Hearings this week. (Hell Week in the Senate, btw, 6/6/06 and all that.)

OMFG, there really is a Fisheries hearing on June 14th and I am going to be in DC and have a free afternoon. OMG! I don't actually watch the Fisheries hearings because Ted Stevens chairs them and I really can't take much of Ted Stevens. I get the summary and peruse it. But they went and scheduled a hearing on the Oceans for the 14th. God is testing me and saying, 'put up or shut woman.'

BTW, just so you know, it's Hell Week in the US Senate. Bill Frist, who can miraculously diagnose comatose people via two-year old video tape, is using his awesome powers as Majority Leader of the United States Senate to make sure that the Republic doesn't crumble due to gay people burning flags while they enact more Death Taxes on real 'muricans. America is such a swell country and faces so little in the way of problems that Flags, Gays and Estate Taxes are the most pressing issues we face. (Honestly, is this man a bottom feeding pond scum or what?)

So, don't miss your chance to see wingnuttia on parade on the Senate this week. We can have those two brain-damaged morons from Oklahoma on the floor talking about how lesbians are invading the bathrooms of schools all over the country and causing real 'murican female-type teenagers to suddenly, ahm, turn homahsexul. (I tend to doubt this as there almost certainly would have been a 'Girls Gone Wild' video about it, but I digress.) Tom Coburn ran on this and mentioned lesbians in the girls' bathroom a lot in his '04 campaign, so it might come up.

I, for one, cannot wait for George Allen to take to the floor of the Senate and start talking about flag-burning and what a genuine threat to democracy this represents. I bet the big lug sponsors an amendment saying we should also make it a crime punishable by death to diss valiant leaders like, oh, George W. and anyone who is tall, beefy and really, really dumb who happens to be from Virginia and holds high elective office for no reason anyone can figure out. Or maybe he can finally get that amendment on the floor that outlaws Democrats because the way things are looking right now, they are a genuine threat to take over the government in the near future. We must terminate them now before they take over and start doing undemocratic things like holding real 'murican Republicans accountable for their teensy mistakes. (You know, chickenshit stuff like starting a war for no good reason and bankrupting the country and alienating the rest of the world. Real bullshit stuff like that.)

And I can't wait to hear Mr. Excitment himself, Judd Gregg, on the floor of the Senate talking about how this country is grossly unfair to billionaires and shouldn't tax them at all because they are appointed by God to rule over us and we should be grateful to them for all they do. Nothing says loving like a check so we should just refund our good, God-fearing billionaires every cent they ever paid into the government and make the illegal aliens pay for it by harvesting their bodily parts and selling them to the highest bidders on E-Bay. Now who in their right mind could argue with that?

Hell week in the Senate. It's not for the faint of heart anymore. (Can you imagine being a serious legislator like Sen. Kerry and having to read the agenda for the week. People are dying in Iraq, our soldiers are being badly treated by their own government, New Orleans is still a mess, the country is going bankrupt and wingnuttia decides to bring flag-burning, gay marriage and the estate tax to the floor. He must just want to hang it up when he sees stuff like this.)

Offshore Aquaculture: Challenges of Fish Farming in Federal Waters
Thursday, June 8, 2006
10:00 AM

SD - 562

The Senate Commerce Committee's National Ocean Policy Study Subscommittee will hold a hearing on Offshore Aquaculture: Challenges of Fish Farming in Federal Waters on Thursday, June 8, 2006 at 10 a.m. in the Dirksen Building room 562.
Witnesses will be announced when available.


I have been told point-blank that I am the only one who ever watches these. And, ahm, I really sort of get the sum mary. But there is a fisheries hearing and it's on a committee that Sen. Kerry serves on and it is about an important subject. So I am listing it and also seeing if anyone reads what I write at the same time. It's a test.

about oil and dependence and stuff.

Oil Dependence and Economic Risk
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HEARING
before the

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION

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Wednesday, June 7, 2006

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Time: 9:00 AM
Place: 216 Hart Senate Office Building
Presiding: Senator Lugar

Witnesses:
The Honorable Alan C. Greenspan
President
Greenspan Associates LLC
Washington, DC
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Didn't he used to be, like overseer of the economy or something? I wonder if anyone will show up for this. I thought it was important and informative when they talked about the high cost of oil back in March. This might be interesting. Then again it is Hell Week and I don't want to miss Jeff Sessions on the floor talking about how gay flag-burners once came after him and it was only because of his Republican super-powers and outstanding use of tasty moral fibers that he was able to fight them off. I mean, who could ever miss the exciting monotones of Alabama's own wingnut in full throated scare mode. (You ever wonder if Sessions is so scared of gays because he thinks they just don't get him? Maybe the little RW nutjob just needs a hug and a decent haircut and you know he hasn't seen either of those things in quite a while.)

