We remain unfettered by the chains of government regulation, the shackles that would limit our free discourse and gag our brilliant and articulate rhetoric. Oh, OK, I'll cut through the mess. Friday night the Federal Election Commission agreed that bloggers and online activists will not be regulated in their political activities.

According to an article in The Washington Post, the only regulation agreed on at this point is that candidates for federal office must pay for internet ads with money regulated by federal campaign law. The biggest surprise is that the Republicans and Democrats were in agreement.

Get the rest on the flip side

In reading the Civitas talking points for the NC short session, I had to admire their obsessive consistency. Puppets do and say the exact same thing until you either scream, kill or surrender.

We need a different obsession.

I just wanted to highlight the post below about Jerry Connor, and to offer this compilation of contact information (based in part on attorney Mark Kleinschmidt's work at Justice for Connor):

• Contact Mike Easley
• Contact AG Roy Cooper
• Use the BlueNC form to contact your state Senator
• Use the BlueNC form to contact your state Representative
• Contact House and Senate leadership and the members of the House Capital Punishment Study Commission
• Call Gates County Frank Parrish's office: (252) 331-4743
• Write a letter to the editor.

Jerry Conner is scheduled for exectution on May 12. Mr. Conner is asking the courts for permission to have the DNA sample that was found at the scene of the crime re-tested. The original testing in 1991 was inconclusive. DNA testing has evolved over the last 15 years and can clear any doubt once and for all.

visit here for more information.

Watch the WRAL story

Chuckie Baby Needs a Little Shout Out this Morning!

All this and more can be found at Scrutiny Hooligans

Disclaimer...This photo wasn't photoshopped....it just had a few words stuck to it by the most excellent Syntax.

Anglico sent me these yesterday. I had seen a few, but the last entries had me giggling!

(_!_) A regular ass...

(__!__) A fat ass...

(!) A tight ass...

See more ass below the fold...

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, winein the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

More giggles below the fold....

See! We aren't alone in our belief that he is the single-stupidest man on the face of the earth.

Keeping it clean on the flip side...

The General Assembly begins their even-year short session on May 9, and the right is helping us out a little bit with the pregame show. Here's the (John William Pope) Civitas Institute's agenda, as laid out in this piece in the North Carolina Conservative:

• Eliminate taxes that they call "temporary;"
• Enact the Taxpayer Protection Act (is this just TaBoR by another name?);
• Kill the Gas Tax (I think we've been over this already);

Anglico has something, I have some funny pictures and I'm working on a post. I know we've been busy this week with Tim Dunn's announcement and Charles Taylor's lies. Let's have some fun Saturday morning so we can get ready for a big week next week pushing this national forest issue to the hilt.