And it’s porktacular!
It’s nearly 2,000 pages, and even the tables summarizing its thousands of earmarks are a sight to behold.
The AP is rightly portraying the bill as the porkers’ last hurrah, a kind of monster’s ball for old-guard appropriators — Republican and Democratic alike — “seeking one last victory before tea party-backed GOP insurgents storm Congress intent on ending the good old days of pork-barrel politics.”
[…]
[…] Sen. John Barrasso (R., Wyo.) tells National Review Online that while he hasn’t had a chance to review the package, it “sounds like a last gasp effort of a congress that spends too much.”
Indeed, the Senate bill has more pork fat than the House counterpart passed last week, and far worse, it contains funding for Obamacare implementation.
Democrats are already actively courting the handful of Republican votes that will be necessary to overcome the promised filibuster. Retiring Sen. Bob Bennett (R., Utah) has already said he will support it, and Sens. Kit Bond (R., Mo.), George Voinovich (R., Ohio) and Susan Collins (R., Maine) have said they are thinking about doing the same.
Just enough of those GOP “pragmatists” to give the $1.1 trillion bill the veneer of bi-partisanship.
Go team!
(h/t newrouter and BBH)
More here, including this heartening bit:
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK, has vowed to force a reading on the Senate floor of all 1,924 pages of the bill. And Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has filed an amendment to eliminate all funding for earmarks in it.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK, has vowed to force a reading on the Senate floor of all 1,924 pages of the bill.
This is way better than the often-ignored 72 review period. If we have to live with the consequences of all this garbage, then at the very least, those bastards in Washington should have to live through a reading of it all. Rub their noses in it!
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And this news came just as I was hearing about the last of my 5 (count ’em 5!) audits/screw-ups the IRS performed on my account over the past 6 months. I was shocked, shocked! to learn that I owe a butt-load more money to our, er, their federal government. Grrrr…
Will the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act of 2010 apply to Meghan McCain?
light:black hole :: twinkie:meghan mccain
Wonder what goodies Sen. Bennett larded it up with, as his own little golden parachute and big middle finger to the voters.
Some people just need to be taken out and horsewhipped.
fuck this..
i’m going to haiti
Meghan McCain ate all the twinkies in Haiti. Please, save the twinkies.
– Harry isn’t giving up his poker nights without a fight!
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Short of nominating literal, diagnosed psychopaths to Congress in 2012 I’m all tapped out of idears.
dingy harry
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I got a big ham mark the occasion. Seemed appropriate.
I have the Bobby Orr image for you pdbuttons, but I think I like your avatar a lot more than Bobby.
Salmon, the other other pink meat.
RedState Action Alert: Dissect the Omnibus
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There’s also $4 million sought by Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell for the Kentucky National Guard’s marijuana eradication efforts
Remember me again? Isn’t this the same double-chinned fuckhole what led Team R into the wilderness last time round?
$208,000 beaver management in North Carolina
Beaver management? Is that like a pimp?
Remember me again? Isn’t this the same double-chinned fuckhole what led Team R into the wilderness last time round?
This is a serious problem. Haven’t you ever watched Justified?
I only saw the first episode I think. Maybe the first one and also the second one. It didn’t have any vampires or talking dogs or space adventures.
Kentucky is crawling with white supremacists what dabble in drug running and Jesus. I saw it on the TV. US Marshall Raylan Givens can’t fight em’ all without some beefy earmarks.
I used to want Bob Bennett to go home and do some fishing. Now, I want him to drop dead, ASAP.
newest no labels member bob bennet
or sodomy
i luv happfeet/ got the best curveball
bend ur knees-
strike three!
There are a large number of Democrat Senators up come next election. The RINOs in office right now need to think seriously about scuttling a filibuster. We might not be able to successfully elect an alternative in their place, but would I be willing to dump someone like Collins and let a Dem take that seat, knowing we’ll still come out ahead in the pickup tally?
Damn skippy.
Same goes for the lot of them. New set of rules, you fuck me I fuck you.
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the sad fact- is i just orderd chinese food[need veggies] and as i gave him a tip- and as he was strolling out my yard..
i thought him say
‘we will rule you”
fucking moon face d boy..
he said it!i heard him
he said-we will rule u..
i understand the english..
ahh-so,sew what..
no labels
The earmarks in this bill are like the magician’s handkerchief – designed to draw the eye away from the magician jamming his fist up your ass.
hey joe/ where u going with that gun in ur hand”
i’m going down
to shoot my old lady..
it’s a half white thang
the earmarks are the early warning sign that the other 1500 pages sux big time
I do not like these people. Not one little bit.
