MSM strikes out again

Tonight i was listening to the radio on my way home from work and just happened to change the station to KEXO 1230 and hear an interview on a program that i had never heard before.  Chris Plante was interviewing Scott Lingamfelter (R).  Lingamfelter is running for Virginia's Lieutenant Governor in 2013.  The topic was one Martha Boneta, who lives and farms in Virginia and is having her property rights encroached upon.  To sum up, Boneta sells items out of her home that she has made using materials that come from her farm (chiefly items crocheted from llama wool and candles made from beeswax it sounded like).  She has a business license and this isn't against the law for the way her property is zoned.  She also hosted a small birthday party for the daughter of a friend: 8 ten year olds.  The neighbors complained, the county fined her without any investigation.  To appeal she had to put out $1000 and she lost!

Plante and Lingamfelter had apparently discussed Boneta on the program last fall (!) but i have found very little on the subject online.  Earlier today Lingamfelter introduced the Boneta Bill to hopefully prevent anything like this ever happening again.  Where's the mainstream media on this?  They don't seem to be making a peep.  Searching for "Martha Boneta" on the CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN websites yielded nothing:  outragous.  FoxNews covered it.

I'm still doing some research but here's the articles i've read about it so far:
Announcement about the announcement of the bill (talks about Boneta in paragraphs three, five through ten).
article quoting Boneta and Lingamfelter
another article: apparently part of the dispute is an erroneous claim that some of the items she was selling were not produced by her farm!

The reason this matters to me:  i'm about to start a garden and i've had it in the back of my mind for a couple of years now that it might be nice to have llamas or rabbits to produce and/or sell my own wool.  I can barely make ends meet right now, i can't imagine going through getting a business license only to get fined $5000 for doing what i bought the license for and them sneakily changing the law behind my back after the fact.  This is ridiculous, it shouldn't be allowed to happen at all.

year of the boycott

When i was in junior high or thereabouts there was a long list of brands that my family avoided buying the products of because they supported Planned Parenthood. Off hand i remember that we stopped buying GeneralMills, Johnson&Johnson, and Betty Crocker, just to name a few. That was the first time i remember noticing that we bought generic versions of cereal and other foods. I don't know that it hurt those companies, and i doubt my parents wrote them letters, but i know that it made me feel unsullied.

After the elections results were posted i really felt like boycotting Hollywood. The trouble is that i don't know which directors, producers, and actors are liberals. Many times it feels like they all are, but i know there are exceptions such as Angie Harmon, Bruce Willis, and Patricia Heaton. Well today on Twitter i came across an article talking about anti-gun supporters and it may surprise you.  Levi Strauss (beloved of the 49ers), Sly Stallone, George Clooney (didn't he just make an assassin film not so long ago)?  Why would Sly be trying to put himself out of business?  Oh well, they always did rub me the wrong way.

I think that with the internet boycotting will be a lot easier, to get the lists, to read the facts, to tweet it in their faces.  What to boycott?  I'll start with the NRA list of those who are anti-gun.  I'll look into buying fewer things that are made in China and/or sweatshops.  Another Planned Parenthood boycott wouldn't be amiss.  And i am definitely concerned about making sure i see films that promote ideals that i believe in rather than a Progressive agenda.

So unfortunately it looks like i won't be wearing new Levis any time soon or eating Sara Lee poundcake.  But some of these celebrities astonish me.  RDA has been sending mixed signals for over a decade (Stargate was definitely pro-gun, but MacGyver not so much), but Mark Harmon, Benjamin Bratt, Drew Barrymore, Kevin Costner, Matt Damon, Dennis Quaid?  Astonishing, considering they have played cops, an angel, cowboys, assassins, soldiers.  Sean Connery apparently feels that only 007 should get to carry heat (like that's going to happen).  Time Warner is so broad that i don't know if i can avoid it entirely.  And Sprint...i use their cell phone towers.  I don't know if i can afford to switch.  A distressingly large number of people on this list are celebrities that i enjoy films of.  Is there a list of actors that are pro-gun?

Vibrams update

I wore Vibrams and a skirt to work today for a seven hour shift. My feet are tired! They lasted five and a half hours of stocking work before they started complaining. I thought I was going to be at a register standing on a mat all day, not going up and down a ladder and getting down on the floor! Luckily I was also wearing leggings, so no modesty concerns on the bottom step of the tiny ladder. My feet have been very unhappy in sneakers lately, cramping and feeling sore in a bad way: I definitely feel better today.