Did you know that frakking pumps thousands of chemicals — I know, right? chemicals! — into the virgin earth, resulting in massive water pollution and, if the show is to be believed, the murders of concerned and goodly environmentalists who, in a selfless effort to save the planet (and at great personal risk, so deeply runs both their convictions and their obvious selfless goodliness), uncover charlatans on private land engaging
June 29, 2012
“White House Statement on Obamacare Mandate Tax Contradicts Supreme Court Ruling”
It’s a penalty. Duh. According to press reports, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One that the penalty was not a tax but a penalty. “It’s a penalty, because you have a choice. You don’t have a choice to pay your taxes, right,” Carney is quoted as saying by Yahoo News. In a 5-4 ruling issued just one day before, Chief Justice John Roberts stated that
June 29, 2012
Subjects / verb disagreement
Remember: She is your better, this silly dried up old fig in her crony-bought finery and patchwork spackle, stretch, plump, and tuck. She is your lord and she is your ruler. So suck it up, comrades. Eat your peas. (h/t sdferr)
June 29, 2012
Let me address this idea that John Roberts bravely and with humility saved the Court and the Union — all while fashioning a cunning victory for classical liberalism and federalism
Notes McGehee in the comments: Even if all the silver-lining guys are right, the best that can be said for what Roberts did is, he gamed the ruling to help bring about a desired political outcome. If a 5-4 ruling striking down ObamaCareTax would have been a blow to the Court’s legitimacy, what does that make this? Exactly. I am sick to death of the pollyanna GOP beta males who’ll
June 29, 2012
Barry Hussein Obama’s magical unicorn ride to Socialist Utopia, day 1
When I woke this morning and looked outside my office window, nothing seemed much changed: on recently watered suburban lawns, American Goldfinches plucked bugs from the space between grass blades, fat rabbits nibbled at the local Fescue pluming up around water main covers, and in the distance I could hear the droning of a riding mower growling its way across prairie grass and patches of goat head and thistle brush,
June 29, 2012
Meanwhile, along the US/Mexican border … [Darleen Click]
Mexican cartels channel jihadists In the latest example of Mexico’s warring drug cartels taunting each other with gruesome on-line videos, footage posted on a popular cartel-tracking blog shows members of the Gulf cartel interrogating and then beheading at least three members of the Zetas cartel. […] Then the slow and bloody process of hacking off their heads begins. “This is how all your filthy people are going to end,” says
June 28, 2012
Today I engaged in a vast number of non-activities I didn’t pay for.
I feel like such a free loader.
June 28, 2012
protein wisdom says: I freakin’ told you so. [updated x2]
Over. And over. And over and over and over and over and over. And over and over and over. Intentionalism just is. But because we can’t concern ourselves with what we believe we’re doing when we claim to be interpreting, we’ve ended up institutionalizing a tyrannical form of “interpretation” that is linguistically incoherent. Thus, behold: The Federal Government does not have the power to order people to buy health insurance.