Everybody Wants A Bailout

Even supervillains.

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What do you call one imprisoned Philly politician?

A good start.

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Oh Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)*

A post in which I openly wonder why Detroit isn't the setting of more post-apocalyptic films.  Why?  Here and here.  That's why. 

*I'll take any excuse to post a Sufjan Stevens song.

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Public Fister

Public Fister.  That is all.

P.S.:  The Memory Hole has not dropped into same and is being developed as we speak.  Certain limitations of the crawler originally developed are making the scraping of large sites more troublesome than originally anticipated. 

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Forever angry

George W. Bush has started raising funds to pay for his presidential library on the campus of Southern Methodist University, and some of the usual suspects are unhappy:

By this fall, he’ll be armed with architect’s renderings and will hold travel around the country to meet with groups and build support for the complex on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Some of his new neighbors are less than thrilled with the plan, with a handful of history and political science professors lined up to criticize it.

Interestingly enough, none of them is actually quoted in the article. But that's neither here nor there. For me, it's just fun to imagine them having to pass the place every day for the rest of their tenure, cursing under their breath.

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No mocking the Messiah, kid

Somebody is so going to Tolerance Camp,

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I Guess The Polling By The Democrats Over Limbaugh Wasn't Going As They Pleased

I dunno. Maybe that would explain why they are abandoning their coordinated attacks on him.

A participant in the planning meetings described the push as a successor to Democrats' message that Rush Limbaugh is the Republican Party leader. "We have exhausted the use of Rush as an attention-getter," the official said.

O RLY? YA RLY!

So, what is Team Hope And Change planning on doing now?

And officials throughout the party plan to hammer the idea that Republicans are just saying "no" to the president's budget plans without offering their own alternative.

Sigh. That again.

BORING!

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Yeah, good luck with that

Something tells me that this nonprofit organization is going to be super popular:

Claiming O.J. Simpson was dealt an injustice, an effort is under way to solicit money for the former football star's appeal of his Nevada conviction and prison sentence on kidnapping and armed robbery charges.

Barrett Prody, the brother of Simpson's former girlfriend, created a nonprofit corporation and an Internet Web site, the Society Against Legal Injustice Inc., to raise money for Simpson.

Oh, yeah, that's gonna be right up there with the Red Cross and the Humane Society.

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Photos from the Cincinnati demonstration

Pretty big crowd considering these sorts of marches are not really our kind of thing, and big cities aren't really known as conservative strongholds. 

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Well, at least he gives good haircuts

Read the reviews here. This is from one of my favorites:

A point-breakdown of my ranking.

+5: Great Haircut
+1: Close attention to detail/wet-shave
-5: Frotteurism / Sexual Assault

As an added bonus, it's in Palo Alto. Suck it, Stanfurd!

(Thanks to mesa.)

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Woman Who Turned Her Car Into Rolling Obama Advertisement Set To Lose Her Car

The irony is delicious.

Stone-Anderson's unemployment was the root of the art, but her lack of work may also bring the loss of it. In May, she gained free time when she was laid off from Rainbow Art and Design in Tampa, Fla., so she started painting her car with leftover acrylics.

Since the layoff, she has been working as a freelance artist, but hasn't been able to find enough work to keep all the bills paid.

Stone-Anderson missed her car payments in December, January and February and has started receiving calls from Chrysler. She has ignored them.

She said that Chrysler has the paperwork to repossess the car, and it's really just a matter of the company finding it at this point. The car is hard to miss, but Stone-Anderson said she's not worried about the company taking it.

"Barack says he's an eternal optimist," she said. "We're like minds."

It took Stone-Anderson four months of planning and two months of painting to transform the car from humdrum white to a vibrant montage of political art. The car's vignettes call for change in areas such as recycling, alternative energy, breast cancer awareness and health care. In July, she even wrangled the novelty license plate "44 PREZ."

Everywhere she takes the car, Stone-Anderson uses it to jump-start conversation. "This car is a magnet," she said.

The reaction to the car hasn't been all good. Some people have screamed obscenities at her.

What does she think President Obama himself would have to say about her art?

"He'd say, 'I'm too busy. Let me solve the world's problems,'" she said.

Her biggest dream for the car right now is just to get it sold so she can appease Chrysler and get a new car.

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Wow! Nice To See Kathleen Parker Knows What Is The Cause Of The Demise Of Newspapers!

I mean, shockingly, this piece sounds as though she, Allah, and the critics of Limbaugh are all one in the same. The contempt for your own side, the arrogance, and the hatred of media critics? True Northeast Republicanism at its finest.

The biggest challenge facing America's struggling newspaper industry may not be the high cost of newsprint or lost ad revenue, but ignorance stoked by drive-by punditry.

Yes, Dittoheads, you heard it right.

Drive-by pundits, to spin off of Rush Limbaugh's "drive-by media," are non-journalists who have been demonizing the media for the past 20 years or so and who blame the current news crisis on bias.

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Uh-oh! The Monkeys Are Catching Up!

First, it was the chimp that tore off the face of that lady in Connecticut. Then, it was the chimp in the Swedish Zoo that stockpiles and stores rocks to throw at visitors. Now, we have more monkey business*

First, a monkey kills its cruel owner with a coconut.

The animal – named Brother Kwan – found the work tedious and strenuous but Mr Janchoom refused to let him rest, dishing out beatings if he refused to climb trees.

