If you want to watch as the GOP members of the state House of Representatives get together to elect some new leadership positions, click this link.

They're taking roll now.

Tomorrow is Peanut Butter and Jelly Day at the Capitol ( Read more... )

House votes it down, 105-67.

It needed 120 to pass since it's a constitutional amendment.

Spaces are important in writing. They don't look like much; in fact, they don't look like anything at all. They are, however, necessary to prevent words from colliding and destroying the very sentence those words create.

Here are two examples from one press release from ACORN, responding to a resolution introduced in the Georgia General Assembly ( Read more... )

Georgia House of Representatives, April 20, 2007, midnight:


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... a few minutes ago.

They let me bring my camera this year, so I lingered a bit.

And now for a long weekend......

The House is ordering dinner. Per tradition, it will be from the Varsity.

Vote "yes" for a hot dog, "no" for a hamburger. And the Clerk will open the machines...

Courtesy of the AJC's Political Insider, if you ever wanted to see what a bill looks like IRL, go to this page right here. That's how it looks on paper when I'm looking at it (though not this particular bill ( Read more... )

There is more than one bookworm on my friends list, so I thought I'd help y'all discover your next read:

Praising the Hell Out of Yourself

I expect book reports by next Monday.

It's Peanut Butter & Jelly Day at the Capitol!

And unlike last year's debacle, the grill is back! With bananas! And apples ( Read more... )