A field of seven took 4 votes to determine a winner by the rules. 2 at a vote were knocked off until a clear winner ensued. Funny thing is, all 4 votes proved one winner by a 2 to 1 margin or better, yet 50% + 1 was necessary. Go figure. Voting started at 1pm yet a winner wasn’t announced until 10:30 pm. There was some “glitches” of which I don’t want to speculate on, which caused a great time lapse between votes. With idle time comes boredom and the paper airplane air force engineers plied their trade. One guy really knew his craft. It so offended the convention staff that an announcement was made to cease, because of the chance of an airplane destroying one of the gazillion dollar trin-a-tron TV screens. What this did do is help speed the vote process, which I was thankful for. I believe Va. blue laws don’t allow voting on Sunday (I just made that up).

Bottom line is, a non-establishment outsider won. His name is E. W. Jackson. It disturbed those who wanted a party “insider” to hold the slot but this time the system worked. With some poutiness and bruised egos from other candidates, a real champion for the people, who hasn’t been tainted by the system, will go up against the D and I candidate. The D candidate will be whatever sucker they can find that is willing to be humiliated in the public forum and the I candidate will be someone from a town of population 2000 who hopes he/she can get votes from family members and have something to tell the grandbabies.

Although long, it was a good time seeing good friends and some unexpected old acquaintances. Many there applied their right of gun carry and no one was in fear of anything. Well, almost anyway. It seems that Eric Cantor was there to provide words to members attending Friday night’s dinner (supper for Southerners) and he was caught in the convention area RACING, with his contingent of armed protection plus one State Trooper, down the hall, probably looking for the safety of his armored Featherlite (in this case feather HEAVIER) where he could re-compose himself. This squish has a fear that people are out to do him harm. Thorozine might be of some use here. Maybe a day of reflection and looking in the mirror might help resolve his issues. With this type fear, guilt is usually a driving force. His day of political theatre is coming to an end. Other than that, I return unscathed back to you, albeit someone tired and a bit achy. I am really psyched over the outcome of this convention. The future of Va. is in very strong and capable hands if we win the day at election. I know many of you will be doing your part for our future. I will be.

What troubles him about the statue is its representation: in his mind it represents “slavery, dis-Union (sorry, I’m not familiar with that term) and illegal secession”. His words. Now I’m sure, back home in New York, there was no statue or monument in front of the courthouse because it would have been stolen and sold for scrap. But if Yankee John had done ANY research, he would find those type statues all over the US at courthouses. And I’m sure too those monuments offend some lower class of uneducated idiots also. Didn’t use to but now it does. Funny how that works.

Slavery, bigotry and racism is the new boogeyman, enhanced by other Yankee lunatics that are in the government. Matter of fact, what has been decreased over 150 years has now been ramped up to levels prior to the War of Northern Aggression. Yes, that is what started the war. Invasion by the US government into the South after Southern states declared their independence from the north. And that statue commemerates those brave men who fought for their home, their state and their Southern way of living. No “illegal secession” there.

Sleazy, inept lawyers usually look for a way to get easy cash and notoriety because they are second rate hacks, lazy and without integrity. Don’t know if that is the case here but I will leave you with Paladin and his “take” on the issue.

Two things. I told you there was more and people in intelligence were lying (or being stifled as it comes to light) from the very beginning. Second, I wish BE would stop pouting and come back so that I could tell him he was wrong. Maybe he is already working on his humility but I doubt it.

In it’s taxing power, the FERAL government has taken to destroying individuals and organizations with which the Administration disagrees. This is not limited to the 0bama Administration. We know that the Nixon administration did it; we know that the Clinton administration did it; and probably every other administration since Nixon has too.

Without the income tax and thus the creation of tax-exempt organizations, no-one would care if pastors were campaigning from the pulpit. No-one would care if this TEA Party group campaigned for a candidate or not. No-one would care if the Sierra Club or Planned Parenthood gave money to candidates (except that Planned Parenthood gets money from the government).

It is not the government’s business what organizations I donate to, and the government should not be de facto supporting organizations though tax deductions. It is not the government’s business how many children we have, how old they are, or where they go to college. It is not the government’s business how much we make or how much we have saved.

It is past time to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment.

Gosnell gets 230+ guilty verdicts including 3 for first degree murder. The doctor is 72 and will probably die in prison before he is executed, if he gets the death sentence. I would like to see aborted babies given some type of justice since they won’t know Christmas or birthdays or invent something or be President. Do I think this will put Roe v Wade forefront again? Well yes I do. And this case isn’t exceptional. Others haven’t come to light yet but there will be scrutiny going forward. Want my opinion? Good, I’ll give it to you. I have never seen a need for justification of doctors who perform abortions or sex change operations. There is none. There are so many people who want babies and can’t have their own while millions have their babies’ lives sucked down a tube. With this new abortion pill, who needs doctors. Put Abortions Are Us aka Planned Parenthood in another line of work. Since they do nothing for “parenthood”, for those women who don’t want babies, let them get sterilized. That saves the argument, taxpayers money and PP’s new name can be “We’re Sterile–Trust Us”. In the meantime, abort Gosnell’s heart since it is black and not working anyway. Justice served.

