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Bad To The Bone, George Thorogood & The Destroyers

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Huh.  My dad used to smoke Lucky Strikes.

He’s not fully joining the fight against Obamacare – Koster has issued an amicus curiae brief in modified support of the Florida Obamacare lawsuit, instead of joining it – but he’s easily the most prominent Democrat on the state level to break with his party on Obamacare.  This is partially probably due to Missouri’s emphatic rejection of Obamacare last year (in the form of Proposition C), and partially probably due to Koster’s own desire to survive politically; Koster switched parties in 2007, when it looked like the promised forty-year dominance of the Democratic party in America might actually last, well, forty years.  As it stands, Koster is up for re-election next year, and as it’s promising to be a bad year for Missouri Democrats who like Obamacare… well.

Do read the brief, as it represents the Democratic party’s somewhat frantic desire to resolve the problem that they’re having with Obamacare right now.  To wit: the individual mandate is clearly unconstitutional, given that it requires people to engage in commerce, whether they want to or not.  Unfortunately, the same Geniuses From Beyond Space And Time that put that provision into Obamacare also neglected – willfully – a provision that explicitly stated that the various parts of Obamacare are severable from each other; so if the individual mandate goes it’s well within the court’s purview to declare the whole thing unconstitutional as well.  That would be… problematical for Democrats, given that they wasted a year on Obamacare in the first place.

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It just… is; it came into being in response to a plaintive private call for campaign posters that really speak to my generation.  I was happy to oblige.

Call it ‘practice with Photoshop,’ if you must.

There are two very simple questions that need to be asked over the next eighteen months. The first is, Are you better off than you were four years ago?

If the answer is “Yes,” the second question is even more blunt: Really? How are you managing that?

(Items with an * are using February 2011 data)

…because the rest of the country’s kind of getting hammered, here.

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For a firm that represents Planned Parenthood.

Because there is no such thing as a conservative Democratic politician.  Just ones that haven’t been bought yet.

…would have been crack for me as a kid.  As it is, I’m kind of grateful that there isn’t a MagiQuest in Maryland, because it’d be crack for my kids, too.

Seriously.  Those guys have sat down and calculated the price structure to a fare-thee-well; I’m impressed, and I’m not going to let either kid get within a mile of any of these locations.

Either that, or I need a nap.  Probably I need a nap: I’ve started to notice that the concept of ‘nap’ appeals more and more as I get older.  For that matter, this ‘siesta’ thing where you take off the middle of the day, take a snooze, then work until fairly late at night appeals.  I don’t know how you make that corporate – it seems an agricultural/handicraft kind of thing – but… I’m rambling, yes.

This is a preemptive post: the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board and the DA’s office for Milwaukee County is will be having a joint press conference Monday afternoon at 2 PM local time about a “significant investigation.” Given that the DA for Milwaukee County is a Democrat – and given that the election results for Milwaukee County have not yet been certified – there has already been some speculation that this investigation is related to last week’s re-election of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser. However, at least one local news reporter has already confirmed with the Wisconsin GAB that the announcement is not related to last week’s race.

I mention all of this primarily because this story otherwise looks like precisely the sort of vague, information-free bare-bones notification of an event that the Internet can force-bloom into a beautiful Orchid of Hysteria; and it’d be nice if more of those got nipped in the bud…

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You Don’t Know How It Feels (Album Version), Tom Petty

Yes, oh, no: it’s the version with the pot reference.  How ever will the Republic survive?

On the latest – successful – tests by the US Navy of a shipboard laser capable of setting other boats on fire…

Yes, I thought that this would get your attention.

Anyway, Office on Naval Research Rear Admiral Nevin Carr has his priorities in order:

“This is an important data point,” the admiral says, “but I still want the Megawatt death ray.”

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Yes, I’m guessing that you never thought that you’d ever read that meant in a more-or-less non-ironic fashion on a right-leaning website, given that the man is supposedly the inspiration for the word ‘moonbat.’ Still, the poor fellow’s going to have an unpleasant voyage of discovery. You see, George Monbiot has made a classic mistake of committing religious apostasy in public:

Over the last fortnight I’ve made a deeply troubling discovery. The anti-nuclear movement to which I once belonged has misled the world about the impacts of radiation on human health. The claims we have made are ungrounded in science, unsupportable when challenged, and wildly wrong. We have done other people, and ourselves, a terrible disservice.

…and in a fashion that is actually going to be hard for him to walk back*.  And he’s going to get hammered for it, too.  (more…)

Question:

Why does the Tea Party seem to be so much more effective than the left as a movement?

Answer:

Because you guys suck.

(H/T: Hot Air Headlines)

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PS: …What? The guy doesn’t want the real answer: he’s too busy babbling about Koch Brothers conspiracy theories to make me believe that he would. He just wants somebody to validate his existence by linking to him and laughing – because, you know, this shows that somebody cares – and I’m cruising off of a good mood this morning because the French toast I made was spot-on. Cast iron and butter, and real maple syrup (because I can learn from my mistakes) to complement… where was I?

Yes, anyway, I’m not feeling particularly sadistic right now, so why not give this guy what he wants?