California high-speed rail gets green light!

Hell and yes! My mother always said, if you decide to do something you might as well do it all the way. California's willful spiral into insolvency just got a huge boost. This from AP:

California lawmakers gave the green light to start building the nation's first dedicated high-speed rail line, a multibillion dollar project that will eventually link Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Keep in mind that the state government is projecting a $16 Billion deficit for 2012 alone! And the projected cost for this cho-cho is $100 billion! Never mind that there are already many other options for commuters going between LA and San Francisco with much more flexibility not to mention cost effective. It appears that Brown and his economically illiterate allies are hell bent on making California the Greece of the Union.

What was the reason the Dems gave for going forward with the project you might ask? Dan Richard, chairman of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, which is managing the project, explains:

 California would have lost billions of dollars in federal aid if the Senate fails to pass the bill before adjourning Friday for a month long recess.

Really - so regardless of the fact that this thing is untenable in any economic sense, California is so desperate that they will build the train to nowhere just for a few billion bucks. I guess once you are on the Federal Government's dole you never go back.

Now people all across the country are going to pay for this boondoggle as more and more federal dollars roll in because California has absolutely no way of finishing this pile of steaming crap with their own tax revenues. Hope the folks in Enid, Oklahoma like their new Cho-Cho that they will never see.

So let's see if we have all the bases covered:
Project that we have no way to pay for - check
Project that replicates more efficient alternatives - check
Project that will make the unions happy - check
Project that will eventually cost the rest of the country money - Check
Project that is built on one of the most dangerous fault lines in the entire world - check and double check

This, my friends, is what passes for state governance in California. Nothing to see here folks move along move along

Holy Cow George Washington was not Gay

When I heard that Jerry Brown signed a law mandating gay education, I simply shook my head and dismissed it, thinking there goes those dysfunctional juveniles in Sacramento, screaming for attention again, like a spoiled three year old. My guess is that the mentally unstable CA state legislature were feeling that the rest of the country hasn't shown them enough attention lately. So they decided to poop in their pants again to garner our attention. But then I thought it over and decided that if their goal is to demonstrate all the great achievements by gays in history, and force it down the throats of the citizenry, then, I thought, maybe that can work both ways. Below is a short bio of George Washington (ed. Note: lifted shamelessly form Wikipedia) see if you can spot the changes I made (hint: it's the stuff in 'Bold' print).

George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731] – December 14, 1799) was the dominant heterosexual, God fearing, military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory, with God's help, over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as a heterosexual commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in 1775–1783, and he presided heterosexually over the writing of the Constitution in 1787. The unanimous choice to serve as the first heterosexual President of the United States (1789–1797), Washington, who went to church every Sunday, presided over the creation of a strong, well-financed national government, based on Judeo-Christian values, that stayed neutral in the wars raging in Europe, suppressed rebellion and won acceptance among Americans of all types including heterosexuals of all walks of life. His leadership style established many forms and rituals of government that have been used ever since, such as using a cabinet system and delivering an inaugural address and being heterosexual. Washington is universally regarded as the heterosexual "Father of his country".

My point above is to demonstrate that regardless of GW's sexual orientation, he was a pretty impressive fellow. My guess is that even if he was gay and still did all that stuff he'd still be on the $1 bill. So why in the wide-wide-wide-world-of-sports do the youngster's in California need to know the sexual orientation of the people they study? Next the idiots will pass a law for Islamic Education praising all the great people from history who were Muslim.