First, I am just so glad that Moonbat Babs Boxer said what she said to Condi Rice. Because I've been saying the same thing for years about homosexuals but NOW, thank God, I can state the truth right out loud. Just like Babs did.
There's a new political consultant on Fox and I've got a picture of me and Kaitlyn with her. This when she was a nobody from the swamps of Delaware.
How about the Dems taking off for football and go on, why isn't Samoa subject to that new and vaunted minimum wage? Could it be about Pelosi and StarKist tuna?
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Democrats to Samoa..."SORRY, CHARLIE
From SFGATE.com:
Fending off charges of favoritism, House Democrats say a just-passed minimum wage bill will be changed to cover all U.S. territories - including American Samoa - before it reaches President Bush's desk.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters she has instructed the House Education and Labor Committee to help get the bill changed to "make sure that all of the territories have to comply with the U.S. law on minimum wage."
We watched the whole thing before our disbelieving eyeballs. First amazing thing, the Republicans, now the minority party, somehow grew a backbone and openly challenged the Democrats, as well they should have.
For Nancy Pelosi, new Speaker of the House and Grandmother to the world, seems to have left American territory Samoa out of the recently passed minimum wage bill. Damn, it near bought me to tears, what with the Dems pontificating that America needed minimum wage so bad to save the poorest amongst us. Not that many Americans make minimum wage, sheesh, even McDonalds pays more than 5 bucks an hour.
The minimum wage is a device used by mighty unions during contract negotiations. Beyond that, the federal minimum wage means pretty much nothing. It means nothing, for sure, if you live on Samoa because, heh, seems Starkist tuna has a factory there and seems Samoans make $3.75 an hour to slosh around in smelly tuna all day. And yet, oddly, the recently passed Democrat minimum wage increase EXCLUDED Samoa and go on, shouldn't these Samoans be EXACTLY the poor folks the increased minimum wage should be helping?
Ah, but not if Del Monte Foods, owner of Starkist Tuna and its famous Charlie the Tuna icon, is headquartered in your district. Goodness, can't hurt Del Monte foods, which is in Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district and I'm thinking they might contribute a lot of Pelosi's political campaign.
In this case the hell with the Samoans. Everyone else in America is eligible for the new minimum wage but naturally we must exempt a big company in our district because...? Well my election is waaaaaay more important than a bunch of fat, over-worked Samoans.
Another Democratic Hypocrisy
Not being a football fan or anything, I'm not at all sure who was playing who on the evening of 1/8/07. Some college teams I think.
Anyway, here the in-charge Dems had just made a rule that all congress critters would work 40 hours a week when congress is in session and here is shock number one. A)I thought they HAD BEEN working 40 hours a week like us schlubs out here in la-la land and B)the very first night the new rule went into effect, they made an exception for that football game referenced in the first paragraph above.
Well goodness, can't be working up a sweat the night of the big game, can we?
Nancy Pelosi, our very own San Francisco treat, strikes a sour note again.
But hey, she is a grandmother.
Joe Biden's Solution
Last week the President addressed the American people as regards his changing plan for Iraq. It wasn't a very good speech but I'll let more seasoned pundits take on the analysis.
What really intrigues me is mine own Senator's fine critique of Bush's plan.
From Newsmax.com:
U.S. President Bush's Iraq strategy is a "tragic mistake," Sen. Joseph Biden, the chairman of the influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Thursday.
"I believe the president's strategy is not a solution," Biden said at a congressional hearing at which Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to testify about Bush's plan to send 21,500 more U.S. troops to Iraq.
"I believe it's a tragic mistake," Biden said.
As for Biden's proposed plan to replace the one advanced by Bush...No wait! Somewhere I seem to have lost Joe Biden's plan! Someone help me.
If you can't find Biden's plan, just send me ANY Democratic plan. Hurry please, I have a deadline here.
You say no Democratic plan? But aren't the Dems now the majority party? You mean after six years of carping they still haven't come up with a plan?
