Your humble diarist is a happy camper tonight! :D She has a fun weekend planned of reading and watching this, which I OWN now (YAHOO!) and this, which will probably break my heart in a good way. Can a weekend with "Howl" and Mr. Ferlinghetti be any better?! :) AND, we have our first birthday of the new year which garners THE cake!! :D
BUT, let's get SPARKy for the end of the first week of the new year. Have y'all heard the term "helicopter parents?" Well, they are the ones that make my job a living hell sometimes - WAY more often than their kids to. This family is the PERFECT example! A squirrel battled a couple of tigers & WON! I wonder if it was THIS squirrel?! ;D Are y'all ready to feel OLD?! Get off my lawn, hippie! Finally, here's bad news for all the ultra - healthy - won't - ever - eat - a - bad - thing - for - me people. So, if you're asked about having a second glass of wine with dinner, knock yourself out! :D
OK! Here's THE cake birthday, and it's actually kind of a shared occasion, too, but I'll only post it once due to some F.O.O. "sensitive" natures. :) Senator {insert retching noise here} Rand Paul (Twisted "Duck" - KY) is 47.
Do I really need to list all the reasons why he's so deserving of THE cake with the invitation to GO CHENEY HIMSELF?
And, to the citizens of KY who voted for him, maybe he'll share with you, but you get special recognition as well.
Let's Countdown...
Hey! It must be casual Friday in the Countdown house today!
#5 "Extra – Constitutional" AKA "Power Plays" AKA "Health Care Reform = Jobs" - The House today took a test vote on the repeal of HCR; man, talk about a waste of tax – payer money! All this time and all this energy and all these resources are going toward an effort that is destined to fail just so tea baggers won’t bite ‘em in the balls while tea bagging! Oye’.
Ya’ know, I could almost – ALMOST – forgive the rookie PA Rep for thinking swearing his oath in front of the television machine would suffice. But, Rep. Sessions has been around a long damn time! If HE didn’t realize you actually had to BE IN the House chamber to be sworn in, well, I guess his district needs one of these signs, too, for voting for him.
Rep. Anthony Weiner just wasn’t having any fun on the floor of the House today, was he. ;D Rep. Fitzpatrick’s absence was in the middle of a fund – raiser, which is a no – no on Capitol property! Thomas Frank is in DC tonight & got to watch the past couple days up close & personal. He thinks the fund – raiser stuff will blow over. While HCR can’t be repealed outright, it sure as $hit can be defunded. The GOBP is gonna push this job – killing health care bill memo until doomsday. HOWEVER, repeal of HCR WOULD cost jobs to the tune of between 250K & 400K. And, oodles of jobs have been created in the health care industry since last March! More small businesses are offering health insurance to their employees because of the tax credit for doing so. Ezra Klein gets to talk the money side of HCR repeal. The "mandate" plays no role whatsoever in what small businesses are able to do.
#4 "GOP Death Panel" AKA "Bipartisan Heart" - Some state legislators will try to undo the actual honest – to – goodness GOBP death panel in the "Show Me Your Papers" state on Monday. A GOBP gentleman from IL went through the budget, the various memos, etc. and found 26 WAYS to get money back into the transplant program & to the 96 people who so desperately need it! Steven Daglas is the magic man! :D Both he & Keith think politicians on both sides of the aisle are so petrified of their bases they won’t admit to fubarring. There’s been no response from Governor Brewer’s office – what a damn shock.
The Appropriations Committee Chair has contacted him, though, and complimented Mr. Daglas on his good ideas. Tiffany Tate’s story was what got Mr. Daglas going.
** A poor calf in the former Soviet Union has 2 heads! Wouldn’t musical instruments made of ice hurt appropriate body parts like the dickens?! A little puppy fell into a hole in the side of a pool going after a ball. AAAAaaaaWWWWwwww! **
#3 "Revisionist History" AKA "Rewriting History" - Lonesome Rhodes has some sparked up ideas about that 3/5 Compromise shtick; of course, he’s got some sparked up ideas about a great many things. Just add this one to the ever – growing list.
Did any self – respecting college or university give that man a degree?! The founders didn’t want slaves counted at all because if they WERE counted a people, a slave owner could keep buying them & buying them & garner more seats in government. Russell Simmons is in da’ house to set Lonesome Rhodes straight. ;D Keith asked why all this racial history revisionism is going on; it’s going on because an African – American man was elected President of the United States. If one can discount or "misremember" the shameful history involving African – Americans in this country, then the fact that an African – American man was elected President of the United States isn’t such a big deal. Of course, the other side of the coin is "valid," too, as we’ve all seen in abundance. Remember that lady who screamed at the town hall, "I want my country back!"?
WPITW* A guy held up a Burger King in IL; said guy showed up to the robbery in a cab. When the cab wouldn’t wait, the wanna – be robber was nabbed – BRILLIANT! So, boys & girls, the lesson is that if you want to rob a place, provide your own transportation! ;D The Las Vegas cops issued a jay walking ticket to the mother of a 13 – year – old girl who’d been hit by a car. Rep. Steve King uses the same dictionary as $aint $arah from Wasilla does!
Fridays with Thurber "The Admiral on the Wheel" Do I remember this story? It’s been awhile since I’ve gotten through the Thurber collection. Nope, can’t say that I do.