Would Republicans love her or hate her? I haz a confuseds! Who IS this new Wingnut darling, this GOP “Rising Star”? Read on……

By David Lazarus at the LATimes
August 30, 2012, 9:31 a.m.

Just in case you were beginning to think rich people were deeply misunderstood and that they feel the pain of those who are less fortunate, here’s the world’s wealthiest woman, Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart, with some helpful advice.

“If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain,” she said in a magazine piece. “Do something to make more money yourself — spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working.”

Rinehart made her money the old-fashioned way: She inherited it. Her family iron ore prospecting fortune of $30.1 billion makes her Australia’s wealthiest person and the richest woman on the planet.

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The Sheriff’s Department, the California Department of Fish and Game, Fire Department, Animal Control and Montrose Search and Rescue were all on hand Sunday afternoon to deal with an injured bear cub, seen limping past the La Cañada Starbucks. I was pulling into Ralph’s when I saw the crowd gathering around the gangly teen bear cub which had lumbered into the shade of a nearby tree, where she sat, waiting for help from the human faction of society. All the local forces were standing around scratching their heads trying to figure out what to do. First, they shut down a portion of the 210 Freeway, which had confused drivers heading up the very street the bear debacle was happening on, and a buffonish Sheriff Dept officer was running on foot after cars trying to stop them, rather then applying the normal procedure of throwing up orange cones at the bottom of the street.

This was the young bear, referred to as  “juvenile”. Scared, but waits patiently in the shade for help:

Her initial jaunt from Starbucks:  [click to continue…]