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Give That Boy A Drivers' License!

Manuel Gutierrez was arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree assault. Despite being 17, Gutierrez is being charged as an adult.

Two motorcycles crashed into the car Gutierrez was driving Friday night when he pulled into oncoming traffic on Highway 118, after leaving Arrow Road. 

Jasper Police Chief Connie Cooner Rowe described Gutierrez as “non-English speaking, undocumented, unlicensed and uninsured at the time of the crash.” She said he was not taken into custody at the scene due to a “language barrier issue” as well as conflicting reports over who was driving the vehicle once the suspects were located.

ICE has placed a hold on him; charges are expected to be upgraded.

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How Many Politicians Can We Fit In This Thing?

SEATTLE (AP) — Scientists are eager for access to information from a quarter-billion dollar lab at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that they hope will teach them about climate change, earthquakes and even the origins of life on Earth and other planets.

The $239 million National Science Foundation project will install video cameras, seismic monitors and other gauges along a volcano in deep waters off the Pacific Northwest coast, giving researchers the ability to monitor activity 2 miles below the ocean surface.

Two miles down seems pretty reasonable; politicians can't do nearly as much harm from there. And at $240 million, it's dirt-cheap. Our politicians can sneeze and lose track of that amount of money.

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As It's Known In Gun-Free Chicago: The Weekend

They're losing their touch. Since Friday night, 18 folks were wounded and five more were killed on the safe streets of Chicago. It took the full weekend for them to rack up the tally normally associated with any given Friday night alone. It's a good thing they don't allow gun shops in Chicago; people might get the wrong idea and start defending themselves.

And They're Off!

Mia Love's announced that she's going to take another shot at Utah Rep. Jim Matheson's seat in the 2014 run. Last time out, she mounted an interesting come-from-behind effort; losing to Matheson in the end by the slimmest of margins. That initial foray received help from Portland-area folks: Jeff Reynolds - Multnomah County Republicans head, and John Kuzmanich - head of Oregon TEA Party.

No word as yet on whether they'll be involved this time around; Love says she learned a lot in her first run, though, setting her team up for success next year.

She's since hired a top consultant from Utah Republican Sen. Orrin G. Hatch’s team and began organizing her campaign early this year. 

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Running For Cover

Four of the top folks in Shillary's failed presidential run are wishing her well, but made it clear that if she wants to try again in 2016, their calendars are already full. Of course, that whole Benghazi thing is likely to put a real stick in the spokes of her ride, so there's that.

And what happened to crazy Uncle Joe? This is so uncharacteristic of him; he never misses a chance to pop off, but lately, he's been mysteriously silent. Barky wouldn't have muzzled him, because Joe's dependably distractive. Yet, for days now - nothing. Maybe his neurons can only handle one issue at a time, and there are just too many up in the air for him to keep track. Or maybe he's laying low because getting too close to them tar-babies just might screw up his plans; after all, he's been considering going for the fine china and Air Force One after Barky gets done mucking things up.

It doesn't seem as though he really needs to worry about that; he's more likely to win Powerball. 

 

"Not As Bad As Nixon"

Barky's gone from "Hope'n'Change" to an all-new slogan: "Not as bad as Nixon". He may not be able to make even that stick; nobody died in Watergate. Even the Left's calling for him to fire his BFF, Eric Holder, now. He can't blame Bush, and he's fast losing traction on his "blame Republicans" strategery. 

Times are bad for the erstwhile Messiah. Even the folks who helped to write and bulldoze through his fantastic Obamacare law are now predicting a train-wreck on that front, and it's not only unlikely that he won't regain the House next year; he very conceivably could lose the Senate as well. And amid the flap over his AP spying operation, it emerges that he targeted others as well (FOX News, unsurprisingly, among them). These revelations have perturbed even those who once considered him their ally. When Keith Olbermann starts griping about him, and Holder, he's got a real problem.

The president said press freedoms must be balanced against the protection of U.S. personnel overseas.

Wait, what? Isn't this the same guy who just last year asserted that he has the authority to order the execution of U.S. citizens without due process? And given the Benghazi coverups, exactly when did this guy start becoming concerned with "the protection of U.S. personnel overseas"?

As Ricky used to say to Lucy: "You've got some 'splainin' to do!"

Well, nothing a few more rounds of golf can't fix. 

Obama Denies Involvement

Oddly, for once he may not be lying:

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—President Obama used his weekly radio address on Saturday to reassure the American people that he has “played no role whatsoever” in the U.S. government over the past four years.

“Right now, many of you are angry at the government, and no one is angrier than I am,” he said. “Quite frankly, I am glad that I have had no involvement in such an organization.”

The Golfer-in-Chief.

 

Congressional Clowns

What a surprise! Former acting IRS head Steve Miller apparently lied to Congress when testifying about IRS targeting. That's supposed to be some sort of a crime, but rules and laws don't seem to apply to this administration.

In addition, Obama's Treasury Secretary gave Congress an ultimatum; demanding that the debt ceiling be - you guessed it - increased, and stating that it's non-negotiable.

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Friday urged congressional leaders to raise the debt limit and insisted that the White House is not going to negotiate over the increase because lawmakers have "no choice."

Doubtless, he threatened to sic Mooch on them if they don't comply. Barky needs more money for his vacations, to say nothing of his pals in the solar and wind "industries".

Hangups

Mother's Day card 

It's finally come to this: a school in Canada has determined that Mother's Day and Father's Day are non-inclusive and therefore will not be celebrated at the institution.

The Dartmouth elementary school said it is aiming to celebrate diversity and inclusivity while avoiding making children who are part of non-traditional families feel left out.

“Children can be isolated in a classroom if they’ve lost their mom or are in a family without a dad or in a family with two moms or two dads,” Education Minister Ramona Jennex recently told CTV Atlantic.

Well, we certainly wouldn't want a precious snowflake's feelings to be hurt, now would we? While, quite frankly, the two days have always seemed contrived - much like Secretary's Day, just another opportunity for Hallmark and their ilk to peddle off $5 pieces of paper - the action seems, once again, to exemplify political correctness run amok. Increasingly, it seems that the Leftists who predominate in all institutions of public vegetation insist upon foisting their own personal hangups onto other peoples' kids.

 

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No Expectations

Think you're entitled to privacy? Not if you don't power off your cell phone. At least, that's what federal judge Gary Brown says.

A federal judge recently ruled that if someone has their cell phone turned on, their location data does not deserve protection under the Fourth Amendment, meaning law enforcement can track individuals without a search warrant.

ACLU calls the ruling "ridiculous", and it does appear to contravene prior rulings prohibiting authorities from affixing a gps tracking device to a car, absent a warrant, but the judge says that location tracking technology can be defeated by a cell phone user by the simple expedient of shutting the phone off. Of course, that means that you've just turned your phone into a doorstop, since you can't place or receive calls when it's turned off. Moreover, some phones can't actually be turned off completely unless you take the further step of removing the battery.

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