As one who is always strapped for time (though I try not to neglect my blogger buddies), I was surfing the ‘net on Sunday night and came across this:
How to Do Ordinary Things Quickly
I don’t know that I have the skills to do the parking maneuver (I’d probably cause more damage than it would be worth to learn it), but some of the other tricks are pretty cool to watch.
I think I’m usually trying to plan my day to make the most of my time. For example, I’ll put a load into the wash, and then put water on to boil for the tea. While that’s boiling, I’ll get out cereal and a bowl for my breakfast. While I get the milk, I’ll get the nearly empty tea pitcher out. Put the milk on the counter and wash out the pitcher. While I’m at the sink, I reach to my left and get a spoon. Moving over to the bowl, I pour the milk and put the jug back in the fridge. I move to the table and eat my breakfast. The water is boiling by the time I finish my breakfast. I go to put my bowl in the sink, get the tea bags and as I return to the pitcher, I turn off the water. I pour the water in the pitcher with the tea bags and while the tea steeps I water my plants or do some other small chore. I return, take the tea bags out, add some cool water, and put the pitcher in the fridge. Then I go upstairs to work. The whole step- and time-saving routine comes naturally.
I’ve watched my husband. His way of handling the same situation would be: Maybe bring down the dirty clothes and leave them by the washing machine for me. Then he’d eat breakfast. Then he’d boil water for tea, standing by the stove, waiting for the pot to boil. After the water is hot, he’ll turn around to get the tea bags, whereupon he’d realize he doesn’t have a pitcher waiting, so after looking aimlessly around the kitchen for a few minutes, he’d call me to find out where it is. After locating a pitcher, he’ll make the tea, then go to put it into the fridge, pushing the other pitcher (containing about four tablespoons of liquid) aside.
I remember years ago, when Lovely was in her early grade school years, I was in the kitchen, cooking dinner, washing dishes, fielding questions about her homework, and talking to a friend on the phone about Handsome Son’s school situation. The next night, I was anxious to get things done, and Hubby was helping out. I remember being flabbergasted as he stopped washing dishes to answer a phone call. After about ten minutes, I finished washing the dishes.
Is this a guy thing, that multitasking is nearly impossible? Or is it that mothers learn how to do four or five things at a time as a matter of survival?
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I saw that Hammy was working on a draft, which I assumed was for today’s consumption. Then I logged on and realized that my blogger family was without a couch for today. So I moved my Tuesday thread to Monday – I shall try to find time for a Tuesday thread. Unless Hammy finishes his draft.
I’m just glad you’re all here.
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I saw that Hammy was working on a draft, which I assumed was for today’s consumption. Then I logged on and realized that my blogger family was without a couch for today. So I moved my Tuesday thread to Monday – I shall try to find time for a Tuesday thread. Unless Hammy finishes his draft.
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G’Morning all
TT- Being a left brained engineer, I always figure out ways to do the most jobs possible. Looks like you do pretty well at it, yourself.
Noticed the Washington crowd got a debt bill that should pass both houses yesterday. The inside beltwayers are patting themselves on the back for doing something that should have been done months ago. All the pundits are giving the republicans a bigger win on it, even Tom Brokaw on MSNBC agreed.
Here’s the take on winners and losers from Brietbart:
Winners
Mitch McConnell: The Kentucky Republican was like the Mariano Rivera of the debt deal. He waited until the game was in its final moments, came onto the field and helped close things down (in a good way). McConnell was also a voice of reason and frankness for Republicans, making clear that default would be a huge political loser for the party. In the end, he got a deal the way he wanted one — with him at the center of negotiations.
Tea party: There were major questions coming into the 112th Congress about who would blink first — the largely establishment-aligned leaders of the new Republican House majority or the tea-party-aligned freshman members. We got our answer to that question late Thursday as House Speaker John Boehner was forced not only to postpone his compromise bill but ultimately to add conservative sweeteners to get the 217 votes he needed. (He got 218.) The tea party — inside and outside Congress — will almost certainly be emboldened by the result of this fight.
President Obama: The president needed a deal of some sort to prove that he was capable of making the government work — even if it took until the eleventh (and a half) hour to strike the compromise. Liberals are likely to be deeply unhappy about the nature of the deal, which includes no increases in taxes or revenue. But remember that Obama’s target constituency in 2012 is not his base but rather independent and moderate voters. And those fence-sitters love compromise in almost any form.
Congressional Budget Office: The CBO is largely the redoubt of fiscal policy nerds — and we say that with the greatest respect. But for the past week of negotiations, the CBO was a central player — particularly when Boehner’s proposal came in under its proposed savings. Now that a deal appears to be done, the CBO will return to its relative anonymity (until the next budget fight).
Grover Norquist: With no revenue increases in the final deal, Norquist, the head of Americans for Tax Reform, appears to have held the line. His pledge — signed by hundreds of House members — not to raise taxes or revenue remains intact, as does his reputation as a “do not cross” member of the GOP establishment.
David Wu : Has a member of Congress forced to resign amid a sex scandal ever drawn less media attention? Somewhere, Anthony Weiner is grimacing.
Losers
Congress: Coming into this debt-ceiling showdown, Congress was about as popular as poison ivy. One can only imagine just how much further that discontent has spread after this high-profile demonstration of brinkmanship and intransigence. Lawmakers — bless their hearts — seem entirely unaware of just how bad they looked during this fight and will almost certainly spend the next few weeks (or months) congratulating themselves on their tremendous magnanimity.
Gang of Six : The group was supposed to put lie to the idea that true bipartisanship — in which both sides give somewhat equally — was dead. But the gang was never able to deliver its plans, amid departures and re-arrivals (Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, we’re looking at you). And after a brief renaissance late in the game when Obama praised the group, it faded again — eclipsed by plans pushed by leaders in both parties.
Commissions: It seems as though the answer to every intractable problem in Washington is to form a commission. Social Security insolvency on the horizon? Commission! Education failing our kids? Commission(s)! (There have been at least four.) Heck, we have already had a commission to deal with the debt problem. The likely formation of a super-commission to figure out what can and should be cut out of the federal budget may not be doomed to failure, but it has a lot of bad commission history to overcome.
Liberals: As the basic framework of the deal emerged, liberals began voicing their discontent about a bargain that left their side wanting more. With no revenue in the initial phase of the legislation and Medicare cuts on the table in the second phase, there’s not much for the ideological left to celebrate.
And here’s Tom Brokaw saying the same thing on MSNBC:
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G’Morning all
TT- Being a left brained engineer, I always figure out ways to do the most jobs possible. Looks like you do pretty well at it, yourself.
Noticed the Washington crowd got a debt bill that should pass both houses yesterday. The inside beltwayers are patting themselves on the back for doing something that should have been done months ago. All the pundits are giving the republicans a bigger win on it, even Tom Brokaw on MSNBC agreed.
Here’s the take on winners and losers from Brietbart:Winners
Mitch McConnell: The Kentucky Republican was like the Mariano Rivera of the debt deal. He waited until the game was in its final moments, came onto the field and helped close things down (in a good way). McConnell was also a voice of reason and frankness for Republicans, making clear that default would be a huge political loser for the party. In the end, he got a deal the way he wanted one — with him at the center of negotiations.
