Stupidity on display

Apparently, the feds are worried about teen smoking.....

More work needs to be done to keep young Americans from using tobacco, including creating smoking bans and increasing taxes on tobacco products, the U.S. Surgeon General’s office said in a report released Thursday.

Almost one in five high school-aged teens smokes, down from earlier decades, but the rate of decline has slowed, the report said.

It says it’s particularly important to stop young people from using tobacco because those who start smoking as teenagers can increase their chances of long-term addiction. They also quickly can experience reduced lung function, impaired lung growth, early heart disease and other health problems like asthma.

Here's an idea.

Let's make it illegal for teens to buy cigarettes! Oh, you mean it already is?

OK let's increase the prices of cigarettes through increased taxes! Oh a pack of cigarettes costs costs over $5 a pack, which is comprised of taxes in excess of $3 a pack?

But hey, it's government and like the definition of insanity, let's do more of the same and expect a different result

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Bird killed by green energy

Life leaving "Progress" State - California edition

Where Pharoah Brown rules the land where the business exodus begins...............

In 2011, 254 California companies moved some or all of their work and jobs out of state, 26% more than in 2010, according to Irvine business consultant Joe Vranich who has been tracking these departures since 2009.

Twenty-eight of these companies were in Orange County. Seven of them moved or expanded to Texas, three to Mexico, two to Washington and one each to 16 other states, said Vranich, who has changed the name of his business from The Relocation Coach to Spectrum Location Solutions, which helps companies define their goals, find new locations and coordinate the move.

The pace is accelerating, Vranich said. An average of 4.9 businesses left California each week of 2011, compared to 3.9 per week (202 total) in 2010 and one a week (51 total) in 2009.

In what he calls "disinvestment events," Vranich counts companies that move jobs, facilities or headquarters out of California and "in carefully selected instances, companies making major capital investments in plants elsewhere that in the past would have been built in California," Vranich said.

Sounds like Joe Vranich is a modern day Moses to me.....

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Life in "Progress" State - California edition

A group of gang members in California is helping Nancy Pelosi stimulate the economy by collecting unemployment checks for one member who is in jail for murder.

“Family members of a convicted murderer in the L.A. County jail system were arrested for allegedly cashing $30,000 worth of his unemployment checks, authorities said,” according to the LA Times.

“‘Anthony Garcia had family and friends cashing his $1,600-per-month government assistance checks while he served time,’ said Capt. Mike Parker, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. His accomplices would then deposit a portion of the money into Garcia’s jail account. They also shared the cash with Garcia’s fellow incarcerated gang members.”

C'mon man. You can't work if you're in the hole.

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Pump

Chu on this: Obama administration doesn't care about high gas prices

Obama Running On Empty

Swat Teams Raid US Farms, Destroy Food with Bleach and kill Livestock!

Life in "Progress" City - Detroit edition

Former City Treasurer Jeff Beasley was charged with taking bribes and kickbacks in a six-count indictment unsealed Tuesday following a long-running FBI investigation of the city's two pension funds.

Beasley, a fraternity brother of ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's at Florida A&M University, accepted the bribes and kickbacks in return for approving more than $200 million in pension fund investments, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Beasley conspired with others to pocket bribes, including cash, travel, meals, golf clubs, drinks, gambling money, hotel rooms, entertainment, Las Vegas concert tickets, massages, limousine rides and private plane trips, prosecutors said.

"I had no idea the kind of money and the kind of things they said he was getting," said George Orzech, a trustee on the city's police and fire pension board. "It just blows my mind. It's sad. That was a dark time in the pension board history."

If convicted, Beasley faces up to 20 years in prison. Charges include extortion, attempted extortion, and conspiracy to commit honest services mail and wire fraud.

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Obama Thought $3 a gallon gas was "rough" in 2006

Flash Back

So some Afghani's are upset that some Koran's were destroyed by American soldiers.

But just how sensitive are these people to other faith's?

Let's take a trip back in time and watch this.

Gov. Mitch Daniels: Let's Give Obama Credit, He Wanted Higher Gas Prices...

Oscar predictions

I never watch the Academy awards. None the less, there are certain trends that improve your chances of getting an Oscar 1) play a biographical role. 2) play a role of a gay person. If you perform a biographical gay character ie Truman Capote, it's a slam dunk.

So if there are any of those people in the field, go bet the house.

Wanted..........Investors

I'm in the process of putting together a company and I'm looking for 200 investors looking to invest $50,000 each to turn algae into gasoline.

Of course, your first response might be. What the hell does Gordon know about algae and gasoline?

