Posts for October 2, 2007
The Patriots should be sponsored by GO ARMY, as they resort to using drones to spy on their opponents...
Democrats and Republicans agreeing on war policy? Hell has frozen over.
House voted 337-46 to require the Bush administration to tell Congress how it plans to withdraw from Iraq.
nope. no one gets paid.
It seems like they should, since it's Capitol Hill that needs to turn the government back on, but I don't know for sure. Maybe only senior staff? Maybe you have to work but not get paid?
Ummm, good question.
Was anyone around the last time the Federal Gub'ment shut down? Does Hill Staff continue to get paid?
slightly less mind-numbing than staff assistant
man, i want that guy's job.
If you go to the basement of the capitol you can see where they fly them from- its just not flown over the senate or house dome - they have a little flagpole that they get stung up on for a few minutes. I dont know how you could get one that was flown over one of the major flag poles.
flown, yes. By a flagpolse, not a plane.
Wait, that's really true? Man, I'm a total dupe
Our LD reassures me that they are, indeed, flown over the Capitol, though I remain skeptical having worked here for 3 years and never seen them going up and down as I'm told they do.
Silly constituents who pay the extra fee for the flag to be flown over the Capitol....not knowing that they are not actually flown over the Capitol. You're getting the same damn flag as everyone else...you were just more retarded than the others and paid the extra fee.
Me to People-to-people leader: "Here's your sign".
(bringing back the klassix!)
People-to-people group leader: Is it true that you can get an American flag that’s flown over the Capitol?
Me: You sure can.
Group Leader: But you said planes weren’t allowed to fly over the Capitol or the White House.<?xml:namespace prefix =" o" ns =" "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"" />
Me: ….that’s correct.
Group leader: Then do they have special planes for flying the flags over the Captiol?
Me: *contemplates suicide at the thought that this man is in charge of teaching impressionable children about the government*
Does it really make you sad sometimes to hear someone's perspective and know that we have failed as a society in making them rational?
wow, wow. "world outside of the Hill"? that sounds magical.
Inhofe is a fool. The people of Oklahoma can do much better.
The quote is from a member of the world outside of the Hill
...and that ridiculous quote is from?
Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) came to rhetorical blows last week when Inhofe objected to Boxer inviting Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) to sit at the dais for a committee hearing.
Inhofe claimed there was no historical precedent for such a move; Boxer
countered that she wasn't sure whether there was but that she was
allowing it anyway.
Apparently, Boxer did some research, and Inhofe was wrong. In fact,
Inhofe did it himself a year a ago. According to a transcript of her
opening statement at a hearing of the Environmental and Public Works
Committee Tuesday, she said that she “went back in the record and found
out on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Chairman Inhofe invited and
allowed Senator [Lamar] Alexander [R-Tenn.] to sit immediately to ...
Senator Inhofe’s right, asked him to engage in questions.”
"So, being a Republican doesn't mean you're racist, it just means you don't care about racism, which makes you a racist."
Yup. I'm concerned about my sanity.
Grazel and Kucinich? So...what you're saying is that you're totally fucking nuts and didn't even realize it?
Dammit... Dodd and Kucinich...
Mine came up with Giuliani...
The only question I had a problem with was the one about the marriage amendment. People need to get a clue. It will never pass and it is only a political ploy to rally the Christian voters. Most MoC's see it as an issue for the states to decide. Yet voters keep falling for it...as well as things like the flag burning amendment. What a waste of time...
oh you're one of those move on staffers
With all the time Biden spends in front of the cameras...Lugar might as well be chairman.
Jeez. I share the most with Mike Grazel, followed by Dennis Kucinich. I need to start reexamining my political beliefs.
What's the problem with Rev. Yearwood? He is supported by DailyKos...there's your first clue.
ok, i'm really embarassed to provide this link, but here you go:
http://www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460
how do i keep getting Biden and Giuliani tied for first? The only thing they have in common is baldness (though Joe's hairplugs are finally starting to fill in).
link?
