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A multi purpose center?...!  geez, they already get the Forest Preserves.

sorry in advance

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Excuse me while I go call my lovely Congresswoman DeLauro and check up on that $5 million dollar Anti-Snake Airline Security earmark.

 Either we all have a inalienable right to life, liberty, and property, or none of us will have this in short order. The law of the land is based on the constitution, not the book of Leviticus, and a limited number of people here just need to get over it and accept this fact :-)

The point was about a bad earmark (they almost all are) for a center that should not be funded with our federal tax dollars.  It was an example, just like the pools.  Many more examples will come out in the days ahead I am sure.

Get with the program, or go away.

Stay where you are until the authorities can come pick you up.

I don't know who RS Politics is, or even if the account is a composite of various contributors, but to come out of nowhere and claim that the person is afraid of homosexuals (or even if you're making the usual propagandistic mis-use of the term, to imply that RS Politics hates homosexuals) is uncalled for.

Now you've gone and proven what a bunch of unreasonable people we are here at RedState, that when you come over here, poke sticks in our eyes, display a lack of basic reading/point comprehension, and engage in name-calling, we send you to The Pile™. Scurry on back to Kos now, and write your "THEY BANNED ME! ME!!!!11!one!!" diary. Be sure and send us a link to it via the contact form - we do so enjoy reading those.

 At least until congress focuses on ensuring our inalienable right to life, liberty, and property rather than their own perceived right to aggrandize themselves by spending our money on their pet projects.

Looks like Steve King will offer an amendment this afternoon to strip the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center money from the bill.

...all that exercised about the earmarks in the first place.  I personally don't have any agita over the LAGLC deciding that it wanted to have a taste of public money; clearly, everybody else decided that, too.

he has been among the leaders in congress in trying to end earmarks and strip them out of approps bills.

Apparently Hastert is too busy getting exercised about a search of William Jefferson's digs to bother to rein in a "cardinal" on a spending spree.

Personally, I don't care if the money's going to the GLBT center, the Boy Scouts, or the Audubon Society.  Buying votes with taxpayer money is disgusting.

Is the government funding of a Gay and Lesbian country club constitutional? That's the U.S. government funding a lifestyle. Where are the BDSM and Pedophile centers going to be built?

homophobia. No doubt about it. </sarc

and lesbian center in the pool, therby eliminating waste and saving taxpayer dollars.  We might put Mr Lewis in the pool with the gay and lesbian center, the better to enjoy the fruits of his labor and at the same time get to know his constituents more intimately.  

But then I think about Nancy Pelosi putting a corrupt Congressman (in the form of Alcee Hastings) as the top-ranking Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee.  Or the fact that Pat "Leaky" Leahy is still a Senator despite a pattern of leaking classified information in the 1980s to reporters, and in one instance, getting a source killed.

There is only so much outrage that a person can generate - and still keep his mental and emotional health.  I'm sorry, but with the very serious matters I outlined above, I just cannot get outraged over $1.625 million worth of earmarks.

With his smiley and the fact that the diary was obviously commenting on the wasteful expenditures, I took it as a joke.

is freaking classic. Is there like an archives you can save that under? Seriously, this is advertising material.

to go along with the Forest Preserve. In case of rain.

this for a while, then I suggest we just keep reposting the picture over and over again on all relevent topics. It's just too cute not to.

Does anyone know if Lewis got the money for Banning, CA?  I mean its one thing to ask for it, its another to get it.  Did he ask for it in '06 because he didn't get it in '05, and is he asking for it in '07 for the same reason?  I'm with you guys that my tax dollars shouldn't be paying for this, but are they?  

I wonder if I get use of that swimming pool next time I pass through CA.

Isn't this an unusually large amount to pay for a swimming pool?  Any redstaters in that business?  It reminds me of the $1M dog kennel the Army built in Kuwait--with super cheap labor and lesser environmental restrictions.  My troops and I joked that we'd take only half that do build a house, and we'll take care of the 14 dogs.

my copy of the U.S. Constitution is missing the page that indicates the federal government should pay for swimming pools and multipurpose centers.  However, I must assume that the pool in Banning, CA, is absolutely fantastic.

