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Senate bailout bill hits the Internet; Update: File added; Update: Not earmarks?

posted at 10:24 am on October 1, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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The Senate will begin debate within minutes on their attempt to revive the bailout bill rejected by the House. They have released the bill text this morning, and the Senate Conservatives Fund website has it for public perusal. The new version has no allocations going to the Housing Trust Fund, which the Dodd version originally did, so ACORN will get no money from the bailout.

However, the Senate did add a few winners to this new version:

New Tax earmarks in Bailout bill
- Film and Television Productions (Sec. 502)
- Wooden Arrows designed for use by children (Sec. 503)
- 6 page package of earmarks for litigants in the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident, Alaska (Sec. 504)

Tax earmark “extenders” in the bailout bill.
- Virgin Island and Puerto Rican Rum (Section 308)
- American Samoa (Sec. 309)
- Mine Rescue Teams (Sec. 310)
- Mine Safety Equipment (Sec. 311)
- Domestic Production Activities in Puerto Rico (Sec. 312)
- Indian Tribes (Sec. 314, 315)
- Railroads (Sec. 316)
- Auto Racing Tracks (317)
- District of Columbia (Sec. 322)
- Wool Research (Sec. 325)

Ford..."They've circled the problem..."

...Now, they should fix it :D

I went to Alaska for a week cruise last month

Tug

Skagway

Canoe

Soapy Smith's Skull (Google it)

Aft Deck

My desk drawers in blue...

My Record Player

Playing some Billy Idol tonight, Rebel Yell!

Yo! to Bend O.

I see you in Bend are taking a peak..

Hope you find that my site don't reak :)

VTV...Scarry digital reporter

Have you seen this? Kindof freaky:

VTVLive.com

Biker-Smoker

I was driving home from work yesterday and noticed a bicyclist standing in the shade, holding his fancy 10-speed in one hand and toking on a cigarette with the other. I found the scene rather funny and started singing to myself (in a punk rock\speed metal beat):

Biker-smoker, Biker-smoker
Biker-smoker, Biker-smoker
Biker-smoker, Biker-smoker
It's not a good idea.

Biker-smoker, Biker-smoker
Biker-smoker, Biker-smoker
Biker-smoker, Biker-smoker

I like to ride my bike and I like to smoke cig's too
I can really feel the burn, when the tar fills up my lungs

I'm saving fuel.
And the environment too.
But, I'm killing myself as well.

Biker-smoker, Biker-smoker
Biker-smoker, Biker-smoker
Biker-smoker, Biker-smoker
It's not a good idea.

Very similar to this the silliness of this picture:












Maybe I'll put it to music???

Pugs are funny

Wipeout...The BEST TV game show in decades

Tuesdays, on ABC...Wipeout is gameshow, obstacle course, sport comedy that can keep my whole family entertained the whole 60 minutes.

I can't get enough of the show. Besides the funny slapstick humor of people just killing themselves to get through the course, the commentary from the two John's and the roving reporter on the course is just hilarious.

Muppet singing Ode to Joy...I thought it was funny

Wow! Ford quality is now equal to Toyota...

VS




What an embarrassment! I just saw a Ford car commercial and they think it's great to advertise that the quality of their cars are now equal to that of Toyota -- I think I'd keep that to myself if I were Ford.

Basically, they're saying, "Hey world, we started this whole mass produced car thing and have had all these years to be better than everyone else...we convinced everyone for awhile that we were the only\best choice, thus quality could drop and sales wouldn't...then a foreign country, Japan, comes into the industry and soon becomes known as the best quality car, or at least better than us...and then we needed to catch up to them, because American's were buying more of their cars than ours...and now we have, so buy our cars again."

L A M E !

A cool picture of a Hillsboro Oregon Aviation Graduate in Action

Happy Puppies

I downloaded this photo the other day...

and my wife posted it to her blog, thinking she had downloaded it :P

I decided that I would still post it, because it's so cute.

Quick video of me changing the tire of our Kia Spectra

My wife came home from work with a flat tire...It was in the upper 90's, a very hot day, but it had to be changed. And, since this would be my first maintenance on the new car...I figured I'd record it.