No Appraisal for You!!!

To bad the scientist isn't gay, he could have filed suit.
Climate of hatred: Prominent scientist refused service due to skepticism

Prominent MIT physicist and global warming skeptic, Richard Lindzen, was recently refused the services of a Boston-area art appraiser because of global warming.
As Lindzen described in an e-mail:
In our recent house fire, an 18th century oriental rug was burnt, and we needed an appraisal of its value for our insurance. We were referred to a dealer, [name withheld], who agreed to do the appraisal. However, when my wife, Nadine, brought him the burnt rug, he rudely turned her away saying that he had sent me an email explaining his position…
Here’s the text of the art appraiser’s e-mail to Lindzen:
I am sorry to inform you that after some consideration, I’ve decided not to perform the appraisal service that you’ve requested. Your writing on the subject of global warming is offensive to me personally, and I feel that I would have difficulty being an impartial appraiser of value given my view on the subject.

If it were me I'd look for another appraiser, it's apparent that there are 2 things this one doesn't know anything about.

Topless Coffee Shop Burns

What a better eye opener than a topless waitress bringing you a cup of joe and a cinnamon bun in the morning?
But alas, it was not to be.
Topless coffee shop burns down; official says it was arson

(CNN) -- In the end, a coffee shop in Vassalboro, Maine, that gained national attention for its topless waiters and waitresses simply proved too hot -- the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop burned to the ground early Wednesday morning.
A state fire official said it was arson.
The blaze consumed the risque, small-town business shortly after midnight, said Vassalboro Fire Chief Eric Rowe. He described the flames as "severe" and said the building was a "total loss."
"I really liked it here," waitress Krista Macentyre said after learning the cause of the fire. "We weren't hurting anyone. I don't know why someone would do something like this."
The shop's proprietor, Donald Crabtree, said he is determined to rebuild. "This is home" to a lot of people, he said.
For Crabtree the coffee shop literally was home. He and his two daughters, their two boyfriends, and his two infant grandchildren lived in quarters attached to the Grand View. The fire forced them to relocate to a motel.
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Someone didn't just burn down the coffee shop, they burned down the attached home of the owner and his family.

It seems to me that with all the other outrageous crap going on out there a couple of topless waitresses and waiters in a coffee shop shouldn't even raise an eyebrow.

I hope they rebuild.

Not Crazy Uncles, Just Idiots

What kind of educational system do we have that a newspaper staff....any of the staff....couldn't make the connection here?
Pennsylvania Newspaper Runs Ad Calling for Obama Assassination

WARREN, Pa. — A small-town newspaper is apologizing for running a classified advertisement calling for the assassination of President Barack Obama.
Warren Times Observer Publisher John Elchert says the ad appeared Thursday. It read, "May Obama follow in the steps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy!" The four presidents were all assassinated.
Elchert tells The Associated Press that the newspaper's advertising staff didn't make the historical connection.
He says the northwestern Pennsylvania newspaper turned information over to police and that the Secret Service is investigating the person who placed the ad.
A note in Friday's paper says the newspaper "apologizes for the oversight."

As dumbass as the ad was the morons who approved it for publication are even dumber.

Altruistic Aliens

It seems us humans have been giving extraterrestrial aliens a bad rap with movies like "Independence Day", "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and even "Star Trek".
Apparently aliens only have our best interests at heart, enough to sacrifice themselves on our behalf.
Russian Scientist: UFO Crashed Into Meteorite to Save Earth

Did a UFO deliberately crash into a meteor to save Earth 100 years ago? That's what one Russian scientist is claiming.
Dr. Yuri Labvin, president of the Tunguska Spatial Phenomenon Foundation, insists that an alien spacecraft sacrificed itself to prevent a gigantic meteor from slamming into the planet above Siberia on June 30, 1908.
The result was was the Tunguska event, a massive blast estimated at 15 megatons that downed 80 million trees over nearly 100 square miles. Eyewitnesses reported a bright light and a huge shock wave, but the area was so sparsely populated no one was killed.
Most scientists think the blast was caused by a meteorite exploding several miles above the surface. But Labvin thinks quartz slabs with strange markings found at the site are remnants of an alien control panel, which fell to the ground after the UFO slammed into the giant rock.
"We don't have any technologies that can print such kind of drawings on crystals," Labvin told the Macedonian International News Agency. "We also found ferrum silicate that can not be produced anywhere, except in space."

Sweet little guys huh?
Thing is if they like us so much then what's with the anal probing?

Politicians, Pot and Money

There's been a lot of talk about legalizing and then taxing marijuana on the web and some of the regular news outlets over the past couple of weeks.
Gov. Schwarzenegger has even been advocating debate on it, possibly hoping to create another cash cow for the financially strapped state of California.
Schwarzenegger: Marijuana debate is needed

DAVIS, Calif., May 6 (UPI) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says it's time to seriously debate the merits of legalizing and taxing the recreational use of marijuana.
Although the Republican does not support a legalization move, he did say Tuesday in Davis, Calif., that in a time of economic crisis that has plunged the state's budget into red ink, the time is right to discuss the idea, The Sacramento Bee reported Wednesday.
"Well, I think it's not time for (legalization), but I think it's time for a debate," Schwarzenegger said. "I think all of those ideas of creating extra revenues, I'm always for an open debate on it. And I think we ought to study very carefully what other countries are doing that have legalized marijuana and other drugs, what effect did it have on those countries?"

I personally think that all the reasons, pro and con, have been discussed over and over for the past 50 years. Now while a good argument can be made for either side I think we all need to take a deep breath here and consider what it is we are actually talking about.
Of all the reasons to suddenly legalize pot the one we have settled on right now at this time is to create another revenue stream for government.
We are actually begging the local, state and federal governments to legalize a substance and then tax the bejeezus out of it for the privilege to buy and consume it.
Because........the government needs more of our money?
For crying out loud people, the government can't even use the taxes they collect now responsibly, why the hell give em more?

People tell me the reason pot should be legal is because they should have the freedom to determine what goes into their bodies without government interference.

Explain to me how freedom and taxation can co-exist and I might buy that argument.
I can tell you right now now a bunch of dead old hippies are rolling around in their graves over this one.

Teleprompter in Chief

Kind of speaks for itself really.

Crazy Uncle in the White House

No one can tell me that Barack Obama wasn't aware of a planned photo-op of Airforce one over New York causing this kind of panic.



What was he thinking?