Thanks to Jay Reding for helping to making it easier to shop for those… uhh… damn hippies who lost the election. Target (the department store) now lets you order marijuana. I wonder if they know anything about the results of the previous post about SCOTUS reviewing medicinal dope.
Damn they are fast. Removed the page already. Luckily I got a screen shot!!!!!

Excerpt from the Medicinal Marijuana debate before SCOTUS:

The case pits the federal drug law against a line of Supreme Court decisions that tilted the federal-state balance of power toward the states. The court ruled in 1995 that Congress couldn’t make it a federal crime to possess a gun in a school zone, and in 2000 the justices struck down a provision that let rape victims sue their attackers in federal court.
In those cases the court said Congress’s authority to regulate interstate commerce didn’t cover local, non-economic acts. In today’s case, the two California women say the same logic means Congress can’t override the state’s voter-approved law allowing doctor-recommended use of locally grown marijuana that doesn’t cross state lines.
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Justice Antonin Scalia asked Barnett how his argument of a trivial economic effect from medical marijuana would apply to federal laws protecting endangered species. Those laws ban possession of ivory or eagle feathers without regard to whether a person obtained them through interstate commerce.
“Are those laws likewise unconstitutional?” Scalia asked.

Well, maybe they are unconstitutional. That is for the Supreme Court to decide, now isn’t it?
Unfortunately the response from the lawyer isn’t recorded in the article.

Home”¦ what do you call home & why? (more…)

A good response to that … woman … I blogged about before in Episode 388.

Dumping VX in rivers is sophomoric idea
A recent letter writer insinuated that VX nerve agent should be disposed of in the rivers of red states in order to retaliate against those people who voted for President Bush.
A line of attack such as this could not be more outrageous. Assuming the writer is a blue state voting environmentalist with an axe to grind against red state voters and their presumed polluting ways, I find it incredible that her method would be to dump the VX in a red state river, or any river for that matter.
Additionally, considering that rivers follow the topography of the land and not the ideological landscape, most cities are located next to rivers and most of these cities tend to vote blue. By simple deduction she ends up advocated the poisoning of people with a similar ideology to hers. I understand she was trying to make a political point, but clearly the wrong metaphor was chosen.
Perhaps it is her anger at the results of the presidential election that has clouded her mind and caused her to resort to such caustic sophomoric rhetoric along comparable lines to the leftist Hollywood “Vote or Die” crowd.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons why her side lost.
Marco Boyce, Wilmington

So I’m buying a new car… so I’ve been looking at the forums out there by the car enthusiasts for the car I’m getting. Found this which was pretty damn funny:

What’s going on in the car forums?
Bentley Forums
- - - I used the ash tray today. How do I replace it?

Camaro/Firebird Forums
- - - My girl slept with my brother and my wife. How can I kill ‘em? btw, I have a record and I ain’t going back.

Mustang forums
- - -Some punk kid in a Civic tried to race me.

Monte Carlo forums
- - -Why do I keep getting pulled over, it ain’t stolen yo.

Civic forums
- - -Some punk kid in a Mustang tried to race me.

VW Bug forum
- - - The Save the Earth concert was a success (pics)

Yugo Forum
- - - When’s the last time yours ran?

Lamborghini forum
- - - Wind noise around 210MPH

Miata forums
- - - Some redneck jackass in a Chevy Tahoe just ran over my car (pics)

Chevy Tahoe forum
- - -Miata stuck in my undercarriage. How do I safely remove it? (pics)

Pontiac Fiero forum
- - - Just bought a new flame retardant suit (pics)

BMW 7-series forum
- - - Where to get service on my Rolex?

Cadillac forum
- - - Problems parallel parking at bingo.

Chevy Suburban Forum
- - - Is the price of gas going down anytime soon?

Buick Forum
- - - Is Medicare or Medicaid right for me?

Crown Victoria forum
- - - How come people never pass me on the highway?

Honda Accord forum
- - - Mom is giving me the car. Looking for some cheap, used 18 inch rims.

Toyota Echo forum
- - - Do our cars use AAA or AA’s?

Ferrari forums
- - - Need suggestions about a business trip to Colombia. Want to get in and out fast.

Porsche forums
- - - Tire just went flat. Is it best to trade or sell the car myself?

