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Rich Lefties Battle Peons

Pierce Brosnan at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival 

The secret beaches of Malibu: rich Lefties like Pierce Brosnan, David Geffen, and Michael Eisner all have beachfront homes there, and they go to great lengths to keep the commoners off the beach - even though, by law, California beaches are public property. Geffen has famously sued in the past to keep the riff-raff out; others employ strategies such as planting hedges to obscure public access points, posting security guards, and posting misleading or outright fake signs in the area, claiming private property - no trespassing - when they don't own the areas in question.

Now they're all aflutter because environmental writer Jenny Price got some funds together on Kickstarter and hooked up with some tech folks to create a free iPhone app that shows commoners where and how to legally access the Malibu beach; even going so far as to display illegal or misleading sign placement by residents and sparking fears amongst the hoi polloi that they'll soon thave "their" beach overrun by common folk. Maybe they can get the Sierra Club to weigh in on the matter - after all, they hate private property too (unless it happens to be theirs). Imagine all of the environmental damage that these ignorant proles may inflict upon the unsullied Malibu beach!

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Oh Noes! Evil Republicans Assault Multnomah County!

That's right, the Republicans in MultCo are raffling off an AR-15 rifle. Tickets are ten bucks, or twelve for $100. Only 500 tickets are being sold, and the drawing is, I believe, set for 24 June. Over at the Zero, reporter Mapes gives state senator Ginny Burdick some space to hyperventilate, and her fellow nanny-staters have dully chimed in via the online comments section. In the case of most other state senators, it might be worth mentioning when they significantly stretch the truth, but in Burdick's case, it's a given; her surname has become synonymous with "liar".

As well, the Zero's Sunday columnist, Elizabeth Hovde, weighs in on the need for "sensible" universal background checks with apparently little understanding of existing gun laws, affording an additional opportunity for the nanny-staters to hold forth in that online comments section.

In both cases, you may want to bring a supply of wipes to remove the spittle and drool from your screen, but there's no point: wipes only work on the outside.

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News Flash

Apparently some Democrat Congresscritters decided to live for a week on $32 of food stamps - or as the cards of today are called: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Apparently, being Democratics, they were unable to grasp the concept underlying the term, "Supplemental Nutrition", and believed that food stamps should provide completely free food, rather than supplementing a food budget. Unsurprising, as they appear unfamiliar with the concept of budgeting in the first place.

Looking at the sales receipt proudly shown by Rep. Eleanor Norton, you begin to see why they had such problems. Who pays $3.39 for tuna? I can pick up a can for 79 cents. A pint of blueberries for five bucks? Hey, Eleanor - try waiting a bit and buying them in season - you could've bought a pint of strawberries for 1/4 the price, today. Pepperidge Farm crackers? Really? What's the matter, dearie - the store brand's not good enough, so you buy high-class (for the name only) on food stamps? And hey - ever heard of coupons? You can actually save money with those things.

Really, and I kid you not - I could have bought more food for less money; I do it all the time. Moreover, even a Congresscritter could buy a pepper start, stick it in a pot, and harvest peppers for weeks for less than she paid for one green pepper. But of course, that's not the point; the idea is to show how greedy and selfish Republicans are, and shopping high-end and stupidly is one way to do that.

Sorry, honey - not buying that, no matter how cheap it is. 

I do a better job of shopping every week. Of course, I'm using my own money. And I'm not out to garner political points; just feeding the family. All you've shown is just how out of touch with life in the real world you really are.

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Homosexuals: Hey! Look At Me!

How odd that we never see a heterosexual "Pride" day, with parades and stuff. But every year, it's the same old, same old with the folks whose lives revolve around their sexual preferences. As usual, "Dykes on bikes" kick off the big parade.

You can't just ignore them, you have to applaud them, because they're special. It's astonishing that these folks think that everybody should make a big deal about them because they choose to make their homosexual proclivities the central and defining feature of what passes for their lives. It genuinely does not appear to ever enter their little heads that most of the rest of us just don't care.

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Idiotic Atheists

A brief article in Salon, of all places, notes the ongoing legal skirmishes in Florida by a bunch of self-important jerks who consider themselves atheists. The Freedom From Religion Foundation and a related organization calling itself the Central Florida Freethought Community had a hissy-fit when a Collier County judge ruled that it was perfectly acceptable for schools to allow a table with Bibles on it, free for the taking. Naturally, the Salon writer thinks that's a stupid move. Some 1700 copies of said Bibles were taken by passing students, and although neither the Salon writer nor the two atheist organizations have any idea as to why some of them may have been taken from the tables. Some kids may have taken one to burn, or otherwise deface, for all they know - but in any event, the mere presence of the tomes was Very Bad.

So they sought permission to distribute some books and flyers of their own. Most were permitted by the schools, though some were not, due to "incendiary content". Things with titles like "An X-Rated Book" and "Why I'm Not A Muslim" were apparently excluded. As might be expected, the groups are suing because not all of the materials were permitted for distribution. That's just being obnoxious.

Of course, they're all worked up as well because there's a Bible sitting right next to a Mayor's desk in a town in Florida:

Atheists are outraged that a Bible sits right next to the mayor’s desk, inside a Pinellas Park City Council chamber, and they’re demanding its removal.

City officials, however, say that’s a no-go. The Bible’s been there for more than 30 years, and laws don’t prohibit its presence, The Blaze reported. The book was an Oct. 19, 1975, gift to council members from the Kiwanis club, and it’s been a traditional fixture ever since.

Freedom From Religion Foundation officials say they don’t care. They sent a letter to city officials, saying the Bible needs to go because it violates the principle of separation of church and state.

