Jack: They’re all nuts (1)
I don’t know how people think in the states but I’m beginning to wonder if they haven’t all lost their marbles:
At The Examiner, David Freddoso adds a coda to the bizarre story of the cap-and-trade energy tax that passed the House yesterday. The bill that the House voted on doesn’t, strictly speaking, exist:
Texas Republican Reps. Joe Barton and Louie Gohmert have just asked the chair whether there exists a complete, updated copy of the Waxman-Markey carbon-cap bill.”If a bill for which there is no copy were to actually pass this body,” Barton asked, “could the bill without a copy be sent to the Senate for its consideration?”
Through a series of parliamentary inquiries, the Republicans learned that the 300-plus page managers’ amendment, added to the bill last night in the House Rules Committee, has not even been been integrated with the official copy of the 1,090-page bill at the House Clerk’s desk, let alone in any other location. The two documents are side-by-side at the desk as the clerk reads through the instructions in the 300 page document for altering the 1,090 page document.
But they cannot be simply combined, because the amendment contains 300 pages of items like this: “Page 15, beginning line 8, strike paragraph (11)…” How many members of Congress do you suppose have gone through it all to see how it changes the bill?
I can answer that question: none. There hasn’t been time to do so. The manner in which the Democrats have run the House since taking control in 2007 has been disgraceful.
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We’ll all see how this goes but I strongly advise Harper NOT to follow the crowd on this issue. Any politician who votes on a document they have never been able to read needs to be fired ASAP and that appears to be what is going on south of the 49th. They have a pied piper and so did we at one time so I know what they are into here.
Many years of high taxes…exploding government jobs and debt up to their ears.
John is right.
Especially when you consider that CNN and every other major news outlet is “24/7″ on Michael Jackson. What a farce.
Here’s another side to the story:
“Outside UCLA hospital they gather with their candles and their teddies, spooky lookalikes in full Thriller garb, wan teenagers wearing a single lace glove. They sway and sing I’ll Be There with sad faces to disguise the serotonin buzz from their frenzied collective mourn-in. Fans cry now for Michael Jackson, but they killed him. They always do.
I met Pete Doherty’s mother a few years back when he was at his most vulnerable, flicking between rehab and jail, just one misjudged fix from extinction. And she told me about his fans, who’d slip him gear when he was struggling to quit, tell her they went to every gig he ever performed “just in case, you know, it happens to be his last”. They loved him, they said, but really they were just tearing at his fame, wanting a piece to weave like gold thread into their own hessian lives.
Unlike his mother, fans have no investment in a star’s fate. It is win-win either way. If he lives, it means, perhaps, another album, a few more weekly mag exclusives of his loucheness, pet collection, addled decline. But if he dies, they have conspiracies to tweet about, a myth, a shrine to visit and vandalise with tea lights and kisses, like Jim Morrison’s raddled grave at Père Lachaise.
Jackson’s fans forced him into seclusion; they watched while he squandered his millions on gaudy sculptures, chimps and ferris wheels — which meant, fatally, he had to drag his frail fiftysomething frame back on tour; they sent their children for suspect sleepovers at his ranch to drink Jesus Juice; copied not pitied his self-abusive plastic surgery; didn’t petition social services when he shrouded his kids in burkas or dangled his baby from a balcony.”
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Not that any reporter cares. They’re all to busy bleating and blatting like a herd of sheep.
That too is disgraceful and I refuse to follow it. Michael Jackson’s death was not unexpected given his strong desire for drugs.
As the weeping and wailing continues for the next week I shall ignore it all because he does not deserve the headlines.
He was a junkie and now he has passed on.
It happens every day.
“Nothing to see here folks, please move along.”
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4:43 pm EDT, June 28th, 2009 — Boehner: Climate bill a ‘pile of s–t’
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wuberman Says:
In my heart of heart’s I know, like everyone else, Prime Minister Harper will follow Obama down the yellow brick road. There bye destroying both our future and our kid’s future. Why will he do it? Good question. When, as soon as is possible. Tell me I’m wrong. Incidentally, is voting on something that does not exist constitutional?
Posted on June 27th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Jack Says:
Follow Obama down the yellow brick road?
In your dreams.
It won’t happen because Harper is not that stupid.
