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HatTip Froggy – As in any minute now….. will be begging for more money….

Death By Bureaucracy

WASHINGTON DC – The Justice Department on Monday unsealed an indictment charging five  individuals allegedly involved in Border Patrol agent Brian Terry’s death, and  announced a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to the arrest of  those suspects still at large.
 
For the first time, federal officials also revealed that Terry and an elite  squad of federal agents initially fired bean bags — not bullets — at a heavily  armed drug cartel crew in the mountains south of Tucson in December 2010. During  the exchange, Terry was shot and killed.
The announcement comes amid an intensifying debate over the department’s  failed Fast and Furious anti-gunrunning operation. Weapons from that program  were found at Terry’s murder scene — Republicans seeking documents pertaining  to Fast and Furious last month escalated their probe by voting to hold Attorney  General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. (more…)

Lexus Hybrids Debuted in 2004
You Can’t Fix Stupid – But You Can Vote It Out  (CNSNews.com) — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has credited the Obama administration’s work on fuel standards for having “jump started” the development of Lexus hybrids, even though the company debuted its SUV hybrid in 2004.

While discussing vehicle fuel standards at the Aspen Ideas Festival on July 3rd, LaHood said, “I don’t think the car manufacturers would be manufacturing the cars they are manufacturing today as hybrids, if it weren’t for what the president did in signing the executive order and what Lisa (Jackson, EPA Administrator) and I have done over the last three and half years about developing C.A.F.E. (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards for automobiles and light trucks that will get 54.4 miles per gallon by 2025.” (more…)

RACISTS !

CNN/ORC – More than half of Americans support the move by House Republicans to censure Attorney General Eric Holder, but six in 10 also say that the GOP’s move was politically motivated, according to a poll released Monday.
Some 53 percent of respondents in the CNN/ORC poll say they believe the House did the right thing when voting 255-67 late last month to censure Holder for failing to turn over documents related to the Fast and Furious gun smuggling operation. One-third of respondents say they disapprove of the action, while 13 percent are unsure. (more…)

Color me curious.  How many places and what products can you use Food Stamp EBT cards for?  Seriously, honest question.   I had no idea that you could purchase jewelry, tattoos, buy gas, get nails manicured and hair done etc.
I thought the Food Stamp program was to give poor people  food.   Stupid me.
Daily Caller – Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick has vetoed the state legislature’s attempt to ban the use of EBT cards — or food stamps — to purchase items such as tattoos, porn and jewelry.
Patrick vetoed the reforms Sunday while signing the state’s $32.5 billion budget.
According to the Boston Herald, which first reported the veto, the governor berated the legislature’s stab at banning the purchase of specific items like manicures, tattoos, guns, porn, body piercings, jewelry, and bail by saying the move was “political grandstanding” at a time when such reforms are already on track elsewhere. (more…)

Well, at least this week….

(Herald Sun) — A Melbourne family who claim they were slugged an extra $55 “carbon tax charge” when burying a relative were told “even the dead don’t escape the carbon tax”.

Erica Maliki and her family were burying her father-in-law at Springvale Cemetery when she was told the price per burial plot had increased because of the carbon tax.
Her father-in-law died on June 30, the day before the carbon tax was introduced, and was buried early last week. (more…)