A few notes and news to start the weekend off:

I’ve had this happen with one of our cats before, albeit in a car. Our cat Sparkle always found ways to get into places that were nearly impossible for her to get out of. One time that happened, she thanked me by puking all over me.

I guess this is where the saying, “if you can’t raise the bridge, lower the river” comes from. Yikes…

I have to agree with NRO’s Jonah Goldberg on this. I’m glad I never didn’t watch President Obama’s State Of The Union speech, I would have tossed my club soda and lemon right through the flat screen. He quotes the President and then nails him for his incredible hypocisy and misguidedness:

“This nation is great because we worked as a team. This nation is great because we get each other’s backs.”

No. Wrong. It is not so with America. This nation isn’t great because we work as a team with the president as our captain. America is great because America is free. It is great not because we put our self-interest aside, but because we have the right to pursue happiness.

I don’t blame the president for being exhausted with the mess and bother of democracy and politics, since he has proved so inadequate at coping with the demands of both. Nor do I think he truly seeks to impose martial virtues on America. But he does desperately want his opponents to shut up and march in place. And he seems to think this bilge will convince them to do so.

What I can’t forgive, however, is the way he tries to pass off his ideal of an America where everyone marches as one as a better America. It wouldn’t be America at all.

Oh yeah, like you “have the back” of anyone who happens to disagree with you and your destructive policies – we’re just racists out here, you know. But what should one expect from a so-called “genius” of a President whose goal for economic health includes this gem of wisdom:

“I laid out a blueprint for an economy that’s built to last, that has a firm foundation. Where we’re making stuff and selling stuff and moving it around and UPS drivers are dropping things off everywhere.”

Yeah, as long as that “stuff” is not black and gooey and leads this country to less dependence on foreign Middle East oil. In the spirit of AZ governor Jan Brewer, I’ve got a piece of advice for you, Mr. President: stuff it.

UPDATE: Replaced “foreign oil” with “Middle East oil” – after all, the Keystone pipeline would draw oil from Canada, and last I checked, Canada was a foreign country. 🙂