Photographer: Kevin Herrera

Dateline: Santa Monica, CA

As of tomorrow, you can’t have your store merchandise given to you in a single-use plastic bag, and a paper one will cost you an extra dime . . .

They are making speed limits slower all over town and encouraging everyone to stop driving and move to bikes . . .

Restaurants have to send your leftovers home in paper boxes, even though they leak . . .

WE have an extra 1/4% sales tax, just because the city REALLY needs more of our money.

But . . .

It’s A-OK to show up on the 3rd Street Promenade in your Victoria’s Secret or Calvin Kleins in order to score some “free stuff”!

ANYTHING FOR FREE STUFF

Nearly naked shoppers rush into the Desigual boutique on the Third Street Promenade on Tuesday morning. About 150 people showed up in their underwear as part of a promotion. Those in undies were able to select two clothing items and take them home at no cost.

Gotta love the perv in the blue shirt with the camera . . .

I guess if you are a New Hampshire Democrat, expressing your belief in God at a political event is now a crime? Here’s the truly, awful event.

Makes one wonder what’s in the water up there in good ol’ NH. I liked his statement, “The Republican Party is not our savior.” There’s some truth for ya.

This country was founded by men that believed in God, the Creator, and they wrote that this belief would be necessary for Liberty to survive. For, if our rights are not given to us by God, and they come from man, then Man can deprive us of them at any time.

This is what has distinguished our country from all those before is founding and all those since.

May God continue to bless America . . . but that isn’t gonna go on forever if we continue to turn our collective face away from Him.

Ted Rall, once relegated to the likes of the free rags like the L.A. Weekly, now appears regularly in our cat-box-liner of record, the Los Angeles Times. Sheesh! The guys’ the epitome of a raging lefty nutter. That would be hyperbole I guess, if it weren’t so very true.

Now that the left has had its head handed to it at the polls, they’re talking violent revolution. Just another good reason to exercise your 2nd Amendment rights and go down and get that case o’ ammo you’ve been saving up for.

They wanna play? Then, it’s lock & load time — Oh, ya betcha!

[Update -- Ed Morrissey from Hot Air reacts to Dylan Ratigan's near endorsement of Rall's call to armed insurrection.]

I don’t find any of this at all remarkable from the execrable Rall, a cartoonist of limited talent who has compensated for it by turning into a crank. What I do find remarkable is this softball interview from Ratigan and MSNBC of a man proposing an armed revolution in the United States after months of hyperbole from MSNBC about the supposed inherent violence and fascism of the Tea Party movement. In fact, Ratigan seems rather intrigued by the potential of such a proposal, while carefully dancing just short of an endorsement. Apparently, that Election Night meltdown wasn’t an isolated case at MSNBC after all.

Criminy!
What on Earth are they putting in the water up there in Maine?

The little girls’ room won’t be just for little girls anymore, if the Maine Human Rights Commission has its way.

The commission is taking heat over a controversial proposal to ban schools from enforcing gender divisions in sports teams, school organizations, bathrooms and locker rooms. It says forcing a student into a particular room or group because of his or her biological gender amounts to discrimination.

BWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

The issue came to light last year when the commission ruled that, under the Maine Human Rights Act, a school had discriminated against a 12-year-old transgender boy by denying him access to the girls’ bathroom.

Now the commission aims to issue guidelines on how schools should deal with similar situations in the future. It would make Maine the first state to implement such guidelines for schools as young as preschool and nursery — and even some private schools.

OMG! The Left is insane! But “Okie”, you say, “How can you blame this lack of mental acuity on the Left?” Well minafrienda, because they copped to it!

Some school districts and organizations have criticized the commission for making its initial ruling without getting enough input from conservative groups, and then for coming up with proposed guidelines in what some described as closed-door sessions.

“The conservative side was never brought in on the discussion in the first place, if you look at who gave testimony, written testimony, etc., in the beginning,” Rev. Bob Celeste of Harrison told FoxNews.com. “When you only bring one side in, you’re not looking for an honest debate. You’re looking for an agenda.”

Once it came time to vote on the guidelines, the commission again came under fire for not doing enough to inform Mainers of the vote, and for not allowing the public to speak at the hearing where it was held.

So, you have to be some sort of staunch “Conservative” to actually have such a heretical thought that there are real differences between human males and human females? And, if you do have such Cro-Magnon beliefs it’s not worth listening to you? What’s up with that?

