Marsha Blackburn Voted AGAINST:
Ban on UN Contributions, eliminate Millennium Challenge Account, WTO Withdrawal, UN Dues Decrease, Defunding the NAIS, Iran Military Operations defunding Iraq Troop Withdrawal, congress authorization of Iran Military Operations.

Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman.
See her unconstitutional votes at :
http://tinyurl.com/qhayna
Mickey

Who gets to decide the subject matter? Who gets to decide what is classic and what is not? Who gets to decide what is culture? Who gets to decide what is ART?

As my brother Horsch Poleczech once said, “Culture is something that grows in a lab, and Art is the guy who grows it.” I think Horsch heard it from Henny Youngman.

If we can vote a tax-paid salary for a tubby cello player in a tux, why not for a bellied C/W fiddle player in jeans and Stetson?

If a municipal symphony orchestra leader can get tax money for waving his baton at a(n) euphonic group of eighty or ninety, then why not bank roll the traveling Andre Rieu (or is it Reiu) whose apollo-like face and gracious mane floods our *You Tube* click-links?

If a lithe gal in a tu-tu gets taxpayer support, why not one is a G-string and tassles? Is bump and grind any less ergonomic than leap and glide? Same kinetic energy.

We have seen this kind of open-ended selectiveness with snowboarding in the Olympics, etc etc, and it seems to work, eh? So, let’s go for it. Get my point yet?

I jest, of course. When we start using the clamorous, socialist logic of moderates to mandate how citizens must (must) support certain selective undertakings, it is always those doing the clamouring who decide the ground rules: then we begin to snowboard down that slippery slope and end up tripping over our tassles and G-strings.

Next think you know they will be telling us we have to bail out the auto and mortgage industry. Or we must fund the ACLU. Where will it end?

I would have addressed the other issues, but I don’t know anything about politics. “I just know what I like.”

— George

To paraphrase a former President, the trouble with our legislative friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

And in cases where sex and children are spoken of in the same document of accusation, we are conditioned (by media perhaps) to believe the child — even though it has been shown many times to be unreliable, either on purpose by the child or from manipulation by an overly eager and avid advocate professional.

Assuming the coach and the corrections officer were/are one in the same, I would not have envied Ms Ace’s job in making a decision; and I bet she caught flack from both sides. But in my opinion, he should have been replaced as soon as he was found to be leaking Tritium.

— George

I suspect Vermont Yankee needs a lot of work, as old as it is. I suspect Vermonters are SCREWED if it doesn’t get that work and then remain online. I KNOW they would deserve every bit of the screwing they will surely get if they let a bunch of self-serving politicians and “environmentalists” make the decision to shut down a potentially perfectly good power plant (assuming it is such.) But I hope they pull it off — might be a good object lesson for other states in the Union.

— George Poleczech

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I voted Democrat because I love the fact that I can now
marry whatever I want. I’ve decided to marry my horse.

I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies’
profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the
government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn’t.

I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a
better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

I voted Democrat because freedom of speech is fine as long
as nobody is offended by it.

I voted Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust
that the bad guys will stop what they’re doing because
they now think we’re good people.

I voted Democrat because I’m way too irresponsible to
own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to
protect me from murderers and thieves.

I voted Democrat because I believe that people who
can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that
the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I
don’t start driving a Prius.

I voted Democrat because I’m not concerned about the
slaughter of millions of babies so long as we keep all death
row inmates alive.

I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not
be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to
break even and give the rest away to the government for
redistribution as THEY see fit.

I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to
rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe
kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.
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“The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” - Margaret Thatcher

Seriousy, I enjoyed it muchly. Thank you very much for doing it.

— George

US Pony Express mail system frequently delivers my mail to a woman with similar first and surname as that of Mrs Poleczech’s offline name. Our house numbers are the same, and the street name is easily confused if the postal person is in a hurry. UPS never makes that mistake.

One day there was a car accident about a block from my house. The wreck had just happened when I drove up, and the driver of the hittee vehicle asked me to call 911 on my cell because her daughter was faint. I did so — being careful to give the intersection where the accident occurred.