Tea party: There were major questions coming into the 112th Congress about who would blink first — the largely establishment-aligned leaders of the new Republican House majority or the tea-party-aligned freshman members. We got our answer to that question late Thursday as House Speaker John Boehner was forced not only to postpone his compromise bill but ultimately to add conservative sweeteners to get the 217 votes he needed. (He got 218.) The tea party — inside and outside Congress — will almost certainly be emboldened by the result of this fight.
President Obama: The president needed a deal of some sort to prove that he was capable of making the government work — even if it took until the eleventh (and a half) hour to strike the compromise. Liberals are likely to be deeply unhappy about the nature of the deal, which includes no increases in taxes or revenue. But remember that Obama’s target constituency in 2012 is not his base but rather independent and moderate voters. And those fence-sitters love compromise in almost any form.
Congressional Budget Office: The CBO is largely the redoubt of fiscal policy nerds — and we say that with the greatest respect. But for the past week of negotiations, the CBO was a central player — particularly when Boehner’s proposal came in under its proposed savings. Now that a deal appears to be done, the CBO will return to its relative anonymity (until the next budget fight).
Grover Norquist: With no revenue increases in the final deal, Norquist, the head of Americans for Tax Reform, appears to have held the line. His pledge — signed by hundreds of House members — not to raise taxes or revenue remains intact, as does his reputation as a “do not cross” member of the GOP establishment.
David Wu : Has a member of Congress forced to resign amid a sex scandal ever drawn less media attention? Somewhere, Anthony Weiner is grimacing.
Losers
Congress: Coming into this debt-ceiling showdown, Congress was about as popular as poison ivy. One can only imagine just how much further that discontent has spread after this high-profile demonstration of brinkmanship and intransigence. Lawmakers — bless their hearts — seem entirely unaware of just how bad they looked during this fight and will almost certainly spend the next few weeks (or months) congratulating themselves on their tremendous magnanimity.
Gang of Six : The group was supposed to put lie to the idea that true bipartisanship — in which both sides give somewhat equally — was dead. But the gang was never able to deliver its plans, amid departures and re-arrivals (Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, we’re looking at you). And after a brief renaissance late in the game when Obama praised the group, it faded again — eclipsed by plans pushed by leaders in both parties.
Commissions: It seems as though the answer to every intractable problem in Washington is to form a commission. Social Security insolvency on the horizon? Commission! Education failing our kids? Commission(s)! (There have been at least four.) Heck, we have already had a commission to deal with the debt problem. The likely formation of a super-commission to figure out what can and should be cut out of the federal budget may not be doomed to failure, but it has a lot of bad commission history to overcome.
Liberals: As the basic framework of the deal emerged, liberals began voicing their discontent about a bargain that left their side wanting more. With no revenue in the initial phase of the legislation and Medicare cuts on the table in the second phase, there’s not much for the ideological left to celebrate.And here’s Tom Brokaw saying the same thing on MSNBC:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp=43969069� -
TT, I think this is just the way most womens’ brains are wired. Women see the fine details and the nuance, and act accordingly. Men only see the big picture, and act accordingly. There are of course many exceptions and this is not a criticism of anyone on either side. (including El Gordo)
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TT, I think this is just the way most womens’ brains are wired. Women see the fine details and the nuance, and act accordingly. Men only see the big picture, and act accordingly. There are of course many exceptions and this is not a criticism of anyone on either side. (including El Gordo)
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Men are from Mars, etc., etc.
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Men are from Mars, etc., etc.
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Watch out Hampsters! We’re all probably gonna make the “Watch List” now:
House Committee Approves Bill Mandating That Internet Companies Spy on Their Users
Legislative Analysis by Rainey ReitmanDespite serious privacy concerns being voiced by both Democratic and Republican leaders and by thousands of digital rights activists using EFF’s Action Center, this afternoon the House Judiciary Committee voted 19 to 10 to recommend passage of H.R. 1981. That bill contains a mandatory data retention provision that would require your Internet service providers to retain 12 months’ worth of personal information that could be used to identify what web sites you visit and what content you post online. EFF had previously joined with 29 other civil liberties and consumer privacy groups in signing a letter to the Committee members that condemned the bill as a “direct assault on the privacy of Internet users.”
EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston had this to say about today’s vote:
The data retention mandate in this bill would treat every Internet user like a criminal and threaten the online privacy and free speech rights of every American, as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have recognized. Requiring Internet companies to redesign and reconfigure their systems to facilitate government surveillance of Americans’ expressive activities is simply un-American. Such a scheme would be as objectionable to our Founders as the requiring of licenses for printing presses or the banning of anonymous pamphlets. Today’s vote is therefore very disappointing, but we are especially thankful to GOP Representatives Sensenbrenner, Issa and Chaffetz, who chose principle over party-line in opposing this dangerous tech mandate. We hope that bipartisan opposition will grow as the bill makes its way to the House floor and more lawmakers are educated about this anti-privacy, anti-free speech, anti-innovation proposal.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/house-committee-approves-bill-mandating-internet
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Watch out Hampsters! We’re all probably gonna make the “Watch List” now:
House Committee Approves Bill Mandating That Internet Companies Spy on Their Users
Legislative Analysis by Rainey Reitman
Despite serious privacy concerns being voiced by both Democratic and Republican leaders and by thousands of digital rights activists using EFF’s Action Center, this afternoon the House Judiciary Committee voted 19 to 10 to recommend passage of H.R. 1981. That bill contains a mandatory data retention provision that would require your Internet service providers to retain 12 months’ worth of personal information that could be used to identify what web sites you visit and what content you post online. EFF had previously joined with 29 other civil liberties and consumer privacy groups in signing a letter to the Committee members that condemned the bill as a “direct assault on the privacy of Internet users.”
EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston had this to say about today’s vote:
The data retention mandate in this bill would treat every Internet user like a criminal and threaten the online privacy and free speech rights of every American, as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have recognized. Requiring Internet companies to redesign and reconfigure their systems to facilitate government surveillance of Americans’ expressive activities is simply un-American. Such a scheme would be as objectionable to our Founders as the requiring of licenses for printing presses or the banning of anonymous pamphlets. Today’s vote is therefore very disappointing, but we are especially thankful to GOP Representatives Sensenbrenner, Issa and Chaffetz, who chose principle over party-line in opposing this dangerous tech mandate. We hope that bipartisan opposition will grow as the bill makes its way to the House floor and more lawmakers are educated about this anti-privacy, anti-free speech, anti-innovation proposal.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/house-committee-approves-bill-mandating-internet
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Maybe bring down the dirty clothes and leave them by the washing machine for me.
Whoohoo, that’s my kind of guy!
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Maybe bring down the dirty clothes and leave them by the washing machine for me.
Whoohoo, that’s my kind of guy!
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Operation “Gunrunner” and “Fast and Furious” have so many people involved in it that it really taxes your brain to keep track of who said and did what and when without 200+ articles in you files.
