Snakes

Here's how our ruling elites behave when they think no-one is watching.

Clinton and Paul Ryan kissing each other's ass and discussing the need to end Medicare.

We are ruled by truly awful people.

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What Krugman says...

Debt Limit Stakes - NYTimes.com:

"Think about it. There’s a significant chance that failing to raise the debt limit could provoke a renewed financial crisis — and Republicans would rather take that chance than allow a reduction in tax breaks on corporate jets.

What this says to me is that Obama cannot, must not, concede here. If he does, he’s signaling that the GOP can extract even the most outrageous demands; he’s setting himself up for endless blackmail. A line has to be drawn somewhere; it should have been drawn last fall; but to concede now would effectively mean the end of the presidency."

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AMERICAblog News: Honey I shrunk my negotiating position in the deficit talks:

"So basically, the Republicans keep saying 'no' and the White House keeps offering them more and more cuts to programs, and fewer and fewer tax increases, while the Republicans simply keep saying 'no.'

Heck of a negotiation. The White House is simply negotiating with itself at this point. Lowering its bid, lower and lower, while the GOP does nothing. Guaranteeing that any final deal that is reached starts at a point so low that we're screwed no matter what the details.

Now, I'm sure the White House thinks it's going to win the battle by showing the American people how earnest the President has been in these talks, while the Republicans have been intransigent. Yeah, fat chance. That is all a matter of spin. And the White House folks, and Dems generally, don't spin very well. They need to hire someone who does, and empower them to win, rather than tying their hands in a never-ending desire to be nice to people who want to destroy you."

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No one could have predicted....

Financial Reform Destined To Fail, Top Federal Reserve Official Says:

"For Hoenig though, the choice is clear when it comes to what to do with the financial institutions that caused the most punishing downturn since the Great Depression: break them up into pieces that regulators can understand and provide a backstop to entities engaged in the so-called real economy -- but allow those dabbling in more risk-laden activities to fail.

The Obama administration and Congress chose the alternate route in passing the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law. To Hoenig, they made a mistake.

'Following this financial crisis, Congress and the administration turned to the work of repair and reform,' he said during a Monday speech in Washington. 'Once again, the American public got the standard remedies -- more and increasingly complex regulation and supervision.'

'The Dodd-Frank reforms have all been introduced before, but financial markets skirted them,' he continued. 'Supervisory authority existed, but it was used lightly because of political pressure and the misperceptions that free markets, with generous public support, could self-regulate.'"

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Shocking.

After Taking A $10 Billion Bailout, Goldman Sachs Announces It Will Outsource 1,000 Jobs To Singapore | ThinkProgress

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Nice work, NYC'ers.

Glenn Beck and family encounter hostility in NYC - Yahoo! News

Hateful bastard deserves every bit of it. You reap what you sow. Fuck. Him.

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Hostages

Are the following articles the media ginning up faux resentment for the sake of a story to publish? Or, are these proper critiques of a President who is not doing the job he was elected to do.

I report, you de.... oh, whatever.

Maddow On Gay Marriage Passage In New York: 'President Obama Is Against What Just Happened' (VIDEO)

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Maher: Obama ‘sucking up to the people he should be fighting’�|�Raw Replay:

"“It would be kind of a tragedy if we got to the end of four years of Democratic rule without having tried any Democratic policies,” Maher said. “I know Washington is tough, and Republicans are assholes, but someone needs to tell me why Obama won’t be more liberal even when the public is on his side.”"

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I'll need a bath after posting an article from Dowd, but when she's right...

Why Is He Bi? (Sigh) - NYTimes.com:

"The man who was able to beat the Clintons in 2008 because the country wanted a break from Clintonian euphemism and casuistry is now breaking creative new ground in euphemism and casuistry."

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Gore's never blasted anyone, but he does take issue.

Al Gore Blasts Obama On Climate Change For Failing To Take 'Bold Action'

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And Obama's Secretary of State channeling the fuck out of George Bush. With us or against us. Pitiful.

Daily Kos: New McCarthyism: It's Not Ok If You Are A Dem:

"Via Atrios, Glenn Greenwald catches Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doing her George Bush imitation:

But the bottom line is, whose side are you on? Are you on Qadhafi’s side or are you on the side of the aspirations of the Libyan people and the international coalition that has been created to support them? For the Obama Administration, the answer to that question is very easy.

Shameful"

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At least he had the decency to shoot himself in the end.

