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Or, Porkulus: How the US Congress is going to spend more and more and more of your money



From jasoninthehouse:



" http://tinyurl.com/b7ojsj Here is the text of the "stimulus" bill. Just released #tcot "



If it's *so* urgent, why doesn't the bulk of spending kick in until the next 2-5 years?



Why are we spending money now on projects that won't get funding until 2015?



This isn't stimulus- this is pork^3 and appropriations bills for the next 4 or 5 sessions of Congress.



Perhaps someone should suggest a Bill that bans all further appropriations bills until 2015 (except defense and program authorizations).



An impact of a few Trillion. (No, not Trillian, the instant messenger aggregator. T-r-i-l-l-i-o-n). We're almost talking real money here.



And besides this stimulus bill, remember that Sec. Geithner is amenable to spending a trillion if necessary to "continue" to stabilize the financial sector. Of course, with your tax dollars, coming from the guy who skipped out of paying himself ....



Ugh

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illegal law suit?

16 Mexican nationals attempting to illegally enter the United States through this man's ranch are now suing him for $32 million. Crazy? Read the story HERE.

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Change. Has. Come.

A friend of mine just blogged:

My former command [USS Port Royal] - and home for 3 years - is stuck in shoal water next to Honolulu International Airport. This is easily one of the five worst things you could ever do to a ship. Read more.

RADM Walsh, according to the KHON2 article, said: "[An] investigation will determine exactly why the ship got to the point where she was in shoal water."

Little do they know that making that determination might entail traveling back in time to June 3, 2008. For I am personally convinced that this tragic comedy surrounding the USS Port Royal is a victim of the law of unintended consequences.

As he promised us, President Obama is affecting the oceans. I'm quite certain the Naval investigation will find that the "rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal," rendering previous depth charts unfit for navigation. What used to be a 35-feet plus sounding of water has apparently receded to a mere 22-feet. This is the result of the planet healing, global warming trends reversing, and the oceans shrinking back up into the polar ice caps. It's not the ship captain's fault - he was acting on information that was deemed to be reliable. It's the ocean's fault. Or is it...?

Clearly, the Navy will need new charts.
Change has come.

(P.S. Does this make President Obama a national security risk? What will be affected next?)

[[Crossposted: http://www.redstate.com/jerb/2009/02/08/change-has-come/ ]]

Awesome.

18 minutes of toe-tapping, hand-clapping, clean fun and music.

check it:

Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy
From TED

DoJ employees failing spam scam test

Seeing if department employees would respond to spam requests, as part of an ongoing evaluation of employees, this email apparently caused some waves outside of the small group it was initially sent to. Even federal employees know how to hit FWD and pass along a juicy ... rumor. Kind of like a lot of stuff that hits my inbox.

Justice did not anticipate response to bogus e-mail

http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090204_2057.php

Report: Justice Department sends hoax e-mail to test workers

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10153795-83.html

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Your little piece of knowledge for the day

Rival - from the Latin rivalis, meaning one using the same river as another.

Interesting, eh?