Bill banning forced identity-chip implants clears House Posted: 5 months ago by kakana
Conjuring Orwellian images, Josephs worries the identification devices - the size of a grain of rice - could lead to a real-life Big Brother nightmare.
"I'm doing, I think, what the legislature does too little of," she said. "This is a problem on the horizon, and I want to address it before it becomes a societal disgrace."
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Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote Posted: 4 weeks ago by shuallyo
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor, despite her September 24 statement that she was "absolutely" committed to doing so.
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Senate won't bother reading health care bill Posted: 5 months ago by 2manyusernames
They may skim it, but Harry Reid refuses to allow a week to pass so that all the public can review the bill - much as they did with the stimulus bill. All this despite the promise Obama of a 5-day wait before any bill was signed into law.
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The $2 Bill Posted: 2 years ago by doggylives
A guy stops off at his local Taco Bell after work and decides to pay with a $2 bill instead of a $50 to make things easier for the cashier.
Hilarity and Asshatery ensue.
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Fla. woman chooses to go to jail over $7.45 bill Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A woman decided to go to jail rather than pay her bill at a Fort Pierce Waffle House restaurant. The total she went to jail over: $7.45.
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Obama Admits He’s “Not Familiar” With House Bill Posted: 4 months ago by nateebiinature
With the public’s trust in his handling of health care tanking (50%-44% of Americans disapprove), the White House has launched a new phase of its strategy designed to pass Obamacare: all Obama, all the time. As part of that effort, Obama hosted a conference call with leftist bloggers urging them to pressure Congress to pass his health plan as soon as possible.
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What got cut from the stimulus bill Posted: 10 months ago by 2manyusernames
The bill is still laden down with billions of pork and very little of it will actually create jobs or even help the economy (likely the opposite) but at least they cut out some tiny amount of waste.
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The rare early works of Bill Watterson Posted: 2 years ago by titojuante
Here's a collection of rare early Bill "Calvin and Hobbes" Watterson's toons from The Kenyon Collegian, his college paper from Kenyon, Ohio. They're a little edgier than the Calvin and Hobbes strips (but not as funny)
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Photographer Bill Henson exhibition under investigation Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Public pressure has forced a Sydney gallery to cancel the opening night of an exhibition featuring photographs of naked 12 and 13 year olds just before the doors were due to open.
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Verizon Willing To Let Man Die Unless Cops Pay $20 Of His Overdue Bill Posted: 6 months ago by bingo
The cops got a call that the man was rampaging around his house and breaking windows. When they arrived, the man had fled, taking bottles of pills with him. The sheriff contacted Verizon to ask them to turn the man's cellphone service on so they could track his signal, but the operator said the missing man's bill had to be paid first...
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New Bill Could Make You a "Terrorist" Posted: 2 years ago by tvirus
"The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent."
This blog summarizes the bill and links to the full text.
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His energy bill is $0.00 Posted: 3 years ago by Neiako
Mr. Strizki's monthly utility bill is zero – he's off the power grid – and his system creates no carbon-dioxide emissions.
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DTV delay update House fails to pass the bill Posted: 10 months ago by cmgoings
Update to this story:
House Republicans managed Wednesday to defeat the so-called "DTV delay" bill—and that means that the planned Feb. 17 date for the digital TV transition is still on.
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