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C-SPAN after dark … go figure


12/17/09

Wednesday night Senator Reid asked to bring a close to HR3590, the Patient Protection Amendment debate, he then offered a motion to withdraw, the vote ayes59  38nays with 3Senators not voting… Byrd, Enzi and Chambliss, the vote would allow the Defense Spending Package HR3326 and HCR debates to resume at midnight after a recess.

After the midnight recess, the Senate voted …  Cloture vote; 63 ayes  33 nays was invoked and agreed to …  limiting the debate on the Defense Spending Package HR3326, debates could last up to 30hours. Democrats all voted yes,  3 Republican Senators voted with the Democrats… Collins, Hutchinson and Snowe.  The final vote could be taken on Saturday morning.

they adjourned until Friday morning …

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House Speaker announces “Jobs for Main Street” legislation 12/16/09


House  Speaker Pelosi, Hoyer, Majority Whip Clyburn and others announced a House Jobs Bill named “Jobs for Main Street” The 174billion dollar legislation was filed today and passed on 12/16/09 for the coming year.

The Jobs Bill should create more public service jobs, sustains the success of the stimulus, reduces the deficit, sustains the current job loss path toward a more positive result, will also sustain investments, boost construction.. infrastructure program; the following are all  paid for by tarp funds …credit for small biz, the bill also allows for an extension of unemployment insurance and Cobra for 6months to help like public service jobs… teachers,  firefighters and police officers.

In all the House worked on and passed the following items of legislation..

Defense Appropriations 636billion dollar bill was voted on and passed 395 ayes   30 nays,

Debt extension,

300billion dollar increase to the  debt limit passed  218  ayes    214 nays would top out at 12.394 trillion dollars

The 174billion dollar jobs bill using tarp funds will also extend both unemployment insurance and Cobra for 6 months.

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Let Dems hear from you…202-225-3121… this HCR bill is for the People


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The Democrats who’ve said — either in interviews or press releases — that they’re opposing the HCR bill include: 15 so far

Members of Congress need to hear from you. Lieberman may have wanted Medicare buy in and HCR before he didn’t;  he is now showing how Politicians can easily put aside the rights of their constituents and fellow Americans. We need to get Progressive Democrats to Unite and push pass and shove a Bill toward our President’s desk that has been a long time in the making and one that can change not just health care, it will create jobs, will not kill grandma and will definitely need to be adjusted frequently.

The number to the Congressional switch board is 202-225-3121. If you get a busy signal, don’t be discouraged. Keep dialing.

Rep. Travis Childers (Miss.);

Rep. John Adler (N.J.);

Rep. Walt Minnick (Idaho);

Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (S.Dak.);

Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (Fla.);

Rep. Frank Kratovil (Md.);

Rep. Larry Kissell (N.C.);

Rep. Bart Gordon (Tenn.);

Rep. Dan Boren (Okla.);

Rep. Jim Matheson (Utah);

Rep. Michael McMahon (N.Y.);

Rep. John Tanner (Tenn.);

Rep. Brian Baird (Wash.);

Rep. Harry Teague (N.M.);

and Rep. Collin Peterson (Minn.).

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Got Wood …


Okay, that was a bad joke…

i have to say the amount of attention his accident and behavior got seemed a bit much for this avid tv viewer. i agree he did dirty to his wife and family, was thinking with the wrong wood and acted with absolutely no scruples.

As a person who dated a lot; i have learned that some guys show you who they are; you either accept it, talk it out or leave it alone.i guess  in some cases women look the other way and or feel okay, this will be fine because i can change him, we are getting married so… things will be fine.
People can and do change but i gotta say doesn’t love mean accepting the person you marry or end up with just the way they are?

An old saying comes to mind, you get what you pay for? well, what else is there to say.

The various people coming out to say this or that was fascinating and disturbing, far be it from me to cast a stone, i have plenty i could tell if asked but i too would choose to shut up not to mention i am not famous or TW; but it’s the American way right? you owe me and or us for being so popular, (we)? put you on a pedestal because (we)? have deemed you a role model but don’t get into my business. In my opinion the we is the Media not the public as suggested by various news outlets.

so, hopefully people will start to get it, Tiger is a man first, has the right to privacy just like everyone else no matter how much money he makes.

we all have our ideas about what happened but the rush for these women to get their stories out there; paid for or not was strange.

i know this definitely is not the first time, or the last time a woman, mistress or whatever you want to call her spill the beans… predator came to mind,why? because one of them said she didn’t care who he was married to, it was f-ing TW, if this is correct her intent was clear.

The victims are  Elin and the children, the intent if any may be to destroy a family for some sort of gain..money,that 15 minutes of fame, it’s obvious to me she and others who made a point in keeping the emails, voice mail, trip docs and telling a whole office; yep i did TW.  “Her” actions were based on premeditated and predatory behavior.

this is just my take on a sad but common incident, hopefully his family will stay in tact and move forward.

love Tiger and his cubs

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The O effect …


We may only have until 2011, but i feel something new, something different coming from Ms O after her show goes off the air waves.  In the weeks to come we will hear, like Ms O. stated a lot of  conjecture about why she decided to discontinue the Oprah Show.

I for one have watched her show religiously, found myself cracking up, felt sadness at the plight of children,women,men and families featured on the show, anxious when the topic was not quite PC and have been less than happy to hear the criticism that she feels she is god, preaches too much … so on and so forth.  I can’t say that i took any of the info and ran with it, it was good info and took what i thought might help me, never for one moment thought she was a god or goddess. she, is a person who has lived life, started out young knowing exactly what she wanted and did it… simple as that. She has worked, honed and crafted the gift of gab, she is a great interviewer, has a great staff; people feel comfortable around her, she is a well spoken orator most people truly are envious of. I am among those that got fired up when she helped so many accomplish their dreams of starting their own business, won’t forget the day she gave all those cars away or the trip she and gayle took…too funny

Ms O has exposed the viewer to things, issues, topics and people who quite possibly would have been left out of our lives and because of Ms O and her staff, a lot of us feel blessed we have followed this woman for all these years, undeniably she changed the way people see the written word, the spoken word not to mention when the word is sung… she has opened up the lives of so many, made a difference to women and while doing so has changed the lives of viewers all over the world.  Ms O  will never be forgotten…  i say… she still has some work do to.