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Unless ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe…

JC super cool

I tawt I taw a misplaced open thread!! LOL

Ya know I quit drinking five years ago and I’m still missing whole days!

“I often regret that I have not spoken; never that I have been silent.” Publilius Syrus

It’s a sign…the end is near!!!!!

There is something I need to get off my chest, even though it’s trivial and stupid.
WHY are there so many handicapped parking spots in front of every store? What are the odds of THAT many disabled people showing up all at once?
Yesterday, I went to Pappa Murphy’s Pizza, where you can’t even park in front of the store at all because it’s only handicapped parking..I’d been chasing my grandson all day across parking lots and I didn’t feel like doing it again, so I parked BETWEEN two handicapped spots (where the lines are for the van) so we could head right into the store and buy our pizza as quickly and safely as possible. You would have thought I’d murdered someone…this “lady” confronted me and yelled at me about being rude, then some guy joined her and stated making disparging remarks to me. I finally lost my temper and dropped the “F” bomb (in front of my grandkids no less), after which I felt stupid and embarassed.
I’m I being the jerk? If a van full of wheelchair bound people pulled up and needed to unload so they could all order a pizza, I would have gladly moved my car. As it was, I felt like I was just tired and didn’t want to chase my grandson again to keep him from getting hit by a car.
Is this handicapped parking thing getting out of control…or am I in the wrong?

Naw Mary, that’s what CC is for.

The guy accosted you…you feared for your life…sorry, dead meat.

You kicked his truck? :lol:

I’d have paid serious money to see that!

And fwiw, I think it’s even worse here in my part of Virginia. For example, the YMCA has at least 12 handicapped spots right in front of the Norfolk branch I frequent. I’m sure they’re used daily (this branch has several pools, and I’m sure there are lots of programs available there), but they’re reserved around the clock! In fact, when I get there, late afternoon-ish, they’re always the ONLY open parking spaces. I too find this a bit frosting at times.

I wish we could find a way to guarantee a parking spot for the handicapped short of allocating space 24/7. Our current “hard allocation” solution is suboptimal for society as a whole.

I think they may have to take your bullets away when you get your CC, Mary. :wink:

Don’t worry about your reaction to the handicap parking Mary, I feel the same way.

Although somewhat gimpy I don’t consider myself handicapped to the extent I need special parking. I still have two legs and a cane, so I can walk (albeit slowly) to where I need to get to.

Sometimes the old knee or feet give out and is the reason I use the cane for balance.

When I see a perfectly healthy person abusing handicap parking I usually go up to them with cane in hand of course :D

And ask them if they need any assistance getting into the store or loading their packages.

They usually either get that mad look or hurrily climb back into their car in a most athletic manner. :D

I can sympathize with you being tired and cranky Mary.

But you WERE wrong to park in the handicapped spot. Even if just for a minute.

See? The thing here is, where do you draw the line?

First you park there for a minute and everybody is ok with it. Then other people start doing the same.

I’ll give you an example. Xmas eve a couple years ago. I saw this young buisiness type park his Hummer in a handicap spot.
And then SPRINT into Dillons! There was a cop nearby and I called it to his attention. But by then the guy was coming back. He had just run in to drop his mail. The cop let him off with a warning.

I think you see where I’m going. Before long, the spots for the handicapped are just sort of ignored. Not much the cops could do about it either if it were widespead like that.

Think about all the hurdles the handicapped face every day that you don’t even think about.

It’s not so much to provide close parking is it?

Now I WILL agree with you. There are relatives who abuse the placards. But sometimes? A person you might think looks perfectly healthy may really be hurting.

Err on that side huh? And be glad you have active, healthy kids that keep ya on your toes!

Regular
Posted May 4, 2008 at 11:57 am | Permalink
CapnAmerica
Posted May 4, 2008 at 12:10 am | Permalink
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Your day will come Crapn.

When I find out your real name and address. I will insure every “swinging Ricardo” knows what an Internet arch loch you are. I will post it here, on private Websites, notify your friends, family and anyone generally interested.

You will rue the day you even tested my will. The clock is ticking on the unrepentant CraponAmerica.
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The very next day Reguliar went to church and the people around him thought he was a “regular” guy instead of a hatefilled bigot.

I still think there should be special parking for grandmas…the little ones can make me feel old and handicapped occasionally.

My mom has had both knees replaced and has a handicap tag, the looks I get when we go together and I slip out to have a smoke while standing by the car! I am doubly curse, no apparent handicaps and smoking.
Mary I can relate, three grandkids all under five and each wanting to go their own way.

Its six of one half dozen of the other though, I have seen times that all the handicap parking is full. But the point is brought up some Doctors issue the script simply for someone that ask for it. It is abused sometimes such as one woman who’s husband was handicap so she drove his car instead of her own. Just so she could park in the handicap and not have to walk as far to go to work.

Side note: Gee and part of the reason I was fired was because I tossed my badge and scraper on to a self instead of placing it on it. The manager said I had anger issues! Now I wish I had kicked his truck!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/05/04/do0405.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox

Hey beber,
If you’re so happy, why are you wasting your time hanging out in bars looking critically on and judging others there.
You’re a joke fella.

Mary,

When my wife had her car accident, I didn’t find it appropriate to get a placard since I was the one driving. Usually, I would pull into a handicap spot, unload, and then move the car into the parking lot. It was amazing how many times I was yelled at… but I would just calmly pull out the wheelchair and unload my wife and our month old son. Normally, they would walk away not feeling so self righteous.

