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. . . and, when proven innocent, still treated as guilty.

Bushie justice.

There is no more morality in the Current Federal Administration than there is in a brick.

Drink.

You have reasons.

Drink to forget.

Drink to forget that your 401K is now a dollar-three-eighty-K.

Drink to forget that job you don’t have any more, or the one you won’t get because it no longer exists, or the one your husband/wife/son/daughter/father/mother/friend just lost.

Drink to forget your employer, the company that is gone with the wind.

Drink to forget your house, the one you don’t have any more.

Drink to dedicate the refrigerator box that is your new home.

Drink to forget the lives lost, twisted, mangled, and wasted in the Glorious and Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq.

Drink to forget torture, betrayal, concentration camps, duplicity, and doltishness.

Drink to celebrate.

Drink to celebrate January 20, 2009.

Drink to celebrate competence, steadiness, and thoughtfulness.

Drink to celebrate the elevation of idea over ideology, the general welfare over General Confusion (and his entire staff).

Drink to celebrate hope over hostility, selflessness over selfishness.

Drink to celebrate the blood, sacrifice, and ideals of the Founders.

Drink to celebrate the Constitution of the United States of America.

Drink to celebrate the people of the United States of America, who, with many false starts, much backing and filling, many errors, sidetrips, and distractions, somehow usually, over the generations, ultimately figure out the difference between right and wrong.

Drink Liberally, Tuesday, Triumph Brewing Company, Tuesday, Chestnut between Letitia and 2nd, Philadelphia, Pa., 6 p.

(Updated to include the day of the week. D’oh!)

Light bloggery.

But I’m sure something will enrage me.

BOA backs down on mountaintop removal.

Justice? We shall see.

According to a recent report, the Department of Justice may use an anti-drug law intended to fight the 80’s crack epidemic to put the gunmen away for up to three decades, minimum.

While no drugs were involved in the killings, the government’s attorneys may attempt to apply a clause in the 1988 Anti-Drug Abuse Act that requires a 30-year sentence for any violent crime committed with a machine gun.

Can’t top this list.

Just heard a newscaster refer to Mr. Obama as “the President,” rather than as “the President Elect.”

Fire the management.

They don’t know what they are doing.

Keep the UAW.

They do.

I decided to take my long, boring book on CSS.

Addendum:

All done. If you want to know what happened, go below the fold.

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I am.

From the Anchorage Daily News:

The man (Saxby Chambliss-ed.) who couldn’t bring himself to serve in the military said a man who left three limbs behind in war was a weakling who would turn the country over to terrorists.

Chambliss was a congressman during the 9-11 attacks. Congressional Quarterly’s “Politics in America 2006” noted that Congressman Chambliss “quipped that one route to security would be for local sheriffs to ‘arrest every Muslim that comes across the state line.’”

So there you have the fine American that Palin is trying to re-elect to the U.S. Senate.

Gov. Palin’s eldest joined the Army and has been deployed to Iraq. As a justifiably proud military mom, she might ask herself why she is using her conservative star power to support such a reprehensible Republican chicken hawk.

The answer is, natch, Republicans don’t care about truth.

Or justice.

Or the American Way.

They care just about Republicanism.

Tuesday, Triumph Brewing Company, 117 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa., 6 p.

Doesn’t seem like I will make it. Lousy cold. So go hoist one for me.

I’ve often driven past this place, but it’s too far away for me to have ever seen a movie there. Frankly, it didn’t look like much:

When the lights went out at the Diamond State Drive-In, it wasn’t just the end of a double feature, it was the end of an era. The patch of land with a projector screen along U.S. 13 was the last of its kind in the state.

But The Fellowship of the Ring is on TNT.

And, just like always, it’s not the prettiest tree on the block.

But it’s the tallest.

What Glomarization said.

Jon Swift reminds us of what it’s all about.

What Susie said.

I have avoided doing the “Wanker of the Day” schtick because I think it is grossly overworked, but Jeez Louise. . .

Juan Williams, who I just heard say that the Obama we are seeing now is not the man we saw during the campaign and perpetuating the meme that we lefties are somehow disappointed in his appointments.

Many persons, left and right, projected their own beliefs on the candidate.

Frankly, that’s their problem.

As I have said before, anyone who is surprised at Mr. Obama’s actions just was not paying attention for the past two years.

Having regularly heard Mr. Williams’s commentaries throughout the campaign–oh, never mind.

Addendum:

For a reality-based analysis, listen to this.