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Doesn’t mean I voted for Jerry Brown, but here were Meg Whitman’s problems:

- eBay not a plus because not like eBay the company. eBay the website and concept is great. But anyone selling much on eBay has stories of being ripped, fees always going up and up, and how bad eBay is. Thousands have abandoned the company. So her one selling point, being the leader of eBay, did not sell here. She’s worth a billion dollars? Lot of money unnecessarily paid by auction sellers went into her pocket.

- Spending about $150,000,000 of her own money to be elected. Wow. A ridiculous amount. Looks like a rich person trying to buy the election. How does one legitimately claim they can be responsible with government spending when their wild spending is out of control? Instead of responsibly spending money Whitman spent money on virtually everything to try and be everywhere. Unfocused, mainly a waste of money. 150 freakin’ MILLION dollars.

- No charitable contributions. Think what good $150M could have done? Checking on Whitman’s charitable history, looks like almost all of her “donations” were to a conservation group in Colorado working on a project that would benefit property she owns there. That’s not charity. That’s sneaky self interest.

- Not voting for decades. Unlike Schwarzenegger who has many years of an interest in politics and making the country better, Whitman didn’t care. At least not until it was of personal interest to her. Frankly, I don’t think she even cares about California now, but saw the governorship as a stepping stone to more power nationally.

- The housekeeper situation. She’s innocent on this issue. The problem is during the second debate she turned to Jerry Brown and hammered him because the disclosure of the housekeeper’s immigration status would subject the housekeeper to being deported. Whoa. So what? This housekeeper lied, forged documents, and committed crimes. But Whitman is there trying to hammer Brown on something he didn’t do, claiming what a travesty it would be to deport the criminal. That’s not being tough on illegal immigration. Brown rightly said Whitman needs to take responsibility and stop blaming other people.

- Robo call after robo call after robo call. She was the first to rob call the house, more than a year ago. Then she didn’t let up. Not saying anything important. Just being a pest.

- Overall, not a likable person.

A suburb of Philadelphia is proposing to fine car owners if they do not lock their cars. Apparently, police would go around trying to open cars. If the door opens then they would write a $25 ticket.

No word on how much car owners could sue the police for based on a trespassing claim.

Or, better yet, would be thieves could just follow the police around. When they see a car get a ticket they know which cars are unlocked and easily stolen.

But maybe the police would lock the car doors for the owners? Possibly locking someone out of their car and needing to call a locksmith?

How many car alarms will the police set off going through parking lots trying to open car doors?

With police in many cities not even bothering to investigate petty thefts out of cars, maybe this city should donate their police force to a city with more important things to do besides checking car doors.

The morons at the FBI have threatened to criminally sue Wikipedia because it has an image of the FBI seal on its web page about the federal agency.

The FBI claimed that federal law prohibits anyone from possessing any insignia of the agency.

As quickly pointed out by Wikipedia’s lawyers, there is no such federal law. The statute at issue prevents anyone from displaying a fake badge to fraudulently deceive someone into believing that they are an FBI agent.

No one would believe that the Wikipedia website is an FBI agent. I’m not either. In fact, I would be insulted if someone believed that I was one of the inept and incompetent attorneys working for the FBI who sent the threat to Wikipedia.

The letter from the FBI also claimed that the purpose of the seal is to “authenticate the official communications and actions of the FBI.” So? Where does that preclude anyone from displaying the seal so that we know what it looks like. So we in fact know what the official FBI seal looks like?

To help educate the public, posted below is what the official FBI seal looks like. If you see something else from someone claiming to be the FBI, be suspicious.

Here is a high resolution image of the FBI seal that the FBI has had posted on their website since 2005:

FBI Seal

Source: http://www.fbi.gov/publications/financial/fcs_report052005/fcs_report052005.htm

Here is another one, also posted by the FBI on its public domain website. Conveniently, the FBI titled the image “fbiseal.gif”.

FBI Seal

Source: http://norfolk.fbi.gov/images/fbiseal.gif

According to a image search on Google for ‘FBI seal’ – there are at least 228,000 pictures of the FBI seal floating around.

And new ones are being posted all the time. Such as the one just posted by the New York Times.

Enough to give the FBI lawyers a lifetime job filing lawsuits!

Dear FBI, after you get your butts kicked by Wikipedia, feel free to sue me too (and don’t forget to sue the New York Times, Encyclopedia Britannica, Yahoo, and hundreds of thousands of others). Just make sure you’re prepared for the inevitable malicious prosecution lawsuit and result from seeking to prohibit my First Amendment rights.

– Update – November 2010:

The Smoking Gun has published an article with the FBI seal prominently shown:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/internet/fbi-targets-young-russian-spam-kingpin

Still waiting for the FBI to sue Wikipedia. But here ya go feds, you can also sue The Smoking Gun.

Because if the US FBI didn’t have enough to do, uselessly investigating a RUSSIAN 23-year old (living in Russia and not coming to the US anytime soon) for spam, they can get busy filing FBI seal lawsuits.

But since this is my tax money – hello, FBI, go find some terrorists.

The Sierra Club, in cooperation with the EPA, has announced an intent to sue Exxon for violating federal pollution control laws.

Here is an interesting quote from the AP about the upcoming lawsuit:

“The environmental groups’ legal maneuvers are part of broader accusations by the organizations and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that Texas regulators are failing to properly monitor, control and enforce federal emission standards.”

Read that last part again … lawsuit because Texas has failed to properly enforce federal law.

In other news, the federal government has sued Arizona because Arizona is attempting to properly enforce federal immigration laws.

Obama is saying today there is another vast right-wing conspiracy not to have health care reform.

No, just as Mrs. Clinton was wrong about the Monica Lewinsky claims, what the vast majority of working (or want to work) and voting people in America want is health insurance reform.

Insurance is too expensive. Insurers drop claimants or refuse to insure for trivial ‘pre-existing’ conditions. People face bankruptcy if they get sick. Everything the government touches tends to be expensive, incompetent, and bureaucratic.

What people do not want, and what the Democrats have been pitching the last month is:

“Morally” paying more to insure the insured (mostly not voters). “Morally” paying more to pay health coverage for illegal immigrants (not supposed to be voters). Fining people if they do not buy insurance (hello Boston tea parties).

Not surprisingly, people want to know what’s in it for them. So far, Obama and the Democrats have only been telling the vast majority of voters that nothing is in it for them. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s a natural reaction.