I am quite sure Raylan would know what to do with these people and be completely justified.
Amen, geoffb. A fucking men.
– Yeah, maybe so, but until G_d gets around 2uit, we better do it ourselves.
Thank you for a most excellent link, geoffb.
Grateful Dead : Uncle John’s Band @ Radio City 10-31-80
it “sounds like a last gasp effort of a congress that spends too much.”
One for the road.
[…] THE PEOPLE” in the 2010 midterms? And for their final lame-duck act comes the $1.1 trillion PORKTACULAR Omnibus bill. Oh but wait, its not just Democrats … its RINO’s as well. That and pissed […]
Somehow this just seems appropriate for this thread …
Thank you JD, you’re the reason I started watching it.
Late reply. Plumbing problems. Main drain line plugged. Christmas present from Murphy.
Shit, that sucks, Geoff. Hope it isn’t too much of a nightmare with tree roots and all that.
Towards the topic: this constant bullshit is just stiffening my resolve. I worked, roughly, a billion and a half hours last cycle and by all indications, that needs to be doubled in ’12.
Fine, assholes. Thanks for the motivation. You’re like shitty fighters that are only good at pissing off non-shitty fighters.
– Off with their heads….
OUTLAW VIOLENCE!™
Waaay OT, but…This seems appropriate. Can’t blame the dad, really. There’s no limit to the protection a father desires to extend. Or remove, as the case may be.
what do you mean can’t blame the dad he just landed his ass in jail leaving some nutless kraut to diddle his daughter sunup to sundown
that’s just retarded
my avatar has never been more inappropriate I don’t think
Do nutless krauts want to diddle daughters sunup to sundown anymore?
Not rhetorical. Germans are just plain weird so you never know.
(It’s at times like these, when the devilish part of my brain thinks the nutless kraut was maybe a legend for pulling ass decades younger than himself, that I must remember that she’s almost definitely ugly. Which might just be a competing devilish part of my brain talking.)
speaking of jail Cathy Young got linked by Mr. Instapundit tonight
I can’t remember the last time I saw her name on my screen
I think we were talking about… Beauchamp?
Were there any earmarks in the omnibus bill for fighting manure fires?
nutless krauts have been the future for high on 70 years
they’re like Amway
that was opposed to be nigh
remember cannibal German dude?
he was pretty classic he has a very middle-aged post-career Christian Slater vibe
I do recall reading that eunuchs in middle eastern harems were still able to partake of the available resources, and often did so. Of course they did not produce any offspring, which I suppose was the primary purpose for the eunuchification.
man that’s end-times shit right there
Germans rock at that
I used to think it was funny to accuse people of engaging in FRIVOLOUS ESCHATOLOGY.
Just seems out of place when we’re speaking of German cannibals though. They’re sorta… freighted with apparent importance.
when I think of eunuchs I always picture that one chick in bananarama
you guess which one
hint: it’s not the Shakespeare’s sister one what married the eurhythmic
hah!
He’s out on bail, and the knutless kraut is probably several dozens of furloughs away from any bread knife, licking his wounds.
I guess this story appeals to me because I’ve a daughter. I’ll definitely bookmark it to show to any less-than-worthy kraut who might comes calling.
I did not know this about eunuchs, g.
If I lost my balls I think I would focus on my work more and maybe buy some of those candles that make your bathroom smell like apple pies.
eunuchs deserve an anthem
We must cleanse our palette from Avril.
Here. (Catch that bass line.)
If I was older I’d have grown up with better music. But then I’d be dying sooner. I think this is what academics call a trade-off.
I’m going on a pretenders bender right after I wrap up my year at work thank you for that
is she still alive?
Wiki seems to think Chrissie Hynde is still alive and they’d probably know.
yes … this is a mostest wonderful sentence courtesy of our friends at wikipedia one of whom is named Jimmy:
Hynde went back to France in 1976 to try to form a band, but it did not work out.*
This is a tremendously fucked up German dude, but I think he speaks Austrian or something.
omfg did we know this?
that’s pretty fucking glorious
oh. here’s her kid with the simple minds guy (picture)
If you read the first link you learn Chrissie cheated on Mr. Davies for to make Yasmin
You know who are cool?
Rock stars.
Go figure.
Stopped reading that about a paragraph in, Pablo. I shouldn’t encourage any murderous thoughts so soon before Christmas.
