Did they find a brain? If so, where?
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) was taken to a Los Angeles hospital last night for "routine testing" after he was not feeling well, according to his office.
Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, had just ushered a historic climate change legislation to a narrow victory Friday. His office told the Associated Press that he was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he is "feeling much better now."
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Take a good look at a picture of Waxjob. If Lincoln was right when he said that "everyone over 40 is responsible for what he looks like" then Waxman has a lot to answer for.
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I assume he led by example and arrived by public transportation, waited in line for 3 hours, was prescribed 1 aspirin (usually ya get 2, but supplies are short) and will arrive again in 3 months to have his tests. You know, just like the rest of will if him and his ilk pass their legislations.
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well at least the nasal checkup was easy
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Always vital that the patient not lose consciousness. A brisk slap to the cheek by a trained professional (male orderly) is oftentimes necessary. If this does not produce the desired result, patient begins to fade or appear disoriented, unresponsive.... repeat the procedures 5-10 times using bare knuckles on the backstroke every half hour for a month or two.
A federal judge in California has issued an injunction to stop a proposed $2 hourly wage reduction for the state's home-care workers, reductions that are part of efforts to cut a state budget shortfall of $24 billion. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken halted the wage cuts on June 25 in response to a lawsuit by the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) on behalf of 250,000--out of a total of 440,000--home care workers that it represents in California. Tired by the silliness of his syncophants, King Cnut the Great set his throne by the sea shore. "Stop, sea!" he ordered. "Back, you waves!" The tide ignored him and wet his feet and robes. "Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings, for there is none worthy of the name, but He whom heaven, earth, and sea obey by eternal laws." He then hung his gold crown on a crucifix, and never wore it again.
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Talk about "imperial judiciary" - this will cause the workers to end up unpaid in the end - and hopefully that jackass judge too when CA goes bankrupt because of SEIU union activists in robes like her.
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Our government here in California is acting just like a drug addict only it is addicted to the people's money. They just can't say no to new spending.
It is time they simply go back through the recent legislation and begin to repeal bill by bill starting from the most recent. Get rid of idiotic regulations such as those requiring trucks entering California with a load and might only be in California for a day or two to meet California exhaust emission standards. That measure is going to force small operators out of operation and provide a larger share to the big operators while increasing the costs of all goods shipped in and out of California.
All of these regulations are strangling business. When you strangle business, you reduce revenues. More companies are going to refuse to do business in California. The result is higher prices for everyone. When you have less money to spend on things, tax revenues actually go down. Companies show less profit, increase wages less or lay off employees, and the result is bad for everyone.
California is smoking crack when it comes to encouraging the very spirit that made it at one time the richest state in the nation. It now has the worse credit rating in the nation and is broke.
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Note that the legislature has not reduced it's own compensation or perks, nor those of it's staff.
I don't believe that the governor or his staff has taken hits either.
That being said, I would prefer to simply lay off half these people. 440,000 home-care workers means that 1.3% of the state's population are state employed home-care workers.
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Who needs the Tenth Amendment. Now the fed dictates the internal operations of the states. Imperial Judiciary indeed. You know there are savings in doing away with 50 redundant administrative units.
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Look for Barry to soon appoint (appointed vs elected) Federal Zsar or overseer with wide ranging authority who will guide the State of California out of thier economic situation. His first step will be to Federalize the State's infrastructure and payroll. What takes place in California over the next few weeks and months will become Barry's template for the nation. It will be something to watch.
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California is a busy place, crammed with brand new BMW SUV's among other things, how is it that they're "broke"
On my recent business trip to the Central CA area the pace of everything was dizzying. The Glistening infrastructure, the multitudes of expensive new SUV's, the gazillions of people out on all the freeways.... where does this money go? How can these objectively "rich" people paint themselves into a corner?
The Legislature did propose reducing their free glasses program from two pair to one pair per year. This included their staff. It still included sun glasses for people that didn't wear prescription glasses.
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I have a question for the federal judiciary, besides this being a state matter and all that is: When California begins to print IOUs they will be of course only redeemable in California as no shoppkeeper in any other state will accept them willingly as payment. At what point will it be determined that California is printing its own currency?
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The public sector workforce long ago broke the social contract they made with America.
The way it was supposed to work was this: if you get a public sector job, it'll be one that you'll have forever, and you'll get a pension, but in return for giving you that, the private sector will demand that you make a GREAT deal less money than if you were in the private sector.
