July 2011
36 posts
ABCs of stay-c
A - Age: 33
B - Bed size: King
C - Chore you hate: putting away laundry
D - Dad’s name: John
E - Essential start your day item: Coffee
F - Favorite color: Red
G - Gold or Silver: Silver
H - Height: 5’1
I - Instruments you play(ed): None
J - Job title: Technical Writer/Editor
K - Kids: Two golden retrievers, Allie and Walter
L - Living arrangements: Apartment
M - Mom’s name: Marianne
N - Nicknames: Tacer
O - Overnight hospital stay other than births: None
P - Pet Peeve: People who talk on their phones on public tranport
Q- Quote: “There’s a beverage here!”
R - Right or left handed: Right. S - Siblings: 1 brother
T - Time you wake up: 6:40 a.m.
U- Underwear: of course
V - Vegetable you dislike: Asparagus isn’t my favorite but i’ll eat it.
W - Ways you run late: every way you can think of
X - X-rays you’ve had: Left ankle two years ago for a stress fracture
Y - Yummy food you make: Italian
Z - Zoo favorite: Hippos and Red Pandas
“The idea seems to be that if the House GOP refuses to raise the debt ceiling, a default crisis or gradual government shutdown will ensue, and the public will turn en masse against … Barack Obama. The Republican House that failed to raise the debt ceiling would somehow escape all blame. Then Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced-budget amendment and reform entitlements, and the tea-party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor.”
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Who said it: Democratic Vice President Joe Biden or Republican Senator John McCain? (via life)
Democrat or Republic or Neither, I think we can all agree this quote is pretty awesome.
(via parislemon)
My stance on gay parenting/marriage:
I would rather have these two take care of me:
then these two:
^^^THIS^^^
“There is something to be said for not quitting, not giving up, and showing up to the difficult times as well as the easy ones. If you pursue your dreams you can’t quit when you fail, you can’t quit when you mess up, and you can’t quit when life seems to deal you a tough end.”
—— President Clinton
(via janf)
Do Nothing Congress →
whitehouse.gov
Since the 112th Congress has been in session, just 23 bills have been signed by President Obama into law. For comparisons sake, the 111th Congress had passed 42 bills into law by this time in 2009 and passed 36 bills into law in two days in January 2011 before the Republicans took over the majority in the House.
So, what bills has this Congress managed to pass in 6 months of work?
- An extension of the Small Business Act
- Naming a courthouse in Arizona after a judge
- FISA extensions for wiretaps
- March Continuing Resolution
- Surface Transportation Extension (a highways bill)
- Amendments to the March CR
- Airport and Airway Extension (another transportation bill)
- Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments (no idea what this bill is, but it appears to require less paperwork for some tax purposes)
- An appropriations for the FAA, which has expired and parts of the FAA are shutdown.
- Naming another courthouse
- Appointing a regent to the Smithsonian
- The budget for through September 30
- Extending the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission from the end of May to the end of December
- PATRIOT ACT extension
- Naming a Post Office
- Airport and Airway Extension, Part II (the Part II is actually in the name of the law. This extension provided an additional 30 days).
- Another extension of the SBA provisions.
- Intelligence Authorization
- Post office named
- Another Post Office named
- Another regent of the Smithsonian
- A third regent of the Smithsonian
- A third extension of the Airport and Airway bill
So, in sum, the 111th Congress has named 5 buildings, named 3 regents to the Smithsonian, extended the SBA twice and the Airport bill 3 times, a CR and appropriations bill, the FAA appropriations bill (which has expired), three intelligence bills, two other extensions and the confusing 1099 bill.
That’s it. Only the appropriations and the Patriot act extension could be considered anything other than ordinary bills. This Congress has not done anything. And, in all honesty, this Congress is unlikely to pass anything except the debt ceiling increase and some sort of funding for the government for FY2012. This means that we must spend 2 years listening to these guys bitching at each other without actually doing anything.
(Note: Obama has signed everything that has reached his desk. Constitutionally speaking, the blame for the lack of work cannot be put on the President).
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