tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post3992878772489371851..comments2024-03-19T05:29:47.524-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: “It is what is is."Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25462402393283785252012-07-16T18:32:09.994-04:002012-07-16T18:32:09.994-04:00Thanks Doug you tooThanks Doug you tooMeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-4481242572478487662012-07-14T04:07:33.353-04:002012-07-14T04:07:33.353-04:00Be well, Mel.
Piano ManBe well, Mel.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=piano+man+billy+joel&oq=piano+man&gs_l=youtube-reduced.1.1.0l4.146456.153981.0.158737.11.7.2.2.2.0.304.890.0j2j1j1.4.0...0.0...1ac.ujkh-nSokIc" rel="nofollow">Piano Man</a>Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37426669485622143552012-07-13T20:56:15.084-04:002012-07-13T20:56:15.084-04:00Wow! What a shocker. Damn the bar is closed.
We...Wow! What a shocker. Damn the bar is closed.<br /><br />Well, I'm glad to see DR is not dead. <br /><br />I hope you're doing well and your hiatus was your choice and not unexpected illness. You gave me a scare when you didn't show up for our excursion. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f1HzCrXrYc" rel="nofollow">one more for the road</a><br /><br />I feel it suits the situation.MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-23200407088172220502012-07-13T13:31:09.183-04:002012-07-13T13:31:09.183-04:00Rufus II said...
"What an idiot question. It...Rufus II said...<br /><br />"<i>What an idiot question. It looks like the innate racism of the republican party is clawing its way out of the closet. Carter was right.</i>"<br /><br />---<br /><br />I just learned that my GP for the last 15 years is half-black and half-Japanese.<br />...I'd always assumed he was black, probly via the Carribean.<br /><br />Maybe I should drop him to re-establish my racist GOP credentials with Rufus and Carter?<br /><br />---<br /><br />Kid's roomates are Japanese, Hawaiian, Black, and Portagee-Japanese.<br /><br />I'll see if I can have him purged from the local GOP ASAP.<br /><br />...speaking of SAPS,<br /><br />...ah, forget it.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32598924571024435782012-07-13T12:49:57.330-04:002012-07-13T12:49:57.330-04:00Obama Ends Welfare Reform As We Know It
July 12, ...<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/309300/obama-ends-welfare-reform-we-know-it-robert-rector" rel="nofollow">Obama Ends Welfare Reform As We Know It</a><br /><br />July 12, 2012 7:00 P.M.<br /><br />This afternoon, President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released <a href="http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/policy/im-ofa/2012/im201203/im201203.html" rel="nofollow">an official policy directive</a> undermining the welfare reform law of 1996. The new policy guts the federal work requirements that have been the foundation of that law — one of the most successful domestic policy reforms in the 20th century.<br /><br />Welfare reform replaced the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children with a new program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The underlying concept of welfare reform was that able-bodied adults should be required to work or prepare for work as a condition of receiving welfare aid.<br /><br />The welfare reform law was <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2003/02/the-continuing-good-news" rel="nofollow">very successful</a>. In the four decades prior to welfare reform, the welfare caseload never experienced a significant decline. But, in the four years after welfare reform, the caseload dropped by nearly half. Employment surged and child poverty among blacks and single mothers plummeted to historic lows. What was the catalyst for these improvements? Rigorous new federal work requirements contained in TANF.<br /><br />Contrary to some perceptions, the formula that made welfare reform a success was not giving state governments more flexibility in operating federally funded welfare programs. The active ingredient that made the difference was requiring state governments to implement those rigorous new federal work standards.<br /><br />Today the Obama administration issued a dramatic new directive stating that the traditional TANF work requirements will be waived or overridden by a legal device called a section 1115 waiver authority under the Social Security law (42 U.S.C. 1315).<br /><br />Section 1115 allows HHS to “waive compliance” with specified parts of various laws. But this is not an open-ended authority: All provisions of law that can be overridden under section 1115 must be listed in section 1115 itself.