Halting Offshore Drilling Stirs Passions On Both Sides

By Dena Potter  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

Candle Power: The Future of American Energy

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Sitting at the end of a pinewood bar at the back of his seafood shop, Dimitri Hionis stares out over the calm waters of Lynnhaven Inlet as he struggles with whether the Gulf oil spill should halt oil and gas exploration off Virginia’s coast.

Supplying more of the oil we need would be great, he says, but not at the expense of places like this – “paradise,” where he sits each morning watching the birds and fishermen go in search of the bay’s treasures.

“I really want to see an independence here, but I will never say yes till I make sure that this will never happen here,” said Hionis, sporting a red polo shirt with golden crabs on it.

As Americans grow more outraged by the spill, and frustrated at the fumbling efforts to stop it, President Barack Obama announced new steps to restrict drilling, including the suspension of planned exploratory drilling off the coasts of Alaska and Virginia and ordering a halt to 33 exploratory deep-water rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–How can you ensure that an accident never takes place?  And this spill has provided Obama with the convenient excuse he needed to avoid any drilling for the near future.

You heard wrong...

Sarah Palin Makes Good On Threat To Build Fence Around Home

By Mark Thiessen  (Bottom pic added by B.S. Report)

Palins erect fence to protect their privacy (AP Photo: Mark Thiessen)

WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has erected a 14-foot-high fence at her Wasilla home, making good on a promise to prevent her new neighbor – a writer working on a book about her – from peering in.

The brown-plank wall has caused a sensation on conservative airwaves and attention online. In live-and-let-live Wasilla?: No real ruckus, according to Mayor Verne Rupright.

“No crime has been reported,” he said Thursday. If Palin wants to build a fence on her property, he said, that’s her right.

On Monday Palin took to Facebook to “welcome” author Joe McGinniss, who’d previously written a critical magazine story on the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee. Palin said he was renting a house next door “for the next five months or so” and wondered what he’d gather “while overlooking Piper’s bedroom, my little garden, and the family’s swimming hole?”  (Read more.)

"Hey you, stop looking over our fence or I'll get my shotgun!"

Like A Good Neighbor State Farm Is There…To Ask Family Of Dead Dog To Pay For Car Damage

From Breitbart.com (Pics added by B.S. Report)

"State Farm, please don't shakedown my family"...

(AFP)–A car insurer has asked a Canadian family to pay for repairing a broken bumper after their dog was struck by the vehicle and died, local media said Thursday.

The traffic accident occurred in March while Jake, a 12-year-old yellow Labrador, was out for his daily stroll around a quiet neighborhood in Aurora, Ontario, north of Toronto.

Kim Flemming had let the dog out when she arrived home from work. Moments later, a man knocked on the door to say a car had run over Jake.

“I got to the road and he was dying,” Flemming told the Toronto Star. “He died in my arms.”

Two months later, the family received a bill in the mail for 1,732.80 Canadian dollars (1,648.95 US) from State Farm Insurance.  (Read more.)

French Dad Forces Son To Eat Bad School Report

From APP.com (New Jersey shore)  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

By Diana Fasanella

Guess who's dad just got eliminated from this year's contest?

A French father has escaped a prison sentence after he forced his son to eat a bad school report.

The man, who was not named, jammed the three-page report into his 12-year-old son’s mouth, causing the boy to choke, the Daily Mail reports.

The father then pushed the summary further down his son’s throat with his finger when the boy failed to swallow it. He then hit him on the head and in the face, a court in Poitiers was told.  (Read more.)

"Daddy, can I have ketchup with it this week?"

Hillary: “The Rich Aren’t Paying Their Fair Share”

From the Politico  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

By Ben Smith

"Rich people aren't paying enough to cover our mistakes!"

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a rare foray into domestic politics today, offering her view that — given America’s high unemployment — wealthy Americans don’t pay enough taxes.

“The rich are not paying their fair share in any nation that is facing the kind of employment issues [America currently does] — whether it’s individual, corporate or whatever [form of] taxation forms,” Clinton told an audience at the Brookings Institution, where she was discussing the Administration’s new National Security Strategy.

Clinton said the comment was her personal opinion alone. “I’m not speaking for the administration, so I’ll preface that with a very clear caveat,” she said.

Clinton went on to cite Brazil as a model.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–Let’s get this straight: The economy bottoms out (largely because of government actions) but Hillary still believes that if you somehow manage to make a high income despite the recession that she and her gang of government thieves have first claim to your income.

Most of today’s Democratic Party do not believe in or respect private property rights–they believe that your wealth belongs to the government first and they decide how much you are allowed to keep.  In a country where the top 1% of income earners pay 36% of the taxes, how can anyone suggest that the wealthy are not paying their fair share?

Eventually, even the rich are going to run dry...

Quote Of The Day: Frederic Bastiat

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

–Frederic Bastiat

Chinese “Father” Chains Son To Lamppost And Tries To Sell Him To Strangers

From the UK Sun  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

By Nick Parker, Chief Foreign Correspondent

CHINA–A TWISTED dad chained his eight-year-old son to a lamppost and tried to AUCTION him to strangers.  Yong Tsui offered the terrified child as a slave because he wanted him off his hands.

He put up a table with a sign on it, giving the youngster’s name and age and boasting of his capacity for hard work.  But when bidders began to ask how much the boy ate, angry bystanders attacked the father.  (Read more and view the pictures here.)

NBA Playoff Recap: Lakers Survive Suns Rally With Artest Buzzer-Beater; Lead Series 3-2

From CBS Sports

LOS ANGELES — Ron Artest stumbled into Los Angeles Lakers playoff lore with a remarkable bank shot to beat the Phoenix Suns.

Artest rambled into the lane and beat the buzzer with a wild shot after rebounding Kobe Bryant’s miss, and the Lakers edged the Suns 103-101 on Thursday night to take a 3-2 lead in the Western Conference finals.

Bryant had 30 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists for the Lakers, but the improbable hero of Game 5 is the only new player on the roster of the defending champions, who are one win away from the NBA Finals.

“I missed a lot of layups during the regular season,” Artest said. “I’m just staying with it and trying to stay focused and play my part, see what happens.” (Read more.)

Vietnam’s Secret Tradition: A Guilt-Free Tryst With Your Ex-Flame

From Reuters (Bottom pic added by B.S. Report)

By Nguyen Van Vinh

It's that happy day in the village of Khau Vai...

Vietnam (Reuters) – Once a year, with his wife’s blessing, Lau Minh Pao gets to have a guilt-free tryst with his ex.

Their rendezvous’ have played out more like strolls down memory lane than salacious flings, but they are part of a treasured tradition in this mountainous corner of northern Vietnam that may challenge some more linear concepts of love.

“In the past, we were lovers, but we couldn’t get married because we were far apart,” Pao said simply as he waited for his date on a dark night in the village of Khau Vai in Ha Giang province.

Now when they meet, he said, “we pour our hearts out about the time when we were in love.”

They are not alone.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–Call me crazy but this doesn’t sound like such a bad idea.  Both spouses are allowed to do it and maybe this helps keep the marriage fresh.  Than again, I wonder how many marriages end because of this practice when the old “flames” realize they like each other better than their present spouses…

Getting "permission" can sometimes be the hard part...

Tonight’s Musical Selection…The Ramones