Vas you dere, Chollie?

Overheard out there somewhere...

Disillusionist Says: May 16th, 2008 at 8:07 AM

“Where was the outrage when Hillary herself orchestrated sexist attacks again Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, etc.? Isn’t it a bit late to be playing this card?”

Actually, there was plenty of outrage on the right over Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers, while we only got uninterrupted silence from the usual Outrage-of-the-Day types at NOW. Sorry you slept through the ’90’s, sweetie. Reading the New York Times for information will do that to you.

An optical puzzle

Is it coming or going?

Pass the pale, I'm gonna Bush

Breitbart

Bush has said the 70,000 barrels of oil being diverted to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is such a small amount that it does not affect energy markets.

And yet one person in California growing weed for his own medicinal use affects interstate commerce?

Then either Gonzales (nee Ashcroft) v Raich was in insane verdict on a Bush administration prosecution that should never have reached the USSC, or the President is so constricted by his socially conservative hypocrisy he's gone past the pale.

A man of the people

What? Man, I been eatin' japaleno peppers all my...holy christ...Shit!....JEEZUS!!!

Palpitating Pulpits

Sounds like Christians of the time traded meaningful policy for a feel-goodism.

"We're a church; we're different; while any other profit-making entity must cough up to support the commons, somehow being taxed violates the establishment clause and we won't have it."

"Okay, then. No taxes for you."

"Good."

"In return no partisan activity from you."

"What?"

"Democracy has a compelling interest in government not subsidizing partisan political activity."

"What?  What kind of liberal nonsense is that?"

"The Republicans had a majority of both the Senate and the House as well as the Presidency in 1954. These changes may be due to then-Senator LBJ, but they were approved by the GOP and signed by Eisenhower."

"But surely God favors one party over the other!"

"To the extent there is a God, yes.  In other words, no."

"Well, government shouldn't mess with my religion."

"Say now, 1954...wasn't that about the time 'under God' was shoe-horned into the Pledge of Allegiance?    Politics was plucked from the pulpit, and the pulpit was poked into the Pledge.  Priceless."

"You mean God's institutions are penalized if they try to influence a government that the Pledge says is Under God?"

"Yes.  It's called Catch-22."

"That's some catch."

"It's the best there is."

To paraphrase Rosanne Roseannadanna's father

As President Bush said to [Mark Steyn]: "If it's not the Crusades, it's the cartoons."

Halleloser!!

I'm tempted to give Obama advice similar to that Brother Dave Gardner once comedified --- "James Lewis, get away from that wheelbarruh. You knows you don't know nothin' 'bout machinery." Only I'd substitute church for wheelbarrow and "what you believe" for machinery.