Senate Approves Huge Spending Bill After Democrats' Delay

The New York Times ^ | January 22, 2004 | DAVID STOUT

[CholeraJoe]

Tell it to the judge when you're caught with 5 mallards and no duck stamp. It should pi$$ him off real good. For good measure, ask him why there is an illegal US flag behind the bench.

[jgrubbs]

Read the constitution...

You still use that old, outdated document? We live in a different world now, the constitution may have worked for the founding fathers, but it's too outdated for the 21st century.

< /sarcasm>

[CSM]

Yep, what is enforced and what is written is very different. The water is very warm, you cute little frog!

[wallcrawlr]

$200,000 Advanced Traffic Analysis Center, North Dakota


WHAT IS THIS????

Have you been to NoDak....there is nothing but tractors and old people.

[jgrubbs]

Advanced Traffic Analysis Center (ATAC) is a Technology Support Center for addressing transportation needs and issues in small-to-medium size cities. ATAC focuses on enhancing transportation systems in small-to-medium size cities through the use of advanced traffic analysis and ITS solutions to address safety and mobility problems.

http://www.atacenter.org/

[MindyW]

Hope the GOP isn't counting on the votes of the people they just screwed out of overtime pay.

IIRC, I think they get the option of comp time or overtime. Before they had no option.

[wallcrawlr]

huh?

[Bloodclot]

$450,000 Trout Genome Mapping

Why the hell do we have to map the trout's genome???
Give me the 450 grand and my wife will pump it right
back into the economy.

[OldFriend]

Oh no......where is the swimmer going to get his $2billion for us to all have free health care?

[okie01]

"I hope the Republican's lose the majority in the Senate. Then maybe we'll have gridlock and less spending."

And more liberal, activist judges.

Is that what you want?

[Blood of Tyrants]

IMHO, there are two serious problems that the authors of the Constitution did not forsee. One was a class of professional politicians caused by no term limits. The other is the electoral college that basically shuts out any third party from the political process. Get rid of the electoral college and require the winning candidate to get 50% + one vote, with a runoff in case that no one gets a plurality, and the two party system will come crashing down within a very few years.

[LayoutGuru2]

Just ask Shep about J-Lo's roots.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Just ask Shep about J-Lo's roots.

OOPS!!! I wonder how that got in there?

[stopem]

Outrageous budget and definitely NOT conservative!

[stopem]

Are you serious, all of that pork is in the budget?

[jgrubbs]

Are you serious, all of that pork is in the budget?

That isn't all of it, just a list of some of it.

[AuntB]

Now, I'm really depressed!

[AuntB]

A gallon of DDT will do it...cheap.

[AuntB]

"By the way, since when does the natural migration of insects fall under commerce?"

Since the entire commerce clause became the law of the land instead of the Constitution....since the feds regulate fish because they might swim up a river from state to state....it happened when we weren't looking.

[jgrubbs]

Constitution Party Bump!