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  • 5-year-old suspended for threatening to use bubble gun

    A 5-year-old kindergarten student was suspended from her school in Pennsylvania, for threatening to shoot another child. Her weapon: A Hello Kitty bubble gun.

    The little girl said she and a classmate should shoot each other with bubbles, and the school called it a terrorist threat.

    Administrators at Mount Carmel Area Elementary took action, suspending the girl for 10 days, later reducing that to two.

    The family’s lawyer said a psychology evaluation calls the girl normal, but now her record isn’t.

    “The mother has tried to get the girl in another school since this time, and they won’t take the little girl because of this mark on her record,” said Robin Ficker, family attorney.

    The attorney said the girl did not have the Hello Kitty bubble gun with her.

    Full article: http://www.ktnv.com/ … ional/187686601.html


  • MARYLAND GOVERNOR TAXES RAIN

    Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley has instituted a tax on citizens for the amount of rain that falls on their property.

    The tax, officially known as a “storm water management fee,” will be enforced in nine of the state’s counties. The state legislature passed it in 2012 purportedly to “raise revenue to cleanup [sic] the Chesapeake Bay,” according to MarylandReporter.com.

    Former 2012 GOP U.S. Senate candidate Dan Bongino bashes the tax in a Wednesday afternoon press release. The law “requires individuals, businesses, and even charitable organizations and houses of worship to pay a tax based on the amount of rain that falls on their property and the ‘impervious surfaces’ on their land,” he says.

    The tax, mandated by the EPA and enforced locally, will be calculated “through satellite surveillance of your property,” the statement claims.

    Bongino blasts “out of touch political aristocrats in Maryland will do anything to diminish your economic liberty and starve your wallet while padding theirs.”

    According to the conservative organization Change Maryland, the rain tax will cost Marylanders about $300 million annually.

    Full article: http://www.breitbart … -governor-taxes-rain