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Daily Links – March 17, 2012

By: Caleb Howe (Diary)  |  March 17th, 2012 at 04:30 PM  | 

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Today is March 17th. Today is St. Patrick’s Day, in honor of the bishop and missionary who died on this date in 461. In the U.S., the first St. Patrick’s Day parade took place in Boston, in 1737. The first New York City celebration of the holiday took place in 1756. The first person to get drunk and throw up on the holiday was everyone. Also on this date, in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur became Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Pacific theater. His corncob pipe was appointed assistant to the supreme commander. And finally, in addition to St. Patrick’s Day, today is also National Corndog Day. So there’s that. Consider this an Open Thread.

What if the Left is just one Potemkin Village after another? | Mark Tapscott
“Yet, by maintaining the fiction of independence from one and other, they appear to much of the press to be a pack of scrappy underdogs sinking their teeth into the ankles of the big-money men.”

Study: Feds Approving Fewer Oil and Gas Leases | Heartlander
“The number of oil and gas leases granted by the federal government in the western United States declined by 44 during the first two years of the Obama administration versus the last two years of the Bush presidency, according to a new study prepared for the American Petroleum Institute (API) by EIS Solutions.”

Obama campaign film contains $25 billion error on auto bailouts | Raw Story
“But it’s not all roses for team Obama: part of the film contains a gross inaccuracy. Specifically, it claims that General Motors (GM) has fully repaid its federal bailout loan. It has not — meaning the documentary contains a $25 billion error.”

Today’s Word of the Day comes via Dictionary.com
selcouth (SEL-kooth): adjective Strange; uncommon.

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  • http://MichaelHarrington.org Michael Harrington

    ID is REQUIRED for the following:

    Driving
    Boarding an Airplane
    Doctors Office Visit
    When Applying for a Job
    Pharmacy
    Bank Transactions
    Applying to School
    Applying for Credit Score
    Purchasing a Car
    Registering a Car
    Medicare/Medicaid
    Open a Retirement Account
    Vote in a Union
    Donate Blood
    Buy a Firearm
    Social Security Services
    Pawn Shops
    Buying Train Tickets
    Buying Bus Tickets
    Volunteers in Non-Profit Orgs.
    Check out a Book at a Library
    Buy a House Apartment
    Rental Application
    Buying Alcohol
    Buying Cigarettes
    Drug Counseling Programs
    Piss Tests
    Using a Credit Card
    Applying for Store Credit Card
    Getting a Cellular Phone

    Eric Holder and his accusations are baseless. ID is needed to operate in society.

    • kowalski

      .

      • aesthete
        • kowalski

          If you’d like to register your child, you have to show proof with a birth certificate. And in almost all the places around the country you need to show a picture ID to swim in the pool, much less get a membership.

          That’s done for liability reasons, because they give people lockers, and there are lots of children around. You don’t and cannot have unidentified people walking into the children’s swimming pool.

          They’re not fascists. They are trying to protect children and themselves from lawsuits.

      • kowalski

        They have welfare checks and Social Security checks, but when they drive up to the bank window, they have no ID and want banks to cash them. Happens every month around the 2nd.

        [Heavy Spanish accent]

        Oooooh, I em who I say I em, but I forghhhhot my eye-dee at home….

        • kowalski

          At the bank to cash the check, but they have the ID to drive the car in the first place. Happens about 25 times a month at my local bank branch.

          • kowalski

            When they vote, because even though they drive to get to the polling place, they don’t need and eye-dee.

  • kipling

    MacArthur was not appointed the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Pacific. Since the U.S. Army and Navy could not get along. The Pacific actually encompassed three separate commands.

    MacArthur was appointed commander in chief of the Southwest Pacific Area. Admiral Chester Nimitz, a good Texas boy, commanded the Pacific Ocean Areas (the Central Pacific). MacArthur and Nimitz received their orders directly from their service chiefs on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

    MacArthur wanted to be the Supreme Commander – just like his former protege Dwight Eisenhower – but it did not happen.

  • curtmilr

    I’m amazed that none of the Diarists have commented on Obama’s Executive Order released Friday detailing pretexts for declaring Martial Law for the purposes of securing our national security.
    Are those pesky, racist Tea Party folks threatening violence???

    • http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

      Expect impeachment if he does something that stupid.