Left: WorldNetDaily discovers this abomination of the Stars & Stripes on eBay, regrets that horse-whipping is no longer permitted:

Indiana Code 35.45.1.4 states the following:

Flag desecration

Sec. 4. (a) A person who knowingly or intentionally mutilates, defaces, burns, or tramples any United States flag, standard, or ensign commits flag desecration, a Class A misdemeanor.

Right: WND offers this lovely “Tea Stained” flag at its online store.

Is Obama’s face on U.S. flag illegal? [WND]

Taking the pole position for Quote of the Day, American Family Association’s Randy Sharp condemns a convenience-store chain for stocking the Marge Simpson Playboy issue:

“It’s irresponsible of 7-Eleven to display porn in front of boys who pop into 7-11s for a hot dog or a Slurpee.”

That was enough for us to do a spit-take with our Big Gulp, but then we learned the name of Playboy’s new CEO: Scott Flanders.

7-Eleven targeted for selling ‘Simpsons porn’ [Raw Story]

“Olympia Snowe has sold out the country,” fumed RedState’s Erick Erickson after she cast her “historic” vote for the heathcare bill that she promised to historically take back if needed. And to demonstrate the awesome fury of the base, he told everyone to buy a bag of rock salt from Amazon and ship it to her office. “It’s time to melt Snowe,” he said, after what must have been an exhausting pitch meeting.

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So I’m on a job from which I cannot post.  But I took a cell phone photo from WFC1 on Columbus Day, and this is it:

There’s a ship making its way toward Ellis Island at the middle right of the photo.  It just staggers me – this is the ship.  A replica, but so strange to see a 15th century bit of wood among all the freighters and ferries.  Amazing.

Great, now we have to find another balloon graphic:

Rush Limbaugh is expected to be dropped from a group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams, according to three NFL sources.

Dave Checketts, chairman of the NHL’s St. Louis Blues and the point man in the Limbaugh group attempting to buy the Rams, realizes he must remove the controversial conservative radio host from his potential role as a minority member in the group in order to get approval from other NFL owners, the sources said.

But not before Rush nailed himself to the cross today:

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Back before we sent a team of Zombie Ninjas to render him to our Black Site, Serolf Divad made some noise with a post showing how conservatives made a wee mistake using the Dow as a measure of Obama’s economic policy — the stock market had just clicked above its Inauguration Day level.

That would be 7486, on March 17.

So conservatives moved the goalposts, saying you really have to start from Election Day 2008, when the Dow closed at 9625.

Fine, fine. Today’s close? 10,015.

Dumb Metrics [Patriot’s Quill, March 18]

After Previously Blaming Obama For Slumping Markets, Boehner Now Downplays Surging Dow [Think Progress]

Hey everybody, it’s bonfire season! Break out the wieners, marshmallows — and Bibles:

A Baptist Church near Asheville, N.C., is hosting a “Halloween book burning” to purge the area of “Satan’s” works, which include all non-King James versions of the Bible, popular books by many religious authors and even country music.

Included in the Amazing Grace Baptist Church’s burn notice is infamous heretic Mother Teresa, who spent her life as one of Christ’s Concubines (so many brides, so little time). Alas, their list of Ungodly Country Music doesn’t include Miley’s Dad, but there’s still time.

Since the event is BYOB, you might check your shelves for Good News for Modern Man, the Evidence Bible, the New International Version Bible, the Green Bible and the Message Bible, which the church considers “Satan’s Bibles.”

Then again, as Texas has witnessed, burning Bibles without crafting joints from the pages is a waste of good rolling paper.

North Carolina church to burn ‘Satan’s books,’ including works of Mother Teresa [Raw Story]