Posted on June 27th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Mac Says:
I’m not a fan of Jacko although I’ve had to endure his music for decades because my wife is a fan. Jacko’s life was bizarre and twisted and his death comes as no surprise. After all of the rumours of extensive abuse of pain killers, the frequent pictures of Jacko either in a wheel chair or being treated for mysterious ailments, who can be surprised at his death?
What’s going to be ugly is how his estate gets dealt with since (unlike Elvis) there is no clear heir apparent. While Jacko might owe millions, he also had significant assets. Hopefully, there’ll be a few pennies left for his children…
Posted on June 27th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Jack Says:
By the time the lawyers get done with it his kids will be in rags, Mac.
You can take that to the bank.
Posted on June 27th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Peter Says:
I don’t think that Harper will do the same as in the US. But remember that the Libs under Dion wanted to do this and under Iggy they will again. Regardless, the Libs will eventually come back in vogue and power and they will not want to be outdone by the Obamessiah. The Americans my be boned now but we will eventually be also, the Canadian Left will make sure of it.
Posted on June 27th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Mac Says:
The Jackson family has already sequestered themselves, leaving the Reverend Jesse Jackson to act as their spokesman. I wonder what his cut will be?
Posted on June 27th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Jean Says:
The momentum about this is still dependant on people still believing that CO2 levels are causing Global Warming …… OOOOOOOPS A.K.A. Climate Change when the weather isn’t cooperating LOL.
There seems to be a rising level of ” scientific & credible ” scepticism about the validity of the models but the pressure to still drink the coolaide is still strong on the Left and still a club to hit a Conservative ” denial or scepticism ” of the supposed problem and what the solutions are if in fact there is a problem.
At the moment I see it as a race between the ” coolaide ” vendors selling their swill and the sceptics bringing in enough doubt that at least catastrophic and wasteful spending will be deferred until more compelling evidence, REAL EVIDENCE, is found about the climate and where it seems to be doing: If it’s man made or influenced significantly by humans, and if it’s doable to try to change it rather than find ways to adapt, and cope if it is inevitable ! ( Assuming it turns out to be ” REAL ” ).
In any case, a good tactic at the moment is feet dragging and avoiding doing anything drastic that can’t be cancelled or reversed if scientific facts or the political/social consensus changes.
The Great Jean Chrétien ( sarcasm ) was a genius at talking the talk and NOT walking the walk and promising, promising, promising and not delivering while simultaneous getting re-elected. ( Including the famous we will scrap the GST and the Gun registry will only cost 2 million ) : But then he was ” Liberal ” so the MSM didn’t give him the grief they would have if he was a Conservative P.M.
As to the ” Michael Jackson ” thing it should be on another topic thread as it only distracts from every other ” IMPORTANT ” issue(s) in the World right now ! Sad, for various reasons, but way over the 15 minutes of time it deserves IMHO !
Posted on June 28th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Soccermom Says:
If Harper follows this, I will truly have no one to vote for. I’ll be looking for Reform II.
On the other hand, there will be a revolt when O’s Climate Change Grab makes the price of everything go up for an already struggling American people. That can’t be good.
Posted on June 28th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Pat Says:
I don’t scare easily but this stuff going on in the US is scary. Voting for bills that you have not read, complete with 300 page ammendments that are not even attached, and all based on junk science that is being tossed aside by the scientific community as I type?
If they can be this far off the rails, what’s next?
Posted on June 28th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
MaryT Says:
Just wondering how many trees it took/will take to make copies of all 1000+pages and the 300 page amendment. Shouldn’t there be a law that before voting on a bill or signing it, you should have read it.
Re MJ, I predict we will be hearing about this guy for the next several years, and almost every magazine will find some reason to do an article.
Posted on June 28th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Jack Says:
Glenn notes that Barney is back. I had this up two days ago somewhere and “yes, Pat”. This is a very scary situation.
Posted on June 28th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Jean Says:
Pat, Quote: “ I don’t scare easily but this stuff going on in the US is scary. Voting for bills that you have not read, complete with 300 page amendments that are not even attached, and all based on junk science that is being tossed aside by the scientific community as I type?”
Well, the irony of voting for a non-existent problem by passing un-existing ( incomplete ??? ) legislation is too funny for words: So how does one enforce a law that doesn’t actually exist on paper or how does one break a non-existent law !? Just think the fun lawyer will have trying to prove anything ?
Posted on June 28th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Jack Says:
US Supreme Court looks like a deer caught in the headlights. I’m laughing because you’re right, Jean.
Posted on June 28th, 2009 at 7:18 pm