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You Stand Accused Of Selling A Goldfish

Oddly, a 66-year-old woman was brought up on such charges for selling a goldfish to a 14-year-old.  According to Animal Welfare law, pets cannot be sold to anybody under the age of 16.  The pet shop owner has been fined roughly $1800, placed on curfew, and must wear an electronic ankle bracelet for a couple of months.  She now also has a criminal record.  It cost $30,360 to prosecute this case.

For selling a goldfish. Things are getting scary, now.

Obama Opens Up Drilling For Oil!

Gentlemen, start your engines!  Ur-ur-ur.  Ur-ur-ur.  Hmm.  Lemme take a look.

Well, dang, Barry!  No wonder this thing won't start.  There ain't no gas in the tank.

BO's announcement regarding offshore drilling is just a smokescreen.  Environmeddlists will tie things up for years with legal actions; claiming that drilling "might endanger the environment" - never mind that there hasn't been a spill from a drill site in over thirty years; never mind that all the rigs in the Gulf managed to withstand Hurricane Katrina.  They "might endanger" the environment.

 You have to wonder if these folks ever ride light rail.  After all, you "might" fall off a platform and under a train.  Oh, wait - that actually happened in Portland yesterday.  

So the likelihood of being injured or killed on light rail is far higher than the likelihood of environmental damage from oil drilling, yet environmeddlists file lawsuit after lawsuit to block drilling (which of course drives up the cost of petrochemicals), yet praise light rail - which is not only more environmentally damaging in terms of production and maintenance, but has the added effect of killing or injuring people on a pretty regular basis.

BO says that they'll choose new drill sites carefully, and insist upon the latest technology in order to protect the environment.  Translation: "We'll make it as expensive as possible".  That's what it's all about - if you have access to inexpensive energy, then you'll just use more of it.  And that has to be stopped.

You won't live in a small high-rise apartment and either walk or take mass transit if you are permitted to access inexpensive sources of energy, so energy must become more costly.  It's the most effective way to bring you under government control.

In Case You Missed It

Researchers have noted that many Americans are increasingly making use of public libraries, as they have free restrooms, places to sleep, and free high-speed internet access so that they can look for porn jobs.  Of course, nobody wants a job as a janitor in a public library today.  Ewww!

Break Out The Tin-Foil Hats

A number of animals, such as sea turtles, pigeons, and even bacteria appear to employ sensitivity to magnetic fields to guide their movements; sometimes over extremely long distances.  Humans generally lack this ability, but it doesn't mean that you're immune to the forces of magnetics.  The right temporal-parietal junction, located just behind your right ear, appears to respond to magnetic interference.  Specifically, applied magnetics in this area appears to affect moral judgement, if results of recent studies are correct in their current interpretation.

This may explain the behavior of politicians, such as Portland "mayor" Sam Adams.  When he was a baby, he likely slept on his right side, with a magnet-laden pillow to cradle his tender head.

Or not.  More likely, most politicians are simply born with genetic defects in the parietal junction which renders them incapable of sound moral judgement. This is why most in D.C. are lawyers: if you have a moral defect, you don't address it - you try to get around it.  Law school!

Warmists Prepare To Hit The Courts

No, not to get into shape - exercise causes you to exhale CO2 in large quantities, which is Very Bad.  No, the environmeddlists are planning to sue individual companies that they believe contribute to global warming and which therefore constitute a "public nuisance".

These companies, through their emissions, caused Hurricane Katrina and any number of other ills, according to the claims.  In so doing, environmeddlists are adopting a new tactic: claiming that emissions by individual companies are essentially equivalent to having a neighbor who plays his sound system too loudly, and thus constitute a "public nuisance" - which is subject to redress by law.

Apparently, they fail to understand that most people consider the environmeddlists themselves to constitute a public nuisance. 

This Just In: You're Stupid.

According to the guy who first started referring to the planet not as Earth, but as "Gaia", you're hopelessly stupid.  We won't be able to avert climate change with people like you running around loose.  One of the main obstacles to meaningful action toward fighting climate change is democracy.  You just can't have something quaint like that when you need to take meaningful action to fight something that is actually a normal part of planetary cycles.

