About the hold-up in the Sandy relief bill/pork-fest
Liberals’ new favorite Republican is Chris Christie, the New Jersey governor who this week slammed House Republicans for delaying action on a bill with aid for those affected by Hurricane Sandy. (They’ll be back to hating him the next time he goes on an anti-union rant or some such.) As I’ve said before, the real problem lies with those who lard up such bills with extra spending because they know those pet projects have a better chance of passing when attached to such an urgent measure.
Apparently that can be clear even to a politician in the storm-ravaged area, as long as that politician is not a moderate Republican running for re-election in a blue state. From Politicker.com:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who previously declined to slam House Speaker John Boehner over Congress’ stalled Hurricane Sandy aid, took his argument to the next level this morning and suggested federal lawmakers are partially to blame for the delay in the vote on the package because they insert “things that are totally extraneous” into bills such as this. Although Mr. Bloomberg didn’t specify the extraneous problem items, the legislation has been criticized by Republicans like Rep. Paul Ryan for being “packed with funding for unrelated items, such as commercial fisheries in American Samoa and roof repair of museums in Washington, D.C.”
“There’s this ‘Christmas Tree effect’ where legislators put in their favorite bills and tack them onto something. The [Obama] administration does that, that’s why you have an omnibus bill — to force everybody to vote for things that would never stand up in the light of day if they were individual,” Mr. Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show with John Gambling. “I’m sympathetic. Yelling and screaming at [Mr. Boehner] is just not my style. It may be effective, it may not be. Everybody’s got to make their own decisions. I think the legislative leaders who criticize and those in the Legislature should stop and think, they do exactly the same thing in terms of ladling on things that are totally extraneous but it’s the only way they get them through.”
Exactly. Those who help wreck the legislative process shouldn’t complain when they find the legislative process is a wreck.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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Hillbilly D
January 4th, 2013
9:13 pm
josef
If that had happened, I think we’d have had no “Manifest Destiny”, probably no war with Mexico, and the Plains Indians would probably have had a better fate, than what they did. The French had their problems with the Indians, too, but less so because they looked on them more as trading partners, rather than somebody to be conquered as the Spanish did or pushed aside as the English/us did. It’s really a moot point now, except for those of us who like to dig into history.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 4th, 2013
9:13 pm
I seen mice picking leaves of parsley and eating them, the squirrels ran off with all the strawberries, ten little baby spinach plants just up and disappeared, roots and all, and here I am with only a ten round clip, in honor of the upcoming legislation.
How many little kritters can I kill with this?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 4th, 2013
9:16 pm
How many little kritters can I kill with this?
My only pest was a single groundhog and it only took one shot.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 4th, 2013
9:21 pm
I just called peta on kamchak, hahahahaha.
independent thinker
January 4th, 2013
9:23 pm
More evidence of a right wing hoax including Kyle to deprive moderate NE citizens of needed disaster and storm dmage funds so as to punish the big fat guy for going off the reservation:
“”"”"”"”"”"Fox News is continuing its hunt for “pork” in a Hurricane Sandy relief bill blocked by House Speaker John Boehner, claiming that the bill included $600 million for the Environmental Protection Agency to address climate change. But the funds in question actually focused on ensuring affected states’ access to clean water, a crucial issue in the wake of the storm – and emblematic of future consequences of climate change.
Continuing Fox News’ attempts to find “pork” in the bill, Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer proclaimed lawmakers “were just chucking everything” including “$600 million for climate change for the EPA” into the bill, and “that’s where the resistance” from Rep. Boehner came”
“”"But the previous day, Rep. Carolyn Maloney had explained to Fox Business that the “money is for wastewater treatment,” which she pointed out is “very much needed” in many areas hit by Sandy. Indeed, The New York Times reported that sewage from storm-battered treatment plants had flowed into New York and New Jersey waterways after the storm, “a sign of an environmental and public health disaster that officials say will be one of the most enduring and expensive effects of Hurricane Sandy.”"”"”"”"”"”
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/04/fox-news-bogus-hunt-for-pork-in-sandy-bill-cont/192035
Pork for damage caused by non-Sandy storms to appease the Southern Repub Senators who fillibuster anything coming from the Kenyan communist in the White House and pork created from
fiction by Fox News to lambast the Kenyan Marxist.. And ya’ll complain about the leftist media?
Hillbilly D
January 4th, 2013
9:24 pm
For the music lovers, interesting story behind this song. When the writer, Jamey Johnson, wrote this song, his intent was to write a song with identical first and last lines but for the two lines to have opposite meanings. He did a pretty good job of it (sometimes writing “simple” songs is a lot deeper than people realize).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shEZUgGFbj4
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 4th, 2013
9:24 pm
If you need more than ten rounds, I wouldn’t be “bragging” about my marksmanship skills.
