I'm not entirely sure when the term "fixed income" became associated almost entirely with retirees. Sure, you can't work overtime to get a bigger social security or pension check at the end of the month, but at least social security has periodic cost of living increases. Nationally, average wage growth has been static for the past eight years and if you add inflation, wage earners are looking at taking home less now in earnings than they did when Bush was elected.

I missed this when it passed a couple of years ago, but our darling Marilyn inserted an amendment into the Higher Education Reconciliation Act of 2005 that exempted owners of small, family-owned businesses from reporting their assets when they applied for federal financial aid. Her reasoning was that it was unfair for small business owners to face the prospect of selling off parts of their livelihoods in order to send their kids to college. Fair enough... except that the qualification hinges entirely on the number of employees, not the value of the assets.

Dedicants to this blog will know that I am currently pretty down on the Democratic party and its candidates, particularly the traitor Mark Udall and Barack Obama, both for their FISA votes. But for the past couple of weeks, I have thought a lot about the state of affairs in Weld Co. as it relates to this dissatisfaction, and I have a major concern.

How do we elect a representative instead of a would be leader? How do we elect someone who will put the rule of law above his desire to be elected? How do we elect someone who actually has the principles he discusses from the stump?

In a city that recently attempted to "Re-Brand" its image and possibly help move Greeley into the 21 century. We don't want our elected officials allegedly demonstrating that it's acceptable to take law into their own hands. We have police for this. Can you imagine this type of behavior being allowed to continue? Chaos would run rampant.

A long time ago, someone told me that he figured that anyone who could actually get close to having a chance to become President had already traded away morality in exchange for the chance to be elected.

After working on a 2006 Congressional campaign, I came to believe that there were, in fact, people who had values, weren't bought-and-paid for, and were willing to fight for what they believe in. But that isn't the whole picture. In the two intervening years, I've come to see that there are few absolutes in politics. There is no principle important enough for a politician to lose an election over.

More after the break...

Yes Boys and girls, it's true. At first, I thougtht it was just sour grapes. Yet, after an extensive search, Greeley has found a way to increase the city coffers. They decided to fine people $90.00 because the owners had their dogs at a city park, sitting on their laps watching their Grandchildren playing baseball. This is outrageous.

Ken Buck today, in the comic book, said 'prosecuting a case without evidence is unethical. I say that's dogshit!

Sorry for the language Chairman Mary (you dolt).

Hello fellow bloggers,

In case I forgot to mention/invite you to my house on the 6th of July, I am sorry. If you happen to be free, please consider yourself invited. It's from 7pm to 9pm. Light refreshments, and some good conversation about the direction of the democrat party. So be there, or be L7.

He'll be on today during the show. Tune in to KFKA (AM 1310) at 2:00 pm.

Ken's press release says that the Senator will be discussing such hard hitting topics as mortgage relief (the bill has a bunch of stuff in it for folks buying houses, but I'm not sure it helps someone facing foreclosure), the Farm Bill (which is important around here, but also has tons of pork in it), and what it means to him to be patriotic.

Senator, someone (Sam Johnson) once said that "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." I'm not sure that it makes any sense for you to talk about being patriotic when you vote for things like expanded (illegal) powers for the attorney general, when you work hard to get Al Gonzalez installed, or when you (as I expect you will) vote to allow U.S. Telecoms retroactive immunity for their complicity in illegal wiretapping (you can also call this protection for the Bush administration from public discovery in a courtroom).

Son, "your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.*" It's time for you to do your job and hold the Bush Administration accountable for its actions.

*Note: Great song by John Prine:

It appears to me that everytime I hear or see an article about the muskrat, I must do everything in order not to "Hurl". She is a has/do nothing this past year. She reminds me of someone taking ice skating lessons, but has no skates. From all the people I talk with, they like myself, are fed-up with her lies and the pandering shes does in order of somehow retaining her seat in congress.