It is believed that the monkey eventually snapped, and targeted his owner from a high branch with one of the hard-skinned fruits.

Mr Janchoom, from the province of Nakorn Sri Thammarat in Thailand, died on the spot after being struck by the coconut, according to reports in a local newspaper.

The dead man's wife said that the monkey had "seemed lovable" when they bought him for £130.

News of the attacks comes after scientists disclosed this week that a chimpanzee at a Swedish zoo became so annoyed at being gawked at by tourists in a zoo that he started creating weapons to hurl at them.

Then, proof is out there that monkeys can floss their teeth.

"I was surprised because teaching techniques on using tools properly to a third party are said to be an activity carried out only by humans," he said.

The study focused on the observation of seven female long-tailed macaques and interaction with their off spring at a colony of monkeys near Bangkok in Thailand.

The practice of teeth flossing doubled and became significantly more elaborate when they were in the presence of infant monkeys, suggesting that they were attempting to teach the technique to the young.

"The study is still at the hypothesis stage," said Professor Masataka.

"We would like to shift our focus to the baby monkeys to check whether the mothers' actions are effectively helping them learn how to clean their teeth."

*Yeah. I know that chimps and monkeys are different. So what?

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Things We Missed During The Rush Debate

I know. It's been mentioned before. But look at the level of coordination that goes on between the White House and liberal blogs. And the fact the Politico reports it is in and of itself newsworthy.

The “8:45 A.M. call,” as it’s referred to by members, began three weeks ago, and it marks a new level in coordination by the White House’s allies at a time when the conservative opposition is struggling for a toe-hold and major agenda items like health care reform appear closer than ever to passage.

The call has helped attempts to link the Republican Party to radio host Rush Limbaugh, and has served as the launching ground for attacks on critics of Obama’s policy proposals. It springs from a recognition of what was lacking in the Clinton years, said Jennifer Palmieri, the senior vice president for communications at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, one of the groups hosting the call.

“[CAP President John] Podesta’s and my experience was in the White House during the Clinton years, and we didn’t have a coordinated echo chamber on the outside backing us up,” she said. “There’s a real interest on the progressive side for groups to want to coordinate with each other and leverage each other’s work in a way I haven’t ever seen before.”

The call is hosted by Progressive Media, a project of the CAP Action Fund and the Media Matters Action Fund. The project began last year as a launching pad for attacks on John McCain, but failed to raise money for television advertisements, and served in the later days of the presidential campaign as a platform for disseminating opposition research critical of his policy plans. White House officials do not take part in the calls.

The calls are led by its top staffer, Tara McGuinness, who will also head Progressive Media's "communications research and analysis war room" to wage spin and policy wars throughout the day, Palmieri said.

The call has proved particularly effective at coordinating attacks on critics, said Jacki Schechner, the national communications director for Health Care for America Now, a labor-backed alliance of groups that support Democratic efforts to expand health care.

Shocka! Media Matters is in the middle of this?!??!111eleventy!!! I mean, the fact that they attack Limbaugh the same day the the White House, Olbermann, and others do must have been a mere coincidence.

I could insert some snark about how Allah and his defenders acted during this, but they are not going to budge, and seem to just get more defensive when called out. So I won't.*

*And yeah, I'm being a bit passive-aggressive, but so what?

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Say what?

In the opening to an article on Dem squeamishness on the issue of gun rights, some guy named Carl Hulse writes the following in the NYT:

Democrats have been exorcising some of their most stubborn political demons of late.

In challenging former President George W. Bush over the war in Iraq, they showed they were overcoming their deep post-Vietnam fear of being painted as weak on defense when taking a strong anti-war stance. Now, exhibiting comfort with rolling back Bush-era tax cuts, Democrats seem to be losing their anxiety about the tax-and-spend label.

So, opposing a war (and taking every possible opportunity to compare it to Vietnam, I might add) when there are troops in the field makes them look stronger on defense?  And opposing tax cuts is helping to shed their image as tax-and-spend liberals? Uh-huh.

Big City newspapers may not have a lot of cash anymore, but, apparently, they still pay well enough that their reporters can afford some pretty good weed.

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John McCain Was Evil, Evil, Evil

For even suggesting we tax health benefits.  What a fucking monster.

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I have just the

nurse's outfit professional suit to wear with these




From here And to prove I'm not just about the Prada, those are only $40.

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Never let the state take over liquor sales

It just ends up being an expensive, inefficient clusterfuck of bureaucracy and stupidity, oh, and half of the people who run the state-run stores apparently need lessons on how not to be lazy pricks.

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Forgive me...

...if I'm a little bit skeptical about the response to this.  I don't have kids, and I don't pretend to know much about how they should be taught about sex, but I'm smelling some bullshit here.

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Worst. Fad. EVAR.

Leave it to the upper-class twits of the UK to come up with something this stupid:

Desperate to chime with the zeitgeist, artfully distressed millionaires and billionaires are competing against one another to show just how far their fortunes have been reduced. "I told people my tan was fake the other day," says one Notting Hill princess. "Well I couldn't say it was from Verbier, could I? I didn't tell anyone I'd even been skiing this year."

Oh, the poor dear.  My heart just bleeds for her.  Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to the soup kitchen for dinner.

Update: Obligatory video added...

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