Wild West Law goes National

via BlondeSense

You know that insane law we are about to get here in Florida? The law that allows someone to shoot first and don’t worry about it? A whole bunch of you guys poo-pooed it. You said my state was nuts. Okay, you were exactly right, but guess what? This law has its own little road show sponsored by the NRA and it could be appearing in your state next. You can read about it in the Washington Post today

“NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said in an interview that the Florida measure is the "first step of a multi-state strategy" that he hopes can capitalize on a political climate dominated by conservative opponents of gun control at the state and national levels.”

Shocking Riot Ends Pacers-Pistons Game

By LARRY LAGE, AP Sports Writer

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Players and fans exchanged punches in the stands as an NBA game turned so ugly a police investigation was necessary. Indiana's Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson charged into the stands and fought with fans in the final minute of their game against the Detroit Pistons (news) on Friday night, and the brawl forced an early end to the Pacers' 97-82 win."I felt like I was fighting for my life out there," Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said. "I'm sorry the game had to end this way."

This is the most insane fight I've ever seen between fans and players!

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I've been trying to rest for a few days. It's not a vacation, but just a break from the insane pace that is known as the blogosphere. I still have to keep an eye on the pulse of things, but for the first time I started watching a full soccer tournament, Euro 2008. We have a great international readership on C&L---so if you're a "lurker" and a soccer fan, please say Hi.

I'm rooting for the Italians of course and I'm finally starting to understand the game a little bit. The ESPN announcers aren't too bad as far as I can tell. I don't know how those athletes run up and down the "pitch" like they do for 90 minutes....

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It started with Edwards' haircut, then Hillary's neck line and now Obama's lapel pin. The media is insane, ladies and gentleman. I expect and understand that Drudge will pass the slime down the food line to Limbaugh and then to FOX NEWS. It's infuriating to see it instantly end up on the MSM. Christy explains...

Right wing Conservative, John Cole is shrill:

Seriously- what does the current Republican party stand for? Permanent war, fear, the nanny state, big spending, torture, execution on demand, complete paranoia regarding the media, control over your body, denial of evolution and outright rejection of science...Hillarycare doesn’t scare me as much as Frank Gaffney having a line to the person with the nuclear football or Dobson and company crafting domestic policy.

That is why the Republican party is in shambles. The majority of us have decided that the movers and shakers in the GOP and the blogospheric right are certified lunatics who, in a decent and sane society, we would have in controlled environments in rocking chairs under shade trees for most of the day, wheeled in at night for tapioca pudding and some karaoke.

Jonathon Schwartz gives us another example of how the insane lust for war turns into gold for the Jefferey Goldberg's of the beltway class and then of course, there are no consequences. It's mind-boggling. I can't say this often enough. We need to shame these journalists every chance we get so that their words have consequences.

A Tiny Revolution: Here's Jeffrey Goldberg, then a staff writer at the New Yorker, participating in a debate on Iraq in Slate on October 3, 2002. That was five years ago today:

The administration is planning today to launch what many people would undoubtedly call a short-sighted and inexcusable act of aggression. In five years, however, I believe that the coming invasion of Iraq will be remembered as an act of profound morality...read on

And Andrew Sullivan was cheering him on....

Look, when self-described "Reagan Conservatives" are doing it, I think Godwin's Law no longer applies.

Raw Story (h/t DLBB)

An economist who once served as President Reagan's Assistant Secretary of the Treasury compares President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler in a column at the libertarian website Anti-war.com.

"Bush is like Hitler," Paul Craig Roberts writes in a column entitled The Surge: Political Cover or Escalation?. "He blames defeats on his military commanders, not on his own insane policy."

"Like Hitler, he protects himself from reality with delusion," Roberts continues. "In his last hours, Hitler was ordering non-existent German armies to drive the Russians from Berlin."

I posted many times about the insane Vernon Robinson ads during the run-up to the November election. He got his ass handed to him by a wonderful progressive---Brad Miller:
Miller (D) 64 96,892
Robinson (R) 36 55,324

Kos tells us that he may quit the world of politics.

"I've been continuously on the campaign trail since 2001. It's getting old," Robinson told The Associated Press. "You never say never, but I don't have any future political plans." [...]

During a victory speech at state party headquarters Tuesday night, Miller mocked his opponent's political history, telling Robinson to take some advice from late comedian W.C. Fields.

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit," the congressman told a crowd of laughing supporters.

I broke some news about David Hiller a few weeks ago. He was a lawyer from the Reagan administration and now magically---he's the publisher for the LA Times. Well, here you go:

Don had a deadly, hard overhand service that came off the front wall like a bullet, came straight to the back wall and dropped in the corner, safe from my racquet. I'm sure that serve is what tore Don's rotator cuff.

I think what struck me most was that Don never gave up on a point. His view was that every shot could be made, every game could be won, and he never surrendered until the last volley was played out. With me he was usually right.

Were these the qualities he brought to his job as secretary of Defense? I'm not sure, but I suspect that the rules he lived by were the same ones he played by, and I thought of them again as I watched the president announce Don's resignation.

Rummy is a great squash player---ergo---he's a great Secretary of Defense. This is supposed to be an opinion piece? Is this insane or what?