Tritiated Water is Good for You

No good deed goes unpunished in liberal-land.

Take Vermont's best corporate citizen, Entergy. Not only have they safely and reliably provided power and jobs to Vermont for decades, local citizenry in the state's southeast corner are potentially being treated to a bonus, courtesy of the 40-years-young Vermont Yankee nuclear plant: tritiated water.

But like all good things, the liberals in Montpelier are doing everything they can to keep the residents of Vernon from having the opportunity to appreciate this largess.

Far from the scary boogeyman the left would make tritium and other leaking radioactive byproducts to be, tritium is replete with benefits. For example, tritiated water administered in drinking water to rats throughout pregnancy produced significant decreases in relative weights of brain, testes, and ovaries of newborns. Clearly, this gives local residents a unique tool in the struggle to keep children from becoming overweight.

Perhaps of even greater benefit, beta radiation from the decay of tritium has been shown to induce specific-locus mutations in sperm. Now it stands to reason that some of those mutations could be beneficial, yes? Perhaps super-strength, or the power of flight. And even the less-advantageous mutations could well spur a re-igniting of the side show industry - at a time when the economy has been so sullied by frivolous social programs and meddlesome environmental regulation.

Windham County residents are truly lucky to have such a resource beneath their feet. Why, we at Vermont Tigger would love to rush to sell our homes in northern Vermont and move down there to partake ourselves, but, you know... we've got a thing...

It's really quite simple, Bernie

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent allied with Democrats, on Sunday released a list of ten big profitable U.S. companies paying little or no taxes...Sanders is pushing for corporations to pay more of a fair "share."

It's worth taking another moment to dissect this interbulous, Zizekian fallacy. After all, what more can be said about Sanders, whose weltanschauung is a tangle of conceptual binaries, self-affirming inferences, and prior assumptions that treat image as reality. Whose lacanian unconscious is labyrinth-like structured, ignores logic, the time dimension and expresses itself by metaphors.

As Albertus Magnus famously said, "The beaver is an animal which has feet like those of a goose for swimming and front teeth like a dog, since it frequently walks on land. It is called the castor from 'castration,' but not because it castrates itself as Isodore says, but because it is especially sought for castration purposes. "

First, it is entirely interpenetrative of our universe; as Uncle Chu would say, "The Outside is here, Mister Burton." Second, paying attention to the imbrication of new stuff upon the still living old. What did Haraclitus say of "guardian divinity?"

Epictitus, where are you now? "progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it."

That the words are synecdochical was before affirmed; what it is under the power of that figure is the grammatical sense of the words. To think that this is sufficient for non-rigidity, Williamson complains, is to confuse non-rigidity for indexicality.

What would La Rochefoucauld say? Ah, no doubt "Adulatione servilia fingebant securi de fragilitate credentis."

The abject wrongness of Sanders' babble should be completely clear now.

Vermont: It isn’t just for the middle class anymore

By: Hoyre Ving

In a press release today Governor Shumlin cited fear of upper bracket income flight and his pledge not to increase taxes on the 435 high income taxpayers currently residing in Vermont. He earlier lamented the state’s lack of flexibility concerning raising their taxes and said in part "…frankly my job is to take the 435 high income tax payers in Vermont and grow that base grow our customer base so that we have more revenue."

In support of that customer base the Governor announced his successful personal effort to prevent two couples from fleeing Vermont. He reassured both couples still uneasy and reeling after the near repeal of the Bush era tax cuts that another tax burden at the state level would not be thrust upon them.

Vermont Tigger couldn’t be more pleased that Governor Shumlin not only hasn’t fallen prey to the left’s popular “tax fairness” fallacy but has taken to heart the stewardship of so called “gang of 435” and is wisely expanding his outreach.

April 1, 2011 MONTPELIER-Governor Shumlin explains his intention to explore selective tax incentives designed to retain high earners and reach out of state high income earners who may wish to move here.

As part of his effort to keep 435 high income taxpayers in Vermont and grow that base Gov. Shumlin proposed a new initiative. Named Vermont: It isn’t just for the middle class anymore it builds on his earlier program known as: Shumlin says: “Please don’t move”. Both efforts at retaining and luring high earners are built around the pledge not to raise taxes on those most able to afford them and to maintain a base program of raising middle class income taxes, statewide fee increases coupled with yearly service and budget cutbacks.

In an April 1st state house ceremony the governor took the unusual move of publicly thanking two couples, Devin Canach, his wife Claire Lee Riche of North Bluesprings and Mr. and Mrs. Newton Belast of Carriage Trade Center. They were personally lobbied by the governor and have agreed to “stay-on” in Vermont.

An exhuberant Claire Lee Riche said, "We just had a really good feeling about the whole thing and decided to go with it. We are extremely pleased with the way the whole process has developed.” Mr. Belast who manages his families’ businesses spoke more philosophically “Let’s not punish my success ,my attitude has always been that if the economy’s good for our people at the top, it’s good for the remainder of society."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics

The anti-science political cabal

It never ceases to amaze how so many on the left seem so incapable of demonstrating the most basic of reasoning skills. They seem to embrace a willful ignorance that rejects intellectuality and holds particular scorn for science and the scientific method. There is one particular group on the far left, however, whose complete rejection of objective thought has been particularly pronounced.

This radical political outlier group known as "scientists" has a long storied history of pushing its insipid and ill-informed social agenda into things they don't understand (e.g. the shape of the world, the medicinal use of leeches, etc).

Now this same group is speaking with virtual unanimity, supporting the nonsensical, enviro-crackpot claim that human activity is changing the global climate, and that government should intercede to prevent it.

