The year is young and most of the news is about the poor economy, failing automakers, the uproar over "Barack the Magic Negro" song, and Al Franken becoming a Senator. You know our country is messed up when people like Franken are in office.
In the past couple of days I've learned that the same people who predicted in June that the ice caps in the North Pole would melt are now startled that the ice there is thicker now than it was in the 1970s - just six months later. After visiting Nebraska at Christmas, I can tell you first hand that there's no global warming there.
The state of Washington is having a hard time clearing snow from the roads because they've decided that salt and brine are too corrosive and might endanger the Pugeot Sound. Meanwhile, police cars and garbage trucks are having a hard time climbing the hills - so much so that the trash sitting on the curbs and sides of the roads now makes parts of Washington state look like our third-world neighbors to the south.
A bit of funny news today comes from Wicomico Church, Virginia, where a six year old boy who missed his school bus went back inside the house and grabbed the keys to the family's 2005 Taurus. He drove about six miles, passing cars and making a couple of 90 degree turns before running off the road and hitting a light pole. Rather than cry about his boo-boos, the boy got out of the car and started walking to school - he didn't want to miss breakfast and PE. Police report that the boy learned to drive by playing Grand Theft Auto and Monster Truck Jam. Now that's funny. Perhaps not to the parents who were charged with child endangerment, but compared to the stupidity of our government, it's down right patriotic. The boy took responsibility for himself; he didn't call the school and demand the bus turn around to pick him up; nor did he expect someone from the school to bring him his breakfast that his parents had already paid for. Who says kids can't benefit from video games?
A couple of weeks ago, WPTF talk show host Bill Lumaye reported that North Carolina is considering using GPS devices in automobiles to track our mileage so they can tax us at the end of the year for the use of our roads....as if we didn't already contribute when we bought gas at the pumps and paid for our license tags. Not only would these GPS devices keep track of our miles, but if we were to speed a little bit, the person monitoring the GPS system could send us a speeding ticket in the mail. Talk about Big Brother! The other alternative being kicked around is to use the mileage from the previous year's inspection to the new year's inspection and tax us on that. How many of us drive out of state sometime during the year? Should we pay for the miles we drive on somebody else's roads?...or don't North Carolinians already pay more than most other states when it comes to gas taxes? I'm liking that kid's spunk more and more. He'll make a great governor some day.
I think I'm going to start collecting all the stupid news and put them in my book. I should have enough material by February at this rate.
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