You actually sit through some of those hearings without your eyes glazing over? That's truly commendable. While flag-burning homosexuals going after Sessions could have some potential entertainment value, a hearing on fisheries probably would put me right to sleep. Not that it's not important, but like you said above - a summary thereof would suffice to get the idea. TayTay, you have got to be the wonkiest kerrycrat I've ever met :-)

I can't watch fisheries hearings because Ted Stevens chairs them and he is just so icky. (I have a very low Ted Stevens threshold.)

However, in a Democratic Congress, I might watch Fisheries hearings. (Ahm, I might sample it. Or not. Depends on the subject.) Ahm, I do try and watch other hearings. In my own defense, I just kind of like hearings. Some hearings. Some are the cure for insomnia, but there are a lot that are interesting. Honest. Really. I mean it.

But now you actually got me curious about these fisheries hearings! lol

My work here is done. I can retire. And I think I am the one with superpowers. It is not possible to get normal humans excited about Fisheries hearings because, ahm, they are largely about fisheries and people would rather read the summary. (Maybe there is just something about the way some people say mackeral and cod fish that just excites the blood. Or frampant insnaity might just run in my family.)

EDIT: I saw the typos and let them live. They sort of fit.

You actually had me going to the senate website to check out what time that damn hearing is! 2.30 PM, btw. Now I'm really going to check it out, just to be able to say I did :P

and expend it on things like Fisheries hearings. (Really, just ask me. I'll get you a summary.) Besides, Sen. Kerry is not showing up for too many hearings these days. I think it's because he knows the Rethugs are just going through the motions on their way to legislation that will just be rewritten in the Compromise Committee with the House. I can't say as I blame him. Seriously, would you go to a hearing knowing that George Allen is going to be there? I would have to be medically fortified first. Sen. Kerry is made of much sturdier stock than I am as he manages to listen to George Allen compare our foreign policy in Iraq to a really big play in a football game and he doesn't blurt out, 'How did you friggin get here you neaderthal throwback anyway?' (Maybe he does, but he makes sure his mike is turned off first for all I know.)

"and Senator Kerry was hardly ever present during the hearings in senate, because he was too busy running for president, and not representing his constituents....blah...blah...blah"
And what can he say to that except; "Allen gives me migraines"

It makes me wonder if we aren't the new Rome after all. Are we in a spiral of moral decay? And yes, Frist is certainly a bottom feeding pond scum.

>> (Can you imagine being a serious legislator like Sen. Kerry and having to read the agenda for the week. People are dying in Iraq, our soldiers are being badly treated by their own government, New Orleans is still a mess, the country is going bankrupt and wingnuttia decides to bring flag-burning, gay marriage and the estate tax to the floor. He must just want to hang it up when he sees stuff like this.)

I'll bet he's pretty disgusted and I wouldn't be at all surprised if the good senator didn't (on occasion) harbor the secret wish to punch some of these idiots right in the kisser. I'd pay to see that. If only cage matches between legislators could only be arranged. We could wipe out the National Debt with the proceeds. Forget football and baseball, we want to see Barbara Boxer beat the snot outa Kay Bailey Hutchinson! (Sorry it's late and just got back from reading posts in DU. It was HELL NIGHT there for certain...more assholes in one place than your average Republican convention.)

Seriously, I don't know how you can watch these things without blowing a gasket. I've got to limit how much C-Span I watch because I've actually slapped my television and called it an asshole before. Of course, it was Judd Gregg on screen who I really wanted to slap. (ANWR.) Sometimes I really just want to give these bastards a good slap in the face. Sadly, it is not legal. I wish we could have National Slap a Republican Day. Or have them do community service in one of those dunk tanks they have at fairs. Another thing I'd pay to see.

Ah well...666. That used to be my number. I'm not saying it was lucky...just my number. Let's see what Tuesday brings...

uncaring the Re pubs are. People have got to see through this nonsense.