Michael Bersin Posts
HB 383: the black helicopters won't need GPS when they can just use Gadsden license plates
January 31, 2013 - 9:10pm
Introduced yesterday:
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 383
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES BAHR (Sponsor) AND CURTMAN (Co-sponsor).
0918L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
Relating to motor vehicle mileage taxes.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Sectio...
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Campaign Finance: it just keeps rolling in
January 31, 2013 - 7:10pm
Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commision:
C001135 01/31/2013 A BETTER MISSOURI WITH GOVERNOR JAY NIXON RightCHOICE Managed Care, Inc. PO Box 68086 Cincinnati OH 45206 1/29/2013 $25,000.00 [emphasis added]
Somebody thinks he's running for something. Somebody thinks he isn't:
Tony Messenger @tonymess
@eyokley To me it's a moot point because I don't think Nixon is a candidate in 2016. But I realize I'm in the minority there. 5:21 PM...
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Campaign Finance: it's not like they're writing $10,000.00 checks because they think...
January 31, 2013 - 9:10am
...you're not running for something.
Yesterday, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C001135 01/30/2013 A BETTER MISSOURI WITH GOVERNOR JAY NIXON World Wide Technology Holding Co., Inc. 60 Weldon Parkway Saint Louis MO 63043 1/28/2013 $10,000.00 [emphasis added]
$10,000.00 seems to be a popular amount.
Previously:
Campaign Finance: yadda, yadda, yadda... (January 20, 2013)
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Because it can't happen here, right?
January 30, 2013 - 1:14am
It's in their nature.
Blunt Wants Federal Government To Do More For Joplin
Kevin Killeen
May 26, 2011 11:53 AM
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Missouri Senator Roy Blunt says he's asking the federal government to reimburse 100 percent of the cost to local governments dealing with the Joplin tornado aftermath....
....In a phone conference with reporters Thursday, Blunt says he has asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to do more.
"I'm askin...
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Out of the closet and into the twenty-first century
January 30, 2013 - 1:14am
Maybe.
From 1976. I contemplated sending it back in 2000. Now it looks like I may have saved on postage.
It took a while, from the Boy Scouts of America:
MEDIA STATEMENT
Boy Scouts of America
Monday, Jan. 28, 2013
Attributable to: Deron Smith, Director of Public Relations
"For more than 100 years, Scouting's focus has b...
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"As the Black Wind Withers in the Sky, We Are Graced Dimly in Our Dreams"
January 28, 2013 - 6:03pm
Along the westbound lane of U.S. Highway 50 east of Kansas City, the cult of the lost cause:
Still up on January 28, 2013, almost three months after the election.
Previously:
Uh, who's paying for this? (August 17, 2012)
Well, that didn't come to pass (November 14, 2012...
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Orange you glad?
January 27, 2013 - 9:03pm
HB 276: Shootout at the K-12 corral?
January 27, 2013 - 7:03pm
Representative Rick Brattin (r) is the republican controlled General Assembly's poster boy for right wingnut legislation. A bill, introduced on January 23, 2013 - in regard to arming school teachers and/or school administrators:
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 276
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES BRATTIN (Sponsor), COX, BAHR, SMITH (120), NEELY, BROWN AND MCGAUGH (Co-sponsors).
0608L.02I D. ADAM CRUMBL...
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HB 278: on the side of preening self-righteousness in the "War on Labor Day"
January 26, 2013 - 2:03pm
"Useless laws weaken the necessary laws." - Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
Introduced in the Missouri General Assembly by Representative Rick Brattin (r) on January 23, 2013.
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 278
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES BRATTIN (Sponsor), RIDDLE, LICHTENEGGER, HANSEN, BAHR...
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HB 291: keping misooree stoopit
January 24, 2013 - 8:03pm
Cue the banjos. A bill, introduced yesterday in the General Assembly:
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 291
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES BRATTIN (Sponsor), KOENIG AND BAHR (Co-sponsors).
0506L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapters 170 and 174, RSMo, by adding thereto two new sections relating to standard science instruction.
B...
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Because a footnote in Marbury v Madison (1803) gives Wayne LaPierre the final word?
