Thursday

My goodness gracious…Helen Thomas was as intellectually honest as she was beeyooteeful in this 2005 interview:

She added: “What is a liberal? A liberal cares for the poor, and the sick, and the hungry. A liberal cares about the government doing for the people what they cannot do for themselves, is what Lincoln said. A liberal seeks the truth and doesn’t put the spin on anything and asks to look at the facts. I think liberal correspondents are honest. I don’t mean the others are dishonest, but what I mean is--I don’t think that liberals, liberals have an axe to grind except they really do want a better world.”

Thomas then asked the interviewer to scratch out the last thought and replace it with this: “I think liberals care about people and they also care about the facts. Liberals try to speak the truth and let the chips fall where they may. Sometimes it falls in their direction, sometimes it doesn’t. But there is no such thing anymore as the liberal press. I’m looking for a fellow liberal.”

Ahahahahahahahaha!

Wishing Paddy great -- not to mention smokey and deliciously tender -- success.

Unintended consequences of stupid feelgood policies (#16,249 in a series): Plastic bag bans increase shoplifting nationwide:

What seems to be just another edition of Democrats doing dumb deeds actually represents a nationwide problem. Thanks to laws in several major cities banning the use of plastic carryout bags in retail stores, there has been a spike in shoplifting incidents over the past couple years, a trend that business owners, law enforcement officials and customers have duly noted.

In 2011, Washington D.C. enforced a reusable bag tax and officials became steadily more suspicious of shoppers’ activities.

“Since the fee was established last year, we have noticed customers using traditional bags, along with less traditional pieces such as backpacks, to not only transport items from the store, but to carry items throughout the store,” spokesman of the Advisory Neighborhood Commission of Washington D.C. Craig Muckle said in an interview with Washington City Paper.

I seem to recall that when liberals insisted on making plastic shopping bags available at stores, it was to “save teh environment!!!1gaia11!” Now we must ban them for teh same reason!!1

Sadly amusing video of an L.A. Shitty Council ‘tard at the link.

“I represent the ocean over there, and if you want to see a fish, ah, destroyed, go see what plastic does to a fish. What it does to the food chain. What it does to life itself!!!11!”

Who knew the ocean now gets a vote in Los Angeles?