Jeff's Briefs
May 27, 2001
By JEFF RUSHING, Webmaster
Hours after the moderate Vermont senator announced he would leave the GOP and hand Senate control to Democrats, Jim Jeffords told home-state reporters on Thursday that Bush's budget provided insufficient money for education.
In other words, Jeffords wasn't happy that Republicans weren't kowtowing to his every wish, so he took his ball and went home.
Jeffords continues to believe the false assumption that putting more money into education will make a difference. The education budget has increased dramatically over the last twenty years, but the scores have gone down, proving that spending doesn't matter as much as how money is spent and demanding results from teachers who hide behind their unions.
In reality, Bush has made revamping education one of his top priorities, and would raise the Education Department's budget to $44.5 billion next year, $4.6 billion over this year's amount.
Benedict Arnold also left to join what he thought was the winning side, and just as he learned, so will Jeffords. Having the biggest guns doesn't equal winning the war.
I hate to say it, being a distant, distant relative (we're on opposite sides of a 500-foot sequoia family tree), but it's time for Trent Lott ot step aside and bring in new leadership of the GOP in the Senate.
From www.georgecarlin.com, his "What a Week" note:
SMOKE IF YA GOT 'EM
The anti-smoking movement is a good example of liberal paternalism; it doesn't trust people to make their own choices. Instead, condescending, over-educated, upper-middle class white people protest cigarette niche-marketing aimed at other allegedly more vulnerable groups, such as blacks and young blue-collar women. The white, liberal elitists proclaim themselves superior, seeing other groups as too weak to stand up to the pressure of advertising.
A new CNN/Time poll says that 46% of Americans think that President Bush has paid enough attention to the most important problems. Compare that to 1993, when only 37% said that Clinton did the same. No surprise, since Bush's first priorities were tax cuts, energy and education, while his predecessor was worried about allowing gays in the military and raising taxes.
For those who see the fun in dying, a company called Southern Caskets Direct would like to make sure your final resting place is welcoming.
The Atlanta company makes caskets with bright lithographed designs and catchy titles, such as a NASCAR theme dubbed "The Race is Over," featuring a checkered flag and racing cars. Golf fans can lay for eternity is "Fairway to Heaven," and for those with a sense of humor you can choose a model that looks like it's wrapped in paper and stamped "Return to Sender."
For the ladies, the company also sells scenes of a beach, a mountain lake, a garden and a lighthouse.
For more information, check out Southern Caskets online.
Just as feminists in the U.S. emerged victorious against our Defense Department, the Australian Defense Department caved into demands that women soldiers be allowed in combat. I would just like to know why they want to participate front-and-center on the battlefield? I'm sorry, but there are some lines that women just don't want to cross, beyond all-male clubs with stuffy old men smoking cigars and watching porn.
How stupid is management at McDonald's? Remember a decade ago when they announced that its restaurants would no longer use beef fat in cooking french fries and only vegetable oil would be used?
Well, it turns out that the fast-food behemoth is full of crap. I and others who have any inkling of being health-conscious, not to mention millions of misled vegetarians (some for religious reasons, so they're worried about going to hell now, thanks a bunch Mickey D's), are now learning that beef flavoring is added to its french fries during potato processing before they are shipped to restaurants in the United States.
Their reaction: "This isn't anything new," posted on the web site last week, and a statement that McDonald's never says it claimed the fries it sells in the U.S. are vegetarian.
Yeah, that should diffuse any acrimony over their lying butts. Let me know where to sign up for the class-action suit that two American Hindus have filed.
CHINA UN-HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE:
A Chinese-born American citizen and business professor who was mysteriously detained in February has been charged with spying for Taiwan.
The professor, Li Shaomin, 45, a naturalized citizen with a Ph.D. from Princeton, is one of several ethnic Chinese scholars with American citizenship or permanent residency who have been detained in China over several months, often on vague grounds of espionage. Professor Li, also a marketing consultant to international corporations in China, is the first American among the recent detainees to be formally charged with spying. The reasons for the charge have not been announced.
Western diplomats and China scholars have voiced grave concern about an apparent hardening of policy by the State Security Bureau, seemingly intended to intimidate the growing number of Western-educated Chinese who are returning to work or conduct research.
Last month, the State Department took the rare step of warning overseas scholars with Chinese roots to think twice before traveling here, especially if they criticized the government or had links with Taiwan.
Let's compare energy policies: How do the Democrats figure to solve current
problems?
A) Boost supply.
B) Buy more hamsters for the regional Super Duper Wheels
C) Hook up kids' razor scooters to charge home-powering batteries
D) Tell Americans to get out of your cars and turn off the lights
Answer: Certainly not A, but most likely D.
As the extremist environmentalists on the Left threw out an ad that had a little girl asking, "May I have some more arsenic in my water, please?," the GOP should respond with an ad showing a girl telling Dems to "get a clue, please."
The latest Vents from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
I think that the seat belt laws, along with welfare, are inhibiting Darwinism.
Scientists predict from five to seven hurricanes this season. How long will it take the Democrats to blame them all on Bush?
Considering that Georgia teachers rank 17th in salary and our students are 51st, giving more money to many teachers is like putting 93 octane gasoline in a car that requires only 87.
I find that I now have zero tolerance for zero tolerance.
Why don't we follow Al Gore's lead and just release some more of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve? I mean that really worked last time, didn't it?
Do aliens have inalienable rights?
A man with five wives isn't a bigamist. He's a masochist.
In typical fashion, California Gov. Gray Davis refuses to accept the blame for California's self-inflicted energy problems, blaming it on, conveniently, Texas.
Why do females ask trick questions like "What do you want from me?"
Homer quote: "No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed."
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