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Bagga' Pleeez

My son plays football with some truly fine children who insist on calling him "nigger". Surely the whitest child who wears the uniform, he was initialliy confused, but I assured him that it was merely a reflection of growing fidelity with his fellow leatherheads.

Why then is it so terrible for the Tea Party movement to neuter the term "tea bagger" by employing it as a descriptor, not as the discriminator the Left would define it? Those on the eastern shore of our party must simply reject the premise that the term "tea bagger" is a perjorative.

Love the player. Hate the game. Embrace the bag.

And Glenn Beck can pat my ass any time.

Heritage Foundation Explains The Impending Constitutional Crisis Of The Bailout

Yeoman's work. Beautiful, sucinct, and terrifying.

Read the work by Heritage Foundation's Todd Gaziano and Andrew Grossman.

All Deliberate Speed: Constitutional Fidelity and Prudent Policy Go Hand in Hand in Fixing the Credit Crisis

The Paulson proposal, and the several congressional proposals based upon it, raise substantial constitutional questions regarding: (1) Congress’s enumerated power—or lack thereof—to intervene with private markets in the manner contemplated, (2) the lack of meaningful standards to guide the extremely broad grant of discretion to the Treasury secretary (the “legislative delegation” problem), (3) limitations on judicial review over the exercise of that almost limitless discretion, and (4) related separation of powers concerns.

Answers to any questions you have about this can be found at www.heritage.org

As for the growing hole in the pit of your stomach, might I suggest some gold bullion.

The Great Experiment Begins To Blow Its Top

Some of our more forward looking Framers feared that when voters realized they could vote goodies for themselves, all their work in the July heat of Philidelphia would be for nothing. Little did they know that it would be such a short time before The Great Experiment would fail to produce any useful result except to leak toxic misery onto the floor for their posterity to mop up.

Via Robert Higgs, The Independent Institute:

Ludwig von Mises explained as early as 1920 why a centrally planned economy could not work as a rational system of allocating resources. The reasons why Social Security, especially its Medicare component, and many other such government programs contain the seeds of their own destruction have been explained time and again. Are the politicians who construct these structures really such idiots that they cannot understand the logic of what they are doing?

Not at all. But they are not striving to create economically viable institutions that serve the general public interest; they are feathering their own electoral nests in the only way they can in the context of our political institutions. As H. L. Mencken explained back in 1940, the politicians “will all promise every man, woman and child in the country whatever he, she or it wants. They’ll all be roving the land looking for chances to make the rich poor, to remedy the irremediable, to succor the unsuccorable, to unscramble the unscrambleable, to dephlogisticate the undephlogisticable,” because they understand that “votes are collared under democracy, not by talking sense but by talking nonsense.”

And are members of the public so dense that they will fall for such promises? Yes. Moreover, they are greedy, impatient, and immoral, because the present benefits they hope to gain via politics, however unsustainable in the long run, come entirely at the expense of the taxpayers from whom the government extorts its revenues.

It takes a village, right?

Uh. Nope.

Please observe a moment of silent rage.

(photo reminder via the hunky brain trusts at The Aurora)

If you are a true patriot, you will watch the rare video below. (via my Cotillion sister, Cathryn)

DOWNLOAD IT onto your hard drive because the day may will come when the Liberal media has entirely sanitized this crippling wound from our history books.

My children will see this video when they are old enough. It is as important as teaching them about The Holocaust.

And teaching them to drill dimes with my .308.

Call Your Broker: America's Insatiable Appetite For Trash Will Make You Rich!

Sure, I can go to any Bar-B-Que joint in Sleepy Southern Hometown and tell you that America likes to eat. But to find a gym there, I'd have to round many fruitless corners.

It does not take a bunged up dietitian to realize that while I choke down my oatmeal and blueberries, more folks are washing down Little Debbie Oatmeal Pies with Blueberry Kool-Aid and that fact alone has already made me a very wealthy woman (on paper, anyway!).

Eli-Lily, Johnson and Johnson, and Novartis are just a few pharmaceutical companies that make insulin and diabetic supplies. Children stricken with Type I Diabetes need the money poured into research and development by these companies for sure, and I can feel good that my investment will pay well for them.

But it is the sudden swell of gluttons that are on the fast track to Type II Diabetes that has me sure that in the same way Americans sop up "reality" television to the blissful ignorance of reality, there is an epidemic of escapism on the rise .

A very lucrative epidemic.

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JANE'S FAVORITE PHOTO OF 21st CENTURY AMERICANA OF ALL TIME. This one will be well used, I assure you.

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She even has sow ears!

OH. And my favorite rag to wipe her mouth with.

HAVE ANOTHER NUTTY BUDDY, HONEY.

JK ROWLING may be racking up, but then again, AREN'T WE ALL?

Exit Question: Would Hogwart here wait TWENTY SIX HOURS on line TO VOTE?

