Tuesday, March 16, 2010

The Witches Hammer's New Gig

Despite my salty nature, I purposely make my writing PG-13.

Erick, the evangelical Christian who frequently questions the Christianity of those he disagrees with politically, calls a sitting Supreme Court Justice a "goat f*cking child molester" and gets a gig on CNN.

I think it may be time to talk about the history of Tortillas and why the owner shuttered the place.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

I believe it was "goat-f*cking child molester."

griftdrift said...

You're right. It was much worse. I'm really starting to not give a shit. The media - both old and new - gets what it deserves.

nast said...

Tortillas closed because of goat fucking? I always thought it was because people got tired of paying money for a rice-filled "burrito".

lazermike said...

It was because of people like Nast who didn't recognize the power of the green sauce to heal the sick, comfort the afflicted, and restore the precious gift of life itself to those who had all too recently left this mortal realm.

Anonymous said...

Check this out:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada buried this anti-democratic poison pill designed to prevent any future Congress from repealing the central feature of the Healtcare Bill.

Beginning on page 1,000 of the measure, Section 3403 reads in part: ". it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection."

In other words, if President Barack Obama signs this measure into law, no future Senate or House will be able to change a single word of Section 3403, regardless whether future Americans or their representatives in Congress wish otherwise!!

Note that the subsection at issue here concerns the regulatory power of the Independent Medicare Advisory Board (IMAB) to "reduce the per capita rate of growth in Medicare spending."

That is precisely the kind of open-ended grant of regulatory power that effectively establishes the IMAB as the ultimate arbiter of the cost, quality and quantity of health care to be made available to the American people.

And Reid wants the decisions of this group of unelected federal bureaucrats to be untouchable for all time.

No wonder the majority leader tossed aside assurances that senators and the public would have at least 72 hours to study the text of the final Senate version of Obamacare before the critical vote on cloture. And no wonder Reid was so desperate to rush his amendment through the Senate, even scheduling the key tally on it at 1 a.m., while America slept.

True to form, Reid wanted to keep his Section 3403 poison pill secret for as long as possible, just as he negotiated his bribes for the votes of Senators Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bernie Sanders of Vermont behind closed doors.

The final Orwellian touch in this subversion of democratic procedure is found in the ruling of the Reid-controlled Senate Parliamentarian that the anti-repeal provision is not a change in Senate rules, but rather of Senate "procedures."

Why is that significant?

Because for 200 years, changes in the Senate's standing rules have required approval by two-thirds of those voting, or 67 votes rather than the 60 Reid's amendment received.

Reid has flouted two centuries of standing Senate rules to pass a measure in the dead of night that no senator has read, and part of which can never be changed. If this is not tyranny, then what is?

DON'T SIT BY AND LET THIS HAPPEN IN THE DARK!!! FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST!

nast said...

Check this out:

http://www.factcheck.org/2010/01/medicare-board-unrepealable/

Juliana said...

as my wise husband often says " in some organizations- stupid scales upward"

Wes said...

As a general rule, I treat any statement that contains the words "PLEASE FORWARD!" in all caps as completely fraudulent and idiotic. From the looks of the factcheck.org article immediately posted below it, once again I am right to do so.

WF

Anonymous said...

I miss Tortillas. What's the story?