Government in the Snow Melting Business?

Even in a blizzard D.C. can prove the government's inefficiency...or should I say "insanity"?  The Wall Street Journal published a great piece about D.C.'s woes in regards to this storm. The best part:

Earlier this decade, the D.C Department of Public Works bought an industrial snow melter, but it broke down and they haven't been able to replace the parts. "We got a big contraption that melts 30 tons of snow an hour," spokeswoman Nancee Lyons said. "It didn't really work that well for us."

Translation: we've wasted your money. Read the rest of the article here.

A Salute to Charles Rangel

Real man of Congress? 

Flamingogate

A restaurant owner near Baltimore staged the protest you see in the photo above when an $800/year tax was levied by the city on the restaurant's display of a large pink flamingo statue.  Following the protest, the city halved the tax "using different geometry" to measure the bird.  Three things:

1. What the heck is "different geometry," and why wasn't it used in the first place?
2.  Why is the restaurant owner satisfied with this?  He is still paying $400 a year to have a bird statue on his own property.
3.  If there's "different geometry" available, can they different-geomotry that tax all the way down to zero?

Hat tip to LewRockwell.com.

SURPRISE!!!!

Hey for all you who thought you could get 4500 dollars off of Cash for Clunkers, guess what! IT'S ALL TAXABLE!!! Wow, what a low blow. Trick people into cashing in their older car to buy a newer car to "save the planet" and then tax the crap out of them. What will they think of next?