And yet even that empowering news leads the poor dears to Oprah, overeating, and generalized bitchiness. FLAME ON!

Good. At least he had some experience with weapons before handing them over to Mexican drug cartels, then. Wouldn’t want any friendly fire accidents because some of the players don’t know their way around dangerous machines of killing. By the way, what’s Holder’s stance on gun control again? Oh. Right. Nevermind, then. (h/t Pablo)

Are you as shocked as I am? I mean, why on earth would government employees overwhelmingly lend their support to a man who is THE champion of the middle class, or the private sector, with its working folks and small businesses and its millionaires and billionaires not giving their fair share? Is it because Obama uses those he pretends to champion to grow and enrich the government class he continues

In the long-wars view of “fundamental transformation,” raped and murdered ambassadors are but bumps in the road. The eggs broken that, when cleverly whisked, become part of the omelets of “problem solving” that almost always winds up with more iron-fisted governmental control over something. The pawns that people your tactical chess board, useful idiots who believe that, because they get a horsey or a castle, they somehow matter in a

…in which case, dissent is hatred, and intolerance, and we really need, as Americans, to get over our fetishizing of the First Amendment. After all, lots of countries don’t treat free speech like we do — nor do they so obsessively protect it. In fact, the US Constitution is in a way barbaric, protecting such hatreds and intolerances and stuff that people get to say that “progressives” simply do not

Before I get to the political, first the personal. Though the personal being the political and all, I guess it doesn’t much matter the order. Still, there’s beef to the post for those of you who make it all the way through.

Help support the notorious and unsupportable; help fund the demise of polite and self-destructive GOP status quo politicking and the rise of outlawish Visogthisityism; and give the Devil his due, on the outside shot you can win a shiny fiddle made of gold (which, let’s face it, that ain’t gonna happen; I can fiddle like Nero while my reputation burns): it’s three, three, three mints in one! Plus, it’s a