The bill authorizes $602.2 billion for discretionary defense spending in fiscal 2017, including $59 billion for operations overseas. It allows the Defense Department to plan and design a stateside facility to one day house the detainees currently held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. However, it keeps existing prohibitions on Guantanamo’s closure, including blocking any funds authorized in the bill to be used for actually constructing a stateside replacement. The bill requires women to register for the draft, starting Jan. 1, 2018, and creates a commission to examine whether the Selective Service is still needed.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES
So happy that both of my Georgia boys are part of the "in-crowd". Is it not interesting that all of the Democrats that voted agreed to block the closure of and replacement of Guantanamo? For all of the liberal's demagoguery, even cynical damned Senators can be pragmatic about defense.
Recent House Votes:
Zika Vector Control – Passage Vote Passed (258-156, 19 Not Voting)
The bill temporarily modifies the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to prohibit the EPA or a state government from requiring a permit for the use of registered pesticides near navigable waters. It also temporarily alters the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to prohibit the EPA and states from requiring permits for the point source use of a pesticide, or the residue resulting from the use of a pesticide, that is registered under FIFRA.
Rep. David Scott voted YES
Thank you Mr. Scott, being in the glide path for these little mosquitoes may have been your motivation. A statement of the times that the Congress has to pass a bill to tell an agency to be pragmatic.
Clarifying Congressional Intent in Providing for District of Columbia Home Rule – PassageVote Passed (240-179, 14 Not Voting)
The measure repeals the District of Columbia law that modified D.C.'s home rule charter to allow locally generated funds to be spent without congressional approval, and it modifies the 1973 D.C. Home Rule Act to further specify that all city funding is subject to Congress' annually appropriations process. It also alters the 1973 law to specify that the District has no authority to change the District's budget process as it relates to congressional review and approval.
Rep. David Scott voted NO
When you get down to it, governing the city of Washington DC is a pain in the ass. All the political juice lives in the suburbs and leaves the city government in position only slightly more autonomous than the city of Detroit. They shouldn't be their own state, I guess they are doomed to a future of sucking the Federal teat. My guy voted no, but that is not unexpected, Democrats run the city government, therefore anything that might restrict the rights of that government must be protected.
Energy Policy Overhaul – PassageVote Passed (241-178, 14 Not Voting)
The bill includes all or parts of 37 House-passed measures including legislation that promote the accelerated development and construction of natural gas pipelines and hydropower projects by increasing the authority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, require the agency to set hard deadlines for environmental reviews and permitting, and require the designation of at least 10 corridors across federal lands in the Eastern U.S. where pipelines could be built.
Rep. David Scott voted NO
Democrats resist industrial growth unless it is in China or Mexico.
Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Federal Contractors and Sexual Orientation Discrimination Vote Agreed to (223-195, 15 Not Voting)
The amendment bars federal contractors from discriminating against employees on the basis of sexual orientation. However, the amendment could not violate certain portions of the Constitution.
Rep. David Scott voted YES
Did you see that, an appropriations bill takes a left into sexual orientation. Shifty little buggers.
Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Passage Vote Failed (112-305, 16 Not Voting)
The bill provides a total of $37.4 billion in funding subject to discretionary caps for fiscal 2017 for the Energy Department and federal water projects. The bill appropriates $6.1 billion in new funding for civil projects of the Army Corps of Engineers. It provides $12.9 billion for the National Nuclear Security Administration and almost $6.2 billion for environmental management activities. It also bars the use of funds in the bill to close the Yucca Mountain license application, or to irrevocably remove Yucca Mountain as an option for repository.
Rep. David Scott voted NO
And I thought they were going to pass everything this week.
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Why Can't We Be More Like Alabama?
Or Mississippi?
You do not hear that very often.
To cope with illegal immigrants, the legal design Georgia has a better system than most of the states in the country. Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and Arizona all have the optimal structure. So why is that there are still so many illegal aliens in Georgia? The answer is contractors and business owners pay cash for day workers, and the there is a great deal of identity fraud.
Looking at the map above, found at NumbersUSA, what frightens me is how a state can actually pass legislation that prohibits E-Verify. Reasoned out this belies an intent to break federal law, and followed through makes these states, California and Illinois, guilty of conspiracy and subject to Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, aka RICO.
You do not hear that very often.
Looking at the map above, found at NumbersUSA, what frightens me is how a state can actually pass legislation that prohibits E-Verify. Reasoned out this belies an intent to break federal law, and followed through makes these states, California and Illinois, guilty of conspiracy and subject to Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, aka RICO.
