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The Senate is going to take up stimulus two early in this year's session.

 

Conservatives finished 2009 as the largest ideological group, while Gallup also shows the number of people who identify themselves as Democrats has dropped below 50% and Rasmussen shows Republicans leading by nine points on the generic Congressional ballot.

 

Democrats are losing members in the House, which will make it harder for them to pass health care.  Even Ben Nelson, Senatorial Gigolo is now saying that it was a mistake to do health care this year.  The other mistakes include having married couples pay more than unmarried people for their health care and taxing high-end health care plans, which Obama has now approved.

 

Less than one percent of known or suspected terrorists are on the no-fly list, but don't worry, the system worked!  Obama is at least ordering a surge in the number of air marshals by February 1, which won't help if the intelligence about a bomber arrives while he's in the air and the default answer is "we'll question him when he gets off the airplane…if it lands."  While Obama is still worried about closing Gitmo, Al Qaeda is blaming other causes than Gitmo for their attacks.

 

The IRS wants to license all tax preparers.  The professional tax preparers like H&R Block are cheering this because it makes it harder to compete with them.

 

Government-provided cell phones are the fastest growing welfare program in the country.  It now costs $1 billion.

 

Yet again, the free market is outperforming government, and doing it cheaper.  This case happens to be related to health care.

 

"Negro" is still a race choice on Census forms.  Many of the people who are upset want that same government to run their health care.

 

First cell phones caused brain cancer, now they can protect against Alzheimer's.  The message:  don't believe the scare stories.

 

Women as explained by engineers.  Enjoy.

 

People across the state are preparing for snowpocalypse, with some school systems in metro Atlanta already closed and Bibb County preemptively cancelling after school programs.  I'm guessing there's no bread, milk, water, or portable gas stoves available anywhere.

 

Inmates on Georgia's death row are planning a hunger strike.  Here's hoping they take it seriously.

 

GDOT says that just because Atlanta doesn't want the tunnel connecting I-675 to GA-400 doesn't mean that it won't happen.

 

Georgia, Florida, and Alabama are trying to make sure that all water talks are kept secret.

 

Here's another legislative preview, courtesy of Georgia Legislative Watch.

 

While Houston County is trying to get everybody to pony up for the waste of money that is G-RAMP, Bibb County is waiting on Houston to give money for land acquisition near the Robins runway.  That is a more worthy project.

 

The state approved a 39-bed expansion at Houston Medical Center.  Why did the state have to approve it?