That's their problem, in a nutshell: there is no such "principle". In fact, the language is pretty clear: government is prohibited from establishing a religion; nothing more. And the mere presence of a Bible near the Mayor's desk is clearly not an "establishment". It's almost as though there's some sort of contest going on to see who can be the most pathetic jerks in the country.

If there is, then the atheists are on track to win it.

 

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Cher, Cockroaches, And Styrofoam

Pirate Cher (Photo credit: zorro013)

New York City's nanny has had his ban on big soda overturned in the courts, but that little setback's not affecting his crusade to babysit everybody in the city. He's a little slow on the draw, though, as he's now going after a ban on styrofoam cups and trays - something that Porkland's nannies enacted years ago.

One of the City Council members, speaking in support of the NYC nanny's latest banning effort, noted that at the end of time, the only things remaining on the planet will be Cher, cockroaches, and styrofoam. That's kind of surprising, since Cher's a flaming Leftist; it seems odd that she'd be included in the list of surviving repulsive and evil things.

Clatsop Countians, Collectivize!

Agricultural homeseekers sign in Clatsop County, Oregon, 1938 (Photo credit: OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons)

Oregon LNG, having had about enough of Clatsop County fearmongers, decided to sidestep the continuing fight over siting an LNG export/import terminal near the mouth of the Columbia River (no, not Lars Larson - the actual river) by applying for federal permitting via FERC. If approved, the federal permit overrides the concerns of Clatsop County commissioners and other bedwetters because the project's an interstate work.

That needs to happen, because Oregon's coast in recent years has been overrun by recent arrivals who oppose anything that might actually create jobs. It interferes with their desire to maintain most of the state as a very large park. As it stands, only 2% of all land in Oregon is developed in some way, but even that's too much for these folks. They have theirs, and they want to make damned sure that nobody else gets any. In fact, if they could cut developed areas back to one half of one percent, they'd do it - if they could hang onto the place they're living in.

This Just In: RFK Jr. Officially Nuts

Vaccines Cancer & Mutagenesis

The short version of the vaccine conspiracy theory (if you are stuck on the phone with RFK Jr., you will be subjected to the long version) is that a vaccine preservative called thimerosal causes autism when injected into children. Government epidemiologists and other scientists, conspiring with the vaccine industry, have covered up data and lied about vaccine ingredients to hide this fact. Journalists are dupes of this powerful cabal that is intentionally poisoning children.

Well, there's nothing much to add; the guy's got conspiracy theories shooting out of every orifice. Too bad, as with his name recognition he could do a lot of good - were he not so nuts. Hit the link for look into the mindset of pampered loon.

Of course, over in enlightened places like Pakistan, they're convinced that vaccinations are part of a diabolical Western plan to sterilize them. Would that it was so, but alas....

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Pity Party

The Associated Press has an article out that describes the grinding poverty afflicting hispanic "immigrants", with a focus on the San Joaquin Valley:

Fresno's north side — home to bankers, doctors and teachers — is dotted with gated communities and McMansions with manicured lawns. It boasts newly paved streets, bike lanes, generous sidewalks, a popular mall and parks.

Melendez's neighborhood in southeast Fresno is a world away. Children on bikes crisscross cracked streets, their gutters strewn with trash.

Evidently, the bankers and teachers head over to southeast Fresno to dump their trash into the gutters, because, you know - middle-class and wealthy folks are like that. Always dumping on the poor; especially "immigrants" like the protagonist in this story, a 36 year-old mother of seven named Christina Melendez who, with two sisters, trekked across the border from Mexico when she was 13.

They settled in the Valley, where the illegal aliens picked grapes and other produce. Melendez went to school for a while, but chose to drop out and get married; the happy couple soon separated. She produced her first American citizen at the age of 15, and rapidly pumped out half a dozen more. They get food stamps, but reportedly little else in government assistance.

To make ends meet, she sometimes peddles barbecued beef, tamales and beauty products door to door and rents a room to a friend.

"That's what I have, and that's what I make do with," she said, "because the process of doing something else is difficult."

And, of course, she works in the fields from time to time. The process of doing something else is difficult. It's difficult, so there's no reason to do it.

These are the people that Obama and other Leftists claim are "living in the shadows", and although the AP story portrays her plight with great sympathy, it remains that the illegal alien had access to public education here yet chose to drop out - and chose to have bambino after bambino. All of whom we pay for, in food stamps and other public assistance, and with public education. Her two eldest sons, in fact, have their high school diplomas; the oldest, now 21, might have chosen to attend vocational training at a community college - and for a brief period, he did just that, but then chose to drop out, get married and have a little bambino of his very own.

That child is now 3, and Daddy is unemployed. And the trash continues to accumulate in the gutters of southeast Fresno.

Damn those rich teachers.

 

 

Could Be Difficult

The pair of lesbians who stirred up a hissy-fit because a bakery in Gresham wouldn't bake them a "wedding" cake (homosexual marriage isn't recognized in Oregon, anyway) never really had a leg to stand on - because as it happens, they were trying to violate the Constitutional rights of the baker.

The Oregon Constitution is also quite clear relative to the limits of government. Specifically in ARTICLE 1, BILL OF RIGHTS:

Section 3. Freedom of religious opinion. No law shall in any case whatever control the free exercise, and enjoyment of religious opinions, or interfere with the rights of conscience.

In other words, no matter how desperately they may want to force the baker to "accept and embrace" their homosexual "marriage", the Constitution precludes them from doing so. It's no wonder that so many on the Left want to redefine federal and state Constitutions as "living documents" that can be changed as they see fit.

Tolerance™, to them, means "approve of what I do, even if it conflicts with your values and beliefs".

Maybe next time, these folks should try a Muslim bakery.

 

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