TURN OUT THE LIGHT; the party's over. It may be turned on again after the 2012 election.

THE 'BROKEN RECORD' RETURNS: taxes on millionaires, billionaires, corporate jet owners, and oil companies. Won't dumBO ever learn?

LIVING IN THE GOVERNMENT ZOO:

[W]hat if a man were born in a zoo? Like a baby tiger born in a zoo, he would not see the zoo as a trap. His needs for food, shelter and even procreation would be satisfied.

However, he would not learn how to build himself a shelter because he would have a temperature-regulated exhibit area. He would not learn to defend himself because there would be nothing threatening in his artificial environment. He would not learn to hunt and prepare his own meals because zookeepers would bring dishes of food to him. He would never learn to work. He would own nothing and be responsible for nothing. If he had children, the zoo would provide for them also.

He would learn to scratch at the walls and howl when he wanted his zookeepers. He would learn sloth.

Sound familiar?

THE LAW can't make everyone love you.

IS THE TEA PARTY OVER? Nope; it's just begun.

SO A GARDENING BROADCAST would be 'inappropriate' in New York City?

HOMEOWNERS’ ASSOCIATIONS becoming unavoidable and quasi-governmental. Yes. Unavoidable in large part because the government permitting process makes it almost a developer requirement in order to protect his investment until the housing development matures. And supra-governmental rather than quasi-governmental in that there are not the checks and balances that restrict government action.

WHY NOT IN 2012?

HAVE YOU NO SHAME? No, I'm a liberal.

BUMPER STICKER. I saw this one on a car in Manassas the other day.

ONE NATION
Under Surveillance

The bumper sticker was tongue-in-cheek (I hope), but since it was just after MSNBC's faux apology for leaving out the phrase "under God" in a Pledge of Allegiance during the U.S. Open, the bumper sticker got me thinking. One might see a bumper sticker reading

ONE NATION
Under God

and reasonably infer that its owner was conservative in nature. The other, though somewhat sarcastic, seems to me as one that leans left. It strikes me that both are essentially religious in nature, with only the deity changing -- the Left's god being an omniscient government.

OBAMASHARE



[Added thought]: I just coined the word "ObamaShare" to caption the cartoon, but thinking about it, ObamaShare is to the President's tax "redistribution" policies as Sarah Palin's "death panels" was to ObamaCare.

THE HELLO KITTY: super federal budget calculator. Shadow likes it.

Linked from Instapundit.

FUNDING HINGES ON CLEARER NASA VISION? It's time to stop planning and start doing. Congress and the President need to pick a goal and stick with it, or get out of the way and quit interfering.

THE DOWNGRADE: a rebuke Obama richly deserved.