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The global warming goons go too far

arclightzero — 2007-08-09T12:56:00+00:00

I don’t know if anybody has already covered this or not… But good lord, this is getting out of hand!
Read how global warming is responsible for the Minneapolis bridge coming down.

Here’s just a short excerpt from this piece of garbage…

“Did the heat put extra strain on the steel?” Hortman said. “You wonder if this bridge was built to withstand the massive heat we have had this summer.”

I already shredded it on my own, but I thought something this silly deserved some special attention from you guys

If you’re looking for a liberal to hate…

arclightzero — 2007-08-02T11:04:00+00:00

Within 6 hours of the bridge collapse tragedy in Minneapolis, this former journalist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune gone blogger decided to use the incident to claim that it was the result of us not paying enough in taxes.

Check it out

Maybe we need taxes - a bridge too far

I would like to see this guy beaten to a bloody pulp and hung out as an example to the heartless liberals out there who use tragedy to push their agenda against the American People.

Not even the sexy dead have rights in Wisconsin

arclightzero — 2007-07-27T16:33:00+00:00

Yep, in a bizarre travesty of justice, Nicholas and Alexander Grunke and Dustin Radke had the sexual assault charges against them dropped because Wisconsin doesn’t have any necrophilia laws.

From the Star Tribune:

Three men who dug up a young woman’s corpse to have sex with it after seeing her obituary photo cannot be charged with attempted sexual assault because Wisconsin has no law against necrophilia, an appeals court ruled Thursday.

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The appeals court said the law was ambiguous but the most reasonable interpretation was that it does not ban necrophilia. Instead, the court said, the law was meant to make sure prosecutors could bring sexual assault charges in rape-murder cases in which the victim ends up dead.

Ewww, WTF? Drop the charges and commit these three then. There is something really mis-wired in the heads of people who would think that sex with a corpse - no matter how sexy she may have been - is a good idea.

What’s worse is that the defense doesn’t think anything should be done about this sort of thing.

Defense lawyer Suzanne Edwards, who represents Nicholas Grunke, said the appeals court made the proper ruling. She called instances of necrophilia “extremely rare” and said she doubted a criminal ban was needed.

So what then? Whenever that rare somebody does something like this, you just shake your finger at them and let them continue their business? I don’t get it. Maybe I’m just too old fashioned.

Cindy Sheehan at it again

arclightzero — 2007-07-24T11:26:00+00:00

Yep, little miss “I’m going to quit and go back and try to live my life again” is at it again. I guess people like her just can’t leave well enough alone. Of course, what really amazed me is that of the several dozen RSS sources I read every morning, the only source that had a headline referring to this incident was from miltary.com. I find it curious how the media froths at the mouth to cover her when she’s doing something that supports their usual causes, but when she gets arrested for disorderly conduct they’re conspicuously quiet about the whole thing.

Sheehan arrested in impeachment protest

Speaking of Al Gore…

arclightzero — 2007-07-22T13:51:00+00:00

I wonder what he would think of this?

It seems some scientists are now thinking that large corn crops are screwing up the environment due to the massive amount of moisture they release into the atmosphere and their effect on dew points etc…

Could it be that the ethanol craze is actually contrbuting to the “dreaded” climate change that they’re all so worked up about??

Who are these morons polling anyway?

arclightzero — 2007-07-20T20:41:00+00:00

From WCCO (CBS) News…

A new CBS News/New York Times poll out Thursday shows 63 percent of voters believe it’s likely that Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton will be elected the first woman president in U.S. history if she wins her party’s nomination.

While opinions about the New York senator are strongly divided by gender, majorities of both men (59 percent) and women (65 percent) surveyed think it’s very or somewhat likely Clinton will win the presidency.

Even most Republicans (53 percent) think Clinton will win — as do 77 percent of Democrats.

I have heard some silly poll results lately, but this one takes the cake. With Hillary’s numbers declining all over the country, how many people - especially Republicans - think she’ll be our next president? New York Times. What a joke!

Dems go after cigars to pay for SCHIP

arclightzero — 2007-07-18T15:53:00+00:00

I don’t know how many people out there are cigar smokers, but even if you’re not you can still feel the outrage of a proposed 20,400% tax increase on cigars… Here’s a letter from my cigar store explaining what is going on.

