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A new low for revenue farming

Besides, wasn’t the cop in question way out of his jurisdiction?  What’s a Boulder City cop doing writing tickets at Blue Diamond and the 15?  Seems that’d be Metro’s or NHP’s turf.  Beyond that, though, aren’t there real criminals out there they could be catching, or is real police work getting too difficult for the po-po?

Driver claims she got $200 ticket for putting on lip balm behind the wheel

The Nevada Highway Patrol has a campaign to crackdown on distracted drivers, but how far is too far when it comes to cracking the whip? 8 News NOW decided to examine that question after a Las Vegas woman said she received a ticket from a Boulder City police officer for putting on lip balm at a red light.

Stephanie Fragoso said she was cited Wednesday during the statewide crackdown. She said she was at a red light at I-15 and Blue Diamond when it happened.

Fragoso said when she asked the officer why he pulled her over, he told her it was for putting on makeup.

“I told him it was Chapstick,” Fragoso said.

Initially, Fragoso thought the entire thing was a joke, especially since it was April Fools Day, but when she received the citation, she quickly realized that wasn’t the case.

“He said ‘it could have been anything; you could have been drinking water, shaving your legs’,” said Fragoso.

 

Shut off the idiot box

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Most of us watch way too much of it. It’s turning us into the world of Idiocracy:

Kill Your TV and Save Your Life

We all know what the expanded version of the problem is: The problem is that we live in, as Andrew Breitbart called it, a “Matrix” of leftist assumptions and propaganda, all being delivered to us 24/7 by a wireless intravenous drip system called television.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this. I’ve been thinking it’s time to actually do something.

Just an idea, but I would like to start thinking seriously about delivering a truly grievous wound to the Political-Entertainment Complex.

I’m thinking about, firstly, stopping watching almost TV entirely and shedding cable stations. (Some cut the cable entirely.)

I say “almost entirely” because people are so addicted to TV at this point that I think it seems as hard to quit TV as it is to quit smoking. (By the way: It’s easy to quit smoking.)

So let’s throw in the “almost” caveat there and think about it like this: If I write down all the shows I watch, I think I’ll be embarrassed and sad to see how many hours I sit as a voluntary, unmoving, passive spectator, watching other people perform Shows and other people perform in Sports and other people doing things.

I ditched cable about a year and a half ago.  I don’t miss it.  What little bit of TV I still watch is all downloadable or streamable, and there’s not much of it.  In the past month, I’ve watched Top Gear (probably in its final season), Archer, and Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. What do I do with the rest of my time?  Any number of things: reading (books or blogs…take your pick), hashing, tinkering with electronics, shooting, reloading ammo, going to beerfests…probably more stuff I can’t remember offhand.  There is life beyond TV.  You don’t necessarily need to do the things I do; do the things you find interesting.  Whatever it is, it’ll more than likely be better for your mind than spending hour on hour glued to the idiot box.

Someone set us up the bomb

obama-chamberlainWhat makes him think this time will be any different than 1938?

Obama: We Finally Have An Iranian Nuclear Bomb In Our Time

I don’t have much to say about this as it’s breaking news and President Nixon won’t tell us the details, of course.

I did see the Iranian President stating, emphatically, the following: We will continue enriching uranium; we will continue research and development (into nuclear bombs and more efficient centrifuges); we will put 1000 of our best centrifuges in our underground fortified nuke bunker at Fordo, but we promise we’ll use those centrifuges to spin things like industrial salts, not uranium, swearsies.

Obama is delivering them the bomb.

“Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.”
— Winston Churchill, to Neville Chamberlain in the House of Commons after the Munich accords

Liberal fascism rears its ugly head

Liberal_Fascism_(cover)I’m pretty sure there was a book on that subject:

Indiana Shows the Left Has No Concept of Freedom

What interests and concerns me about the fight over Indiana’s religious freedom law is not its implication for gay weddings and whether pizza will be served at them.

Much more important are the basic principles that are being invoked to argue against the Indiana law. These arguments set out to define religious freedom out of existence, and they end up defining all freedom out of existence.

At the end of last year, I complained that “The basic problem with the left’s conception of freedom is that it doesn’t really have one.”

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Now, when we say that gay marriage is legal, what we actually mean is that the government is required to offer and recognize these marriages. But Tomasky assumes that what the state must do, private citizens must do also. If a law binds the actions of the state, it is also binding on Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public. There is no distinction, in Tomasky’s mind, between government action and private action.

It’s that old principle of tolerance: “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”

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Blow also echoes Tomasky when he thunders, “Anything that even hints at state-sponsored discrimination—blatant and codified—is not only discordant with current cultural norms but also anathema to universal ideals of fairness and human dignity.” Did you catch that phrase? “State-sponsored discrimination.” Anything that is allowed by the government is therefore sponsored by the government. To not arrest you for doing or saying something is to adopt that action or idea as the official policy of the state.

That which is not forbidden is mandatory. Everything within the state, nothing outside the state.