Rumination - 7/8/07 - Granite Grok

Rumination – 7/8/07

Update:  ugh….what were my fingers NOT doing last nite…..spelling and other errors fixed….sheesh…

===================================== 

Well, nothing in particular…I think….just a few things that caught my attention:

This should prove to either be interesting, or amusing. 

Given that it will be based on "San Fran values", it could be both with Cindy Shaheen perhaps gunning for Nancy Pelosi for derelection of duty!

These never seem to work…at least when the attempt is used against those with will power.

If someone wishes to voluntarily go hungry or starve themelves for any purpose, fine by me, as I’ve never really understood the reasoning behind it (it assumes that their issue is important to me, which generally, it isn’t).  If these kids want to starve themselves because of the DREAM act not being enacted, knock yourselves out. Why?  This bill discrimates against the children of legal citizens as illegals are treated more preferentially than mine; I have no stock in the argument of "these kids are innocent – why make them suffer for the sins of their parents?".  By allowing this to happen, the incentive stands for illegals to get their kids into the US.  Second, this "kids on a diet" frankly have no skinny in the game – if they wish (and all others of the same mind) want  illegals to get breaks on tuition, then start fund raising for them out of their own pockets instead of forcing the rest of us to do  so.  I’m betting that most of these hunger strikers are not even paying their own way; having to fork over the cost of sending illegals would themselves may change their outlooks in a hurry.  It’s just too easy to spend other peoples’ money… (H/T: Inside Ed)

At 19% approval rate, how come Congress is giving itself a $4,400 raise in the House? 

Reported by CNSNews, do you realize that over the last decade or so, the House and Senate members have put themselves into the most highly compensated group of citizens in the country?  They may rail against the rich in corporate America – but you hardly ever hear them talk about their own pay. 

I forget where I saw it, but I like this idea – Representatives and Senators receive 2,000 X their approval rating as pay.  Instead of $165,200 they actually get (close to or in the top 5% of all income in the nation), they’d be getting $38K.

I like this idea…..pay for performance!

Whadda ya know, a Dem in Congress wants to discriminate against poor people by making them pay more for gas and oil….much more….and give it to Congress to spend –

"A powerful House Democrat said on Friday that he planned to propose a steep new “carbon tax” that would raise the cost of burning oil, gas and coal, in a move that could shake up the political debate on global warming.

The proposal came from Representative John D. Dingell of Michigan, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and it runs directly counter to the view of most Democrats that any tax on energy would be a politically disastrous approach to slowing global warming."

Talk like this would have made my late Uncle Clarence spitting mad (he always voted Democratic because FDR’s policies put him thru college, and that was the ONLY reason he could ever muster up)….because it is true (H/T: Captains Quarters)

Captain Ed ruminates on George Will’s column.  Me?  War – run dandy….economy, not so much.  Kinda backwards today…..although the surge IS starting to work….

Our friend DCE over at Weekend Pundit has it right – English NOW

>