The 911 operator noted that I was on a cell and demanded my name and home address before she would dispatch a unit. I willingly complied, and when I saw that a nurse stopped to attend the young woman, I got in my vehicle and drove to the house. About ten minutes later an EMS unit arrived at my outside gate with a stretcher and all the bag-hanging equipment. They rang the bell and wanted to know where the injured person was.

The inevitable mix-up had occurred.

I pointed to the wreck about 600 feet away and asked them how them missed seeing it. The answer was that they came in “the back way” via their GPS.

(We don’t need no steenkin’ house number)

— George

The car had a bad rattling noise when I tromped down on the gas, and they told me I had a cracked flywheel and gave me an estimate. It ain’t easy to crack a flywheel on a little four cylinder car, but I agreed to the bottom line and told them to go ahead; but when they took it out I was standing there, and it was okay.

Either Morales or Tio scratched his head in puzzlement; and when they put it back in and slid everything together and tightened the nuts, the rattling noise was gone.

The same guy shrugged and handed me a bill for one hour of shop time…which was about all it would have taken for them to tighten the nuts in the first place. I paid it and drove away.

Had I not been there to inspect it, I suspect my flywheel would have succumbed to to the onslaught of a ball peen hammer untill its configuration matched that of the estimated dollar figure.

— George

— George

— George

Should goods/services include the cost of taxes when their prices are calculated?

PS To both those questions I’d answer yes.”

The answer IS yes, and it lies in pure capitalism; but the question should be: In order to remain solvent, *MUST* businesses include the expense of taxes when their prices are calculated? etc, etc.

Even Buster would sign off on that.

— George

Mr. Rich was obviously influenced by the 96 mph breeze recorded on Mount Mansfield today.

See why it’s hard to answer yes or no? It’s not a case of waffling, it’s a case of the question being lousy. If nothing else, the tone is loaded with a clear bias towards a “no” answer. “Make their customers pay” is a phrase that would make most people cringe a bit.

I’ll give you a couple yes or no versions:

Should businesses include the expense of taxes when calculating the cost of their goods/services?

Should goods/services include the cost of taxes when their prices are calculated?

PS To both those questions I’d answer yes.

PPS I’m not a Democrat, though.

Change it to Muslim and Christian and I think it will get laughs.

They don’t exist, dear. That’s the point. There are none. So the lefty-loon outcry about how it’s just awful sooooo much attention in the MSM is focused on the Muslims being turrists but not paying attention to other people being turrists yadda yadda.

Geddit now?

I’m assuming this is seasonal satire.

— George

Abraham Lincoln wrote, “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”

Step one is to limit politicians to two terms:
one term in office and one term in jail…

A clever wordsmith once said: “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” So, with that, I am happy to report that the US Postal Service (aka the Post Office) has not changed. I say that because a friend mailed a Priority Mail parcel to me two weeks ago — which he had the foresight to insure — and it has yet to arrive. However, ten days ago I ordered a tool from an online organization, and three days later a large brown man wearing ill-fitting brown pants drove up in a big brown truck and handed it to me over the gate. I hope UPS never changes colors.

I see where the Fed has just pumped another three billion greenies into GMAC, which I assume will keep afloat the no-finance-charge deal that came with one of their 2009’s.

(the odd thing about that transaction is that I offered to finance it through my own bank, but the dealership said it preferred to use its own financing arm — which was BTW, the Federal Government, aka tax dollars. They even let me dicker down another $400 if I would close the deal.)

Apparently there is profit in giving away other people’s money.

— George

Where have I heard that before?

Note that the only $$$ I referenced were those promulgated by the CBO. There are other dollars not in the CBO report (the coming land grab at the rest of the TWO TRILLION total dollars of health care spending the Demorats deny will happen come to mind) but the CBO is all the news mentioned in this report.

I hope the CBO is, in fact, neutral. At worst, I hope it is the same as the EPA fuel economy standards: wrong but equally wrong for all the players.

But they passed it anyway.

THROW THE BUMS OUT.

The airline defaults on its schedule promise, the FAA collects twelve millions dollars, and the passenger gets zilch. — or mebbe a voucher for future use.

The FAA shares the money with the general fund, Michelle Obama uses it to go to Paris, Hillary uses it to bribe developing nations in Copenhagen, and Homeland Security uses it to buy bullets.

Meanwhile, the airline looks at its bottom line and raises fares to cover its fox pass.

— George