A Black Hole That Not Even Intelligence Can Escape.

Speaking of Morons, didn’t we all agree that this is what caused the problem in the FIRST PLACE???
(Reuters) – Two U.S. Democratic lawmakers want Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to relax recently tightened standards for mortgages on new condominiums, saying they could threaten the viability of some developments and slow the housing-market recovery, the Wall [...]

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Don’t tax me, Bro!

Creativity runs rampant when it comes to budgeting, only political budgeting never starts with “How much do we have that we can responsibly spend?” or “What do we need and can we afford it?”   No, political budgeting starts with “Here’s what we want, get a ballpark cost on it and then we’ll raise taxes by [...]

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Precognition predicts another non-apology…

Forget the subject of the posting title for a moment.  This is more important.  We think we have it bad at times.   Read on.

Girl, 10, Dies 7 Hours After Being Granted Dying Wish
Friday, June 19, 2009
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. —  Colby Curtin got her final wish.
The 10-year-old cancer patient was too sick [...]

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Rhymes with “Witch”

Yes, Mrs. Boxer is a stitch, all right.
Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was testifying on the Louisiana coastal restoration process in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He began to answer one of Boxer’s questions with “ma’am” when Boxer immediately cut him off.
“You know, do me [...]

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Climate Nazis

The original post is below this update from the News of the Soul-Challenged files:
The family of a U.S. Marine is outraged after a Michigan amusement park insisted on charging the veteran admission to enter the park — despite his being a quadriplegic — according to a newspaper report.
Heather Lovell told the Grand Rapids Press [...]

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A Sharp Stabbing Pain

That sharp stabbing pain could be the poignancy of the whole affair.
Sadly, she got a three of stars on her face.

She claims she fell asleep while he was doing his work… and awoke to ‘this nightmare’.

I have three tattoos.  I don’t know anyone who falls asleep during tats, sorry – at least not right [...]

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This Too, was Prophesized…

Update #2:
Finally, an apology that was actually an apology.  Letterman has earned my respect.
“Thank you. So I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke. I’m sorry about it and I’ll try to [...]

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Jimmy Carter’s Prodigies.

In a move that is sure to be successful -
At least 30 cities are expected to announce Monday that they are joining an unorthodox crime-fighting program that relies on persuasion, rather than arrests, to cut down on criminal behavior.
The initiative, run by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, targets violent crime and open-air [...]

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Radiation Burns, Man.

I feared a great many things while living near Hanford years ago, but this was never one of them.

Six to twelve inches of topsoil in a 6 acre area are being dug up.   And where are they going to put this soil?  We’re talking 1614 cubic yards of “fairly highly contaminated” soil here folks.
I know!  [...]

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Repellant.

If only it were this easy.

Nope.  Guess we’re going to have to suffer.
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Trying to do my part to solve world hunger.  Visualizing world peas will be harder.
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I did not know this classic was on DVD.  Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers.  Good to see they’re keeping quality films alive well past the normal shelf-life.

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Roach Poaching

Update:
Funeral home cuts legs off corpse to fit casket.
Can you imagine the conversation afterwards?
I specifically asked you if it was closed or open casket!  You said it was closed!
Lesson learned?   BREAK the legs instead.
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If only they had found just 99, they could have stayed open. Bummer.
100 roaches found; restaurant shut down
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Speaking of cockroaches… Ahmadinejad says [...]

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Pot Calling the Kettle…Black?

Confusing as hell trying to figure the old saying when it is in this context, what with the first black president being dissed by the second black president and all.
How much difference is there really?
His wife is now Obama’s secretary of state, but Obama had some tough words for the actions of former President Bill [...]

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Epidural Chronicles Continued

Update:
ANOTHER apology that wasn’t.  This time from the racist quota individual Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) regarding an officer shooting another officer in Harlem:
In a released statement, the congressman said “It was entirely inappropriate to bring the President and his wife into this discussion during their visit to New York, and I hope my off-the-cuff comment did [...]

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