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Voting With Their Feet

The lack of economic freedom in California compared to Texas is likely why, according to census, from 2012 to 2016, a net of 521,052 Californians left the state. Texas was their most popular destination, with a net of 114,413 Californians moving 1,300 miles east to the Lone Star State.

California has the nation’s highest marginal income tax rate and ranks in the worst five for state and local tax burden.

As well, Texas isn't a "sanctuary" state.

Build the wall - along the California border. They're like locusts: once the destroy one field, the move on to the next.

 

First It Was Guns, Now It's Your Cutlery

Firearms aren’t common in the U.K., so they are experiencing an epidemic of “knife crime.” Also acid attacks. Now proposals for knife control are being floated:

A judge wants the points of kitchen knives to be rounded and blunted to reduce the number of young men dying from stab wounds in street attacks. “Kitchens contain lethal knives which are potential murder weapons and only butchers and fishmongers need eight or 10 inch kitchen knives with points,” the judge said.

Crown Court Judge Nic Madge said in a speech that there should be a nationwide program to file down the points of large kitchen knives and to ban their sale.  Every kitchen contains lethal knives which are potential murder weapons. "It might even be that the police could organise a programme whereby the owners of kitchen knives, which have been properly and lawfully bought for culinary purposes, could be taken somewhere to be modified, with the points being ground down into rounded ends," he said.

Next up, of course, would be scissors. You don't need them. It might be best, in fact, to eliminate kitchens altogether.

 

Move Along, No Hate Crime Here

PORTLAND, Ore. — Amtrak says a Portland State University student found badly hurt near a railroad track in California had attempted suicide. Amtrak officials held a news conference Tuesday saying Salazar’s injuries were consistent with someone who fell from a train. Salazar’s family believes he was beaten and left for dead in a possible hate crime. They released a statement Tuesday calling Amtrak’s version of the story “misleading’ and an attempt to prevent any liability.

I tend to go with the Amtrak cops on this one. Salazar is a "proud" homosexual, and whenever somebody feels compelled to parade their sexual preferences around, I automatically flag them as nutcases. It's understandable that his family's trying to frame it as a "hate crime"; not only is he family, but there could be a big payoff if they can make that stick.

The kid's in a Reno hospital at present, with a broken pelvis among numerous other injuries. It's doubtful that anybody beating him could have done that. Jumping off a train, on the other hand....

Knew It!

Given the weird stuff that routinely spews forth from Oregon's state capital, Salem, some of us have long suspected that there must be something in the water. And there is:

Salem, Oregon – A health alert for young children or anyone with a vulnerable immune system: do not drink the tap water in Salem. Cyanotoxins from an algae bloom in the Detroit Reservoir have been found in the water. Making matters worse, there is a growing bottled water shortage now in the Salem area, as many try to stock up. The Statesman Journal reports the amount of bottled water is dwindling or already gone at many stores like Winco and Safeway.

SALEM, Ore. – Some Salem residents are taking advantage of the water advisory to make a profit.

On OfferUp.com, a website where people can buy and sell items, residents have posted bottled water and fresh water in Salem and the surrounding areas.

Bottled water is in high demand after the city of Salem said children, infants, pregnant mothers, those with compromised immune systems, other vulnerable people and pets should not drink the tap water Tuesday. Recent tests found low levels of cyanotoxins in the water. The city says boiling the water or using a filter won’t kill the toxins in the water.

Well, boiling may actually enhance toxicity, and most filters can't remove cyanotoxins. It'd be kind of nice if the so-called "professional journalists" could bring themselves to make such distinctions, but it seems that nobody does their freaking jobs any more.

But at least we have an explanation for the insanity bubbling out of Salem.

 

The Hits Just Keep On Coming

A Tesla traveling on autopilot slammed into a police vehicle Tuesday, May 29. The police vehicle was empty at the time but it was totaled. (Photo Courtesy of the Laguna Beach Police Department) 

Ageing

Oops. The Photo Was Taken In 2014.

Who was president then?

 

Vote Democrat

Three stages of life:
1. You believe in Santa Claus.
2. You no-longer believe in Santa Claus.
3. You discover that you ARE Santa Clause.

Democratics are therefore very upset over the recent tax cuts. They claim that it amounts to theft of public funds.

 

Giving Him Want He Wants

That's about it.

Amusingly, Gaza Terrorists Manage To Cut Their Electricity

One of the rockets fired by terrorist groups from Gaza at southern Israel struck equipment that provides electricity to the southern Gaza Strip, a spokesperson for Israel’s Electric Company says.

It's expected to take several days to restore power. I reckon the "militants" have to stop shooting rockets into Israel before any work can begin.