January 24, 2013 - 10:03am
Evidently the national mouthpiece for the lobbying arm of the gun manufacturing industry isn't the final arbiter.
Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)
....It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is....
[emphasis added]
Nope, nothing there either about a county sheriff in out state Missouri.
There was a recent splash in the Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal about a sternly worded letter from Johnson Co...
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If he'd be a blogger by his trade...
January 24, 2013 - 12:03am
...He may have junk food ready made
And if he posts his Twitter light
He'll have his access to the right.
Okay, this is funny:
Eli Yokley @eyokley
The plane issue has been one that Republicans have pretty successfully hounded Nixon on for years... Can't imagine it polls well. #MOGov #2016 2:59 PM - 23 Jan 13
Brandon H. @BHIndepMO
define successfully please | rt @eyokley The plane issue has been one that Republican...
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SB 183: don't touch their junk
January 22, 2013 - 11:03pm
Introduced today in the Missouri Senate:
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 183
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR SATER.
Read 1st time January 22, 2013, and ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
0699S.02I
AN ACT
To amend chapter 576, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the offense of unlawful search, with a penalty provision.
...
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Campaign Finance: Running for something?
January 22, 2013 - 7:03pm
Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C091145 01/22/2013 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Centene Management Company LLC Centene Corporation St Louis MO 63105 1/22/2013 $10,000.00 [emphasis added]
Recharging or charging up? ...
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SJR 14: While you're at it, why don't you add "stand your ground"?
January 21, 2013 - 6:03pm
Introduced by Senator Kurt Schaefer (r) and first read on January 17, 2013:
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 14
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATORS SCHAEFER, MUNZLINGER AND KEHOE.
Read 1st time January 17, 2013, and ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
1027S.02I
JOINT RESOLUTION
Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri, an...
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Sen. Mitch McConnell (r) starts the next four years with a sad...
January 21, 2013 - 10:03am
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (r): ....The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president....
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts administers the oath of office to President Barack Obama during the official swearing-in ceremony in the Blue Room of the White House on Inaugur...
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Campaign Finance: yadda, yadda, yadda...
January 20, 2013 - 8:03pm
Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C001135 01/20/2013 A BETTER MISSOURI WITH GOVERNOR JAY NIXON JE Dunn Construction Company 1001 Locust Street Kansas City MO 64106 1/18/2013 $10,000.00
C001135 01/20/2013 A BETTER MISSOURI WITH GOVERNOR JAY NIXON Aetna, Inc. 151 Farmington Avenue Hartford CT 06156 1/18/2013 $10,000.00 [EMPHASIS ADDED]
That's $210,000.00 in three weeks. What else is new?
Campaign Finance: tel...
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Campaign Finance: Would you like fries with that?
January 19, 2013 - 8:03pm
Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
CONTRIBUTION OF MORE THAN $5,000.00 RECEIVED BY ANY COMMITTEE FROM ANY
SINGLE DONOR - TO BE FILED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF RECEIVING THE CONTRIBUTION
C031159 MISSOURIANS FOR KOSTER [pdf] 1/19/2013
William F McGeehan
114 E. Main Street Apt. C
Sedalia, MO 65301
McDonald's Licensee
1/17/2013
$25,000.00
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President Obama: guns
January 19, 2013 - 12:03pm
The January 19, 2013 weekly address from President Obama:
The transcript:
Weekly Address: Now Is The Time to Take Action Against Gun Violence
Hi, everybody. This week, I announced a series of concrete steps we should take to protect our children and our communities from gun violence.
These proposals grew out of meetings Vice President Biden and his task force held over the last mont...
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HB 224: the wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round...
January 19, 2013 - 12:03pm
Isn't this special?:
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 224
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES BERRY (Sponsor), KELLEY (127), SHULL, NETH, WILSON, LAUER, CIERPIOT, BROWN, WIELAND, LANT, SOLON, FREDERICK, SWEARINGEN, MCNEIL, MUNTZEL, LOVE, DAVIS, WHITE, CRAWFORD, WOOD, REIBOLDT, ROWDEN, CURTMAN, RICHARDSON AND HOUGHTON (Co-sponsors).
0597L.02I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
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