Here is a very good recap of events from 2009 to present. Go to the link and read the whole thing.Within months after Barack Obama became President, a covert operation was launched to allow gun sales to people with ties to the Mexican drug cartels, ostensibly in hopes that those guns would lead agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to cartel members in Mexico. The name of the operation was “Project Gunrunner,” and the details of it included allowing straw purchasers to buy not hundreds but thousands of guns, approximately 2,500, which they were then to walk into Mexico while having their movements traced by the ATF. The problem is that the ATF was not able to keep track of the weapons, and to date only 1,300 of the approximate 2,500 have been recovered.
An even bigger problem is that at least one federal officer, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, lost his life in a shootout with an individual armed with a weapon sold during Gunrunner, and violence in Mexico jumped exponentially when the weapons made their way into that country.
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The beginnings of Gunrunner can at least be traced back as far as Feb. 15, 2009, when President Obama? authorized $10 million for it via the stimulus package. His signature on that document renders his subsequent denials of any knowledge of Gunrunner questionable at best. And on April 2, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder gave a speech at the Mexico/United States Arms Trafficking Conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in which he boasted of overseeing the implementation of Gunrunner.
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consider that to date, the Justice Department’s only response to the myriad Fast and Furious allegations has been to mandate a new law requiring gun stores in Arizona, California, Texas and New Mexico to make a special report to the ATF when an individual makes multiple long-gun purchases over a five-day period, the only caveat being that the guns have to be greater than .22-caliber and capable of using a detachable clip.
Upon announcing these new gun control measures on July 11, 2011, Deputy Attorney General James Cole actually tried to justify them by pointing out that such weapons “are highly sought after by dangerous drug trafficking organizations and frequently recovered at violent crime scenes near the Southwest border.” (No mention was made of the fact that hundreds upon hundreds of these same weapons were sold to would-be criminals with ATF and Justice Department approval during Gunrunner, then smuggled across the border.
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Therefore, even as Issa and Grassley continue to investigate this mess, other legislators should begin taking the proper steps to remove Holder from office. If they don’t remove him, it appears rank-and-file ATF agents will take the fall for both Gunrunner and Fast and Furious, although those same agents have testified numerous times that they only allowed guns to move across the border because their supervisors ordered them not to intervene.
If Holder isn’t removed from office, we at least owe Richard Nixon an apology.
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Operation “Gunrunner” and “Fast and Furious” have so many people involved in it that it really taxes your brain to keep track of who said and did what and when without 200+ articles in you files.
Here is a very good recap of events from 2009 to present. Go to the link and read the whole thing.Within months after Barack Obama became President, a covert operation was launched to allow gun sales to people with ties to the Mexican drug cartels, ostensibly in hopes that those guns would lead agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to cartel members in Mexico. The name of the operation was “Project Gunrunner,” and the details of it included allowing straw purchasers to buy not hundreds but thousands of guns, approximately 2,500, which they were then to walk into Mexico while having their movements traced by the ATF. The problem is that the ATF was not able to keep track of the weapons, and to date only 1,300 of the approximate 2,500 have been recovered.
An even bigger problem is that at least one federal officer, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, lost his life in a shootout with an individual armed with a weapon sold during Gunrunner, and violence in Mexico jumped exponentially when the weapons made their way into that country.snip….
The beginnings of Gunrunner can at least be traced back as far as Feb. 15, 2009, when President Obama? authorized $10 million for it via the stimulus package. His signature on that document renders his subsequent denials of any knowledge of Gunrunner questionable at best. And on April 2, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder gave a speech at the Mexico/United States Arms Trafficking Conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in which he boasted of overseeing the implementation of Gunrunner.
snip…….
consider that to date, the Justice Department’s only response to the myriad Fast and Furious allegations has been to mandate a new law requiring gun stores in Arizona, California, Texas and New Mexico to make a special report to the ATF when an individual makes multiple long-gun purchases over a five-day period, the only caveat being that the guns have to be greater than .22-caliber and capable of using a detachable clip.
Upon announcing these new gun control measures on July 11, 2011, Deputy Attorney General James Cole actually tried to justify them by pointing out that such weapons “are highly sought after by dangerous drug trafficking organizations and frequently recovered at violent crime scenes near the Southwest border.” (No mention was made of the fact that hundreds upon hundreds of these same weapons were sold to would-be criminals with ATF and Justice Department approval during Gunrunner, then smuggled across the border.snip…..
Therefore, even as Issa and Grassley continue to investigate this mess, other legislators should begin taking the proper steps to remove Holder from office. If they don’t remove him, it appears rank-and-file ATF agents will take the fall for both Gunrunner and Fast and Furious, although those same agents have testified numerous times that they only allowed guns to move across the border because their supervisors ordered them not to intervene.
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IMHO – multi taskin aint gender specific – plenty of both X & Y chromosome folks that cannot walk & chew gum – and conversely plenty that can and much much more………….
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IMHO – multi taskin aint gender specific – plenty of both X & Y chromosome folks that cannot walk & chew gum – and conversely plenty that can and much much more………….
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#5, et al – Try to think of it this way. The women spend their time swatting at the gnats while the men are busy keeping the elephants from trampling them.
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#5, et al – Try to think of it this way. The women spend their time swatting at the gnats while the men are busy keeping the elephants from trampling them.
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#11 El Gordo
I don’t know….I think there are quite a few women quite willing and able to kill the dang elephant. Then we cook it, while washing dishes and helping with homework.
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#11 El Gordo
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Since no one asked, here’s my take on the debt ceiling reconciliation:
Winners: Congressional politicians, the President
Losers: America, and the American citizens who pay taxes.
Seriously, does anyone think for one minute there will ever be one dime of spending cuts? And a 3 or 4 trillion short term bridge increase in the debt ceiling is going to decrease spending how? I will admit that the Tea Party did accomplish changing the message from “tax and spend” let’s at least talk austerity – and that’s quite an accomplishment in Washington DC. Let’s not give up the fight, work to increase the numbers in 2012, and keep trudging. It took the Dems over 50 years to get to where we are today, but they never gave up the fight even when they had temporary setbacks such as a Reagan presidency, etc. We can too.
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Since no one asked, here’s my take on the debt ceiling reconciliation:
Winners: Congressional politicians, the President
Losers: America, and the American citizens who pay taxes.
Seriously, does anyone think for one minute there will ever be one dime of spending cuts? And a 3 or 4 trillion short term bridge increase in the debt ceiling is going to decrease spending how? I will admit that the Tea Party did accomplish changing the message from “tax and spend” let’s at least talk austerity – and that’s quite an accomplishment in Washington DC. Let’s not give up the fight, work to increase the numbers in 2012, and keep trudging. It took the Dems over 50 years to get to where we are today, but they never gave up the fight even when they had temporary setbacks such as a Reagan presidency, etc. We can too. -
Wimmins shoot for efficiency, guys go for ease.
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Wimmins shoot for efficiency, guys go for ease.
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Oletimer #7;
but we are especially thankful to GOP Representatives Sensenbrenner, Issa and Chaffetz, who chose principle over party-line in opposing this dangerous tech mandate.
Remember that Freedom Works targeted Orin Hatch for retirement and Chaffetz may primary against him.
But staffers at FreedomWorks say they aren’t backing anyone else just yet against Hatch, though several candidates, including Rep. Jason Chaffetz and state Sen. Dan Liljenquist, have signaled they may get in the race. Walker said the organization has met “with several people” considering a run and they’re “confident we’re going to have a good candidate.”
