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Another infographic with some solid data for those who may not be up-to-speed:

Source: frugaldad.com

Where's Jesse? Where's Barry?

A month after they went missing, the bodies of two young black women have been found in a shallow grave in Detroit. Oh, but surprise, surprise: the suspects in the case are a couple of black guys. Nothing to see, here, folks; move along.

In other news, this guy gets it:

Former NAACP leader C.L. Bryant is accusing Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton of “exploiting” the Trayvon Martin tragedy to “racially divide this country.”

The conservative black pastor who was once the chapter president of the Garland, Texas NAACP called Jackson and Sharpton “race hustlers” and said they are “acting as though they are buzzards circling the carcass of this young boy.”

He also criticized President Obama for his “nebulous statement” responding to Martin’s death that “if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”

“What does that mean?” Bryant asked. “What was the purpose in that?”

The purpose should, by now, be clear: Obama has an established history of jumping into local events, before the facts are even clear, in order to stir the pot and deepen divisions. We saw him do that at the very beginning of his term in office, when he leaped into the temporary detention of Professor Henry Louis Gates. Gates, you may recall, broke into his own home, and an alert neighbor summoned police. When asked for identification, Gates was uncooperative; responding with undue belligerence, and was therefore taken into custody until the matter could be sorted out.

Obama immediately jumped in, claiming that police had "acted stupidly"; a position from which he ultimately had to retreat.

He involved himself in the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords, calling for civility in speech, even as his minions continued their inflammatory and divisive rhetoric.

And of course, more recently he stood up on behalf of the Fluke, who was bullied by a mean and vicious conservative talk-show host, while ignoring the repeated and far more vicious attacks by Leftists against conservative women. Obama likes to portray himself in his speeches as a uniter; his actions, at every turn throughout his term in office, belie his words.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

As you may know, South American fire ants have gained a foothold in the southern USA, having apparently arrived by ship between 1933 and 1945. They're deadly little beasts, and in order to combat them, the feds have been importing Brazillian brain-eating flies. The flies lay eggs on the ants, and the resulting larvae bore into the critters' heads, where they feast upon the brains. Sounds like a plan - but what happens when the ant numbers dwindle, as is now occurring?

Unsurprisingly, it appears that they adapt by selecting alternative hosts.

Moreover, they seem to have made it to the Pacific Northwest; specifically, to Oregon.

Portlanders, cover your Democrats! Hide them from the flies!

Another EPA Smackdown

Days after a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that Obama's EPA had overstepped their bounds in declaring a transient puddle on the property of an Idaho couple a "wetland", a federal judge has again ruled against EPA's efforts to derail a mining operation in West Virginia.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A federal judge says the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its authority in revoking permits for what could now become West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mine.

In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington, D.C., ruled in favor of St. Louis-based Arch.

Two smackdowns in a week! This is the best news we've had in months.

 

Related articles

• EPA's bad week continues - mountaintop removal veto overturned (legalplanet.wordpress.com)

Supremes

They aren't going to punt the Obamacare issue, although some had initially thought they might because of an obscure law that says you can't sue for redress on a tax issue until after the tax has been paid. Barry, on the other hand, has long claimed that failure to purchase a health care plan would be punishable by a financial penalty, which until recently was presented as not a tax. Barry and his buddies want it both ways, it seems. The court seems already to have rejected that argument.

It looks as though the debate will narrow down to the following question: is it Constitutional for the government to force you to give up a little bit of freedom in exhange for a little bit of "safety"?

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• Old Law Gives Supreme Court An Obamacare Escape Hatch (forbes.com)
• Supreme Court takes on health care requirement: Is it a tax? (pennlive.com)
• VIDEO: Supporters Proclaim They 'Love Obamacare' Outside Of Supreme Court Hearing (thinkprogress.org)
• As 'Obamacare' faces U.S. Supreme Court test, what do the insiders say? (theglobeandmail.com)

Mock The Christians

There was a big rally of atheists a couple of days ago at the National Mall, where featured speaker Richard Dawkins urged them to ridicule religious individuals.