Man Holds Woman Hostage for 16 Hours, Updates Facebook Throughout - Failbook - Funny Facebook Status Messages ( Failbooking )

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Too Much Money In It

Uh.....

‘I get it,’ Obama tells business, vows cooperation | Raw Story

Actually, he doesn't get it... at all. Not even close.

Appealing to business leaders' 'better nature' is like taking a wee whilst standing on one's head. Laws of nature support neither venture.

Daily Kos: Obama's Misunderstanding of Corporate America:

"It would be nice to think that business leaders have all just had a moral lapse for the last 30 odd years. But that's not the truth. The truth is that any CEO who behaved morally in the ways Obama is asking would be in violation of the corporate charter, which demands maximum profit to the shareholder. Corporations, by definition, exist to maximize shareholder return. End of story."

So, yeah. Change and all.

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Clueless Clinton, too.

Why can’t the US legalize drugs? There’s ‘too much money in it,’ Clinton says | Raw Story

Your modern Democratic Party, ladies and gentlemen. When in doubt, mumble then cower.

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Huzzah! Take the 3rd-Railers (Wayers) with you.

Democratic Leadership Council will fold - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com

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"But it is so expensive to live there"!

Warm temps ‘shatter, obliterate’ records across the Bay Area - Yahoo! News

Actually, it is way too cheap to live where-ever you are living. Seriously.

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Like a Handshake

This is a great read and sums up most of my thoughts on the matter. However, I am of the school that progressives and liberals need to play even dirtier.

Playing nice will get us killed. Literally.

But, yes, your modern conservative movement is seditious.

None Dare Call It Sedition | OurFuture.org:

"These two events are a wake-up call for progressives. They're telling us that it's time to openly confront the fact that conservatives have spent the past 40 years systematically delegitimizing the very idea of constitutional democracy in America. When they're in power, they mismanage it and defund it. When they're out of power, they refuse to participate in running the country at all -- indeed, they throw all their energy into thwarting the democratic process any way they can. When they need to win an election, they use violent, polarizing, eliminationist language against their opponents to motivate their base. This is sedition in slow motion, a gradual corrosive undermining of the government's authority and capacity to run the country. And it's been at the core of their politics going all the way back to Goldwater."

Moderates and liberals are responding to this rising threat with feckless calls for "a return to civility," as if all that's needed to put things right again is a stern talking-to from Miss Manners. Though that couldn't hurt, the sad fact is that we're well past the point where it's just a matter of conservatives behaving like tantrum-throwing spoiled brats (which they are). When a mob is surrounding your house with torches and telling you they intend to burn it down, "civility" really isn't the issue any more.

At that point -- and we're there -- criminal intent and action become the real issues. Progressives need to realize that the right began defiantly dancing back and forth over the legal line, daring us to do something about it, quite some time ago. And it's high time we called it out -- and, where appropriate, start prosecuting it -- for exactly what it is.

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Yes, let's let Big Business run our country instead of a government for, of and by the people.

The ‘mind-blowing’ surge of wealth inequality in America - Sahil Kapur - AntiPartisan - True/Slant:

"One of the most understated issues in American political discourse is the surging inequality of income and wealth. The Nation has a chart that sheds light on what’s going on."

Thus the importance of....

Unions To Out-Tea-Party The Tea Party With March On Wall Street:

"A host of union groups and community activists are planning to one-up the anti-Wall Street sentiment commonly associated with the Tea Party movement by actually organizing a massive protest on the streets of downtown Manhattan.

The AFL-CIO is set to orchestrate a 10,000-person 'march on Wall Street' on April 29, designed to push for several broad and specific actions on the financial regulatory reform front."

It’s War: SEIU Starting Third Party In North Carolina | The Plum Line:

"In a shot across the bow of Dems, the labor powerhouse SEIU is starting a new third party in North Carolina that hopes to field its own slate of candidates, part of an effort to make the Democratic Party more reliable on issues important to labor, I’m told.

SEIU officials setting up the new party, called North Carolina First, are currently on the ground collecting signatures to qualify as a state party, SEIU officials tell me, adding that there are around 100 canvassers on the ground right now. The goal: To have the party up and running so candidates can run in this fall’s elections.

It won’t be lost on political observers that three House Dems who voted No on reform are from the state: Heath Shuler, Mike McIntyre, and Larry Kissell."

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Of course he joined in. They have a little color problem.

