If you think dentistry is expensive in the United States, in Britain dentists are refusing to accept government patients. Many Brits are pulling their own teeth for toothaches. 58% of British dentists say the quality of dental care is worse since the new government health insurance came about, and 84% of their patients protest that it’s almost impossible to get an appointment.

2. GLOBAL WARMING:

ONE of the world’s foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize “ridiculous” and the product of “people who don’t understand how the atmosphere works”.

Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth.

His comments came on the same day that the Nobel committee honoured Mr Gore for his work in support of the link between humans and global warming.

“We’re brainwashing our children,” said Dr Gray, 78, a long-time professor at Colorado State University. “They’re going to the Gore movie [An Inconvenient Truth] and being fed all this. It’s ridiculous.”

Really? How shocking!

BZ

Another recall; this time from a Chinese playground equipment manufacturer.

I am so glad I don’t have children in a Fornicalia public school — or any Fornicalia school, for that matter:

“Mom and Dad” as well as “husband and wife” have been banned from California schools under a bill signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who with his signature also ordered public schools to allow boys to use girls restrooms and locker rooms, and vice versa, if they choose.

“We are shocked and appalled that the governor has blatantly attacked traditional family values in California,” said Karen England, executive director of Capitol Resource Institute.

“With this decision, Gov. Schwarzenegger has told parents that their values are irrelevant. Many parents will have no choice but to pull their children out of the public schools that have now become sexualized indoctrination centers.”

“Arnold Schwarzenegger has delivered young children into the hands of those who will introduce them to alternative sexual lifestyles,” said Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families, which worked to defeat the plans. “This means children as young as five years old will be mentally molested in school classrooms.

But wait, it gets better:

Further, homecoming kings now can be either male or female – as can homecoming queens, and students, whether male or female, must be allowed to use the restroom and locker room corresponding to the sex with which they choose to identify.

Indoctrination, pure and simple, with the threat of legal action.

Just wait; coming soon to a state near you.

Still and all, the bulk of my posts deal with wider-ranging ideas, thoughts and issues because I have learned that most of my readers don’t live in Fornicalia and, then obviously, local politics would be of lesser interest. However:

1. FETCHING JEN:

For those who want a continual view into Sacramento, Fornicalia politics, I must now officially adopt, recommend and add to my Usual Suspects list the fabulous Fetching Jen, who has been a constant in the Fornicalia blogosphere since November of 2004. She states, from her blog header, that she is: A columnist for The Sacramento Union, FJ is a modish, only semi-hip, conservative woman of today’s world. Fetching Jen semi-politely rants about politics, people, the liberal conundrum, today’s culture, personal responsibility and goodness, all mixed into the fray. Why be upright, respectable, pure and decent, and Conservative? Fetching Jen will tell you. Return to common sense.

Those who wish to read her column in The Sacramento Union (Sacramento’s first newspaper from 1851, and home to Mark Twain and many of his own columns!) should trot here when she appears! You cannot possibly go wrong when visiting Fetching Jen’s blog for the latest in revealing insight regarding Fornicalia’s shady political dealings! Further, Jen’s son went to the US Naval Academy — so God bless her son for his service, her family for its sacrifice — and you for reading her blog!

Henry Babcock possesses a wonderful insight into things idiosyncratic and nonsensical. That is to say, his tolerance for things Left leaning is — ahem — not limitless. His posts are wrapped in a wonderful graphic Top Secret dossier fashion, making them all the more appealing! His entire blog appears as a classified folder — an extraordinarily creative idea!

Please, if you will, visit my new Usual Suspects each and every day; they shall not disappoint!

When I go out in public, by dint of my profession, I am primarily armed. Depending on where I go, I am heeled with my issue handgun, a Sig-Sauer 9mm model P226. When I carried my own personal weapon on duty, I opted for the SS P220 in .45 calibre, Euro release. From there I transitioned to the Glock Model G17 — the best and most accurate gun I ever shot. But because, when cleaning, you have to be smarter than the gun, my department removed the Glock from its inventory. They had two ADs into the cleaning shack when each officer had not followed basic rules: 1. Remove magazine. 2. Slide back. 3. Check ejection port. 4. Re-check port. 5. Do NOT depress trigger unless 1 – 4 accomplished.