This is epic win to 11!

This is a classic story of neighbors having a falling out, an arrest and an illegal pet macaque.

It all started about a year ago when the Vaccaros moved to Upper Magic Circle Drive, next door to Carey and Angie Chase and their pet monkey.

They got along at first, but the couples clashed over a minor business dealing and the relationship cooled.

But instead of benign neglect, there was some tit-for-tat, including the placement of a three-foot-tall phallus on the Chases’ deck.

“It was the blow-up penis that threw me over the edge,” Vaccaro said.

Vaccaro said he and his wife didn’t want to escalate the drama, but they’d seen Angie scuffed up with claw marks and the macaque once went after their dog. They worried for the safety of their three-year-old son.

The war of words turned ugly, so the Vaccaros called the cops.

Goshen police and Department of Environmental Conservation officials visited the Chase house, but were not allowed inside. Goshen town Sgt. Allen Faust said they can’t get a search warrant because Vaccaro hasn’t seen the macaque recently. But Carey Chase was charged this week on a harassment violation for allegedly making threats against the Vaccaros.

Vaccaro snapped photos of the monkey while it frolicked on the jungle gym in his back yard, but the Chases deny they have a macaque.

“What monkey?” Angie Chase said. “We don’t have a monkey. Please don’t call here again.”

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Sadly, the lines are being blurred.

Seriously, when the Deciders are cutting and pasting press releases from the Castro regime, shouldn't this be a big deal?

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AND I'M JUST HERE TO SAY, BWAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!  I HAVE SOME OXYCLEAN HERE IF YOU NEED HELP CLEANING THAT UP!  DUNNO IF I HAVE ANYTHING TO HELP WITH THE GONORRHEA, THOUGH, MWAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!  THIS IS TOO FUCKING RICH!!!!!  WHAT'D I TELL YOU FUCKERS,  HAIL TO THE KING, BABY!!!!!

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Kay Bailey Hutchison has been a regular sellout and major disappointment, so I'm no fan to begin with, and would argue she needed to face a primary challenge in the Senate anyway, but it looks like she's trying to unseat current Governor Perry.  As I understand it, Perry is a douche too, but Hutchison is worse, and she just went all in with the RINOs and leftists, so I guess this filthy Keystone Yankee is backing Perry, unless someone better comes along. 

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If this doesn't completely typify the FAIL Britannia! category, I don't know what does:

Rosemary Greenway has been playing passages of opera and orchestral symphonies on the radio to the animals at her stables for more than 20 years, convinced that it helps soothe them.

While not all of her staff are quite as fond of the output of Classic FM as she is, Mrs Greenway, 62, kept the radio tuned to the station religiously while mucking out because of the apparent benefits.

But she has dropped the practice after being told that she must pay a £99 annual licence fee as it constitutes a "performance".

Because her stables, the Malthouse Equestrian Centre in Bushton, Wilts, employs more than two people it is treated in the same way as shops, bars and cafés which have to apply for a licence to play the radio.

She received a telephone call from the Performing Right Society – now officially known as PRS for Music – which was targeting stables as part of a drive to get commercial premises to pay for licences.

The implication here is that there are people who are paid to think up new types of businesses that they can soak for these fees. Wonderful. They say that there will always be an England, and that may be true, but it's pretty much gonna suck from here on out.

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And I'm not at all sad that I did.

Because you're all wrong. 

You should be spending your time talking about how FUCKING AWESOME I AM.  The four words that should matter are "MP IS AWESOME." 

For example, did you know I can lick my nose?  Did you know I can calculate PI to the THIRD DIGIT IN MY FUCKING HEAD?

Yeah.  I'm fucking amazing.  Deal with that all day until tomorrow and then repeat. 

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This time, it's one of alexthechick's role models.

(No, alex, there are no scary clowns at that link.  Well, OK, there's a scary clown, but not the kind of scary clown you're afraid of.)

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They want a mass amnesty, followed by a reduction in legal immigration, and of course there is the paucity of immigration enforcement provisions.  This is of course the exact opposite of what it should be, with no amnesty, an easing of the bureaucratic hell of our legal immigration systems, and strict enforcement of immigration law. 

Chad and I obviously have differing opinions on the illegal immigration problem, but I thought I'd take the time to offer why it is I'm so virulently opposed to any sort of amnesty, because I think it ties into the argument between Goldstein and Patterico are having over intentionalism and language. 