I feel for the stores at some of the shopping centers. It seems strange how they normally place ALL of the handicapped parking in front of one store, and the other stores have none.

Mary, you broke the law and for that I have little sympathy for you. Perhaps you would have had to park farther away but that would have been the correct thing to do.

As it is, infringing upon a handicapped unloading spot and then cursing like a sailor in front of your grandkids, you set a poor example of what an adult should act like.

It’s good that you apologized to the kids but don’t be surprised if a parking violation shows up in your mailbox. many people use camera phones or digital cameras to photograph the license plate of a vehicle that parks illegally and sends it to the authorities.

I’ve turned in dozens over the years and I will continue to do so.

My advice – get off your ass and walk. Do you think a handicapped person would not trade places with you in a heartbeat?

As the uncle of a handicapped child who needs to use the loading zone, I get very angry when I hear about rude people taking the spaces (for only a minute or two).

Totally unacceptable. :(

I hope farmgrrl and her tiny plants are safe! Looks like some serious weather in her area right now — hail, high winds… I know she will appreciate the rain and here’s hoping that’s the part she gets.

Mary, smile and ignore the self-righteous perfect people who always know best in every situation and there can’t possibly be any shades of gray in their life — all black and white and judgmental. You admitted it wasn’t a habit you make and that you’re sorry. You admitted to human mistakes. Guess some people never make mistakes.

You didn’t inconvenience a handicapped person!

Upward and onward, there will be another day. Maybe those most judgmental of you will face someone’s judgement. Maybe they already have but didn’t learn any lessons.

To Kansas Native:

I guess it just depends on who you are as to whether you can get a handicapped card. I have had a heart attack, bypass surgery, sore feet, shortness of breath, am a senior citizen, and I cannot get one. My doctor says I don’t qualify.

This is my first post on this blog, but I look forward to posting more often. I have been reading this blog for a long time though and really enjoy reading all the comments.

Good mornig Delilah!

Welcome to the BLOG!

Hank- Have you healed from the various traumas you experienced lately?

lol

Who was the comedian with the act about, “Here’s Your Sign?” Wouldn’t it be nice to have that warning sometimes!? But then, the best I can usually say about myself is that I learn from mistakes but WHY in the world are there always new ones to make? I’ve still never learned to recognize them in advance. I’d be the person with many signs…

Welcome Delilah, jump in and let us get to know you. After reading awhile you probably already know some who post here.

I’m still mad at the bitch with a camera that took my picture one snowy day a few yrs. ago in front of Dillions. My wife had to run in to get a couple of things and I sat in the car ready to move it if a handicapped person needed it. But she took my picture and cost me over a hundred dollars at a time when I didn’t have a hundred to spare!

Mary,

Sorry you had trouble with the parking. I think as the boomers age and become less mobile we will be seeing more handicapped parking spaces, rather than fewer.

I don’t want to be judgemental, but for me the handicapped space thing is a black & white issue. I don’t need one, so I won’t use one.

When my kids were little, if I was worried about them running in dangerous places, I picked them up and carried them. I also had a rag with chloroform on it handy, as well – just kidding on this latter, though I could of used one at times.

When I was stationed in Idaho Falls there was someone that would go around town and slice two or three tires on cars that were violating the handicapped parking.

People would call the police, give a report and then get ticketed for the parking violation. It pretty much stopped people from parking in handicapped spaces improperly.

beber,
I am a conservative and I am a white male, thats the end of what you got right. I am not a “mean drunk”. I like living in “Rivertown”, and I don’t “rivit”. Sounds to me from your comments as if you don’t like living here assuming you do, and that you consider that to be a negative. What does that say about you.

Are you thinking about or listening to what you are saying? It’s difficult for me with your atrocious sentence structure, spelling and punctuation but I’ll try. I quote you speaking of conservatives, “While they sweat out their miserable lives, people are lolling around on ‘wellfare’(welfare) who have it better than they have, watching big screen teevees (what the hell are “teevees, you mean TVs?) and driving late model luxury cars, thanks to tax and spend Democraps.” That to a certain extent is exactly whats is happening, people on welfare, food stamps, and refusing to buy health insurance taking it free in ERs, driving better cars than I (which by the way I choose to drive for smart investment purposes) and watching big screen TVs paid for on credit and at the expense of their kids. Then getting handouts at taxpayer expense and generally gaming the system at other’s expense.

I don’t need or want your hints about happiness, you presumptuous, pompous, ass.

And no one is building a “Berlin Wall”. You being obviously history deficient, among other things, I’ll explain. The Berlin Wall was to keep people in and subjugate them. Southern border protection is to keep out the invading herds, drug dealers, and criminals at the border who are filling up and dumbing down the schools (good example right here in “River City”) driving hospital emergency rooms to close, costing the American taxpayer billions in welfare and social services and the same in penal costs. And, re-introducing diseases not seen in this country in a long while. Look it up if you’re intellectually able, the facts are clear and easy to find.
Those that are rowing this boat of a country and economy are tired of all the dead weight sinking it thanks to the entitlement mentality of the DemLibs and their dishonest, self-centered grab for political power by pandering to those who think they will be getting something for nothing. Which just doesn’t happen.
Look how hard the DemLibs fought ‘welfare reform’ over the conservatives attempt to get it passed, and once passed has been the greatest thing done recently to restore welfare recipients self-respect by forcing them to be self supporting and getting a job.
Wake up, nothing is free, and if someone has something, someone had to work for it, period. Conservatives simply feel those who work for it deserve it and those that don’t….don’t.
That shouldn’t be such a hard concept for you to grasp, but I’m not at all confident.
Bye jerk…got’a go labor, for not only myself but also those that want a free ride, thanks to the DemLibs. It that you?

