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When Pillows Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Pillows

On Tuesday, Bratcher and Keith Allen, 21, were facing murder charges, accused of smothering Kuhn with a pillow. The victim was an avid gun collector, and Allen and Bratcher took 43 guns during the home invasion Friday, officials said. The weapons were later found in Bratcher's garage in West Chicago, authorities said.

We really need to ban these dangerous items.  It's really obvious that pillow-control legislation must be introduced on a fast-track.

We should also be able to sue pillow-makers for producing such lethal products.

62%: Cut Taxes; Curb Spending

That's the result coming out of the latest Rasmussen poll. 

Sixty-two percent (62%) of Americans say it’s always better to cut taxes than increase government spending because taxpayers, not bureaucrats, are the best judges of how to spend their own money.

Given what comes from the media, this result should be surprising.  The media seems to believe that folks are all behind increased government spending - such as Cash for Clunkers - and the accompanying debt load, but the data clearly indicate that nearly two-thirds of us aren't buying it.

The More I Think About It, Ol' Billy Was Right

Let's kill all the lawyers; kill 'em tonight

        - the Eagles

Where to begin, however?  The Federal Trade Commission is threatening to regulate the color of beer cans. 

Having already solved all of the country’s economic problems, the FTC now has time to threatento step in and stop Budweiser from selling cans of Bud Light with college sports team colors on the labels.

When did that become a function of government?

It gets better: a guy who was shot while robbing a store is suing the owner of the store and several others, claiming that he suffered mental anguish, anxiety and emotional distress and loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life as a result of having been stopped by bullets.

Obviously, you should feel sorry for the armed robber in this case.

It's a classic illustration of the desperate need for better gun control.  Absent gun control measures, there's really no way to prevent a repeat of such incidents.

If you can't kill with a shot, then you really have no business owning a gun.

Up In Arms, They Are

Fixed-rail advocates are really upset with British Columbia, Canada - well, mostly with the province's premier.  Their beef?

Unlike most politicians, he looks at fixed rail realistically - and correctly.  He understands that fixed rail is inflexible and not at all "green", which really gets the choo-choo enthusiasts' dander up:    British Coilumbia’s Premier Campbell has convinced his party and the mainstream media that building massive new highways will reduce auto emission, thus are more ‘green‘ than light rail and public transit!

Let's "Investigate" The CIA

We'll need to "investigate" Canada, too.  Because the CIA borrowed extensively from the Canadian Transport Canada manual.

Newly declassified CIA documents, which were released by the U.S. administration, indicate the Canadian-made handbook was used to fine-tune cold-water interrogation techniques during renditions and the detention of "high value prisoners" being held at prisons, including the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Porking Out

Everybody worries in the media about the obesity epidemic.  Diabetes.  Joint issues.  Fewer hip fractures in falls.  Wait - what?

Yep, them fat asses may actually explain why fewer folks are suffering hip fractures when they ultimately hit the ground.

The additional weight provides more cushioning during falls, the researchers say in a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Ain't They Wonderful?

The new CoPo computer system was way late and around $20,000,000 over budget, but that didn't stop Portland City Council members from unanimously approving a resolution congratulating city employees and contractors for switching to a new computer system.  According to the liars currently residing in CoPo City Council, the $28,000,000 system only ended up costing $48,000,000.  Of course, that doesn't include "consulting fees" and other inconsequential items that likely put the true cost north of $50,000,000.

Wonder how "green" that system is?  After all, CoPo loves to tout their "green-ness".  No numbers are available as yet.  However, there is ample evidence that switching to higher-powered computer systems ain't neccessarily all that "green".

An alert reader sent along a link to the (formerly) Great Britain's computer upgrade, which now ranks as the most significant source of "pollution" currently operating in the once-great country.  Ironically, its function is focused upon churning out predictions of the dire consequences of "climate change" (which used to be referred to as "global warming" until the adherents of the religion realized that the planetary climate is not behaving in accordance with their dire prophesies).

Even more ironically, the CO2-spewing supercomputer tends to predict exactly what it was programmed to predict. It is the second time the Met Office has been criticised this year - after the machine famously helped predict a "BBQ summer" which turned out to be another wash-out.

Even with supercomputer modeling, they can't get the weather right for a month, or a year - let alone for the next century.  The Farmers' Almanac has a better track record, but your government want to take away more of your money and more of your freedoms because computer models say it's a good idea.

They don't understand a fundamental precept when it comes to working with computers: GIGO.

Wising Up

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has finally started to wake up.  Their activities shouldn't be dictated by a religion - which is what the "anthropogenic global warming" hysteria actually amounts to.  They're a little late to the party, but perhaps better late than never.

Nutty Lewis & Clark Perfesser Strikes Again

He exhorts you to "weep for our country" in his latest installment of Bush/Cheney/Rove/Palin/ (any Republican will do) foaming and spittling hatred.  Dang, he's such a smart guy.  That would be why he tries to "ban" anybody who disagrees with him (or has a sense of humor) from commenting on his little ruminations.  The tax law perfesser gives you a prime example of liberal "tolerance" - and liberal brainpower.  And this guy may be "teaching" your kids?

Small wonder that the country's going to hell.

Well the landslide will bring it down

And a landslide on the Columbia River caused a small tsunami.  Power to the water!