Exclusive: FreedomWorks will make Orrin Hatch first 2012 target
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Oletimer #7;
but we are especially thankful to GOP Representatives Sensenbrenner, Issa and Chaffetz, who chose principle over party-line in opposing this dangerous tech mandate.
Remember that Freedom Works targeted Orin Hatch for retirement and Chaffetz may primary against him.
But staffers at FreedomWorks say they aren’t backing anyone else just yet against Hatch, though several candidates, including Rep. Jason Chaffetz and state Sen. Dan Liljenquist, have signaled they may get in the race. Walker said the organization has met “with several people” considering a run and they’re “confident we’re going to have a good candidate.”
Exclusive: FreedomWorks will make Orrin Hatch first 2012 target
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Hammie’s been spying on us from the beginning.
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Hammie’s been spying on us from the beginning.
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It took a while but I finally located the info on the heinous crimes committed by one Charles Harold Hughes in 1993. After 18 years, I misremembered a few details, but most of it was accurate. The incredible thing is that for killing a woman and wounding her husband, on top of the home invasion and shotgun blast to the face of a mother lying on the floor of her own home — this VSR/POS was only given 2 life sentences.
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It took a while but I finally located the info on the heinous crimes committed by one Charles Harold Hughes in 1993. After 18 years, I misremembered a few details, but most of it was accurate. The incredible thing is that for killing a woman and wounding her husband, on top of the home invasion and shotgun blast to the face of a mother lying on the floor of her own home — this VSR/POS was only given 2 life sentences.
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1994_1175363/bennigan-s-suspect-is-charged-in-brazoria-case.html -
“The storm has passed!”
“Disaster has been averted!”
Don’t you feel better? Of the various flavors of Armageddon being pitched over the last month or more, one of the most dire was the threat that the Big Three credit ratings agencies would downgrade our super-duper triple A status unless we got our fiscal house in order. Investors would be jittery and demand a better deal prior to purchasing any of America’s shabby paper.
So with the latest version of the new, new deal nearly inked, we’ve at least dodged that bullet, right? Not so fast, says the CEO of PIMCO.
One of the most prominent global investors says that a potential budget deal in Washington will only bring short-term relief, and it won’t remove the threat of a U.S. debt downgrade by credit rating agencies.
“I think this compromise will lead to an increase in the debt ceiling, and therefore avoid default,” said Mohamed El-Erian, CEO of PIMCO, a global investment firm and one of the world’s largest bond investors said today on ABC’s “This Week With Christiane Amanpour.” “But this relief will be short.”
“We have one rating agency out there that said it would downgrade unless certain things happen, and these things are not happening fast enough,” El-Erian said of the budget framework being negotiated.
“If the U.S. loses that AAA status, it will be much more difficult for the U.S. to restore growth, so it’s unambiguously bad,” El-Erian added.
Let’s see. This threat of downgrading has been looming quite visibly for a while now. Now that the government has waited until, literally, two days before the stated time of default ocurres to make a deal and people expect the threat of a AAA downgrade to be averted? Theologically speaking, isn’t that like refusing your entire life to repent and then, hupothetically speaking, you find out Jesus is coming in two days, that you’ll get your life in order at that point?
The problem was never a question of default vs. no default. First, we were never going to fail to pay the interest on our debts. We simply wouldn’t have paid a bunch of other bills. But clearly that wasn’t the real underlying fear of either investors or creditors. What they were waiting to see was if we were on a path toward long term fiscal stability or if they would have to sit through this same waiting game from now on every time we ran out of cash.
That is correct. No default would have ocurred on or after August 2nd. The only threat is to pay out the obligated debt like Medicaid and Social Security.
Here’s another take on the threat of downgrade:
Credit watchdogs at Standard & Poor’s have warned that unless $4 trillion in cuts are made, with long term sustainable fiscal policies to balance the budget, the US will lose its coveted AAA status within 90 days. Moody’s said the same thing this month, only gave the US 12 to 18 months to get its financial house in order before getting dropped from the triple-A list.
Currently, we are taling about 2.4 trillion in cuts accomplished in two parts. The vast majority of these cuts are not immediate but promised. Wow.
We shall see what happens if this deal passes.
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“The storm has passed!”
“Disaster has been averted!”
Don’t you feel better? Of the various flavors of Armageddon being pitched over the last month or more, one of the most dire was the threat that the Big Three credit ratings agencies would downgrade our super-duper triple A status unless we got our fiscal house in order. Investors would be jittery and demand a better deal prior to purchasing any of America’s shabby paper.
So with the latest version of the new, new deal nearly inked, we’ve at least dodged that bullet, right? Not so fast, says the CEO of PIMCO.One of the most prominent global investors says that a potential budget deal in Washington will only bring short-term relief, and it won’t remove the threat of a U.S. debt downgrade by credit rating agencies.
“I think this compromise will lead to an increase in the debt ceiling, and therefore avoid default,” said Mohamed El-Erian, CEO of PIMCO, a global investment firm and one of the world’s largest bond investors said today on ABC’s “This Week With Christiane Amanpour.” “But this relief will be short.”
“We have one rating agency out there that said it would downgrade unless certain things happen, and these things are not happening fast enough,” El-Erian said of the budget framework being negotiated.
“If the U.S. loses that AAA status, it will be much more difficult for the U.S. to restore growth, so it’s unambiguously bad,” El-Erian added.Let’s see. This threat of downgrading has been looming quite visibly for a while now. Now that the government has waited until, literally, two days before the stated time of default ocurres to make a deal and people expect the threat of a AAA downgrade to be averted? Theologically speaking, isn’t that like refusing your entire life to repent and then, hupothetically speaking, you find out Jesus is coming in two days, that you’ll get your life in order at that point?
The problem was never a question of default vs. no default. First, we were never going to fail to pay the interest on our debts. We simply wouldn’t have paid a bunch of other bills. But clearly that wasn’t the real underlying fear of either investors or creditors. What they were waiting to see was if we were on a path toward long term fiscal stability or if they would have to sit through this same waiting game from now on every time we ran out of cash.
That is correct. No default would have ocurred on or after August 2nd. The only threat is to pay out the obligated debt like Medicaid and Social Security.
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Here’s another take on the threat of downgrade:Credit watchdogs at Standard & Poor’s have warned that unless $4 trillion in cuts are made, with long term sustainable fiscal policies to balance the budget, the US will lose its coveted AAA status within 90 days. Moody’s said the same thing this month, only gave the US 12 to 18 months to get its financial house in order before getting dropped from the triple-A list.
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Currently, we are taling about 2.4 trillion in cuts accomplished in two parts. The vast majority of these cuts are not immediate but promised. Wow.
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“You know, I haven’t seen the legislation yet,” Lee said Sunday on CNN. “I haven’t had an opportunity to read it yet. Based on the summary that I’ve received so far I’m not inclined to support it. What I’ve said since before I was even sworn into office … is that I cannot support any effort to raise the debt ceiling that is not accompanied by immediate and permanent structural spending reform.”
Lee’s comments came a few hours after President Obama and congressional leaders announced that they had reached a bipartisan debt-limit deal to raise the ceiling by $2.4 trillion while cutting $1 trillion in spending over 10 years and establishing a 12-person bicameral committee to find an additional $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction. The plan includes enforcement mechanisms to encourage both Republicans and Democrats to seek out spending cuts or else face cuts to sacred cows such as defense and entitlement spending.
