This could've been a windmill, but noooooooooooooo. Windmills can't make $10M a day for oil companies.
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Nothing less attractive than a self-entitled millionaire's daughter bitching about how hard it is to be a . . GASP! . . . working mother! And what exactly is her job? Isn't she her mother's PR flack?
Perez Hilton, of all people, provides the smackdown.
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Teabag-American values have been around since at least 1844.
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A SWAT team raids a home in Columbia, Mo., shoots the family's two dogs (including one in front of a seven-year-old child) on a drug raid that only netted a small amount of marijuana. Nevertheless, the father Jonathan Whitworth was charged with drug possession and child endangerment. Story click here.
Wait until the soldiers who have been breaking down doors overseas come back and take over police work.
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Weeping, discolored boner: "Day One response not fast enough."
Tiresome orange-tinged weasel John Boehner said [yesterday] he wants to a full investigation of the BP oil spill before anyone assigns blame. Butthat didn't stop party leaders of accusing the White House of being slow to respond to the crisis."Butthat"? Awesome!
"I don't think we have all the answers as to what happened. I think it's important we get to the bottom of this before we point fingers and play the typical Washington game," the butthat said, playing the typical Washington game of finger-pointing.I've got a finger for you... butthat.
Talk the politics of The Godfather with Robert Kagan. Take a staff ride to the Gettysburg battlefield to study military leadership, decision making, tactics, and strategy with AEI scholar Gary Schmitt.
And have evening discussion with Jonah Goldberg author of Liberal Fascism and National Review editor-at-large as well as former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen. Other evenings will be spent with Charles Murray, Arthur C. Brooks, and Thomas Donnelly.
For the full schedule and application details, visit the AEI 2010 American Enterprise Summer Institute page here.
This is from the fascinating new blog ThinkTanked. If you want to get a good feel for why our political system is collapsing, check it out.
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An unintentionally hilarious quote to end your week
Meanwhile, staffers who have survived a series of draconian layoffs report that snakes and mice have slipped into the newspaper's building because the owners can't afford exterminators to combat the infestations.And this differs from the paper in its heyday....how?
"There was a three-foot-long black snake in the main conference room the other day," said reporter Julia Duin. "We have snakes in the newsroom."
Thanks everyone, you've been a great audience. I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress.
Wingnuttia's own point man on things to drown in the bathtub, Grover Norquist, says that calling the Tea Partiers (Partyers?) Teabaggers is "…is the equivalent of using the 'n' word. It shows contempt for middle America, expressed knowingly, contemptuously, on purpose, and with a smirk."
Well, our good friend Tommy Christopher at Mediaite did some research and reports that actually, the Tea Partiers (Partyers?) called themselves Teabaggers first.
Regardless of whoever used that term first, it is outrageous that Grover Norquist would conflate it to being the equivalent of 200+ years of oppression and what many historians call the stain on our democracy.
Grover, get a pair of teabags.
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The U.S. economy added 290,000 jobs last month, 100,000 more than economists had predicted. The unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent "mainly because 805,000 jobseekers — perhaps feeling better about their prospects — resumed their searches for work." The jobs numbers in February and March were also revised to show stronger improvement than previously reported.
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Leaderless Britain suspiciously riot-free.
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