Governor Napolitano is too damn lazy to hire more Cops, and this is what we get: statewide speeding cameras for revenue generation, not for law enforcement. I don’t give a rat’s a** if DPS puts them up. If you’re caught 10 or more mph over the posted speed limit and you get snapped, you get a notice in the mail: Pay Us a total of $181.50 and we won’t put any points on your driving record and we won’t report it to your insurance agent either.
If that’s not frakkin’ extortion, then I don’t know what is. OK good people of AZ, you know what to do.

Word is out that NBC Universal has bought The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications. I guess someone got fed up with John Coleman’s calling bulls**t on Algore. Anthony Watts decided to have a little fun with renaming TWC after the deal goes through. Click on the logo to the right…
After seeing this, I decided to jump in to the pool:

Care to contribute? You know what to do.

They’re going to need it trying to sell a Green Shift plan to voters in the province of Alberta...rich Oil Country in Canada...and at the Calgary Stampede. I’ve been aware for many years that the western provinces tend to oppose many Federal schemes originating from Ottawa, so there is no surprise that the Liberals’ latest plan calls for carbon emissions taxes. How much do you want to bet it has Algore’s blessing, eh.
Read some of the comments left at the CBC page; those who hail from the West call the bulls**t quickly. To wit, eh:

That title tells all—just take the F out of the last word.
“Dion mixes Stampede with politics to sell Green Shift”
Somebody at CBC is having a bit of fun.

Get ready to be pissed off; ”jazz artist” Rene Marie was asked to sing the National Anthem at Denver’s State of The City address. What the people got was something else entirely:

The Star-Spangled Banner wasn’t even sung afterward, and city officials proceeded anyway. And as it turns out, Ms. Marie will no longer perform the National Anthem because:

She said that she made the decision after a Russian broadcaster interviewed her and asked her what it was like to be an American.
At that moment, she said, she realized that as an African-American she at times feels like a foreigner in her home country.

I got a better idea, Ms. Marie...why don’t you pack your bags and go to a certain country, in Africa, which you’ll feel quite at home in. It’s run by that DFC Robert Mugabe!

And now we learn from the Feds that in his visits away from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Failed Presidential Assassin John Hinckley, Jr. is frakkin’ quite a few ladies! Must have been all that time he was locked away...and rightfully so!...generated all that “energy” which he “has to release.”
Give. Me. A. Break! Do these ladies know of each other? If not, they sure will real soon! Maybe we’ll find out in, oh, about 9 months or so, whether or not any of the ladies get preggers and bring the child to term. Then we’ll see how notorious Hinckley will be, with both the child support enforcers and the Tabloids breathing down his neck!

You have got to see this to believe it. Or don’t.

Gee, what will they blame this on?

“Who’s the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?”
– Obi-Wan Kenobi

This certainly came to mind when I encountered the following yesterday evening on my day off, at, of all places, a Papa John’s right down the street from where I live:

Allow me to elaborate as to what’s wrong with this setting. Caribou Coffee’s main investor is Arcapita Bank, based in Bahrain. Once upon a time, Caribou’s web site had the following in its investor relations page, which has now disappeared down the memory hole there, but thanks to the Wayback Machine, you can read for yourself why I will NEVER go there!

Arcapita, whose investors are located primarily in the Middle East , makes its investments in a manner consistent with the body of Islamic principles known as Shari’ah. Consequently, we operate our business in a manner consistent with Shari’ah principles and will continue to do so as long as Arcapita is a significant shareholder.
In particular, we must comply with Shari’ah principles regarding money that we borrow from other parties. For example, our lease financing arrangement, under which we have obtained financing to fund our operations and expand our business, is structured in a manner that complies with Shari’ah principles. The structure of this lease financing arrangement is described in the prospectus relating to our initial public offering. Also, a Shari’ah-compliant company is prohibited from dealing in the areas of alcohol, gambling, pornography, pork and pork-related products.

Imagine that.
Papa John’s sells pork in their pizza products! Specifically, pepperoni, ham, and Italian sausage! Therefore, Caribou Coffee is violating their investors’ taboos! Who’s gonna get the ax? And is Papa John’s aware of this? Inquiring Minds Want To Know!

Here’s an interesting passage I found on another board, and the person uttering this phrase has become, shall we say, disillusioned with the United States:

I have been very close to breaking up with the United States. I have been having an affaire du coeur with Canada for years now. shhh, don’t tell America. I’m hoping America will get back into shape (I mean God, not to be shallow, but he’s grown quite the beer belly on a Republican diet), and maybe even start listening to me again. America and I haven’t been communicating well, you see. Canada is beautiful, and he understands me. But I’m willing to give America another chance, because I’m loyal like that.