Saturn forums
- - - Roman candle landed on my fender. Melted and need to replace.

Jaguar forum
- - - Is the carbon fiber dash kit group-buy still on?

Mercedes forum
- - - My wife and her stink hole lawyer are trying to ruin me in divorce court. How do I get them both killed and not get in trouble with my medical board?

Mini forum
- - - Just flipped the Cooper after seeing The Italian Job. Suing the movie company. (pics)

Dodge Viper forum
- - - I frightened myself on the way home from work yesterday. How to get pee stains out of the leather?

McLaren F1 forum
- - -Some punk kid in a F16 tried to race me.

Dodge Minivan forum
- - - Where’s the best place to post the soccer schedule so I don’t forget where I’m supposed to be?

Hummer forum
- - - Had a fender bender today. 24 hurt, 10 killed. Do I have to get the black touch-up paint from the dealer? He’s 25 miles away. That’s $35 in gas.

Fiat forum
- - -Hello? Am I the only member?

Subaru WRX forum
- - - I hate cops. Got ticketed for drifting in the Walmart parking lot.

Chevy pickup forum
- - - How do I git the dried tobacco juice stains off the side of mah truck?

SRT Forums
“Will this void my warranty”

Supra Forums
- - -Head to big to fit in car, should have bought a Targa.

Vette Forums
- - -Why did I pay $50k for something with a Cavalier steering wheel?

Ford 2.3 forums
- - -Help! Replaced everything, still doesn’t start!

Click here!!

Ok folks, a little sales biz here.. forgive me… but… Ok you know we have under 3 weeks before we are on the road to Colorado, so trying to clear out STUFF…

Our 5′ tall Animated Dancing Singing Homer has been adopted.. but hey there is sooo much More, Including 2 Leather Biker Jackets with zip out Thinsulate Linings!! Excellent condition too!

Oh yeah tons of Tupperware and sooo much more, Go to the “Click Here” above or go to www.ebay.com and enter GYPSYTDA in the advanced search under “Seller” and you will pull up my listings.

Humble thanks for letting me go on like this, and Sincere appreciate for your help clearing this stuff out..

The Denver Post

Boulders puncturing a major highway in Colorado, now “thankfully” there was an accident just prior to the slide.. the highway was closed due to an overturned beer truck.. ahh thank you beer man!

Now folks only option is a 200 mile detour, even with that some folks left the guys soda & homemade pound cake cause they did not want them to go hungry.. especially on thanksgiving!

OK People of the East Coast what do we do when there is a back up.. yup $#@! i certainly doubt we would see such a laid back not to mention kind attitude to such a situation!

Now this is a distance north of where we will move moving, but it is a whole attitude which is awesome.. one of the many reasons we will be calling Colorado our home in 3 weeks! woo hooo (ok we will be on the road in 3 weeks, but hey,.. we will be on our way!!)

Damn, I made the dumpcake from Genny’s recipe and oh my… that is good good stuff.
Threw a scoop of vanilla ice cream on it while still warm. Lets just say, no one else got to eat very much of it…
Gennie, hope you don’t mind me reprinting the recipe. Did have one question though: 1/4 cup of butter is 1/2 stick, but I used a whole stick anyways. Since of course you can never have enough butter!

Dump Cake: (This is AWESOME!)
Ingredients:
1 can cherry pie filling
1 20 oz. can crushed pineapple with juice (do not drain)
1 yellow cake mix (dry, straight out of the bag)
1 8 oz. bag chopped walnuts or pecans (your preference)
1 7 oz. bag flaked or shredded coconut
1/4 cup butter, melted (1 stick)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Take out, but do not prepare, 13×9 inch baking pan. Dump cherry pie filling and undrained pineapple into pan.
Spread around to combine fruit just a little. Sprinkle dry cake mix evenly over the fruit. Sprinkle nuts and coconut over cake mix. Drizzle butter evenly over nuts and coconut. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes, or until coconut looks toasty.
Let cool for 15 minutes or so. Serve with or without Ice Cream.

Take the quiz and find out of you’re one of them thar mouth breathing republican voters, i.e., a typical American.
I took the test and got 19 of 20 correct, and this is what it said:

You have an impressive understanding of the world for an American. It is likely that you feel intellectually isolated in your home country, and often have to hide your opinions from others. Deep down, you realise that your country is the single biggest threat to world peace in modern times, but you have not yet summoned up the courage to emigrate.