Mississippi gov joins in: No need to cite slavery when cheering confederacy | Raw Story

Think Progress � Ohio Tea Party Organizer And Father Of Part-Latino Son Threatens To Shoot Latino Immigrants

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Weird group of people. This is what counts as 'funny'?

Christian ‘comedian’ accidentally exposes evils of indoctrination - Stephen C. Webster - Brave New Hooks - True/Slant:

"I was raised very, very Christian. So Christian, in fact, my family wouldn’t even identify their denomination — which is to say, they were in the anti-denomination denomination. They preferred the term “nondenominational.”

Even as a child, I carried an ever-present suspicion that everyone I knew was completely Fucking insane."

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Kinda like a hand shake.... or a pat on the back.

'Clinton-Lewinsky Effect': Study Shows Students' Changing Views Of Oral Sex:

"Sex researchers point to former President Bill Clinton, former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, a notorious blue dress -- and perhaps a cigar -- for a recent study that shows college students are growing more hesitant to call oral sex actual sex.

According to the University of Kentucky study of sexual definitions, only 20 percent of students considered oral-genital contact to be 'sex.' That's about half the number who responded that way in similar 'sex' classification studies in 1991 and 1999-2001."

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50 Hilarious TV Screenshots and Freeze Frames - Urlesque

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Great News for Republicans

We'll start with the utter horseshit from the Villagers

Dems, incumbents get wake-up call - Yahoo! News:

Nothing of the sort, news media assholes.

Eschaton:

"Deep Thought

After tonight's elections results, Joe Biden must resign, Sarah Palin must be confirmed as his replacement, and then Barack Obama must resign. The people have spoken."

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The AP's only premise: What if Dems lose on Tuesday? | Media Matters for America:

"UPDATED: What's also astonishing, and this is absolutely ignored by the press, is that the NJ race is only close today becuase the GOP candidate has lost a double-digit lead in recent months. It's only close because the GOP candidate's campaign has imploded since the summertime. But the press doesn't care about that, or what that might say about the GOP. The press only cares if Dems lose."

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Great news for Republicans.

Democratic win in conservative district is first since 1871 | Raw Story:

"The Democratic victory for a retired Air Force captain was the first for Democrats since 1871."

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This seat, historically, has been Republican. Dems won it last cycle and again this time. But, somehow, this is great news for Republicans.

Democrat Garamendi Cruises in California 10 - Yahoo! News:

"Lt. Gov. John Garamendi kept California's 10th Congressional District in Democratic hands, easily winning the special election to fill an open seat."

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Excellent news for the teabaggers.

Breckenridge, Colorado voters legalize marijuana, paraphernalia | Raw Story:

"Voters in the ski resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado legalized marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia by a nearly three-to-one margin on Tuesday.

It is the first municipality in the United States to allow paraphernalia, such as pipes, bongs and bubblers.

'[The measure] passed 73 percent to 27 percent,' ABC 7 News in Denver reported."

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But there are lessons to be learned. I'm looking at your Creigh Deeds (Worse. Campaign. Ever)

Daily Kos: State of the Nation:

"by kos
Tue Nov 03, 2009 at 09:32:52 PM PST

There will be much number-crunching tomorrow, but preliminary numbers (at least in Virginia) show that GOP turnout remained the same as last year, but Democratic turnout collapsed. This is a base problem, and this is what Democrats better take from tonight:

1. If you abandon Democratic principles in a bid for unnecessary 'bipartisanship', you will lose votes.

2. If you water down reform in favor of Blue Dogs and their corporate benefactors, you will lose votes.

3. If you forget why you were elected -- health care, financial services, energy policy and immigration reform -- you will lose votes.

Tonight proved conclusively that we're not going to turn out just because you have a (D) next to your name, or because Obama tells us to. We'll turn out if we feel it's worth our time and effort to vote, and we'll work hard to make sure others turn out if you inspire us with bold and decisive action.

The choice is yours. Give us a reason to vote for you, or we sit home. And you aren't going to make up the margins with conservative voters. They already know exactly who they're voting for, and it ain't you."

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Bazooka vs. Spork comes to mind.

Bush, Clinton Debate At Radio City In February:

"Former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will go head to head in a debate at Radio City Music Hall next February, as part of a series pairing liberal and conservative thinkers called 'Minds That Move The World.'"

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Cool.