Classic Leftist technique of telling the majority of moderate and conservative Americans to just “Sit Down, SHUT UP and Take It Already!” Kinda like how they passed the Health Care Law . . . tyranny-of-the-minority in action!

But hey, lets think this Commissions proposal through — when we let little Jenny and little Johnny go to the bathroom at the same time, or make them share showers in the locker room, or let Big Bruiser (just released from McAlester) go into the little girls room where your sister, wife, niece or aunt is expecting some privacy for their personal business — What could go wrong?

You’re thinkin’ what I’m thinkin’? Exactly!

Do these radical Lefties care what anyone else thinks? Maybe . . . just a little:

John Gause, counsel for the Maine Human Rights Commission, told FoxNews.com that the commission is still in the process of developing guidelines on how the Maine Human Rights Act “applies in the context of sexual orientation in schools and colleges.”

“A date and location for the public comment session will be finalized in the near future,” he wrote in an e-mail.

Of course, they never got back to Fox News with any further info, so on that caring front — maybe not so much.

Regardless of how this plays out, the Maine Human Rights Commission is more than deserving of Okie’s Head Up The Ol’ Wazzoo Award!

I was never a big Michael Jackson fan. The little bugger was cute at 5, and if Fred Astaire thought that he was an amazing dancer, so be it for me to disagree. He was even a pretty good lookin’ guy, as can be seen on the cover of Thriller — before he started his many rounds of self mutilation to remove his “blackness” and in many regards, his “maleness”. Let’s face it, trying to look like a white Dianna Ross is weirdness run amok, even for a proclaimed “King of Pop”.

But, enough already. Hundreds, if not thousands of hours of media coverage since his death — Michael Jackson songs on the radio ad nauseum — as if he were the equivalent of Princess Di. I think that Peter King puts it all in proper perspective in the YouTube clip above. King’s criticism has even struck a couple of nerves. Michelle Malkin highlights the “masses” that are trying to unseat King in the next election — Oooooooooooooo!

Genghis over at Ace nailed it last night with his evening message to the morons:

I imagine you all want to hit the rack early tonight so you can get up at the crack of dawn and not miss a second of the solemn and dignified events taking place in L.A. tomorrow (forecast is for mostly sunny skies with a 90% chance of riots by those turned away from the memorial).

Folks massing at Staples Center, turning over cars and burning trash cans — didn’t we just do that last month after the Lakers won their NBA title? Yawn . . .

Sorry, think I’ll pass. Time to move on folks, nothin’ really to see here.

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Sonja E. Brown, acting Deputy Communications Director for Proposition 8 Protect Marriage in California, had a rough day yesterday as she tried in vain to obtain a venue in Los Angele County for the Protect Marriage press conference reactions to the CA Supreme Court decision to uphold last November’s amendment to the state constitution.

In the past week, I was tasked to find a location in Los Angeles where Protect Marriage might be able to offer comment when the California Supreme Court handed down its decision on Proposition 8. This may surprise you, but the Protect Marriage campaign was not welcome anywhere in Los Angeles following last November 4th’s election. Perhaps this does not surprise you. Either out of fear, or fear of appearing supportive of our odd tradition of marriage, facilities like the Museum of Tolerance, The Bonaventure Hotel, City Hall, Marriott Hotels, Hilton Hotels, or any hotel would not welcome Protect Marriage for fear of retaliation or protests. We feared these locations as well because of the great potential for sabatoge. Calling City Hall for instance, was a dead end for a democratic cause like Protect Marriage. Not only did Los Anglees Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa support legalization of gay marriage, but also the entire Board of County of Supervisors and virtually everyone in City and County government. How helpful do you believe City Hall would be in facilitating a Protect Marriage press conference? When the Office of City Permits was contacted to schedule an event, our calls were not returned, our requests ignored.

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During the 10 weeks of the campaign when I was on the airwaves, my computer was hacked, my home was stalked, my safety was threatened, my family was on alert, and my husband uncomfortable with some colleagues. Remarkably, it seemed dangerous at times to be the voice of defense for marriage. In another decade, another century, another millenium, I wouldn’t have been given the time of day. In Los Angeles in 2008, I was viewed as an anti-christ by some for suggeting that children do better when they have the benefit of a mother and a father.

It’s a war out there folks, a real-live culture war. Sonja is one of the valiant warriors fighting for the good!