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Watch out, the Democrats are coming!  God help you if they think you make too much money.  They really need to rename their party, something like Progressive Socialists for Economic Equality.  The trouble is, most people don’t realize the harm that they are perpetuating while trying to create their Utopia by force.

You make too much money! And you make too little!

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., put it somewhat differently. But the new chairman of the House Financial Services Committee vowed to tackle the growing, festering problem of “income inequality.” “Government doesn’t have to interfere with the free enterprise system,” says Frank, “but we can work along with it to reduce inequality.” [that last statement makes absolutely no sense and shows he is talking out of his ***]

 

Railing against Home Depot’s $210 million severance package for its fired CEO, Frank called it “further confirmation of the need to deal with the pattern of CEO pay that appears to be out of control.”

What does Frank propose to do about the “income inequality” in, say, baseball? New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez several years ago signed a contract for a quarter-billion dollars. That’s “b” as in “bodacious.” Pity the teammate who toils at the league minimum of $380,000 a year. Will Smith reportedly gets $20 million per picture. Most members of the Screen Actors Guild work at other non-acting jobs just to make ends meet.

What exactly is the appropriate gap? How wide should it be? Presumably Mr. Frank possesses the divine wisdom to know when the gap is jus-s-s-st right.

Read the rest: Townhall.com::Dems to tackle “income inequality”::By Larry Elder

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Too bad the USPS didn’t come up with this idea.  It’s still not too late.  They could issue a collectors series that updates every 6 months.  Each series would feature the 10 members of Congress responsible for the most pork.

Sweet and sour stamps

Stamps released in China to celebrate the Year of the Pig taste of sweet and sour pork.

When you scratch the front of the stamps, it smells of the popular chinese dish and when the back of the stamp is licked it tastes of the dish too.

The stamps are on sale in China ahead of their New Year on February 18, reports Metro.

Royal Mail launched Britain’s first scratch ‘n’ sniff stamp in 2001 - they gave off eucalyptus aromas.

Source: Ananova - Sweet and sour stamps

I received the following letter in my email today. Included was a request to blog the contents. After a bit of consideration I am going to post the letter in its entirety. I am not at all familiar with the workings of the local Independence Party and can not vouch for the accuracy of the contents of this letter. The information appears to be of potential importance. At the same time, any well articulated responses, in support of this letter or as a rebuttal to the contents, will be posted in the comments section.

Over the last two months the Independence Party has been held in limbo regarding who is the leader of the party. If you ask most of the politicians in Erie County who is the Independence Party Chairman, most will answer Anthony Orsini. However that may be an incorrect answer. The reason for that statement is that most people don’t know the truth about what has recently transpired within the party.

In order to explain what has transpired, you must first know a little about how the party works and how it is organized. Every two years political parties call together their newly elected committee members for a reorganization meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to nominate and elect a new county chairperson as well as officers of the party. Other positions and inter-party committee’s may also be selected. In order for this meeting to be legal and valid, a specific number of committee members must be present in person or cast their votes by a form called a proxy, this is called a quorum. The Independence Party uses this very form of reorganization.

Usually reorganization meetings are held with the utmost respect for the rules and the law. However this years IP reorganization meeting was in trouble well in advance of the meeting. This is the rest of the story. Continue Reading “A Letter I Received Regarding the Erie County Independence Party” »

There has been some grousing around the Buffalo blogosphere, here, here and other places, about the lack of snow this winter.  I have been disappointed also about the lack of the white stuff.  I resurrected the picture below from last winter.  It is a shot taken in Delaware Park on December 17, 2005.

If you look closely, you’ll see someone walking a dog back near the middle of the trees.  Click here for a larger view.  The original picture was quite ugly and required a bit of tweaking.  The original is below.

Naturally, we might ask, why the attack on restaurants using trans fats and not saturated fats? The answer’s easy; we just need a historical reference. When the anti-smoking zealots started out, they too went after a relatively small target by demanding non-smoking sections on airplanes. That success emboldened them to demand no smoking on planes at all and in airports as well. Then came laws against smoking in restaurants.

Today, in Calabasas, Calif., smoking is prohibited outside, and several California cities have banned beach smoking. Had the anti-smoking zealots revealed their full agenda when they started out, they wouldn’t have been nearly as successful. They would have encountered too much resistance.

The nation’s food zealots have taken a page from their anti-smoking counterparts. They’ve started out with a small target — a ban on restaurant use of trans fats. Here’s what I predict is their true agenda: If banning a fat that’s only two percent of our daily caloric intake is wonderful, why not ban saturated fats, the intake of which is much higher? Then there’s the size of restaurant servings. Instead of a law simply requiring restaurants to label the calories in a meal, there will be laws setting a legal limit on portions.

Read the rest: Townhall.com::Trans Fat ban::By Walter E. Williams