I’m glad someone’s talking this talk.
(CNN)– Sen. Mike Lee of Utah told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Sunday night that he will filibuster Monday’s Senate vote.
Breaking a filibuster would require sixty votes in the Senate.
That’s words put into action.
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“You know, I haven’t seen the legislation yet,” Lee said Sunday on CNN. “I haven’t had an opportunity to read it yet. Based on the summary that I’ve received so far I’m not inclined to support it. What I’ve said since before I was even sworn into office … is that I cannot support any effort to raise the debt ceiling that is not accompanied by immediate and permanent structural spending reform.”
Lee’s comments came a few hours after President Obama and congressional leaders announced that they had reached a bipartisan debt-limit deal to raise the ceiling by $2.4 trillion while cutting $1 trillion in spending over 10 years and establishing a 12-person bicameral committee to find an additional $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction. The plan includes enforcement mechanisms to encourage both Republicans and Democrats to seek out spending cuts or else face cuts to sacred cows such as defense and entitlement spending.I’m glad someone’s talking this talk.
LINK(CNN)– Sen. Mike Lee of Utah told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Sunday night that he will filibuster Monday’s Senate vote.
Breaking a filibuster would require sixty votes in the Senate.LINK
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#7 Geezer: That any R would vote in favor of that bill means that they have no idea what the 4th Amendment says or means. We all need to remember that whenever a bill is cloaked in the word Security, look out because they are trampling your rights as a citizen.
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#7 Geezer: That any R would vote in favor of that bill means that they have no idea what the 4th Amendment says or means. We all need to remember that whenever a bill is cloaked in the word Security, look out because they are trampling your rights as a citizen.
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That’s words put into action.
I agree. We need more of that and less weepy, meaningless compromising. Stand strong, Mike Lee. America needs more like you and Jim DeMint, and less like Boehner, Cornyn, Hutchison… I could go on but you get the point.
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That’s words put into action.
I agree. We need more of that and less weepy, meaningless compromising. Stand strong, Mike Lee. America needs more like you and Jim DeMint, and less like Boehner, Cornyn, Hutchison… I could go on but you get the point.
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There’s something wimmins do with regularity that drives most men bonkers and that is trying to have a conversation with him WHILE HE IS WATCHING HIS FAVORITE TV SHOWS. If the Q and A were limited to the commercials that would be one thing, but during the body of the show – that is almost guaranteed to start a fight.
Note to all wimmins:
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There’s something wimmins do with regularity that drives most men bonkers and that is trying to have a conversation with him WHILE HE IS WATCHING HIS FAVORITE TV SHOWS. If the Q and A were limited to the commercials that would be one thing, but during the body of the show – that is almost guaranteed to start a fight.
Note to all wimmins:
Iffn ya wanna talk to your man, do it during the commercials or when the TV is off. Most men do not have the mental capacity to watch the show and have a conversation at the same time, and most wimmins do. -
Did I kill the blog again?
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Did I kill the blog again?
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Well I had a busy weekend, I worked on Saturday then went and got the boat and put the new prop on it. Sunday I went to the gun show at the Brown. The Boy was going to take the boat out Sunday morning but it seems that the birthday party the night before left him a little tarred. When I got back from the gun show I called him to see if he wanted to go out for a little while and test the prop. So we all loaded up and got to the ramp by about 3, too late to ski at Taylor lake because the crazies would be at full speed by then. The prop was outstanding! A Mercury prop always delivers MORE than you’d expect. Yesterday, Bonecrusher said; “I wonder if the boy is gonna notice that big boat getting out of the hole faster and/or decrease in top end speed. Usually with props there is a trade-off twixt those 2.” Well that would be true if you were going up or down in pitch, but we were replacing a 1950’s tech Aluminum 19″ with a high tech 19″ SS Mirage. The hole-shot was better but couldn’t be quanitified because we didn’t pull up a skier. The topend was obviously better because the prop never slipped, allowing lots of trim/bowlift, BUTT the most improvement was in the midrange, the ideal cruise speed went from 38 MPH @ 4000 RPM to 43MPH @ the SAME RPM. Since the boat is heavy you have to be real delicate with the trim to get past 47 MPH. Comming back down Clear Creek the Boy got a little overzealous and trimmed past 50%, I heard the exaust roaring and looked back and saw a 10′ rooster tail, but the prop held 50+ and didn’t spin out. The Boy said, “well we may have slowed down a little, trimmed that way but we were looking good! and sounding good. 😀
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Well I had a busy weekend, I worked on Saturday then went and got the boat and put the new prop on it. Sunday I went to the gun show at the Brown. The Boy was going to take the boat out Sunday morning but it seems that the birthday party the night before left him a little tarred. When I got back from the gun show I called him to see if he wanted to go out for a little while and test the prop. So we all loaded up and got to the ramp by about 3, too late to ski at Taylor lake because the crazies would be at full speed by then. The prop was outstanding! A Mercury prop always delivers MORE than you’d expect. Yesterday, Bonecrusher said; “I wonder if the boy is gonna notice that big boat getting out of the hole faster and/or decrease in top end speed. Usually with props there is a trade-off twixt those 2.” Well that would be true if you were going up or down in pitch, but we were replacing a 1950’s tech Aluminum 19″ with a high tech 19″ SS Mirage. The hole-shot was better but couldn’t be quanitified because we didn’t pull up a skier. The topend was obviously better because the prop never slipped, allowing lots of trim/bowlift, BUTT the most improvement was in the midrange, the ideal cruise speed went from 38 MPH @ 4000 RPM to 43MPH @ the SAME RPM. Since the boat is heavy you have to be real delicate with the trim to get past 47 MPH. Comming back down Clear Creek the Boy got a little overzealous and trimmed past 50%, I heard the exaust roaring and looked back and saw a 10′ rooster tail, but the prop held 50+ and didn’t spin out. The Boy said, “well we may have slowed down a little, trimmed that way but we were looking good! and sounding good. 😀
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#23 Bonecrusher
Did I kill the blog again?
Jimb always said it was my deodorant. 😀
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#23 Bonecrusher
Did I kill the blog again?
Jimb always said it was my deodorant. 😀
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SD: Same pitch but more rake? Does that mean that each blade/fluke is longer or has more surface area?
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SD: Same pitch but more rake? Does that mean that each blade/fluke is longer or has more surface area?
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Jimb always said it was my deodorant.
Or lack thereof.
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Jimb always said it was my deodorant.
Or lack thereof.
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#22 –
Most men do not have the mental capacity to watch the show and have a conversation at the same time, and most wimmins do.
GEEZ Bc – if ya wanna commit suicide do so on yer OWN time! (and speak for yourSELF while yer at it!)
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#22 –
Most men do not have the mental capacity to watch the show and have a conversation at the same time, and most wimmins do.
GEEZ Bc – if ya wanna commit suicide do so on yer OWN time! (and speak for yourSELF while yer at it!)
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Hey whiskers, I said most (which by definition does not mean all) for the necessary wiggle room.
