Seagulls And Other Scavengers

There is perhaps no better comparison to what happens with governmental largess, than the seagull.  Rats with wings, they have been called… and for at least this purpose the comparison is fairly accurate.

Consider the similarities between the seagull and

Did Allah Pundit make a rather bad metaphor or just a uniquely apt one? …. from Hot Air:

You’d think liberals would want to pull their punches against Santorum until he’s built up enough momentum nationally to complicate life

Janet Shan, Hinterland Gazette:

Gun sales surge in U.S. for Christmas. According to the FBI, over 1.5 million background checks on customers were requested by gun dealers to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System in December, the UK

From the New York Times, via the Pundit of Poca and Daily Mail (WV):

Fisker Automotive is recalling all 239 of its 2012 Karma luxury plug-in hybrid cars because of a fire hazard, according to a report filed with

What I hate about the end of the year,  is the endless best of lists.  However this is good   I don’t normally link posts which make me insanely jealous, but this might help or campaign to win in 2-12,   Then,

If being voluntarily associated  with a racist  is bad for one politician, it should not be good for another,  yet,, Roger Simon, PJ Media:

That inability to select even marginally acceptable (non-racist) employees and colleagues should, on the face

Well, the Occupy Wall Street movement, AKA Poopstock, sure is making a splash. Perhaps “splash” isn’t the best term, from the looks of things, they could all use a splash in a bathtub with a bar of soap. Reports on

From an hysterical and deluded Talking Points Memo:

Michele Bachmann Is In Love With The AR-15 Assault Rifle

Quite wrong moose breaths. An assault rifle is capable of fully automatic fire, from Wikipedia:

An assault rifle is a

Elizabeth Scalia, a/k/a  Anchoress has a few parting words for Speaker Tablecloth,  b/k/a Nancy Pelosi should she decide to leave Congress, link:

I hate to sound presumptuous, but Madam Speaker, on behalf of many, may I say let-not-your-heart-be-troubled

The worst attorney general in American history, the  reprobate Eric Holder, continues  to try to divert attention from Fast and Furious, from Tim Mak, Politico:

The number of officers killed in the line of duty jumped 13 percent in 2011

This is adding insult to injury, from, DMartyr Jawa Report:

An NC shop clerk took on an armed robber and knock him out cold with one punch. But to add insult to injury, the clerk put the would-be robber

Sloatsburg,NY– I’m here after driving most of the day. A quick run from rochester to Bethlehem Pennsylvania, then over to Quakertown for a loadfew of paper towels. —

• Voting rights:

  Over at questions and observations, Bruce McQuain in his usual

GoDaddy gets spanked by by the nerds,  from Tom Cheredar, Venture Beat:

Hosting and domain registrar company Go Daddy has lost more than 37,000 domains in the past two days due to the company’s wishy-washy stance on the Stop

Steven L. Taylor, Outside the Beltwy:

First, why get all bent out of shape over an initiative to encourage healthier eating (and this isn’t the first time this has come up)? It is not as if we are talking

There is no moral imperative driving this message, tonight — no calls for a life of self sacrifice, no direct calls for intensive reflection this night, not even a real punch line of the story.  I will let you decide