Monday, March 12, 2012

Ann Barnhardt Will Not Submit - except

Sigh

The Real Saint Ann's Latest Statement


   
       El Jefe


South Park Nails the Nanny State

Nanny State - one regulation away from total bliss                       

Randy gets a ticket for not wearing his seat belt.





Full episode [Reverse Cowgirl Episode 1601] premieres Wednesday.  Attacking the nanny state ought to get Al Jean all lathered up.

Holder is Impeachable

Hitler's Mustache               

He’s Impeachable, You Know
The New York Times makes the case for impeaching Eric Holder



Res Ipsa Loquitur
Item 172 in a list of 172

Article II of the Constitution grants Congress the power to impeach “the president, the vice president and all civil officers of the United States.” The phrase “civil officers” includes the members of the cabinet (one of whom, Secretary of War William Belknap, was impeached in 1876).

*snip*

A cabinet officer, like a judge or a president, may be impeached only for commission of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” But as the Nixon and Clinton impeachment debates reminded us, that constitutional phrase embraces not only indictable crimes but “conduct ... grossly incompatible with the office held and subversive of that office and of our constitutional system of government.”

*snip*

An attorney general called before Congress to discuss the workings of the Justice Department can claim the protection of “executive privilege” and, if challenged, can defend the (doubtful) legitimacy of such a claim in the courts. But having elected to testify, he has no right to lie, either by affirmatively misrepresenting facts or by falsely claiming not to remember events.

*snip*

The real question is whether Republicans and Democrats are prepared to defend the constitutional authority of Congress against the implicit claim of an administration that it can do what it pleases and, when called to account, send an attorney general of the United States to Capitol Hill to commit amnesia on its behalf.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...

Of course, the NYT is the paper of record.





Mentos

Oozing pus-bag Chucky Schumer




Schumer: No Need to Return Maher’s $1M, ‘He’s a Comedian’




Catharsis


The Set-up
The manufactured brouhaha over Rush Limbaugh's (out of context) Sandra Fluke "slut" comment  necessarily produced tits for tats.  Most pointedly,  Progressive favorite Bill Maher calling Sarah Palin a "cunt," and a "dumb twat."   In response, Maher donated $1,000,000 to President Barack Obama's  super PAC.  One can only speculate what Maher hoped to achive with this "hush money," but it looks like it was an appeal for Obama to employ his trademark thuggery to hush the media. 

Enter Chucky Schumer.
.Asked on ABC’s “This Week” whether Maher’s money should be returned, Schumer said no.

The oozing pus
The bottom line is [said Chucky] that Rush Limbaugh’s comments were just nasty and directed at a particular young woman who had a particular point of view and was expressing herself.  Bill Maher’s a comedian, it’s much different. Rush Limbaugh has tremendous weight in the Republican Party, no one will rebut him. Bill Maher‘s a comedian who’s on at 11 o‘clock at night but has very little influence on what’s happening here.  [The Blaze]

With a straight face, too.





The early bird ...



3-D



Res Ipsa Loquitur
Scandalous- NSFW

In the previous post we learned that an electric car, built in 1896, delivered the same performance as does the Government Motors ChevyVolt.  Next thing, they'll prolly announce 3-D pictures.



The government's electric car

       WHAT GUMMINT DOES     
“For General Motors and the Obama administration, the new Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid represents the automotive future, the culmination of decades of high-tech research financed partly with federal dollars.” New York Times



Meet the Roberts electric car. Built in 1896, it gets a solid 40 miles to the charge — exactly the mileage Chevrolet advertises for the Volt, the highly touted $31,645 electric car General Motors CEO Dan Akerson called “not a step forward, but a leap forward.

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May also be used as a  metaphor describing .. you know.