As we all know, Pot is harmless.

December 6, 2012 at 9:32 AM

Two intruders fatally shot at Pierce County pot house

 Posted by John de Leon
The Associated Press

Two people have been killed at a home near Puyallup where the Pierce County sheriff’s office says there was a marijuana growing operation.

Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer says the homeowner called just before 8 a.m. Thursday to report a break-in and then called back a few minutes later to say shots were fired.

The arriving deputy found two armed people with masks on their faces dead on the floor of a six-car garage.

Troyer says the 35-year-old homeowner and a 9-year-old boy who was inside at the time are OK.

The shooting took place in the 5900 block of 132nd Street East.

“This was not a random robbery,” Troyer told the Tacoma News Tribune.

Troyer said the homeowner will be investigated for running an illegal pot-growing operation. “This far exceeds a medical marijuana-grow operation,” Troyer said.

One of the many delusions/lies of those supporting this initiative includes the wildly bizarre projections of revenue for the state.  It also includes the scam that we're wasting money and time and assets enforcing drug laws.

My response then as now is that the issue of enforcement, federal law still over-arching this initiative notwithstanding, is there will be a need for just as much enforcement on pot NOW as there was BEFORE this waste of paper passed.

Except now, it'll shift to the revenue side.

Home grown pot operations will now sprout up everywhere.  Faced with the utterly bizarre concept of "legalizing and then taxing the crap out of it" many with at least a few remaining functioning neurons will avoid all that just by growing their own, denying the state ANY revenue.

And when that happens?  Enforcement will shift to revenue.

Oh yeah, by the way... see where pot just got 2 people killed?

Nah.  "Harmless" isn't quite the word.  Not legally... and not medically.  But those shilling this crap know that... right?

Local dem newsletter throws another hissy fit.

Just like 4 years ago when the Great Female Hope was defeated in a stunning turn around by Tom Mielke after he was behind some 4000 votes on election night, Mike "Fired for getting his porn fix on at the Columbian" Heywood threw a little fit.

It was more of the typically delusional pap Heywood infected this community with for years until his porn jones (And the dems talk about the GOP's War on Women) that ultimately got him fired and likely impacted several failed efforts to get elected to something... anything.... as a result.

Heywood now wants to bring his skill set (And presumably his porn habit) to the county democrats as their chair, where that sort of thing is likely welcomed as a fund raiser.

Heywood led with this garbage:

Don’t let anyone tell you Clark County has totally slipped from blue through purple to solid red when it comes to political leanings.

Let's see.

The dems lost both commissioner races to conservative Republicans.

Eleven out of 15 legislators are Republican.

They lost every senate race outside the Soviet Socialist Republic of Vancouver.

They lost every House race outside the Soviet Socialist Republic of Vancouver.

Outside the communist environs of that cancer in Clark County known as "Vancouver," the fringe leftists lost everywhere, excepting the successful effort to elect someone to represent the teacher's union thugs.

Heywood misses the point with this nonsense:

The saddest news from the 17th LD was Jim Gizzi’s 11-point loss to the Republican incumbent he challenged.  Gizzi was a terrific candidate. His crews got plenty of signs out and kept them up, and the candidate was articulate and thoughtful. He should have done better and very well could have with sufficient support.

Signs don't get people elected.  If they did, Benton would would have been elected to and would still be in Congress.  The question is: Heywood acknowledges the lack of support.  Why didn't Gizzi Get It?

At least he acknowledges the usual democrat weaknesses of the 14th, 18th and 20th where no democrat got within light years of election, nor are they likely to during our life times.

The most moronic thing Heywood spewed of many? 

The most painful news was in the two races for seats on the Board of Clark County Commissioners where Democratic incumbent Steve Stuart hoped to get a little help. As expected, the wealthy Republican tycoon from Stoney Meadows mansion farm bought the seat formerly held by Marc Boldt.

Gee.  I wonder if the democrats felt that way about that Microsoft millionaire that spent over 3 million to win her congressional seat in the 1st District.

Is it bad for Madore to spend his money but for this democrat to spend in excess of 1000% more to win hers?

Or is that just some more of Heywood's Hypocrisy?

And why no mention of who was running, planning, managing and paying for Boldt's campaign?

What's up with that?

Not so expected was Tom Mielke’s defeat of Democrat Joe Tanner, whose great signs blanketed the county. We Democrats should be scratching our heads and sorting through precinct tallies for months to figure out how that went wrong.

Here, Mike, let me save you the trouble:

Your support of the CRC scam/rip off got your people killed.

Had Olson came out swinging against the CRC scam, she'd have won going away... like Tom and David won going away.

And that's "what went wrong."  You clowns support the hated-by-most rip off of an unwanted, unneeded and unaffordable project that will indebt this region for decades.

And you were clobbered by those you actually intend to force to pay... all, of course, without asking them.

Let me know if I can help again, would you?  Thanks.

When local democrats become scum: response to the inevitable Probst defeat.

Filed under the typically sore loser category, Probst finally gave up today... not that he had any choice, and he finally got around to conceeding.

So, I thought I check out the democrat web site to see their take: 

"Reprehensible?"

God, it must be tough to live on hate.

Probst is a liar.  He and his handlers lied about "the deal," the rag covered it up, and you punks call BENTON "reprehensible?"

