So, who’s calling for a presidential assassination today?

After an audience member shouted a question about “Obama tags” during a discussion on wolves, [Idaho Republican gubernatorial candidate Rex] Rammell responded, “The Obama tags? We’d buy some of those.”

Rammell, a veterinarian and former elk rancher from Idaho Falls, said his comment was a joke and he would never seriously talk about President Obama that way, although he doesn’t support anything Obama’s done as president.

“I was just being sarcastic. That was just a joke,” Rammell said. “I would never support him being assassinated.”

On the one hand, we’ve been making JFK jokes pretty much all our life. On the other hand, our usual audience doesn’t include idiots toting assault rifles.

Rammell howls at Otter for not buying wolf tag [Twin Falls (Idaho) Times-News, via Political Wire]

We’ve never really appreciated high-school movies — they never reflect our own experience. We may have been a card-carrying geek in our teen years, but we had a great time.

We credit the genius of a mid-century architect, who designed our school as a long building with the gym at one end and the auditorium at the other, effectively separating the freaks from the jocks.

We also credit well-funded public schools in the Seventies, when art, music and drama weren’t yet considered frills.

And we credit a wonderfully casual attitude among parents, who really didn’t care that we proudly displayed a vibrator in the bandroom trophy case, or that we performed a musical called “Lock Up Your Daughters.”

Those days are long past, of course. But every so often, something brings them to mind:

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First they came for Glenn Beck, because he wants you to kill the President for him.

Then they came for Whole Foods, because its CEO wants you to die for his principles.

And now they’re coming for WorldNetDaily — because it makes wingnuts look bad:

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JPMorgan Chase, which last fall quickly declared it would use its $25 billion bailout to add yet more names to its title, has also been using the time we bought to screw its long-term credit-card customers.

It’s a great scam. Chase spent years deforesting the world to mail low-interest balance-transfer offers to folks who enjoyed generous credit lines — from 2 to 6 percent interest for the life of repayment, in most cases.

If you did the math, even including the transfer fee, it was a sweet deal. Sure, there was fine print — always pay on time, lower-interest balances would be credited first, the usual. But as long as you played by the rules, you were safe.

Presuming, of course, Chase didn’t change the rules.

Which, for an estimated million customers, they have.

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Title: “End the Fed”

Author: Ron Paul

Rank: 36

Blurb: “What most people don’t realize is that the Fed — created by the Morgans and Rockefellers at a private club off the coast of Georgia — is actually working against their own personal interests.”

Reviews: “Rarely has a single book not only challenged, but decisively changed my mind.”
–Arlo Guthrie

“The Federal Reserve, which serves private banks, has compromised our economy and is undermining our freedom. It can and must be stopped now.”
–Vince Vaughn

Customers Also Bought: “The Left, The Right and The State,” by Lew Rockwell

Footnote: Wait, Arlo “Screw My Dad” Guthrie and Vince “CBS Schoolbreak Special” Vaughn are Paultards?

End the Fed [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

Destined to join Stuff On My Cat and Stuff White People Like in Internet immortality is the hot new Twitter feed, Shit My Dad Says. Written by 28-year-old Justin about his 73-year-old father, it reads like an undiscovered Walter Matthau movie:

• “You know, sometimes it’s nice having you around. But now ain’t one of those times. Now gimmie the remote we’re not watching this bullshit.”
• “The dog don’t like you planting stuff there. It’s his backyard. If you’re the only one who shits in something, you own it. Remember that.”
• “You need to flush the toilet more than once…No, YOU, YOU specifically need to. You know what, use a different toilet. This is my toilet.”

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We haven’t been following all the twists, but that dude who packed an assault rifle to Barry’s Phoenix healthcare rally? His pastor had given a Very Special Sermon about Obama the day before:

You’re going to tell me that I’m supposed to pray for the socialist devil, murderer, infanticide, who wants to see young children and he wants to see babies killed through abortion and partial-birth abortion and all these different things — you’re gonna tell me I’m supposed to pray for God to give him a good lunch tomorrow while he’s in Phoenix, Arizona?

Nope. I’m not gonna pray for his good. I’m going to pray that he dies and goes to hell.

Well, the Lord heard his prayer, and sent the Secret Service to offer communion.

CNN: Secret Service Interviewed Pastor Who Prays For Obama’s Death [TPM]