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Life is good. It looks like Jiffy Lube, located in Bristow, Virginia, will be back to drinking and drugging again this coming summer. The ban on tailgating has been lifted. It will be great to know that pedestrians will have to slide through buckets of puke to get from one place to the next during a Buffet concert.
According to the News and Messenger:
Jiffy Lube Live has reversed its short-lived ban on tailgating.
Concert-goers will once again be allowed to party in the parking lot for this summer’s coming concerts. Grills and lawn chairs will be allowed. Tents, canopies and alcohol, though, are not.
Wait! Stop!! Flag on the play. NO ALCOHOL. It looks like I spoke too soon. Tailgating will be allowed but alcohol, tents and canopies are still verboten. I feel certain no tailgaters will violate any of the rules. Just to make sure, Jiffy Lube parking lot ambassadors will be patrolling the parking lot to keep law and order.
Here is a link to the NEW RULES AT JIFFY LUBE Pavillion.
Patrons put up a hue and cry after the tailgating ban went in to effect. They took their case to Facebook. Apparently the consumers were heard. Perhaps Jiffy Lube felt it couldn’t afford the loss of revenue.
[Please note, some of the above is tongue in cheek.]
Yesterday, President Obama made 4 recess appointments. He appointed 3 people to the Board of Labor Relations and 1 to the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB appointment is the most contentious.
The new head, Richard Cordray, received an appointment even though the chamber was technically only in session every few days. Technically seems to be the big IF. The senate technically did not recess over the holiday, so there was no precedent for what President Obama did.
When Republicans took control of the House, going into pro forma sessions became the norm since neither chamber can recess for longer than three days without the consent of the other.
But now that Obama has decided that pro forma sessions don’t matter much, Republicans warn there is no stopping presidents from undermining the Senate’s traditional advise-and-consent role.
Senators who live close by in Maryland and Virginia are usually the ones who come in and gavel a session into formal existence and then close the session. The pro forma sessions only last minutes.
