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Guess Who?

A former US President noticed a hot chick getting married at Castlemartyr Resort in East Cork, Ireland - and crashed the wedding. Some things never change. 

Awkward

A leader of Hungary's anti-semitic Jobbik party has recently made an unsettling discovery: his ancestors were, um...well...Jewish.

Real Presidents and Poseurs

On this day in 1956, President Eisenhower condemned the USA to death (or so the Left of today would have it): he initiated the monumental Interstate Highway System. That was a lasting achievement that utterly transformed - and united - the country.

Today, we have an entirely different thing going.

Where's Ike when you need him?

It Doesn't Matter

Who you vote for (or against) is irrelevant. Federal, state, regional, county, city - it doesn't matter.

Because all of these are actually run by entrenched, unelected, career bureaucrats.

Until we find a way to remove them, elections are irrelevant.

Sarah Steelman: Next Senator From MO?

The former state treasurer is favored to win the primary in Missouri; placing the ShePAC and TEA Party Express - backed candidate straight into a one-on-one with Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill in November. Current polls show her leading the incumbent by double digits.

Hated By Residents, Loved By Planners

Portland mayor Sammy's scheme of reduced garbage services and mandatory composting gets high praise from an uninformed Wall Street Journal writer, who portrays it all as a glorious success; never once mentioning stench complaints arising in North Plains, the discontent of Lents residents, the fact that Recology has had its compost receivables capped at roughly one-third their presumed capacity due to the overpowering stink, or the fact that much of the stuff is now being trucked into northern Washington state.

According to the WSJ, the duckies and the bunnies are holding hands and dancing around the Maypole to the tune of "Everything Is Beautiful".

Supreme Decisions

SCOTUS has announced some important rulings today: it's perfectly okay to lie about your military service, and the federal government has every right under the US Constitution to require you to buy pork-bellies.

The Supreme Court struck down the Stolen Valor Act today, saying that the First Amendment defends a person's right to lie -- even if that person is lying about awards and medals won through military service.

Stock prices fell today, reportedly in reaction to the pork-belly ruling; most economic sectors in the USA felt the impact, although sales of guns and ammunition experienced an uptick during this same time frame. Paranoia abounds, as many Americans have expressed fear that if they don't like pork-bellies and don't buy them, the IRS will come after them and throw them into jail. Such fears are entirely without merit. Relax, Citizen.

You won't go to jail, it is an excise tax to be collected by the IRS. You might lose your house, business, farm, gold teeth, etc., but you won't go to jail.

Another Victory!

Solyndra lives on!

Abound Solar Inc., a U.S. solar manufacturer that was awarded a $400 million U.S. loan guarantee, is closing its doors and filing for bankruptcy, according to the U.S. Energy Department.

Kudus To PPD Officer Maul

Though the department's often villified, this guy's one of the good ones. Would that all were so thorough.

Oregon Greenies Hopping Mad

The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakima Nation own an 80-acre parcel of timber in the Columbia Gorge that was heavily damaged by fire a couple of years ago. Bingen-based SDS Lumber own some 30 acres, which was also damaged in the fire, and they have an access road in the area, which the Indians wished to use in order to salvage the timber. SDS granted them access, and figured they may as well cut their own losses at the same time, in view of the fact that after about three years, timber killed by fire becomes useless.

So, they all went in and cut the trees, then re-planted. Naturally, the Fiends of the Columbia Gorge are pitching a fit. Apparently, they'd rather have a bunch of dead trees (and more fire fuel) than new growth soaking up CO2. There's no pleasing some folks, and this group's particularly self-righteous. Can't even circumcise 'em - there ain't no end to them pricks.