Another excellent Vent.

And, I did catch the subtle head-toss of the hair a little over half-way through.

Thanks.
;)

Lawrence on August 22, 2006 at 10:49 AM

Ham on pork….yum-o!

Kid from Brooklyn on August 22, 2006 at 11:10 AM

I like that you’re a Southern gal. Although I’m still upset that your alma mater stole my alma mater’s favorite football coach away (Mark Richt). Go Noles!

realVerse on August 22, 2006 at 11:42 AM

Hey, realVerse. Is that Bethany, I presume? Someone said yesterday I sounded like a Yankee. ha ha. My accent– it’s kind of a small one– tends to disappear when I get nervous. An FSU girl, huh? Thank goodness you’re not a Gator, hee. And, thank you, thank you, thank you for Mark Richt. We dig him.

marykatharine on August 22, 2006 at 12:03 PM

Nice job, Mary Katharine! Informative, yet down-homey and conversational.

I hereby lobby to have a permanent MKH presence of some kind on this here site.

World B. Free on August 22, 2006 at 12:24 PM

We have reached the point where a lot of the people are voting for politicians who, rather than doing what is right for God and Country, can simply bring home the bacon. Then you have the liberal voter who either votes out of pure hatred for conservatives and God, or whacko environmental/homosexual/feminist/bleading heart for illegals and criminals/whatever else social issue they happen to be a toadie to. Add those all up and you have precious few who actually seem to give a crap about the United States of America itself anymore.

NRA4Freedom on August 22, 2006 at 12:55 PM

Great Vent marykatharine,
Keep up the good hunting..

alyce on August 22, 2006 at 1:55 PM

Excellent Vent MaryKatharine!

Thanks for the links to PorkB and Examine, well worth reading!

Aloha!

Kini on August 22, 2006 at 2:10 PM

But pullingmyhairout, the function of the gov’t shouldn’t be to take our money and use for anything they want. I’d wager most pork is spent for the sole purpose of providing the congresscritter to be able to say to their constituents “I brought $XX million into your district”, thereby giving them a reason to say “Vote to keep me in”. Sure, the “bridge to nowhere” is absurd, but so is the Charles Rangel Center for Public Service. (And I’d venture to say the bridge to nowhere ISN’T absurd to the few people in Alaska who’ll benefit from it>

Congress should NOT use our money for paying for public service centers, nor giving to farmers so they don’t grow crops, or to ’starving artists’ so they can create the next pi** Christ.

dalewalt on August 22, 2006 at 2:42 PM

the problem comes when everything is deemed to be a necessity

It always is - good job, Marykatherine!

Rick on August 22, 2006 at 4:15 PM

/em>html again…

Entelechy on August 22, 2006 at 4:26 PM

KID,
I didnt mean that…I meant what a goofy albeit amusing pun of sorts Yankeestyle :)
Hi Entelechy..dontcha hate when that happens? *g*

labwrs on August 22, 2006 at 5:27 PM

ok, who forgot to turn off the emphasis switch?

Kid from Brooklyn on August 22, 2006 at 6:21 PM

labwrs, especially when it can’t be fixed…

Basic HTML commands

Entelechy on August 22, 2006 at 6:48 PM

Line item veto. Why not?

NTWR on August 22, 2006 at 7:00 PM

A Republican administration that is not fiscally responsible is no different than a Democratic one. Republicans have been at the trough as much as Democrats, and they will keep swilling as long as they can get away with it. Want to stop or at least dratically cut down on ‘earmarks’? Term limits, term limits, term limits. Forfeiture of government pension for the worst ’silk purse with matching shoes out of a pig’s earmarks’
offenders.

Doug on August 22, 2006 at 7:40 PM

Doug,

“A Republican administration that is not fiscally responsible is no different than a Democratic one.”

Yes, they are still VERY different. The republican one is far less likely to believe that killing babies in the womb is some sort of “right” hidden in the Constitution that only they can find, far less likely to believe that the first amendment applies to everything from internet pornography to terrorists privacy during phone conversations while believing at the same time that THEY need to totally regulate or ignore the second, far less likely to believe that the REAL threat to the United States is Christianity while capitulating to Islamic terrorists, far less likely to believe that brainwashing young minds by teaching them that evolution theory is not only a “fact” but actually is “real science”, far less likely to put judges on the bench who subscribe to the goofy notions that heinous criminals just need to be rehabilitated and that homosexuals pedophiles are just practicing some other “valid” lifestyle that we need to accept, far less likely to think that Freedom and Liberty is just something that others will “give” you for free if you are nice enough to them, far less likely to believe that stealing other peoples money in higher taxes “stimulates” our economy, far less likely to embrace anti democratic governments or hostile dictatorships as “valid” Nations that the United States and the rest of the free world need understand and aid, far less likely to vote for something before they vote against it, far less likely to waste taxpayers money on attempting to make environmental changes that mankind cannot even begin to control, far less likely to use race as a bait, far less likely to sell their own Country out and become seditious traitors, and on and on and on and on.

NRA4Freedom on August 22, 2006 at 8:49 PM

Well Mary Katherine, I said you inspired me to do my first video blog and I did! HotAir is mentioned, of course. Though I meant to mention Townhall too and forgot! Forgive me.

Check me out!

Rightwingsparkle on August 23, 2006 at 12:49 AM

The representatives who fight for federal dollars for their districts are doing it for their district. isn’t that what we elect them to do?

Sure. But let’s have it done in the open. Secrecy is fine in national security, but it has no place in appropriations. If the Congresscritters are doing us such good service, we ought to know all about it.

Pablo on August 23, 2006 at 5:59 AM