Why they didn’t do this when he was in office I’ll never know.  But this is pretty good:

We don’t care if he’s going to do for Playgirl what he did for GQ — Levi Johnston strikes us as the only decent human in the Wasilla Funhouse. Especially if you’re grading on a curve:

Sarah told me she had a great idea: we would keep it a secret — nobody would know that Bristol was pregnant. She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him. That way, she said, Bristol and I didn’t have to worry about anything. Sarah kept mentioning this plan. She was nagging — she wouldn’t give up. She would say, “So, are you gonna let me adopt him?” We both kept telling her we were definitely not going to let her adopt the baby. I think Sarah wanted to make Bristol look good, and she didn’t want people to know that her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid.

Imagine, if you will, the dramatic scene some twenty years from now:

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I know, I know – it’s not David Vitter, Chuck Grassley, or Chuck Grassley, but I had to post this.  If that had been, say, Tony Romo, he’d have been suspended for a game or two.  But not the great BRETT FAVRE (traitor).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQCSYvHuoRE

I usually just throw glossies in the trash, but this caught my eye.  I believe I’ll vote for this guy:

Left largely unremarked during this week’s episode of Dancing with the Torturers is a curious dispute over whether soul-mortgager John McCain agreed that techniques good enough for the Viet Cong are good enough for us. A 2007 memo from the Justice department’s Office of Legal Counsel reports the CIA saying he signed off on enhanced ghoulishness:

“[S]everal Members of Congress, including the full memberships of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees and Senator McCain, were briefed by General Michael Hayden, Director of the CIA, on the six techniques that we discuss herein. In those classified and private conversations, none of the Members expressed the view that the CIA detention and interrogation program should be stopped, or that the techniques at issue were inappropriate.”

But a McCain spokesbot said Monday that — are you sitting down? — the CIA got it wrong:

“Senator McCain clearly made the case that he was opposed to unduly coercive techniques, especially when used in combination or taken too far — including sleep deprivation.”

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Say, did you hear that President Obama is going to speak directly to classrooms via the Internet on September 8? What a wonderful idea!

• Free Republic: “He’s recruiting his civilian army. His ‘Hitler’ youth brigade.”
• All American Blogger: “Hitler knew that if you control the youth, you control the future. I wrote about him in ‘The Threats to Homeschooling: From Hitler to the NEA.'”
• AmericanElephant: “Totalitarian regimes around the world have sought to spread their propaganda and entrench their power by brainwashing the children. I guess it’s easier to indoctrinate a six-year-old instead of fighting a 26-year-old or being challenged by a 46-year-old in the voting booth”

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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]