In the past 80 years, government workers have said 'we want the job security AND the pension AND to make as much money as someone in the private sector, and we're giving you NOTHING back in return, and if you don't like it tough."
They've transgressed, and at some point they'll have to be punished for it.
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In the past 80 years, government workers....
Please file under deafening silence, jumbo shrimp, clearly misunderstood, pretty ugly, etc.
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What Frank said.
I realize it's fashionable to bash goverment workers as lazy, overpaid crooks...but all I can say after 25 plus years at the wellfair deep art mint is what K said to J in Men in Black: "Try it."
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That there are notable exceptions in no way diminishes the truth of my post. If you are one of those exceptions, you oughta know I didn't mean you.
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I reread your post and really don't see any room for me in it. But I'll take your word for it.
The fact is, most evil goverment workers here in the Failed State of California are like me -- we're not in management, our wages are not increasing (and are often going down), and our workloads have increased to the Rantburgian rearranging of deck chairs. Staff reduction by attrition is the rule. Somebody leaves, they are not replaced. We try to pick up the slack. And after a time, we can't. We'd love to be able to do our damn jobs, but we can't. That ship, the Titanic, has sailed. Yet, all we hear is how lame we are. Fine. Keep your fooking narrative and your scapegoating. My kind will be gone soon and you can rip off the young'ns. But you are not going to like what you pay for. The self-esteem generation coming up is not like us aging boomers (Get off my lawn!) and will not work for peanuts. Hell, they won't work at all.
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In my own capacity - I've been "acting" Sr Bridge Engineer since last fall, covering 5 bridge projects. I have 2 engineers and 2 surveyors working for me. I am also doing my Project Manager job I transferred from "in my spare time" with 5 projects, including a $392 million project with two bridge replacements and a widening of I-5 for a stretch in concert with Caltrans - Project Report and Environmental Document should be out for public review in August. For that I get an extra 5% above my base to account for the 10-14 hr days counting evenings online. Regulars would note my absence at the Burg.
In private, I would make $40K-60K more with less pension/retirement and no guaranteed health bennies. I work my ass, just as in private, and am relatively happy with what I have. I spend A LOT of time on evenings, weekends, that I don't charge, because in my mind, it's part of my job duties to stay on top of things and provide prompt direction. I'm not unusual among my engineering peers, although there are slackers in any org.
I made the choice and I have nothing to apologize for. I'd only ask that you think of that before you lazily slur every public employee, k?
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by the way - when I say:
"In private, I would make $40K-60K more with less pension/retirement and no guaranteed health bennies."
I understand how the current Obama Downturn makes that false. In a NORMAL economy, that would be true, but I have a lot of friends, associates, that are in private that either took a ten percent cut or lost their jobs. Shit. We took a 6% cut, so I understand their pain, but at least I'm still working, so I'm ok with that
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Wattsburg, Pa. -- Vice President Joe Biden visited a small town on the outskirts of Erie today to talk to rural folks about federal stimulus money that can be used to expand broadband access to the Internet for rural areas that typically have poor connections.
Apparently stimulus money and broadband are not all that interesting to the local folk here: Only around 100 or so people have showed up so far to hear Biden talk at noon at Seneca High School off Route 8 in Wattsburg.
The room looked so sparse that about 30 or so chairs were removed by volunteers to give the illusion of a full house. The effect didn't exactly work. It's the thought that counts...
Pittsburgh native and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper are also on hand to talk about access to high speed internet as an essential tool for success in business and in school in our struggling economy.
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Because with all the anti-rural legislation in the works (fart tax, dirt tax, carbon tax, federal health care which will inevitably close rural hospitals, etc.) thats whut us are roarall folks isa concerned 'bout - faster internet connections. Good the see the secretary of agriculture on it too. Tell me, did the entire entourage pile out of a white VW bug with red and ribbon trim, funny sounding horn?
As first reported on the Drudge Report this morning, White House staffers have been poking fun at President Barack Obama's glare, which has been spotted during a number of high profile meetings.
Republican Norm Coleman has conceded to Democrat Al Franken in the Minnesota Senate race, ending one of the longest Senate races in American history and clearing the way for Democrats to hold a 60-seat supermajority in the Senate.
Coelman's concession, given from the front of his St. Paul home, came just a few hours after the Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously ruled Franken the winner of last November's Senate race. In a unanimous 5-0 decision, the court upheld a three-judge panel's April 14 ruling that Franken defeated Republican Norm Coleman in the race by 312 votes out of 2.9 million cast. The 32-page opinion was remarkably decisive, picking apart and rejecting one Coleman legal claim after another.