Ahh, got to love the condescending euro-weenie who made this one.

Reading The Donovan (Jonah’s Military Guys) blog and just got the biggest kick out of one of the comments by TmjUtah:

It does an old Marine good to see a pic of a squad moving up with two or three M-14’s being carried in it. I hope that the ordnance development guys do another think on what direction they want to go with our main battle rifle; the 5.56 needs to go and its replacement doesn’t have to be part of a twenty pound computer that poops out grenades, bullets, and text messages from AOL.

That is good stuff. I think it comes down to every infantry unit needs at least a few long range sharpshooters with better sniping weapons such as M14 variants, and everyone else can have spray and pray rifles like the M16.

FrontPage magazine has the story on the first lawsuit brought by a complete LOSER angry about the election. This woman is suing the Republican party for taking an active role in getting Bush elected.

One might be forgiven for thinking that the first suit against the Republican Party for Post Election Selection Trauma (PEST) would have been filed in Palm Beach County, but a 38-year-old from Manhattan’s West Side has beaten her Floridian fellow victims to the punch.
Barbi Weiner, a third grade teacher currently on disability, is suing the Republican party for having taken an active role in returning George Bush to the White House, a circumstance that resulted in Ms. Weiner suffering a nervous collapse last Nov.8th as she crossed West 72nd Street.
“I looked up and saw the WestSideWaffle! sign with its big red ‘W’s,’” she says. “And I realized it was true, he won. Then I started thinking about my life and I realized that I couldn’t go on living in a country where a war-mongering baby-killer holds the highest office in the land. I guess I lost it.”
Asked why she doesn’t simply make up her mind to leave the country, Ms. Weiner said, “That’s a typical Republican oversimplification - if you don’t like it, leave. Nothing will ever change if we just run away. I chose the principled response. But I didn’t think I’d wind up spending a week in a mental hospital. There’s nothing crazy about wanting the President of the United States to be a Democrat. Anyway, I shouldn’t have had to lose it completely just to bring this crisis to the attention of the American people.”

BTW, this is a fictional story, but then why is it so damn believable?!?
via Country Store

Well, maybe not specifically gun control, but to Ozzy being robbed.
The BBC is taking public comments about Ozzy throwing a burglar out of his window, even though it is illegal to fight back in England.

Surely we should be prosecuting Ozzy - the burglar might have been hurt. I sincerely hope Mr Osbourne didn’t swear at the poor chap - that would be incitement to burglar hatred. We should lock him up without trial!
Craig, UK

I hope this one was sarcasm!

I say congrats to Ozzy, he took a bit of a risk, but he has every right to defend his home with a bit of force. A burglar alarm technician who visited our house recently told my mother than they were no longer able to fit loud internal panic alarms in homes, as burglars had made injury claims from being deafened by them. It’s a crazy world we live in when criminals who break the law have any rights to make such a claim, or that they are successful. I think that if someone breaks the law and violates your home you have every right to use force to defend yourself and any injuries sustained by the criminal is just too bad.
Jonathan Dale, London, UK

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No, because if he hurt the burglar, the human rights brigade would’ve been all over him like a rash - trying to get compensation for the law-breakers.
Fraser, Essex, England

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GO OZZY! I can’t believe we still live in a country where we can still be arrested if we use force to protect our loved ones from intruders. What happens if someone breaks into your house? Are we just supposed to stand by and watch our loved ones get robbed, hurt or worse?
Euan, Aberdeen, Scotland

These are resonses that I hope I never have to hear in the US.

News Flash from the Canuck Border patrol:

The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration.
The re-election of President Bush is prompting the exodus among left-leaning citizens who fear they’ll soon be required to hunt, pray and agree with Bill O’Reilly.
Canadian border farmers say it’s not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, animal-rights activists and Unitarians crossing their fields at night.
”I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn,” said Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota. The producer was cold, exhausted and hungry.
”He asked me if I could spare a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn’t have any, he left. Didn’t even get a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?”
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When liberals are caught, they’re sent back across the border, often wailing loudly that they fear retribution from conservatives. Rumors have been circulating about the Bush administration establishing re-education camps in which liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer and watch NASCAR.
In the days since the election, liberals have turned to sometimes-ingenious ways of crossing the border. Some have taken to posing as senior citizens on bus trips to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half-dozen young vegans disguised in powdered wigs, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior-citizen passengers.
”If they can’t identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we get suspicious about their age,” an official said.
Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating and organic-broccoli shortage and renting all the good Susan Sarandon movies.
”I feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can’t support them,” an Ottawa resident said. ”How many art-history majors does one country need?”
In an effort to ease tensions between the United States and Canada, Vice President Dick Cheney met with the Canadian ambassador and pledged that the administration would take steps to reassure liberals, a source close to Cheney said.
”We’re going to have some Peter, Paul and Mary concerts. And we might put some endangered species on postage stamps. The president is determined to reach out.”

Thanks to the Country Store…

Credibility, that is…
Dan Rather is leaving CBS news as anchorman, and will remain a “correspondent.”
In other words, he can’t take the heat of being a partisan anymore while trying to hide it.
Maybe this has something to do with the timing:

A report on what went wrong with the National Guard story, from a two-man independent investigative panel, is due imminently. Rather anchored the story and initially defended it when it was criticized.

RWN has posted the top 25 Ann Coulter quotes. I myself, yes it is true, happen to own an Ann Coulter book or two. And its good stuff for riling up the blood!
A few of my favorites, but follow the link for the whole list!

23) “The leaders of the modern Democratic Party, Hannity says, have made excuses for evil for so long that they cannot recognize evil anymore. The closest thing to it in their vocabulary would be “someone who wears fur.” And of course, they recognize evil in the person of “George W. Bush,” whom they see as the very essence of evil. In fact, Bush may be the only force of evil in the world liberals haven’t wanted to appease.”
16) “(Sheryl) Crow explained that the ‘best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.’ War solves that problem too: We won’t have any enemies because we’re going to kill them. Crow warned of ‘huge karmic retributions that will follow.’ She seemed not to understand that America going to war is huge karmic retribution. They killed three thousand Americans and now they’re going to die.”
3) “Not exactly smashing stereotypes of liberals as mincing pantywaists, the left’s entire contribution to the war effort thus far has been to whine.”

We here at the Pirate-King have joined the Spirit of America Friends of Iraq Blogger Challenge. Everyone by now should know that the people of Iraq are having just a bad time of things. The US Gov is rebuilding what they can, but they’re focused on the big picture items. Spirit of America gives 100% of the donations to projects such as irrigation support, giving out sewing machines, school supplies, libraries, and even tools for craftsmen. It is tax deductable, and with the end of the year coming up, this is a good time to help lower your tax bracket! Also, I know lots of people at my office read this blog, and I know they’re raking in the $$, so unless they want to find their accounts locked out tomorrow, donations would be advisable! Thanks to ASV!

I can’t believe the Delaware News Journal actually posted this letter to the editor:

Dump VX agent into red states’ rivers

Hasn’t DuPont’s vice president been reading The News Journal recently? It’s all about the pollution in our streams and bays. Delaware and New Jersey made it clear they do not want VX nerve agent in our waters. We already have enough chemicals in the Brandywine, Christina and Delaware Rivers and Red Clay Creek from DuPont-run plants.

Let’s send VX agent to the red States that voted for President Bush since they don’t seem to care about pollution and air quality. Let them dump VX agent into the Mississippi River.

Nancy M. Ciarlo, Rehoboth Beach

Where do I even begin?

Someone suggesting that nerve gas should be used on their own people is not supposed to happen in the US.
But here it is, in the state I grew up in, someone is suggesting that.

People ask me why I want to leave Delaware and move out west. Now I can just give them the url…

***Update***
Always a more eloquent response, over at the Razor… I hope to see it printed!

I know lots of you have already found this site, but your mission for today is a visit to Incoherent Ramblings. The young lady is an avid Snowboarder, rabid NRA supporter, Starving Artist, Military Junkie, anti-fru-fru, John Kerry hater, Retail Slave that basically posts incoherant ramblings and things better left unsaid.
Tell me, how can you go wrong?
She’s been on our blogroll for a while now, which is a good thing. She’s deploying to Kosovo very soon, so hopefully she’ll have good web access out there to keep published with events from the other side…

My Bloginality is INTJ!!!

The Order of the Stick points out why once again, Pirates rule!