I'm Still Having Fun, But Am I STILL The One?

Stretching on the deck of my cabin, deep in the woods of the Blue Ridge, inhaling the roar of the river, I can almost cast my memory back to the tension of suburban Virginia.

Almost.

Adding to my growing chigger collection while running beagles in the dew of a broad meadow with Favorite Uncle has become a dangerously addictive early morning ritual from which I may never recover to return to the hunt of the news wires.

Pity.

The dial-up that I cursed for the first week of this exile has now become my security against the inevitable stress of the Real World, a warm blanket under which to hide from my obligations on the racing Highway. It has also caused me to leak indefinite prose.

Indulge.

For now though, I need to prolong my contact high on the simplicity of life in the country, surrounded by folks who say "back when I growed up", "set down and tell me 'bout cherself" and "have ya another one-a them fritters" before I must return to the land of implacable politicians, egotistical pundits and carb-counting housewives.

If you will allow me to continue my fabulous news fast, and instead gorge myself on Southern Gothic short stories, a great 70's FM station that plays all my favorites (from my veeery young childhood, mind you ;), and fried green tomatoes by the barrow load, I promise to return, a refreshed well of acerbic opinion on all the things that really don't matter a hill of cucumbers anyway.

Be comforted.

Jane will be back to scratch your itch in a few...

Fredheads "are the core of the old Goldwater-Reagan fan club." Really? How good of you to notice.

You might be a redneck if, when packing for Myrtle Beach, the first decision you have to make is paper or plastic.

And you might be a Fredhead if you have a GOLDWATER sticker on the bumper of the '07 H2 HUMMER you are packing them bags into, y'all.

At least that is the conventional "wisdom" about you from the other side of the aisle.

Thompson has emerged as the back-to-the-future candidate on whom many Republicans seem ready to project all their aspirations. His supporters are the core of the old Goldwater-Reagan fan club. The Pew survey suggested that voters well disposed toward Thompson are more likely than Giuliani sympathizers to attend church, and are somewhat more conservative, older, better educated and overwhelmingly male. A recent Post-ABC News survey indicated that Thompson is especially strong in the South.

For all their self-congratulatory whooping about how divided we Republicans are, I think that the frothing at our core remains a bit disquieting to the Democrats.

Because our "'A' game" hasn't even officially declared and there were a frightening lot of these kinds of bumper stickers back in '64 too.

Its A Uterus, Mrs. Masche, Not A Clown Car.

If the narcissism of an ambulatory HOT ZONE isn't gullet brimming enough for you this week, lets all clap for the latest American Self Centered Sideshow. So cryptic and exciting (to mouth breathing Joe TV with no American Idol to watch), the birth of sextuplets is expected sometime this week to two more hapless victims of the Me culture; Bryan and Jenny Masche.

These poor sots have been sold the American Standard that pregnancy at any cost, equals parenthood.

Hundreds of thousands of couples every year get the notion that a couple hits of CLOMID can't be that big a deal. Fertility drugs might help them to finally possess their heart's fondest desire. A Mini-We.

But where is the line between a few cycles with some maternal Miracle-Gro and tens of thousands of dollars in mechanical medical intervention guaranteed to bleed them dry before they have even bought the first diaper?

That line is the essence and purest definition of the word "parent".

Americans can buy anything they need. A life-saving heart surgery on a tiny infant courtesy of the greatest medical system on the planet is something we should all cheer.

But if buying their way into the poor house for the want of gestating their own freckles sprinkled across a tiny version (or six) of their husband's nose as the only path to fulfillment, then sadly, too many women are willing to open their wallets and close their minds to the depths of their own egotism. What infertile couples need to do is open their hearts.

How many foster children will go rootless so that six children can intentionally be born to indebted parents, unable to independently care for their individual special medical needs, just for the sake of genetic superiority?

Please save your non-judgmental cooing and entreaties of empathetic material support. I refuse to send diapers or financial aid to people who have wantonly created their own Hell. Instead, I will fervently pray for the survival and well-being of the inevitable few babies whose feebleness will be the direct result of human tampering with a process that was never designed to be improved upon.

Children are the embodiment of the very Breath of God.

Litters of children are more the fondest wish of Dr. Moreau.

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UPDATE FOR THE BLEEDING HEARTS:

MORE VIRTUAL TEENAGERS ON FERTILITY DRUGS HAVE LITTER. Only a YEAR of "trying" and their doctor put this GIRL on fertility drugs? THAT IS A CRIME. But the infertility industry mill, the bastard cousin of the Planned Pregnancy lobby, won't let that part make national news. No sir, Mr. Grimes, you won't hear about this in your revival meeting. And their "faith" is what holds these two parents, Ryan and Brianna Morrison, together. God was not consulted in this CLOMID nightmare, I assure you.

Please read the comments below to see precisely why I think "faith" and "GOD" has little to do with these poor, innocent science fair projects everyone else wants to call "miracles".

