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In New Hampshire The Adults Voted And The Press Are Still Dopes

If I was a candidate I’d run from Time Magazine photographers. Being declared the next President on the cover of Time is the kiss of death. When I saw Obama’s smiling face on Time’s cover I thought back to Howard Dean.
Thank God we vote for Presidents and don’t allow our news media to […]

Plato Quotes For The Silly Season

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
The measure of […]

The Case For A Full Time Professional Legislature

It is often the conservative line, that a part time legislature is limited in the damage it can do. I think not. Neglect causes damage and bad laws can be conceived and passed at 2 AM even by part timers.
Our legislators are paid around $30,000 a year. The legislature is supposed […]

Ethics Training For Legistrators And Audits

On the Dan Lovallo Radio Show, Senate President Williams remarked that the Senators and Representatives do not get ethics training.
Perhaps this would be a good thing.
As a member of private industry in a large corporation, I get ethics training every year whether I need it or not.
I have to pass a test, where I answer […]

The New Farm Bill Will Cost You 22 Hours of Your Labor

The Senate just passed a Farm Bill that will cost $286,000,000,000. Now there are roughly 100,000,000 active taxpayers in this country, defined by me as people who pay IRS taxes. If you are in the roughly 30% that don’t pay income taxes I am not counting you.
This is a 5 year bill and […]

The US Dollar’s Fall May Bankrupt Airbus And You Should Care

Now this is not great news. The engines are made by Pratt and Whitney.
This industry is priced in dollars, the Airbus A380 was sold at $300 million retail price for the double-decker super jumbo. That $300 million is now, $255. A 15% loss.
This may result in massive layoffs in Europe and a […]

Nancy Pelosi Causes High Gas Prices

“With skyrocketing gas prices, it is clear that the American people can no longer afford the Republican Rubber Stamp Congress and its failure to stand up to Republican big oil and gas company cronies. Americans this week are paying $2.91 a gallon on average for regular gasoline – 33 cents higher than last month, and […]

Gaming the dead or porking our safety

Six weeks after the bridge collapse in Minneapolis and probably before all the bodies have been found our US Senate has answered and risen to the moment with a “transportation” bill loaded with at least $2 billion in pork spending earmarked for Senator’s pet projects back home.
This is a favorite tactic, load up bills that […]

Senators Craig and Kennedy: Crime and Punishment.

A simple comparison of crime and punishment.

Craig

Kennedy

The Crime
Foot Under the Stall
Chappaquiddick

Punishment
$575
2 months Jail, Suspended

Implications to Career
Loss of Leadership Posts Forced to Resign from Senate (Maybe)
Runs for President

#1 Thing in their favor
Senator Diane Feinstein
Chairman of Ethics Committee
(Dad) Is a Kennedy

Education
University of Idaho
Expelled from Harvard for cheating.
Joins the Army and is assigned to
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe […]

Cape Wind: Kennedy, “But don’t you realize — that’s where I sail!”

Senator Kennedy is using his position of power for personal issues. Surprise? Not really. But what is a surprise is the shellacking he is getting at the hands of organizations that are normally his allies.
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Greenpeace have both ….grasp!….criticized the elder statesman for his stance against jobs […]

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