We Are In Agreement

Deep thought

If David Paterson were to for whatever reason step down, acting LG Joe Bruno, who is also under indictment, would step in as Governor.

Sort of makes me miss Pataki.

A nation of people who are free. And by "people" we mean "people who could vote." So, you, know, not the blacks.

Victor Davis Hanson in the National Review discusses American Exceptionalism.

Perhaps it would be better, when speaking of an early rural [U.S.] society, to talk of an absence of peasantry: We had no concept of a large underclass of only quasi-free people attached to barons as serfs; instead, yeomen agrarians were the Jeffersonian ideal, a nation of independent farmers rather than peasants

Lol! Sorry slaves!

H/t to C. Friedersdorf

I didn't noez!!1!!

Speaking on NBC's Meet The Press this morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) repeated his claim that he -- and the entire country -- was lied to about the TARP program in 2007.

Asked about the claim by host David Gregory, McCain was adamant. "We were all misled" by Bush administration Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, McCain said.

Pajama Jeans

Pajama Jeans

I advise getting one size larger so you have room to tuck a sleeve of Hydrox, or a fried chicken.

This is embarrassing

I'm wearing the very same thing today.

Mossad Wack Hamas Guy in UAE

How's that for a New York Post headline?

Anyway, international badasses Mossad capped a Hamas leader traveling to Dubai for, allegedly, an arms deal.

Apparently the Hamas leader, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, was traveling under an alias.

The alias: Mahmoud Abdul Raouf.

Not the best alias, I think he should have gone with Chris Jackson.

David Broder is the Senior Op-Ep Columnist at the Washington Post

The snows that obliterated Washington in the past week interfered with many scheduled meetings, but they did not prevent the delivery of one important political message: Take Sarah Palin seriously.

WaPo

He has a job. At a newspaper.

Tom Friedman is the Walrus

TF gets really fucking high with some Yemeni cats and muses about education...it's all about the kids,man...

I took part in a “qat chew” the other day at the home of a Yemeni official. Never done that before.

Qat is the mildly hallucinogenic leaf drug that Yemeni men stuff in their cheek after work — and sometimes during. My hosts insisted that qat actually makes your senses sharper and that you could chew and chisel the top of a mosque minaret at the same time.

Far out

Poor spelling is the last thing a home-schooled kid has to worry about

Have you ever noticed how weird home-schooled kids are? They're always so freaking weird. Like people from Western Massachusetts or Maine.

US Soldier Awarded Cheney "Excellence in Parenting" Award

U.S. soldier 'waterboarded his own daughter, 4, because she couldn't recite alphabet'