Star Pictures: NASA's Most Extraordinary Images EVER (PHOTOS, POLL)

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Bill Clinton Walks into a Dic...tatorship

Bill Clinton takes a trip to Korea and returns with two AZN chicks?!?

Hillary is going to be pissed.

But, seriously, folks. This cost the U.S., what, 50,000 grand total? And we didn't have to blow any shit up... specially our men and women in uniform?!?

Diplomacy. What a concept.

N. Korea Says Two U.S. Journalists Have Been Pardoned - washingtonpost.com:

"North Korea announced Tuesday that it had pardoned two detained American journalists, hours after former president Bill Clinton met in Pyongyang with reclusive dictator Kim Jong Il as part of an unannounced and highly unusual diplomatic mission to win their freedom."

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Shit the pool. That's all Republicans know how to do.

Doggett undeterred by unruly right-wing mob, says he remains ‘more committed than ever’ to health reform.:

"This mob, sent by the local Republican and Libertarian parties, did not come just to be heard, but to deny others the right to be heard. And this appears to be part of a coordinated, nationwide effort. What could be more appropriate for the “party of no” than having its stalwarts drowning out the voices of their neighbors by screaming “just say no!” Their fanatical insistence on repealing Social Security and Medicare is not just about halting health care reform but rolling back 75 years of progress. I am more committed than ever to win approval of legislation to offer more individual choice to access affordable health care. An effective public plan is essential to achieve that goal."

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Amazing that the traditional media is picking up on this thuggery.

Maddow does a great job reporting on the ThuGOP Life.

"Corporate lobbyist are organizing far-right hooligan tactics to disrupt civic meetings about health care reform"

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And damn glad Dems are pushing back hard. Check out some of the push back in this DK diary:

Daily Kos: Calling Out the Right-Wing Noise Machine:

"This is the kind of pushback we need to hear from all Democrats.

And kudos to the reporters who have recognized what has been happening and are asking questions about it. But of course the question is, will they aggressively report on it or will they follow the lead of the New York Times and CNN's Candy Crowley and either ignore or dismiss it?"

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Interesting. In America politicians trust prostitutes more than their wives... and constituents for that matter.

Chinese Trust Prostitutes More Than Politicians, Scientists

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Alabama gone wild.

Troops may be deployed to Alabama county

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History

Tomorrow will be a bit of a special post for AAW. Be sure to drop by and say 'hey'.

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It is official. History.

Being a product of the deep South if you had asked me two years ago the possibility of a black man being this close to the Presidency of the U.S.A. in augt-8 I would have bet everything I owned that it couldn't happen.

I'm damn glad to be wrong.

If Obama is elected..... nay, WHEN Obama is elected it will ever so slightly validate the misery of the past 8 years. America has been on a bender of benders for 8 long years. I think we've sobered up enough to realize we need serious help.

Obama becomes first African-American nominee for President.:

"“I have been asked to inform you that Senator Obama accepts the nomination and will deliver his acceptance speech tomorrow night at the fourth night of the convention to be held at Invesco field,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced today. Obama is the first African-American nominee of a major political party and will accept the nomination on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech."

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Bill rocked the house last night.

Bill Clinton Throws His Full Weight Behind Obama, Blasts Bush/McCain Legacy:

"People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power."
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"Together, we prevailed in a campaign in which the Republicans said I was too young and too inexperienced to be Commander-in-Chief. Sound familiar? It didn't work in 1992, because we were on the right side of history. And it won't work in 2008, because Barack Obama is on the right side of history."

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Joe did a hell of a job too.

Joe Biden Democratic Convention Speech (VIDEO):

"'And I realized he (Obama) has tapped into the oldest American belief of all: We don't have to accept a situation we cannot bear. We have the power to change it,'"

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Shrinkage

On this last day of the Democratic Primary I'm hopeful, wary and a bit terrified.

Hopeful that Hillary will do what's good for the party and drop out whilst fully endorsing Obama.

Wary that she'll only 'suspend' her campaign thus leaving the door for a 'return' and not endorsing Obama.

Terrified that Obama may do something crazy like ask the she-devil who's hell-bent on satisfying her own lust for power to be his V.P.

Long primary has been great for the Dems but has worn on this political junkies psyche a bit too much.

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We are SO far behind in this country. So, so, so far behind.

