I-1098: Soak the Rich

by John Russell Turner

While I was walking down 4th Avenue in the Seattle CBD today, a protest march of about 50 or so people passed me by. There were about ten Seattle Police on motorcycles, and about ten more officers on foot escorting these people in the misty rain...

I saw them coming, so I decided to stop and take a look. It was an anti-war (in Afghanistan) protest march, and it seems that they were using the war there as a pretext to argue for passage of Washington State Initiative 1098, the infamous "soak the rich"  initiative.

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Seattle News Coverage of I-1098

The Green War on Children

More on the Environmental Front/The Green War on Children

Click the link above to read Michelle Malkin's report on the video that has gone viral all over the conservative blogosphere. There's a link to the video here, but be warned: it's very disturbing, and depicts realistic, graphic violence.

And this was done to convice people to reduce their "carbon footprints", whatever that is. Side note: I get a print out every time I print at my school, telling me how my print job has impacted the environment.

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They Lied

Of course, we knew this all along. What angers me here is that the bungling and ineptitude of the Obama administration made a bad situation worse. Bobby Jindal, the governor of Lousiana, had a definite plan to fight the oil spill, but was blocked by the Feds. And now it's common knowledge that the bastards lied.