Snow Finally Arrives; Furlough Day Wasted

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) killed the no-jobs bill because he was worried that Republicans would use its porky projects to beat them up in November.  Instead, they're going to try and make the Republicans play ball with them on a bill that will have four small ideas that still won't create jobs.  That doesn't mean that the pork will go away, however.

 

Obama's top economic advisor says that almost all economists think higher taxes mean more jobs.

 

I will agree with the aptly named Sen. Dick Durbin for once, and apply the same thing to the entire state of Georgia.

 

A student at Oklahoma University is working on getting pictures of snow from all 50 states.  He'll be able to accomplish that this year.

 

Consumer sentiment was down early this month.

 

Some Democrats want to eliminate the filibuster.

 

Only 8% of Americans want to see Congress re-elected, but that only applies to the members who aren't their own.

 

The reviews of the Fort Hood shooting do not mention the word "Islam."  How do you stop or defeat Islamist terrorism when you can't even identify it?  You also have to love that the peaceful, serene, loving, caring religion of Islam has to be asked not to be violent over cartoons on Facebook.

 

Environmentalists have started making endangered species condoms.

 

Hall County gave members of the General Assembly "chicken" boxes full of goodies.  I hope Warner Robins and Houston County aren't going to spend our tax dollars on this.

 

The state House passed the state budget yesterday with over $1 billion in spending cuts.

 

The first bill to reach Governor Perdue's desk this session was a banking bill.  He signed it yesterday.

 

Yesterday was "poor people's day" in Atlanta.  Why are we celebrating poverty?

 

MARTA caved and changed the name of the yellow line to the gold line.

 

Virginia has also passed a bill to prohibit microchip implantation, only they took a more religious-based perspective to get there.

 

Local officials had a tour of the G-RAMP site on Wednesday.  They still haven't shown any real evidence that G-RAMP will have any effect.