In its final line of the ruling, the state Supreme Court said Franken is "entitled" under Minnesota law to "receive the certificate election as United States senator from the state of Minnesota."
"The Supreme Court of Minnesota has spoken and I respect its decision and will abide by the result," Coleman said. "It's time for Minnesota to come together under the leaders it has chosen and move forward. I join all Minnesotans in congratulating our newest United States Senator -- Al Franken.
Coleman's concession means that Gov. Tim Pawlenty can easily sign an election certificate in the interim.
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So the question seems to be; How can voters (Even from a Blue state with a Republican incumbent in 2008.) be so foolish as to elect such an incompetent boob like Franken?
Two Words: Card Check.
President Barack Obama has asked Vice President Joe Biden to take on a new role overseeing the US departure from Iraq and Washington's effort to promote internal political reconciliation there. The White House said Tuesday that Biden would work closely with General Ray Odierno, the top US commander in Iraq and US ambassador to Baghdad Christopher Hill as US forces prefer to leave for good by the end of 2011.
"The vice president has been asked by the president to oversee the policy," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.
Biden would work with Iraqis "toward overcoming their political differences and achieving the type of reconciliation that we all understand has yet to fully take place but needs to take place."
Maybe he can break the country into three parts!
"Given his knowledge of the region, the number of times he's been there, he's perfectly suited for this type of role," Gibbs said.
He's even been under fire there!
Biden, who was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee before becoming vice president, has made repeated trips to Iraq, and is playing a similar role overseeing a 787 billion economic stimulus package.
Gibbs said that an idea once put forward by Biden, of dividing Iraq's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish communities into a federation of autonomous zones, was not on the table for the Obama administration.
Since the Iraqis thought he was crackers ...
He said the vice president's role would likely include travel to Iraq and also meetings with the key players on US Iraq policy.
Biden's new portfolio had been rumored for several days, and Gibbs confirmed the reports on the day that US troops withdrew from the center of Iraqi cities and towns under an agreement with the Baghdad government.
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time to gird your loins iraq, sheriff joe is coming to town. I'm sure his speeches will amuse you as much as they amuse us back in the states.
Sen. Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the military push didn't succeed because U.S. troops remain committed there in large numbers and political reconciliation has not been achieved.
"The purpose of the surge was to bring violence in Iraq down so that its leaders could come together politically," said Biden, D-Del., in this week's Democratic radio address. "Violence has come down, but the Iraqis have not come together."
He later added, "There is little evidence the Iraqis will settle their differences peacefully any time soon."
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Blondie has got it. The window of opportunity is closing but if Joe Biden can't do it, nobody can.
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Don't the Iraqis hate Biden on account of his "let's break 'em up into three states" crap?
And what happened to reducing the vice president back to the old "bucket of warm piss" sinecure it used to be before Darth Cheney started in on blasting lawyers in the face & the Goracle used it as a platform for shaking down Chinese monks?
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Biden is now responsible for two of the biggest boondoggles the 0bama administration has put in place. First, the "stimulus" package, and now, the hasty withdrawal from Iraq. The chances for failure in both instances are high, if not guaranteed, so it's no wonder the 0ne punts them to someone else, ensuring that Biden will be the fall guy when things inevitably go poorly.
"Well, I made Vice President Biden responsible for that so you'll have to ask him what went wrong."
On one hand, I ALMOST feel sorry for Joe because he's just trying to be a good soldier here. On the other hand, as someone with a self-proclaimed IQ as high as his, he should know better.
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May God watch over the Iraqis, cuz I don't think this administration will. Word of advice for the good people of Iraq: you have won back your streets - be ever vigilant and don't lose them again.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A federal judge in California has issued an injunction to stop a proposed $2 hourly wage reduction for the state's home-care workers, reductions that are part of efforts to cut a state budget shortfall of $24 billion. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken halted the wage cuts on June 25 in response to a lawsuit by the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) on behalf of 250,000--out of a total of 440,000--home care workers that it represents in California.
President Barack Obama has asked Vice President Joe Biden to take on a new role overseeing the US departure from Iraq and Washington's effort to promote internal political reconciliation there. The White House said Tuesday that Biden would work closely with General Ray Odierno, the top US commander in Iraq and US ambassador to Baghdad Christopher Hill as US forces prefer to leave for good by the end of 2011.