I fully believe that to reward illegals with citizenship is completely counter to the founding principles of our nation, the idea that all men are created equal under the law.  We fought one horrible bloody war to make that happen, and countless skirmishes, both in the courtrooms, in elections, and in some cases in the streets to try and make that happen.  We're not perfect, and we never will be, but overall we've done pretty damn good. 

Offering up any sort of mass amnesty is rewarding illegal behavior, the government loses its ability to say that all are equal under the law under its rule, which will critically undermine the ability of the government to administer the law.  After all, why shouldn't you get a pass for violating the law, the government not only refused to punish lawbreakers, they rewarded them for their lawbreaking!  And maybe some other schmuck on trial when you're up for jury duty.  Every trial could become a trial against the government and justice system.  If this were to happen, odds are the government would try and remove the public from the administration of justice, just to try and restore order.  Not a good thing. 

Then you have the resentment that comes with it, the fact that illegals will be despised because they received special favors from the government.  This will inevitably lead to social tensions and severe division within the nation.  Beyond that you have the logical disconnect of having tens of millions of people who are escaping nations that are criminally corrupt and don't administer the law fairly or equally, by demanding that a nation that isn't (on the whole) corrupt and does administer the law fairly and equally.  You can't, and Americans won't pretend you can like the government demands they do. 

The problem for Amnesty proponents is that to go forward with an Amnesty is that doing so is directly counter to the principles laid out in the Constitution.  The Constitution isn't a set of rights that the government doles out or administers, it is an acknowledgment of the rights of the American people.  When the government deviates from the Constitution, it does so only so far as the American public will allow it to.  If the government moves to create an amnesty, at some point, the American public may well choose to slap the government back into compliance with the contract it signed.

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I mean, how can you misplace a radioactive ball?

Officials told the BBC that they had detected what may be the missing Caesium-137, adding that it may have been melted down.

The Caesium-137, encased in lead, was lost this week when workers at a cement plant demolished an old factory.

The material was part of a measuring instrument and is extremely dangerous.

Caesium-137 is a radioactive isotope, formed mainly through nuclear fission. The smallest amount can cause infertility, cancer and even death.

Eight trucks worth of scrap gathered at the disused factory in Tongchuan city were sold to a local steel mill, according to official news agency Xinhua.

Local environmental officials told the BBC they were mounting a clean-up operation at the mill in Fuping county.

The BBC's Quentin Sommerville in Beijing says China has an appalling record on industrial safety - there are around 30 cases of radioactive material being lost every year.

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Bush likes it bald! 

They audio is quite possibly NSFW, unless your work is really into this new "rap" stuff I'm hearing so much about.

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I get the feeling that after all of the posturing that has transpired over the AIG bonuses, most of the threats of taxes was just for the cameras.

Instead, they are proposing a "gentler" system*.

Just what is unreasonable or excessive would be determined by financial regulators and the Treasury Department, where Secretary Timothy Geithner set off a public furor by not blocking $165 million in AIG payments to its financial products executives and traders on March 15.

The Senate, meanwhile, has put on hold a bill that Democrats unsuccessfully tried to advance last week. It would tax away about 70 percent of the employee bonuses at AIG and other companies getting more than $100 million in bailout money.

Since last fall, AIG has received or been promised more than $182 billion of government money, much of it funneled to investors and foreign banks who held high-odds bets with the company on the U.S. housing market collapsing.

The about-face came as it become clear that financial institutions would not partner with the government on new efforts to restore vital credit flows to businesses and consumers if it meant later being demonized for its use of taxpayer dollars.

Geithner proposed on Monday a new government program that would rely on the help of private investors to buy up to a $1 trillion of bad debt, or "toxic assets," sitting on the books of major banks, giving them more ability and incentive to lend.

"I don't want people to think that businesses and people who have worked hard, performed well and received bonuses are going to be painted with the AIG brush," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters Thursday.

The gentler approach is in stark contrast to the anti-Wall Street rhetoric that consumed Congress and the White House last week after the bonus payments by AIG, the prime example of a company deemed "too big to fail" because its collapse could create a worldwide run on banks and other financial institutions.

