Online shopping just became more taxing for NYers. As of June 1, large online retailers, a la Amazon, will be forced to charge state and local sales taxes to online customers’ purchases. Hopefully, this won’t apply to The Strand, although can’t help but think it somehow will. At least Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion tax didn’t pass.
Given the Jets’ perennial draft woes, it won’t matter if Darren McFadden is on the Board at No. 6.
From WaPo’s The Trail:
Fast forward to 2:20 or so to hear Bubba’s wishful thinking:
If we were under the Republican system, which is more like the Electoral College, she’d have a 300-delegate lead here…I mean, Senator McCain is already the nominee because they chose a system to produce that result, and we don’t have a nominee here, because the Democrats chose a system that prevents that result.
Michael Novak agrees. But for the Dems archane utopianism (pseudo-socialism) Hillary would have already been the nominee and Republicans could breathe a little easier.
Public enemy number one is Iraq has to be the radical terrorist, Muqtada al-Sadr. He is the head of a militia hell bent on imposing a theocracy in the region sympathetic to Iran. He constantly either threatens United States soldiers or outright attacks them. His Mahdi Army is estimated to have 60,000. This horde is made up of armed members just waiting to be unleashed on an innocent public and against U.S. interests. It is well past time to deal with this unstable element. If al-Sadr wants a fight, we should oblige him.
The Iraqi government has been held hostage by the threat of violence from the Mahdi army. The United States military has been reluctant, to the point of pandering to the mad man, to engage it. So what are our options? We could either submit to al-Sadr’s wishes and withdrawal from Iraqi leaving her in a worse state than when we arrived, allowing an Islamist theocracy to emerge or we could fight this war we engaged in and win it. The United States military knows where the bulk of the Mahdi Army militiamen are located. In fact, they have been busy building a wall around a large concentration of them in the Baghdad slum known as Sadr City. Another contingent was recently battled in Basra by inept Iraqi regulars, many of whom either surrendered or defected with arms to al-Sadr’s cause.
My suggestion: lay siege to these and other well-known Mahdi Army areas. Seal off the areas; no one gets in and no one out without first submitting to a full strip search. In conjunction with the saying of siege, al-Sadr should be assassinated as quickly as possible, where ever he may be. Once the area is sealed and al-Sadr eliminated, the fighters should be granted two days to surrender or face massive aerial bombardment. The two days should be granted in order to allow women, children and other innocents to escape the coming onslaught. After the areas have been reduced to glass and ashes, a thorough sweep of the ruins should be conducted by United States soldiers to capture any remaining weapons caches.
War is ugly, war is hell. But if we are going to fight one we should also win. A war should never be fought unless it necessary and is fought to be won as quickly as possible. The elimination of public enemy number one and his group of crazed lunatics will place the United States one foot closer to getting out of this conflict.
…at any cocktail party with these simple rules courtesy of Dave Barry.
To this I would add, play nice with your local Applebee’s bartender and politely ask him to “back you up” on dollar drafts after the first happy hour. If played correctly, you should be able to imbibe enough inexpensive Bud to last you through to the second happy hour and thus avoid paying full price. By the start of the second happy hour, any inhibitions with regard to speaking on any number of topics should have dissipated and you’ll be ready to argue almost anything, e.g. boxing is a more popular sport than soccer worldwide.
Better yet, move in with your local Applebee’s bartender during your third year of law school for ubiquitous dollar drafts from noon to close.
(HT: Karl and Dave)
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