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Nebraskans Helping Out, A BlegPost updated on 9-3-2005! Now accepting PayPal donations! Scroll down for details. Last night I mentioned that I was helping out on a cool project to get a truckload of relief supplies delivered to Mississippi from my local community. Today,...Johnson takes undeserved credit
The Argus Leader has a report on a huge expansion of the Sioux Fgalls Morrell meat packing plant:Local and state leaders on Friday lauded John Morrell Co.'s $100 million expansion plans and emphasized the plant's importance to the city and...Not A Wasted Day
I haven't been anywhere near a computer today, so I hope everyone was keeping an eye on Instapundit's blogstorm and lining up a good relief effort or three to donate a little dough to. Or, you could have picked either...Senate RINOS Waffle Again, Play Footsie with Byrd, other Donks on Nominations
Perspective on KatrinaGang of Twelve Wreaks its Will on the Senate
Well, the RINO (Republican-in-name-only) Caucus in the Senate waffled again, as one might have expected, and threw two of the President's nominees to the wolves, with the prospect of more to follow. Demonstrably there are not enough Republicans left in the Senate, that remember that THEY are the majority party now, to manage to exercise the hard won electoral advantage that was handed to them by the voters.
When there is the sight of John "Manchurian Candidate" McCain lined up next to Robert KKK Byrd, the mind boggles, and the hope that the GOP can be an effective vehicle for conservative/libertarian change in D.C. It has been said that politics is the art of the possible. What is such a crying shame here is that IT WAS POSSIBLE TO HAVE A CONSTITUTIONALLY MANDATED VOTE ON ALL THESE NOMINATIONS. All it would have taken was enough backbone in the RINO caucus to back up the President as well as the Senate majority that would have voted to confirm these nominees. In short, as far as the Chief is concerned, these waffle-heads have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory as Sen. Warner (RINO-VA), stood there in the announcement presser holding up "the deal" papers, reminding one of Chamberlain after Munich returning to England promising "Peace in our time."
UPDATE:
After sleeping on it all and based on more thought on the status of the REST of the appointments NOT included in the deal, and the level of dissing to Sen. Frist AND the president, the Chief has revised his read on the relative advantage/disadvantage of this sell-out deal. The REAL GOP got seriously burned!The following coverage was in The Hill on-line:
Deal heads off nuclear option
By Geoff EarleA group of 14 Republicans and Democrats have reached a deal that will avert the use of the so-called "nuclear option" to end the judicial filibuster - at least for a time.The deal would "pull this institution back from the precipice," according to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who helped broker the deal.Yeah, right - but it just pushed Republican Party integrity over the edge.
As usual, Julie Neidlinger has it cold. It's worth reading. Keep blogging Julie....Economist: "The air force has a future in South Dakota. Do the Democrats?"
From The Economist:A big decision for South DakotaThe air force has a future in South Dakota. Do the Democrats?IT WOULD take a direct hit from an enemy warhead to breach the 25 tons of steel and 12 inches of concrete...Blog Hurricane Strikes Chief!
Out For the Day AgainYIKES! Blogposts Vanish into Ether!
Something horrible happened this afternoon resulting in the deletion of all of the Chief's postings from June through the current date/time.
Even more unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be retrievable - AND - this occurred with no backup for the time in question. (I know, always do regular backups - and I DO, at least for my working files - but I didn't think to do so for my blog. Oh well.
What's the old moonbat-ish cliche? Oh yeah, this is almost like the first day of the rest of the blog - and I'll have new posts up (generally) daily.
Labor Day weekend is always a busy one for me. Saturday was my birthday, so I usually take an extra day off and make it a four day bonanza of non-work. So needless to say, I'm not going to spend...
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