Nobody Expects The Spanish... Filibuster?
So what will it be: "The Comfy Chair" or "...the filibuster of the people of faith"?

The following excerpt from a CBS article reveals some repubs need Ginko Biloba.

"Even votes that did occur were often delayed for months and even years. In late 1999, New Hampshire Republican Bob Smith blocked a vote on 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Richard Paez for months by putting an anonymous hold on the nomination. When Majority Leader Trent Lott could no longer preserve the hold, Smith and 13 other Republicans tried to mount a filibuster against the vote, but cloture was voted and Paez easily confirmed. It had been over four years since his nomination.

When his tactics on the Paez and Marsha Berzon nominations (Berzon was filibustered along with Paez, more than two years after her nomination) were challenged, Smith responded with an impassioned floor speech in defense of the judicial filibuster: "Don't pontificate on the floor of the Senate and tell me that somehow I am violating the Constitution of the United States of America by blocking a judge or filibustering a judge that I don't think deserves to be on the circuit court ... . That is my responsibility. That is my advice and consent role, and I intend to exercise it.""

See you at High Tea.

Chinquapin

Britney's Pregnant, I miss Sir Rancelot
More to come...


Chinquapin

There Are So Many Excuses...
Nice weather, taxes due, work, poor sleep, freaked out cats, spring cleaning... but I really don't have the time, energy, or desire to list all of them.

This was not the weekend I needed to lose an hour.

Chinquapin
P.S. Can anyone tell me what Redbull tastes like? The acid in black tea is starting to get at me.

Happy (Belated) Vernal Equinox!!!
I wasn't getting up(or staying up)to balance an egg at 4:30ish am.

Chinquapin

Get A Living Will Now
That's all I'm going to saw on the subject, other than "Wonder what it costs to call an emergency/special session of congress?"

Chinquapin

You And Your Honey Got $89,000 Lying Around?
Hurry, and you might still be able to make The Govenator's fund raiser tonight in Century City.

Sorry, I can't provide a link to either local news broadcast I saw this story on, too much Peterson/Blake action on line.

Woohoo...$56 a barrel of crude(I'm watching the news). I sure hope they keep the drunks off the tankers, or ANWR's gonna be a mess.

Chinq O'Pin
Tonight's special... Snake Oil Cocktail.
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I though maybe I'd misheard and moved a decimal point, but no... $89,000 is correct. Funny it took me hours to find that figure in print, funny.

Good-Bye Lazarus
Mood:  blue
Lazaurs Department Stores are now officially Macy's.

So many memories.

Chinquapin

Opening for St. Patrick...
Funny that the "party saint days" occur in the middle of lent.

March 16 is St. Urho's Day. Don't forget to wear green and purple.

March 16 is also the feast day of St.Finian, a man not a flashy as Patrick, but well worth remembering for his deeds.

Specials are:
Tipperary Cocktails &
Grasshoppers
(is it crude to have a
Virgin Mary for the virgin cocktail?)

Chinq O'Pin
(takin' a break from me hammerin')

Happy 100th post to me!
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Damn, I can't believe I missed Pi Day

Snakes & Shamrocks, Comin' Up
Get ready folks.

Chinq O'Pin

I Guess This Is Why Barbie Doesn't Have Nipples
Who knew nipples were such a threat. All mammals have them, male and female.

I worked at a movie studio in the mid-nineties that had the nipples on a statue digitally removed for a TV commercial. That's the MPAA for ya. But now, what the hell's wrong with PBS(& some of their affiliates)? No wonder I haven't seen Sister Wendy lately. What will the FCC do about her description of "fluffy pubic hair" in a painting?

I don't have cable. I don't want to pay for cable. I WANT MY FREE TV(which I do pay for)... with nipples on classical sculptures damnit!

Rant over.

Chinquapin