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Today's "Attention to Detail" award goes to...
Legoland's Lego rendering of the inauguration, including the line at the Portapotties.
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Criminals at treasury tip their hand...
We knew they were evil, but who knew they were stupid evil? Last night, while the average taxpayer was combing through over a hundred pages of "draft" legislation for the bailout, with no analysis, context, or explanation from the authors, trying to determine what it would realy mean, Paulson had a private conference call for Wall Street ( Read more... ) -
You have just a couple days to stop the biggest theft in history
The Bush administration has literally just proposed giving $700,000,000,000 dollars to Wall Street, with no oversight and no protection for the taxpayers. This plan must be stopped, it will be voted on this week, so we must act quickly. You can read the full text of the proposal here, but the critical bits are:
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Time to get real about winning this election
Listen, liberals, it's time to stop whining about campaign ads and the qualifications or lack thereof of VP nominees. The real election is happening on the ground--the enemy is re-energized, it knows how to fight and it has no conscience. Consider this bit from Michigan, a plan to disenfranchise the foreclosed:
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Let's play "my worst case scenario is worse than your worst case scenario"
Worst Case: Collider Spawns Planet-Devouring Black Hole With the Large Hadron Collider firing up for the first time Wednesday, some critics have speculated that the world's biggest atom smasher could spawn a black hole that would devour Earth.
Most physicists respond that the collider is safe ... But what if they're wrong?
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The machine ( Read more... )
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