Weren’t the Kinks like forever and ever before the Pretenders? We’re lucky Chrissie’s dad didn’t take his nuts. These things happen, it turns out. In today’s hint that evolution might be onto something, female rock stars don’t bang teenage groupies. Which make them seem a bit adult contemporary if we’re truly honest with ourselves.
Which makes them
here’s how I think of Mr. Ray Davies
be patient with that is very rewarding I think
There’s a comment I should write involving the use of synthesizers and how they seem weird to my age group’s ear until they change into NIN’s Pretty Hate Machine.
But I can’t write it because somehow disparate bands from The Cars to Joy Division somehow avoid the sound even while using the instrument. The early solo Phil Collins stuff too. It’s sorta there but not really.
But, no, that’s silly talk, it’s there, you know what I mean? A few degrees louder than background noise. From Michael Mann movies to the music montages for 80’s TV crap.
You know what I’m saying? It’s a weird timestamp from the time. Sounds like aerobics and leg warmers and makes me feel needlessly cynical and flannel/grunge when I’m trying to appreciate that stuff.
synthesizers! in the 90s
here is mores
(those are for reals moog ones)
and this is brilliant and sweet and synthy I think and kinda new mostly
oops I forgot 2010 synth orgasm
brb
I have more of a problem with the scoring of 80’s movies than the music of the era in general. Strangely enough, a lot of the music I actively chose back then – for example The Replacements, I find utterly fucking unlistenable now – but the stuff that was the ubiquitous soundtrack of life still puts a smile on my face.
here and also here but mostly the first one
she’s stunning her mom is on British TV, which still counts for something in some circles
and then this guy here and here
While I know nothing about it, yes, so many movies sounded messed up back then.
You know that generic hot guitar lick that sorta characterized all crap for awhile? They did that with synthesizers all the time back then when it just didn’t fit. (And then saxophones for awhile. WTF?) The character is supposed to be depressed walking to work or a bar and for some reason they decide to go all Flash Dance.
I’m not even sure how to interpret that stuff. My base inclination is to read it as ironic because I’m from a shallow, dickheadish generation but that simply can’t be right.
I’ve been emailed the La Roux lots and lots lately, ‘feets. Just can’t get into it.
I heard she (they) was hitting in Chicago really big – Los Angeles tried but she didn’t really have any luck here
– Once you’ve heard Beverly Hills cop, and suffered the way too long Disco age, synthesizer manic grunge is one of those “on three, everybody run” sorts of bad karma.
– Something like 3D.
Something I’ve learned — and this is real, not a joke — Chicago is the exact opposite of New York when it comes to music. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. If you can make it in Chicago, you’ll maybe sell two dozen albums out of your trunk.
Neutron Dance, BBH.
Later, guys.
– Na,na,na-nah-nah…..I can’t hear yoooooou…
I believe in de-nottink!
Back on topic: What this omnibus bill really needs is a kraut with a bread knife.
Hairy may not want to stand too close to it, either.
Read the greed of Congressman Chris Van Hollen and his colleagues as he “explains” the Democrats’ stance complaining of the “tax compromise” a day after these very same Democrats have introduced their grotesque spending omnibus: see whether he makes any mention of Democrat moves to make spending cuts to the budget?
Well, no, but he does manage to get in a plug for more wasteful and uneconomic subsidy spending on “clean” energy production. And holds up Paris Hilton as exemplary of American wealth. What with Nancy Pelosi hailing from Baltimore, Steny Hoyer from PG and Van Hollen from Montgomery Co., we might nearly conclude the state of Maryland has it in for the federal government.
The top two earmarkers are Reps, the next 17 are Dems. Time for those two to find jobs in the private sector. The top 20:
Cochran (R-MS) 230
Wicker (R-MS) 199
Murray (D-WA) 172
Harkin (D-IA) 152
Reid (D-NV) 129
Menendez (D-NJ) 123
Feinstein (D-CA) 121
Lautenberg (D-NJ) 120
Lincoln (D-AR) 114
Inouye (D-HI) 113
Schumer (D-NY) 106
Johnson (D-SD) 105
Landrieu (D-LA) 104
Specter (D-PA) 103
Pryor (D-AR) 96
Levin (D-MI) 93
Stabenow (D-MI) 91
Boxer (D-CA) 90
Brown (D-OH) 87
Grassley (R-IA) 86
when some piss-ant reporter asked ray davies what he thought of bruce springsteen
he said- i don’t drive
i remeber seeing the kinks
one time and they opened with ‘destroyer’
dave davies just so totally ruled!
i also remembger them doing a god-awful version of lola..where they-he,pointed to one side lo-la? it went on for 20 minutes!
it’s like when u go to a stones cash cow
mega thing..
and mick says-“keith will now sing for ya!’
and u thinks- i gotta pee
how many perps-who’ve been to a stones concert..
have got up-and went to the johhny-when keith sang a song?
yes..put ya hands up..