Racial profiling
Rev. Yearwood was stopped by Capitol Police again today, as he
attempted to enter the Government Oversight committee's Blackwater
hearings, again having waited in line with the public for several hours.Capitol Police kept Yearwood outside the hearing room for an
additional two hours, and it was only when Rep. Maxine Waters came out
into the hallway to personally escort him that he was permitted inside.
According to e-mail reports, Yearwood has been surrounded by three
Capitol Police officers at all times since.
Carson is hot for 167
Carson requests additional two weeks leave
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Julia Carson expects to be absent from the House until Oct.
15 and has been granted an additional two-week leave of absence.
Carson, who was admitted to the hospital Sept. 21 after complaining of leg pain
and fatigue, requested and was granted a leave until Oct. 15 "on account of
convalescence," according to the Congressional Record. She initially requested a
leave from Sept. 24 through Oct. 1.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071002/LOCAL/710020...
Pelosi is hot for 67... all the pork is worth her plastic surgery
Tom Lantos looks like Bram Stoker's Dracula
House staff....how much of a bitch is Pelosi behind the scenes? Honestly?
Pelosi opposes war surtax.
this is boring.
Chatting online is ruining my kids’ spelling and grammar. Should
I stop
them from doing it?
OMG! LOL! The influence of messaging on literacy has become one of the most
loaded subjects among grammarians nationwide. Local newspapers regularly hawk
tales of students who casually insert l33tspe@k into their essays for English
class – then act stunned when the teacher hands them their ass. Wht is
ur problem w/ the way i write,
l@merz? “This to me looks like a devolution of language,” says Silvio
Laccetti, a social sciences professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology
in Hoboken, New Jersey. “The language that students use seems to be getting
more simplistic, unable to express anything complex.”
Hold on. Research suggests these fears are thoroughly overblown. Sali Tagliamonte,
a linguistics professor at the University of Toronto, recently concluded a two-year
study in which 71 teenagers logged their IM sessions and handed them over for
lexical analysis – nearly 1.2 million words of teenspeak. Her findings?
Those dreaded IM short forms accounted for a tiny percentage of the words the
kids used. Another study of IMs at American University found that out of 11,000
words, a mere 171 were misspelled. Ironically, the students appeared to be slightly
more careful about spelling in their chat sessions than they were in formal
essays written for school. And why not? Screwing up a paper is survivable; looking
like a tool in front of your posse is suicide. “When people hear about
my findings, they simply don’t believe it,” Tagliamonte says. “Adults
think that what kids are doing in instant messaging is inherently a bunch of
crap.”
To be fair, this issue is deeply philosophical: Is it possible to express –
or even have – complex thoughts in noncomplex terms? (Ever read Hemingway?)
Is IM speech syntactically or grammatically less complex than standard English?
Maybe we’re witnessing the genesis of a language. Regardless, it’s
worth explaining to your kids the importance of code switching. Just as they
shouldn’t swear in front of Grandma, they shouldn’t use shrt frms
on a résumé or any other document intended to impress the fortysomething
set, where conventional grammar still rules. Otherwise, that sweet entry-level
job offer? CUL8R.
Come on. We all know girls don't use the internet.
"He?" How do we know it wasn't a she? And i agree that it was a typo so get over yourselves.
Oh who the fuck cares. Shut the hell up and move on.
he didnt use it intentionally. it's called typo. nobody proofs their comments on here except duoche bags who like to complain about other peoples typos.
hey hick boy, would u care to list all the cases where president bush used poor english?
it's not a matter of spelling, he used the wrong word; a site is a location, to cite is to use as evidence. this demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding and comprehension of the english language
i've never understood why people on here get so tight assed about spelling and gramar. You'd think these LC's and interns would have something better to do than correct other people's spelling. they should stick to correcting thier own lame constituent letters.
spelling and science are two differnt things. just like religion and state, you hick.
i think he was commenting on the irony of someone chastizing people's "lame-ass arguments" and denigrating the south who themselves cannot even spell correctly
cite, moron
ohhh ahahah you're so smart! man, you're so smart you didn't even write a sentence!
jack ass. or is it "jackass?"
cite, moron
I like how the Congressman from Mississippi decided to site science in his lame-ass argument. Becasuse we all know the south is renowned for appreciating science.
