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R.I.P., Art

Linkletter (Gordon Kelly) lived to 97, proving that laughter may indeed be the best of medicine.  He was likely best known as the precursor to Bill Cosby; both played off the words of children. Linkletter once wrote that children under ten and women over seventy give the best interviews for the identical reason: they speak the plain, unvarnished truth.  One of the gems he collected over the years was this:

He asked one boy: "What do your parents do for fun?"

"I don't know," the boy replied. "They always lock the door."

Warmist News: NASA Sued, Kerry Surrenders

If you've been following any of the Mann-Made Global Warming stuff, then you know all about the "climategate" issue in which emails exchanged among "scientists" involved in the U.N. IPCC report indicated rather conclusively that data had been falsified, hidden, and otherwise manipulated in order to promote a specific agenda. Michael Mann, inventor of the infamous (and discredited) "hockey-stick" graph, is currently under investigation for misuse of public funds.

Another legendary player in advancing the religion of warmism has been Jimmy Hansen, a NASA bureaucrat who, as reported in a 1971 Washington Post scare piece entitled "U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming" fretted that burning fossil fuels discharges particles into the atmosphere that reflect the sun's rays back into space. Emissions over 5–10 years supposedly "could be sufficient to trigger an ice age."  Lately, of course, Jimmy's been propping up AlGore and the IPCC with claims of global warming caused by the very activities that he claimed would freeze the planet.

Well, it turns out that for some three years, NASA has been ignoring Freedom of Information Act demands for data, and now they're being hauled into court.  This is why we have a provision for separation of church and state: the combination of religion and politics was recognized as inordinately dangerous to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  There has never existed one country in which theocracy took hold that did not also mercilessly exterminate basic human rights.  Yet a division of NASA, and in particular prophet Jimmy, appear intent upon ensuring - to the greatest extent possible - the integration of the religion of warmism and state politics.

Of course, the condescending Frenchman, John Kerry, has all the answers.  His climate bill, disingenuously called the American Power Act, is something that he claims as a "national security imperative".

Oh, yeah.  This is the same crowd that argued that they had to pass their health care bill so that you could find out what's in it.  Any time these clowns claim something's important, it's time to kick back and wait.

"At a time when widespread polling data suggests that a majority of the U.S. populace no longer trusts the federal government, a Pew Research Center report has found that the vast majority of the federal government doesn't trust the U.S. populace all that much either," the Onion reported last week:

"All the vitriol and partisan bickering in Congress has caused most Americans to form negative opinions of the U.S. government," Pew researcher Amy Ratner said. "However, over the same time period, the government has likewise grown wary of U.S. citizens, largely due to their utter lack of foresight, laziness, and overall incompetence."

They nailed it: that's exactly what BO, Nanny, Hairy, and Johnny think of you.  You're stupid, and they know better.  You need to sit down, shut up, and let them work their magic.

We Don't Need No Steenking Badges

Census workers are out in force - probably one reason why unemployment numbers are showing a slight downward tick.  They may be knocking on your door to gather important data.  If you're not home, that's no problem, especially if you rent or lease your residence.

What many Americans don’t realize, is that census workers — from the head of the Bureau and the Secretary of Commerce (its parent agency) down to the lowliest and newest Census employee — are empowered under federal law to actually demand access to any apartment or any other type of home or room that is rented out, in order to count persons in the abode and for “the collection of statistics.”  If the landlord of such apartment or other  leased premises refuses to grant the government worker access to your living quarters, whether you are present or not, the landlord can be fined $500.00.

It's a little dicier if you actually own the home; in that case, their options are much more limited.  Actually, if it's my home, the options are nonexistent.

This Just In: Public Employee Unions Are Killing You

Well, okay.  They aren't actually fitting you for cement boots as yet. They're just there, doing the jobs that Americans won't do.

Apologies for the Obama moment - he keeps blaming Bush for everything.  By this time next year, nobody will be taking credit for having elected the Narcissist in Chief.  At least Christie can tell it like it is.

Challenge To The "Anchor Babies" Concept

While many people understand that the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution was intended to clarify the citizenship status of children born to former slaves, Democrats, who fought valiantly to preserve slavery and, subsequently, segregation (and lost on both issues) decided that the amendment should apply to anybody - including children of illegal aliens.  This led, of course, to a flood of illegals and their subsequent "anchor babies" who are somehow considered to be citizens by virtue of the fact that they were pumped out on our side of the border.

While long accepted, the concept is finally being challenged by people who recognize it as a gross perversion of the Amendment.

In what might be the next great flash point in the nation's ongoing debate about immigration policy, legislation has been introduced in Congress and a pair of states to deny birth certificates to babies born of illegal-immigrant parents.

"Currently, if you have a child born to two alien parents, that person is believed to be a U.S. citizen," says Randy Terrill, a Republican state representative in Oklahoma who is working on an anti-birthright bill. "When taken to its logical extreme, that would produce the absurd result that children of invading armies would be considered citizens of the U.S."

It Ain't The Jobs, It's The Water

Now we know why people keep pouring across our southern border, and you can forget all you've heard about the jobs being an attractant.  Oh, sure, that's part of it.  But the larger attractant is clean, safe drinking water.  It's the same principle that draws rats to a well-managed farm.

MEXICO CITY — It's a simple warning — don't drink the tap water — and Mexicans take it to heart as much as any foreign tourist does.

Mexicans drink more bottled water than the citizens of any other country do, an average of 61.8 gallons per person each year, according to the Beverage Marketing Corp., a consultancy. That's far higher than Italy, and more than twice as much as in the United States.

You can put 10 illegals into a studio apartment, and everybody gets clean water.  You split the rent, and send the rest of the money from your day-labor jobs back home, so your families can buy bottled water and other necessities.  If their president spent half the energy he expends preaching to us and put that to use in his own country, it's likely that his people would return home.  Ah, but where would he put them all?

Good Catch

Portland's water and sewer rates, already among the highest in the USA, are set to increase again, thanks in part to the continuing raids by Portland City Council, which has taken millions of ratepayer dollars to fund bike paths and other items that have nothing to do with water/sewer infrastructure.  One of Portland's watchdog bloggers has raised the issue and suggests that the fees are no longer fees, but may now be legally considered taxes - which may render them subject to caps encoded in Oregon law.  Portland's pervy "mayor" and his sidekick may have finally been given enough rope. 

Bad Moon Rising

The unions are "organizing" public employees in Florida.  Judging from what's been happening in public employee union-dominated states such as California and Oregon, Florida may be joining the growing list of bankrupt states.

At one time in the private sector, unions did some good work. There is no excuse, however, for allowing them in the public sector. While union membership has been plummeting in the private sector during recent years, it's been growing among public employees; a sector of employment which should be disallowed the ability to unionize.

Unions in the private sector have brought entire industries down, which is why membership in the private sector is dwindling so quickly.  In the public sector, look at California and any number of other failing states - the constant in each is public employee unions.

They need killing.  And they need it now.

Obama Smells The Coffee - Or The Tea

76% of Americans want illegal aliens out of here, and 60% want the feds to emphasize border security rather than "a path to citizenship" for illegals.  This, combined with Arizona's "in your face" approach, is likely behind Obama's order to deploy troops to our southern border.

The polling shows that Obama's not circling the drain; he's clogging the p-trap and struggling to get out before we break open the foaming drain-cleaner and flush him away.  That's the only reason why he's suddenly paying lip-service to the idea of border security.

He doesn't know the difference between an immigrant and a leech, but he knows that Americans are about fed up.

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