SNL’s takes on the subprime mortgage pyramid scheme over at Pat Dollard.
Go watch, share and spread.
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326 people voted at the Reeves Center precinct on primary election day in September. Their votes were captured on a computer cartridge, but the Board of Elections says when it put the cartridge into the citywide computer to be counted, 1,500 write in votes appeared from nowhere. The board completed its investigation of what might have happened and blames static electricity.
I’d be interested to find out who those extra 1,500 votes were for…
Two days later, in Cincinnati, he said al-Qaida has re-established a safe haven and it’s not in Baghdad. “It’s in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan,” he said, “where my helicopter was recently forced down.”
At a Sept. 9, fundraiser, Biden addressed his national security credentials by talking about “the superhighway of terror between Pakistan and Afghanistan where my helicopter was forced down. John McCain wants to know where bin Ladin and the gates of Hell are? I can tell him where. That’s where al-Qaida is. That’s where bin Ladin is.”
THE FACTS: In February, Biden and fellow senators John Kerry and Chuck Hagel were flying in a helicopter over Afghanistan in a fact-finding trip when a snowstorm closed in.
“It went pretty blind, pretty fast and we were around some pretty dangerous ridges,” Kerry told The Associated Press afterward. “So the pilot exercised his judgment that we were better off putting down there, and we all agreed.”
He said the group waited for about three hours until a convoy with U.S. troops took them to Bagram Air Base.
“We sat up there and traded stories,” Kerry joked. “We were going to send Biden out to fight the Taliban with snowballs, but we didn’t have to do it.”
He added: “Other than getting a little cold, it was fine.”
The area was reported as not being under Taliban control. But Wade noted “it’s the wild west out there” and the senators were transported under guard and with air cover from an F-16.
from teh fark.
Mental Floss has a illustration & photo essay on the Gulags: then & now, that anyone who’s read the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago will recognize.
I was just polled by Qunnipiac and was struck by how many questions I was unable to answer.
Questions like;
“Do you identify more with the Democratsor the Republicans?”
When I told the poll worker “neither” she said she’d have to put down “refused to answer”.
Another interesting tidbit was the 4-5 questions on “First Lady likeability”. Look for this to be in the media in the coming weeks.
Am I the only one who thinks that David Schor’s painting of the Second Coming Obama looks more like Bryant Gumbel?
Yes that’s an actual advertising campaign to encourage people to sign up for food stamps, running now in New York f’ing City.
Wonder how much that’s costing me, freaking commies.
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil tumbled more than $5 a barrel Tuesday in its second big drop this week, hurling crude back to levels not seen since June 26 as traders wary about the health of the global economy cashed in gains from oil’s recent rally.
Analysts attributed much of the recent sell-off to profit-taking, saying traders were cashing in on the previous week’s gains. A stronger dollar also helped keep prices lower by discouraging investors from pumping more money into commodities.
At the same time, concerns about global oil supply disruptions subsided and fears that the economic slowdown is spreading moved to the forefront.
why can’t they just bribe people with cigarettes and beer like the rest of the country?
Since the FAO’s report in April 2006 tens of thousands of farmers have switched from food to fuel production to reduce US dependence on foreign oil. Spurred by generous subsidies and an EU commitment to increase the use of biofuels to counter climate change, at least 8m hectares (20m acres) of maize, wheat, soya and other crops which once provided animal feed and food have been taken out of production in the US.
Seems to me that every time the .gov gets involved in something it turns to sh*t.
Thanks to bio-fuel subsidies the price of my bagel keeps going up how much does that suck?
Apparently, now, calling someone a racist is a racist act. This is going to end well.
Instead, it left a sour note as vandals spray-painted racial slurs outside the campaign headquarters.
“I don’t even know why anyone would do this except ignorance you know, total ignorance, ” said installation technician Lonzell Johnson.
It was a sight that “Towles Phone Center” technicians never wanted to see. The phrase “a racist” was spray painted on the hood and the sides
of two of their company vans.
Also, it’s just sad when your PC graffiti jagoff’s have such atrocious spelling.
This made me laugh.