The bonus payouts ignited populist anger that four days later prompted the House to vote 328-93 to tax them away and Obama to declare on Jay Leno's late-night talk show the same day that he was "stunned" and would "do everything we can to get those bonuses back"

By the next day, the Senate's bonus tax plan had stalled.

*Insert your own crude and sexual reference about the Government being "gentler".

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Well this is an oopsie - CT state officials identify someone as getting a bonus from AIG when he didn't.

Now normally that would be no big deal but considering the stalking and the threats and the general nastiness, I rather think that very very least that can happen is a public retraction by the same people at the same volume as the statements.

I also think I should wake up tomorrow six feet tall and with a perfect figure.  Frankly, I think that's more likely to happen.

Behold the power of the state.  State officials can bellow and scream and pontificate and then be all Emily Litella when the facts turn out to be something a wee bit different.  Meanwhile, this poor schmuck now will always be "that guy who got the bonus" even though he didn't.  I know it's too much to expect public officials to give a shit about the lives they are playing with, but a girl can dream.

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Levees may be about to break, a nursing home has to be evacuated, and I don't see a single mention of FEMA being dispatched to the Fargo area in this article. 

Sure, federal disaster declarations have been issued, but where are the FEMA workers?  And will the victims be given cash cards?  Will the HuffPo report that corn-fed Midwesterners have resorted to cannibalism when they've run out of, um, corn-feed or whatever the hell it is that they eat?

I'm sure this totally scandalous scandal will be used as a yardstick to judge Barack Obama and his presidency.  Yeah.

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"We inherited this crisis. We inherited this crisis. We inherited this crisis..."

By the time [current White House Chief of Staff Rahm] Emanuel joined Freddie Mac, the company had begun to loosen lending standards and buy riskier sub-prime loans. It was a practice that later blew up and contributed to the current foreclosure crisis.

In his investigation, Falcon concluded that the board of directors on which Emanuel sat was so pliant that Freddie Mac's managers easily were able to massage company ledgers. They manipulated bookkeeping to smooth out volatility, perpetuating Freddie Mac's industry reputation as "Steady Freddie," a reliable producer of earnings growth. Wall Street liked what it saw, Freddie Mac's stock value soared and top executives collected their bonuses.

Another focus of Freddie during Emanuel's day—and one that played to his skill set—was a stepped-up effort to combat congressional demands for more regulation.

During a September 2000 board meeting—midway through Emanuel's 14-month term—Freddie Mac lobbyist R. Mitchell Delk laid out a strategy titled "Political Risk Management" aimed at influencing lawmakers and blunting pressure in Congress for more regulation. Through Delk's initiative, Freddie Mac sponsored more than 80 fundraisers that raised at least $1.7 million for congressional candidates despite a federal law that bans corporations from direct political activity.

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Discussing Obama's contention that his changes to the tax code won't discourage charitable giving (yeah, right) Lisa Hillman, chairwoman of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy sums up the administration nicely:

"I want to believe him, but I don't think that this ... is helpful," she said.

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In what may become a regular series, I'd like to being comparing and contrasting the Carter and Obama administration.  Why these two?  Well, they're both horrendously unqualified naiveties who find themselves at the levers of power due to a ridiculously unpopular, villified predecessor.

Today, we'll focus on Foreign Policy.

Carter's Foreign Policy can be summed up thusly: allowing the enemies of the United States to kick us in the metaphorical groin, grinning stupidly, throwing on a cardigan, and saying "thank you, sir, can I have another?"

Obama's Foreign Policy:  Yelling "Hey, I think you missed one of my balls!  Want another shot?"

That's all we have time for today.  Tune in next time, when we'll continue unraveling the Gordian knot of incompetence that is the Obama Administration.

[Note:  I edited out the insult above, becuase I don't think it was clear I was making fun of Obama's gaffes re: England, but rather thought it looked like I was throwing the slur, which wasn't my intention.  We've got plenty of enemies who don't fit into the slur I used.  Writing is like crossing the street: you gotta look twice.]

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Gov. Bobby Jinday and President Obama both held fundraisers in the past few nights.  Jindal doubled Obama's haul. 

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Here's McCain, speaking before the Heritage Foundation:

"Over 50 million people voted for me and Sarah Palin - mostly for Sarah Palin," McCain said to an eruption of laughter. But "there was a sizable majority of the other party returned to Congress. And, elections have consequences. Elections have consequences. And these consequences we are seeing now in full display."

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