The answer.....nothing.

But who really needs to know anything about alternative energy to actually make money off of it.

I'm looking to use the Solyndra business plan for turning green into green.

First, we take the $10,000,000 in our original investment and hire a chemistry professor from Urbana State Community College who can testify to the feds as to the energy potential for algae.

Second, we use a million or so to rent an empty commercial building and fill it with some temporary staging (lots of beakers, test tubes and centrifuges) so it looks like a great place to do all our research.

Third, we use about five million to fund various super pacs and host several fund raisers for the Obamunists achieving "bundler" status.

Fourth, we invite Joe Biden over to do a speech where he offends Indians, 49er fans, Catholics, etc.

Fifth, we apply for 150 million in loan guarantees and grants.

Sixth, when we get said funding, we tip the limo driver outside the office and call it a day.

Seventh, file bankruptcy.

Let me know if you're in.

If that doesn't work for you, I'm thinking of setting up a subsidiary where we can fuel cars with Obama magic beans. I'm telling you........... the possibilities are endless.

The Great Gibson Guitar Raid: Months Later, Still No Charges Filed

Now go out and abstain from soda pop

I've never understood the left's aversion to teaching abstinence to our youth as it pertains to sex.

Especially, when they're so gung ho about teaching abstinence for nearly everything else in life........... smoking, drinking, turkey and cheese sandwiches for lunch.

Do you think we'd be preaching abstaining from deodorant if wearing deodorant if the health impacts included increased risk of gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, HIV/AIDS, not to mention the future of any children you may have from an unwanted pregnancy.

Oh, I forgot what about HEP C...........

A new study indicates that one in every 33 baby boomers has the Hepatitis C virus, and many don’t even know they have this liver destroying disease.

Federal health officials say Hepatitis C is now killing more people than the AIDS virus, and most are over 45 years of age.

Dr. Robert Bettiker, associate professor of medicine in infectious diseases at Temple University School of Medicine, says that once symptoms appear, the liver is already damaged.

So just go out and keep screwing your brains out. It's so good for you. Now put away that bag of chips.

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Who did he she vote for?

Meet Meredith Lowell. Why is she in the news? Watch the video...



In the 2008 presidential election did Meredith pull the chain for HR Hopenchange Or President 4moreyears?

WH Senior Adviser: Unemployment Stimulates the Economy

So let's all quit our jobs and file for unemployment so we can get this economy back on track.............

Back to the future

Jim Geraghty with some quotes from the past...........

“If drilling [in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] were approved today, it would be ten years before oil arrived in refineries.” — Sierra Magazine, January-February issue, 2002.

“Oil extracted from the Wildlife Refuge would not reach refineries for seven to ten years and would never satisfy more than two percent of our nation’s oil demands at any one time.” — Senator Maria Cantwell (D., Wash.), April 17, 2002.

“It would take years and years of development” to generate any supply. — Vice President Al Gore, September 30, 2000. He preferred releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve instead.

The Bush plan to drill in ANWR offers “no real action to bring oil prices down now, no real prospect of freeing ourselves from dependence on big oil and foreign oil.” — Al Gore, Sept. 30, 2000.

remember that when you're filling up a $4 a gallon.

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Two America's

I'm about a month into tax season and I'm still amazed at the transformation of my tax practice. My practice has transformed from a tax planning/reduction practice to a quasi welfare satelitte office.

Today I had to explain to a guy who made $30,000 in self employment income (no taxes withheld, including social security) why he didn't get a refund on his return.

In the past, it was easy. You can't get back what you didn't pay in the first place. Now, it's a lot harder since a difference of $10,000 in income can result in a $6000 swing on a return. How do explain that to someone?

But it gets better. How do you explain to a roofing supervisor that he owes money to support the two part time derelicts who are getting multiple thousands of dollars in refunds for knocking up a ho and not getting married?

Or to the guy who's ball busting a living so he can support his neighbor who's capable of coaching little league and pee wee football but is getting disability income because he "can't" work.............

Unemployment is down, according to the official numbers, yet more people than ever are not working. What are they doing instead? The New York Post reports that an astonishing number of them are classifying themselves as disabled in order to continue receiving government benefits:

Mental-illness claims, in particular, are surging. During the recent economic boom, only 33 percent of applicants were claiming mental illness, but that figure has jumped to 43 percent, says Rutledge, citing preliminary results from his latest research. …

That last statistic is remarkable: a quarter of those who are dropping out of the job market, and hence out of the unemployment statistics, are going on disability instead. Disability, unlike unemployment benefits, will most likely go on forever.

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