No, I have no idea why the site is randomly eating comments and posts

I'll see if I can find out...

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Talk About Animal Cruelty!

Horse bombs?

The Israeli military said its forces returned fire at a group including a few men wearing explosive vests and five horses loaded with explosives.

Israel said the Palestinians opened fire and tried to plant bombs near a crossing on the Gaza-Israel border.

Palestinian officials said about 10 gunmen were involved in the incident.

The Palestinian health ministry, which is run by the Hamas movement that controls Gaza, confirmed that four fighters were killed in the shooting.

Israeli forces fired on the militants with machine guns and tanks backed up with combat helicopters, the military said.

Since the intent was to kill Jews, I doubt PETA will ignore talking about this story.

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Obama Unveils Plan To Speed Up Recovery. Recovery To Be Hardest Hit.

Why is it I have a feeling of dread about this plan?

Construction equipment manufacturers Caterpillar Inc. and Deere & Co. are among companies that may benefit from federal contracts for some of the work.

“We have a long way to go on our road to recovery but we are going the right way,” Obama said in the statement. “Our measure of progress is the progress the American people see in their own lives. And until that progress is steady and solid; we’re going to keep moving forward.

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The new projects are being framed as the beginning of a “summer of accelerated Recovery Act activity” by the administration and include new services at health centers in 50 states, work on 107 national parks, improvements at airports, highway locations and veterans’ medical facilities. They will also provide funding for schools to hire more teachers.

White House officials said yesterday they are encouraged by a slowing rate of job losses. The economy lost 345,000 jobs last month, fewer than expected and the lowest number since September, the Department of Labor reported June 5.

Still, unemployment rose to 9.4 percent, higher than the 8 percent the administration projected when it pressed Congress to enact the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

“Hopefully, that is a sign that this is turning,” David Axelrod told CNN yesterday. “While it’s going to take some time for these unemployment numbers to turn around, for the momentum to completely stop and turn in the other direction, it feels as if we’re moving.”

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Vice President  Joe Biden, who later today will present Obama with the administration’s latest economic stimulus goals, said a “good foundation” was laid in the first 100 days of the Recovery Act.

“We plan to build on that foundation and accelerate our efforts so we can accomplish even more,” Biden said in a statement. “We’re going to get more dollars out the door, more shovels into the ground and more money into the pockets of workers and families who need it most.”

In the three months after the Democratic-led Congress approved Obama’s stimulus plan, the government doled out about 11 percent of the emergency stimulus funds, according to a progress report released by Biden’s office on May 13.

The administration says it will commit about 70 percent of the money by the end of the next fiscal year, less than the 75 percent that White House officials projected in February.

Biden, citing “significant progress,” stressed in the May report that most programs and projects were running ahead of schedule and under budget.

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Hey! I Made A Drink For You!

Wouldn't this be hilarious at a party?

 

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Talk About A Direct Pipeline Between The White House And The MSM

Claire Shipmanm, the wife of Jay Carney, the flack catcher for Pluggy Joe, uttered this gem yesterday.

"I think it's also hard when you look at Sotomayor's record and look at the cases, it's very hard for people to make the case that she's a typical, you know, elite liberal judicial philosopher. I mean, really, she's not. Her cases go back and forth. It's going to be hard for the Republicans to try to pin down what that means. She's tended to give -- to be tough on crime, to give police the benefit of the doubt...."

Seriously, can you believe that the current Vice President, who used to serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and know how to work that room, didn't coincidentally and strongly suggest to his spokeman to recommend to his wife to bring this up on the Sunday Shows?

Oh well. But that Fox News? Nothing but mouthpieces for the GOP.

 

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Moron Pundit Announces Unveiling of Giant Package

Today, Obama has announced that he is going to save or create another 600,000 jobs by expediting 10 major projects. 

I'm tired of our messianic President thinking so small so I'm announcing my new stimulus. 

Over the next 37 minutes I intend to save or create 155,081,000 jobs.  That's right, I'm going to save or create every fucking job in the United States in a little over half an hour. 

How, you ask?  A giant package, that's how.   How big is this package?  So big that women will scream as it is unveiled.  Oh yes, this is a hefty economic bitch-splitter with the ability to beat the brakes off any recession and leave it panting and eager for seconds. 

My giant package will inspire epic poetry and songs of gallantry.  Women will want it applied to them and men will wish they were the ones applying it. 

That's right, once you go Pundit you'll never refund it.  Once you MP you'll always agree.  Sign up now in the comments or leave your testimonials.

Update:  9:00AM - I did it!  I saved every fucking job with my swollen package!  Next time you go to the polls, remember that you owe your employment to ME, Moron Pundit. 

I'll see you in the White House.  Except alexthechick.  She has to bring her boots over for a private inspection.  After all, saving her job as a law-talking-gal was pretty awesome of me.

 

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You know what I haven't blathered about in ages

Shoes. Behold! My new stompy boots! (or well my new stompy boots in my head)



Louboutin's of course.  Let me put it this way, if you can pull off wearing those (and just those koff), I'm fairly certain you won't be paying the $2,000 for them yourself.  Just.  Sayin'. 

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This feels like a prank

The Pirate Party now has a seat in the EU Parliament.

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Plugs does it again

Now that Blago's not so much in the picture, I'm thinking Biden is my personal gift from Obama.

When Biden realized he’d backed a loser, he un-gushed. Why, much to everyone’s surprise, Biden said his words were not an endorsement.

“It was a statement of friendship and admiration for the governor,” his spokesman insisted, “and was not intended as a political statement.”

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs wanted nothing to do with the controversy.

“I have not seen the remarks,” he ducked. “But let me go see if I can find that and see what the context is.”

