Lost in all the excitement over Obama adviser concubine close personal friend acquaintance Hilary Rosen saying she hates stay-at-home moms, was that Charlie Manson was – shockingly – denied parole. Chuck is 77 years old, but his homemade swastika forehead tattoo is still holding up after all these years. Never fear, as Uncle Charlie will get another crack at release when he turns 92 (and I fully expect both he and Dick Cheney will still be alive).
The much feared North Korean launch of its Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite turned out to be a bust, as the rocket failed to enter orbit after splintering in to pieces shortly after liftoff. I’m thinking the North Koreans maybe should’ve passed on that one. Seeing as they don’t have enough money to feed their people, they should probably have saved the money.
Sad news for sports fans, as the Lingerie Football League has decided to suspend the 2012 season. They will, however embark on a promotional “all-star” world tour (not coming to a city near you, I’m afraid, unless you’re in Mexico City, Sydney and Brisbane, Australia, and possibly some cities in Asia).
Sports fans in Lubbock TX are in luck, though. No LFL games, but, for $100 an hour, you can hire a maid that will clean your house in the buff (or in lingerie).
“Excuse me, my dear, but I believe you missed a spot on the baseboard. No, to the left. A little lower…. Oh, that’s perfect.”
Oh well, let’s get this damn week over with already.
Guess it’s time to get on the taxes. I’ve done everything I could to avoid it but I think I have enough room on the desk to sort out the receipts.
We picked up our taxes yesterday and allowed, for the first time, the tax lady to file them electronically. Today she called to say they were rejected because I added Mike’s last name to my own and used them both. So, I have to mail them anyway.
But, it is a beautiful day. LI has declared a drought. And, the Ospreys are busy incubating eggs so we will soon have come chicks to watch grow up.
I also caught a brief segment of Grover Norquist, the guy who came up with his tax stance at the age of 12 and has managed to sell a 12 year old’s idea to the entire Republican party. He was saying that Obama can’t talk about what he’s done in his first term because he wants to hide it and can’t talk about what he’s going to do because he wants to hide that. Should be a very quiet election with Mittens discussing the advantages to Swiss bank accounts.
If Health Insurance Mandates Are Unconstitutional, Why Did the Founding Fathers Back Them?
n making the legal case against Obamacare’s individual mandate, challengers have argued that the framers of our Constitution would certainly have found such a measure to be unconstitutional. Nevermind that nothing in the text or history of the Constitution’s Commerce Clause indicates that Congress cannot mandate commercial purchases. The framers, challengers have claimed, thought a constitutional ban on purchase mandates was too “obvious†to mention. Their core basis for this claim is that purchase mandates are unprecedented, which they say would not be the case if it was understood this power existed.
But there’s a major problem with this line of argument: It just isn’t true….