An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Morning Coffee 02/27/09
TVA pond structurally OK in last inspection
The last inspection of the Kingston Fossil Plant’s fly ash pond found seepage and eroded walls but concluded the storage facility for coal waste was structurally sound two months before its collapse.
According to a Tennessee Valley Authority report, three TVA engineers inspected the facility on Oct. 20, 2008. However, the inspection report, written by TVA engineer Chris Buttram, wasn’t completed before the Dec. 22 failure.
Well then, it wasn’t “OK” then, was it! And just why the heck did it take that yahoo more than 2 months to write a report? Jeeeeez. Seems to me that both the inspection team, and the clown suppose to do the write up, were grossly incompetent.
Cash-strapped lawmakers take a look at ’skin taxes’
It’s enough to make you blush: Some politicians want a bigger taste of the economy’s naughty side, pushing for special taxes on dirty magazines, racy movies, sex toys and strip clubs.
In Washington state, a half-dozen cash-strapped legislators recently endorsed a huge sales tax increase on explicit movies, magazines and other sex-themed products.
Ok, this is getting ridiculous. What’s next? Tax on your spare nostril? I mean, do you really NEED two? While I’m in no way, shape or form, an advocate of porn, and would be just as happy if it would go away, making up taxes is getting to be a way of life with politicians. Instead of encouraging business, they seek to destroy. And it’s not just the porn, it’s ALL business. Porn, we can live without, but there are way to many businesses we need that will be closing up shot due to all the taxing. ENOUGH!
President Barack Obama unveils $4 trillion budget
Key to Mr Obama’s hopes of securing its passage will be three moderate Republicans in the Senate — Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, of Maine, and Arlen Specter, of Pennsylvania. They were the only congressional Republicans who voted for the President’s $787 billion economic stimulus plan. Without their support it would not have passed. Half the cost of the ambitious healthcare overhaul will be paid for by higher taxes on wealthy Americans. Mr Obama will allow tax cuts given to couples earning more than $250,000 — and individuals taking in $200,000 — to expire at the end of 2010. The marginal tax rate on their incomes will rise from 35 to almost 40 per cent. Most people earning less will benefit from a tax cut.
It is become more and more apparent, this man has NO idea what the hell he is doing. And neither do those pulling his strings. But perhaps it is really his intention to destroy the country? He’s already off to a great start.
U.N. genocide court jails Rwandan priest for 25 years
A U.N. court trying the masterminds of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide jailed a former military chaplain for 25 years Friday for sexual assault and killing ethnic Tutsis who sought sanctuary at a seminary.
Emmanuel Rukundo is one of two clergymen the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) indicted for their role in the 100-day slaughter in which troops and Hutu militia butchered 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus.
Just what kind of chaplain? What kind of seminary? Was this the Church of Perpetual Scum Suckers? I hope he rots in that prison.
How Obama’s budget proposal affects California
California will see a sweeping commitment to addressing climate change, a huge tax hit for its wealthiest taxpayers and a major benefit to Silicon Valley’s tech industry in President Obama’s first budget proposal.
Welp, y’all out there on the left coast can look forward to another exodus. First, you ran off the businesses, now you’re going to force out the folks that actually PAY the majority of the taxes. Way to go. Y’all wanted ‘change’, now you’re going to have to live with it. I really wish someone would explain to me how the poorest workers get tax ‘cuts’, when they don’t even pay taxes. This one has had me stumped for years. Oh….yeah….they get tax ‘credits’. Wealth redistribution. In other words….gubmint theft.
Partners in Arms? Fatah and Hamas Say They’ll Unify
Fatah and Hamas leaders have announced an “agreement in principle” that would lead to a joint Fatah-Hamas led Palestinian Authority, according to the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency. The two groups plan to form a joint transitional government that would operate until elections can be held. In addition, they agreed to a prisoner exchange between them.
I’m afraid this won’t bode well for Israel.
EU: Commission to announce 436 mln euros in Gaza aid
The European Commission is to announce 436 million euros in aid for the Palestinian people at a conference in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday. The EU is the largest donor to the Palestinians and the EU executive announced the donation on Friday.
The ‘Conference in support of the Palestinian economy for the Reconstruction of Gaza’ will be co-chaired by Egypt and Norway and representatives of all international donors to the Palestinians will attend it, the European Commission said.
I don’t see that pouring money down a rabbit hole is such a great idea. When you get right down to it, why don’t they just send weapons and ammunition? That’s what the money is for y’know. It’s not like the palies will be building schools, factories, a fishing fleet. Is the EU going to offer aid to the Israelis, to help rebuild the homes and businesses destroyed by the palies over the years? Of course not. Gaza is one big welfare cesspool, and it’s being encouraged to stay that way by the “international community”.
Obama Paving Way for Health Care Rationing, Say Budget Committee Republicans
The budget includes $634-billion that the administration is calling a “down payment” on a health-care reform plan that Obama wants to enact this year. Obama wants to set aside the money before announcing how the plan will work.
“It could lead to rationing,” said Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, who was initially nominated by Obama to be Commerce Secretary before he withdrew his name.
Will B. Hussein insists we have a mark on our foreheads, or hand, before we can even make an appointment to see a doctor?
S.S. D.D.
re: budget article -
Without their support it would not have passed.
Making it seem, to me at least, that the MSM is going to try to blame the so-called Republicans for the stimulus plan. At least, they are laying the groundwork for blaming the Rs. Just watch…
Oh, I don’t doubt it for one minute. When everything falls to pieces, we find ourselves being taken down into the cesspool, there will be some serious finger pointing. But I don’t see how 3 ignorant individuals makes that crap ‘bi-partisan’.