Great potential for on-site sustainable energy:

"Despite the incentives offered by the governmental agencies in Britain, the report concludes Germany's approach is more effective. Germany 'pays householders for feeding the electricity they produce from microgeneration into the national grid; the rate of these 'feed-in tariffs' for photovoltaic panels is especially generous, fuelling their rapid expansion. At least 15 other European countries have also adopted them.'"

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5 big ass joints a day for 20 years. Well no-shit.

Hey, did you know that if you drink a case of beer everday for 20 years your liver will shrink up like a dog turd?

Stupid study.

Heavy marijuana use shrinks brain parts: study:

"The men had smoked at least five marijuana cigarettes daily for on average 20 years."

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Sure, why not.

Jazz up whiskey with a taste of honey

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Cocaine Jeebus

Hopefully this will be the last bit of bagging on the Clintonistas. If she has an ounce of class and dignity she'll drop out by Wed morning.

But his rare footage of Hillary as a young child does not bode well.

Funny because it's true.

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More support for Siegelman:

Ex-attorneys general file brief supporting Siegelman:

"A bipartisan group of 54 former state attorneys general from across the country has filed a federal appeals brief supporting former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman's bid to overturn his criminal conviction."

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Even Obama's body man is cooler than cool. Reggie 'freakin' Love.

On the Court and on the Trail, One Aide Looms Over Obama:

"Mr. Love, 26, is Mr. Obama’s body man, the personal aide who shadows the senator and anticipates everything he needs — and everything he does not need. He is not a bodyguard (security is provided by the Secret Service), but rather the ultimate assistant, rarely more than a body length away from the candidate."

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Smuggling blow in style.

Mexico drug smugglers make Jesus statue of cocaine:

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The Kids are Alright.

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Tornadoes and Falling Babies

A big thanks to those who have donated to the AAW Fund Raiser.

Thanks to Donelle C. for donating a couple of DBT D.C. tickets to the cause and to Mark G. for purchasing those tickets.

Thanks to Dallas Hudgens, author of two kick ass books that you should definitely give a read: Drive Like Hell and Season of Gene. Check out Wes Freed interviewing Dallas over at Largehearted Boy.

Thanks to Big Slacker Shirts. Go check out their very fine online store.

Thanks to Mrs. B-way, Don R., Ellie C., and the previously mentioned Chris C., Kim M., and Dapper Dave.

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Let's begin today with a combination of two DBT songs. I present to you Plastic Flowers and Tornadoes... fo' real. No, seriously, fo' real, fo' real:



Trippy, huh?

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Occasionaly, SNL finds a needle in a hay stack. It's funny because it is true. Ok, it's not really funny, but it is sadly true.

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Drop the baby. Don't drop the baby.... OK, drop the baby.

I could watch this all day long:

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Sometimes I wish I had a brother just for the comedy:

Mother's Day

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Back is soft but the seat is hard

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Bus blogging today. Watching the sun rise over Bennett Peak and Sonoma Mountain. Very nice, indeed. Don't know what's up with these seats, though. The back is soft by the seat is hard. I can hear them bells.....

While we're dilly-dallying with DBT lyrics, here's couple of Buttholeville relatable stories:

This highway's mean. If you don't know nobody that gots kilt or seriously maimed on 72 then you ain't from around there.

Man killed in U.S. 72 crash | TimesDaily.com | Florence, AL:

"A Colbert County man was killed Tuesday when the motorcycle he was riding slammed into the back of a pickup truck on U.S. 72, authorities said."

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Clouds started formin'.....

Shoals Theater sign replica placed atop marquee | TimesDaily.com| Florence, AL:

"FLORENCE - The sign, stretching 21 feet tall, slowly was positioned over a steel bar atop the Shoals Theater marquee Tuesday."

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Indeed.

Hillary is 404

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Culture of life my ass.

The Raw Story | Medical marijuana user who was denied liver transplant dies

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All Over But the Shoutin'

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Stayed up late last night refreshing CNN.com and Dailykos obsessively watching the votes come in from Lake County in IND.

One step closer to electing the coolest president evah!

Obama 184.5 delegates short of nomination, Clinton 341

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Pill popping Limpballs doing what Republicans do best. Rig elections.

Why Hillary 'won' IND last night.

Will Republicans cause chaos in Indiana’s Democratic primary?:

"Because many Republicans believe Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, has a better chance of beating Clinton in the general election, Limbaugh has encouraged listeners to his popular radio show to vote for the New York senator. Limbaugh’s pro-Clinton campaign has been dubbed “Operation Chaos.”

