It’s FRIDAY!!

Funny Quote

Out of the NYTimes today concerning the Gaza wall and all the Palestinians rushing across etc.

Gen. Ahmed Abdel Hamid, the governor of northern Sinai:

“You have to see where this problem came from,” he said. “Before the dispute between Hamas and Fatah, the border was open every day with no problem. Since the dispute, the border has been closed.”

So apparently when Palestinians are violent the Egyptians don’t want them around. Hmmmmmmmm.
Remind you of anyone else who would come to the same rational conclusion????

Seeing no reason here

Today is a story in the LATimes concerning the “grilling” of the head of the EPA and why he disallowed the global warming initiative of CA.

Based on the story it sounds like the “grilling” by Congress was in order find a way to blame higher ups vs how to find the actual answer to his absurd decision. He gives no answer here other than

In denying California’s request, Johnson has said that a nationwide climate change strategy is preferable to a “patchwork of state rules.”

He has said that the tougher fuel-economy rules in the recently enacted federal energy bill would go a long way to reduce emissions nationwide.

Climate change, Johnson said at the hearing, is “a global problem requiring a global solution — at least, at a minimum, a national solution.”

He added: “It’s not exclusive to California.”

So because it would work out better if everyone participated he decided that CA can not run it’s own state. Again, seeing no explanation here.

Capitalism

Apparently Bill Gates is against it while employing every single one of it’s wiles. Including the iffy ones.

Microsoft’s lawsuit payouts amount to around $9 billion
Updated Twice the GDP of Cambodia

(ht instapundit)
UPDATE: Spelling corrected per reader input. Thank you very much.

This can not be true

Today at the Environmental Republican Scott has a story coming out of California that is so ridiculous, it can’t be true. Here is the actual story so I found it and it appears truer than true.

But is it possible?????

Here is just the headline:

Sunnyvale homeowners told to cut redwoods that block solar panels
LAW: TREES BLOCKING NEIGHBOR’S SOLAR PANELS MUST BE CUT

then:

they were in violation of California’s Solar Shade Control Act and that if they didn’t “abate the violation” within 30 days, they would face fines of up to $1,000 a day.
Obscure law
The law, signed by former Gov. Jerry Brown in 1978, is rarely used. But county prosecutors say Treanor and Bissett are breaking it.

Ps the homeowner wanting the trees cut down moved in after they were planted.