Most wimmins have the capacity to use both sides of their brain at the same time and most men don’t. Wimmins usually use both sides of the brain when they are doing a task and men usually only use one side. . . . . . . .Because that’s all us menfolk need!
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Hey whiskers, I said most (which by definition does not mean all) for the necessary wiggle room.
Most wimmins have the capacity to use both sides of their brain at the same time and most men don’t. Wimmins usually use both sides of the brain when they are doing a task and men usually only use one side. . . . . . . .
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have the capacity to use both sides of their brain at the same time
But not necessarily the inclination or control to do it successfully.
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have the capacity to use both sides of their brain at the same time
But not necessarily the inclination or control to do it successfully.
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Dave, sounds like both you “Boys” had a great time trying out the new boat stuff. ‘Course I needed help to figure out what a “rooster tail” is…
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#26 Bonecrusher Yup, the exaust tube (prop hub) is 1 1/2″ longer so the blades are bigger (more surface area) and the rack is the curve to the rear on the sides of the prop making it more efficient, the cup is the small bend backward portion the the ends of the balek and effectively adds pitch at the top end. A 19 Cupped prop acts like a 19 out of the hole but a 20 at top speed.
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#26 Bonecrusher Yup, the exaust tube (prop hub) is 1 1/2″ longer so the blades are bigger (more surface area) and the rack is the curve to the rear on the sides of the prop making it more efficient, the cup is the small bend backward portion the the ends of the balek and effectively adds pitch at the top end. A 19 Cupped prop acts like a 19 out of the hole but a 20 at top speed.
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mharper42
what a “rooster tail” is…
I used to have a little 16′ Glastron with a Box-Stock 115 Mercury that would run an HONEST 62 MPH, spinning a 24″ three blade Mercury Chopper prop @ 6000 RPM, running @ 24 1/2 inches transom height (the top half of the prop was out of the water) and it would shoot water 15′ into the air. I used to go under the bridge at Red Bluff on Taylor lake and splash water on top of the bridge. 😀
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mharper42
what a “rooster tail” is…
I used to have a little 16′ Glastron with a Box-Stock 115 Mercury that would run an HONEST 62 MPH, spinning a 24″ three blade Mercury Chopper prop @ 6000 RPM, running @ 24 1/2 inches transom height (the top half of the prop was out of the water) and it would shoot water 15′ into the air. I used to go under the bridge at Red Bluff on Taylor lake and splash water on top of the bridge. 😀
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#27 wagon & #28 KatFish 😀
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#27 wagon & #28 KatFish 😀
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Rooster tail surely can be water – can also be most anything that gets “flung” straight up – one might see motocross bikes fling rooster tails as they leave the starting gate as riders all try for the hole shot (aka lead position) on the first turn………………
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Rooster tail surely can be water – can also be most anything that gets “flung” straight up – one might see motocross bikes fling rooster tails as they leave the starting gate as riders all try for the hole shot (aka lead position) on the first turn………………
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Hey! I am well aware of my husband’s limitations, and I DO NOT talk to him during the show, I wait for a commercial. I have found that he’s more likely to interrupt a show or my activities than I am to interrupt him.
Does that mean I am not a womman?
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Hey! I am well aware of my husband’s limitations, and I DO NOT talk to him during the show, I wait for a commercial. I have found that he’s more likely to interrupt a show or my activities than I am to interrupt him.
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Awww Ms. Tedtam
#6Men are from Mars, etc., etc.
Now that is not always true. When I found this well I ummmm ya know immediately thought about you. 🙂
/Knowing your fondness for all things unicorns and rainbows and all that stuff.
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Awww Ms. Tedtam
#6Men are from Mars, etc., etc.
Now that is not always true. When I found this well I ummmm ya know immediately thought about you. 🙂
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Does that mean I am not a womman?
You’re a wimmin.
If your sister were visiting you, there would be 2 wimmins in the room.
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Does that mean I am not a womman?
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Squack’s back!
Squawk is back online
He is now new and improved
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Squack’s back!
Squawk is back online
He is now new and improved
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Did they let you take your gall bladder home in a jar?
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Did they let you take your gall bladder home in a jar?
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TT:
Hey! I am well aware of my husband’s limitations, and I DO NOT talk to him during the show,
/snip
Does that mean I am not a womman?Absolutely not, that makes you a smart wimmin. Now go get that man of yours a beer and a sammich!
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TT:
Hey! I am well aware of my husband’s limitations, and I DO NOT talk to him during the show,
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Does that mean I am not a womman?Absolutely not, that makes you a smart wimmin. Now go get that man of yours a beer and a sammich!
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bunsonburner
#41Huh uhhh, no want no want. That thing was literally nasty and rotten. The wife says I should not even be home right now. To wit I answered “THANKS ALL FOR YOUR PRAYERS”
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bunsonburner
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Welcome back there Squawk. Did everything come out ok?
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Welcome back there Squawk. Did everything come out ok?
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Dang doc ruined a perfectly good belly button too. What was once a proud inny is now an ugly semi-outie. Where am I gonna put my salt now?
/Let that vision twirl around in the ol brain for a while. HEH
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Dang doc ruined a perfectly good belly button too. What was once a proud inny is now an ugly semi-outie. Where am I gonna put my salt now?
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Bonez
Thanxz
I guess the answer would be yup. I took a nap during the process. Kinda glad I did too. -
Bonez
Thanxz
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#45 Like anybody here is gonna believe that you’re flexible enough to lick it out once its in there. It was prolly full of grit, sand, grunge and lint before the surgery anyway.
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#45 Like anybody here is gonna believe that you’re flexible enough to lick it out once its in there. It was prolly full of grit, sand, grunge and lint before the surgery anyway.
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#36 Kat
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#36 Kat
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#46 I was going for the ole double entendre thang there. Glad your ok and on the mend, you will be back to your normal irritating self in no time:>)
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#46 I was going for the ole double entendre thang there. Glad your ok and on the mend, you will be back to your normal irritating self in no time:>)
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#45 Squawk
an ugly semi-outie
Maybe it takes a while for the swelling to go down? Just don’t wear that Speedo for a while…
Welcome back to life as we know it!
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#45 Squawk
an ugly semi-outie
Maybe it takes a while for the swelling to go down? Just don’t wear that Speedo for a while…
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Bonez
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Still a little Slow to catch on. But the Doc assures me I will be grouchier than a she wolf with 9 baby pups in no time. -
Bonez
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Still a little Slow to catch on. But the Doc assures me I will be grouchier than a she wolf with 9 baby pups in no time. -
#51 A little slow sounds like the right convalescent speed to me. Take it slow & easy.
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#51 A little slow sounds like the right convalescent speed to me. Take it slow & easy.
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mharper42
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mharper42
Thanx ya
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Sqawkie-TOOTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WB bubba!
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Sqawkie-TOOTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Glad to hear you’re doing better, Squawk. Scooch over, everyone, make room for his galactic outie.
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Glad to hear you’re doing better, Squawk. Scooch over, everyone, make room for his galactic outie.
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Again, The Arrogant One dictates commercial requirements and social mores.
And how much will this requirement add to the cost of insurance?
/mumbling expletives
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Again, The Arrogant One dictates commercial requirements and social mores.
And how much will this requirement add to the cost of insurance?
