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wingrider
07-29-2011, 01:50 AM
I finally figured out why we can't balance the federal budget and why e have such a deficit.

Abbott & Costello-7x13 =28 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkbQDEXJy2k#)

25 divide by 5 equals 14 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omyUncKI7oU#)

Abbott & Costello: "Two Tens for a Five" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7pMYHn-1yA#)

wingrider
07-29-2011, 01:54 AM
did you hear about the New York congressman who wanted to become a farmer?

He wanted to buy a strip of land 6 inches wide and 10 miles long

when the real estate agent why he wanted land in that kind of configuration the congressman said. " I want to grow Spagetti"

Conley
07-29-2011, 08:08 AM
:D

aint that the truth

More news:

Emergency Team Of 8th-Grade Civics Teachers Dispatched To Washington

WASHINGTON—With lawmakers still at an impasse over increasing the debt ceiling, a special team of 40 eighth-grade civics teachers was air-dropped into Washington earlier today in a last-ditch effort to teach congressional leaders how the government’s legislative process works. “We started them off with the basics, like the difference between a senator and a representative, and then moved on to more complex concepts, like what a resolution is,” Bozeman, MT social studies teacher Heidi Rossmiller told reporters as all 535 members of Congress copied down the definition of “checks and balances” from a whiteboard in the House chamber. “It’s been a bit of an uphill battle, since most of them seemed to have no real sense of how or why a bill is passed, and Sen. [Harry] Reid [D-NV] had to come up to me during a break and ask, ‘Ms. Rossmiller, what happens if Congress can’t reach a compromise?’ But hopefully it will all start to sink in soon.” At press time, an unruly House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) had noisily stormed out of a lecture on bipartisan cooperation, claiming it was “too hard.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/emergency-team-of-8thgrade-civics-teachers-dispatc,21023/

MMC
07-29-2011, 12:54 PM
Looks like those Tea-bags got hard on the Boner.....at least the Boner didn't run out weeping. :'( :D >:D

waltky
08-13-2016, 01:29 AM
Granny says, "Dat's right - dat 'Do-nuthin' Congress ain't doin' nothin'...
http://www.politicalforum.com/images/smilies/icon_grandma.gif
Congress 'AWOL' on ‘All Significant Investigations of Misconduct by Federal Gov’t.’
August 12, 2016 – Congress has been “AWOL [absent without leave] on almost all significant investigations of misconduct by the federal government,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton told CNSNews.com on Thursday. Fitton made the comments after the conservative watchdog group made public 296 pages of previously unreleased State Department records, including 44 emails that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton failed to turn over last year despite her sworn declaration that she had done so.


The emails “show [that] the Clinton Foundation, Clinton donors, and operatives worked with Hillary Clinton in potential violation of the law,” according to the conservative watchdog group, which currently has 18 active Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits. Over the past four years, Judicial Watch has uncovered troves of new information dating back to 2009 on Clinton’s use of a private email server to conduct government business and the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya while she was secretary of state that has apparently eluded seven congressional committees. CNSNews.com asked Fitton if any members of Congress have been in contact with his group regarding these latest revelations. “We have not had any interest from members of Congress in our work,” Fitton replied.

Asked if he was surprised by that, Fitton answered: “No. Congress as an institution is AWOL on almost all significant investigations of misconduct by the federal government,” he said. “Whether they’re incapable or unwilling or too conflicted or compromised, they are not conducting investigations of any significant nature. So we keep on doing our work independent of Congress.” CNSNews also asked Fitton if he was surprised to discover that former Clinton aide Huma Abedin was allowed to work at the Clinton Foundation and a consulting firm tied to the Clinton family while she was employed at the State Department. “I was not surprised at all, and this is the tip of the iceberg, I guarantee you,” he replied. State Dept. documents also show that on Dec. 11, 2012, spokesman Brock Johnson informed Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s former chief-of staff, that “Anne Weismann [of] Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) [is] requesting records sufficient [to] show the number of .email accounts associated with” Clinton.

On Wednesday, Judicial Watch released Mills’ responses to interrogatories in which Mills acknowledged “having conversations with Bryan Pagliano….in or around March 2013, when the email account of [Clinton advisor] Sidney Blumenthal was compromised by a hacker known as Guccifer. As I recall, these discussions involved whether this event might affect Secretary Clinton’s email…” Pagliano, who helped set up Clinton’s private email server while she was secretary of state, refused to testify before a House committee investigating Benghazi. In April, President Obama said he would not interfere with the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s private email server. But “there was no investigation to interfere with,” Fitton told CNSNews. Fitton noted that the FBI’s Public Integrity Unit failed to find any criminal offenses despite the fact that classified information was found on Clinton’s private server.

In a July 5 statement, FBI director James Comey said that “although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.” That was the same FBI unit that also investigated the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of 426 tax-exempt organizations, including many conservative and Tea Party groups, Fitton pointed out. Last October, the Justice Department informed members of Congress that “our investigation found no evidence that any IRS employee acted with criminal intent…. What occurred is disquieting and may necessitate corrective action – but it does not warrant criminal prosecution.” Judicial Watch has been granted discovery by two federal judges in two of the 18 FOIA cases it has filed. One of those two cases involves Abedin’s outside employment with the Clinton Foundation. The other lawsuit involves the now discredited “talking points” used by former UN Ambassador Susan Rise in an discredited attempt to link an anti-Muslim video with the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in which U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.

Judicial Watch provided CNSNews with a list of its major court filings: (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/judicial-watchs-tom-fitton-congress-awol-all-significant)