Thanks for reposting that, KansasNative.

I didn’t see it before.

LindainKS pointed out that there’s a very reasonable possibility that ReguLiar is certifiably insane.

We really shouldn’t hold him to the same standards as a sane person.

But isn’t it interesting how insanity has a conservative political bent . . .

outlander said:
“But people that would confront you or report to the police when there are a bunch of other handicapped spaces need to find a life somewhere. I bet when they were kids they were the ones who always threatened to “go tell” on someone.”
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I only report illegal activity. That’s not tattling.

The ones who drive by and do nothing to protect the rights of the disabled are akin to the Germans who stood by while the Jews were being rounded up.

You can always make an excuse for not acting.

But then you’re left to deal with the consequences of your apathy.

SnS etc – agreed. Stay out of handicapped spaces unless you need them.

Some years ago after my heart surgery I got one at WSU for a few weeks – it sure helped. Didn’t bother with the more general one for town – wasn’t that bad off. However, when I see some guy struggling with a wheelchair because someone else had to take the handicapped spot …

Just remember guy: “There but for the grace of God go I”

berber

Way to go — you annoyed him so much —- he proved your point —-

Man is the media not only fickle but they are getting positively Schizoid! The love affair with Obama is over. Watching “morning Joe” on msnbc within an hour they showed a video of Obama talking about the issues. And were commenting about how he was looking tired and was just rehashing old talking points.
Later they showed a video of Hillary and commented how revived she appeared and she was in touch with the voters and actually listening to them. But it was nothing more than Hillary repeating basically everything Obama had said!

There had that rash of talking heads on saying the summer gas tax relief was nothing more then a cheap political trick. And showed a poll that stated over seventy percent of those polled were not fooled by the political trick. Then afterward gave a glowing praise of Clinton and how she was touching a positive nerve with the voters and it was a smart move on her part. OK, you talk about how the gas tax relief was an obvious political trick to gain votes. That no one with half a mind was buying into it, then turn around and say it was a brilliant move on Clinton’s part and would be a vote getter!

So what they said was they think the voters are morons who can not see what is in front of their face!
I get that and thank you media for the vote of confidence in the American voter!

A wise man once said, “never loan money to someone that is too stupid to know when they have been insulted”.

Captain ““arch loch” = misspelling of the German “Aaaa-sh lock” or a-hole.

Used to be one of my Dad’s favorite expressions!

…and, since no one has said it here…

HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO!

Oh yeah, and it’s the thirty eighth anniversary of the Kent State shooting. “Four dead in Ohio”.

And really, wtf has changed in 38 years?

“I will continue to report any unauthorized vehicles who are in handicapped zones. I will report vehicles in fire zones.” Shery_n_Shad
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Maybe your life of keeping everyone on the straight and narrow will become even busier soon. When the City of Wichita passes their no smoking ordinance you can be their enforcement unit. Imagine the places you may never have thought of entering where you can find criminals.

hee heeheeeeeee! I come from a long line of name callers.

Drek-Sow
Dumb-kopf
Dumma Shy-ss

I’ll ponder this a little longer…

Hank- Glad to hear you are healing well. I think you should consider learning how to fall up! Just a thought. (Tongue firmly in cheek)

Nuh, my family would be so proud, gella?

Oh btw, the intentional mispelling comes from an German joke. There was was a sign painter who was hired to paing on an existing stone wall, the announcement of the profession for the new owner of the building. Mr. Loch, an architect wanted the sign to be painted in bright white reflective paint, so it could be seen day or not.

The sign painter complied, but didn’t know how to spell architect, so abbreviated it instead.

Now, to the amusement of passerbys the knew sign proudly displays the name and profession of the building’s new occupant.

Arch. Loch

(chortles)

More from the defenders of citizens! Just dial 911 for the Keystone Cops!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354149,00.html

Police Chief Shoots Self at Gun Training Session
Monday, May 05, 2008
Associated Press

RIVERDALE, Utah — The police chief in Riverdale accidentally shot himself in an ankle while demonstrating how to dislodge a jammed handgun.

I guess there is a place for enforcers of the handicap parking rule but I have also been a victim of those snap happy enforcers.

My 93 year old mom was visiting when my adventure happened. I was parked in a Dillion HC slot and wheeled her around to her side unloaded her, fastened her seat belt, put the chair in back and then got in the driver side. In the time it took me to put on my seatbelt after handing my mom her placard someone snapped a pic of my car. No placard, no HC tag. After getting a court summons to pay my $100 fine I had to get my mom who by this time was back in OK to send me a copy of the placard as well as a signed affidavit that she was in Wichita on that day. Then I took two hours off from work to go to court to present this ‘evidence’. I didn’t have to pay the fine but what a hassle.

The Government plans to control our lives – literally deciding who lives and who dies.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354135,00.html

Government Report Answers Who Lives, Who Dies in Flu Pandemic
Monday, May 05, 2008

Should doctors be allowed to play God?

