America the Right Way-Staying Vigilant! 40 months left A-Sept. 5,-- Sept 9,2009[Remember 9-11]

All of us... | Sept 5 2009 | Me

[Dog]

Sorry for the late start to the weekend thread....I was to do this earlier......but had a senior moment. I just plum forgot to be honest.

So lets get this started.

Big week ahead the Socialist in Chief has scheduled another speech this time to sell another socialist program....health care....how many will fall for the snake oil sales pitch?

[lysie]

I saw. I did not like last night’s game at all!

[Neets]

Oh last night’s game was the pits. But Boston lost also so it was a wash anyway.

I really wish they wouldn’t play such early games on the weekends. I miss watching night games.

Hope you slept better than I did last night.

My little buddy decided he wanted to sleep with me last night and I can’t rest well because I am always afraid he is going to fall out of the bed (which he usually does).

[M Kehoe]

Did I ever tell you I hate the red sox (lower case on purpose)?

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[lysie]

I like the 7:00 pm games.

I woke up a few times, but it didn't take me long to fall back to sleep like it used to.

What did you cook today?

It's amazing how the young ones fall out of bed no matter what precautions.

[M Kehoe]

I see that Auburn kicked booty.

Do they play the Gators this year?

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[M Kehoe]

For some reason, I still fall out of bed...run into things, and generally get myself into trouble.

Must be in the genes.

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[Neets]

I will be happy when Bosux are totally eliminated. I wish they weren’t wild Card contenders.

I hope by the time the season is over they have NOTHING to brag about.

[Neets]

I am overjoyed your sleeping is better.

I haven’t cooked all weekend.

I went out to dinner thurs and friday evenings and i gained a quick 3lbs from those evenings of over indulgence.

no one is really around to fix a big meal for this weekend, so I did easy hot dogs tonite, and left overs last evening for my mother.

[Jemian]

No, we don’t play them this season. Our game isn’t over yet. We have the fourth quarter to go.

But right now, we’re winning 23 - 10.

[M Kehoe]

I hope by the time the season is over they have NOTHING to brag about.

They do have one thing to brag about. Ted Kennedy is no longer driving pregnant mistresses over bridges.

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

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[Neets]

LOL it’s ok.

[Jemian]

Now I can relax a little. It is 37 - 13 with 5:27 left in the fourth. Auburn had something to prove today. We did well.

I never count a victory until after the time has run out. But it is looking good.

[Jemian]

Van Jones resigns

One down, how many left to go?

[Jemian]

Good morning!

I still feel good.

[Two Thirds Vote Aye]

Good evening. Glad you still feel good.

[Jemian]

Last year was grim.

[Two Thirds Vote Aye]

I copied this from another thread.

Bypassing the authority of Congress, Barack Obama rules through czars — the beginnings of dictatorship:
1.Herbert Allison Jr., bailout czar, [replaced Bush bailout czar Neel Kashkari, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability confirmed by Senate]
2.Alan Bersin, border czar
3.Dennis Blair, intelligence czar [Director of National Intelligence, a Senate confirmed position]
4.John Brennan, counterterrorism czar
5.Carol Browner, energy czar
6.Adolfo Carrion, urban affairs czar
7.Ashton Carter, weapons czar [actually Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics and so subject to Senate confirmation]
8.Aneesh Chopra, technology czar
9.Jeffrey Crowley, [openly gay white man] AIDS czar
10.Cameron Davis, Great Lakes czar
11.Nancy-Ann DeParle, health czar
12.Earl Devaney, stimulus oversight czar
13.Joshua DuBois, religion czar, aka God czar
14.Arne Duncan, education czar
15.Kenneth Feinberg, pay czar
16.Daniel Fried, Guantanamo closure czar
17.J. Scott Gration, Sudan czar
18.Melissa Hathaway, [soon to be] cybersecurity czar
19.David J. Hayes, water czar [a Deputy Interior Secretary and therefore subject to Senate oversight]
20.Richard Holbrooke, Afghanistan-Pakistan (Af-Pak) czar
21.John Holdren, science czar
22.Kevin Jennings, safe schools czar [nominated to be Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education, Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, a newly created post; openly gay founder of an organization dedicated to promoting pro-homosexual clubs and curricula in public schools]
23.Van Jones, green jobs czar
24.Gil Kerlikowske, drug czar
25.Ron Kirk, trade czar
26.Vivek Kundra, infotech czar [Shoplifted four shirts, worth $33.50 each, from J.C. Penney in 1996 (source)]
27.Douglas Lute, war czar [retained from Bush administration, married to Jane Holl Lute, currently a Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security]
28.George Mitchell, Mideast peace czar
29.Ed Montgomery, car czar [replacing Steve Rattner, who stepped down amid controversy over his former firm’s role in a possible kickback scandal]
30.Lynn Rosenthal, domestic violence czar
31.Dennis Ross, Mideast policy czar
32.Gary Samore, weapons of mass destruction czar
33.Todd Stern, climate change czar
34.Cass Sunstein, regulatory czar
35.Larry Summers, economic czar
36.Michael Taylor, food czar
37.Arturo Valenzuela, Latin-American czar (nominee) [although this post is referred to as a czar, he is nominatied to be Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs and so is subject to Senate confirmation]
38.Paul Volcker, economic czar number two
39.Elizabeth Warren, TARP czar [chair of the [Congressional Oversight Panel for the Trouble Assets Relief Program; note that Herb Allison is more frequently called the TARP czar]
40.Jeffrey Zients, government performance czar [replaced original nominee Nancy Killefer who withdrew her name after issues with her personal income tax filings surfaced]

Positions established but not yet filled...
41.behavioral science czar
42.copyright czar

Positions being planned:
1.income redistribution czar
2.land-use czar
3.consumer financial protection czar, aka mortgage czar (source)
4.radio-internet fairness czar
5.student loan czar, to oversee a program of mandatory service in return for college money (source)
6.voter list czar
7.zoning czar

[Jemian]

We won one. It's a start.

23.Van Jones, green jobs czar

You can add this to a "position needing to be filled." THANK YOU, GLENN BECK.

[Two Thirds Vote Aye]

Very good!

[Jemian]

I have about an inch of papers to grade. Most of them are essays. I loathe grading essays. There are both mechanics and content to grade. Essays are also very subjective when you evaluate them. Content can be argued and disagreed. What makes a sentence better than another sentence? Sometimes, to be honest about it, one appears great one day, but the next day it seems trite and pedantic.

An open question: what does “giving props” mean?