We’ve been looking for an excuse all week to run this picture. We’ve now decided that “Saturday” is as good an excuse as any.

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Our guest columnist is Stinquer RedManLaw.

As we celebrate our freedoms this weekend, remember that it also includes the right for Americans to dress up like World War II German soldiers and run around the countryside with carbines, machine guns and artillery.

Happy Freedom!

Living History – D-Day 2005 – 352nd Infanterie Division [Grenadier352nd]

Mark Grisanti is a Catholic Republican state senator from Buffalo, who has opposed gay marriage. Last night, he changed his mind:

Tonight, I joined my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to legalize same sex marriage in New York State. Since I began my term as Senator I have met with many people on both sides of this issue, read numerous documents and independent studies. Given the high stakes, I felt I owed it to everyone to make a well-informed decision. I have come to believe that all New Yorkers should be entitled to the same 1,324 rights that come with a civil marriage. As an attorney I analyzed the legislation and concluded that the amendments provide critical exemptions for religious institutions. Passage of this bill now rather than later ensures that these protections be included. I cannot deny anyone in my district and across New York the same rights I have with my wife.

Barack Obama is the Democratic President of the United States. Thursday night, speaking in Manhattan, he waffled:

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While we were, um, contemplating the Circle of Life at the Stinque Remote Office yesterday, we noticed an unusual gift that the Plumbing Gods had bestowed on our meditations.

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Wait… wait… wait… Goooooooooooallll!!!

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Example #1: Joe Lieberman, vice-presidential candidate, 2000.

Example #2: John Edwards, vice-presidential candidate, 2004.

Class dismissed.

Sometimes reality and journalistic convention combine to create magic:

Horse herpes outbreak forces rodeo queens to ride stick ponies

This is one of those moments.

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