“Mock them, ridicule them in public,” he urged. “Don’t fall for the convention that we’re all too polite to talk about religion.”

It's about time! Adherents to the Religion of Anthropogenic Global Warming/Climate Change deserve ridicule. Oh - he wasn't talking about them. They get a pass.

It's all about "tolerance".

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• Thousands of U.S. atheists turn out for 'Reason Rally' (mnn.com)

Business-Friendly Portland

The Nines, a 331-room luxury hotel in downtown Portland, funded in part with $16.9 million in loans from the city, has made few friends among its competitors since it opened in 2008.

It's not making any, now, as for three years they haven't paid a dime back on those loans. It's a typical Portland-style taxpayer screw; one that you'd expect voters to have had their fill of, but the average Portland voter is content to buy their $4 lattes and ride "free" streetcars, so don't look for any real change any time soon.

For the non-subsidized businesses, it's a different story: they're bailing. The most recent to jump out is Equity Residential Properties, formerly the single largest apartment property owners in the area, though they also were huge players in office real estate here.

The Chicago-based real estate investment trust sold the last two of its eight area apartment properties last week, netting $111.5 million for complexes with a combined 818 units.

Equity Residential previously sold six Portland area apartment complexes after deciding to concentrate on core markets. Portland didn't make the cut but Seattle did.

For Portland, it's the end of an era.

Equity, through its various trusts, once dominated the Portland commercial real estate market. Its Equity Office Properties Trust owned more than 1 million square feet of office space in downtown and in the Kruse Way submarket in Lake Oswego.

There go more jobs, but that's okay with the nutballs in City Hall: they weren't part of the "creative class". In less than three months, these idiots have cost Portland in excess of 1000 good-paying jobs.

And the exodus shows no sign of slowing.

Slow Learner

But a darned fast driver: Jose Romero-Valenzuela, 34, was busted 3 times in the space of an hour, clocked at 105, 98, and 92 mph. on I-84. Why was he in such a hurry? Jose had to appear in the Clackamas County Circuit Court for a preliminary hearing on a drug-related charge.

Being that it's The Oregonian doing the "reporting", his immigration status is unknown, though we do know that he was driving a rented Nissan. The Zero also doesn't tell us the nature of the drug charges, though it's easy enough to guess that he was pretty amped-up.

 

Communists And Condos

It was only a matter of thyme. 

Portsmouth, NH condo owner Kimberly Bois bought her unit from the developer, and obtained his permission to plant some heirloom flowers around her new home. Subsequently, a condo board was formed, and the association doesn't like the plantings - so they're suing her and fining her some $50 a day for each day the plants remain in the ground. They've also filed to place a lien against her property to cover unpaid fines and legal fees.

The attorney for the condo board says that the grounds are a common area over which the board has jurisdiction, and adds, "The practical implication is that what one person thinks is beautiful, another person thinks is horrible."

Hey, she was there first. If they thought it was horrible, they shouldn't have bought there.

It's just another example of why many see that our country is going down the tubes: COAs and HOAs are often purely evil. If I held title to both a condo and Hell, I'd rent out the condo and live in Hell.

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• Woman fined $6,000 for flowers (upi.com)
• NH Woman Sued For Planting Flowers In Her Front Yard (boston.cbslocal.com)

Bounty Hunters

The "New Black Pathers", by offering a bounty for Florida shooter George Zimmerman dead or alive, have exposed themselves to potential civil and/or criminal liability. Ideally, it'd be a civil liability case, because we already know that Eric Holder ignores criminal conduct when these thugs are involved.

And former Orange-Osceola County prosecutor Esther Whitehead told the newspaper that the Panthers’ bounty opens the group up to civil and possibly criminal liability.

“I can’t see how anyone can go out and take action as a private citizen without some government action like the issuance of a warrant,” she said. “It doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t sound reasonable.”

BTW: here's poor little Trayvon Martin's photo from his Facebook page, alongside the one you see in the media each day. Jus' a po' misunderstood little gang-banger, a victim of whitey.