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Multiracial people become fastest-growing US group

This is big news?  Excuse, please - but aren't most Americans of mixed heritage?  So what?

Forget being a colorblind nation - you're supposed to "celebrate diversity" by playing up racial differences.

The Metro Follies

David Woolson, 52, is under fire from Metro Council President David Bragdon, who said he, senior staff and several Metro councilors have serious concerns about Woolson's job performance, office expenses and blustery style.  Bragdon's likely just upset because Woolson, at $197,193 (plus benefits) per year, makes way more than him.  And Bragdon, deeply rooted in the FONG (Friends of Neil Goldschmidt) network, is bound to be offended over something like that.

In any case, Woolson's been asked to resign.

As one commenter notes: For Bragdon to ask this guy to resign is like one of the clowns in the clown car asking the driver to quit.

However, it should be noted that there seems to be something in the water over in the old Sears store, as Oregon Zoo director Tony Vecchio has also announced that he's leaving - he's leaving a job that pays $131,844.00 (plus benefits) for a new gig in Florida that will pay him around $82,000 a year.

The brain trust that runs Metro has announced the appointment of former security guard Mike Nolan Keele to interim director at the popular attraction.  This should end well.

Democrats, Biofoolishness, and Global Warming

Washington's Governor Christine Gregoire released an Executive Order during the past week regarding the state's "leadership" on the issue of Global Warming Cimate Change.  Specifically, she wants the Department of Ecology and the Department of Transportation to target industry by formulating emission reduction strategies and industry emissions benchmarks to make sure 2020 reduction targets are met.

She also demands that they develop low-carbon fuel standards or alternative requirements - to reduce carbon emissions, of course.  She also wants them to work on a new West Coast highway that's "accessible" to electric cars, and she wants them to find a way to fix rising sea levels as well.  Among other things.

The Executive Order amounts to little more than a very expensive wish-list that will exert absolutely no effect upon planetary climate.  Indeed, as is usually the case with governmental mandates, the results will likely prove counterproductive.

Ethanol-blended fuels, for example, are mandated.  Most ethanol in the USA is derived from corn, and the diversion of corn has driven up costs of animal feed, which increases the price of a wide range of products.  Moreover, the diversion of land from soybean production has driven up the price of tofu.  Brazil is likely to fell more forest land in order to plant and sell more soybeans; covering the loss of the American products. 

And of course, the mandated ethanol blend yields significantly lower fuel mileage, which means that you get to fill your tank more often.

What do you suppose all of these factors have on the relative volume of "dangerous" carbon dioxide emissions?  If you guess that they actually increase the volume, you get a gold star.

I think I made a serious error

Sara Jane Moore fired a gun at President Gerald Ford back in 1975.  She served 32 years in prison for that, and now admits that it was a serious error in judgement.

It was during the long years in prison, she said, that "gradually I began to realize that I had let myself be used. ... I definitely think that it was wrong. I think I was misled. I think I was mistaken. I think I made a serious error."

Moore, who had been loosely associated with leftist groups in California, said she "wasn't prepared" for the things she learned about the extent of poverty and other problems.

"It was a time that people don't remember. You know, we had a war ... the Vietnam War, you became - I became - immersed in it," Moore said Thursday.

"We were saying the country needed to change. The only way it was going to change was a violent revolution. I genuinely thought that (shooting Ford) might trigger that new revolution in this country."

Have leftists ever done anything that was actually productive?

Tweet!

Kim Jong and Co. have a Twitter account - that'll show you, Barack!  It's been a long week, what with firing off nukes and missiles and stuff.

What They Want

Essentially, what environmeddlists want is for you to go away so that they can enjoy their time on their planet without you mucking things up.

Not Found In U.S. Media

Obama's Energy Secretary has gone on record with a sure-fire cure for global warming:  all roofs in the world should be painted white, and if you make the pavement more of a concrete type of colour rather than a black type of colour and if you do that uniformally, that would be the equivalent of... reducing the carbon emissions due to all the cars in the world by 11 years – just taking them off the road for 11 years," he said.

Sure, that's the ticket!  White surfaces reflect heat.  Which sorta bites in the winter in most places, because you lose any heat value and have to make up for the loss by burning something.

Presumably, since you lose so much body heat via the head, you should also wear a hat (preferably tinfoil) whenever venturing outdoors.  You should probably wear white clothing as well, though exactly what actions should be taken in order to deal effectively with the phenomenon of dark-skinned animals remains unclear at this time.

It may be neccessary to airlift buckets of white paint in, and precision-drop them onto the backs of rhinos, hippos, elephants, and the like.  No word yet from the World Wildlife Fund or Greenpeace.

At Least Somebody Gets It

U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal, a Republican candidate for governor of Georgia, has proposed changing the long-standing federal policy that automatically grants citizenship to any baby born on U.S. soil, a move opposed by immigrant rights advocates.

Automatic citizenship is enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which says: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” That provision, ratified in 1868, was drafted with freed slaves in mind.

Deal and his supporters say the 14th Amendment wording was never meant to automatically give citizenship to babies born to illegal immigrants.

One minor quibble: they're not "illegal immigrants".  They are foreign nationals, illegal aliens.  They do not consider themselves subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.  Their "anchor babies", therefore, should not be permitted to lay claim to citizenship under the 14th Amendment.  Deal understands this distinction. 

Now We Know

When sycophant Chris Matthews opined on live television that Obama sends "a tingle up his thigh", he was proving only that he's not a doctor - and his self-diagnosis was wrong.  Obama, as it happens, likely had nothing to do with Chris's "tingle" - the pudgeball was just wearing pants that were too small.

"Tingling thigh syndrome," or meralgia paresthetica, which usually affects obese people or manual laborers, is cropping up in younger people. The onslaught on skinny jeans on the market has caused some younger people to suffer from the symptoms of this condition.

Lucky in most cases the condition can be relieved by conservative measures, such as wearing looser clothing.

Well, there's his problem, right there: Matthews can't stand conservatives, so obviously he'd never adopt conservative measures.  Instead, he attributes his tingly thigh to the Message From Obama - when all he has to do is wear looser pants.  Actually, the pants he wears would probably fit just fine, if Matthews wasn't so full of crap.

Welcome, Clark County!

Looks like any bridge built across the Columbia will have to take light rail into your area.  Woo-hoo!  You lucky folks will soon get all the benefits of light rail!