We have discussed about every issue (repeatedly-why thick headed people can’t comprehend is beyond me) on this blog over the years and all of it is put in one place and IN ITS PLACE with Larry’s article. If he doesn’t know, he says so. If he does know, try to pay attention this time. Anti-gunners just don’t have a leg to stand on. This article will show you (liberals) where you err in your arguments. Good reading!

There are Weight Watchers, which you do for yourself and takes dedication and devotion. Stick to it and you will lose weight. Then you have the lazier version which is Nutri-System. It makes the meals for you (you pay for them, of course) and if you only eat these meals, as directed, you will lose weight. Both of them work. Exercise intensifies the lose of weight. But they both take dedication and devotion. If you are so lazy and willing to take drastic measures with your life when will power is all you need, how do you think you will affect other peoples lives; when instead of doing something simple, you go for the drastic? I wouldn’t want a lazy bonehead ruling over me. Would you? Maybe just banning Dunkin Donuts as a breakfast restaurant would suffice.

•Cruz bumped Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) in the hallway, pointed and said “what’s that on your tie?” When Udall looked down Cruz flipped up his hand, batting him in the face. As Udall arrived at the Senate cafeteria, he noticed his lunch money was gone.
•Ted Cruz regularly sits on the hood of his Camaro in the Senate parking lot, with a toothpick in his mouth, waiting for the Senate Women’s Caucus to let out.
•When Sen. John McCain asked Cruz what he was filibustering against, Cruz replied “whaddya got?”
•Suspect fitting Cruz’s description drove slowly by the White House, clinking three empty beer bottles stuck to his fingers and taunting, “Obaaaamaaa! Come out to play-ee-yay!”
•Spends all Republican caucus meetings slowly rocking his back-row chair, chewing gum and cracking wise.
•Anonymous complaint filed with the Senate Ethics Committee alleged a certain Texas senator “only refers to Hawaii Sen. Schatz by the present-tense version of his name.”
•Gave Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank a swirly. Refused to pay for replacement eyeglass lens.
•His knuckle tattoos read “SINE DIE.” (Cruz lost his left pinkie at a high-stakes Federalist Society moot court.)
•Joined Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) for an extended game of keep-away with Sen. Leahy’s lip balm. The Senate Judiciary Committee meeting had to be rescheduled.
•Every time Sen. Barbara Mikulski enters a room, Cruz slicks back hair and says, “How YOU doin’?”
•Cruz interrupted a long answer by SecDef nominee Chuck Hagel, with “speaking of drones, we gonna wrap this up soon?”

Today’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows that private sector businesses added 176,000 jobs last month. Total non-farm payroll employment rose by 165,000 jobs in April. The February and March employment estimates were revised up by a total of 114,000 jobs. The economy has now added private sector jobs every month for 38 straight months, and a total of 6.8 million jobs has been added over that period. Over 800,000 private sector jobs have been added over the last four months.

The household survey showed that the unemployment rate edged down from 7.6 percent in March to 7.5 percent in April, the lowest rate since December 2008. The labor force participation rate was unchanged at 63.3 percent in April.

Isn’t that special. Let’s look more closely and that report (html), shall we?

While the Establishment Survey says that, seasonally adjusted, there were 165,000 new jobs in April, the Household Survey puts that at 293,000. (Such discrepancies are common, so don’t get worked up about it.) Looking deeper into the Household survey, we see that there were 441,000 more people working part-time. That is a LOSS of 148,000 full-time jobs last month.

The Establishment Survey confirms this assessment: While the total number of nonfarm jobs went from 135,309k to 135,474k (Table B1), the average hours worked each week dropped from 34.6 to 34.4. So, total hours worked per week (nonfarm) dropped from 4.68B to 4.66B — over twenty million hours less work in April than in March.

We didn’t create jobs, we just divided up some of the existing ones.

So what have we learned here? Evidently, nothing much. Unions were having a big fight in California to determine who would represent 45,000 members (and get dues worth $40 million annually) of the 300 Kaiser-Permanente hospitals and clinics. That is $889 paid per member in dues which means higher costs in healthcare for YOU! See, it’s all about dues money for the unions. Who cares what happens to budgets, businesses and economies. California will be following Illinois with that fire sale. Read the joke here.

Some states are beginning to see the light. Many states aren’t. I hope Va. never gets caught up in this boondoggle.