Just in case you thought you’d heard it all about Dick Cheney, it turns out he was trying to get The Shrub to send the Army to Buffalo to round up the Lackawana Six. Imagine that. That’s about as disturbing a thought as I can think of. The next step would be tanks in the streets to quash protests.

CNN President Joe Klein showed a lot of courage in declaring the Obama isn’t a citizen story dead, and that there was no need to keep debating it, because there isn’t anything to debate (like any good conspiracy – fake moon landing, “chem” trails, 9/11 controlled demolition – any facts which would point to a non-conspiracy are obviously faked, and if you believe them, then you’re at best pathetic and naive, and at worst part of the conspiracy yourself). That courage didn’t last long, of course, and Klein took a step or two back.

For his part, Lou Dobbs managed to work up a case of righteous indignation, declaring that

“limp-minded, lily-livered lefties” who attacked him only because he “had the temerity to inquire as to where the birth certificate was and why the president of the United States would not turn over that birth certificate to the national media and end the noise.”

You’re a great American, Lou. Shoulda gone with “limp-wristed” though.

The only question I have, is how do the “serious” news types decide which wacko conspiracies are taboo and should never be discussed (like the Downing Street memo, Sibel Edmonds, no WMD, etc), and which are legitimate topics of discourse (Obama is a Kenyan, Obama thinks cops are stupid, Obama is a liberal, etc). Beats me. That must be something they teach in Journalism School these days.

Apparently, there’s a 50-mile stretch of highway along nearby Cayuga Lake where they hold an annual “50-mile Garage Sale” weekend. I’m not a garage sale maven, so I’d never heard of it, but apparently everybody has lots of fun, and people cook up and sell chicken, hot dogs, burgers and whatnot. Well, the Cayuga County Dept. of Health has decided they need to “protect the public” this year, by forcing everybody who wants to grill up food to get a temporary food permit.

How will this protect the public? Well, the application includes a 19-point checklist for “safe food handling.” That’s about it. I suppose they could just make the checklist available to everybody, but then they couldn’t charge the $30 application fee. Not that it’s all about money or anything.

Oh, well. Getting a late start to the day, so I reckon I’d better get going. Have a good one.