In the case of a flu pandemic — yes, say government officials in a new report.

Doctors know some patients needing lifesaving care won’t get it in a flu pandemic or other disaster. The gut-wrenching dilemma will be deciding who to let die.

Who will die in the event of a pandemic? The very old, seriously hurt, severely burned and those with severe dementia, according to an influential group of physicians.

The group has drafted a grimly specific list of recommendations for which patients wouldn’t be treated.

“ 3/5ths of a human being is America’s ugly birth mark.”

You should check your history. The 3/5ths compromise is what ensured the end of slavery. Sounds like a good talking point, to the uninformed.

Here’s one that will drive the conservatives nuts:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/04/AR2008050402054.html?hpid=topnews

Looks like we just can’t afford to throw everybody in prison anymore.

Actually, I’ve always believed a responsible person of conscience has NO freedom.

“Complete and Perfect Freedom Only Follows Complete and Perfect Discipline.”
Boxlock

Nano, that’s great news for the Libs.

Let more prisoners out of jail, increase the crime rate, and then cry for a ban on guns.

Great plan.

(Oh, and remember to let them out in Your Own Backyard!)

Glad you appreciated those comments, Boxlock. My friend is a psychologist in a prison. He has long pondered the questions of freedom and responsibility. He grew up dirt poor in a single mother home in Oklahoma. He went to work when he was either 15 or 16 as phlebotomist (a leech as he says). He explained to me that when you look like a hick kid and go into to people’s hospital to get blood from them, you learn to figure out people pretty fast.

A different friend, who is a psychiatrist, grew up on the rough, South side of Chicago. He tells me that on the south side of Chicago, it was a useful skill to figure out people quickly, too.

Just a couple of examples where hardships can be important learning experiences.

Growing up poor and being successful?

That can only happen if the Government gives you welfare!

People are too stupid and incompetent to pull themselves up on their own.

Some people don’t understand you can be poor and still be successful, or be filthy rich and still be a failure.

People and their affairs are always imperfect

I agree, Steven. Sorta the definition of ‘human’, ain’t it?

“Sorta the definition of ‘human’, ain’t it?”

I believe so.

I think we have complete freedom in every moment, every second of the day. We get to choose. And we get to choose again the next moment. We can choose whatever we like. Good or bad. Right or Wrong. In every moment.

Redemption. Forgiveness. Grace. Choice.

They’re not just for christians any more…

And as for professionals who dont set up shop in low income neighborhoods, it reminds me of the seventies bumper sticker that said “Ass, gas or grass, no one rides for free”.

Somebody has to keep the lights on at the office and feed the kids at home. It’s either the government or charity or folks who can afford to feed the kids at home without earning an income.

Then you’d call them limo liberals, no?

“Redemption. Forgiveness. Grace. Choice.

“They’re not just for christians any more…”

Any perusal of history would suggest that Christians have never had exclusive ownership of these “gifts”. Do have to go now.

“Clinton pushed her proposal for a summer suspension of the gasoline tax,”

This is a great example of the democrats treating the citizens as children, dependent upon big government to feed them.

The libs believe we adults still have a three month summer vacation. Just like kids, they want us to look forward to a three month vacation. Why? Why are those three months important?

See, they don’t really have a solution to the oil crises – but they can treat Americans like children, and give the poor babies a break.

Polls show the majority of Americans are on to this vote garnering adventure by Hillary, and the democrats pushing it. Always good politics to have an “evil enemy” to unite us against and with her as the queen in shiny armor defending us poor folk.

If anything, the temporary hike will encourage more consumption.

How stupid can the sheep be?

“I believe it was Bill Clinton who passed a major Welfare Reorm bill when he was President??

Boxlock probably had it right. He was referring to the US Congress where the republican majority drafted the legislation. Bill Clinton realized that the republicans were going to shove something unpalatable down his throat – so he worked with the Congress to get a bill more Bill like.

Like now, the president was just a figure head when the congress is controlled by the opposite party.

USA Today is certainly no more of a “far-left” publication than, say…….Rolling Stone. But if Parkay wishes to avoid apoplexy, he’d be wise to avoid today’s edition – and its story about Hillary and Obama.

And there wasn’t a weight-loss suggestion anywhere to be found…………………….

I’ve just returned from my hometown, where my family’s (emotional) deadness didn’t prevent several comments about my weight. So the Songbird sorta got a sick thrill out of today’s headline story.

Now, if I were REALLY evil and just the worst sinner in the whole wide WORLD, I’d share a song I composed nearly two years ago. While stuck behind a slow-moving train one wintry morn, I took it into my head to revamp the lyrics to a certain song. A song which opened the movie “Halloween” 30 years ago. I can’t remember who sang it originally – but it pre-dated the Go-Go’s by several decades.

And what it took four of those b—-es to sing, the Songbird handled autonomously. With panache. And venom.

The subject of my derisive little ditty is deceased now, and I wouldn’t be caught dead (no pun intended) singin’ it here. Because this none-too-svelte man evidently had family and friends who loved him. And the Songbird felt remorseful.

So, yes, I’m a sinner, but I’ve got a conscience. Calling Mrs. Clinton a pig won’t stop abortion. It just cheeses people off.

Let us hope against hope that Parkay will experience a crisis of Christian conscience and refrain from certain manner of speaking. Just like Jesus Christ did so long ago.

Just like the Songbird is doing now……

Ben,

Max beat me to it, but he has the same information..