Levin (D-MI) 93
Stabenow (D-MI) 91
YEA MICHIGAN!!!!
From Bill Kristol:
While the $8.3 Billion in earmarks are atrocious and getting everyone fired up, it is a distraction from the true tax-payer beatdown: the other $1193 Billion in this bill. The Democrats couldn’t be bothered to do their job during the fiscal year. Fine, just pass some continuing resolution to keep the government open until February and let the new Congress decide how the money will be spent.
I’m making phone calls today.
omething I’ve learned — and this is real, not a joke — Chicago is the exact opposite of New York when it comes to music. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. If you can make it in Chicago, you’ll maybe sell two dozen albums out of your trunk.
Ha.
Of course, I tend to prefer bands out of Chicago. Chevelle comes to mind. I know there are a few more that hail from there.
New York – I can think of Interpol as a band I like from there.
weren’t the smashing pumpkin’s from chicago?
and the smoking popes?
dunno-don’t care[well i care-a little]
motionview, might we not prefer and say rather “how the money won’t be spent”, or at least some significant portion of it?
oh it looks like piece of shit government titsucker Jeffy Immelt did go to bumblefuck’s get-together with a select group of fascist pussy ceo monkeys from google and such
but here’s the explainy part
having bankrupted our failshit little country bumblefuck needs his ceo pussy pals to spend spend spend from now through 2012
He’s begging.
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My favorite Chicago band is Chicago. But as a grade-school trumpeter who knew he didn’t have the talent to stay with it, I’ve always had a soft spot for any band with a horn section. Their joint concert tours with Earth, Wind & Fire are epic for the extra horneyness.
I wonder if they’re holding that 2 trillion hostage.
I bet they are.
Absolutely right sdferr.
“$208,000 beaver management in North Carolina”
Wait.
Let’s think about this.
i’d gladly pay you tuesday,for a hamburgher today
New York doesn’t produce very many successful bands, and it has an unseemly habit of taking credit for ones that are already a little successful or at least fully formed before they move there. The cost of living just isn’t conducive to earning a living, spending countless hours practicing and also paying for rehearsal space unless you’re little rich kids like The Strokes.
The Pork Omnibus would be a good rock band name.
7,000,000 to buy property next to the dunes on Lake Michigan.
i think the ramones were from forrest hills
which is kinda ny-not the city-but..
patti smith was a jersey girl..
so-we give her a pass..
telivision?…
velvet underground?[they were from all over..]
but the funniest thing i said-no,read
was lou reeds girlfriend..at a dinner
and some lesbian college proffessor- was invited
and she was all wet! i got invited to a ny townhouse dinner
with lou reed,,and..his electric violin plating hump..
and they had placemats on the table..
and lou’s wife started banging her placecard on the table/and pointed at the muff
and the lesbo got all in a twist
and thought-laurie.. noticed me!
me! she noticed me!
a lesbian prof..! lil old me
so lou’s dyke says..
‘pass me the wine”
Madonna basically did her thing from the ground up all in NY
and at kind of a late age
Yea, but my point was that I (personally) don’t necessarily like the commercially successful acts.
I guess I prefer bands that sell their CDs out of the trunk.
John used to sell his vinyls out of his car trunk. Waddn’t much of a band though.
Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
My favorite performer would be Muddy Waters.
Madonna basically did her thing from the ground up all in NY
New York was a shithole then. It was a lot easier – Blondie, The Talking Heads, The Ramones, New York Dolls, etc. – for acts to eek out an existence before becoming successful.
…Talking Heads…
Poor, struggling Talking Heads. I’m sure they attended RISD on hardship scholarships.
West Side Soul – the best album ever waxed in Chicago, or anywhere else.
Poor, struggling Talking Heads. I’m sure they attended RISD on hardship scholarships.
Really not the point.
“$208,000 beaver management in North Carolina”
Wait.
Let’s think about this.
They pay for that!!!!
I’da done it fer nothin’
Really not the point.
Well, forgive me for straying from the topic of punk/new wave bands and their effect on the Senate Omnibus Spending Bill.