What is the progressive position here. Pot should be legal but coke should be…what? Demand for both appears to be going up in any case.

Joke or shrewd guess? They report, you decide.

…apparently they are sausage casings.

What is Mrs. H doing to that poor dog? Someone call the Arkansas ASPCA ASAP.

And another clown show: Top allied commander apologizes for magazine profile

The top U.S. general in Afghanistan apologized Tuesday over a magazine article that portrays him and his staff as flippant and dismissive of top Obama administration officials involved in Afghanistan policy…An anonymous McChrystal aide is quoted calling national security adviser James Jones a “clown.”

Huckabee is indescribably silly.

Funniest of all is that Huckabee is taking Sarah down for trying to say a few reasonable things about pot and not coming up with anything bizarre or incontinent. Why heck, she was even using sentences!

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/comedy/watch/v20199492hBQXMXnT

Good morning, pups. It’s Brooks, Cohen and Herbert this morning. Bobo has taken a page from MoDo’s instruction manual on column writing and has started to produce fiction. With pretty much the same results. In “Faustus Makes a Deal” he gurgles that from the confluence of recent events, one might think the Democrats had made a deal with the devil — and still managed to lose. Mr. Cohen is in Johannesburg and sends us “The Loose Vuvuzela,” in which he says Diego Maradona goes with inspiration in an asymmetrical world. Mr. Herbert, in “When Greatness Slips Away,” says as we become increasingly accustomed to helplessness, the greatness of the United States is steadily disappearing.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge, and I’ve got a selection of bagels with cream cheese. We didn’t get the expected rain yesterday, even though those clouds looked hopeful, so I’m off to water the garden. Have a great day.

Neptune was discovered by mathematical calculation, based solely on observation of peturbations in the orbit of Uranus. I’m unwilling to discount the deduction of this backwoods philosopher out of hand. He may be Beck Network News’ Le Verrier.

Wow. It looks to me like Obama’s gonna hafta fire McChrystal.

Google “Suzy Shuster Mike Huckabee son’s History of Animal Cruelty”

My god, I hope that the gay community can keep puppies away from the Huckabee family.

Would someone please tell the Huckabee men that vertical stripes are not necessarily slimming? My eyes! My eyes!

MMFA has an interesting piece up on Huckabee and gay marriage. Essentially, his opposition boils down to religion and “the ick factor.” Religion is a BS excuse, check out the Biblical stories of Ruth & David, who speak of their same-sex partners in something other than a heterosexual manner. That pretty much just leaves “the ick factor” as a motivation to deny others their rights as human beings.

He has appointed a commission to study the problem of how to get a bi-partisan committee to determine whether Chrystal Meth should, in fact, be fired or just relocated to another war.

And there’s this gem:

Mike Huckabee on the set of Fox’s “Huckabee” in New York. (Helayne Seidman/The Washington Post)
“The only thing worse than a torrid affair with sweet, sweet Nancy would be a torrid affair with Helen Thomas. If those were my only options, I’d probably be FOR same-sex marriage!”<

If we’re going to talk ick factor, I think it might apply to heterosexual sex as well. Unless I’m the only one, and I’m sure I’m not, when I was first learned what went on, I was appalled. Actually, I didn’t believe that my parents would do such a disgusting thing.

Good morning all.

I’m not ready to type about sex or war yet this morning. Maybe after some coffee.

ROTFL!

McChrystal to the woodshed.

Raising my hand, here. When I first figured it out and asked my mom about it, she said yes it is yucky, but it’s what a wife does for her husband. Oh, great. Thanks for that perspective, mom.

For a spanking…Oooooh the goopers love a good spanking maybe he could get Vitter to do it.

Juan Cole sez O has to fire McChrystal. Yeah, I’ll hold my breath waiting for that one. Not.

President Obama absolutely must fire McChrystal for subordination. You can’t have the office of the vice presidency disrespected in public by a general in uniform that way. Nor is it plausible that the Obama team has a prayer of getting Afghanistan right, assuming such a thing is possible, if the commanding military officer and the ambassador are feuding like the Baizai and the Ranizai.

LOL…that could scar you for life.

More magical thinking from Juan Cole from my link above.

If Obama doesn’t fire McChrystal, he will never be respected by anybody in the chain of command that leads to his desk. Moreover, moving McChrystal out now would be a perfect opportunity to pull the plug on the impractical counter-insurgency campaign that the latter has been pursuing, which probably has only a 10% chance of success.

More from the link, some background on the McChrystal-Eicheberry feud.

Mark Ambinder at the Atlantic reminds us that McChrystal’s feud with Eikenberry goes back to the days when McChrystal was commander of JSOC, the Joint Special Operations Command, and ordered his men into Afghanistan in 2005 to carry out a covert op of which Gen. Eikenberry disapproved. Rumors of JSOC cowboyism and even illegalities have swirled for years.

Palin recently let slip her ambivalence about pot

Sounds very progressive.

Don’t forget the time she slipped and said that she and Todd were once struggling financially until Todd got a good Union job.

Orszag is leaving the administration.

You hit 11 on the Snark-O-Meter today son.

Well done!