Just sayin’.
Hillbilly D
January 4th, 2013
9:27 pm
How many little kritters can I kill with this?
Crows and deer are my biggest problems. Deer you can deal with, if you keep changing up on them. The best way to deal with crows is a real scarecrow. Kill you a crow or two and hang ‘em out in the garden.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 4th, 2013
9:30 pm
My comment served a dual purpose with part of it being sarcasm, kamchak. Don’t get all ate up about it.
Chill.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 4th, 2013
9:32 pm
If by “dual purpose” you mean one of them exposes how inept with a firearm that you are, then congrats — mission accomplished.
@@
January 4th, 2013
9:35 pm
Nevaeh Atkins was going to be born soon enough. She just wanted a helping hand, evidently.
She got one from her doctor, as seen in a photo snapped Oct. 9 by her father just before her birth via C-section.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02442/baby_2442616c.jpg
Sweet.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 4th, 2013
9:36 pm
D – I used to put clover in my food plots, I had deer from neighboring counties coming by. That could be part of your problem.
Michael H. Smith
January 4th, 2013
9:39 pm
Cops: Mother of two surprises intruder with five gunshots
By Christian Boone
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Loganville mother of two assumed the knocks on her front door Friday afternoon were from a solicitor.
“Don’t answer,” she yelled to her 9-year-old twins playing downstairs.
When the visitor began repeatedly ringing the doorbell, she called her husband at work.
“Get the kids and hide,” he told his wife.
As he dialed 911, his 37-year-old spouse, who works from home, collected the children and hid with them in a crawlspace adjoining her office. By that time, the intruder had forced his way into the three-story residence on Henderson Ridge Drive with a crowbar, authorities said. He allegedly rummaged through the home, eventually working his way up to the attic office.
“He opens the closet door and finds himself staring down the barrel of a .38 revolver,” said Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman, who relayed the woman’s narrative to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He asked that her name be withheld.
The woman fired six bullets, five of which hit Paul Ali Slater in the face and neck area, Chapman said. But Slater was still conscious.
“The guy’s face down, crying,” the sheriff said. The woman told him to stay down or she’d shoot again.
Slater, unaware that she had emptied her chamber, obliged as the mother and her children ran to a neighbor’s house.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/mother-of-two-surprises-burglar-with-five-gunshots/nTnGR/
josef
January 4th, 2013
9:40 pm
HILLBILLY
That song is rich! There’s nothing I love any more that that play off in country music…!
Speaking of crows…
The other day Unmentionable was out feeding the birds and squirrels. All of the sudden a crow went to a real hell raising cawing. The neighborhood hawk was flying over, and took off. He came in and googled. It turns out that the hawk is, for some reason, scared of crows…
Did you catch that PBS special on the ravens and what they’ll do just for the meanness of it?
td
January 4th, 2013
9:40 pm
I see several of Jay’s regs have bounced over the Kyle’s blog tonight.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 4th, 2013
9:41 pm
Slater, unaware that she had emptied her chamber…
There’s your sign.
josef
January 4th, 2013
9:43 pm
HILLBILLY
I forgot to add, and the French Revolution would most likely have turned out a lot differently, too…
Michael H. Smith
January 4th, 2013
9:44 pm
Yeah, if you’re going to choose a revolver for protection make it a speed loader!
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 4th, 2013
9:46 pm
There’s your sign.
Yep, liberals can’t count nor do they know anything about firearms.
josef
January 4th, 2013
9:47 pm
td
Some of us have old friends hereabouts we like to keep in touch with…so, we do come by ever once in a while to say hello and catch up on things…
Dusty
January 4th, 2013
9:49 pm
Hmmm Hillbilly and Josef are talking about history books and such . History is not my “thing”.
I quick read Tolstoy’s Anna Karenin the other day since I first read it long ago. . Has anyone seen the movie? I wanted to see how close it followed the book but never found exactly where the movie was playing.. .I had a feeling the movie ending was not the same as the book.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 4th, 2013
9:53 pm
Has anyone else noticed how fat diane feinstein has become in her senile old age? This human pig must be living really living high on the hog up there in san franfreako, hiding behind her armed guards. Has michelle obozo been informed about this glutenous behavior?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 4th, 2013
9:55 pm
Yeah, if you’re going to choose a revolver for protection make it a speed loader!
The woman was incredibly lucky. It’s painfully obvious that this woman had only the most rudimentary understanding of the pistol she wielded, much less the ability to reload with a “speed loader”.
josef
January 4th, 2013
9:56 pm
DUSTY
Are you talking about the Jude Law version? If so, haven’t seen it.
