Well I haven't put anything up for a short while so let me open my mouth and insert my foot again. How about playing "bullseye" on the first story. These people are sooooo easy to call.
The second most used excuse...
Dunno how many of you people read my last commentary, but if you hit the link at the bottom to my previous commentary you can see it in the first rant.
Clinton Misstates Wife's Bosnia Tale; Apr 11, 2008; By Nedra Pickler; AP
The third excuse is, "all politicians lie anyway" but for the moment let's focus in on the second most widely used excuse.
"A lot of the way this whole campaign has been covered has amused me," Bill Clinton said in Boonville, Ind. "But there was a lot of fulminating because Hillary, one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995.
Thank you Billie-bob, you made my point. On this same lie, BOTH excuses have now been used. Broomer said it was a joke, and you said she was tired.
"Now I say that because what really has mattered is that even then she was interested in our troops," he said. "And I think she was the first first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone. And you would of thought, you know, that she'd robbed a bank the way they all carried on about this. And some of them when they're 60 they'll forget something when they're tired at 11 o'clock at night, too."
Gosh, what happened to Scooter Libbey when he forgot a name? He is still facing the charges in an appeal, and hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not eventually a million), for something he mis-stated when the original investigation wasn't even a crime.
(*Note to Eye... Lay off the BroomRider, she's almost out of it anyway.)
Isn't anything sacred any more?
I don't want too many of you shedding a lot of tears on this next article, but it certainly is a heartbreaker.
Higher state tax on beer?;
By Mike Zapler; Mercury News Sacramento Bureau; 04/11/2008
Eventually this will happen (to everything).
Joe Six-pack will have to pay a lot more to get his buzz on if Assemblyman Jim Beall has his way.
The San Jose Democrat on Thursday proposed raising the beer tax by $1.80 per six-pack, or 30 cents per can or bottle. The current tax is 2 cents per can. That's an increase of about 1,500 percent.
Don't you just love lawmakers. They want to tax anything pleasureable.
Beall said the tax would generate $2 billion a year to fund health care services, crime prevention and programs to prevent underage drinking and addiction.
The standard excuse for lawmakers is used here folks. Just like the Democrap excuses of joking and being tired, the liberal lawmaker uses health services as an excuse for everything.
"The people who use alcohol should pay for part of the cost to society, just like we've accepted that concept with tobacco," Beall said.
Tobacco was the Genesis. More are most certainly on the way.
"I predict the shelf life will be very short," said Assemblyman Roger Niello, R-Sacramento, vice chairman of the budget committee. "It's a piecemeal approach to the budget that completely avoids any discussion of spending discipline, which is fundamentally why we have the problem that we have."
Remember what most of the states did with their share of the tobacco settlements? They used it to balance their state budgets and didn't contribute squat to health costs.
Beall, a former Santa Clara County supervisor, has focused heavily on underage drinking during his time in Sacramento. He is pushing legislation that would require the sweet alcoholic malt beverages known as "alco-pops" to include warning labels clearly stating that they contain alcohol.
Hell, underage drinking is a right of passage, isn't it?
For all of you who neither smoke nor drink you shrug your shoulders and couldn't care less. Remember, your indulgences are next. Junk food is the next major target. Wake up and smell the brew, er roses, you are about to pay thru the stomach for your Doritos. Oh sorry, they already started on that one with their move to force biofuels down your throat.
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