Well, here is something that should probably be filed under Friday Fun. But I would prefer not to pollute that barely-famous section with the likes of OWSers.

For all of the DNC and Obama wedding ceremonies and cork popping when it comes to politically and ideologically copulating with the OWSers (which some of them helped organize, partially with your tax money), they still will revert to the status quo.

That is, the status quo when it comes to the unwashed, Starbucks drinking, talking-points reading loons interfering with the Magic: The Gathering ceremony that will be the 2012 Democrat National Convention in Charlotte, NC.

From the Charlotte Observer:

To prepare for the Democratic National Convention, the city of Charlotte is considering an ordinance that would prohibit camping on all city property, which could stifle the ongoing Occupy Charlotte protest.

In addition, the ordinance would prohibit the possession of “noxious” substances, along with items such as pipes, chains or padlocks if their intended use would be to block a street, sidewalk or building entrance.

While the DNC usually does an FDR Detention Camp sweep of the homeless and others they find undesirable in the days and weeks leading up to their convention, with the OWSers, it seems like that local officials are poking about for a “solution”. Read, appeasment with their peasant class.

Mayor Anthony Foxx, a Democrat, said he was asking the city attorney’s office for an analysis on whether the city could legally evict the Occupy Charlotte protesters with an ordinance passed after they began camping.

“I don’t have a legal answer to that question yet,” Foxx said.

For the DNC, Foxx said it’s important to observe First Amendment rights, but his primary concern is that “the public health and safety be placed at a premium.”

Walton said the draft ordinance was just written, and city staff hasn’t reviewed it yet. A copy of the ordinance was released Thursday after being requested by the Observer.

Walton said it is too early to speculate on whether the Occupy Charlotte protesters would be grandfathered in.

Maybe Tom Cruise should put down the L. Hubbard books and start rehearsing for a revisit of “Born on the 4th of July”. After all, Hollywood, just like the Democrats can do no more than recycle their own ideas nowadays.

Not that anyone who has been paying any attention to the whole deadly circus in the Middle East is surprised by any of this, but it does belie the administration’s and media’s pathetic attempts to portray this as anything but a Sharia Domino Theory.

From NewsMax:

And [Abdul-Jalil] he laid out a vision for the post-Gadhafi future with an Islamist tint, saying Islamic Sharia law would be the “basic source” of legislation and existing laws that contradict the teachings of Islam would be nullified. In a gesture that showed his own piety, he urged Libyans not to express their joy by firing guns in the air, but rather to chant “Allahu Akbar,” or God is Great. He then stepped aside from the podium and knelt to offer a brief prayer of thanks.

As far as Gadhafi’s death is concerned, little was revealed. (though we have seen this movie before)

Libya’s transitional leader declared his country’s liberation Sunday after an 8-month civil war and set out plans for the future with an Islamist tone. The announcement was clouded, however, by international pressure to explain how ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi had been captured alive days earlier, then ended up dead from a gunshot to his head shortly afterward.

Gadhafi’s death in circumstances that are still unclear, and the gruesome spectacle of his body laid out as a trophy in a commercial freezer and on public view, are testing the new Libyan leaders’ commitment to the rule of law. Even at the ceremony to declare liberation, a couple speakers in positions of authority essentially said Gadhafi got what he deserved.

Obama, of course, was pleased as punch:

President Barack Obama congratulated Libyans on the declaration.

“After four decades of brutal dictatorship and eight months of deadly conflict, the Libyan people can now celebrate their freedom and the beginning of a new era of promise,” he said.

Indeed. Public stonings of raped girls, dissidents beheaded and re-upping of Libya as a terrorist funding and participating state is right on schedule. Truly a “promising new era”.

With elections in Tunsia today and elections coming up in Egypt shortly, the big question will be who can hold a more honest election? They or the Democrat party in the United States? My bets are on the former.

As more and more of ObamaCare’s costs and programs come to light, reality is setting in, even among it’s most ardent supporters, that it is unsustainable.

From the Chairman Ryan’s House website:

WASHINGTON – Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin issued the following statement regarding the Obama Administration’s decision to discontinue a key component of its health-care law:

“To hide the true cost of their health-care overhaul, the leaders of the Democratic party loaded it with gimmicks and double-counting. One of the most egregious of these gimmicks involved the CLASS Act, a new long-term care program that was scored as an offset against the ten-year, trillion-dollar cost of the Democrats new law. Independent health care experts warned that the CLASS Act program would turn into a classic ‘insurance death spiral.’ Not only would the short-term savings fail to materialize, but the long-term costs would prove catastrophically high. Even Democratic Senator Kent Conrad called the program ‘A Ponzi scheme Bernie Madoff would have been proud of.’

“Today, the Obama Administration finally surrendered to reality: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has informed Congressional leaders that she ‘does not see a viable path forward for CLASS implementation at this time.’ The smoke and mirrors that the Democrats employed to sell their health care overhaul are finally falling away, one broken promise at a time. When all of these gimmicks are stripped out, the new law would add hundreds of billions of dollars in red ink over the next decade, as health-care costs send the debt spiraling out of control. Now it is time for Congress to do the responsible thing: Repeal the disastrous new law and replace it with true, patient-centered reforms.”

For more information: http://budget.house.gov/healthcare/

Expect a lot more of these “paths” to nowhere as we get closer and closer to both the 2012 election and the 2014 deadlines of full implementation of ObamaCare.

Well, while hardly unexpected, it is little early for the Dems to be showing their true colors (pun intended).

GOP Candidate Bill Randall, who is running for the House in North Carolina against incumbent Brad Miller, had a campaign sign of his defaced with a scrawling of “KKK”, as well as having his image defaced with a devil’s moustache and goatee.