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not to mention his elephantine buttox.
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not to mention his elephantine buttox.
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#58 Bonecrusher
Didn’t know you such a daredevil, guy!
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#58 Bonecrusher
Didn’t know you such a daredevil, guy!
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#59 TT: ya kilt da blog.
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#59 TT: ya kilt da blog.
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tap tap tap tap dis thing ON?
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tap tap tap tap dis thing ON?
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An unexpected LULL has overcome the Couch, that’s all. Me, Monday is a hard day to get going and sustain any momentum. I mean, in general.
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An unexpected LULL has overcome the Couch, that’s all. Me, Monday is a hard day to get going and sustain any momentum. I mean, in general.
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I am just no good at any of these games. The most I got was two right.
Is this a good thing?
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I am just no good at any of these games. The most I got was two right.
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/attempting to resurrect the couch
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/attempting to resurrect the couch
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La la la la la
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La la la la la
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Sixty six!!’
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Sixty six!!’
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Things are looking up – I got all five correct for July 22nd game!
It’s amazing how little it takes to make me happy.
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Things are looking up – I got all five correct for July 22nd game!
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Then I struck out the next three games.
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Then I struck out the next three games.
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bonecrusher #22;
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#69 Shannon
I’m assuming that was aimed at me. Well, I have to say is…..
pphhhhhbbbbbtttt!
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#69 Shannon
I’m assuming that was aimed at me. Well, I have to say is…..
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Biden calls Tea Partiers “terrorists”.
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Biden calls Tea Partiers “terrorists”.
Does this man ever get tired of exposing the vastness of his idiocy? Or is the substantial lack of neurons mean that his thought processes are so slow that he just never gets to complete a real thought? -
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Nah
Bad timing
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Nah
Bad timing
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Squawk is here. We are safe.
Hi Squawk!
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Squawk is here. We are safe.
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Shannon
Well, okay then, I take it back.
!ttttbbbbbhhhhhpp
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Shannon
Well, okay then, I take it back.
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That thing was literally nasty and rotten.
Now that you’re home with it externally, you can bounce it around like a superball. Those things were alwasy fun to chase. You can even train the dog to retrieve it.
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That thing was literally nasty and rotten.
Now that you’re home with it externally, you can bounce it around like a superball. Those things were alwasy fun to chase. You can even train the dog to retrieve it.
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But they’ll eat them.
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But they’ll eat them.
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Given the conviviality on the floor of the House and since we are considering fairy tales and fantasy, the following are submitted in addition to the outstanding line of proposals offered by Shannon et al yesterday:
1. Only real property owners and active duty members of the military are eligible to vote after presenting positive proof of identity. Each voter will have one finger conspicuously dyed upon exiting the voting booth. The dye would be indelible for at least as long as the election cycle. Persons with multiple digits dyed the same color will be shot in the head toot sweet.
2. Whether or not an eligible citizen voted in an election will be public record and posted on a free, publicly accessible website within 12 hours of the ballot being cast. The ballots cast by each citizen will be secret. However, the ticket number allowing access to the voting machine and the actual votes cast in association with each ticket number will be public record posted on a free, publicly accessibly website within 12 hours of the ballot being cast so that each voter can make sure his votes were counted correctly.
3. The compensation package for each member of Congress will be set by and entirely funded by the citizens in the district represented by the member.
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Given the conviviality on the floor of the House and since we are considering fairy tales and fantasy, the following are submitted in addition to the outstanding line of proposals offered by Shannon et al yesterday:
1. Only real property owners and active duty members of the military are eligible to vote after presenting positive proof of identity. Each voter will have one finger conspicuously dyed upon exiting the voting booth. The dye would be indelible for at least as long as the election cycle. Persons with multiple digits dyed the same color will be shot in the head toot sweet.
2. Whether or not an eligible citizen voted in an election will be public record and posted on a free, publicly accessible website within 12 hours of the ballot being cast. The ballots cast by each citizen will be secret. However, the ticket number allowing access to the voting machine and the actual votes cast in association with each ticket number will be public record posted on a free, publicly accessibly website within 12 hours of the ballot being cast so that each voter can make sure his votes were counted correctly.
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Forgot one:
4. Only those citizens eligible to vote in an election for a political office are eligible to contribute to the campaign fund of a candidate for that office.
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Forgot one:
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#79 TdE
What about contributing against someone? I donated to SwiftBoatVets to help defeat Kerry. Now since he was running for Pres, I was eligible to vote for/against him. But what about more local offices? I donated to De Mint’s Senate Conservatives fund and a lot of that went to campaigns in other states. I wouldn’t want to lose that option. -
#79 TdE
What about contributing against someone? I donated to SwiftBoatVets to help defeat Kerry. Now since he was running for Pres, I was eligible to vote for/against him. But what about more local offices? I donated to De Mint’s Senate Conservatives fund and a lot of that went to campaigns in other states. I wouldn’t want to lose that option. -
But if the opponents of those people DeMint contributed to had to play by the same rules, the playing field would level itself.
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But if the opponents of those people DeMint contributed to had to play by the same rules, the playing field would level itself.
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RE: multi-tasking
Life is meant to be savored, one accomplishment at a time.
Besides, if you do things too fast, you forgit whether you done ’em or not.
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RE: multi-tasking
Life is meant to be savored, one accomplishment at a time.
Besides, if you do things too fast, you forgit whether you done ’em or not. -
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I could not support the disenfranchisement of so many (one man, one vote), nor the wholesale restriction of individual campaign contributions which has been determined by SCOTUS to be one of the defining parts of 1st Amendment Free Speech. -
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I could not support the disenfranchisement of so many (one man, one vote), nor the wholesale restriction of individual campaign contributions which has been determined by SCOTUS to be one of the defining parts of 1st Amendment Free Speech. -
But they’ll eat them.
Not if you train them.
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But they’ll eat them.
Not if you train them.
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Mere possession of title to property hardly confers some special wisdom.
Setting up some kind of new aristocracy (or is it a moldy, old idea Americans bled to overthrow?) seems to be a backward move to me.
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Mere possession of title to property hardly confers some special wisdom.
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Thank goodness this man is married. Wild Bill would have some competition. I’ve been “stalking him for quite a while.” /going back out to mow grass.
After that, I’m gonna drink me a Michelob or 4. I spent 400 dorrahs on my aerobic system this morning. They were s’pose to be here between 12 and 1pm. They called me at 10;30 to let me know that they will be there in 30 minutes. I had informed him that I was in Kingwood and hope that I beat him home but please, feel free to start pumping the main one without me. Man those dudes have a crappy job. Enzymes? I needed enzymes every month? Hadn’t done THAT in 6 years….
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Thank goodness this man is married. Wild Bill would have some competition. I’ve been “stalking him for quite a while.” /going back out to mow grass.
After that, I’m gonna drink me a Michelob or 4. I spent 400 dorrahs on my aerobic system this morning. They were s’pose to be here between 12 and 1pm. They called me at 10;30 to let me know that they will be there in 30 minutes. I had informed him that I was in Kingwood and hope that I beat him home but please, feel free to start pumping the main one without me. Man those dudes have a crappy job. Enzymes? I needed enzymes every month? Hadn’t done THAT in 6 years…. -
#86
Pragmatist. Spoil sport.
