In the ongoing series, Things Prez Can Do On His Own, a prospective amnesty from the Director of Internal Revenue:  If you prepay your 2011 tax (due April 2012) now we'll double it, and carry the extra into your 2012 tax bill.

Provided you filed this year showing less than 100k agi.

Fed up with drone attacks that (per our government statements) kill only "suspected militants" regardless of the age or sex of those incinerated, the hitherto complaisant guardians of our supply routes across the Durand Line finally declare that they have had enough.

Personally, I applaud them for doing only what we would if random missile strikes were periodically raining down hellfire (not just a metaphor) on guilty and innocent alike with no discrimination.

Returning to the alternative universe in which Obama has balls, we find the following:

Since a US default would be catastropic, and Prez has independent control only of the military, he announces the closure of all bases in Repugnant represented states and congressional districts, so that the necessary cash may be re-directed to default prevention pending raise of debt ceiling.

Showing more sense then their American counterparts, the voters of Iceland, purportedly staring in the face a $6,000/person personal hit, are touted to nix the volunteer victim program.

With Ireland roiled and the Greeks in the street, a government fallen in  Portugal, how long before the Euro explodes like Glen Beck's head when Fox fired him?

Class war, y'all.

In a glancing blow that I think should have been called a foul, but these corrupt refs can't see  past the home team jersey so what can you do, but anyway, driving for the hoop A man jammed me for  manifesting insufficient committment to ecumenicism.on account of a willingness to offend where a prilevege to be free of offense is asserted by my fellow world citizans.

Oh, schadenfreude, how sweet it is!

After recovering from the head rush and the sweet, sweet savor of Scalia skunked, may we not wonder

1. Why is he too cheap to have a driver, like all important people?

2. Was he tailgating, or fiddling with the radio?

3. Don't the DC cops know who he is?--Or, per contra, do they know and wish him ill like all right-thinking members of the working class?

Anyway you slice it, it's a great story.

For extra credit:

An early answer to my stated hopes that Fukushima will signal that nuclear generation of electricity has reached its "high water mark" (groan...).  After 60+ years running the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, the Christian-Democrats (there's an  oxymoron...) are to be replaced by....wait for it... TEH GREENS.

From the seemingly inexhaustible fund of wisdom that is Marxism, a new nation is born.

Bear with me here--I do not contemplate the secession of the progressive (donor) states from the Union.  We know that is impossible, on account of the Civil War, and all.

But, I ask you, does forbidding secession also forbid shunning?

Imagine that the progressive states, (who also happen to be net donors to the knuckle draggers in flyover territory) dump the teabaggers, the women haters, the christianist majority states.

Shorter Fukashima: Shit Happens.

 Dual cautionary tidbits from Japan give rise in me to an unattractive satisfaction.

We learn that the Japanese government is expanding the evacuation zone around Fukashima, and are separately informed that a long vertical crack in one reactor vessel has been identified, probably signaling that cooling water sprayed in will become radioactive water leaking out.

Before hurling (insults) at my inhumanity, let me ask you to pause to learn of my underlying thinking.

Without benefit of congressional cover, Obama contributes our share of coercive might in service of the collectively declared "responsibility to protect" .

He is praised as the anti-Bush, for being less bellicose than a Frenchman, and more successful in corraling a viable Security Council Resolution.( Number 1973)  than a brit.

I am surely not the only dagger who owes his soul to the late. deeply lamented, Augustus Owsley Stanley III.  If you loved the orange sunshine, if you bathed in purple haze, if you remember blue cheer, pause and grieve.

Simply the finest. acid. ever.

Taken from us by an auto accident (people don't kill people, cars kill people) at the age of 76, in the cultural history of the last century he will surely have his own full chapter.

Robert Schiller, erstwhile N(ot) P(rogressive) R(adio) fundraiser shitcanned.  Punked by Breitbart's videographer, (cf. Acorn, Planned Parenthood, and whenwilltheyeverlearn) Caught saying:

On behalf of the Visigoth Wrecking & Demolition Company (celebrating 14 centuries of deconstucting antiquity last August 24) in my capacity as pretender to the Visigoth throne, I am placing a socio/cutural/econo/political/ethical problem before Our Genial Host.

First, let me point out, that it is evident, from the following wikipedia exerpt, that Our Genial Host did not take his name unadvisedly.:

 Oh, come on!   This is easy.  I am a woman.  Well, women, plural.

Treat yourself to an hour *listening to the very delightful Kavita Ramdas, formerly President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, now visiting as a scholar at Stanford.

Hint: When women get free, we all get free.

By the way, if the calculus in the riddle doesn't raise outrage in your gorge, you are an irredeemable asshole.

Like the theme song to Monk asks:

"Hey, who's in charge here"

In the last few days I've had two posts tampered with.

Both, (quelle surprise!) involved interaction with our local version of Pat Robertson, yclept Resistance.

In one, a "moderator/dagblogger" signing himself d (I think it was Donal, but could have been Destor) changed an expletive "fucking troll" to farging troll, gently reproved me for my tone, and "signed" the editorial intervention with a "d" (less than dispositive...)

This poignant question, scrawled on the wall of a foreclosed house, opens the broader topic:

Thinking of getting a real steal of a deal in a foreclosed home, now listed by some bank's Real Estate Owned Department?

If you have a heart, (or a soul...) better think again.

In keeping with the (fantasy) vigorous executive that we have not got, suppose the following:

At the SOTU, flanked on one side by Gracie Slick ("Tear down the walls") and Michael Vick on the other ("Everyone can use a fresh start") Prez galvanizes his presidency and the country,.