From Breitbart.tv:

Incidentally, Randall and Miller ran against each other in 2010 and Randall came closer than any other GOP candidate had to winning the district since 1996. With the GOP capturing the NC House and with redisticting making Miller much more vulnerable then before, maybe this was just a cry for help by the defacer.

Well, it was inevitable.

And with all of the hullalaboo over the new Facebook layout, I assume these two congress critters thought this was the perfect time to pounce on Facebook. More “man on a white horse to save the day” type of stuff. We have seen this movie too many times already.

From The Hill:

Reps. Joe Barton (R-Texas) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) called for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook’s practice of tracking users even after they log out of its site Wednesday.

Facebook admitted this week that it collects data when users visit websites that feature its “Like” button, even when the users have logged out of their Facebook accounts. A Facebook spokesman said the data collection is inadvertent, and the company does not use or store the information.

“When users log out of Facebook, they are under the expectation that Facebook is no longer monitoring their activities,” the lawmakers wrote in their letter to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz. “We believe this impression should be the reality. Facebook users should not be tracked without their permission.”

As is always the case when the government and especially clueless congress critters get involved in things of which they have no idea about (which is just about everything), they shoot the horse and then burn the wagon.

Sites tracking you after you have left their domains is nothing new and has been going since the earliest days of the web. They are called cookies. Advertising networks and corporations have been using them for a good 16 years and that will not change any time soon. You wonder why you get certain ads that relate to your interests on website sidebars or as popups? It is because any retail site worth it’s salt will install a cookie (or more) on your PC whenever you visit them. While annoying in a lot of cases, it easy to remedy and does not requite a government agency in order to help you do so.

Of course, playing “hero” is always so easy when you have a no-account job, the largesse of the federal government on your side and claim to be pulling such ridiculous stunts “for the people”. When of course, we all known that they want to collect as much of your personal as they can from Facebook, under the guise of one of the greatest Marxist Cloak Phrases, “consumer protection”. I suppose ObamaCare and it’s GE software does not go far enough when it comes to collecting such data.

In no way am I am defending Facebook, as they have shown themselves to be partisan hacks for the Left, whose security procedures are akin to those of the TSA and who always claim that the customer is wrong. However, bringing in the federal government to monitor how they track their users is akin to teaching abstinence to the OctoMom.

Well, I figured that sooner or later, this trial balloon would be floated about. And it is also not too surprising that they used perhaps the most clueless governor in the nation to launch it.

From The Daily Caller:

As a way to solve the national debt crisis, North Carolina Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue recommends suspending congressional elections for the next couple of years.

“I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover,” Perdue said at a rotary club event in Cary, N.C., according to the Raleigh News & Observer. “I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.”

After this slipped out, the Perdue office hastily sent out a press release claiming that Perdue was just “joking”.

Perdue press secretary Chris Mackey claims the governor was joking when she made the comment.

“Come on … Gov. Perdue was obviously using hyperbole to highlight what we can all agree is a serious problem: Washington politicians who focus on their own election instead of what’s best for the people they serve,” Mackey said in an email to TheDC.

Those soldiers who are buried in Arlington or currently serving are not laughing about it. Nor is anyone else who takes the fundamentals of the Constitution seriously.

Well, I suppose a lot of people will be crossing The Olive Garden and Red Lobster of their list of where to take their kids for a fun Friday night dinner or weekend birthday party meal.

I wonder if Chuck E. Cheese’s will be next?

It is getting to the point where hoarding Ore-Ida fries will risk a 2AM knock at the door from black ops types, armed with an AK-47 in one hand and an official USDA Food Pyramid in the other.

To quote The Great One, “Ain’t Marxism grand?”

From the AP: (Hat Tip – Michelle Malkin)

Michelle Obama said Thursday that a pledge by the Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants and their sister chains to serve healthier meals is a “breakthrough moment” for the industry.

Darden Restaurants Inc. is pledging to cut calories and sodium in its meals by 10 percent by 2016, and 20 percent over a decade. Among promised changes for children: no more french fries. A fruit or vegetable side will become standard with kids’ meals. One percent milk also will be served, including free refills, unless an alternative drink is ordered.

“With this new commitment, Darden is doing what no restaurant company has done before,” said the first lady, who joined executives of Orlando, Fla.-based Darden for the announcement at an Olive Garden restaurant in Hyattsville, Md., just outside Washington.

“The kids’ menu changes have begun and are to be in place by July at Darden’s 1,900 restaurants in 49 states. Its other brands are LongHorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52. The Capital Grille and Seasons 52 do not have children’s menus. The children’s menu will also include at least one 600-calorie or less option with reduced fat and sodium.

“We want to ensure that those who dine with us find the choices that they desire,” said Clarence Otis Jr., Darden’s chief executive officer.

And lest you think this is just a good-natured move on Darden’s part, well I am sure you will find it more than ironic that they are also one of the lucky of beneficiares of the ObamaCare Waiver Lotto:

Among the waivers recently granted were for employers like Darden Restaurants, which operates the Red Lobster and Olive Garden restaurants, for 34,000 of its workers. Federal officials have granted 111 waivers to employers, insurers and union plans, who are responsible for covering about 1.2 million people.

Darden said the waiver would allow it to offer employees access to affordable coverage as the health care law is started.

As Malkin says, “Quid pro quo: It’s what’s for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.”

Not to mention, irony abounds.

A Washington Post journalist on the scene confirmed the first lady, who’s made a cause out of child nutrition, ordered a ShackBurger, fries, chocolate shake and a Diet Coke while the street and sidewalk in front of the usually-packed Shake Shack were closed by security during her visit.