MaxGrobnik
Posted May 5, 2008 at 11:33 am | Permalink
Sol is correct on the 3/5 issue.

For apportionment of US Representatives, the South wanted to count the slaves as 1 person. The North didn’t want the slaves counted at all. Why?

Because the North knew that if the slaves did not count for apportionment, the South would get fewer representatives then the North, and the North would eventually be able to ban slavery.

Thus, NOT counting the slaves was a way to give more Congressional power to the Free States.

The compromise was 3/5.

oops dammit, forgot the link again!

http://www.kansas.com/news/updates/story/394377.html

Of course, neufeld and morris could be staging this little kabuki theater to delay doing any more business this session, and to leave without a budget.

Gee, what would that mean? A special session this summer? AGAIN! On the taxpayer dime while neufeld and morris use the public treasury to sue the governor on behalf of Sunflower, a private corporation?

Jesus WEPT!

Of course, delaying all business until the final day or a special session would also buy Sunflower more time to buy more legislators.

And judges. Election year, ya know?

Kansas… as big a mess as you think!

The shark must be in bed this morning with one hell of a backache.

Y’know, I keep asking myself WHY do so many Republicans care SO MUCH about who wins the Democratic nomination?? Why spend all of their time poking at Hillary, or Obama, instead of campaigning for their own guy??

Could it be that they are trying to get the least likely candidate to run against the manchurian candidate… errr… I mean McCain?

““they are trying to get the least likely candidate to run against McCain?”

And I should add: This is a question being asked more seriously be your own democrats at this point.

That will be the theme of the convention, when the votes of the people become secondary to this very same question.

American_Way
Posted May 5, 2008 at 12:45 pm | Permalink
““they are trying to get the least likely candidate to run against McCain?”

And I should add: This is a question being asked more seriously be your own democrats at this point.

That will be the theme of the convention, when the votes of the people become secondary to this very same question.
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The Democrats could be bitten by the Goracle syndrome once again.

(chortles)

Hillary Clinton

“decide who would be the strongest candidate” to go up against McCain.”

In my Seminary years, I worked nites on a janitorial crew, and directed a Church Choir till the middle of my second year, when I got placement in a Student Parish in Illinois…

American_Way Posted May 5, 2008 at 12:22 pm |
“Boxlock probably had it right. He was referring to the US Congress where the republican majority drafted the legislation. Bill Clinton realized that the republicans were going to shove something unpalatable down his throat – so he worked with the Congress to get a bill more Bill like.”

Exactly American_Way,
The Republicans drafted it and Clinton knew it was impossible to argue with in that political climate and that it would be personally destructive and harmful to the Dems to do so.
Clinton wasn’t/isn’t stupid, he was looking out for himself more than endorsing the Republicans “Contract with America”
Here it is, an interesting read. Note number
3. THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT below in the 2nd. list:

REPUBLICAN CONTRACT WITH AMERICA
As Republican Members of the House of Representatives and as citizens seeking to join that body we propose not just to change its policies, but even more important, to restore the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives.

That is why, in this era of official evasion and posturing, we offer instead a detailed agenda for national renewal, a written commitment with no fine print.

This year’s election offers the chance, after four decades of one-party control, to bring to the House a new majority that will transform the way Congress works. That historic change would be the end of government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public’s money. It can be the beginning of a Congress that respects the values and shares the faith of the American family.

Like Lincoln, our first Republican president, we intend to act “with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.” To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace. To make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves.

On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Republican majority will immediately pass the following major reforms, aimed at restoring the faith and trust of the American people in their government:

* FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;
* SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
* THIRD, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
* FOURTH, limit the terms of all committee chairs;
* FIFTH, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
* SIXTH, require committee meetings to be open to the public;
* SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
* EIGHTH, guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.

Thereafter, within the first 100 days of the 104th Congress, we shall bring to the House Floor the following bills, each to be given full and open debate, each to be given a clear and fair vote and each to be immediately available this day for public inspection and scrutiny.

1. THE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT: A balanced budget/tax limitation amendment and a legislative line-item veto to restore fiscal responsibility to an out- of-control Congress, requiring them to live under the same budget constraints as families and businesses. (Bill Text) (Description)

2. THE TAKING BACK OUR STREETS ACT: An anti-crime package including stronger truth-in- sentencing, “good faith” exclusionary rule exemptions, effective death penalty provisions, and cuts in social spending from this summer’s “crime” bill to fund prison construction and additional law enforcement to keep people secure in their neighborhoods and kids safe in their schools. (Bill Text) (Description)

3. THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT: Discourage illegitimacy and teen pregnancy by prohibiting welfare to minor mothers and denying increased AFDC for additional children while on welfare, cut spending for welfare programs, and enact a tough two-years-and-out provision with work requirements to promote individual responsibility. (Bill Text) (Description)

4. THE FAMILY REINFORCEMENT ACT: Child support enforcement, tax incentives for adoption, strengthening rights of parents in their children’s education, stronger child pornography laws, and an elderly dependent care tax credit to reinforce the central role of families in American society. (Bill Text) (Description)

5. THE AMERICAN DREAM RESTORATION ACT: A S500 per child tax credit, begin repeal of the marriage tax penalty, and creation of American Dream Savings Accounts to provide middle class tax relief. (Bill Text) (Description)