Does anyone suppose there's some valiant reporter who will ask Gibbs at the next presser if he found the context? Perhaps it's the "Throw inconvenient people under the bus" context. Or the "I should never have been allowed to get this far but no one else was willing to take the job" context. Or maybe it's the "My hair plugs have penetrated my dura mater" context.

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Kathleen Parker is an idiot (this is not a recording)

I can't believe this ar-tard actually gets paid good money to write this silly shit:

Osama is the withered and quivering Gollum -- seething with envy and nursing his precious hatred -- to Obama's robust and hope-driven Frodo. The forces of darkness and light personified.

What are you, twelve?

Kathleen then goes on to say that Obama "defused" Achmadinnerjacket with his pretty, pretty words with the following dumbassery:

He makes perfect sense in a perfectly sensible world. Most sane people want to live without the nagging threat of obliteration. And most would agree that reasonable people have the right to access nuclear power for nonviolent purposes.

But we know Iran's president to be un-sane and un-reasonable. Just the day before Obama's Cairo speech, Ahmadinejad repeated his belief that the Holocaust was a "big deception."

In his own remarks, Obama said that denying the fact of the Holocaust is "baseless," "ignorant" and "hateful." If Ahmadinejad didn't recognize himself, surely the rest of the world did, including Iranians who will vote in their country's presidential election this month.

Riiiiiiiight. First of all, I doubt the people of Iran are quite as enamored of Obama's opinions as you are. Secondly, um, the Holocaust denial thing is sort of a feature, not a bug in that particular corner of the world. Only an idiot wouldn't recognize that.

Oh, right.

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NRO's outing of lefty blogger in poor taste

Most of us write here using pseudonyms, and there are many legitimate reasons to use a pseudonym over an actual name, privacy, keeping your business/personal life and political life separate, and safety as well.  Apparently one of the NRO writers doesn't think so, and outed the identity of a lefty blogger at a site called Obsidian Wings.

I'm in agreement with Ed (Morrissey, not Whalen), this lefty blogger at Obsidian shouldn't have been outed, unless he had done something threatening or criminal, was excessively abusive, libelous or slanderous, or had outed someone else, but I don't see anywhere where this guy at Obsidian did anything to justify getting outed.  Strong disagreement is not enough to out someone.  I can pretty much guarantee that Ed Whalen's douchebaggery is the only thing I'd agree with this guy on at this stage, but there it is.

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No, this isn't offensive at all

From Holy Hell, who found it at the Boston Phoenix, an online rag that currently has as a headline, "The Blessing of Abortion".

I'm leaning more and more toward blaming absolutely everything that goes wrong in this country over the next three and a half years on the Democrats.

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The Sarkozys dodged a bullet

Seriously, who'd want to have dinner with this staring at you the whole time?

(h/t)

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We were happier before

I never would have guessed this. </sarc>

The study by the US National Bureau of Economic Research found that while post-war era happiness surveys found women were noticeable happier than men, the difference had eroded to 'zero'.

Its authors, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers of the University of Pennsylvania, found that in the U.S., women's happiness had fallen 'both absolutely and relatively to that of men'.

I'm sure that some people will interpret this as 'Men should be taking on more of the workload at home so that women can have their burdens lifted and therefore be more productive in their careers' instead of 'Women should acknowledge that they provide a unique and valuable service within a family structure, and will not be happy if they choose to have a family and then choose to not provide the best support they can for that family'.

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This is what hope and change gets you

The polls are closing in Lebanon, where an election that could be seen as a referendum on Obama's Cairo speech is wrapping up. Hezbollah is currently predicted to win Lebanon's parliament from a pro-Western coalition by a narrow margin.

"I voted for reform and change," said Laure Khoury, a 32-year-old schoolteacher, after casting a ballot for Hezbollah's Christian allies in the Byblos district north of Beirut. "We tried the others for four years and we got nothing but promises and corruption. Enough is enough," the Christian woman said.

Despite the fact that I'd love to see Lebanon tell Obama, "Screw you and your fancy-pants brown-nosing condescension!", I'd rather not have a terrorist organization running the show in yet another Middle East country.

Update: Haaretz is reporting that Hezbollah is projected to lose.  Yay!

Update 2: NYT and WaPo are both reporting that the pro-US coalition is winning.

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MSM reporter notices "hep" new "fad"

You see, there are these things called "weblogs," or "blogs" for short, and these so-called "blogs" have nothing to do with Nielsen ratings...

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Custom squirrels

So who falls in the wide-eyed "I'm horrified!!!" category, and who falls in the wide-eyed "Where do I buy one?!" category?

(via Craftastrophe)

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The dangers of an open mic

Ha! So, I’m watching the Dodgers play the Phillies on Fox, and Dodger center fielder Matt Kemp struck out looking to end the bottom of the tenth inning. Kemp didn't like the call, and you couldn’t hear what he said (it was easy enough to guess, though) but you could clearly hear the plate umpire say “No, I am NOT fucking kidding you.”

I have a feeling they may be hearing from the FCC.

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Hell has frozen over

Harry Reid has done something respectable.   An excerpt from the letter he signed:

Closing these dealerships will put over 100,000 jobs at risk at a time when our country is shedding jobs at an alarming rate. We also question the criteria being used to determine which dealerships should be closed and the fundamental fairness involved in this effort. It is our view that the market rather than leaving it up to the manufacturers whose poor leadership contributed to their demise. Furthermore, we believe car dealers will be key players in any effort to revive the American auto industry.

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Taken out of context

"In the interest of full disclosure," he added, "this did happen shortly after a waterboarding endurance competition, and just before a clothespins-on-your-genitals challenge."

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