Daily Archives: April 13, 2008

OHHHH, for the freeeaaaking Love of God!!! Now she is Annie Oakley

UPDATE:  picture stolen happily from Phillybits

 I mean come on now!

Clinton touts her experience with guns

VALPARAISO, Indiana (CNN) — Hillary Clinton appealed to Second Amendment supporters on Saturday by hinting that she has some experience of her own pulling triggers.

“I disagree with Sen. Obama’s assertion that people in our country cling to guns and have certain attitudes about trade and immigration simply out of frustration,” she began, referring to the Obama comments on small-town Americans that set off a political tumult on Friday.

She then introduced a fond memory from her youth.

“You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught me how to shoot when I was a little girl,” she said.

Adventures in Maverickyness — Does He Know Where He Is? Edition

John McCain has had some trouble recently in breaking through the news — given the still fiercely pitched Dem primary fight — these days (and the fundraising is pretty anemic — $15M?) too. But there are interesting bits that are being reported here and there that we ought to take a good hard look at as examples of that prized quality of McCain’s — maverickyness. Of course, McCain abandoned any pretense to being a maverick when he decided to start pandering to the Christian Nationalists and neocons of the wingnut right as his path to the White House. This does mean, of course, that he has set himself up to run for the third term of BushCo, of which something like 28% of Americans are ready to buy again. So join me for a quick survey of the maverickyness here: Continue reading

Tyler Nixon is Famous (and funny)

A woman broke he hip becuase the sidewalks in Wilmington REALLY suck.

So she sued and won, and the city changed the rules and said, “You have to fix the sidewalk infront of your house” the Delaware Supreme Court said, “Not so fast.”

Then the mayor said, “We’ll have a fund to fix the-worst-of-the-worst.”

Then Typer Nixon said,

“The mere fact that there’s an emergency program being proposed to me is an admission that the city’s in the wrong,” he said. “Sidewalk maintenance is a charter-mandated service, so the city should create a Hope Commission for those who hope they don’t break their legs walking down the street.”

And the NJ was kind enough to explain Nixon’s joke by saying, “The Wilmington Hope Commission was created by Baker in 2005 to address the root causes of violent crime” in the very next sentence.

Question of the Day

If Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton had authorized American service men torture prisoners of war to death, and declared that the 4th Amendment to the constitution preventing unwarranted searched and seizures was no longer valid, do you think they would have been impeached?

Bonus Question: Is the Bush/Castle air war over Iraq intended to reduce the number of people who hate America or increase that number?