"I am the sneaky ninja!  You do not see me.  You do not hear me.  You do not smell me.  You do not taste my butt."

IHNJH,IJLS "Republican teabagging."

In the wake of the insane Rachael Ray keffiyah controversy this week, I thought it only prudent to take note of some overlooked incidents in which prominent Americans have celebrated Islamic bloodthirsty something-or-other.

For example, it has gone peculiarly overlooked that First Lady Laura Bush wore a keffiyeh (better known as an ISLAMIC TERROR SCARF) during a SECRET VISIT to a mosque (better known as an ISLAMIC TERROR HUT) in 2005!



Why do godless liberals like Michelle Malkin and Charles Johnson continue to overlook the Bush family's efforts at appeasement to the enemies of America?  Only time will tell!

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For the month of February, this guy is inventing a new musical instrument every day.  I find it awesome.  In both the colloquial and the classical sense.

"It doesn't have schematics exactly - more just a sort of jumble of wires and stuff I soldered together at random until it made noise."

Thanks boutell for passing on this magnificent thing.

"Canadian" has become the new slur for "black" in some parts of the South, according to Canada's National Post.

I am so boggled I do not know where to begin.  Thanks be to kcatalyst for the tip.

The latest jaw-dropping piece to come out of the White House is Dick Cheney's assertion that the office of the Vice President is not part of the executive branch of the U.S. government, and therefore not subject to the usual oversight processes that apply to the rest of the White House.

Even more astonishing and alarming is that he may be right.

There's a document known as the Plum Book, formally titled "United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions," which is released every four years and apparently documents the structure of the Executive and Legislative branches, plus dozens of independent government agencies.  Appendix 5 of the 2004 Plum Book is titled "Office of the Vice President," and says:

The Vice Presidency is a unique office that is neither a part of the executive branch nor a part of the legislative branch, but is attached by the Constitution to the latter. The Vice Presidency performs functions in both the legislative branch (see article I, section 3 of the Constitution) and in the executive branch (see article II, and amendments XII and XXV, of the Constitution, and section 106 of title 3 of the United States Code).

Smoley hokes.  It makes sense from a separation-of-powers point of view (remember that the Vice President is also the President of the Senate), but still.

I am, of course, not an expert in Constitutional law and don't know how authoritative these sources are.  Some part of me is sure that this is not a real loophole, and that elsewhere in the vast shadowy behemoth of Federal regulatory law there is a stipulation that presidential orders which apply to the executive branch are also held to apply to the veep.

Nevertheless.  I really hope this gets played out to its logical extreme.  It will be very interesting to watch.

Thanks to dr_memory for bringing to my attention the original Time Blog article (linking to both the Cheney quote and the Plum Book).