They're selling shirts now??

(screenshot of my favorite)

Whomever invented this kid repellent:

A wall-mounted gadget designed to drive away loiterers with a shrill, piercing noise audible only to teens and young adults is infuriating civil liberties groups and tormenting young people after being introduced into the United States. . .

The high-frequency sound has been likened to fingernails dragged across a chalkboard or a pesky mosquito buzzing in your ear. It can be heard by most people in their teens and early 20s who still have sensitive hair cells in their inner ears.

The device is sold by Moving Sound Tech.

That'll teach Chicago to lock up gang leaders:

Nine people were killed in 36 shootings over the weekend in Chicago, reflecting what some community leaders say is a deadly breakdown in discipline among gang members after a crackdown over the past few years put many of their leaders behind bars.

Perhaps if they let the gang leaders out of jail, they could instill enough discipline in gang members to obey Chicago's gun ban.

I've long thought that the Global Warming movement is on the way out. It is only a matter of time before people are sick of hearing about how everything causes global warming.

I just want to go on record as saying that the latest Green Marketing push will only help accelerate the demise of the environmental movement. What is even more deliciously ironic is that much of the green marketing is just that, marketing. There is no environmental benefit at all. It will probably cause more environmental damage when all that green crap gets tossed in the trash.

Yet another cancer cause to add to the list.

The sounds of children playing baseball has been silenced at one ball field in this western North Dakota city. Officials fear the ground itself is simply too unsafe.

The ballpark, one of two in this town of about 700 people, is covered with crushed gravel containing erionite, a mineral found in the chalky white rock mined from the nearby Killdeer Mountains.

The rock, used for decades on everything from gravel roads to flower beds, contains fibers that can collect in the lungs of people who breathe it, health officials say.

Steve Way, a federal Environmental Protection Agency coordinator, said studies have shown that erionite causes cancer in lab rats, though the mineral is not regulated by his agency.

How can anyone take these people seriously anymore?

Looks like it's the TSA's fault.

This video will show you the obvious cause of the accidental discharge of a Federal Flight Deck Officer's Service weapon. The cause was a flawed and dangerous policy requiring redundant and unnecessary firearm handling by the pilots and an equipment design disaster. You don't place foreign objects next to a trigger of a loaded gun!

In times of budget shortfalls, people usually make do with less. When money gets tight, people will postpone their vacations, put off buying that new car, or start packing their lunch to make ends meet. But not the government.

When the government faces economic shortfalls, they simply use the threat of lethal force to take more of the citizens money. Such is the case in suburban Loudoun County (Virginia).

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, struggling with a sudden downturn in the housing market and a population that grows ever larger, approved a 19 percent increase in the property tax rate yesterday that will send the average bill soaring by more than $300 this year.

Driven by a new Democratic majority, the board narrowly approved a $1 billion spending plan that requires an 18-cent increase in the tax rate to $1.14 for each $100 of assessed value. The plan is expected to result in a 6.5 percent increase in the average homeowner's tax bill.

Dipping into the $108 million "rainy day fund" to cover the $25 million shortfall was quickly dismissed as an option. Apparently it never rains on the government either.

To be fair to Democrats, even the board's two Republicans were pushing for "a more modest increase". Because in today's poltical world even largesse is bipartisan. Notice that cutting spending on social programs and other vote-buying schemes was never even considered.

CNN/Money, who sometimes relies on advice from financial magnates like Billy Joel, says that despite the perennially good employment figures, the economy still sucks.

CNN/Money claims that the employment figures don't mean anything and that the "underemployment rate" is rising (whatever that is). They even go so far as to tell us not to be fooled by any of the good economic figures we're hearing:

An unemployment rate at 5% used to be called full employment. Today it's considered the sign of a recession.

When the Labor Department gives its March employment report this Friday, it's important to keep in mind that the relatively low unemployment rate isn't telling the whole story about the weakness of the U.S. labor market.

The article didn't make their Recession Watch 2008 page, but they are talking down the economy so frequently there is only so much they can put on one page.

Still don't believe us that the Global Warming movement has jumped the shark?

"Not doing it will be catastrophic. We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals." -- Ted Turner on the dangers of not overreacting to Global Warming.

How can anyone take such a Nostradamus-like prediction seriously?