The folks you’ll meet at Ye Olde Renaissance Festival and Faire, eh! It makes perfect sense to me, though, given all those centaurs still running around during the Renaissance.

No, I won’t post a link to that.

And I wouldn’t Google it at work if I were you.

TPM Muckraker is a usually reliable source but in this case they were wrong (because they took the story from the WSJ and the WSJ was wrong).

Myself, I saw the TPM Muckraker story and the WSJ story and I went ballistic but then I DID THE MATH and I realized they were wrong.

TPM Muckraker sort of corrected themselves by posting a link to an article in “The Hill” that said what really happened, but TPM Muckraker should have posted a big fat retraction and a mea culpa.

I don’t know about this particular vote, but it would be interesting to see which came first on the schedule.

The press conference was to point out issues with the “donut hole” problem in Medicare benefits, which pundits and admin mouthpieces are now saying doesn’t exist. So the Dems have to choose, I guess: let the lying liars dominate the media with their lies (and have people complain that the Dems don’t say anything against the lies), or let the slimy sleazeballs sideline democracy itself with their cheating (and have people complain that the Dems don’t stand up to the cheaters in committee).

It’s a brilliant strategy by the Republicans, really: do so much slimy shit that no one can possibly keep up with it all, and then slam their opponents for not stopping that portion that gets through. A conscientious person (of any party) on Capitol Hill right now probably feels like a lone pre-school teacher in a room with 30 toddlers on speed: you can only minimize the damage as best you can and hope no one breaks their arm while you’re distracted tyring to keep the others from dying.

http://sdrobbie.blogspot.com/2006/09/inspired-by-my-raiders-pride-part-deux.html

BTW, the Republican leadership in Congress has been especially nasty about violating procedures, holding votes open long past the rules, and removing all the checks the minority party used to have on legislation and appointment confirmations. They have even resorted to blackmailing their own party members on the floor of the chamber.

Very true. All the more reason not to schedule a press conference in the middle of one of the most important committee sessions in the history of our nation. Fucking idiots.

I never knew John Kruk was a centaur.

That explains his appetite for hay, but opens so many other questions.

Extreme liberalism?

Habeas Corpus was first codified in the Magna Carta, in 1215 CE, during the “Dark Ages”. The concepts of the rights enshrined in habeas corpus were greatly expanded in the Constitution (remember that old thing?), with the addition of protection against search and seisure, freedom of expression, and the right to carry arms.

This bill eliminates habeas corpus. Let me say that again:

THIS BILL ELIMINATES A RIGHT THAT HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED SINCE 1215.

How can voting to maintain a section of the fucking Magna Carta be considered “liberal”? How much more “conservative” can you get than voting to “conserve” a law passed during the fucking Dark Ages?

Go establish your cult of divine kingship somewhere else, Gary, and leave my country the fuck alone!