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Damn right I heard that as a threat.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

So many bastards, so little time.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Fight them, without becoming them!

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Stay strong, because they are weak.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

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This is pretty damned amazing:

Just 12 hours after giving birth, a Houston firefighter popped a painkiller and took a promotion exam.

Beda Kent felt she had no choice because Texas state law requires everyone to take it at the same time. She would have had to wait two years for the next one.

Despite just giving birth and getting only two hours sleep, Kent got 104 out of 110 on the test and expects to return from maternity leave in March as a captain.

That is great and everything, but why are the promotion exams set up that way?

(via Fark)

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Some links to tide you over while John works out technical issues with his work computer and I at least pretend to get something done in the lab:

* Wal-Mart has a wine label coming out soon, but they haven’t announced a label name yet. Which came up most often in customer surveys? Gay Orbit has the scoop.
* Highlights from the great Franklin-Bush debate.
* Rooftop ads have become popular since the advent of Google Earth, but this one strikes me as a bad idea.
* A new explanation for those embarrassing early morning passes at the mailman.

Have at it.

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Quick Links- Arts and Leisure Edition

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Not in the mood to post much today, so if you want to check something new out, go check out this art gallery grand opening that frequent commenter sinquanon has passsed along:

Robert Dowling announced the Grand Opening of Dowling Studios & Gallery today, during which a singular and extraordinary group of artists show their works, including Dowling himself. The Grand Opening Exhibition at Dowling Studios & Gallery will feature Robert Dowling’s remarkable surrealistic paintings as well as studio artist’s work from Chris Knox and Aaron Horvath. Visiting artist Aja-Ann DeLand Apa-Soura is also featured with her impressionistic paintings of the transitional female. The exhibition and opening will occur at Dowling Studios and Gallery, 407 Main Street, Bangor on Saturday, Jan. 14, at 3 p.m. – 10 p.m for the public.

Additionally, a private, by invitation only preview for the press will take place from noon – 2 p.m that day. The show can be viewed live via web-cam today by accessing Dowling’s website. Dowling’s groundbreaking paintings have caused a stir in the art and collector communities with their poignancy, playfulness, emotion, darkness, brilliance and boundless, unconstrained uniqueness and creativity. For more information and to contact the artists, see this link: Dowling Studios & Gallery Grand Opening & Exhibition.

If that doesn’t tickle you, then please go help Jay Caruso name his blog. If you name the blog, you win a DVD. Works for me.

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Israel to Robertson- It Is God’s Will That You Find Another Business Partner

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It is stories like this that make me terrified that Schadenfreude may be lethal:

Israel won’t do business with Pat Robertson after the evangelical leader suggested Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s massive stroke was divine punishment, a tourism official said Wednesday, putting into doubt plans to develop a large Christian tourism center in northern Israel.

Avi Hartuv, spokesman for Israel’s tourism minister, said officials are furious with Robertson’s suggestion that the stroke was retribution for Sharon’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip last summer. “We can’t accept this kind of statement,” Hartuv said.

Robertson is leading a group of evangelicals who have pledged to raise $50 million to build the Christian Heritage Center in Israel’s northern Galilee region, where tradition says Jesus lived and taught.

Under a tentative agreement, Robertson’s group was to put up the funding, while Israel would provide land and infrastructure. Israeli officials believe the project will generate tens of millions of tourism dollars.

All I really have to say is the following:

BWAHAHAHAHAHA.

Sorry. If you want some more reasoned commentary, go check out the Carpetbagger. I am pouring myself a drink and lighting a cigar.

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