Hillbilly D
January 4th, 2013
9:56 pm
It turns out that the hawk is, for some reason, scared of crows…
Hawks and crows are natural enemies. Crows will gang up on a hawk (or an owl). I watch them around here all the time. I wonder if the hawks don’t prey on baby crows (not really sure). Usually I’ll see a dozen or so crows get after a hawk and usually the hawk will just move on up high, as he can fly higher than crows can.
I did see the thing about ravens and found it quite interesting. In my family, we’ve always believed that a crow can tell when you have something in your hand (a shotgun say) and when you don’t. That research sort of confirms what we learned by observation through the generations.
@@
January 4th, 2013
9:57 pm
Nothing is better than you?
I can see it now…some starry eyed female taking it as a compliment only to find out later that it’s anything but…
Hillbilly D
January 4th, 2013
10:03 pm
Aesop
Looks like my reply to your 9:36 got lost in cyberspace. I’m too lazy to type it again.
if you’re going to choose a revolver for protection make it a speed loader!
A revolver is my preferred handgun (for one thing it’s harder to shoot yourself by accident with a revolver). That being said, if you’re going to have a firearm, you need to be proficient with it and know it’s workings. A pressure situation is not the time to be learning. It’s also a good idea to never fire your last shot, unless you have no choice.
I learned to shoot before I learned to read (and I learned to read at 5). If you’re going to have a firearm, you need to use it until it all becomes second nature to you, just like digging a hole with a shovel, or whatever.
Michael H. Smith
January 4th, 2013
10:03 pm
I only hope Joe Lieberman laughs in her face again now that she is on her gun ban rant.
Oh and by the way, let’s take the guns away from Cops and make them carry cute little whistles and nightsticks like they do in good old SOCIALIST England, I mean if we are going to become a civilized country it only seems right doesn’t it? Well it is in keeping with the obumer times, aye comrades? I mean, wouldn’t we all be safer if only the bad guys have guns?
getalife
January 4th, 2013
10:05 pm
They are not coming for your guns con.
Get a grip.
Dusty
January 4th, 2013
10:09 pm
Oh DEER! We have had deer show up twice since Christmas. They don’t stay long. Our back yard connects to a little strip of woods that runs just outside the I285.fence. Always a nice surprise to see them.
I don’t blame the deer for skipping I285. Most days I would like to skip it too.
getalife
January 4th, 2013
10:09 pm
I guess Kyle never watches congress because they attach spending bills on all bills because they failed to pass a budget.
This is why rw media is not credible.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 4th, 2013
10:09 pm
D – I pulled along side of the road one day to watch a couple of does graze in the field at the edge of the woods. They were probably a football field away from where I parked. For ten minutes or more they calmly continued about their business, hardly paying me any mind. As soon as I lifted my rifle and pointed it at them, just to get a better look through the scope, they both instantly dove into the woods.
Same thing once when hunting with my bow. It was on someone else’s property and they set me up in a clearing that had to be every bit of 200 yards long and 50 yards wide. Sure enough, a ten pointer and a doe stepped out of the woods about 65 yards down range and immediately looked up right at me. They carried on about their business for several minutes until I got tired of it and started sizing up the ten pointer. A bow only carries about 50 yards shot straight level, so I raised it up about 15 degrees and brought it in line, when that damn deer saw this happen, he flat out disappeared from sight.
Sons a bitches have more sense than we give them.
Hillbilly D
January 4th, 2013
10:09 pm
I can see it now…some starry eyed female taking it as a compliment only to find out later that it’s anything but…
In the context of the song, it was a compliment to begin with but she’s the one who turned it on it’s head. (IW&SH)
Michael H. Smith
January 4th, 2013
10:11 pm
The woman was incredibly lucky. It’s painfully obvious that this woman had only the most rudimentary understanding of the pistol she wielded, much less the ability to reload with a “speed loader”.
Incredibly ready thank God! Maybe next time she’ll will be better armed with at least a semi-automatic 9mm Glock and 19 round clips, just in case the next punk gets lucky and can count.
josef
January 4th, 2013
10:12 pm
Hillbilly
Unmentionable says that what he was reading said that hawks do prey on baby crows.
Hillbilly D
January 4th, 2013
10:16 pm
Aesop
I walk up on deer all the time. I often get within 50 feet of them, it’s all in how you go about it, and I had one that got spooked by something else, nearly run me over. (I’m still fairly nimble for an ol’ fart, when it counts). They know that my place is basically a sanctuary for them, though. Nobody is going to bother them here, and they know that. Like you say, they’re smarter than people realize. They also are not as afraid of people, if they are upwind and they can’t smell them. Smell is what sets off their flight instinct.
