Oh my God, that rabbit thinks its got ahold of Jimmy Carter.
Posted on 12/19/2007 5:40:50 PM PST by kc8ukw
In addition to raising auto fuel efficiency standards 40 percent, an energy bill passed by Congress yesterday bans the incandescent light bulb by 2014.
President Bush signed the 822-page measure into law today after it was sent up Pennsylvania Avenue in a Toyota Prius hybrid vehicle. The House passed the bill by a 314-100 vote after approval by the Senate last week.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Nice charts. My copy of the US Constitution says CONGRESS runs the nation’s checkbook. I guess you have a different one; maybe one whose title page says “It is all GW Bush’s fault”! LOL:
Section 8 - Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Very good.
All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it.
I guess you missed that part. Up to now Bush has had no objections to those budgets. If he approves. If he doesn't then he can veto. How many vetoes has Bush signed. He's signed every bloated budget put before him.
He even institued the medicare drug program.
Have you seen my home page?
Does your chest swell with pride knowing that your sons are fighting for Bush's "new America"? Does the sacrifice they make include fighting to secure an America where spanish is just as prominent and English?
That's what I meant when I said Bush invited them. He has a vision that includes latin music in the streets.
| We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture. Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende. For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America. Our future cannot be separated from the future of Latin America. As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico. George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000. |
Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:
In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster
As long as you don't jostle them or throw them around they should pretty much last forever.
A Pious hybrid. Everything about this bill is a joke.
(cogitator, of course, is pleased that this thing became law.)
I still have a top-loading washer, thank G*d. Hopefully it will last a while longer.
A Mexican, nyuk-nyuk!
That's gonna be a loooooooooooooooooong wait.
Eh, I think I’ll just run up to Canada one year while on vacation and smuggle one in.
As an aside, are you a man or a woman. I hear women can distinguish slight differences in color better than men can.
Guess that answered my question. :-)
There are some parts of it that I’ve heard about which I think are good. I haven’t in any sense evaluated all of it.
Can I bill you when I have to replace my light fixtures?
Santa's Butt and "Wailing Wench" are the names of the beer/ale. Gotta humor these boys ya know. They're like 40 year old kids.
Get back to me after I invest in a company that makes ‘em.
Fluorescent light bulbs flicker dim-bright-dim-bright with the 60 cycles/sec current. Your brain reads your eye input some 40 times/sec(like a movie). Thus in sync/out of sync beat frequencies that give people extreme headaches in “sick buildings”, even though you don’t notice the fluctuations the brain does, constantly trying to adjust to dim-bright-dim-bright. Strike One.
These fluorescent bulbs LOOK white but are narrow spectrum frequencies, harsh like digital recordings vs warmer/fuzzier analog recordings. The incandescent bulb puts out the whole range of spectrum frequencies even though the efficiency is lower, that’s why it seems warmer/friendlier/cuddlier. Strike Two.
The cost of these fl. bulbs is much higher + disposal costs = the mfgrs/lobbyists who pushed this turkey on us lick their chops(pavlovian drooling)at the thought of the MONEY they’re going to make on this law. Strike Three.
One possibility is LEDs but hey, let the marketplace work, mandating HDTVs or these fl. lights is creeping socialism by lawyers in congress who have no business micro-managing commerce, 3 strikes and you’re out...KLUTZES...
ping.
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