I thought they were slow….

As I noted in a comment below, yesterday saw us finally in a position, or so we thought, to transfer ownership of one car and begin the process of bringing my truck up to date with current Florida tags.

However, because neither of us has registered a car in Florida before, we are both subject to Florida’s “first-time registration fee” which means that collectively we need to pony up $851.00 to register two cars and this does not even include driver’s license fees, which we also need to take care of.

I was quickly corrected when I asked what the impact fee was for my out-of-state vehicle, and told that it is NOT an impact fee, but the one time fee referred to above.

BULLSHIT. Call it what you want, it’s as unconstitutional as California’s old impact fee for out-of-state vehicles.

V C Section 1673.7 Smog Impact Fee Refund Notice
Smog Impact Fee: Refund Notice

1673.7. (a) The department shall include the following notice with each check issued as a refund of the smog impact fee:

“The enclosed check is a refund of the $300 Smog Impact Fee you paid to the Department of Motor Vehicles when you initially registered an out-of-state vehicle in California. In the case of Jordan v. Department of Motor Vehicles (1999) 75 Cal.App.4th 449, the court ruled the smog impact fee unconstitutional. The enclosed check includes an interest payment which has been calculated from the date the fee was paid to the date the refund is issued.

“If you have any questions about the enclosed refund, please contact your local office of the Department of Motor Vehicles.”

(b) No notice other than the one required under subdivision (a) may be included with a smog impact fee refund check.
Added Sec. 8, Ch. 31, Stats. 2000. Effective June 8, 2000.

But here in Florida, it is even more egregious: they smack the individual as an out-of-stater, not the car.

I guess my Okie tags stay. Fuck the government.

NPR says that President Bush was right! This has to rank right up there with the four horsemen!!

This is fantastic! My mouth literally fell open while watching this vid… whatever they spent on R&D was worth every penny!

I’ll be very interested to see how the Obamination Administration reacts to this.

As for the following?

President Rene Preval — who told reporters in 2007 that Duvalier could return to Haiti but would face justice for the deaths of thousands of people and the theft of millions of dollars — made no public comment on the former dictator’s re-emergence. But Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive shrugged it off.

“He is a Haitian and, as such, is free to return home,” Bellerive told The Associated Press.

I guess if you’re a corrupt and bloodthirsty dictator ousted and allowed to live in exile for a quarter-century in the lap of luxury in France you have somehow paid for your crimes?

Screw Preval AND Haiti. They deserve what they get and they deserve no more US aid.

Lemme know how that works out for you, Pal.

Holy Barackshit! This has to be one of the most bizarre concepts I’ve ever seen…

Cracked’s 5 Insane Barack Obama Comic Books You Won’t Believe Are Real.

A comic book about Barack Obama?!?

Is casting Barack as a comic book superhero the stupidest way you’ve seen yet to glorify this complete doofus of a president?

Apparently, Velma Hart is still an Obama supporter, and her ex-boss is equally stupid:

Hart, did however, tell CNBC that her misfortune has again brought home the suffering of many other Americans struggling with the same circumstances. “What’s in my heart is: Now — even more than I did before — I appreciate what millions of people who are in my condition now have been experiencing for the last two, three, four years,” she said. “Of course I’m afraid. Everybody’s a little afraid.” She also stressed that she remains a supporter of President Obama.

A little afraid? BITCH, I’m TERRIFIED. I have been for a while, and it’s getting worse, not better. As for your hotdogs and beans? That was my dinner last night less the beans. How you fucking morons who voted for this piece of shit can still support him is beyond me. Of course, Hart has 99 weeks of laying about to decide if Obama is still all that and a bag of chips.

King hadn’t seen the irony in Hart being fired just two months after she emotionally told Obama about her fears for her own financial well-being during a town hall meeting in Washington.
“I hadn’t thought about this in connection to the town hall meeting. She was at the town hall as a private citizen. Whatever she had to say were her own thoughts,” he said.

Right, because you see, Jim, all’s well for you, you stupid fucker. YOU still have a VERY well-paying job, courtesy, in part, of the taxpayers.

The Dumbocrats are on the way!