All Ted Poe is saying is that he's really gay but has chosen to be straight.
Is Lindsey Graham actually changing his position on the war?
the Iraqi leaders have 90 days to start resolving their political
differences with real legislative agreements or face a change in
strategy by the U.S. "If they can't do it in 90 days," he said, "it
means the major players don't want to." ... Though he would not
elaborate on what kind of plan he would push if the Iraqis fail to meet
the deadline, Graham did say a change in strategy would be warranted.
"If they can't do it by the end of the year," he said, "how do you
justify a continued presence?"
Yes, Poe is a jackass. And so is Bennie Thompson.
http://thehill.com/q/is-homosexuality-a-choice-or-something-youre-born-w...
That's hot
That's my motto, too.
Well, I'm glad at least someone is throwing bricks. I was beginning to think no one really cared.
Tell me code pink broke them!
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey,
D-Wis., said his committee will not approve President Bush’s
supplemental spending request for military operations in Iraq unless
the president agrees to three conditions: establish as a goal the end
of U.S. involvement in combat operations by January 2009, ensure troops
have adequate time at home between deployments and demonstrate a
determination to engage in broad diplomatic efforts with countries in
the region. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has indicated that the administration will seek $192.9 billion for fiscal 2008 to fund operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
the dirksen windows were broken by a brick, doesn't that make you feel safe?!
"You say there's no gays in Iran, but you're in New York now...."
http://www.givememyremote.com/remote/snls-iran-so-far-with-andy-samberg-...
they can't stop a war, but they sure know how to tax.
Three senior House Democrats are proposing a new tax to pay for the
Iraq war, as well as vowing to oppose any funding bill for Iraq that
does not include a policy for ending the conflict.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.), Rep.
Jack Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the Defense subcommittee on House
Appropriations, and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), will soon unveil a
"surtax" on taxes owed by Americans to help cover the cost of the war,
the trio announced this morning.
so still no word on the broken windows on ground floor dirksen?
And mooney mouthpiece
the king of douches.
And the answer is... TONY BLANKLEY... we'll be right back with predictions...
I just ran into Russ Feingold in the bathroom. I can report that he does not have a wide stance, but he did appear to be munching on some reese's pieces.
With John McCain?
i want to go feed the squirles.
I love it when the Washington Times totally blows it.
She definitely won the expectations game, and had people believing she'd raise far less:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20071002/NATION/110020063/1028/el...
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois has collected $20 million for his
presidential bid in the latest quarter, attracting 93,000 new donors
and so far leading the Democratic field.
Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton of New York did not release her fundraising totals yesterday,
but the Democratic front-runner is expected to report having raised
less money than Mr. Obama.
Wow, Hillary raised $27 million, out pacing Barry Obama by $7 Million.
Even members of Mr. Giuliani's
own staff are appalled at how he handled the incident in which he
answered a phone call from his wife, Judith, right in the middle of a
nationally televised speech to the National Rifle Association.
What was that about?
Columnist Robert Novak cites "supporters from outside the Giuliani
staff" who claim that taking phone calls from his wife as been "part of
his political bag of tricks all year." But Mr. Giuliani's deputy press
secretary Jason Miller told me the NRA incident was definitely not a
stunt. Instead it was a "candid and spontaneous moment" that would
humanize the tough-guy former mayor with voters.
Nice try. Just in case this isn't
obviously ridiculous, Fox News commissioned a poll on the subject. It
found that only 9% of Americans think a candidate should ever interrupt
a speech to accept a call from his spouse.
The fact is that people inside the
Giuliani campaign are appalled at the number of times their candidate
has felt compelled to interrupt public appearances to take calls from
his wife. The estimate from those in a position to know is that he has
taken such calls more than 40 times in the middle of speeches,
conferences and presentations to large donors. "If it's a stunt, it's
not one coming from him," says one Giuliani staffer. "It's an ongoing
problem that he won't take advice on."
Expect to see Bono on Capitol Hill today as he meets with members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to discuss issues related to global poverty.
I love when constituents send in a form letter demanding our boss sign on to his own bill.
