“I kept telling him it is candy,” he said.

Two men were arrested by the NYPD then spent five days in jail for crack cocaine possession which, when the substance was finally tested, turned out to be coconut candy. The arrest occurred after the cops searched the men’s work van and discovered what they thought was crack cocaine. The men plan to file a $2 million suit against the NYPD.

One of the guys who was busted admitted he was “hooked” on the candy.

Bronx men to file $2M suit against city after cops arrested them for ‘crack’ that was really candy

January 22, 2010

Bloomberg Hammers Obama, Congress Over Bank Plan

President Barack Obama’s demand Thursday that Congress clamp down on the size of banks and their investments got major blowback from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who said it could cause layoffs and hurt the city.

It’s a clash between the president and the mayor. President Obama wants to whittle away at the size of the financial services industry. …

The mayor was so upset about the move — and a suggestion that Wall Street bonuses be put in escrow, which means the money wouldn’t be spent here, wouldn’t help the city economy — he responded with a proposal of his own for members of Congress.

“Maybe we should hold back their salaries for a decade or so and see whether the laws they pass work out,” Bloomberg said.

Did anyone notice what the AP did there? They are paraphrasing Obama, but check out what they say.

If the US had not failed to understand basic reality, then Obama would not have raised expectations so high.

This is not an error of judgment of “the US.” “The US” did not fail to anticipate this. “The US,” in fact, isn’t really a sentient being capable of anticipating anything at all, but to the extent we collectively think stuff, we collectively have long doubted that the Palestinians would ever make peace. Or at least we’ve been highly skeptical of any progress towards real peace there.

And yet the AP neatly, in an almost nonsensical sentence, pushes off the fault for this to “the US.”

Obama didn’t make any errors. Obama can’t make any errors.

What happened here was that “the US” made a huge error, and Obama just raised expectations based on “the US’” defect in thinking.

But is Obama to blame?

Of course not.

You are, champ.

Obama’s like Reverse Jesus. You will, collectively, assume his sins so that he is cleansed and untainted.*

* Yes, I know there’s another word for “Reverse Jesus.”

“The only thing I’ve said and I’ll continue to say is I’m honored to be considered,” Kudlow told The Daily Caller. “I’m really flattered.”

McCain-Feingold, R.I.P.:

Ha, ha!

Finally the justices understand that “no law” means no law under the First Amendment. They gutted McCain-Feingold.

You have the right to campaign against the members of Congress.

You have the right to buy an ad and say the president — be he a Bush or an Obama — is an egg-sucking dog.

And Congress cannot do a thing to stop you.

Sheesh.

It took this long to figure this out?

Here’s the thing that Democrats just learned in Massachusetts: the base can’t save you. In the bluest of blue states, if you run with a progressive agenda and alienate moderates, those alienated moderates will join with the conservatives to kick you out of office. Catering to the base is a losing strategy.

It’s all very well to say that they should man up and pass it anyway. This is the sort of thing that sounds very well from the comfort of your living room. But are you prepared to pledge that if health care reform passes, you’ll resign your job? Because that’s essentially what you’re asking them to do.

It just wrapped up so I’m testing the better late than never theory but it was…awful. The speech was disjointed, flat in a lot of spots and just, well, a mess. If this Obama ran in 08 McCain (or Hillary) would have beaten him. Easily.

At one point Obama said, “here in Michigan” alas it was in Ohio. No problem though, it’s not like those two states are rivals or anything.

Then it got really bad.
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I was Twittering (Tweating?) during it and at one point my feeling was that if this were a fight, the Ref would have stopped it. It went on so long and was so rambling that the props people in the background looked they wanted to make a break for it. One guy pulled out a Blackberry and started checking email or something.

In some ways this was like therapy session for Obama. He seems absolutely overwhelmed by the job and the fact that his Awesomeness simply hasn’t translated to this job.

The State of the Union on Wednesday is going to be very interesting.

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This Jesse Kelly ad for Congress caught our eye. Kelly (Republican) is running for Arizona’s 8th district. Here’s some info on Kelly from his Jesse Kelly for Congress blog:

As a United States Marine Corps combat veteran, Jesse Kelly led a squad in the Mortar Section of 1st Battalion, 7th Marines while deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was honorably discharged in August 2004 after four proud years of service.

After serving our country, Jesse moved on to work in the family construction business in Tucson, AZ. Jesse works as a project manager managing multi-million dollar infrastructure projects throughout the southwest region of the United States, his duties include: estimating, scheduling, budget analysis, and human resource management.

Jesse’s wife Aubrey attended the University of Arizona on a gymnastics scholarship graduating with a degree in Accounting. Jesse and Aubrey are proud parents of their infant son James and are expecting their second child this September. Their family attends Alive Christian Fellowship Church of Tucson.

P.S. We love the ad!

Revenge, or a splendid way to inform the public that your long-time lover who is a current Obama economic adviser and the head of software giant Oracle is a big-time cad.

We’ll let our readers be the judge.

Spurned mistress takes revenge on multi-millionaire Obama adviser by plastering U.S. cities with compromising posters

The reason why: the boy had bad grades. This is right out of Mommy Dearest….

A 36-yr-old Georgia mom is under arrested after she allegedly forced her son to kill his pet hamster with a hammer for having bad grades.

Cops: Mom forces son to kill hamster for bad grade

A reminder from the most transparent president ever.

The money quote at around the :50 mark: “I’m Going To Take Some Of Your Questions But First The Cameras Have To Go So You Can Tell Me The Truth”.

Obama is paid with public tax money. The mayors are all paid with public tax money. They held their meeting, it’s presumed, in a public place.

But the public can get the hell out so we can tell the truth?!?

Sounds about right for Captain Wonderful and his amazing Zero Death Ray-like political mind. He treats his transparency promises like it was a big joke–on the American people.

Just like his presidency.

He’s got three more years to pass Jimmy Carter as the Worst President of my lifetime.

h/t: Weasel Zippers: Obama To Mayors: I’m Going To Take Some Of Your Questions But First The Cameras Have To Go So You Can Tell Me The Truth
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Haul 14 tons of pot and what you get,
a long stretch in prison as the government’s guest…

Or why you should obey all traffic laws when transporting a copious amount of illegal pot.

Calif. man pleads guilty to hauling 14 tons of pot