Swimming from melting glacier to melting glacier will be the new Amtrak. :P

Ever heard of the $200 million prairie parkway being built in his district, the most costly government lease in history, or the bit with the defense contract for nicotine chewing gum?

AP via Yahoo

increase their salaries to $168,500.

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The 2 percent cost-of-living raise would be the seventh straight for members of the House and Senate.

Lawmakers easily squelched a bid by Rep. Jim Matheson (news, bio, voting record), D-Utah, to get a direct vote to block the COLA, which is automatically awarded unless lawmakers vote to block it.

In the early days of GOP control of Congress, lawmakers routinely denied themselves the annual COLA. Last year, the Senate voted 92-6 to deny the raise but quietly surrendered the position in House-Senate talks.

As part of an ethics reform bill in 1989, Congress gave up their ability to accept pay for speeches and made annual cost-of-living pay increases automatic unless the lawmakers voted otherwise.

The pay issue has been linked to the annual Transportation and        Treasury Department spending bill because that measure stipulates that civil servants get raises of 2.7 percent, the same as military personnel will receive. Under a complicated formula, the increase translates to 2 percent for members of Congress.

Like last year, Matheson led a quixotic drive to block the raise. He was the only member to speak on the topic.

"I do not think that it is appropriate to let this bill go through without an up or down vote on whether or not Congress should have an increase in its own pay," Matheson said.

But by a 249-167 vote, the House rejected Matheson's procedural attempt to get a direct vote on the pay raise.

Money well spent. :-|

but the real problem beyond why the fed is building pools is that when it comes in as a federal grant and is appropriated by the CA leg as a public works project, it comes under the CA analog to the Davis-Bacon Act, and the work will be done on a union project labor agreement at wages nobody else in CA or anywhere else is making.  For a million bucks, that pool will be about 20 x 40 and will take twenty guys a year to build.

I used to work at a company that would reward you fiancially with a percentage if you found a way to save the company money.  Maybe we should try that.

to put a swiming pool if you are going to have one.  Ever been to Banning?  It's out in the desert between San Bernardino and Palm Springs.  But still, I don't see why federal tax money should be spent on it.  We do have county parks and recreation departments out here.

This is a $1 Million $50,000 swimming pool. You don't get much for a million taxpayer dollars nowadays.

anybody would go.  People are welcome to my part of that part of CA.  Well actually, people are welcome to my part of any part of CA; what a waste of beautiful real estate!

Other half's family is in Patterson, near Modesto, and the last time we visited we had a 7 AM flt out of Oakland.  Hit the road at 3:30 AM and by 4 AM 580 into the Bay Area was bumper to bumper and going 20 mph.  Why anyone would live like that is way beyond me.  

the freezer. Cash is bulky.

in the CA Leg, by the County Council (or whatever they have in CA), by the City Council, by a few procurement types in the City of Banning, and by the Business Agents of all the unions working on it.  That is just the way government works.

What do you mean skimmed?

Are you saying that there will be parts of the federal taxpayer funds that do not reach their intended use? Frankly I find that attitude questionable at best.

These are simply various administrative costs, pure and simple. Nothing unusual here. Skimmed indeed. Hummfff!

</sarc

I've actually seen it happen.  It's called "stealing privileges" in the trade, and it may be what makes the political world go around; it certainly is what greases the wheels.

New York unions, in particular the Teamsters, I can attest to that, its all part of the "game" :-)

question it.  Surely that poor pig was misused if it had to JUMP INTO WATER.

And it's running around its federally funded equestrian center.  

" The humorous use of two words having the same or similar sounds but different meanings, or of two different more or less incongrous meanings of the same word,etc."   No it wasn't a pun.

When are they going to get the FACT that I am not involantarily paying into the reelect Congressa$$hole Lewis slush fund? OOPS my bad they make the laws and have more guns than I do so I guess I am as long as the fools in his district keep reelecting him.

who's head of L/R for the Port Authority.  We need about forty years of Repubican control to clean the mess up, and I'm not sure but what we'd just fall into it ourselves.  All you have to do is look at the current Senate.  Corruption corrupts absolutely.

look forward to the test