<br /><br />The work provisions of the TANF program are contained in section 407 (entitled, appropriately, “mandatory work requirements”). Critically, this section, as well as most other TANF requirements, is deliberately not listed in section 1115; its provisions cannot be waived. Obviously, if the Congress had wanted HHS to be able to waive the TANF work requirements laid out in section 407, it would have listed that section as waivable under section 1115. It did not do that.<br /><br />In the past, state bureaucrats have attempted to define activities such as hula dancing, attending Weight Watchers, and bed rest as “work.” Welfare reform instituted work standards to block these dodges. Now that the Obama administration has abolished those standards, we can expect “work” in the TANF program to mean anything but work.<br /><br />Obama’s new welfare decree guts sound anti-poverty policy. The administration tramples on the actual legislation passed by Congress and seeks to impose its own policy choices — a pattern that has become <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2012/06/22/morning-bell-imperial-presidency/" rel="nofollow">all<br />too common</a> in this administration.<br /><br />The result is the end of welfare reform as we know it.<br /><br />---<br /><br />Where will I go to learn why this is the greatest advance for humanity since the Bolshevik Revolution?Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48413597365361036632012-07-13T11:41:54.669-04:002012-07-13T11:41:54.669-04:00But then I'm a sentimental sap, and a hopeless...But then I'm a sentimental sap, and a hopeless romantic, just like Quirk says, and can't stand endings, especially unhappy ones, but know all the good is retained, in good Blakean and Whitmanian fashion, and in the unending we all come to One, as we dance on, dance on, dance on.<br /><br />bobAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34075865936999026912012-07-13T10:23:18.724-04:002012-07-13T10:23:18.724-04:00The best of luck to everyone!The best of luck to everyone!MOMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18307879234693014691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37695519506371424862012-07-13T10:08:25.306-04:002012-07-13T10:08:25.306-04:00Cant say i am surprised...
Some evil folk are ver...Cant say i am surprised...<br /><br />Some evil folk are very civil in their words, even if it's a death threat...<br /><br />SOmething akin to the gentleman robber...<br /><br />Civil, polite and still a criminal...<br /><br />I'd rather be uncivil and rude but have honor...wionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47787932016280299532012-07-13T08:58:36.436-04:002012-07-13T08:58:36.436-04:00Anyone have any ideas where we might "go for ...Anyone have any ideas where we might "go for a drink?"<br /><br />Someplace where the jukebox ain't too loud, where you can hear yourselves talk? Someplace not too crowded?Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-11101051755780777902012-07-13T06:36:06.380-04:002012-07-13T06:36:06.380-04:00I wake up in the middle of the night finding mysel...I wake up in the middle of the night finding myself beginning the withdrawals. Can anyone put up an Elephant Bar II? Rufus? Doug? Quirk? Maxine? Melody? Gag's on the road always. Ash, you going to invite us for a drink? Quirk you had a blog, did you not? What about you? Buehler? I was looking forward to watching things through the coming election with you all. WiO? Want to host us?<br /><br />Deuce I know I speak for everyone in hoping you are simply tired of us and it is nothing more. It was like an unexpected lightning bolt. And everyone seemed so well behaved of late, at least given the low baseline here.<br /><br />Well, I wish everyone well again.<br /><br />bobAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27186773940534107962012-07-12T21:27:11.477-04:002012-07-12T21:27:11.477-04:00Best to you Deuce, and best to everyone else. Than...Best to you Deuce, and best to everyone else. Thank you all.<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44032796390517696852012-07-12T18:56:30.375-04:002012-07-12T18:56:30.375-04:00The Bar is closed
Can't say that I'm real...The Bar is closed<br /><br />Can't say that I'm really surprised.<br /><br />Some folk never learned to be civil, let alone polite.<br /><br />It has been real, it has been fun ...<br />... can't say it was real fun.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35105461424216948272012-07-12T18:54:48.284-04:002012-07-12T18:54:48.284-04:00The Bar is closed!
A long time coming.
Good luck...The Bar is closed!<br /><br />A long time coming.<br /><br />Good luck on any future endeavors, fellas.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-13507129679396482602012-07-12T17:30:33.247-04:002012-07-12T17:30:33.247-04:00.
