Crimes of fashion?

Nilk in Melbournistan has some problems with Mrs.O’s sense of style.

I get around in daggy clothes most of the time, but I’ve got an excuse.  I don’t have much of a social life, and I am not one of the pre-eminent women on the planet courtesy of being married to a handbag who happens to have lucked into the Presidency of the USA.

The topic of shoe selection comes up, about which I’ll have to defer to Charles.

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“...and you’ll TAKE it!”

Via:  Ace, crossposted at DP

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Difference noted...

And sometimes parody is impossible:

Cheering Fans, Thrilling NCAA Tournament Disgust BCS Officials

DETROIT— Claiming that determining an unquestioned national champion through a playoff system “went against the very idea of sporting competition,” and that the sheer exuberance of college basketball fans was “a shocking and nauseating display of everything wrong with collegiate athletics,” top BCS officials roundly condemned the NCAA Tournament Monday.

“I frankly cannot even believe what I'm seeing, and I can’t stomach the sight for long,” said a pale, trembling Jack Swarbrick, the Notre Dame athletic director who, along with the commissioners of the major conferences, manages the complicated system of polls and computer rankings that make up the Bowl Championship Series in college football.  “The elegant logic of actually having teams play one another instead of having a council of their betters select which team is superior to which—that is not what sports is all about.”
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Via: Physics Geek

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Who says it will take THAT long?

CNN Political Ticker:

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich is warning of a third party mutiny in 2012 if Republicans don’t figure out a way to shape up.

“If the Republicans can’t break out of being the right wing party of big government, then I think you would see a third party movement in 2012...”
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“Remember, everything Obama’s doing, Bush started last year,” he said.

Via: Instapundit

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“We bring der World– New Order!”

Via:  DP

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The List: Republicans voting for HR.1388

HR.1388  A bill entitled “The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, an Act to reauthorize and reform the national service laws.”

Fresh from their exercise in unconstitutional “bipartisanship,” the Usual Suspects join a bunch of other clowns to take the next step toward compulsory national service:  $5.7 billion for the Army of O.

Two stages on this one:  First, the Senate version:

S.277  A bill to amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to expand and improve opportunities for service, and for other purposes.

Sponsored by Ted Kennedy, 42 co-sponsors including seven Republicans.

Republican co-sponsors for S.277*:

S.277 was dropped when the House passed its version first.  Which brings us to the Senate vote on HR.1388.^[1]

Usual suspects (listed in order of score):

Newbies:

I might be inclined to give the Newbies a bit of a pass this time, as some people like the Americorps program, and because the Senate deleted^[2] the House bill’s creepy “mandatory service” language before passing it.  But beware, gang, you’re on notice!

Elsewhere:

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First anniversary noted...

Congrats Frank W. James!

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The list: Republicans voting for S.160

S.160 : A bill to provide the District of Columbia a voting seat and the State of Utah an additional seat in the House of Representatives.

Contrary to the Constitution on its face (Justice Department lawyers agree,^[1] although Eric Holder doesn’t want to hear it^[2]), designed to give the House two more guaranteed Democrat votes.  Sponsor: Joe Lieberman,^[3] 19 co-sponsors including three Republicans.

So which Senate RINOs voted for this piece of trash?

Usual suspects:

Newbies:


(WaPo link via Instapundit.)

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Sites linked - March, 2009

56 posts in March, up 13 from February and the most since October’s 60.  Verbosity personified?

March’s linklist below the break...

more...

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