Some exit polls from Ohio and Texas suggest that Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos” may have had an impact on results in both states"

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Thanks, George Bush's Supreme Court Douchebags.

With no photo IDs, nuns denied ballots in Indiana primary:

"WASHINGTON — At least 10 retired nuns in South Bend, Ind., were barred from casting regular ballots in Tuesday's Indiana Democratic primary election because they lacked photo IDs required under a state law upheld last week by the U.S. Supreme Court.

John Borkowski, a South Bend lawyer volunteering as an election watchdog for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said several of the retired nuns had been voting all of their lives but were told they lacked the required photo IDs.

Indiana's toughest-in-the-nation law, which the high court upheld by a 6-3 vote, requires every voter to produce a state-issued photo ID card."

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Please, please, please why isn't somebody in jail over this.

How damn convenient.

White House admits pre-war e-mails not archived:

"The White House does not have archival copies of e-mails exchanged between administration officials during the weeks leading up to President Bush's decision to invade Iraq nor for the first two months of the war there, according to a just-released filing concerning millions of e-mails alleged to have gone missing or been deleted."

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Check out Tom Waits recent press conference. Genius!

Tasty Fish. Tasty Fish. Poison Fish.

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BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHA.

McCain calls Obama insensitive to poor people

Coming from the douchebag that dumped his disabled 1st wife for a beerillionaress tart 17 years his junior. I bet McCain didn't use student loans to attend the Naval Academia (In which he graduated 894 out of 899)

John McCain - Dickipedia - A Wiki of Dicks

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Barrack Obama is a cool, functioning work of art while Clinton is a piece of crap, over sized paper weight that needs to be rebooted every hour so as to be able to give you another made-up error message.

Yeah, that seems about right.

Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?:

"On one thing, the experts seem to agree. The differences between hillaryclinton.com and barackobama.com can be summed up this way: Barack Obama is a Mac, and Hillary Clinton is a PC."

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How can you not want to vote for a man who can hoop it up like Obama?!?

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My people fighting back?!? WTF? Good on ya SPC Hall.

Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats:

"FORT RILEY, Kan. — When Specialist Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending."

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Tasty fish. Tasty Fish. Tasty Fish. Poison Fish.

Fugu Me!

Fugu: A User's Guide To The World's Most Dangerous Dinner

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Clintonball

Daily Kos: The Rules of Clintonball:

"Listening to Clinton campaign surrogates on television, before the PA votes ever started to trickle in, was truly painful. Suddenly one state was the only state that mattered. All those other states were merely prelude: if Clinton could eke out a victory in this state, trailing in the delegate count would no longer be significant, and it would be a brand new race, and Obama would be on the ropes, and Clinton would suddenly win a billion dollars, a pony, and the moon; attention must be paid."

Funny because it's true:

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I know, I know, preaching/choir/redundant/no-shit, but I still feel the necessity to point it out:

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Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm:

"SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget. Unfortunately, this moment is different for every person and each bit of information. Imagine a pile of thousands of flash cards. Somewhere in this pile are the ones you should be practicing right now. Which are they?"

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One Nation, Under Monkey Business

Damn, we've trashed outer space, too!

The final frontier teeming with man-made rubbish: The incredible pictures of 'space junk' swirling round Earth's orbit

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Very interesting read on the unspoken effects of bypass surgery and the potential reason for many of Bill Clinton's recent, campaign hurting comments.

Daily Kos: What's the matter with Bill?

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Stephen Colbert: National Treasure.

Colbert to Larry King: Fascism gets a bad rap:

"Colbert's only remark on Obama was, 'He's an inspiring candidate, and he's got the young people out there just eating out of the palm of his hand. He's passing his hope bong around the drum circle of young America.'"

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*Sigh*. If we're 'under him' then, well.....

Georgia Republican instructs House on proper Pledge of Allegiance technique

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Why is 'monkey business' always a bad thing. Do monkey's not have any legitimate work?

Red light camera monkey business may be a national trend

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Whiskey River Take My Mind

"....meanwhile the whole world suffers from hunger and meanness
but we’re more concerned with the President’s penis”
-The President's Penis Is Missing - DBT

As $110-million-dollars-in-the-bank-account-over-the-past-8-years and 30 years inside the D.C. bubble Hillary attempts to paint Obama as some sort of 'elitist' *snort* she's also desperately attempting to cast herself as some 2nd Amendment loving, whiskey drinking, GRITS.

