Halloween Costumes

More to come, I garun'tee it!

As Aram would say "I Rove the Government "

Dude fuck medicaid.... its the worst thing for the poor. Angry doesn't even describe me. Ok I'm going to study dead people. And someone should inform me of the constantly alluded to Amos adventure, its sounds quite ripe.


Planned GOP Budget Cuts Target Programs Such as Foster Care

By Jonathan Weisman

Republicans began targeting key programs for budget cuts yesterday, from student loans and health care to food stamps and foster care. But the tough measures immediately drew staunch opposition from anti-poverty groups, businesses and moderate Republicans.

Sixteen congressional committees began cobbling together one of the most comprehensive bills in years, touching issues such as trade policy, prescription drug reimbursements, agriculture price supports and the future of welfare.

The rash of spending that followed Hurricane Katrina two months ago has emboldened conservatives to push for cuts far beyond what Congress could agree to in a budget blueprint in the spring.

"Listen, we're broke. Let's face it," said Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, which will try today to complete legislation saving $18.1 billion over five years from pension protection and student loan programs.

But the same hurricane has also pricked the conscience of Democrats and some Republican moderates who are reluctant to trim anti-poverty programs in light of the misfortune that Katrina spotlighted.

"Members of Congress are breaking this down; they're not just looking at a bottom-line, symbolic number," said Rep. Michael N. Castle (Del.), a leader of House Republican moderates who stand as a major impediment to the final legislation.

This spring, Congress approved a fiscal 2006 budget blueprint calling for $35 billion in savings over five years. Now House leaders are trying to win enough votes to increase those projected savings by $15 billion. But they are encountering stiff opposition from rank-and-file House members, as well as from the Senate. And the political problems may only get worse as details emerge of how House committees would achieve the $50 billion in savings demanded by the revised budget.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) convened a roundtable of Katrina survivors, who pleaded with lawmakers to set the budget cuts aside, then lobbied moderate Republicans personally.

"I can't believe that some people in Washington think that, after a Category 5 hurricane, the solution is to unleash a Category 5 hurricane on working people," said Michele Baker, a custodian for the Orleans Parish School District, who weathered Katrina in her car, spent the aftermath in the Louisiana Superdome and now has no job.

The House Ways and Means Committee today will begin drafting legislation that would save about $8 billion over five years, eight times the $1 billion target the panel was given in the spring. To do it, Chairman Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) would cut back federal aid to state child-support enforcement programs, limit federal payments to some foster care families, and cut welfare payments to the disabled. He would also eliminate a politically popular but controversial trade rule that directs duties collected on some imports to companies disadvantaged by unfair foreign trade practices. Instead, those duties would go to the federal government.

Ways and Means officials said the child-support proposal would change the federal matching rate for child-support enforcement from a 66 percent share to a 50 percent share that would be more in line with other federal and state partnerships, saving $3.8 billion through 2010. The foster care provision would restore the traditional eligibility rules that were expanded by a court decision in 2003. And the change in the "Byrd Amendment" on trade would put the United States in accord with international trade rules and bring in $3.5 billion over five years.

But the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the cut in child-support enforcement aid would result in a five-year drop in collections of $6 billion -- and nearly $17 billion over 10 years.

"They are now proposing policies that will cut child-support payments to single mothers who are struggling to provide for their children," said Rep. Charles B. Rangel (N.Y.), the Ways and Means Committee's ranking Democrat.

Foster-care cuts of nearly $600 million would cease payments to children taken from the home of impoverished grandparents or other relatives who are not their parents, according to the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Equally controversial will be cuts to the growth of Medicaid under consideration in the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The committee's plan, to be formally drafted tomorrow, would slice $3 billion over five years from Medicaid prescription-drug payments and more than $6 billion from other parts of the program. Committee aides framed the cuts as marginal -- even with them, Medicaid spending will grow 7 percent through the end of the decade, rather than the 7.3 percent currently expected.

"I would submit to you that Medicaid in its current form is already hurting the poor," said Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-Tex.). "This committee will not stand by and do nothing while Medicaid slowly collapses."

Under Barton's proposal, states for the first time would be allowed to charge some Medicaid-eligible children premiums and co-payments. Even children well under the poverty line could be hit with drug and emergency-room co-payments. The states would also be freed from early diagnostic programs currently required under Medicaid for children just over the poverty line.

