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31/365: Icy

State Store Statement

Governor Bought-And-Paid-For unveiled his plan to sell the State liquor stores and privatize the whole shebang...and few seem to like it, according to this P-G story.

Speaking for myself, why can't we open up the beer and wine markets, and leave the spirits in the State Stores? When Corbett says "a more mobile population was increasingly familiar with the convenience of private sales in other states" what he is failing to see is that other states we can buy beer and wine in the grocery store, and we can by six-packs of beer instead of cases, and if we want a six-pack, we won't pay an inflated "bar price."  Corbett's plan doesn't address the beer distributor issue, other than allowing them to sell quantities smaller than cases.

Under his plan, you'd be able to by hard liqour just about anywhere.  I don't think that's a very wise idea.  I think all we're really asking is that we don't have to make seperate stops at the grocery for dinner, the State Store for wine, and the beer disributor for some ballgame suds. 

Most states I'm familiar with do this very thing.  The state maintains control over distilled alcohol sales, while the groceries handle the beer and wine, and I think that's a reasonable compromise.

30/365: Creek

29/365: Its A Car! Its A Truck!

Everybody Hates Tom

I guess this is what happens when you don't listen to anyone but the hard right while selling out the Commonwealth's residents.

 

Progress??

Interesting.  It seems that the BSA might just be ashamed enough to drop its prohibitions against gay scouts and scout leaders.  Under the proposal, individual troops can continue to be bigoted and maintain the gay ban, but the national organization will not revoke the affliation of scout groups who choose to a bit more inclusive.

Naturally, conservatives are outraged. 

Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, said a policy change would be "nothing less than disastrous for the Boy Scouts of America." ...

"This is going to raise a fundamental question for the Southern Baptist Convention at the national level and in the churches" about whether to reconsider a decades-old relationship with the Boy Scouts, Mohler said.

While that decision would be up to individual Southern Baptist churches, Mohler said: "I'm quite assured that those churches will be reconsidering that relationship if this policy goes into effect."

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins called the potential policy shift "a serious mistake."

They just cannot abide that they might be associated with the taint of teh gay, even though their own packs and troops can continue to be as hateful as they want to be.

ARRGGH!

So I was looking for something to watch yesterday, and found a show on one of the so-called "science" channels entitled "The Brain."  Figured it would be interesting viewing.  Boy was I wrong!  It was all pseudo-scientific codswallop.  I gave up on it when the alleged "scientests" stated "What we don't understand about real mediums like John Edward"  AAAAAAHHHH!  Edward isn't a "medium" (actually, no one is) he's a freaking cold reader!

A gazillion channels, and its all crap.

28/365: Dreary

Just that kind of soggy wet day.

27/365: Roast Daffy

I'm Shocked, SHOCKED!

Actually, its the least surprising thing I've read all week.

 Police in the mountain community of Crestline have arrested a psychic and accused her of embezzling money from her clients...

The Crestline resident met with Cindy twice. “She told me that I had a spirit associated with me that was not an evil spirit, but a spirit that was unhappy.”

To rid her of the unhappy spirit, the woman was told she would have to pay $9,000 – that would be returned in nine days.

She gave her a third – the $3,000 – and a month later said she wasn’t able to reach Cindy and wasn’t getting her calls returned. “She said she’d been ill and wondered if we could meet in a couple of days. And I said that was fine. Then a couple of days later, she wasn’t returning phone calls or text messages.”

The psychic was hauled off to face embezzlement charges.

Unfortunately, too many people fall for this sort of nonsense.