Rule 5½ — Jay Scott Pike

The Pin-Up Files

Rule 5 — Jane Russell!

Boehner Makes a Reasonable Request...

"And it is time for the administration and time for our colleagues across the aisle… put something on the table! Tell us where you are!"

FOUND HIM

Say Hello to My Little Friend!

¡VIVA LOS ARMEROS DE LOS NARCOTRAFFICANTES! ¡VIVA!

Don't Worry, America; the Democrats Will Take Care of You...!

Brown signs California Dream Act

New law covers private funding; governor signals he may also favor expanding public Cal Grants eligibility.

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Gov. Jerry Brown jokingly uses Assemblyman Gil Cedillo's back to… (Christina House, For The Times)

— Los Angeles Times

July 26, 2011|By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times

Following through on a campaign promise, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law Monday easing access to privately funded financial aid for undocumented college students. He also signaled that he was likely to back a more controversial measure allowing those students to seek state-funded tuition aid in the future.

Cuts to adult day care funding troubling to Valley seniors

Vardush Hovanesyan, 93, at Salida Del Sol Adult Day Health Care Center in North Hollywood, Tuesday, July 26, 2011. (Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer)

San Fernando Valley seniors and health care officials were left with nagging worries on Tuesday following Gov. Jerry Brown's decision to discontinue funding for key health services, saying the ripple effect would have 

"On Monday, Brown vetoed a bill to continue funding for adult day health care, a blow to the state's 300 adult day health care centers that provide an array of services, including medical care, counseling and physical therapy to sick and disabled adults. The move follows Brown's decision to nix $169 million  from the state budget signed last month."
-- Los Angeles Daily News

The Country's in the Very Best of Hands!

Public Roasts DC Over Debt Ceiling And Default... UPDATED!

UPDATE: THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC SENATE HAS VOTED TO OWN ANY DEFAULT.  

MAKE THEM!

Call these wobbly or obstructionist GOP Congressdrones and tell them to get behind the Boehner Plan!  It ain't perfect, but you go to war with the weapons you've got, and it's a material start towards our goals.  The Democrats wouldn't be so freaked about it if they weren't.


http://www.house.gov

NO (19)

Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md.
Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas
Rep. Phil Gingrey , R-Ga.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio
Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo.
Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. (multiple news reports)
Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas
Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill.
Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga. (National Review)
Rep. Jeff Landry, R-La. (National Review)
Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla.
Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga.
Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C. (The Hill)
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa (The Hill)
Rep. Steve Southerland, R-Fla. (The Hill)
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn. (Washington Post)

LEANING NO (3)

Rep. Tim Scott, R-S.C.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. (The Hill)
Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz.

UNDECIDED (9)

Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga.
Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas
Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn.
Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J
Rep. Billy Long, R-Mo.
Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va.
Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C. (AP)
Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. (National Review)
Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio (The Hill)

...and Congress doesn't want to hear about it.


For those of you who've called your Congressman or Senator's office and gotten through, good job. Make yourselves heard.  But for those of you whose "representative" is of the other party... good luck.  Or if your rep is one of those ego-trippers who thinks it's more important to 'reach across the aisle' for the cameras... sucks to be you.


So you may want to consider contacting OTHER Congressmen and Senators, in which case you will encounter an amazing example of DC physics: when these blowhards are blowin' hard on Fox or CNN or the Sunday talk shows they're real machers, big deal players on the national stage, but when you try to contact them directly, when they have to be held personally accountable, it's "I'm sorry, but Senator Schumer only represents New York" or "Congresswoman Hirschul only represents NY-26" and so, of course, they can only take calls from their own constituents.


First off, ALL these shmendricks take money and volunteers from all over the country, happily, eagerly, greedily, as Deborah Leigh has pointed out.  Secondly, they're legislating for the whole damn country — if they're only the Congressdrone for NY-26 why are they screwing with my Social Security in CA-28? — so you would think the people they're legislating on would have a right to make themselves heard.


Not as far as Congress is concerned, though.  They will be able to stonewall you on the phone, because they'll recognize the area code.  So here's what you do:


Go to house.gov
Find the congressdrone you want to contact. Check out the area his district covers.
Go to Mapquest, Google maps, whatever.
Find a town in their district.
Find a vacant address.  You'll probably get pop-ups of vacancies right on the map site.  Copy the address.
You are now a resident of the Congressdrone's district.  Congratulations!  E-mail away.