There's a photo rolling around of Bush signing a small U.S. flag with a magic marker before handing it back to an adoring fan, and people are quoting US Code, Title 4, Chapter 1, Sec. 8 (g): "The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature."
Sadly, there is one exception to USC4.1.8g. USC4.1.10 gives the Commander in Chief the specific right to do whatever he wants when he "deems it to be appropriate or desirable." It requires that he do so in a proclamation, but then that's just a technicality, ain't it?
Meanwhile, U.S. Senator Jim Bunning in a recent conversation with the press said he was "completely unaware" of the recent brouhaha regarding a National Guard unit's refusal to go on a mission. He explained it this way: "I don't watch the national news, and I don't read the paper. I haven't done that for the last six weeks. I watch Fox News to get my information."
That's reassuring.
Meanwhile yet again, Pat Buchanan's magazine,
The American Conservative, has
endorsed John Kerry for president:
Bush has behaved like a caricature of what a right-wing president is supposed to be, and his continuation in office will discredit any sort of conservatism for generations. The launching of an invasion against a country that posed no threat to the U.S., the doling out of war profits and concessions to politically favored corporations, the financing of the war by ballooning the deficit to be passed on to the nation\u2019s children, the ceaseless drive to cut taxes for those outside the middle class and working poor: it is as if Bush sought to resurrect every false 1960s-era left-wing cliché about predatory imperialism and turn it into administration policy. Add to this his nation-breaking immigration proposal -- Bush has laid out a mad scheme to import immigrants to fill any job where the wage is so low that an American can\u2019t be found to do it -- and you have a presidency that combines imperialist Right and open-borders Left in a uniquely noxious cocktail.
A Utah sherriff has announced that from now on his officers will be
cataloging and categorizing all porn found at crime scenes, in the hopes of developing a profile between what people read and the crimes they commit. Isn't that lovely?
And, as if we all didn't have enough to worry about, mainstream Islamicists in the U.S.
back intelligent design nonsense. Joy.
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