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The duck is honestly cracking jokes about who is *funny*?

And then, for all those kids who read Mallard:

Tinsley can't even pay tribute to one of his favorite authors with pooping on another one he doesn't like.

What a sad, bitter little man.

Ryan

Worst. Colbert. Caricature. Ever.

Does Tinsley think it's a secret than Colbert has writers? Or that there's something shameful about that?

Hey, wait, where'd Mallard's cap go?

Ryan

Bennett Cerf wrote:Does Tinsley think it's a secret than Colbert has writers? Or that there's something shameful about that?

Has he even considered that Colbert just might be, you know, a member of the WGA?

Or is that too much information for his tiny duck brain to process?

Ryan

And can anyone explain this??

Oh darn. And he got me so excited.

That's about as pathetic as Mike Huckabee holding up a bill to aid flood and tornado victims because he objected to the phrase "act of God"...

Governor Won't Sign an 'Acts of God' Bill

Published: March 21, 1997

The Arkansas Legislature scrambled today to rewrite a bill intended to protect storm victims after Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister, objected to language describing such natural phenomena as tornadoes and floods as ''acts of God.''

Mr. Huckabee said that signing the legislation ''would be violating my own conscience'' inasmuch as it described ''a destructive and deadly force as being 'an act of God.' '' The Governor, a Republican, said the legislation was an otherwise worthy bill with objectives he shared.

Mr. Huckabee did not veto the bill but instead asked that it be recalled by the General Assembly. He suggested that the phrase ''acts of God'' be changed to ''natural disasters.''

The House of Representatives refused today to remove the offending phrase, but added the words, ''or natural disasters'' after the words ''acts of God.''

Mr. Huckabee was away from the capital, but his press secretary, Rex Nelson, said the Governor would not decide whether to accept the amended version until the Senate had considered the language.

The legislation would bar insurance companies from canceling coverage solely on the basis of claims filed after losses from storms. It was introduced before a series of tornados on March 1 killed 26 people and destroyed hundreds of houses and businesses, leaving damage in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

State Representative Dennis R. Young, a Texarkana Democrat who was the bill's sponsor in the House of Representatives, said, ''We've used the term 'act of God' in insurance since there has been insurance -- before there was insurance.''

Governor Huckabee's explained his objections in a letter to the bill's authors, saying: ''I feel that I have indeed witnessed many 'acts of God,' but I see His actions in the miraculous sparing of life, the sacrifice and selfless spirit in which so many responded to the pain of others.''

State Representative Shane Broadway, a Democrat whose district in suburban Little Rock was among the hardest hit by the March 1 tornadoes, simmered over the Governor's action. ''I'm just as much a Baptist as he is,'' Mr. Broadway said.

But Mr. Huckabee's letter was more a source of amusement than anger in the capitol. The bill's Senate sponsor, Wayne Dowd, a Texarkana Democrat, sighed, rolled his eyes and allowed that he would prefer to simply change the language and be done with it.

Mr. Huckabee was a Southern Baptist minister and a former president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention before entering politics.

Of course, the funniest part about that is Mike's righteous insistence that God would never do something bad like causing a flood.

Ryan

Bennett Cerf wrote:

Or not.

William F. Buckley Jr. dies at 82

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- National Review founder and conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. was found dead Wednesday in the study of his Stamford, Connecticut, home, officials at the magazine said.

He was 82.

"Buckley died while at work," said Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor of the National Review Online, in a written statement. "If he had been given a choice on how to depart this world, I suspect that would have been exactly it. At home, still devoted to the war of ideas."

Buckley's assistant, Linda Bridges, said he had suffered from emphysema for a few years, but the exact cause of death is unknown. She said Buckley was found dead by his cook at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

"Even though he had been ailing, this took us completely by surprise," said Bridges, who worked with Buckley for nearly 40 years.

"He was a great hero of American conservatism -- a brilliant and exciting writer and public performer," she added. "And he was somebody I was very proud and glad to call a friend."

Buckley's writings are widely credited for supporting the growth of the U.S. conservative movement in the latter half of the 20th century.

He achieved national attention in 1955, when he founded the National Review at age 29, and gained a following with "Firing Line," his Emmy-winning syndicated public television show, according to Contemporary Authors Online.

"America has lost one of its finest writers and thinkers," President Bush said in a statement issued Wednesday.

"Bill Buckley was one of the great founders of the modern conservative movement. He brought conservative thought into the political mainstream, and helped lay the intellectual foundation for America's victory in the Cold War and for the conservative movement that continues to this day."

President Ronald Reagan, a longtime reader of the National Review, paid tribute to Buckley's conservative reputation in 1985.

Speaking at the magazine's 30th anniversary celebration -- attended by such notables as Charlton Heston, Tom Selleck, Jack Kemp and Tom Wolfe -- Reagan remarked: "If any of you doubt the impact of National Review's verve and attractiveness, take a look around you this evening. The man standing before you now was a Democrat when he picked up his first issue in a plain brown wrapper; and even now, as an occupant of public housing, he awaits as anxiously as ever his biweekly edition -- without the wrapper."

News of Buckley's death was "deeply saddening to everyone in the conservative community," said Republican National Committee Chairman Robert Duncan.

House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio called Buckley "the architect of the modern conservative movement."

"America has lost a giant," Boehner said in a written statement. He lauded Buckley for taking a stance against socialism in his first issue of the National Review.

"As long as America honors the ideals of our Founding Fathers -- free speech, freedom of religion and limited, constitutional government -- his legacy will be cherished," he said.

The sixth of 11 children, Buckley was born in New York City in 1926. He gained public attention early in his career with a scathing attack against his alma mater, titled "God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of Academic Freedom."

The book, published a year after Buckley graduated, accused his alma mater of fostering secular and leftist beliefs, according to the National Review.

He served as the magazine's editor for 35 years, before stepping down in 1990 to become a contributing editor.

Buckley began a syndicated column, "On the Right," in 1962, covering subjects as diverse as political campaigns, changes in the tax code and celebrities.

He made an unsuccessful run for New York City mayor in 1965, describing it as a "paradigmatic campaign," according to the National Review.

A year later, he launched "Firing Line," drawing a wide array of guests, including Margaret Thatcher, Gerald Ford, Allen Ginsberg and Groucho Marx. The show ran until December 1999.

He wrote more than 50 books over his lifetime, managed to visit every continent and played harpsichord concertos, according to the magazine.

"Bill Buckley is indescribable. He's irreplaceable," conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said on his Wednesday show. "There will not be another one like him."

Buckley is survived by his son, novelist Christopher Taylor Buckley. His wife of 56 years, Patricia Taylor, died in April 2007.

Example of his Hillary caricature:

In Tinsley's defense, his Hillary is every bit as incompetent as all his other caricatures.

Doesn't a double entrendre have to be sexual?