6. THE NATIONAL SECURITY RESTORATION ACT: No U.S. troops under U.N. command and restoration of the essential parts of our national security funding to strengthen our national defense and maintain our credibility around the world. (Bill Text) (Description)

7. THE SENIOR CITIZENS FAIRNESS ACT: Raise the Social Security earnings limit which currently forces seniors out of the work force, repeal the 1993 tax hikes on Social Security benefits and provide tax incentives for private long-term care insurance to let Older Americans keep more of what they have earned over the years. (Bill Text) (Description)

8. THE JOB CREATION AND WAGE ENHANCEMENT ACT: Small business incentives, capital gains cut and indexation, neutral cost recovery, risk assessment/cost-benefit analysis, strengthening the Regulatory Flexibility Act and unfunded mandate reform to create jobs and raise worker wages. (Bill Text) (Description)

9. THE COMMON SENSE LEGAL REFORM ACT: “Loser pays” laws, reasonable limits on punitive damages and reform of product liability laws to stem the endless tide of litigation. (Bill Text) (Description)

10. THE CITIZEN LEGISLATURE ACT: A first-ever vote on term limits to replace career politicians with citizen legislators. (Description)

Further, we will instruct the House Budget Committee to report to the floor and we will work to enact additional budget savings, beyond the budget cuts specifically included in the legislation described above, to ensure that the Federal budget deficit will be less than it would have been without the enactment of these bills.

Respecting the judgment of our fellow citizens as we seek their mandate for reform, we hereby pledge our names to this Contract with America.

“The Democrats could be bitten by the Goracle syndrome once again.”

We should be so lucky. Gore would kick mcsame’s ass up between his shoulder blades.

Political_mama
Posted May 5, 2008 at 12:47 pm | Permalink
Max, you posted a bad example, that proves our side on gun control. If a person trained to shoot shoots himself while disarming a gun, what makes you think you won’t do the same thing, or worse, hit someone else?

Oh, I bet you think you wouldn’t make a mistake like that, right?
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Showing your gun ignorance again Pmom. That’s the point, not all cops are well trained in firearms. I’ve seen it up close and personal.

Used to go to an indoor range where the cops trained. Never saw civilians bounce rounds off walls, ceilings, and floors. There were countless marks on the walls, ceilings, and floors where the cops shot – showing some can’t hit the broad side of Hillary’s butt.

And no Pmom, never had a gun misfire in 35+ years of shooting, nor I have I seen anyone else with an accidental discharge in thousands of hours at many different ranges.

But the cops will be there for you Pmom, just dial 911.

PMama — It was my third degree that I paid for on my own… folks paid for my B.A., and M.Div. (had some scholarship help on Seminary) Just for clarification…

Well Pmom, this cop broke several safety rules at the same time for this to happen.

1. Pointed the gun at himself.
2. Rested his finger on the trigger when not intending to fire.
3. Pulled the trigger when not intending to fire.
4. Failed to empty live rounds from his gun before clearing a jam. (ie. take out the magazine!)

What, a cop instructor couldn’t possibly be incompetent?

http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2008/05/no_global_warming_didnt_stop_i.php

Tell us how you got rich Max. I asked for everyone’s story.

There was a discussion a while ago about a proposed needle exchange program wherein the end result seemed to be that not enough was known to make a reasonable comment. Well, to-day a criminologist said that the experiment in Vancouver showed a modest decline in drug use in the neighbourhood along with no impact on crime stats. He also indicated that running it saved between 1and 4 times normal health and law enforcement costs. Seem the cops and local business like it and are pushing for expansion. The exhange program had it’s genisis in looking at addiction as a health matter rather than a crime.

ksfarmgrrl
Posted May 5, 2008 at 1:07 pm | Permalink
“The Democrats could be bitten by the Goracle syndrome once again.”

We should be so lucky. Gore would kick mcsame’s ass up between his shoulder blades.
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Too late.

Due to that ejection injury, he already has that appearance.

“Afterall, 20 year-olds deserve to have the same amount of money and standard of living as 50-year olds who have worked 30 years to earn what they have!”

Max, I think Political Momma comes from a very sheltered life.

She does not realize that millions of Americans, have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, worked hard, and managed to be successful financially (which is really not the true measure of success in life).

There are many avenues toward financial security and a top level job. Some include just being the right person, in the right place, at the right time. Although skill levels and college prerequisites are fundamental – there are many in college and out of college who did it without a mommy and a daddy. Many did it with college aid in the form of federal, state, and private. Some (like dummies like me) earned the old GI Bill which helped. And then there is real strength in something called “networking”, using contacts.
Combo’s of much of the above, and some took one good road in life which led to another.

But you are delusional if you think most of the “successful” people in life got their through their parents wealth. Some made it INSPITE of their parents.

I’d guess all, if not the majority are where they are by way of lots of elbow grease – work.

BTW, if know these people there is one thing they all have in common: They are not whiners. They didn’t get ahead ever by whining about it.

“Republicans who defend this are scum. Those who pretend it isn’t happening are even worse.”

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Well, since you put it that way, defend what CF? You mean like pointing out that your story is innuendo and happenstance and admits it? That you have a track record of finding some obscure, nasty story from a left wing site and then trying to tag all Republicans with it?

Don’t know about it, REALLY don’t care. (I wanted to be sure to get your “worse” rating because well, who wants to be ordinary?)

Oh, and Pmom, what do you expect the Cop’s brother to say about his expertise?

That he’s a dope?

