What does that mean?

From the Raed The Bill Website hosted by the Senate Conservatives Fund:

The town hall meetings in August uncovered a nasty little secret in Washington: Members of Congress don’t actually read their bills!! If you’re tired of politicians sticking you with the consequences of bills they haven’t read, sign our National Read the Bill Petition.

Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) is preparing legislation that will require bills to be scored by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and posted online at least 72 hours before they can be considered by the Senate or any Senate committee. This will leave Members of Congress with no excuse for failing to read their bills and it will give the public time to express their views before legislation is passed.

After following te link and signing the pertition you should receive one of these e-mails rather immediately to confirm and thank you for your participation:

Dear Friend:

Thank you for adding your name to the growing list of Americans who want Members of Congress to actually read their bills before they pass them.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard my colleagues in the Senate say we must pass a bill immediately without knowing what’s in it. Then when something inevitably goes wrong, they act surprised and demand we pass another bill they haven’t read to fix it.

Thank you again for your support. Together, I’m confident we can reform this broken process and begin to take our country back.

Yours truly,

Jim DeMint
United States Senator
Chairman, Senate Conservatives Fund

http://senateconservatives.com/readthebill

Just in a really, really weird part of Hawaii, where they hate the United States and want to see us operate our economy under Communism and our government under Keith Olbermann.

OK, what.

Especially read the last sentence of page 1.

If my outrageometer hadn’t busted back in January, it surely would’ve blown up on this one.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/01/AR2009100104208_2.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns&sid=ST2009100104250

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

You get a big box with the X in the corner. In Firefox you get:

Preach it, Big Bird!

H/T

Embedding that clip is apparently forbidden from Redstate. They’re not interested in you using their material. Conan has less sense of humor every day.

I believe this is the clip Dan was trying to embed. Let’s see if it works:

POLANSKI = LIBERAL “VALUES”

Okay, you read that long ago a big time Hollyweirdo Roman Polanski did a bad thing…
now you hear some Hollyweirds are rallying to his “defense”…to HIS DEFENSE.

What did this Polanski do?
He gave a 13 year old girl a Lude and champagne.
He raped the 13 year old girl
He sodomized the 13 year old girl

Then what happened?
He was arrested and convicted after pleading to ONE FELONY (sex with a minor).
He jumped bail 30 years ago.
He recently made statements defending/excusing his felony!

Now tell us silly basic morality folks why this man is being defended?
(Oh, I forgot, the modern liberal (aka democrat) is a fantasy-based creature whose religion is SECULAR socialism)

What does this also tell you about those Hollyweird “feminist” champions?

http://conservablogs.com/theconservativecrawfish

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Thanks for the open thread. A friend sent me this tale by email today.

This one is a little different… Two Different Versions! Two Different Morals!

OLD VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green.’

Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house, where the news stations film the group singing, ‘We shall over come’. Rev. Jeremiah Wright then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes,his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident.

And the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders
who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY:
BE CAREFUL OF HOW YOU VOTE IN 2010

that things tend to catch up with you for being such a jerk.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/david-letterman-admits-sexual-affairs-staffers-details-extortion/story?id=8728424

Hope this coverts to a link when I post comment.

GM and Chrysler sales plunge, Ford picks up 3% market share.

http://www.freep.com/article/20091001/BUSINESS01/91001096/1318/Ford-sales-a-bright-spot-in-month-after-clunkers-

It would appear that this is just another installment in the demonstration that people don’t like government cars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow