Geesh:

The New York City health department is moving forward with a plan that would require about 12,000 cigarette retailers to post large anti-smoking signs.

It’s billed as the first such regulation in the United States.

The eye-level signs would have information about the harmful effects of smoking, possibly with an image.

The assistant commissioner for tobacco control, Sarah B. Perl, says it can be effective to display gruesome health effects such as amputations and throat cancer.

The city’s Board of Health is now seeking public comment. At the earliest, it would vote in September.

Trouble is, if you actually gave rational comment (ie, “what the F are you lunatic morons doing?!?”), you’d be ignored…so, only stupid comments from people who think this is a good idea will be allowed, and thus on a wave of popular support (so called), this will become the way of life in New York City…

Just can’t beat that headline:

Since 1997, New York City has turned a blind eye toward anti-nudity and anti-lewdness laws that govern life in the Big Apple as well as the state during the Folsom Street East festival (FSE). This year’s even took place on Sunday, June 21, which, ironically is also Father’s Day.

Described on its website as “NYC’s premiere sado/masochist-leather-fetish themed street festival,” the event attracts approximately 10,000 visitors annually. They claim that this is the largest outdoor event of its kind east of the Mississippi.

The FSE press release stated that “the street will once again be lined with some 50 community groups and vendors that appeal to the LGBT and the kink communities and it will be filled with mobs of leatherclad musclehunks. A one-stop shop for leather gear, porn, and toys. And no throw pillow, magic mops, or tube socks – promise!”

The organization Americans for Truth about Homosexuality (AFTAH) obtained footage of this year’s event, which included scenes of an “electro-torture” demonstration where a half-naked man was strapped to a cross while electric current shocks were sent through his body.

As long as homosexuality is identified with this sort of thing, so long will homosexuality be considered outside the pale by the majority. It is tolerated, but not loved – and that is why gay marriage is running up against an immovable object in the votes of the public. People wanting to live their lives as they see fit – fine; people wanting to have their freak show considered as valid as normal human activities – not so fine. The key to any sort of victory for so-called “gay rights” is for homosexuals to show they are part of us – this sort of thing shows that homosexuals are not at all part of us and, indeed, are directly in opposition to us.

We’ve got enough problems on our plate and we just can’t afford to have this incredibly stupid man remain in the United States Senate:

U.S. Sen. John Kerry must have been channeling his inner Letterman yesterday.

The Bay State senator was telling a group of business and civic leaders in town at his invitation about the “bizarre’’ tale of how South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford had “disappeared for four days’’ and claimed to be hiking along the Appalachian Trail, but no one was really certain of his whereabouts.

“Too bad,’’ Kerry said, “if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin.’’

There’s just so much big hair and your wife’s Republican money can do for you Senator, and you’re waaaay the heck past your spoil date. Just go – move to France…heck, no, that is too mean to the French…move to Cambodia and set up house where you went on that secret mission for Nixon before he became President. Main thing – just get lost.

The number of pages in the Obama “Screw the People” climate change bill – which not one single person on God’s green earth has actually read…and Donks want to rush it trough. Just like the Spendulus, and we know how well that worked out, huh?

Makes you wonder just why the EPA is suppressing a recent climate change report – could it be that the word is finally getting out that anthropogenic global warming is a complete hoax, and thus the lefties better shove it through right away?

The former a rather sad end, the other a complete surprise.

That is the number of Tea Party demonstrations planned thus far for July 4th.

Having one in your area? I hope so – the more, the better…we have to let the Powerful know that we’re on to them and we’re not going to take it, anymore. The above link has a list of demonstrations by State – so, either gin one up on your own, or participate in one already planned.

Uh, liberals, please take note:

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits. – Plutarch

Its all BS – a manufactured crisis designed to allow liberals to put us under their control. Obama had his infomercial. Discuss here, if you have a mind to.

UPDATE: Seems that not too many people care – Obama’s infomercial was a ratings bust.

…would you accept it?

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) – California’s controller said on Wednesday that he would have to issue IOUs in a week if lawmakers can’t quickly solve a $24 billion budget deficit, and the state’s treasurer plans to tap a reserve fund to meet debt service costs.

The measures came as a budget crisis deepened in the most populous U.S. state and the gridlocked legislature failed to pass a proposed $11 billion in cuts.

“Next Wednesday we start a fiscal year with a massively unbalanced spending plan and a cash shortfall not seen since the Great Depression,” Controller John Chiang said in a statement announcing that he would be forced to use IOUs to pay the state’s bills beginning on July 2.

Me, personally, I wouldn’t accept them – I’d head straight to court and demand payment in kind, if I could not receive payment in cash. Gold, silver, land, oil leases, other mineral rights…something other than a bankrupt liberal government’s promise to pay at some later date. I’m not exactly impressed with the word of the State of California – especially when they can’t cut $11 billion to make up a $24 billion shortfall…they’re so stupid they can’t even get within 40% of a balanced budget.

This is what comes from tax and spend liberalism – and it is what is coming to our national government if Obama and his Democrats aren’t stopped.

You blew it, Governor – you had position, prestige and the White House was a possibility…and you thew it all away because you couldn’t keep your oath, registered in Heaven, to be loyal to your wife – not in your heart, not in your body.

Its a hard thing, and I forgive you – but it is time for you to quit the scene. Only thus can we start to restore respectability to American politics. Those who presume to lead us must be held to a high standard – certainly while they are in office.