It’s OK to have Representative “Frozen Cash” Jefferson on the Home Security Committee–just don’t put him in charge of anything serious, like taxes:
Pelosi removed Jefferson from the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee in response to Justice Department allegations that the Louisiana Democrat had accepted $100,000 in bribes and stored $90,000 of them in his freezer. The speaker then gave Jefferson a seat on the Homeland Security, and Democrats agreed to the change in a closed-door caucus in February.
“The idea that Homeland Security is less important than the tax-writing committee is ludicrous,” Blunt said Wednesday.
A German teenager has been locked in a psychiatric ward because she was being home schooled. And the court in Strasburg has no problem with the Hitler-era law under which this was done.
Ah, the enlightened Europeans. I wonder if this is one of the “foreign court decisions” that some Supreme Court justices think should guide their own?
The Chair Force Engineer (aka “Mr. X”) likes the TeamVision approach to the VSE. I haven’t read it myself, so I don’t know if they claim that the Shuttle is “man rated” as Mr. X does (though he also uses quotes, so perhaps he’s not really making the claim). It is not, and never has been. “Man rating” is whatever NASA decides that it means, and it’s usually just an excuse to not use a vehicle that they don’t want (for other reasons) to use.
Here’s a point that I didn’t make in my earlier post.
Just as Mookie agrees with many(/most?) Dems on “the surge,” many of the denizens of Huffpo and Metafilter agree with the Taliban that Dick Cheney should die. Can someone remind me again, whose side they’re on?
[Update on the evening of February 27th]
Apparently the powers that be decided to put all the anti-Cheney comments down the memory hole.
Here’s a point that I didn’t make in my earlier post.
Just as Mookie agrees with many(/most?) Dems on “the surge,” many of the denizens of Huffpo and Metafilter agree with the Taliban that Dick Cheney should die. Can someone remind me again, whose side they’re on?
[Update on the evening of February 27th]
Apparently the powers that be decided to put all the anti-Cheney comments down the memory hole.
Here’s a point that I didn’t make in my earlier post.
Just as Mookie agrees with many(/most?) Dems on “the surge,” many of the denizens of Huffpo and Metafilter agree with the Taliban that Dick Cheney should die. Can someone remind me again, whose side they’re on?
[Update on the evening of February 27th]
Apparently the powers that be decided to put all the anti-Cheney comments down the memory hole.