When the sun approaches its end of life and begins to expand, enveloping Mercury, Venus, and Earth - you can bet there'll be somebody like this guy, blaming it all on you in the hope of grabbing a few more buck from the gullible to be spent as he sees fit during the final days.

Oh, It's All The GOP's Fault

Apparently, Dimocratics are shocked; Shocked, I tell you, by the fallout from corporations within a week of their glorious victory. They're convinced that this is all some nefarious plot by the Republicans, and so Waxworm and Stupid are hot to drag corporate CEOs into Washington to demand an explanation of why actual reality doesn't match up with their Washington version.     

Source: Powerline. 

Dimocratics really screwed the pooch on this, and as is so typical, they immediately try to blame somebody else. Obama's been blaming Bush for over a year, now, so it's hardly a new tactic.

Let's see...they rammed something into "law" (though that is still questionable) without anybody but Dimocratics on board, despite the fact that a large majority of Americans opposed the bill.  In so doing, they opposed the will of the people, and imposed large burdens upon corporations which - among other facets of their operations - employ people.  They lit the loaded cigar, and are outraged that it has blown up in their face.

Obviously, this is the fault of Somebody Else.

It's really gotten silly though - if you want financial news, where do you go?  Generally, that short list includes Barron's and The Wall Street Journal.  Yet according to the financial wizards currently running loose in D.C., the WSJ is unreliable.

"These are Republican CEOs who are trying to embarrass the President and Democrats in general," says a White House legislative affairs staffer. "Where do you hear about this stuff? The Wall Street Journal editorial page and conservative websites. No one else picked up on this but you guys. It's BS."

Those Hateful Racists!

That's the meme of the day, constantly pushed by the lamestream media and their columnists: folks in the Tea Party movement are derided daily as hateful, racist, and much more.  But the epithets don't seem to be gaining much traction; over half of Americans, according to recent polling, believe that Tea Party movement folks have a better grasp of the issues than do their elected representatives in the U.S. House and Senate.  Less than a third of Americans are still lapping up the stuff that the lamestream media dishes out.

Given that many feel they were sold a bill of fake goods by the lamestream media during the last election cycle, public distrust is understandable.  Unsurprisingly, the greatest shift is occurring among Independents.  Republicans have remained essentially stable, while a small percentage of Democratics have shifted toward the Independent perspective.

Is this going to be a ground-breaking year for Republicans?  Likely not.  Hard-core Democratics are counting upon Americans to have a short attention span, and since the effects of their health-insurance bill won't actually be felt for several years, this could well be the scenario.  Americans generally tend not to react until they feel the teeth clamping down on their butts.

BO Gets A Slapdown

He promised bipartisanship, and now he has it.  337 members of the House  - about 3/4 of the membership, signed a letter to Hillary affirming their deep support for Israel and noting their expectation that any tensions between our country and theirs will be resolved in private, and amicable in manner.  This is a huge rebuke to BO's policies to date, and one that should serve as a wake-up call.  Having traveled the globe on his famous apology tour, does BO have it in him to stop apologizing for America and start apologizing for his own conduct?

Portland's Number One!

Not only do we lead the nation for the highest water and sewer rates, Portland (and Oregon in general) lead the nation with the highest percentage, per capita, of homeless people.  This is very understandable, particularly in the Portland area, with its "free" mass transit (light rail) lines, Leonard loos, and abundant ancillary benefits.

Together with the anti-business attitude so prevalent in Portland and thus our tendency to lead the nation in unemployment, we're a perfect fit.  Private-sector  jobs are what make or break a state economy, but Portland has been very consistent in its efforts to drive companies away; a trend which has clearly accelerated after Portlanders overwhelmingly voted to pass a pair of job-killing tax measures.  This might be okay if Portland residents were the only people affected, but their voters affect the entire state.

It therefore seems reasonable to suggest that the state should be subdivided into two distinct states:  Portlandia, and Oregon.  There is, quite simply, no justification for allowing the tyranny of Portland to continue to adversely impact the lives and the livelihoods of citizens in the rest of Oregon.