Home school kids are labeled creepy because...

They are not brainwashed into believing they need a doctor's note before they can apply sunscreen.

This happened in nearby Tacoma, but the law applies here in Thurston's schools as well as day care facilities across the state.

14 year old boy wins the brass balls award

Phoenix boy, 14, shoots armed intruder while watching three younger siblings.  Nicely done.

Proving the point that a shotgun is the home defense weapon of choice.  The article doesn't mention if the perp was wearing a hoodie or not.

Elway Poll not good news for Obama in Washington State

The Seattle Times has write up of the Elway poll which shows Obama leading Romney, but at only 49% over Romney's 41%.

Why is this bad?

1- The poll is among registered voters, not likely voters (about 5% of that 49% won't show up)
2 -The Dick Morris note about undecideds... they NEVER break for the incumbent.  Dick Morris lays it down with this quote on the survey: if you were asked "Do you think you will still be married to you spouse in November?" and you answer undecided, that's a horrible omen for the current spouse.  Morris backs it up with historical data from every election in the last 30 years. 
3.  GOP Governor candidate Rob McKenna is leading, meaning the overall tide is no longer in Obama's favor, and aptly against him. 

The wonderful truth is, Romney has a decent chance of winning Washington.

Booze more expensive? Not buying into that

Reports are that liquor is more expensive now than when the state had a monopoly over the industry.  I'll be honest, I don't drink enough hard liquor to merit an assessment and I'm starting from "NO" in terms of buying that theory, aside from the fact that there is a government fee baked into the deal which is artificially inflating the prices.  I hear that fee is going away at some point.

However- even if retail prices were twice as high as the state owned prices, I'm still for the privatization of the industry.  Why?  Because if it fails, I will not be on the hook to bail it out.  I will not be on the hook for a bunch of government employees who need to fog a mirror every day and I will not be on the hook for their pensions later on.  I will not be on the hook for the oversight of the state run stores either. 

The benchmark for me is social security.  If I were to take what I've paid into social security and divide it up into the following buckets, the equation following would be true:

1- Life insurance
2- Retirement
3- Money to literally flush down the toilet.

Money paid to me from 1& 2 later > Money paid to me for Social Security later.
Money going into 3 now > Money paid to me for Social Security later.

That's right- I could literally burn a half dozen hundred dollar bills every month and get the same return on my money as paying into social security.  But we can't privatize it, because the private sector just can't be trusted. 

Romney victory song

I won't make the invite list to the Romney victory party in November, but I hope this song will be playing again and again.

DOJ report on Seattle police... an OBAMA SHAKEDOWN!

Time to play conspiracy theory chalk talk.

Why is the DOJ report on liberal Seattle so expensive?  A rational person would expect a few points of excessive force to be noted in any review of a police force in any major city.  However the DOJ unloaded the whole 9 yards on the City of Seattle and the fixes are estimated to cost $41 million.

As a non citizen of Seattle, I am LMAO that the liberal bigots of Seattle are the recipients of what can only be described as a shakedown.  There are of course, not $41 million worth of changes needed. That's just the front.

What Eric Holder is REALLY doing is putting the City of Seattle's thingies in a vice in order to extort a back room bribe to the Obama campaign.  It's the Chicago way.  If McGinn agrees to both work with King County to stuff the ballot box for Obama AND shovel public money into the Obama campaign coffers (or its surrogates) this whole thing goes away for a 1 million dollar slap on the wrist.

Seattle has one of two choices:

1- Pay the bribe and ensure Obama doesn't lose Washington (which is remotely possible given McKenna's lead over Inslee).
2- Stall and have a very honest election (potentially pulling a reverse Gregoire and losing some of Obama's votes which is the Seattle way).

My speculation is that Democrats have had enough of Obama.  He's tarnished the brand and has potentially set the stage for the GOP to control the White House and Senate + House.  I'm a conservative and I don't want the GOP to have a stanglehold on DC because gridlock is what keeps government in check.

The legislature's war on family- diapers

In my old age, I'm a new parent. I'm not your typical person, but I am practicing living on a fixed income because I want to retire young, and spend quality time with our new bambino, thus I watch expenses like a hawk. Imagine my surprise to see that there is a sales tax on diapers. Nice job with those priorities DEMOCRAT controlled legislature and Governor. Social progressives know that every young voter with a baby or two in diapers struggling to make it believes that passing gay marriage was far more important than finding ways to help out families who are normally struggling to get by. Diapers, like food, are not optional and they aren't exactly cheap. This equates to about 5 bucks a month in sales tax.

The Duke

I was looking for a quote from JW and came across this timeless classic. It's as salient today as when he said it.