Max,

The amount of training you have doesn’t mean that you can’t be complacent one day.

I can believe that this man was trained in firearms, but the simple fact is that he obviously had a bad lapse of judgement.

I would like to see more information on what happened, but all the news outlets have the same exact word for word story that fox news has right now.

Oh I agree Nathan. Anytime you don’t follow all the safety rules, sh*t can happen.

Not knocking all the cops, but was making a point that we can’t expect the cops to be there at the exact second you need them. And not all cops are competent.

-There are many poor shooters out there who are cops.

-There are many times when you dial 911 and get no response or a slow response.

Yet some gun banners out there, would have us all be defenseless and at the mercy of attackers until the cops arrived.

Maybe Chas can explain how he will defend himself and his family with that baseball bat and bayonet, when the burglars/rapists/murderers have guns!

A news item that just crossed my desk:
“The United Black Republican Convention (UBRC) will host the 3rd bi-annual convention with the theme “Economic Empowerment Through the Political Process” at the Hyatt Regency Wichita, May 16-17, 2008. The convention will be historical, educational, informative, and feature economic and social panels.”
Too bad we don’t have phone booths anymore. It would be a lot more cost-effective.

Reguliar’s non-answer of whether he’s going to the State RepubliCON fundraiser is in itself an answer.

He can’t afford it.

But he still supports them.

What a maroon!

Too bad we don’t have phone booths anymore. It would be a lot more cost-effective.”

You planning on changing into Superman?

Shery,

Gun manufacturers can be held accountable for a defective product.

What they are not held accountable for, thankfully, is when someone uses their product to harm others.

Do you have an example of a gun which went off accidently, hurting someone, and the manufacturer was not held accountable?

Most times, if not nearly 100% of the time, people are to blame, not the gun.

It was a silly question anyway Regular.
He just had to pass some gas.

CapnAmerica,

It is a FUNDRAISER.

Can many of Democrats afford to go see some of the Clinton stooges out on the Fundraiser circuit?

Of course not.

Your point?

Shery, classy there, snatch.

The McD’s coffee was more hot than it was supposed to be. I guess if you want to say that there is no limit on how hot you can serve water…

Chas,

Still have not heard from anyone about your complaint.

What is this now, week 4?

I went to a Democratic fund-raiser Saturday night.

It was 25 dollars and included all the barbeque you could eat.

How George W. Bush became a millionaire:

Father’s grand-father owned largest steel foundry in Ohio, actually had a Rockefeller on the pay-roll.

Mother descended from U. S. President Franklin Pierce.

Father’s father–a Senator from Connecticut.

Father–Senator, Ambassador to China, Head of CIA, Vice President and President

OK Blog Monitor (BM for short) — You got anything to say about Max’s “bio” information?? Or, cant you say anything about Max’s… only about mine??

Scroll over Troll crap!!

Is any CON here going to the KKKarl Rove luncheon?

I had this fun email from my hubby earlier today. Gave me a laugh so thought someone else would enjoy the humor. He wrote:

“When the president was here yesterday, they restocked his plane with munchies for the return trip and they had a leftover tray of cheese cubes they took off. One of the military guys from here at work brought it in and we all got to have some. Now I can say I have gotten something from this president besides a bill.”

You have to break at least two of these very basic firearm safety rules to shoot yourself in the foot!

1. ALWAYS keep the gun pointed in a safe direction.

This is the primary rule of gun safety. A safe direction means that the gun is pointed so that even if it were to go off it would not cause injury or damage. The key to this rule is to control where the muzzle or front end of the barrel is pointed at all times. Common sense dictates the safest direction, depending on different circumstances.

2. ALWAYS keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot.

When holding a gun, rest your finger on the trigger guard or along the side of the gun. Until you are actually ready to fire, do not touch the trigger.

3. ALWAYS keep the gun unloaded until ready to use.

Whenever you pick up a gun, immediately engage the safety device if possible, and, if the gun has a magazine, remove it before opening the action and looking into the chamber(s) which should be clear of ammunition. If you do not know how to open the action or inspect the chamber(s), leave the gun alone and get help from someone who does.

7 of the top 10 Richest Congressmen are Democrats

Wonder why they even need a fund raiser. Oh that’s right, Democrats don’t spend their OWN money!

http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/overview.php

Rank Name Minimum
Net Worth Average Maximum
Net Worth
1 Jane Harman (D-Calif)
$222,175,772 $409,426,887 $596,678,002
2 Darrell Issa (R-Calif)
$158,580,056 $337,440,028 $516,300,001
3 John Kerry (D-Mass)
$221,589,484 $267,789,805 $313,990,127
4 Vernon Buchanan (R-Fla)
$-24,520,706 $191,695,634 $407,911,974
5 Herb Kohl (D-Wis)
$117,798,026 $171,423,011 $225,047,997
6 Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass)
$43,351,040 $102,822,519 $162,293,999
7 Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa)
$55,878,022 $91,713,012 $127,548,003
8 Robin Hayes (R-NC)
$32,122,164 $82,552,081 $132,981,999
9 Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif)
$49,392,297 $79,555,657 $109,719,018
10 Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ)
$45,501,164 $79,051,090 $112,601,017

Must of been blasphemy for Chas to hear about how someone can be independent of Government help.

Shiver me timbers!

‘‘Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.’’
Author unknown by me.

If you need help, just dial 911.

Sometimes you get Barney, with his bullet, if anyone shows up at all.