The members of this group, as always, clearly lack the intellectual capacity to understand the fundamental tenets of science. As such, their crazy ideas should be, as they've always been, roundly dismissed by free-thinkers everywhere.

Twenty Reasons Why St. Albans needs Walmart

There isn't enough traffic on Route 7.

All that concrete will stop agricultural run-off.

We'll be featured in the next "People of Walmart" e-mail that makes the rounds.

I'd only ever have to leave my car to climb into one of those motorized shopping carts.

We could use a few more empty storefronts on Main St.

I need more junk for next summer's yard sale.

Since the carnival left town there's no really good place to meet hot guys.

Arkansas could use the extra money.

Our kids need jobs they can aspire to when they drop out of high school.

I change my shower curtain every two weeks and discard my knickers daily.

Why buy local when we you can get lettuce imported from Chile and applesauce from China?

JC Penney doesn't carry those panties with saucy messages across the front.

Indonesian sweatshop laborers need the work. 

I just love the sound of tractor-trailers unloading at 4:00 in the morning!

There aren't enough places to get corn dogs and bad pizza in St. Albans.

It will get rid of all that pesky wildlife out there in the tall grass.

Gallons of Coke and Pepsi and all the Cheetos you can snort, at rock-bottom prices.

Women need to learn once and for all that they are second-class citizens and don't deserve equal pay and opportunities with men.

I believe Bill Nihan's fondest wish is to be a Walmart Greeter, although he may have some competition from Jim Douglas.

I'm bored and there's nothing on TV.

Towards a reasonable marginal tax rate that spurs growth

It's encouraging to hear that our new Governor appreciates (or at least pretends to appreciate) the crippling effect taxation has on those highest-earners in the state - the very people who drive economic activity by not hording all of their money. But still, it's not enough to stop the increase of the top marginal tax rate, that rate must be dropped - and quickly, lest the tenuous economic recovery falter.

But how far to drop the rate? Should it drop to 15%? To 10%? To 5%?

It's the most simple economic mechanics that the less money the top wage earners pay in taxes, the better off everyone is. In fact, the economic stimulation will cause the state's coffers to fill from the increased revenue. Indeed, anyone who tells you otherwise - or that economics is, at its core, any more complicated than this, is spinning long-discredited Keynesian nonsense we outgrew in the Reagan era.

That's why, if the Governor is serious, he should be discussing dropping the top marginal rates to at least negative 25%. Actually paying out tax money to the richest Vermonters can easily be accomodated by a revenue shift to the middle and working class, and by a supplemental fee assessed on income of all union members of 50%. This wouldn't be a tax increase, obviously. Because it's a fee.

Does anyone really think Senator Shumlin has the political courage to buck his liberal allies and do what's right?

Sharia in VT

By JDRyebread, Patriotic, Jesus-loving American

Smug moonbats in Vermont looooove to mock the fine, God-fearing folks of the great state of Oklahoma for their recent attempts to ban jihadist Muslim Sharia Law in their state. Thankfully, us fine aspiring journalists at VT Tigger, never ones to let things like “facts” and “truth” get in the way of a good story (or at the very least, as an opportunity to bash the socialists that are ruining our fine state), we’ve done some hard hitting journalism, and shockingly have uncovered evidence that Sharia Law isindeed coming to Vermont. In fact, it may already be here.

We’re only starting to get a little bit of information dribbling in, due to the secretive nature of the burgeoning Vermont jihadist movement, but it appears that the popular “Ahli Baba’s Kabob Shop” right next to the Flynn Theater in Burlington has been quite possibly, a meeting place for a UVM terror cell. So far, all we have to go on is this leaked picture, but it is important that you start pressuring those in the Statehouse to get some legislation going to stop this scary, terrorful threat to Jesus-loving Vermonters everywhere and ban Sharia Law in Vermont. Here’s the proof.

GOD HATES LADY GAGA!

by Shirley Phelch-Ropes

IT'S ON!



The true servants of God in the End Times, We of the Westbureau Baptist Church, and especially my father, the Rev. Fred Phelch, wish to thank Vermont's most frontlinest crusader against the Sodomite infestation for bringing this to our attention.

“For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with diverse lusts.” (2 Tim. 3:6)

And a CAPTIVE SILLY WOMAN, captive of Satan's power, who has made a career of leading our children astray by promoting the Sodomite agenda, is creeping into a House of Coffee Montpelier TONIGHT - THIS VERY NIGHT - bringing her sin-laden singing to offend the ears of Almighty God within sight of the Golden Dome.



At a place called the Langdon Street Cafe, at (PM (turn that "9" upside down and repeat it two more times and you'll GET A CLUE) Sodomite enabler LADY GAGA will be crooning her siren songs of PERVERSION AND DAMNATION in "this laid-back, intimate setting."

Rest assured, God HATES Lady Gaga's Sodomite brand of "intimacy!" And especially "diverse" stuff! And there is nothing "laid back" about the WBC. Expect us to be on the front lines of God's battle, bringing our protests, our signs, and yes, even our children, to bring God's and a FINAL CHANCE for redemption from DAMNATION to all who DARE to listen to the messgae they MUST HEAR:

GOD HATES LADY GAGA! GOD HATES THE LANGDON STREET CAFE! GOD HATES COFFEE! GOD HATES MONTPELIER! GOD HATES VERMONT!

HEED the words of ALMIGHTY GOD about the SODOMITE BEHAVIOR that will bring about the DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA in the Book Of Leviticus 11:10-12.

wait....that's the shrimp basket part. Lemme get back to you.