PRAY FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THOSE PRECIOUS CHILDREN, innocent victims of two more basilica sized egos. HEAR ME WELL>>>>because for as much venom as I have for the fertility mills and the ego maniacs who want nothing more than a PREGNANCY, I HAVE ENDLESS COMPASSION AND LOVE FOR BABIES AND INNOCENTS.

Somebody get me a VOMIT BAG.

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UPDATE FROM FOX NEWS, (all PARIS HILTON , all the time) who is just discovering the "coincidence" I brought you almost a week before.

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BEST SCIENTIFIC AND FINANCIAL BREAKDOWN OF THIS FERTILITY NIGHTMARE YET by Deborah, nurse, reader and fellow blogger. She NAILS it.

One Marine Wife Speaks Her Mind About The OPSEC Order Censoring MILBlogs From Iraq

This Marine Officer's wife choses not to blog about the War in Iraq or GWOT or any other issue directly pertaining to it because she finds it a demoralizing conflict of interest, she is not currently on the front line in Iraq, and she feels the wanna-bes who insist on second guessing this war from the comfort of their local Fourbucks are dumber than average, and not merely because they paid a five spot for bean water and cow juice.

Many. Many have asked, "What do you think of (fillintheblank) SECDEF decision?" , or "What does Hunky Husband think about Operation (fillintheblank) ?" I was even approached at CPAC to do a very high profile weekly online column as a military spouse. That was a really hard one to turn down. REALLY.

Because I am nothing if not Half of a Whole.

And my other Half is still subject to the whimsical authority of the Secretary of Defense, who works, quite literally two doors down from him. Hunky Other Half is still subject to The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and I spread Hunky's toast with the butter that comes straight from the Uncle Sugar teat every first and fifteenth. Sorry. This Whole isn't going to piss in its pudding for any flag waving, self aggrandizing glory.

There are folks who deserve it far more than I, and can speak with direct authority because the heat of battle and the smell of GPR gives them a heady selflessness that I do not possess.

Does that make me a weak kneed DoD supplicant? If you insist. But I prefer to retain the ability to hear the inside scoop (mostly from other close sources and peers, not actually HH) and form educated, if generalized, opinions which I have no trouble subtly sharing with others in this forum. Besides...I have to save something for the bestseller...right?

I respect the soldiers for their brave candor and they should be allowed to blog freely about their first person experiences from the otherwise positive information vacuum created by a Department of Defense who is insistent on winning hearts and minds when what it needs to win is a war.

Active Duty will not compromise their own safety (duh.) and if they are critical of the way the war is being executed, then tough chickens for the Generals who, in seeking to silence them, only highlight their moral authority to point out that Congress is full of pussies the Emperor is naked.

All that said. Hear me well. Under no circumstances should the free flow of objective information be stanched from its most pure source, the front line boots on the ground military personnel in Iraq.

If OPSEC insists on this course of action to make nice with the cowards on the Left, cheered by the thugs at the U.N, I would demand  that embedded counter-tribalists masquerading as "Journalists", along with their milquetoast PAOs, be promptly booted from their tax payer funded APCs, stripped of their monopoly on information from the front, and be made to walk back to civilization barefooted.

And naked.

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Michelle seems to be the clearing house.

Illegal Immigrants Seek To Kill Their Own Dreams

Here in Northern Virginia we have an up close appreciation for immigrants of every stripe, legal and illegal. To his delight, they speak at least four different languages at the school my nephew attends in Fairfax, and I count one of its bi-lingual school board members as a reader. So it is with no small amount of certainty that I am as delightfully out numbered as I have ever been in my life.

One gets weary of the homogenized bisque aboard most Marine bases, and longs for a more elemental stew in which to swim. Being in such a fast paced society up here causes you to take notice of differences. Subtlety is magnified.

Last year on May first, or Primero de Mayo as it is called by the Leftist organizers, there was a marked decrease in traffic on the roads in my D.C. suburb. My City's construction site for the municipal pool was closed down for the day, though they were three weeks behind to get it built by Memorial Day. Mega Hel-Mart was deserted. All of these things are true and reflected in yesterday's post.

Unfortunately, it was under reported that schools were also empty as many illegals hoped to have impact on Federal funding numbers, if only for one day. This is the real tragedy of a misguided attempt to be noticed.

Why did these illegal Mexicans endure such great hardship to get to America, if not for the American Dream? Once they are here, why do they refuse to participate in English immersion, the very keys to realizing it? And why must anyone who points up these inconsistencies be labeled a "racist"?

Because Limousine Liberals see Blacks becoming Conservative (WELCOME!) in alarming numbers (4% swing in '04) and they are scurrying to create another victim class as a replacement. Got it.

So I am going to have tea in the street and enjoy my day without illegal immigrants. And I might even enjoy a legally handmade fortune cookie to end the sweet day that the leaf blowers went silent.

Just no Moo Goo.