Say it ain't so Joe.
Fox News Has a New Political Pundit
I heard the Fox and Friends host refer to a "Christine O'Donnell" and my ears perked up.
"Nah", I thought. "Can't be the same one."
Then I glanced up to see a female pundit face that looked familiar.
My acquaintance with Delaware's Christine O'Donnell is documented HERE.
Christine ran for Senator in an attempt to unseat Delaware senatorial incumbent, Tom Carper. Christine ran as an Independent.
Now we see she is a new Fox political pundit. Below, a pic of my own self, beloved Kaitlyn Mae, and Fox's new face on the block-Christine O'Donnell.
The Case of the Missing Laptops
I’m thinking maybe those 319 missing laptops from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration might have fallen under the sea. And the 240 missing from the Department of the Interior…maybe native Americans went on a rampage and stole them.
Surely, yon taxpayers, these government bureaucracies wouldn’t allow the employees to abscond with government property like this, never to bring them back? Surely?
Get a load of the plethora of laptop computers missing from our government agencies. Whoever is in charge of those agencies should be given three days to get every damn missing one of them back or be fired. Period.
It’s how a private business would handle the situation. But then, a private business doesn’t have endless taxpayer dollars to fund its business, does it?
From WTOPNEWS:
WASHINGTON - Over the past five years, the United States Department of Defense has reported 60 laptop computers missing or stolen from their inventory.
According to documents obtained by WTOP through a Freedom of Information Act request, the DOD is not alone. Many of other federal agencies have reported similar or even higher numbers.
Missing Laptops:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: 319
Department of Interior: 240
Environmental Protection Agency: 60
Department of Labor: 57
National Institute of Standards and Technology: 35
International Trade Administration: 30
Department of Housing and Urban Development: 15
U.S. Patent and Trademark: 9
Thank You Barbara Boxer
I might be the only Conservative on the planet who is delighted to no end about the exchange between California’s Babs Boxer and Secretary of State Condi Rice.
From SFGATE.com:
Boxer, defending herself against critics from the right, said Friday that she was "speaking truth to power" at a Senate hearing Thursday when she confronted the secretary of state -- who is unmarried and childless -- noting that neither she nor Rice will "pay a price" personally for sending more American troops to war.
"I was just saying what I felt,'' the California Democrat said in an interview with The Chronicle. She said she would not apologize for the exchange because "I delivered a very strong message and tried to find common ground with her ... and I tried to draw us together, and not apart.''
Indeed I watched the entire exchange and hey, per the above quote, Babs was just saying what she felt. We all should be allowed to say what we feel and good manners, hurt feelings and just plain meanness be damned. Much less from an elected representative of our congress…I mean…just say what you feel.
For Babs’ very mean statement to Condi Rice that she has no stake in the Iraq war due to her childless status allows ME to say what I think. And I’ve been thinking it for a very long time.
I have a great distrust of homosexual congress critters and have for a while. My argument is that as a general rule, homosexuals do not have progeny. My argument also is that it is our progeny that compel us to keep the planet we leave to our descendents at peace and on an even keel. Way I figure, those that have a stake in an issue, ANY issue, will likely give it more thought an action than those who do not care.But hey, I’m just saying what I feel here.
Until Babs Boxer went on her unkind rant to Condi, berating the unmarried and childless woman for daring to have an opinion on the war on Iraq, I’d kept my mouth shut because I’ll allow that my queasiness about homosexuals on the legislative and leadership front is unkind, probably untrue.
I thank Babs, who has a large constituency of homosexuals by the way, for giving me the chance to amend her comments to Condi.
It’s like Nancy Pelosi, new Speaker of the House…this woman has a slew of grandchildren and she parades them everywhere. Thus the message I’m getting from the Dems is one must have children and/or progeny to have a say in what happens in this country.
But hey, I’m just saying what I feel here.
Ending With a Smile
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