And what a great choice of words there (which I’ve taken the liberty to emphasize), because America under a Democrat Diet will become emaciated. Hope you like being a Grit, eh.

Anyone with any knowledge of British history knows that beef is part of their national staple; me, I love Shepherd’s Pie. But if you’re flying on British Airways, don’t expect any beef meals in economy class. This is because they’ve taken it off that specific menu to avoid offending traveling Hindus. Once again, British culture is falling to Politically Correct multiculturalism.
Here’s what the Hindu Council UK said about it:

“The Hindu community will welcome this decision and the news it has been made partly because Hindus don’t eat beef.
“Hindus have a great deal of respect for British culture and are well integrated into the British way of life, so it’s good to see evidence of how they are literally flying the British flag by choosing British Airways.
“That said, Hindus are tolerant of the beliefs of others and do not expect everyone to stop eating a food because they do not eat it.”

Much more tolerant than, say, the RoPMA™. Pretty soon, that group will ask British Airways to ban pork for the same reason. Don’t be surprised if that happens.

Is it possible that unpaid, overdue Taxes may finally shut Al Sharpton up? Hard to say at this point, but here’s what he owes so far:

Sharpton’s own debts include $365,558 owed in New York City income tax and $931,397 in unpaid federal income tax, according to a lien filed by the Internal Revenue Service last spring. His for-profit company, Rev. Al Communications, owes the state another $175,962 in delinquent taxes.

I would surmise Al, like another prominent Democrat who happens to be running for the US Senate in Minnesota, might do well to hire some more competent attorneys so he pays his Taxes on time!

Kim Jong Il should be very happy that his favorite p*ss* is considering a run for office. That said, I’m a Doubting Thomas on this one.
Why? For one very simple reason: because of his promise to leave the USA if George W. Bush won the 2000 election, a promise which he obviously never kept.
Then again, he may very well fit into the world of politics for that same reason...Ugh.

NOW the frakkin’ true loonies are starting to come out over at my ”Crashing Code Pink” video. Here’s what a very recent visitor left on the graffiti board, and its name is BerkeleyRightsNOW:

I wear a burka on campus because I don’t like men idolizing me. It makes life easier. That is why I converted to Islam and only date Black men so they will stop putting white women on pedestals. My parents are Republican and they hate my boyfriend because they know I told him how they used to laugh about paying their Black employees less then the white ones. That is why I hate my own race.

And my reply? Heheheheheheh!

Gee that’s funny! You set yourself free by enslaving yourself to a “Religion of Peace” which has 1427 years of violence behind it. What an Original solution.

NOT.

Wait till you see the comments at this troll’s profile...they are a Hoot! We’ll see how much more fanatical it becomes quite soon. RoPMA™!

...and the Bills Taketh Away. I got my $600 “economic stimulus” check today via direct deposit, and it literally saved my bacon on a couple of my bills. It doesn’t take a Rocket Scientist to figure out that the majority of Americans who receive this check will not be spending it, like the Government wants us to.
Whew! [Wipes Forehead]

As a followup to this morning’s Global Warming post, Iteki sent these photos in from his burg which got, all told, 12” of snow over the weekend:


He also provided the following link to the local rag about said snowfall. The comments are a hoot! Thanks Iteki!

Y’all know who’s at the crux of it. Lots of meteorologists have signed on to The Goracle’s meme. But one guy hasn’t...lo and behold it’s a guy who I haven’t seen on TV in years, and that’s because he’s been in Sandy Eggo working his retirement job!

We’re in a cooling trend. The sun has gone quiet. Those guys in Canada and Russia are talking about an ice age; they’ve probably gone over the edge, but they have a point. The sun is in a very quiet phase. A cooling trend is under way.
South America has had the worst winter in 50 years. China has had the worst winter in 50 years. The United States is having a real old-fashioned winter. Alaska just finished one of the worst cold spells in a couple of decades — I didn’t see any press on it at all, but it was 40 below for seven days straight in Fairbanks. Another Alaskan community had 72 below, some of the coldest weather they’ve ever seen in modern times in Alaska. The Arctic ice cap that we heard all about melting last summer is frozen up.

And remember folks, this is all attributable to that Global Warming!
Yeah, right.