You couldn't even take him out spending over $650,000.  Incompetence and messaging that no one wants to hear.  Support of the CRC scam.  Those are why your boy lost.

Oooopppsss.... more on How Jaime Herrera has gone full-blown RINO.

I've always laughed when the democratian has labeled our own Congresswoman as a "conservative."  Besides lacking an intelligent bone in her body, she also lacks any conservative DNA as well.

As far back as when this moron co-sponsored SEIU legislation in our state House through her sheer cowardice for lacking the guts to hold regular, open town hall meetings and dishonesty in fooling people into believing she stands up for them on dreck like the CRC scam, has Jaime Herrera been anything BUT Cathy McMorris's butt-boy... or should I say, butt-girl?

I wondered why she was able to scam an Appropriations seat given her complete lack of production on Transportation, where this simple idiot had two years to spike the CRC.

Let's see if the following has anything to do with it, shall we?  Freedom Works asks us:

Tell John Boehner To Stop Purging Fiscal Conservatives!

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In the final days before the start of a new Congress, John Boehner and the Republican establishment is quietly purging crucial House committees of strong fiscal conservatives, including:

Rep. Tim Huelskamp (KS) - House Budget Committee (96% FreedomWorks Lifetime Rating)

Rep. Justin Amash (MI) – House Budget Committee (100% FreedomWorks Lifetime Rating)

Rep. David Schweikert (AZ) – House Financial Services (96% FreedomWorks Lifetime Rating)

These three principled legislators have stood with the Constitution even when it was unpopular to do so. Their dedication to the principles of lower taxes and limited government is now being punished by a Speaker who would rather concede to the big spenders in Congress instead of making the tough choices.

Call John Boehner and tell him to restore these genuine fiscal conservatives to their respective committees.

Call House Speaker John Boehner Now

Office Phone Number: (202) 225-0600

And then, this little tidbit from The Hill:

Boehner to members: Leadership is watching their voting patterns

By Molly K. Hooper - 2012-12-05 01:31:00 PM ET

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Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) warned his conference on Wednesday that leaders are "watching" how the rank-and-file vote to determine committee assignments, according to sources in the closed-door meeting.

Boehner addressed the firestorm over the removal of four lawmakers from plum committee assignments at the weekly GOP conference meeting.

According to Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.), one of the lawmakers denied a spot on his current committee in the next Congress, Boehner did note "that we [leadership] have punished four members, he claimed that it had nothing to do with their conservative ideology, but had to do with their voting patterns."

Also removed from committee spots were Reps. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), Walter Jones (R-N.C.) and David Schweikert (Ariz.).

Huelskamp added that Boehner warned GOP lawmakers that "there may be more folks that will be targeted ... 'we're watching all your votes."

"It was a message to the Republican conference in general, especially the comment today that there may be more punishment coming if you don’t vote the right way,” Huelskamp said.

A source at the conference meeting disputed Huelskamp's characterization of Boehner's point, noting that the Speaker said "some votes factored into [the decision to remove lawmakers from committee assignments] but it wasn't just [votes], it was a bigger picture than all that, that caused this to happen."

The crux of the problem is that Democrats have successfully employed a "divide and conquer" strategy when outspoken GOP House members "gratuitously bad mouth the leadership," a separate source told The Hill.

 More, if you can stomach it.

So, let me get this straight:

The GOP-controlled legislature of Florida redistricts Allen West out of his district so he'll lose; these conservatives are denied continuation in their fiscal committees... Jaime Herrera doesn't accomplish a damned thing, the CRC is still breathing down our necks thanks to that bimbette and SHE gets what appears to be rewarded by an Approps seat assignment?

Barak O'Boehner indeed.

In the end, RINO's are going to screw us all.  And that means O'Boehner and RINO Jaime Herrera.

I believed her to be despicable when she parachuted in here.  I still believe her to be a disgrace to anything remotely conservative.  And when she acts as McMorris's puppet, she'll be shafting us all in the process... as she "porks it up" and does her best top bring home the bacon for her buddy Tim "The Liar" Leave-it.

She will be in lockstep with whatever the O'Boehner/McMorris cabal wants.  And that cannot be good for us.

Our own Congressional sellout and reading the tea leaves: What's Jaime Herrera going to do to us next?

We've got some tough sledding coming up.  Is there any question that Jaime Herrera will continue to sell us out?

Here's the future for our erstwhile congresscritter as I see it.

Given her abysmal, utterly worthless  elective history to date, the pattern is set.

In keeping with her history of voting to increase the debt ceiling, when the time comes, she will do that very thing again.

In keeping with her history of supporting and increasing the government burden on the people (As illustrated with her ongoing smoke and mirrors shell game where she, in reality, completely supports the massive, unneeded, unnecessary and unaffordable I-5 bridge replacement/loot rail/toll scam while simultaneously making people wrongly believe she opposes that rip off based on the say so of a fraction of Clark County voters.) she will vote to increase our taxes.

She will continue to do nothing to stop the CRC, even though she's had 2 years to defund that rip off.

She will do nothing to require a vote on this scam.

In short, she will do nothing to serve us.

She will continue to avoid open town hall meetings, because she's a coward and her handlers don't trust her to run off script.

We will need courage.

And in Jaime Herrera Beutler, we will not get it.