One word of advice, better not let the game warden see you looking through a scope on the side of the road, whether you intend to shoot or not. I had a relative who got a ticket doing that (whether he intended to shoot or not is open to speculation) and damn near got locked up. (My folks always argue with the law, it’s genetic).
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 4th, 2013
10:18 pm
Michael – I once visited Toronto, where the cops are only armed with whistles. Sure enough, right in front of me, some dude in a Mustang Cobra 5 liter pulls up next to some cop, flips him off and smokes the tires of the Mustang. And then just sits there. Until the cop gets to the window of his Mustang upon which he floored it, roaring up the alley with the cop running after him, blowing his whistle. I kid you not.
I’ve never laughed so hard.
td
January 4th, 2013
10:18 pm
Four more saved because a mother had a gun and used it. To bad she had the wrong caliber and the wrong ammo because we now have to pay for the attacker for the rest of his life.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/mother-of-two-surprises-burglar-with-five-gunshots/nTnGR/
Dusty
January 4th, 2013
10:18 pm
JOSEF
I don’t know about Jude Law. Just seems that recently I read a little about the movie by critics which did not say much about the plot. I don’t go to see many movies.
So I reread Tolstoy. Shall we say he’s a bit longwinded!! But a great writer and I couldn’t put the book down until I finished it.
I’ve also been hearing that “Lincoln” was a good movie. I’m sure you want to see that one. (Now, now. No hollering “fire” in the theater or some such action..)
Hillbilly D
January 4th, 2013
10:19 pm
Josef
Thanks, that what I figured. When Daddy was a small boy, my Grandpa used to go find crows’ nests, which are usually up in the top of the tall pines. He’d make Daddy climb the tree and throw the baby crows out of the nest. Of course, the crows would be dive bombing him all the while. He said he never did like that job.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 4th, 2013
10:25 pm
D – I know, I used to smoke a cigar while hunting, always facing my tree stand into the wind.
And, I know someone that used to hunt right next to 575. You could see him up there in his tree stand when you drove down the road. The wardens were hit and miss around those parts. They did get one guy for hunting over corn, way deep in the woods, but I’m pretty sure some nearby animal lovers turned him in.
josef
January 4th, 2013
10:28 pm
DUSTY
It probably is the Jude Law one…the new one. I’m not the biggest fan of Tolstoy myself. I really do have to be “in the mood” and able to put my full attention on in order to follow. “Lincoln?” I’ve got my reservations, Spielberg is a stickler for historical accuracy and I know some of his history people, but I just don’t go to the movie house any more. The people get on my nerves too much.
HILLBILLY
I didn’t know that crows preferred tall pines. That might explain why we have as many as we do in the neighborhood. There are a good number of tall, old, pines mixed in with the hardwood shade trees.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 4th, 2013
10:29 pm
td – I was quite surprised to read that 6 shots from a .38 revolver and the dude still had a head attached to his shoulders. This must have been the scene from “Pulp Fiction” come to life. A .38 is just a slightly underpowered .357 magnum.
td
January 4th, 2013
10:32 pm
Aesop’s Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 4th, 2013
10:29 pm
She must have had the wrong ammo. If she would have had my 44 mag then it would have saved the taxpayer a lot of money in Medical care, a trail and prison time.
Hillbilly D
January 4th, 2013
10:34 pm
josef
The tall pines offer good cover and a good vantage point for defense. I would imagine crows love being in the city because of the abundance of food sources. They’ll eat damn near anything.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 4th, 2013
10:35 pm
td – I hear ya, I hand load my .44 magnums because the factory loads don’t give me the Dirty Harry kick I’m looking for.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 4th, 2013
10:41 pm
I know one thing for sure, where ever I see a Peregrine falcon, I do not see any crows. Nor any other type of bird.
Dusty
January 4th, 2013
10:44 pm
JOSEF
I remembered what you said about LIncoln one time. I brought it up just to heckle you a bit.
Now I say goodnight and it has been a pleasure to have your companhy here. Come more often.. .
josef
January 4th, 2013
10:46 pm
HILLBILLY
Interesting thing about the crows and eating…when Unmentionable is out feeding the birds, the crows will stay up on the wires watching and when the pigeons get through, they’ll come and eat. They don’t go in the feeders, though (the crows that is, I’ve never seen a pigeon in the feeders)
josef
January 4th, 2013
10:48 pm
DUSTY
Well, I’m no Lincoln acolyte and that’s for sure!
I enjoyed visiting with you and will try to drop in more often.