First Annie Clinton-Oakley. Convenient:

Clinton Becomes A Gun Lover:

"Clinton said she has hunted ducks."

She didn't kill any because she couldn't get off a shot with all of the sniper fire and evasive maneuvers and such.

Obama nails her on it:

'Shame' on Clinton: Obama hits back in guns and religion row :

"'Hillary Clinton is out there like she's out in a duck blind every Sunday, she is packing a six shooter -- come on she knows better,' Obama said in Steelton, Pennsylvania"

But 'The Google' nails her even harder.

'Annie Oakley' changes her tune:

"Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who has cast herself in the past few days as a champion of gun owners, had a very different message when she spoke eight years ago to the Newspaper Association of America.

“CLINTON TAKES AIM AT GUNS,” said the all-caps headline on the group’s Web site after she told members in May 2000, during her Senate campaign, that “there isn’t a more important task” than passing gun-safety laws."

Say anything, do anything Clinton. Anything to grab all of the pow-wah.

Speaking of 'do anything':

Clinton Becomes A Gun Lover

"Clinton stood by the bar and took a shot of Crown Royal whiskey. She took one sip of the shot, then another small sip, then a few seconds later threw her head back and finished off the whole thing."

(Hill, you'll never live this one down)

First, Crown Royal is a Canadian Whiskey. You'd figure she could have at least ordered some good old American Jack Daniels.

Also, do we really want another crossed eyed whiskey craver as Preznit? Again?!?

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Straight up racism directed at Obama by an inbred Kentucky Senator. It's only going to get worse:

Obama hits back at inexperience charge from GOP lawmaker:

"A Republican congressman used some of the most racially charged language of the election season to attack Barack Obama's fitness to be president, causing the Illinois Senator's campaign to issue a sharp rebuke Monday.

Rep. Geoff Davis was speaking to about 400 donors at a fundraiser in Kentucky, when he said of Obama, 'That boy's finger does not need to be on the button"

Of course he later profusely apologized, but you got out into the ether, didn't you Geoff Davis (ironic, huh) you racist piece of in-bred shit.

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JennB uncovers one of the coolest stories I've read in a while. There's a really good movie or a DBT song in here somewhere:

She’s a… plural? � Pointy Pointy:

"They’re interviewing a woman who discovered that her children - the ones that came out of her - were not hers. They simply did not have her DNA. Turns out, the poor mother was actually… two people. A plural."

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Damn Right We're Bitter

Florence AL native Stewart Cink finished 3rd at the Master's yesterday. Congrats, Stewart!

Cink records best Masters finish | TimesDaily.com | Times Daily | Florence, AL:

"Instead, Cink was pleased with his best Masters showing in 11 visits to Augusta National. Cink shot 72 in the final round and finished in a tie for third place with Brant Snedeker. Cink was one of only eight players to shoot par or better on a windy Sunday afternoon. His finished at 4-under 284, easily his best four days ever at the Masters."

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If they can't even coordinate their lies, how in the world will they be able to run the country? Sheesh. Like an inept version of the Bush Administration:

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Obama responds to 'BitterGate'. Sigh. McCain and Clinton are grasping at anything. Not to mention the traditional media's erection at being able to flog a non story for a couple of weeks... weak.

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Good stuff!

Ouch! The Daily Show's Eviscerating "Documentary" About Fox News

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Hehe. Couldn't happen to nicer people:

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Cleaning out the blog closet

Thursday's blog closet clean out.

Conservative say the stupidest things.

Occupying Iraq Is Just Like Occupying ... Alabama?

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Why Clinton sucks and Obama rocks:

Clinton leadership a study in missteps:

"Put simply, Obama has shown he can offer a compelling vision, execute a complicated strategy to convey it and, all the while, keep the ledger in the black. That’s not a bad first step to becoming a strong leader."
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Obama can rightly claim he has run a more consistent, disciplined and technologically savvy campaign. While Clinton has blown though nearly a half-dozen campaign slogans and failed to put concerns about her credibility to rest, he has clung to essentially the same leadership and governing message he outlined in his 2004 speech at the Democratic convention. There has been little drama inside his operation — or at least if there was, it has been kept largely concealed.

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The media covers for McSame after he gets asked a legit question from a school girl.

Daily Kos: Saving Captain McCain:

"Heckling? She wasn't heckling John. She had him pinned down with hostile fire. She was practically mauling him. John's only chance of rescue was for intrepid journalists to infiltrate behind enemy lines and extract him, at great risk to themselves, from the maw of mild criticism.