Deuce, just saw you're announcement on clos....<br /><br />Deuce, just saw you're announcement on closing the EB. Don't know if you will see this, but if you do, the best of luck to you in the future.<br /><br />You had a good run.<br /><br />If I contributed to the demise, I apologize.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86352527448447147092012-07-12T17:26:12.619-04:002012-07-12T17:26:12.619-04:00.
It's a canned response because it is true a....<br /><br />It's a canned response because it is true and bears repeating.<br /><br />:)<br /><br /><br /><i>Blow it out your ass Qurik. The waste started when Obama proposed his healthcare tax in the first place. It will be a colossal goat fuck.</i><br /><br />The old "he started it" argument. I used to get that as an excuse a lot when my kids were small.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8049905998820040232012-07-12T15:43:36.308-04:002012-07-12T15:43:36.308-04:00Thanks for the ride, Deuce.Thanks for the ride, Deuce.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36628117492129866112012-07-12T15:22:29.363-04:002012-07-12T15:22:29.363-04:00Closed!? Temporarily is my wish.Closed!? Temporarily is my wish.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-79874342825096705042012-07-12T14:40:00.693-04:002012-07-12T14:40:00.693-04:00What happenedWhat happenedMOMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18307879234693014691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-31356224336735621642012-07-12T11:17:11.867-04:002012-07-12T11:17:11.867-04:00You should get out more and listen to someone besi...You should get out more and listen to someone besides Rush and Mark Levine. Ouirks canned response to anyone who calls him on his BS. :-)<br /><br />Folks, I have been in Houston all week, and it has rained little cats and dogs everyday. Ready to get back tsunshine and heat.MOMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18307879234693014691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80060367420927693872012-07-12T03:03:47.336-04:002012-07-12T03:03:47.336-04:00E-mail from Mat -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...E-mail from Mat -<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg4hlaMsyyE&feature=em-share_video_user<br /><br />CATASTROIKA: The destruction of the nation state English Subs (click on CC)<br />How bankers and politicians take down nations one after the other and buy up their resources with fraudulent debt derivatives. <br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-91816463522147615402012-07-12T02:43:17.007-04:002012-07-12T02:43:17.007-04:00I don't much care for Romney either. Though it...I don't much care for Romney either. Though it's possible he might make a pretty good President.<br /><br />There's always NLP.<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45348020691644478512012-07-11T23:39:59.788-04:002012-07-11T23:39:59.788-04:00Questions linger over how much money Mr Romney con...<i>Questions linger over how much money Mr Romney continues to receive from the Cayman holdings of his former company, Bain Capital. The filings did show that a blind trust held by his wife Ann included a Swiss account worth $3m that was closed in 2010.<br /><br />So far Mr Romney has countered only with declarations of innocence. "I have followed the law," he told Fox radio host Sean Hannity on Tuesday.<br /><br />"I have paid my taxes as due. I have also disclosed through all of the requirements of the government, every asset which I own, fairly and honestly, recognising, of course, not to do so would be not only wrong but illegal and criminal."</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-11860936411502700582012-07-11T23:23:46.471-04:002012-07-11T23:23:46.471-04:00When you see a new poll, what do you look at first...<i>When you see a new poll, what do you look at first? With the general election campaign nominally underway, most people would say that they look at the head-to-head matchup between President Obama and Mitt Romney.<br /><br />...<br /><br />After the back-to-back debacles of 1980 and 1984, the Democratic party essentially rebuilt its core coalition. Since 1988 the party has not fallen below 46 percent of the two party vote, either in the presidential contest or the national House race.<br /><br />...<br /><br />What about partisan identification?<br /><br />On this front, Obama is really not doing well at all. He has the partisan Democrats mostly locked down, while partisan Republicans are mostly gone.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-30541730798518600032012-07-11T23:17:31.300-04:002012-07-11T23:17:31.300-04:00.
You know I would't vote for Obama.
I have ....<br /><br />You know I would't vote for Obama.<br /><br />I have been waiting for Romney to give me some reason for voting for him. He still hasn't done it.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-61286591655264661632012-07-11T23:14:19.775-04:002012-07-11T23:14:19.775-04:00Admit it, you just don't like Mittens.
Either...Admit it, you just don't like Mittens.<br /><br />Either that, or it's the heat.<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com