Welcome to The Steaming Pile…at The Steaming Pile you will find categories such as ‘Local Piles’ where you can search for your State’s flub-ups, ‘The Golden Turd Award’ for idiot of the week, and of course ‘Farts in the Wind’ with our famous rhetorical one-liners.

This Back on Track program in San Francisco and all the hoopla surrounding it all of a sudden has me thinking “whose job is it anyway” on a number of levels.
Kamala Harris has said that it is not the duty of local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration law.  Not my job!  Whose job is [...]

Kiss your $8.00 tax break goodbye; and then some.  Republicans and Democrats agree, the new energy and climate bill passed by the house will raise the rates you pay for utilities and gas.  It’s a thinly veiled way to raise taxes without using the “T” word.
Caps on emissions?  OK, I get it.  Allowances for polluters?  No, [...]

Michael Jackson’s death saw promoter AEG Live say goodbye to about $500 million in revenue from his planned concerts.  I’m sure that the California legislature is sobbing uncontrollably because of the lost “revenue”.  While the promoter has claimed to be “well insured” for the losses, who is their carrier?  AIG? 

 
 
 
…and the winner for excrement in politics this week is…
Mark Sanford
In Spanish, Buenos Aires means fair winds or good air.  Well, Mark Sanford let rip with a real stinker.  Instead of stoically walking the Appalachian Trail and searching his soul, he admitted to doing the horizontal tango.  Not only did he let his state down, [...]

If the President smokes around Bo, would PETA get their collective panties in a bunch?

Class.  CLASS!  SHUT UP!  Thank you.
Today we were given a lesson in Ecobomics and how Obamath will deliver us from the depths of recession.  Let’s review.
The president spoke of his grand plan for a green economy and all of the jobs that “could” be created by this initiative.  Could?  Nice definite-maybe.  While working towards a [...]

This weeks winner for excrement in politics is…

No place is immune to the crappings of modern politics. State, county and municipal government have all been living large on the backs of the people. Local Piles is a place to get our collective s#@% together about how the politicians right in our own back yard tend to go with the flow. [...]

Water Bored with Politically Correct Politicians.
Did anyone see Rob Bishop on Fox the other day? If not, here you go. I have a lot more respect for the politician who comes out and says he wants to see Nancy Pelosi take a big bite of the CIA-bashing turd she laid, than the one [...]