Friday Afternoon Book Nook With Cheney & Biden

H/T The Bold Pursuit

Holy Tax Day, Pay Up Sheeple -- It's Patriotic

First posted here, a few weeks ago. Still like it.
Other previously posted pics taken at Searchlight here, here and here. Still like them too.
Hey, it's memory penny lane day today.
And don't forget, it was that intellctual giant Plugs Biden who told us paying taxes is the super-highest form of patriotism.
What the heck, some Beatles:

Shabbat Shalom -- Biden In Israel -- Feeling Safer Yet?

On a happier note, Plugs Biden left Israel -- yesterday.

Yeah, I'm wordy today. Want to make something of it? These people are wearying.

More of the always perfect Jennifer Rubin:  The No-Good, Horrible Biden Visit.

Sample Biden here, here.

More From That Spawn Of Satan

“When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,” Cheney said.

Protecting the country’s security is “a tough, mean, dirty, nasty business,” he said. “These are evil people. And we’re not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek.”

Citing intelligence reports, Cheney said at least 61 of the inmates who were released from Guantanamo during the Bush administration — “that’s about 11 or 12 percent” — have “gone back into the business of being terrorists.”

Read it all here.

Hey, who am I gonna believe? The Western Gentleman or another eastern dilettante? Asked and answered.

Pants On Fire

WFTV-Channel 9's Barbara West conducted a satellite interview with Sen. Joe Biden on Thursday. A friend says it's some of the best entertainment he's seen recently. What do you think?

West wondered about Sen. Barack Obama's comment, to Joe the Plumber, about spreading the wealth. She quoted Karl Marx and asked how Obama isn't being a Marxist with the "spreading the wealth" comment.

"Are you joking?" said Biden, who is Obama's running mate. "No," West said.

West later asked Biden about his comments that Obama could be tested early on as president. She wondered if the Delaware senator was saying America's days as the world's leading power were over.

"I don't know who's writing your questions," Biden shot back.

Biden so disliked West's line of questioning that the Obama campaign canceled a WFTV interview with Jill Biden, the candidate's wife.

"This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election," wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign.

McGinnis said the Biden cancellation was "a result of her husband's experience yesterday during the satellite interview with Barbara West."

Here's a link to the interview: http://www.wftv.com/video/17790025/index.html.

WFTV news director Bob Jordan said, "When you get a shot to ask these candidates, you want to make the most of it. They usually give you five minutes."

Jordan said political campaigns in general pick and choose the stations they like. And stations often pose softball questions during the satellite interviews.

"Mr. Biden didn't like the questions," Jordan said. "We choose not to ask softball questions."

Jordan added, "I'm crying foul on this one."

VicePee Debate Techno Remix

Laying down the beat and keeping it popping....

Finding the gud stuff on beta current dot com yeah.

Spackling

Um, this from Lisa Schiffren at The Corner:

Speaking of Joe — what in God's name possessed him at the dermatologist's? He had the eyelift a little while ago. But now he has the deathly pallor of someone who has had more than a few peels, microdermabrasion, whatever. Plus all the little upper lip wrinkles are gone. Restylane. And he has had the naso-labial folds spackled in with more restylane, or maybe heavy-duty purlane. Obviously that unmoving central forehead was over-botoxed. The plastic surgeons and dermatologists in my neighborhood all pride themselves on more subtle work.

Running Man

Is He A Game Show Host From Running Man or VeePee From Squirrel Land? Vice debate from the most important election of your lifetime: Dawson/Biden. Welcome to America in 2008, where "the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives" (what can I say, I know my Schwarzenegger movies).