FINAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

BERNIE SANDERS HYPOCRISY WATCH: Pay equity is for little people.

CLINTON CAMPAIGN says email server to go to Justice Deptartment amid report it contained 'top secret' emails.

Word that Clinton had relented on giving up possession of the server, which she has previously said she wiped clean, came as Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said two emails that traversed Clinton's personal system were deemed "Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information" — a rating that is among the government's highest classifications.

Wow! TS/SCI. If I had ever removed TS/SCI materiel from its safe, vault, or classified computer system and taken it home, I'd still be serving time in Leavenworth Penitenttiary.

FROM A MILLION MILES AWAY, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth.

What's interesting about the picture is that it almost looks like a black-and-white picture of the moon was simply pasted atop a full-color image of the Earth.

HEH.

BUSINESSES launch new push to roll back ozone rules.

Here's the interesting thing, which reflects on the basic incompetence of Big Government. The ozone rules, as promulgated by the EPA, are in place at least in part to control smog in urban areas. Businesses, rightly I think, are arguing that the new rules will inhibit growth, both in terms of building density and infrastructure (i.e., transportation).

Yet HUD's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule is specifically designed to encourage dense pack in urban areas....

Is it hypocrisy? Or is it merely incompetence?

HITLER DISCOVERS OBAMACARE:



The YouTube link is here.

ON THE MOVE: EPA says toxic water from Colorado mine will spread.

Now for the trick question: Will the EPA try to sue itself into oblivion as it would had the polluter been an evil capitalistic corporation with deep pockets? Or will the response be "move along, nothing to see here?"

I know which way I'll bet....

IEEE SPECTRUM: Airless tires roll towards consumer vehicles.

Given where we're moving, they can't come too soon....

FROM MY EMAIL: The Green Thing.

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment.

The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

The older lady said that she was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in its day. The older lady went on to explain:

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the 'green thing back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn't do the 'green thing' back then.

We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the 'green thing' in our day.

Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the 'green thing' back in our day.

Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right; we didn't have the 'green thing' back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the 'green thing' back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the 'green thing'. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the 'green thing' back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart-ass young person. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off ... especially from a tattooed, multiple-pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.

CARLY FIORINA ON FOX NEWS SUNDAY. Her interview is the first on the audio podcast and lasts perhaps five minutes. Key quotes:

"Steve Jobs was fired. Oprah Winfrey was fired. Walt Disney was fired. Mike Bloomberg was fired. I feel like I'm in pretty good company."

Her election in 2016 will be when "we finally begin to reduce the size and the power and the corruption of the federal government."

Keep hammering, Carly.

A THOUGHT for Progressive haters of the Confederate flag:

The suggestion that the Confederate flag is nothing more than a symbol of hatred and prejudice simply because one group of people has given the Confederate flag a tarnished reputation, overlooks the original intent of the flag - Independence.

The Confederate flag never flew on a slave ship, but the Stars and Stripes did. As for the groups who misuse the Confederate flag, we should fight strenuously against those who would misrepresent what the flag stands for. The Confederate flag represents heritage, not hatred.

Assuming, of course, that Progressives are capable of thought.