This is no joke

Intel is starting a new ad campaign, apparently targeted towards gay men and sexually frustrated librarians

Hint: "Want amazing entertainment experiences on your lap, get intel mobile centrino in your laptop."

Sorry

Browsing carcino.gen.nz and just had to post this

And this

Video Games

Teaching kids about sex since 1976

The time is now...get a fucking watch

What Up. Johnny T here fucking some shit up in DC. I have two months left then off to S. America. Nothing too exciting in my life right now. Job search, which kind of sucks dick, but is also fairly exciting. No hunting, no women, no fishing, and not too much drinking, but lots of room for improvement on those ends. Teaching undergrads economics and this one bitch is gorgeous but a student, fucking rules. Grading papers and tests is a pain in the ass, teaching isn’t for me, at least for now and this type of bullshit structure that all schools have.

Thinking about going up to NY the first weekend of November if anyone is interested in coming up here and taking the China town bus up. Hopefully I will be able to visit NC around December sometime. I won’t have a house to live in for a few weeks so may crash at someone’s place. School pretty much is boring. I think the benefits of being in school are almost nothing now (diminishing marginal returns to education), so I am ready to check out the next stage of life. Not sure where I will be geographically once I get back from S. America (early March) but looking to get away from the east for a bit.

So that’s about it, kind of bored, yet busy as shit, not too many friends, no lovers, and none of ‘The Family.’ But still high in spirits, thunderously living with emotions, my intrinsic love of life dragging me upon the precipice of this time showing me all that is ahead, exciting, interesting, and at times scary, but overall peaceful and well, life.

Old News

A remote control for women was invented a long time ago dude.

son

sup bi-atches, so in regards to Amos' adeventure with the opposite sex, his room mate ashley's exact words were, and i quote "you had a body in the room and you let it go". Classic amos, no finishing moves. just kidding, but for real, ghost face killah bitches, lata.
l-don-tron

White LEDs

Finally, a really cheap alternative to light bulbs have been found
Here's a comparison of its spectrum to others

A Modern Relic

Egypt, Angkor Wat, Incans got nothing on this

Movin to chile in a couple of weeks somethime around the beggining of novemberso we need to have the second keg of woods in the beer as soon as possible, also you suckas best not be missin ghost face killa at the orange peel on the 25th, everyones doing it, Otter

Schitzo

When NOT to listen to the voices in your head.

Dub Dub

How to annoy your roomates, in one easy step

Wall Street Journal Gets it

you can too


don't be afraid....


it won't hurt.

The Shining

Check out a new trailer to The Shining.

RIAA vs. the People

Check out this blog, following cases where the RIAA has sued people.

dama dave its true

all is well, oh its well.

These post of mine pretty accurately portray the rollercoaster that is med school. From the top where I'm sitting right now its all looks very cool. I'm at school, its only 2, so I figure I'll get a few hours of work in before I crash on a cot in this brick tiled medical building with 80 cadavers ten feet above me head. We went out dancin tonight, 100 medical students dressed in 70s garb. The med school periodically throws us parties, they'll rent out a bar or a dance club and buy a couple kegs. We're pretty funny when we go out in mass, our awkward academic ways suddenly in full frontal social situations, everyone at pains to not mention school, or anything medically related. Just shut up and dance.

Sunday I saw the Sufjan Stevens show at cat's. Prolly the best show I've seen all year. He is absolute genius. It was like a bit like Yo La Tango, just better. dave, clap your hands? (just checked it sold out)

Wednesday I'm done with biochem forever (at least until I take the medical boards). I'm so fucking ready, The next block we start gross anatomy. It's going to be wicked intense the rest of the semester.

Ira where the hell are yah? Otter hope the trip home wasn't too much of a culture shock. Carmen give a call before you leave for some last travel advice. Hope everything is golden buttercups on linear. I talked with polly tonight for the first time in forever. She sounded awesome even though her current jobs seems to be trying her sanity, she also wants access to post... I have no problems.

cheers your potentially chronically sober brother.

Ian

also i was a bearded man for all I twas worth till this very night, I lost all facial padding for a glamrock costume. But I still have a bitchen stash.

also John what was that about addresses?
1112 willow
CH, Nc 27517