Doesn't he mean queer?

"The House has no reason to tinker with Senate rules," said Wesley Denton, DeMint's spokesman. "The only reason to want to put them in conference is because they intend to change them."

Jim Manley, [Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid's spokesman, calls those assertions "phony as a two-dollar bill."

Liberals never give Jefferson any respect.

From the Free Republic:

An unelected body, the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, (NVTA) is set to implement completely unprecedented and controversial taxing powers for road projects, two thirds of which will not be identified until late November or early December.

The NVTA wants more taxing power from the General Assembly in 2008, eminent domain authority to take homes, businesses, and land, and power to relocate utilities.

Proposed Taxes and Fee Increases:

- Tax on home sales will increase an additional 40 cents per $100 bringing the total state and local grantor/recordation taxes to 86.66 cents per $100, up from 46.66 cents per $100 ($3,467 instead of $1865 on a $400,000 home),

- New 5% car repair tax ($50 on a $1,000 repair bill). Collision repair costs will be hit especially hard as will insurance costs.

- Car rental tax will increase addition 2%, from 10% to 12 %

- Hotel tax will increase 2% on top of current 2%-5% tax

- Vehicle safety inspection fee will increase from $15 to $25

- New regional annual vehicle registration fee of $10 added to current registration fee.

- New, first time registration fee of 1% of sales price of newly registered or purchased car (new or used) ($200 for $20,000 vehicle)

The Virginian Pilot reports that these tax hikes were approved July 14th.

A panel of Northern Virginia officials voted Thursday night to authorize $300 million in local tax and fee increases for transportation improvements.

The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority approved a package that includes new taxes on home sales, car repairs, hotels, rental cars and higher motor vehicle registration and inspection fees.

Northern Virginia has gradually been becoming more and more liberal over the years. If you were thinking of abandoning ship, now may be the time to do it.

And just why does a Transportation Authority have the ability to raise taxes on home sales?

Conditions in Zimbabwe are not getting any better, and President two-bit dictator Mugabe has ordered business to cut prices or else.

Police said more than 1,300 businesses have been charged and fined over the past two weeks for defying orders to slash prices in half, part of the government's attempts to reel in Zimbabwe's spiraling economic crisis.

State radio reported that 33 top company executives have been arrested since Friday and were expected to appear in court on charges of violating the order to cut prices and hoarding goods....

Official inflation is running at 4,500 percent, the highest in the world, though independent financial institutions estimate real inflation is closer to 9,000 percent...

The government accuses business leaders of being part of a political and economic campaign of "regime change" to bring down longtime ruler President Robert Mugabe.

In a speech to supporters Friday, Mugabe warned manufacturers not to defy the government-ordered price cuts by cutting production or their businesses would be seized.

Stores aren't going to buy food for higher prices than they are allowed to sell it, which means that price controls will only make the supply dry up quicker and force stores to shut their doors. The famine will worsen, and those that were productive members of the economy will flee in even larger numbers.

Yet another frivolous lawsuit. This time a Detroit city worker is suing to ban perfume from office buildings.

An employee in the Detroit planning department who claims she is severely sensitive to perfumes and other cosmetics has sued the city, saying a co-worker's strong fragrance prohibits her from working. Susan McBride's lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, says the work environment is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. She wants a ban on such scents at work — and unspecified damages.

Everyone have a fun and safe Independence Day. If you're taking a break from beer and bar-b-ques, check out Col. Oliver North's wonderful article on the American Patriots.

Entire article quoted below:

On the Fourth of July, only a handful of Americans will pause to commemorate the anniversary of our nation's independence. I used to think it was a shame, how little attention was paid to our national birthday. But on reflection, I've decided it's good that we not dwell on the people and events that gave rise to this little holiday. First, it's not politically correct. The "founders" as they are sometimes called, were all men -- white men -- and crediting white men with anything today just doesn't wash. Second, a careful examination of that handful of patriots who gathered 224 years ago this week to sign that Declaration of Independence invites too many discomfiting comparisons with today's political leaders.

Few Americans know that the Declaration was actually drafted by a committee of five: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Philip Livingston, Roger Sherman, and of course, Thomas Jefferson. Fewer still know that most of the work on the document was done between June 10 and July 2 (when the Continental Congress actually resolved to declare independence from Great Britain) in a boarding house at the intersection of Market and 7th Streets in Philadelphia. The draft document was so good that when debate ended late on July 4, the larger body made but 86 changes, eliminating 480 words, and leaving 1,337 of the most dramatic words in any political manifesto.

The Declaration is far more than an assertion of freedom or a bill of particulars levied at a tyrant. No other founding document for any nation reflects on "the laws of nature and of nature's God." No other proclamation declares that all people are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." No other national manuscript appeals to "the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions." And no other mechanism of national design or intent places the fate of its founders in the hand of God with words like this: "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor." Good thing they weren't writing this stuff in a public school!

In an era when Fidel Castro and Che Guevara are revered revolutionaries, the 56 who signed the Declaration just don't cut the mustard. They were all men of means, well educated and wealthy by the standards of the day. Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists; 11 were successful merchants and traders; 9, like Jefferson, were prosperous farmers. Nine of them would die before the war was over; 5 were captured and tortured by the British and 12 had their homes looted and destroyed.

Neither John Morton of Pennsylvania nor Button Gwinnett, the signer from Georgia, would live to see the first anniversary of their signatures. Philip Livingston, the merchant from Albany, New York who served on Jefferson's drafting committee, was dead before the second anniversary. Thomas Lynch, a farmer from South Carolina died of wounds received in a 1797 naval engagement.

Carter Braxton, a wealthy trader from Virginia saw his armada of trading vessels swept from the seas in battle. To pay his debts, he sold all that he owned and died in rags in 1797.

Thomas McKean, a lawyer from Delaware, served without pay as a member of the Continental Congress. The British forced him to flee with his impoverished family five times during the war. When he died in 1817, his sons had to take up a collection from their neighbors to pay for his funeral.

Thomas Nelson of Yorktown, Virginia borrowed 2 million dollars to provision the French Fleet that would eventually come to our aid. After the war he liquidated his entire estate to pay back the money he borrowed because the Congress refused to reimburse him. He died penniless in 1789.

John Hart, a New Jersey farmer was driven from his wife's sickbed by a British patrol and lived on the run for more than a year. Upon learning that his beloved wife was failing, he took the terrible chance of returning home to find her dead and his children gone. When he died a few weeks later, on May 11, 1779, his friends said it was of a broken heart.

John Hancock, the merchant from Quincy, Massachusetts, claimed that his bold signature would allow King George to read it without spectacles. When the British burned the port that made him rich, Hancock was reported to have said: "Burn, Boston, though it makes John Hancock a beggar, burn!"

All 56 signers were hunted, hounded and declared criminals. All were indicted, tried in absentia for treason, and all were convicted and condemned. Yet, despite all they endured, not one man broke his pledge.

Last time it was a man suing his dry cleaners for $54,000,000 because they lost his pants. This time it's a woman suing Starburst because she dunno know how to chew.

Victoria McArthur, of Romero, Mich., is suing Starbursts' parent company, Mars Inc., for more than $25,000 for "permanent personal injuries" she claims she sustained after biting into one of their yellow candy in 2005.

"I don't know, maybe about 3 chews and it literally locked my jaw ... and it just literally pulled my jaw out of joint," she told MyFoxDetroit.com.

McArthur's lawyer, Brian Muawad, says the candies caused her to develop a condition known as temporal mandibular joint dysfunction. McArthur says she has had trouble chewing, talking and sleeping since the incident.