Healing, dealing, contemplating. I’ll be back soon.
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Healing, dealing, contemplating. I’ll be back soon.
Posted in Blogging [...] SEC. 4105. EVIDENCE-BASED COVERAGE OF PREVENTIVE
SERVICES IN MEDICARE.
(a) AUTHORITY TO' [...]
Stand back, Nevada! Jim Gibbons is going totally Palin on your ass!
Yep. Gibbons has gone rogue over the stimulus money, and singlehandedly usurped the powers of the Legislative Interim Finance Committee by approving at least 11 projects without any Legislative oversight. ([...]
Through the events of the last couple of weeks and days, I have been showered with love and kindnesses too numerous to count.
And I am humbled.
Posted in Cardiac Chronicles [...] So, I was reading an article from the Review Journal about how the Southern Nevada Water Authority executive board just voted to appeal a recent ruling against the Authority's plan to pipe water out of rural Nevada down here so that casinos can fill their pools and to replace [...]
Wow! I feel like a kid in a candy store!
Just look at all those nifty candidates I get to pick from in the Nevada Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, now that I'm a Nevada Republican! ([...]
Disgraced and grotesque John Ensign could serve out his current term as the least significant person in the United States Senate free and clear of any and all legal complications, some beltway kids are reporting.
Ensign, who has always sucked very hard, briefly stepped into [...]
This just in from the Protectors of Tule Springs:
HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE!!!!Despite the lack of press coverage (more to come this weekend, I think), the Protectors of Tule Springs, along with other coalition groups has done what everyone told me was impossible 3 years ago.
The cities of Las Vegas and North [...]
This just in from the Protectors of Tule Springs:
HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE!!!!The cities of Las Vegas and North Las [...]
Hmm, carry the two, now round, and ... there. The Congressional Budget Office has finally assigned a numerical value to the Harry Reid Government Rollover Health Care Bill of 2009. It's 42. Or $849 billion. Or whatever. Anyway, now "all eyes," as they say in' [...]
Channel 8 is reporting that Nor'Town City Manager Gregory Rose is on paid leave and may be leaving the city permanently. (VegasNow) TeeVee folk think it's because of the missing "More Cops" money, but Rose has apparently denied it.
More about missing "More Cops" money:
I-Team: Tax' [...]If you are just getting to the point in your therapy sessions where you don't have night sweats about that hideous mayoral campaign we recently endured, David McKee reminds of how that was, at least partly, a feud twixt the Boyd family and the Fertittas. ([...]
Sending this from my iPhone: Pacemaker is going in this evening.
Posted in Politics [...] The Clark County Commission voted to support a resolution in favor of making the northern Vegas Wash into a Urban National Park. (RJ)
Next up, city of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas:
November 18th Las Vegas City Council 9am- Corner of Stewart and Las Vegas Blvd. near Fremont street. Bring change for [...]
It only took the Gube a week to come up with this swift response to a Nevada Supreme Court decision to boot a Gib-appointee off the bench. Yep. To something that happened last week.
Probably slept in Monday.
[...]First they stick us with the only fellow truly worthy of the title "Republican governor," and then they run away after learning what that really means.
Abandon rule by pure market forces and the resulting slaughter-bench of all decent human [...]
Alas, Jon Ralston is probably right and we shall be entertained (if not altogether amused) by the specter of yet another special session of the Assembled Wisdom in Carson City, NV. The entertainment will no doubt feature Governor Gibbons acting as though he has never said a [...]
Conservative Senate Democrats insist that any health legislation reaching Barack Obama's desk must be small, deferred and insurance industry-friendly enough to guarantee that Democrats lose hundreds of elections in 2010 if not beyond.
So rather than doing something popular like, oh, letting people [...]
Just a follow up on a post from last week: Clark County, the City of Las Vegas, and North Las Vegas are voting on resolutions to make the upper Las Vegas Wash into an Urban National Park. Here are the meeting times again:
November 17th Clark County Commission 10am 500 S. [...]
Just a follow up on a post from last week: Clark County, the City of Las Vegas, and North Las Vegas are voting on resolutions to make the upper Las Vegas Wash into an Urban National Park. Here are the meeting times again:
November 17th Clark County Commission 10am 500 S. [...]
This one is for Sweetie:
This one is for Omie:
This one is for Ali:
Posted in Diversions Tagged: Miscellaneous Diversions [...] 
“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my church.” ~ Thomas Paine
Posted in Freethought, Sunday Morning Reading [...] Well, this is disappointing. Your Gleaner, somewhat to my own surprise, has been looking forward to America and Its Media's Full-on Farcefest starring Wingnut Barbie. And yet even before it starts in earnest, I'm already tiring of it. It's not unlike the letdown' [...]
The 60 Plus Association, which is some thing for wingnut geezers (or should that be geezer wingnuts?), is running ads against several Democrats who voted for the House health care reform bill, including Nevada's very own Dina Titus.
The group is fronted by Pat [...]
You may have noticed that now the wingnuts are vowing to get their activist judges on the Supreme Court to legislate from the bench and kill any health care bill that becomes law.
There actually are some intriguing [...]
OK, let me get this straight: According to Representative Dean Heller (R-NV2), if I want to purchase a new television set instead of paying for my required automobile insurance, then it should be my privilege to do so? “They ought to choose whether or not they want access,” [...]
According to Ralston's Flash, an invite to the Xmas party for the Sierra Nevada Republican Women's Club promises to award an "amazing door prize from the Governor" (Sun)
Now, my sources, ever unreliable, have discovered what that door prize will be! Here's a top-secret photo of the Governor practicing for [...]
This just in from the Protectors of Tule Springs:
On November 17th and 18th, an unprecedented event will take place. The Clark County Commission, the City of Las Vegas, and the City of North Las Vegas will all be placing a RESOLUTION on their agendas which will read in part: This is a resolution supporting [...]
This just in from the Protectors of Tule Springs:
On November 17th and 18th, an unprecedented event will take place. The Clark County Commission, the City of Las Vegas, and the City of North Las Vegas will all be placing a RESOLUTION on their agendas which will read in part: This is a resolution supporting [...]
No, not because of the usual stench circa Craig and Losse--man, that ain't the pigfarm, is it?
Nope. I mean: you'd better hold your nose because the BSS Nor'Town is agoin' down!
We learn today that Councilperson Anita Wood has' [...]
For years, North Las Vegas Mayor Mike Montandon has shilled for the problem gambling industry, er, neighborhood casinos and also served as a reliable yes-man for the sprawl lobby. Naturally he thinks he should be governor.
But it turns out Montandon is' [...]
A massacre of sorts has been reported at the Moonie-owned Washington Times -- hard to believe this type of thing doesn't happen at that organization more often, really -- in which the official newspaper of the Republican Party (relics, both) has axed the company' [...]
"Today America is less free," said Dean Heller in response to House passage of "the Pelosi healthcare takeover bill."
Meantime, back in the reality-based community, Nevada is fortunate to have two other members of the [...]
"Now that the House has passed major health-care legislation, the pressure is building on Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to pass a bill by President Obama's Christmas deadline. Reid has an even harder task in front of him than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did." [Examiner] Yes, because there are' [...]
It takes two to tango. It takes two to be bipartisan. There is no indication the Republican Party members in Congress have any intention of cooperating with much of anything. Some examples:
#1. Filibuster delays on the extension of unemployment benefits, business tax credits, and housing tax credit [...]
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