Today's blog named because it's a mish-mash without a lot of clear direction. Tonight was the night I picked to catch up on some reading. So a couple items jumped out at me.
News item: Bush to Consider Social Security Plan That Does Not Include Private Accounts. Then why bother reforming it? Wasn't the whole idea of an "Ownership Society" to have ownership?!? The thing to do here is tell the GOP to grow some gonads and get this thing passed. Unfortunately, I don't happen to have millions to counter the lies and bullshit spread by the D's and the 527 groups. (I liked the photo on the website I picked out, an inflatable monkey flanked by what has got to be union stooges being paid to stand there and hold signs. Come to think of it, a lot of union work is standing around.) I want TRUE reform, not another Band-Aid.
In the "Sometimes Maryland Gets It Right" Department: A federal district court ruled today that a Ten Commandments display in a park in Frederick is constitutional. Wish the article had said how the court ruled, interested to know how the judges ruled individually vis-a-vis Bush/Reagan appointees vs. Clinton/Carter appointees.
Speaking of courts, I find it interesting that the Washington Times doesn't have anything on today's terrible Supreme Court decision but the Baltimore Sun does. So, now it's all right for a local government entity to go ahead and take MY property (speaking in a figurative sense since I live in an apartment right now) and put what THEY consider a "better" use on it, at my loss (since it wasn't at a fair value to me), and to enrich someone else's personal pocket. Roger Hedgecock was all over that today. But I can see the Sun wanting to trumpet that since it was their liberal buddies on the court that were the majority. (In fact, in reading this, I see the city of Baltimore filed a "friend of the court" brief in the case on the side of New London, Connecticut against the homeowners.) More than ever, it's time for the representatives in our legislative branch to rein in this judiciary.
Finally, the Wal-Mart saga hit the news again...sort of. Using the company liberals love to hate as their target, Ted Kennedy saw fit to introduce the so-called "Health Care Accountability Act." (Gee, a nice picture of still MORE union thugs standing around.) This extra batch of red tape would mandate states to generate a report each year to show where companies have 50 employees or more on government-funded health care. Generally this targets Wal-Mart, where a large number of employees are older (think of the "greeter" for example) and are most likely on Medicare. It's not hard then to imagine that Wal-Mart, having a high number of "golden agers" as employees, would rank high up on the scale of employees getting government-funded health care. If you're over 65, you get Medicare, need it or not. But it counts (in the unions' eyes) as ripping off the government.
So today, the pea soup was flowing and things get muddier in the country by the day. We'll see what bombshells fall tomorrow.