ACTION ALERT FOR ALL CIGAR ENTHUSIASTS!

Currently before the United States Senate is a proposal to fund health insurance on the backs of tobacco products to the tune of $35 billion (that’s Billion with a B). Most egregious is the proposed tax rate on cigars of 53.1%, including a breathtaking 20,400% increase in the cap. This would make handmade cigars - a true mom-and-pop industry, a product enjoyed by choice an average 3 times per week - the single largest excise taxed item in the entire Internal Revenue Code....by a long shot.

This piece of legislation is called SCHIP (State Childrens Health Insurance Plan). Tonight this bill is being marked up in the Senate Finance Committee and is expected to come to the Senate floor for a vote as early as end of week. We urge you to call both of your U.S. Senators today and express your opposition to funding “SCHIP legislation” with punitive cigar taxes. As a constituent your voice will be heard. Please see phone numbers below for your Senators.

Sincerely,

Keith Meier

Keith Meier

Cigars International

What really boils my blood is that the democrats aren’t doing anything but trying to fix a broken system by throwing more money at it. They’re trying to increase the number of people dependent on the government dole by sacrificing those of us who like to take time out to enjoy life’s little luxuries.

It makes me sick.

Here's an article from the St. Petersburg Times on the tax proposal.

Are the dems pandering again, or have they really found religion?

arclightzero — 2007-07-17T14:00:00+00:00

Here’s something to ponder:

Public Approves of Faith in Politics

There are two things about this that bother me immensely.

First off, since when is the liberal left interested in religion unless they’re just trying to pander to a base of people who they’re seeking the vote from? I mean, after all, what part of the democratic platform works well with religious people? Are the dems willing to stand before the Christians and tell them how abortions and evolution have nothing to do with religion?

Second off, would a story like this even have been printed if the democrats weren’t involved? After all, isn’t the usual rhetoric from the left that church and state should remain separated? If the democratic candidates weren’t out there trying to appease the religious crowd, would there have been a story at all?

It’s all very hypocritical. I’m not even religious and I’m still irked by the whole thing. If any of these democratic candidates could stick to their guns without constantly flip-flopping all over the place while they try to appeal to every voting base out there, I might have speck of respect fore them...Well, maybe anyway.

Is it just me or is the panic de’jour getting out of hand

arclightzero — 2007-07-16T17:45:00+00:00

So, the top headline of my RSS feeds reads:

“Japan quake causes nuke plant leak, fire”

Which to me sounds pretty ominous. After all, wouldn’t a leak and a fire at a nuclear power plant be a really bad thing? Well, apparently that is what the media wanted us to feel, because the truth was much less ominous than the headlines…

Apparently the leak released one-billionth the legal limit of radioactive material and the fire was actually a transformer that started on fire - not part of the reactor assembly.

I know we all know that the media bias is out of control and that they thrive on panic… But at times like this it seems that they take it way too far.

Right or wrong? Hindu prayer in our congress

arclightzero — 2007-07-13T22:09:00+00:00

I’m undecided on this one. On one hand, I agree with the protesters who were arrested for “disrupting congress” in their argument that claimed that this action was an abomination and that they were Christians and patriots. However, on the other hand… Well, I don’t actually have a contrary opinion yet other than the fact that I don’t want to sound like a complete bigot.

With that said… Harry Reid personally invited Rajan Zed to lead the opening prayer on July 12th. This may not seem too controversial except for the fact that Zed opened up the senate day with a Hindu prayer. This was a first in the history of congress, and Harry Reid made an absolutely asinine argument for his choice as he tried to link the Hindu prayer to the war debate. He also said:

“If people have any misunderstanding about Indians and Hindus, all they have to do is think of Gandhi, a man who gave his life for peace.”

I’m not sure what that has to do with anything, but I think that Harry Reid has finally gone over the top. If his rationale is true, and he did in fact invite a Hindu to lead a polytheistic prayer to open the senate day to try to prove a point about peace, then we have a bigger problem with the senate majority than we can possibly imagine.

He would have been better off claiming to give honor to the Hindu people or their culture. That I could have found acceptable. He could have even made a lame “political correct” argument and I would have maybe bought it. But linking this to the war in Iraq makes the whole thing wrong.

There is also a wonderful post on this at the Stop the ACLU site…