[UPDATE]: Welcome, Instapundit readers.
This is a marijuana leaf.
As you can see, it’s quite distinctive. Dried, it looks like this:
I mention this so the next time the cops show up to bust your boyfriend for pot possession, you’ll at least know why they’re there. Continue reading Good morning, Rep. Barney Frank.
It’s actually been a matter of some amusement for us over there: you could tell who the lazy or just dumb reporters were from their habitual reference of the site as Redstate.org, which it hasn’t been for years. Apparently, the Washington Post has gotten around to updating their files, bless their hearts. A shame that Eugene Robinson didn’t then try to actually talk to a Republican before he wrote his column, although I admit that it would have been harder than sneering at the Republicans that live largely in his head.
Let’s unpack a typical paragraph:
Will loyal members inform on others for harboring suspiciously moderate views?
Err, no.
Will anyone judged guilty have to wear a sign saying “Republican In Name Only” as penance?
Err, no.
Will there be re-education camps?
Err, no. Also: cheapening to the memory of victims in the tens of millions.
Will deviationists face the Enhanced Interrogation Technique of being forced to listen to the wit and wisdom of Glenn Beck, at ear-splitting volume, for days on end?
Err, no. Continue reading Eugene Robinson gets the name of RedState right.
I’ve got to get some sleep.
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Remember: nothing prior to 01/20/2009 is REAL to these people. And that includes all the fools that they encouraged to go mad for the Democrats’ political benefit.
You hear in this debate, you hear analogies, you hear references to, you see pictures about and depictions of individuals that are truly stunning, and you hear it all the time. People — imagine five years ago somebody comparing health care reform to 9/11. Imagine just a few years ago had somebody walked around with images of Hitler. Hopefully we can get back to a discussion about the issues that are important in this country that we can do so without being personally disagreeable and set up comparisons to things that were so insidious in our history that anybody in any profession or walk of life would be well advised to compare nothing to those atrocities.
See Mary Katharine Ham & Hot Air for more: see here and here for images along those lines. And yes: there’s more. There’s disturbingly more, in fact.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
(H/T: Big Government) I’m actually not upset about this, seeing as I knew all along that he’d break his word. Fish swim, birds fly, ‘conservative’ Democratic legislators betray their principles on cue. And so it is, here:
GOUVERNEUR, NY – Congressman-elect Bill Owens was sworn in at noon today.
Owens indicated in a press release that he was now in favor of the bill in direct contrast to his earlier position during his campaign.
According to Politico.com, Mr. Owens assured voters that he felt the public option had no place in the health care reform bill. Contrary to that position, Mr. Owens now indicates that he intends to vote in favor of the bill even though it now contains a public option.
More at the link, including the three other promises that Owens has already broken. I would like to believe that this is a record of some sort, but it’s probably not.
Moe Lane
PS: Do not expect any so-called ‘Blue Dog’ or supposed ‘conservative’ Democrat to voluntarily get in the way of their party’s health care rationing bill. They vote as they are bid – and the ones doing the bidding are not their constituents.
Crossposted to RedState.
…I have a cold and was up most of the night.
So: crankier, I guess. At least it isn’t the flu.
(H/T: AoSHQ) This badly:
We are, literally, off of the chart: when they came up with the original they apparently didn’t think that we’d have an unemployment rate above 10%. But never fear: the President has a plan. He’s going to declare that passing health care rationing is the key for improving the economy – Mickey Kaus’ facepalm, or no…
Crossposted to RedState.
Tell me again why we’re not doing something about this?
The unemployment rate rose from 9.8 to 10.2 percent in October, and nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline (-190,000), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The largest job losses over the month were in construction, manufacturing, and retail trade.
Household Survey Data
In October, the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000 to 15.7 million. The unemployment rate rose by 0.4 percentage point to 10.2 percent, the highest rate since April 1983. Since the start of the recession in December 2007, the number of unemployed persons has risen by 8.2 million, and the unemployment rate has grown by 5.3 percentage points. (See table A-1.)
Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (10.7 percent) and whites (9.5 percent) rose in October. The jobless rates for adult women (8.1 percent), teenagers (27.6 percent), blacks (15.7 percent), and Hispanics (13.1 percent) were little changed over the month. The unemployment rate for Asians was 7.5 percent, not seasonally adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)
Aside from the fact that if this administration does do something about this, they’ll have to explain why what they did back in the beginning of the year didn’t actually work. They probably don’t want to discuss the problem that Democratic legislators are more interested in passing cap-and-tax and health care rationing for their pet fringe groups than they are in fixing the economy. They definitely don’t want to talk about how a lot of this is due to moral cowardice on the part of the current ruling party…
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
…Well, it’s not the Muppet version. Which was less cool than I remember it being. In fact, it’s a little surreal.
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