Wood County RINO Hunt

Stick'in it to the Tourist....Open for Business

It's frustrating sometimes to watch government in action. Parkersburg City Council fell into line last evening and approved the Hotel tax increase, what a shock. Lot's of folks think the BIG Oil companies get together and determine the price of gasoline, which is what governments do all the time with taxation.

Parkersburg should consider making their elections non-partisan, at least then Republicans wouldn't be trying to explain to each other why Republicans are unanimously voting to raise our taxes. Don't forget these folks when they run for higher office later, as many of them have high hopes and plans to equal their high opinions of themselves. If they will do this here, you can bet they will in Charleston or wherever it is they aspire to "serve".

I have been curious for awhile, wondering why these folks would get involved in our local Party election last year and help determine the outcome by a vote. If they thought this would spare them criticism from other Republicans they were sadly mistaken. Some of us still know a RINO when we see one and don't mind pointing them out, before they do us all more damage.

Little Hocking/Porterfield Ramada Inn Opening SOON

Commission OKs hotel tax increase

Looks like this new tax will be in place just as the new bridge completing the Route 50 bypass west opens. A fellow Republican told me it could have been worse, I said how's that. He said well the Democrats would have raised it 12% if the law would let them. @#&%

Maybe an excise tax on Entertainment production, Dairy farms and Automobile rental should be considered!

Possibly collecting taxes on some of the folks who live in West Virginia and have Ohio tags on their vehicles to avoid paying taxes. I know this is unpopular with the assessor, but that's no reason not to enforce the law until it is changed the way you think it should be. I'm sure I'm missing the BIG picture here.

A Brokered Convention?

from Elephant Biz

Newt Gingrich thinks the crowded presidential field in both parties, combined with the rush of so many states to hold early primaries, could result in one or both parties facing a brokered convention - something that hasn't happened in decades.

He made it sound oh-so plausible in an interview with NBC News:

Here is a prediction: there are two possibilities after February 5th, and nobody understands this yet. Possibility One is that we have nominated somebody in both parties. Possibility Two is we have locked in four or five candidates in both parties, and we will have the first brokered convention since 1952. There is no reason to believe any one person is going to win a majority in twenty five states the same day, and it's more likely that their consultants are gonna say, 'Okay, Romney is going to go to Michigan and Utah and Massachusetts. And you know Giuliani is going to go to New York and California. And McCain is going to go to Florida. And Thompson, if he gets in, is going to do Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia.'
"You're suddenly going to have three, four, five, or six candidates with delegates. Now why would they drop out? There are no more primaries. They have no great reason to drop out. And you're just going to have a total mess. This thing is going to blow up. I think the odds are even money. It either will lead to a nominee in both parties, which is unlikely – ‘cause nobody is anywhere close to 50%. Or it will lead to the first brokered conventions since 1952."

Sounds like fun.

Noah, Ham and Rehab

Let me first say I am not a fan of either Hasselhoff or Baldwin, but I feel compelled to comment, and after all, what else is a blog for. The Bible is full of all kinds of examples for folks to use to draw from, however the one that I am going to use is one of the least used for many reasons.

In both of the situations above these individuals had an issue in their private lives made public by a child. In Hasselhoffs' case the circumstances definitely involve the over consumption of alcohol, not sure if Baldwin has blamed the booze yet or not.


Genesis 9

20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded [a] to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness.
24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers."
26 He also said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem. [b]
27 May God extend the territory of Japheth [c] ; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his [d] slave."

As you can read there are several controversial and politically incorrect issues covered here, but as you can see, Noah was very angry for the way his child handled the situation. Today Noah would most likely be publicly humiliated and forced into rehab, Ham would just be doing his service to society as he saw it and most likely would be offered trauma counseling and social intervention. I also find it interesting that there is no mention of punishment against Noah for his drunkenness.