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
NUke-U-Ler Votes
NUKe-U-Ler is in honor of W's manner of mangling sill-aa-bles. This week there were a couple of votes relating to water and energy appropriations.
Congress.org presents M E G A V O T E for May 16, 2016, and Georgia's 13th Congressional District.
Recent Congressional Votes
- Senate: Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Cloture to the Substitute Amendment
- Senate: Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Cloture to the Substitute Amendment
- Senate: Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Passage
- House: Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force – Passage
- House: Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Reduction – Passage
- House: Comprehensive Anti-Opioid Efforts – House Amendment to the Senate-Passed Bill
- Senate: Fiscal 2017 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs and Fiscal 2017 Transportation-Housing and Urban Development Appropriations
- House: Fiscal 2017 Defense Authorization
- House: Fiscal 2017 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs Appropriations
Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Cloture to the Substitute Amendment Vote Rejected (50-42, 8 Not Voting)
The Senate rejected the McConnell, R-Ky. motion to invoke cloture on the Alexander, R-Tenn. substitute amendment that would provide $37.5 billion in fiscal 2017 for various items including $6 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers, $5.4 billion for Department of Energy science research and $12.9 billion for the Department’s nuclear security programs.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES
I do not care how Johnny Isakson votes for the rest of his life, this years I will vote for any Democrat, no matter who the candidate is, the result will be worse than Isakson himself, but he has been a party to many deceptive votes.
Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Cloture to the Substitute Amendment Vote Agreed to (97-2, 1 Not Voting)
The Senate agreed to the McConnell, R-Ky. motion to invoke cloture on the Alexander, R-Tenn. substitute amendment that would provide $37.5 billion in fiscal 2017 for various items including $6 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers, $5.4 billion for Department of Energy science research and $12.9 billion for the Department’s nuclear security programs.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES
Let's talk, let's not talk, STFU.
Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Passage Vote Passed (90-8, 2 Not Voting)
The Senate passed a measure that would provide $37.5 billion in fiscal 2017 for various items including $6 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers, $5.4 billion for Department of Energy science research and $12.9 billion for the Department’s nuclear security programs.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES
Spent money you rat bastards, you are dead to me.
Recent House Votes:
Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force – Passage Vote Passed (412-4, 17 Not Voting)
The House passed legislation that establishes a Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force to review, modify and update medical best practices for pain management and prescribing pain medication.
Rep. David Scott voted YES
Nearly unanimous, all in.
Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Reduction – Passage Vote Passed (413-5, 15 Not Voting)
The chamber passed a measure that creates two new grant programs in the Justice Department to assist in combating opioid abuse: one to state, local and tribal governments that could be used for a variety of opioid abuse reduction programs and activities and one to assist veterans suffering from opioid abuse.
Rep. David Scott voted Not Voting
Interesting not voting position, an explanation would be pointless.
Comprehensive Anti-Opioid Efforts – House Amendment to the Senate-Passed Bill Vote Passed (400-5, 28 Not Voting)
The House passed legislation, as amended, that includes 18 bills previously passed by the chamber. Among other items, it establishes two grant programs to create state systems under which physicians and others who prescribe opioids to patients would at the same time prescribe opioid overdose reversal drugs to those patients thought to be at an elevated risk of overdose. It also creates a grant program to create state systems under which trained pharmacists may dispense reversal drugs to opioid users or families of those at risk of an overdose and authorizes $5 million through fiscal 2019 for those grants.
Rep. David Scott voted YES
Nearly unanimous, all in.
Upcoming Votes:
Fiscal 2017 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs and Fiscal 2017 Transportation-Housing and Urban Development Appropriations - HR2577 The military construction and veterans part of the bill would provide a total $177.4 billion in both discretionary and mandatory funding for the Veterans Affairs Department, including increases for health care, benefit claims processing, medical and prosthetic research and homeless veterans assistance.
The transportation and housing portion of the bill would provide $56.5 billion in discretionary funding for fiscal 2017 for the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development departments and related agencies.
Fiscal 2017 Defense Authorization - HR4909 The bill would authorize $602.2 billion for discretionary defense spending in fiscal 2017, including $543.4 billion for the Pentagon's base, non-war budget. It also would include $58.8 billion for uncapped Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding for war operations and other anti-terror activities but provides that $23.1 billion of that total be used for non-war, base defense budget needs, including $18 billion for aircraft, ships and other items.
Fiscal 2017 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs Appropriations - HR4974 The bill would provide a total of $81.6 billion in discretionary spending for fiscal 2017 to fund military construction projects and programs of the Veterans Affairs Department and would provide $102.5 billion in mandatory spending for fiscal 2017 and $172 million in Overseas Contingency Operations funding.
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