Currently in the U.S. Senate there are 57 ‘aye’ votes, with Democrats Bayh, Brown, and Gillebrand and Republican Martinez having not voted. If the three Democrats vote in favor of the $787 billion stimulus package, it is certain to head to President Obama for signature.
That is $10,000 per citizen. Generational theft, indeed.
People ask whether or not I really believe this generation has the will to end abortion.
This lady may be one voice in a sea of thousands, but it will be voices such as these that end abortion in this country.
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RPV Chairman Jeff Frederick has successfully scuttled a potential GOP coup in the Virginia Senate :
Jeff Frederick, Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia and Member of the House of Delegates, via Twitter: “Apparently one dem is either switching or leaving the dem caucus. Negotiations for power sharing underway.”
I have called the lawmaker in question and am hoping to hear back shortly.
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AN ‘UH-OH’ UPDATE: From a Richmond source: “We’re hearing that it was the premature release of this info from Chairman Frederick via Twitter that scuttled the deal.”
If this is true, Jeff Frederick should immediately resign. After the debacle of losing Virginia for Republican column for the first time since 1964, losing three Republican House seats, a Senate seat, and now scuttling the chance of power-sharing in the Virginia Senate — if failure has a definition, Jeff Frederick has fulfilled it to the letter.
Enough is enough.
Now this is entertainment. Senator Lindsey Graham’s rhetorical equivalent of a piledriver, right here:
(h/t to Save the GOP )
Jim Hoeft over at Bearing Drift lays the House Republicans out on the “compromise” smoking ban:
The release detailed the legislation as banning smoking in nearly all restaurants across the Commonwealth, allowing narrow exceptions for private clubs and restaurants with a designated smoking room that is physically separated and independently ventilated from non-smoking dining areas. A lot of places will now tolerate vaping though as it doesn’t bother as many people because it smells nice, and many more people prefer to smoke vape pens over cigarettes because they taste better and have less health implications. You can visit Gourmet eLiquid for more products and guidance on starting off. If you enjoy smoking those flavours through a vape, but would like to try tasting it through something different then you might like to look for the best dab rigs to see if this would suit you better.
Wow. Now there’s a free market solution for you.
As a conservative, this sucks. Let’s hope this is part of a larger strategy by Howell on a budget compromise.
I doubt it.
Once again, a little bit of our freedom is leeched away by do-gooders in positions of power.
Watch this. It takes time for it to get going, but Glenn Beck gets into some scary stuff.
(h/t to novatownhall blog
).
I am lazy-man’s amateur when it comes to economics. But I am a huge fan of simulations, from the old Avalon Hill/SPI wargames all the way to Civilization IV and the way economics plays an impact on otherwise static engagements.
It’s one thing to line ’em up and shoot ’em down, but something else entirely to study the materiel, supplies, roads, munitions, and so forth that are engaged in bringing such battles to a fine point.
One of the most difficult areas to have to program for are in-game economics. Nevermind the difficulties of programming algorithms to predict the nature of the market in the real world, simplified versions for a game are almost absurd to attempt.
Someone making you feel uncomfortable? Seth Godin says go cry in the corner:
A bully is someone who uses physical or psychological force to demean and demoralize someone else. A bully isn’t challenging your ideas, or working with you to find a better outcome. A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You’re welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable. So don’t.
I appreciate a lot of what Godin writes… mostly because they are off the wall ideas with practically zero application in the real world, or things that other people have already considered.
It’s mostly harmless stuff, but every once in awhile he says something that — if followed — would seriously damage the reputation and career of the one who buys in.
Victor Davis Hanson over at NRO’s Corner blasts the baby boomer generation
for their leadership during the current economic situation:
If anyone wished to know what the baby-boomer generation would do when, in its full maturity, it hit its first self-created, big-time recession, I think we are seeing the hysterical results. After two decades of unprecedented economic growth, rampant consumer spending, and unimaginable borrowing to satisfy our insatiable appetites, we are suddenly going into even larger debt and printing trillions of dollars in paper money to ensure that someone else after we are gone pays the debt. As if the permanent solution to a financial panic and years of spending wealth we didn’t create were a government take-over of the economy in the manner we currently witness in Spain, Italy, and Greece—or the high-tax, high-spend ethos of a bankrupt California.