At NIU and VT, the cops were there within minutes. However, they were needed in seconds.

MaxGrobnik
Posted May 5, 2008 at 3:47 pm | Permalink
Leave it to Chas to complain about a bio.
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No complaint, Maxine… Just a truthful observation — made about a Troll blogger, BM

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, announced Monday it would expand its discounted prescription drug program to offer 90-day supplies for $10 and add several women’s medications at a discount. It also said it would lower the price of more than 1,000 over-the-counter drugs.

Heartless, corporate rich bass turds anyway. Imagine lowering drug prices.

Steven I think Nathan has been waiting for the knock on the door that will be the ‘head of the marine chaplincy’ coming to take him away for insulting Chas.

Chas has arranged for this to happen with his calls to the ‘head military chaplin’.

This is from an observer only.

” Now I can say I have gotten something from this president besides a bill.” — 55

He shits cheese cubes.

Max, did you live at home? Support a family?

WS can’t compare his grandfather to today, at that time you COULD work yourself up. Except for during the depression, when everyone was poorer than dirt. And the government assisted in getting everyone out of that. Those people went to work and earned it. You know its funny that people always look to the depression generation for their idea of hard work. Do you suppose all those people just decided suddenly not to work hard? Or were they dependent upon opportunity?

Max did you work and save to pay your tuition or did you get grants and loans? Wasn’t that ‘opportunity’?

Don’t sweat it PMom…not many have money at your age..and almost everyone struggles when they have kids to support.
I didn’t go back to school until my youngest was in kindergarten, and it was a real challenge to graduate with working and taking care of three kids, and my husband didn’t make much money, but we managed. I took advantage of student loans to help pay for my tuition. It still took a long time and lots of really hard work to find the financial security we have today..but we’ve been at it for 37 years.
It just takes time, hard work, and tenacity to make it happen.

Watch out PMama — Blog Monitor (BM) will yell at you for sharing your personal bio!! LOL

Watching a barn-burner NBA Playoff Game… San Antonio/New Orleans…. Be back later!!

Parkay, as for your sob story about the 39 yr. old woman, it sounds like she should have maybe been given 15 – 30 fir plain old murder… instead of manslaughter!! The baby was BORN… she killed it… And her boyfriend must have been pretty dumb to not notice a full term pregnancy in his girl friend!! And what does that Murder have to do with your abortion fetish??? Give it a rest, fake butter!!

LOL Steven

Another favorite:

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright

If you strike a thorn or rose,
Keep a-goin’!
If it hails or if it snows,
Keep a-goin’!
‘Taint no use to sit an’ whine
When the fish ain’t on your line;
Bait your hook an’ keep a-tryin’–
Keep a-goin’!

And BJ’s paranoid delusions continue.

You don’t get it Max and you never will. I DID do it, I know it can be done. It’s harder than hell though- I was literally 1 1/2 hours from walking down the aisle to get my diploma. And sometimes you cannot do it at certain times- I can’t do it now. Everyone has different circumstances. It wasn’t a program where you could slack off, married women were getting housekeepers just so they could keep up! You didn’t get to go to class and go home and do nothing. It wasn’t that kind of program. Probably 80 hours a week for school, plus 25 hours working on the weekend. I was the ONLY one in my entire class doing it alone. And look at what it got me. A lot of bills for nothing.
All because of some hateful teacher who LIED.

Steven,

Sorry, was at work.

Several weeks ago Chas said he was complaining to the head Chaplains Office about me on this blog and that they would teach me a thing or two about religious tolerance…etc.

I am still waiting to hear from anyone.

Political Mama,

Still waiting to hear how the example posted by Max supports more gun control.

Also still waiting to hear from you on how someone shoots themselves in the foot if they are following the very first and most basic safety rule of firearms.

Liberals view wealth as a closed loop. There is only X amount of wealth and as long as those rich people have it, I never will.

Conservatives view wealth as an open system. There is always wealth to be had. All you have to do is work for it.

As long as you view the rich as having everything and your only way of getting any of it is to take it from then rather than earn it, you will live in poverty with your hand out feeling sorry for yourself. The perfect little liberal.

” Conservatives view wealth as an open system. There is always wealth to be had. All you have to do is work for it.”

Or marry well?

You mean like Jerry Brown, Ben? :D

Hey Mary_Caruso just read your post on the handicap parking. Don’t have time to read through all the post so I don’t know if anyone has already told you that you could have received a $100 parking ticket and as far as I am concerned, you deserved it. I was a Sam’s this afternoon and I noticed that all the handicap parking stall were filled, you see I was looking for one myself.

I am out. Sleep well and enjoy the rain!

Good night; Good luck;
God Bless – Whatever you conceive God to be!!

Blessings ALL!!

A Troll is a Troll is a Troll… You would know that, James. Just call ‘em as I see ‘em —

A Troll offers nothing of value, but simply exists to create disruption, and diversion. You should know that very well, Regular James.

Blow it out sideways Squarepeg Chas Sugar Das :D

Well, nothing to see here. I will return another time! Nite All! Most interesting again tonite, the Hornets really Stung the Spurs! What a game!

Just leave your cart in the handicapped spot. That’ll piss em off. beber Posted May 6, 2008 at 5:24 am
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beber, that’s a very mature comment.

ksdude..if you’d have read my whole post, you’d know I’m not advocating for able bodied people to park in handicapped spaces.