God forbid we should question their patriotism, or suggest that such actions in a time of war send the wrong signal both to the troops and our enemies….

Vt. towns approve Bush ‘indictment’

Voters in two Vermont towns approved measures Tuesday calling for the indictment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for what they consider violations of the Constitution.

More symbolic than anything, the items sought to have police arrest Bush and Cheney if they ever visit Brattleboro or nearby Marlboro or to extradite them for prosecution elsewhere — if they’re not impeached first.

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The question put to voters in Brattleboro referred to “crimes against our Constitution” but did not specify the allegations.

Convenient, since there aren’t any…I am still waiting for one substantive breach of law.

“I realize it’s an extreme thing to do, and really silly in a way,” said Robert George, 74, a retired photographer. “But I’m really angry about us getting involved in the war in Iraq and him (Bush) disrespecting the will of the people.”

Ian Kelley, 41, a radio DJ, said he didn’t vote on the article.

“It’s not a good reflection on the town,” he said. “Do I like either of them and would I vote for them? No. But I don’t think it’s cause to arrest them.”

The White House press office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, but a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee denounced the indictment effort.

Quote of the day follows:

“It appears that the left wing knows no bounds in their willingness to waste taxpayer dollars to make a futile counterproductive partisan political point,” said Blair Latoff. “Town people would be much better served by elected officials who sought to solve problems rather than create them.”

Brilliant.  Absolutely brilliant.

Polls show she is winning in Texas, RI and Ohio, so tonight becomes a huge win for Hillary.

Oh she is still trailing Obama, but her wins gave her some new found momentum and spirit.  That, coupled with her insatiable lust for power and her manipulation of the super delegates makes this race still too close to call.

The real dog and pony show will be in the convention where her super delegates may give her the nomination despite Obama’s winning the popular vote.  Hillary loves voter intent unless it thwarts her ambition.

The real question in my mind is this: Has she and Obama expended so much bitterness and anger that they could not team up for the VP slot?  Could she play second fiddle to his president?  Or vice versa?

Edwards managed to swallow his pride and ride John Kerry’s doomed coat tails, but Hillary is so besotted with winning, can she eat enough crow to proclaim Obama her number one man?

She should.  If she was smart, she would bow out gracefully, and deal with him to secure the VP slot, and give herself the edge to the Whitehouse in 2016. 

Because, if she wins the nomination there will be serious hell to pay.  Do you honestly think that Obama’s many endorsers will not play the race card if he loses the nomination?  If Hillary comes from behind and wins, or if she parlays the super delegates to victory, the race baiters will start their BS about white privilage and all that garbage.

Bad enough if he wins the nomination, after which every criticism of him will be painted as racist, and should he lose to McCain it will be seen as “the man keeping the brother down”. 

I personally expect riots if he loses either the nomination or the presidency.

No matter how this ends, it will be ugly.  Count on it.

This has gone viral and its not pretty.  Viewer beware.

 http://youtube.com/watch?v=rqvFNaWHdz0

Watch on your own time, I won’t post it.  Now, speculation is ripe with theories it is a hoax, that the puppy was already dead, that its actions and sounds do not match a real puppy:

Update: Getting lots of e-mails about the fact that puppy isn’t struggling and how the yelp when it’s thrown doesn’t seem to trail away. Here’s one from reader David V.:

The sounds are all wrong in that clip of the “puppy throwing.”

I’ve been involved with dogs since I was 12, breeding and training, and there is no way the sounds in that Youtube video were coming from a real puppy. If you actually hurled a puppy by the scruff of its neck, the first sound you would hear would be a loud scream as it was launched, because you would have very nearly torn its neck off. Notice, though, the puppy is completely silent as it is thrown. The ridiculous yelping noises don’t start until after the pup is airborne.

That’s your second problem, because just as a human needs to take repeated breaths to keep yelling, a dog must be breathing in order to yelp. (Imagine trying to scream while spinning head-over-heels in the air.) The puppy would have gone completely stiff as it flew, tensing up and spreading its legs to try to cushion the fall. Definitely no gasping for breath and yelping.

Final problem - there is no way that a crap camera like the one used to shoot that video would be able to pick up an airborne puppy’s faint yelping from dozens of yards away, yet the “yelping” barely decreases in volume during the puppy’s flight.

I don’t know what was thrown - probably a dead puppy - but I am absolutely certain that there is no way on earth the noises in the video were made by the puppy we see there.