Greek triple jump athlete Voula Papachristou was kicked out of the 2012 Olympics two weeks ago for tweeting a harmless (sticks and stones, luv) joke about mosquitoes and how many illegal immigrants from Africa have flooded her country.But while some have called the high-jumper a racist, apparently she had a valid point. Consider this newswire story I just read this morning:
“Authorities in Greece are rounding up thousands of possible illegal immigrants in a deportation drive to combat what a government official compared to a prehistoric invasion. Greece has long been Europe’s main entry point for illegal immigrants from Asia and Africa. But Greece’s economic problems and high unemployment are making the problem worse than ever.”
“Prehistoric invasion.” Seems to me somebody owes the high-jumping Greek beauty an apology.
THE TEACHERS UNION’S DARK SHADOW
Carson City District Judge James Wilson ruled on Monday that the Nevada teachers union’s 20,000-word petition to impose a new job-killing/economy-crippling “margins” tax on Nevada’s beleaguered business community violates the state’s ridiculously hypocritical single-subject rule.
It’s estimated that the new business income tax, if approved, would suck an additional $800 million per year out of the pockets of Nevada’s job creators just to continue propping up the “failure factories” known as Nevada’s public schools.
In response to the ruling, the teachers union has vowed to re-write the petition and move forward anyway. So Monday’s victory for the business community will be short-lived. Like Barnabas Collins (ask your grandma), this horribly horrid idea will once again rise from the dead, ready to suck the life-blood from the very people Nevada needs for our economic recovery.
Read full story here: http://bit.ly/Mscv46
WHAT DOESN’T BELONG?
See if you can figure out which candidate doesn’t belong with the others:
Nevada Tax Pledge Signers
U.S. Senate: Sen. Dean Heller (Republican)
CD1: Bill Pojunis (Libertarian)
CD 2: Rep. Mark Amodei (Republican)
CD 3: Rep. Joe Heck (Republican)
CD 4: Joe Silvestri (Libertarian)
CD4: Danny Tarkanian (Republican)
Nevada NON-Tax Pledge Signers
U.S. Senate: Shelley Berkley (Democrat)
CD1: Dina Titus (Democrat)
CD1 Chris Edwards (Republican)
CD2: Samuel Koepnick (Democrat)
CD3: John Oceguera (Democrat)
CD4: Steven Horsford (Democrat)
CRAPPY SERVICE, INC.
I pretty much have as little tolerance for retail service stupidity as I have for the TSA. Thus it’ll be a cold day in Laughlin in August before you ever see me shopping in a Kohl’s department store (founded by the family of liberal Democrat Sen. Herb Kohl) again.
All I needed was a new watchband. Alas, the Kohl’s sales-gal at Charleston & Nellis told me she was not allowed to take my old, worn-out watchband off my watch and attach a new one since the watch wasn’t originally purchased at Kohl’s.
So what? I’m buying the new watchband at Kohl’s, right?
I even summoned a manager to make sure this asininity wasn’t merely lousy customer service on the part of a low-level hourly employee who didn’t know the cardinal rule about the customer always being right. But nope…despite the ongoing recession, even the manager asserted that it was “store policy” not to change the watchband for me since the watch itself hadn’t been purchased from Kohl’s.
So I left the store, got in my car, drove two blocks up the street and bought a new watchband from WalMart - where the sales clerk cheerfully took off my old watchband and attached the new one. No fuss. No muss. No hassle. No charge.
No more Kohl’s.
“SADISTIC” KILLERS OF WAR HERO’S DOG SENTENCED
If you still haven’t read Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell’s book, “Lone Survivor,” put it on your summer reading list right now before the summer is over. It’s about a disastrous 2005 military operation in Afghanistan in which Luttrell’s entire SEAL team was wiped out. It’s fascinating and riveting…and most Americans have absolutely no idea what men such as Luttrell go through on our behalf.
Anyway, after leaving the military, Luttrell returned home to his farm in Huntsville, Texas - where friends gave him a “therapy puppy,” a Labrador retriever, to help with his recovery from the tragedy. The puppy, according to a story by Jillian Geoffrey in this week’s National Examiner, was named DASY, “using letters from the names of (his) dead war buddies.” I’ll let Geoffrey describe the rest of the story:
“In April 2009, Lutrell let DASY out. Soon afterward, he heard a gunshot, grabbed his pistol and went to investigate. Using his SEAL stealth, he snuck up on strange men standing over DASY, who lay dying from a pistol shot. ‘I saw my
dog in a ditch and two men standing outside the car,’ recalls Luttrell. ‘I could hear them laughing.’“Enraged Luttrell charged the men, who sped away in a car, but the SEAL chased them in his own truck. Calling 911, he directed the chase through three counties until the men were captured.
“Both men were convicted of animal cruelty charges in a Walker County court. But (Michael) Edmonds got off with five years of probation and a $1,000 fine while sicko (Alfonso) Hernandez was slammed with two years in prison because he finished DASY off with a baseball bat.”
These two low-lifes got off WAY too easy! At the very least, Luttrell should have been allowed 15 minutes alone with each of them in a locked, sound-proofed cell - along with full immunity for whatever happened.
POLITICAL POTPOURRI
* Why is it politically correct to label somebody a “white supremacist” but not OK to call someone a “Muslim terrorist”? Inquiring minds wanna know.
* Is what Harry Reid's doing w/his unsubstantiated tax accusation wrong? Absolutely. But is it working? Probably. Harry ain’t backin’ down and Mitt's still on defense. And I bet the polls are gonna end up on Reid’s side as well. Even Romney’s most ardent supporters have to be wondering, “Yeah, I wonder what he’s hiding?”
* Finally, I have something in common with Barack Obama. The National Examiner reports that Obama’s favorite Girl Scout cookie is the Thin Mint…which tastes best when eaten frozen along with a cold glass of milk – and not the low-fat stuff, either!
* Interesting idea: "Consultant, professor look to bring training for high-speed rail to UNLV." http://bit.ly/PA8STU
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“Most Republican Party leaders seem to have lost the stomach for this fight (over gay marriage). Some of that results from the number of large-scale donors who support same-sex marriage, some of it’s a result in an increasing number of party leaders who support same-sex marriage, and a lot of it is public opinion polling which shows a shift in the way voters feel about same-sex marriage.” - Dan Schnur of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California
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