I love it!

You gotta love the Pravda story headline on this:

“Monument to Vladimir Lenin in St. Petersburg damaged as a result of kinky explosion.”

…I’ll ask a completely random, out of the blue question. Do people think that the Electoral College ought to be kept? I always hear people bash it, and push for a popular vote, and I think that we should do that, or at least do something different. I don’t think of this as a liberal-conservative issue, but I was wondering if anyone had a reason why the current system is better. To me, it seems that all it really does is just inject a degree of arbitrarity into the system.

Jed Clampitt.

It would seem that his briefing for his trip consisted of watching “European Vacation” while someone explained the plot line to him.

He’s constantly saying stupid crap like this that undermines the Republican Party:

WASHINGTON — Most Republicans boycotted the hearing Wednesday for President Barack Obama’s first judicial nominee, allowing Democrats to pitch softballs to David Hamilton in his quest for a seat on a Midwestern appeals court.

The committee will not vote on the nomination for several weeks. But with Republicans complaining of inadequate preparation time, the hearing signaled a rocky beginning to Obama’s attempt to remake the federal judiciary.

Hamilton, a U.S. district judge from Indiana, has issued a number of controversial rulings in more than 1,100 opinions and nearly 15 years on the bench. He struck down the use of sectarian prayer to open the Indiana legislature and also ruled against a state law that required a woman seeking abortion services to receive counseling from her doctor. The counseling was required at least 18 hours before the procedure.

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The ranking Republican on the committee, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, appeared at the start to say how “very distasteful” it was that Republicans weren’t given adequate preparation time.

Specter complained that Hamilton was nominated March 17 and submitted answers to an extensive questionnaire on March 24. He said the boxes containing Hamilton’s opinions and other writings could be four feet high if he had chosen to pile them on the room’s rectangular conference table.

The other Republican to show up was Indiana’s senior senator, Richard Lugar, who couldn’t say enough to praise Hamilton’s qualifications.

Lugar’s coming in on the left of Arlen Specter lately. That’s just plain sad.

This is from the comments on this article, a comment by Kay C. at April 01, 2009 at 07:01 PM :

An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said ok, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too; so they studied little.. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around the average was an F. The scores never increased as bickering, blame, and name calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great; but when government takes all the reward away; no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that….

This is one of the best indictments of socialism that I’ve ever read.