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So Joe Biden wakes up long enough to delcare that Tea Party patriots are terrorists. What a maroon. Mayhap we ought to make him visit Major Nadal Hasan in the pokey at Fort Hood so he can see a real terrorist. After viewing video of the massacre and seeing the dead and wounded, of course. Then review the videos of 9/11, not the sanitized stuff that made most of the network news shows, but the on the scene real stuff of people jumping from 90th story and higher windows (some ablaze) and the sickening thumps they made hitting the ground.
Joe’s mouth gets him in more trouble than his lagging-behind brain can get him out of.
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So Joe Biden wakes up long enough to delcare that Tea Party patriots are terrorists. What a maroon. Mayhap we ought to make him visit Major Nadal Hasan in the pokey at Fort Hood so he can see a real terrorist. After viewing video of the massacre and seeing the dead and wounded, of course. Then review the videos of 9/11, not the sanitized stuff that made most of the network news shows, but the on the scene real stuff of people jumping from 90th story and higher windows (some ablaze) and the sickening thumps they made hitting the ground.
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Attention Hobbits: The hobbits are uniting. 4 of my hobbit friends went there today. They say the food is good. Thank you, John McShame. 🙂
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Attention Hobbits: The hobbits are uniting. 4 of my hobbit friends went there today. They say the food is good. Thank you, John McShame. 🙂
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Oh. And Joe Biden is crawfishing on his statement.
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Oh. And Joe Biden is crawfishing on his statement.
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What’s an enzyme, can I get ’em down at the Walmart?
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What’s an enzyme, can I get ’em down at the Walmart?
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I see our dear Representative Olsen continued to vote in lock step with the leadership on the debt ceiling issue. He’s only been there a short time, but he has voted to increase the debt ceiling every time the issue has come up. And we thought we were getting a conservative for that CD-22 position. I supported him for the position, but I’m beginning to have second thoughts.
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I see our dear Representative Olsen continued to vote in lock step with the leadership on the debt ceiling issue. He’s only been there a short time, but he has voted to increase the debt ceiling every time the issue has come up. And we thought we were getting a conservative for that CD-22 position. I supported him for the position, but I’m beginning to have second thoughts.
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El Gordo
I see our dear Representative Olsen continued to vote in lock step with the leadership on the debt ceiling issue. He’s only been there a short time, but he has voted to increase the debt ceiling every time the issue has come up
Yanno’ I thought the SAME DANG THANG!! I helped get him elected! Wasn’t he running again that Am-bu-lance chassin’ lawyer from Beaumont? CRAP!!
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El Gordo
I see our dear Representative Olsen continued to vote in lock step with the leadership on the debt ceiling issue. He’s only been there a short time, but he has voted to increase the debt ceiling every time the issue has come up
Yanno’ I thought the SAME DANG THANG!! I helped get him elected! Wasn’t he running again that Am-bu-lance chassin’ lawyer from Beaumont? CRAP!!
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What’s an enzyme, can I get ‘em down at the Walmart?
Yes. It’s called Ridex. You can also use pool chlorine for your tabs. Eventually, I’ll be converting it to bleach. Just not this month. Thank goodness that I’m a food hoarder and all the bills are paid. 😉
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What’s an enzyme, can I get ‘em down at the Walmart?
Yes. It’s called Ridex. You can also use pool chlorine for your tabs. Eventually, I’ll be converting it to bleach. Just not this month. Thank goodness that I’m a food hoarder and all the bills are paid. 😉
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Well the Boy finally got a day off after his store beat the big one down the street so when he got off he picked up the boat and is out in Clear Creek even as we speak and is going out again on Tuesday (his day off). Yup! life is GOOD! 😀
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Well the Boy finally got a day off after his store beat the big one down the street so when he got off he picked up the boat and is out in Clear Creek even as we speak and is going out again on Tuesday (his day off). Yup! life is GOOD! 😀
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My #94 reminded me “Bambulance”
Disclaimer; Hammie’s Mom wouldn’t approve. -
My #94 reminded me “Bambulance”
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#23 Bonecrusher says; Did I kill the blog again?
#25 Super Dave says; Jimb always said it was my deodorant. 😀
#27 wagonburner says;Jimb always said it was my deodorant.
Or lack thereof.
So I guess I HAVE KILT it Again! Dang Dammit. 😉
Sniff,…Sniff,…..Humm.
I Get back on line after a long Hiatus and everyone grabs their marbles and hauls BUTT! 😀
Later Gang! -
#23 Bonecrusher says; Did I kill the blog again?
#25 Super Dave says; Jimb always said it was my deodorant. 😀
#27 wagonburner says;Jimb always said it was my deodorant.
Or lack thereof.
So I guess I HAVE KILT it Again! Dang Dammit. 😉
Sniff,…Sniff,…..Humm.
I Get back on line after a long Hiatus and everyone grabs their marbles and hauls BUTT! 😀
Later Gang! -
#95
I quit feeding my system the tablets once I found out there only function was to save the planet.
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#95
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hunnerd
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hunnerd
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#86 Shannon:
The ownership of real estate confers on one not a single jot or tittle of wisdom but it does imbue one with the desire to take care of what has been earned by the sweat of the brow thus making the practice of wealth redistribution abhorrent. Such is not the case for those who neither work nor earn but survive by feeding at the public trough. Since we indulge, as previously stated, in fantasy and fairy tale chasing, could this provision possibly stimulate increased acquisition of real property that is currently becoming more and more of a rental situation with government being the actual landlord as title holders pay ever higher property taxes even after the mortgage is paid off? -
#86 Shannon:
The ownership of real estate confers on one not a single jot or tittle of wisdom but it does imbue one with the desire to take care of what has been earned by the sweat of the brow thus making the practice of wealth redistribution abhorrent. Such is not the case for those who neither work nor earn but survive by feeding at the public trough. Since we indulge, as previously stated, in fantasy and fairy tale chasing, could this provision possibly stimulate increased acquisition of real property that is currently becoming more and more of a rental situation with government being the actual landlord as title holders pay ever higher property taxes even after the mortgage is paid off? -
Greta is on in the background. Orin Hatch just said he was “Tea Party” way before The Tea Party. BWHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
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Greta is on in the background. Orin Hatch just said he was “Tea Party” way before The Tea Party. BWHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
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Such profound wisdom:
“The American people are in charge of this country, and they deserve a Congress that acts like it,” said Boehner. “Americans should have three days to read all bills before Congress votes on them–something they didn’t get when the ‘stimulus’ was rushed into law. We should put an end to so-called ‘comprehensive’ bills that make it easy to hide wasteful spending projects and job-killing policies. Bills should be written by legislators in committee in plain public view–not written in the Speaker’s office, behind closed doors.”
How soon we forget…
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Such profound wisdom:
“The American people are in charge of this country, and they deserve a Congress that acts like it,” said Boehner. “Americans should have three days to read all bills before Congress votes on them–something they didn’t get when the ‘stimulus’ was rushed into law. We should put an end to so-called ‘comprehensive’ bills that make it easy to hide wasteful spending projects and job-killing policies. Bills should be written by legislators in committee in plain public view–not written in the Speaker’s office, behind closed doors.”
How soon we forget…
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