(note, this is not an onion article)

PHILLIPS: The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote.  It wasn't you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you're a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you're not a property owner, you know, I'm sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.

Tbogg... Obama buys a lawnmower

["Hey John. I couldn't help but notice that fine lawnmower in your garage. How much do you want for it?"
"Well I wasn't planning on selling it, but I guess I'd let it go for $20."
Obama thinks about it for a moment. "Okay I'll give you $25."]

Timf at BJ doesn't think Tbogg (!!)quite gets it.. cynical

Cluestick for Rachel and Paul Krugman and any other columnist, pundit or reporter that has not figured it out just yet: Obama does these things because the end result is what Obama wants. Barack Obama is a conservative, a moderate (by today's standards) Republican wearing a Democratic label. What you see is what you get.

Honestly, how many times can we go through this charade before it's obvious to the blind, the deaf and the mute that Obama's definition of "negotiate" is "to assume a belly-up (alt. bent-over) position in the presence of conservatives and Republicans while talking down to anyone remotely liberal and bamboozling the moderates into believing you actually have any intention of advocating for them."

I feel like we're trapped in one of my least favorite movies ever: Groundhog Day; it's the same thing, over and over and over.

I have news for Obama: I do not want Democrats and Republicans to come together and find common ground; I want Democrats to advocate for and lead on progressive/liberal policies, and extract concessions from the GOP, not deliver them to the GOP.

adjectives fail me.  this makes me really really angry.  I wish I could resurrect the guy so I could kick his a$$.

When I die, so does my dog: Some pet owners take animals to their graves

Such was the case with Tom Tom, a healthy  2-year-old Yorkshire terrier who was euthanized and laid to rest last March after its late owner, Donald Ellis, left explicit instructions that his beloved Yorkie be put down and buried with him.

Erickson: I think they probably demand more seeing as he folded so easy on this one. Why not?

you know, it took a while but I am nearing I absolutely will not vote for him again.  I am not QUITE there yet but I am teetering.

The study said that 69 percent of 115,052 troops who responded to the survey said they had served with someone they believed to be a gay or lesbian; 92 percent said their experience working with a gay or lesbian service member was good or indifferent.

However, the survey said that 48 percent of Army combat troops and 58 percent of Marines in combat units feared the change would affect their ability to fight, though the report said those statistics were contradicted when service members were asked about their actual experience. "The percentage distinctions between warfighting units and the entire military are almost non-existent when asked about the actual experience of serving in a unit with someone believed to be gay," the report found.

the outrage du jour. I couldn't name you a single Gwar tune but I've known of the band for years for precisely this reason -- their costumes and stagecraft are so famously ridiculous that the whole act operates as a sort of satire of death metal.

"Because -- because, it's all rigged. I mean, the whole conversation is rigged. The fact that we don't get to discussion before the break about what we're going to do in the lame duck is just rigged. This stuff's rigged," the Senator (Bennett, CO) said.