And so it goes with our pathetic news media. Every time Our Hero gets into political trouble, journalists can be found to succor McCain from himself."

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Oh baby. Can't wait for this to drop. Faster porn. Yes!!!

Coming soon: superfast internet:

"THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.

At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds."

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What may be the dumbest headline ever.

Alcoholics Not to Blame for All Drunk Driving Cases

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I want one!

And like any good teen sensation she's working on a record deal.

Still.... I want one!

Tiny teenager from India is smallest girl in the world

"She will even be releasing an album with her favourite Indian pop star, the bhangra/rap star Mika Singh."

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Siren Song of the Snorg Chick

Closeted Lindsey, Trader Joe and McSame

The Saddest Effing Picture Ever.

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How a candidate runs their campaign is how they will run the country.

Hillary's Campaign Refused to Cancel My Contribution Plan:

"In a recent article on the Politico, Cash-strapped Clinton fails to pay bills, it was reported that Hillary's campaign isn't even paying its own bills. In an interesting irony, as of February 29, her campaign owed $200,000 to a health insurance provider, which had not been paid in three months. As soon as the media found out about it, her campaign decided to pay it off."

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Ummm, d'uh. Why do you think strip clubs exist?!?

Sex and Financial Risk Linked in Brain :

"WASHINGTON — A new brain-scan study may help explain what's going on in the minds of financial titans when they take risky monetary gambles _ sex. When young men were shown erotic pictures, they were more likely to make a larger financial gamble than if they were shown a picture of something scary, such a snake, or something neutral, such as a stapler, university researchers reported."

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*sniff* *sniff* 'God Bless America... Land that I love....'

Beer lovers toast 75 years after return of legal suds :

"It has been called everything from a noble experiment to a stupendous blunder.

Seventy-five years ago today, beer started flowing again, marking the beginning of the end for Prohibition."

But April 7 was the date that newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt, armed with 57 percent of the popular vote, tweaked the law to allow for the sale of beer, creating a sudsy slope that led to full-scale repeal of the 14-year-old law.

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Oh Snorg chick. T-shirt temptress. Your siren song is oft the focus of my day dreams. Could it be the short-shorts? Or is it you snaggled smile that sets my heart a flutter. (Call me!)

(I'm spending WAY too much time on MySpace)

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Kinky Creatures of Sea

Let's see. She gets her ass kicked and loses her first term (Rocky I). Makes a fortune fighting then loses that fortune due to inept and corrupt in-laws (our tax dollars). Punch drunk with power madness. Constantly chasing the magic from the first film but ending up making crap film after crap film. Not knowing when to freakin quit and leave the ring (Rocky XXVII).

Apt analogy, Hill.

Clinton Likens Herself to 'Rocky':

"Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says she has something in common with legendary film boxer Rocky Balboa — "

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For a company whose founding moto was "Do No Evil" they sure all busting their balls to do much evil. Recently partnering the CIA and NSA certainly is 'evil'.

However, what got my goat is the new email back-dating service they are offering. A service that allows one to lie. I'm not down with it.

The last line kills me.

Gmail: Google's approach to email:

"How do I use it?

Just click 'Set custom time' from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient's inbox. You can opt for it to show up read or unread by selecting the appropriate option.
Is there a limit to how far back I can send email?

Yes. You'll only be able to send email back until April 1, 2004, the day we launched Gmail. If we were to let you send an email from Gmail before Gmail existed, well, that would be like hanging out with your parents before you were born -- crazy talk.
How does it work?

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Our researchers have concluded that allowing each person more than ten pre-dated emails per year would cause people to lose faith in the accuracy of time, thus rendering the feature useless"

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Kids in America:

Top Stories - A Group of Georgia Third Graders Plot To Attack Teacher

"They had a broken steak knife, a crystal paper weight, toy handcuffs, several items and tape and stuff," says Lt. Caswell.

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Ah, yeah. Just the name alone is kinky. Many-pusses.

Study: Octopuses Kinky Creatures of Sea:

"Wild octopuses are far from the shy, unromantic loners their captive brethren appear to be, a new study finds. Marine biologists from the University of California, Berkeley, who journeyed off the coast of Indonesia to study octopus love lives found a kinky and violent society of jealous murders, gender subterfuge and once-in-a-lifetime sex."

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