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Dr Strangelove Sequel was being batted around, to be directed by Terry Gilliam.

Jeff Wagner, running for Minneapolis mayor, releases another ad… this time showing him…Â Â er? Â Just an ordinary guy who masturbates.

Bachmann and the End Times.

Folding the new 100 dollar bill every which way reveals coming nuclear destruction.

Neil Gaiman’s Nevermore gains some “parents somewhere or other in some school district or other complained about it” “Banned Book Week” cred.

Where it all began: Â when the Republicans changed the House rules to proceed with the House Shutdown.

At least Alan Grayson seems to be enjoying himself

The March on Washington… and a single NRO tweet hoping it was “A Big Story”Â and “Game Changer”.

No, there aren’t secret memos being flaoted about the world about the Radical Changes due for America right now.

historical Blimp Photographs.

Secret Louisiana Spill Oil Company memos from the early 1980s.

How predictable that the Liberal Media focus in on a confederate flag at our Rally for Patriotism against the Tyranny.

Where “Obama”care is working worst: states that are resistign its implementation.

The Indian Temple that created the concept of “Zero”.

Florida Prison Officials won’t allow prisoner subscribers to receive their copies of the Socialist Workers Party’s news rag, The Militant.

Louie Gohmert would Impeach the President if he does or doesn’t debt ceiling default.

The Rulers of the Chicago Drug Cartel Game: Sinaloa.

Are video games the new novels?Â Probably only a few of them.Â Roger Ebert had to re-bolt his remarks that video games inherently can’t be “art”.Â My guess is “Grand Theft Auto” may be a novel, but it’s probably not Art.

Reminisces of the Bush / Cheney White House.

When Roosevelt took the US off the Gold Standard, and the Supreme Court went through loops to uphold it, and was that a default?

Meanwhile, in Switzerland…

How to survive a Nuclear Strike if you were in 1968.

Facebook becomes a little less private.
School Districts comandeer Facebook.

A moderately interesting comments section dissecting open mic comedy and gender and appropriateness and meaning of different things, and… okay, it’s only moderately interesting.Â Mostly I just smirk and roll my eyes by the reactions to the appearance by the male comedian being referenced in comments section.

Generational Resource Fight.

Freedomworks in financial disarray.

The Big Truckers Protest:Â Dozens come out.

How Belgium survived without a government for 20 months.

The coming John Boehner Speakership…

“You were the leader of an attempted high school prostitution ring,” Hennepin County District Court Judge William Koch said at the sentencing hearing. “And you did it all for a pair of sneakers.”

Vhat is wrong with the Republican Party’s current fight: Â And it is true that, according to Real Clear Politics, Americans disapprove of ObamaCare, 51 percent to 40 percent. It is unpopular. But it is not wildly, devastatingly unpopular â€” though given the fact that it is now rolling out and appears to be as incompetently executed as it was badly conceived, it may yet become so.

The problems with healthcare dot gov.

Russian Pirate Party offers NASA help in keeping their website going in the Government Shutdown.

The Greatest Wikipedia Sock Puppet battle ever.

The problem: a win for Obama can’t happen… and, bleh.

Idaho Police profiling drivers with Washington State license plate because of… you know… potential pot.

London Police ticket High School cheer squad for… impromptu cheering.

Zombie Apocalypse … Riverdale…Â and, once again, that was kinda big a couple years’ back.

1960s Underground Comix unseen before now.

The Russian Online Comment Propaganda Army.

Joseph Stalin was a great editor.

Mike Ditka regrets not running against Obama in his Senate bid.Â The big question: Â would this have slowed down Obama as opposed to his thumping ofÂ Alan Keyes?

Previewing the Obama Impeachment.

Issac Newton — 10 odd little factoids.

Christopher Columbus: great seamanship.

The Right Wing Conspiracy that brought about the current Shutdown Pile of Shit.

No, this is not what Mt. Rushmore looks like right now.

Why Democrats are holding together: Â Red State Democrats don’t feel they’re in danger of losing an “optics” battle against Boehner.

one call to end the damned shutdown charade. Â Boehner need not be afraid.Â Contra the conventional wisdom, I maintain that no one in leadership will lose his job.

Pat Buchanan’s world of make believeÂ — Obama / Reid!

Trucker Rally to shut down the Washington Beltway and… stuff. Â Like the old “Hardhat Riot“, only less sensical.

Wyoming Senate Race update: Ad opposing Elizabeth Cheney for — er– MSNBC and gay marriage?

Glenn Greenwald on the BBC with a stupid interviewer.

TheÂ Comics Page at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th was a pretty danged fun page.

More scientific studies examining partisan reactions to that “bottom half of the Internet“.

Ralph Nader is fighting Washington DC’s library development. Â (A graph of things Nader opposed this summer.)

Greg Walden telling the money men they have to bend to meet their Tea Party base.

Doc Hastings keeping his mouth shut.

And what comes up… The Lincoln comparison.

“I think Alex Jones has lost it” is a stupid headline, or brilliant set upÂ to obvious responses..

Mitch Mcconnell to the Supreme Court for unlimited donations.

how the new conservative caucus is working with its insulated media.

KXRY — the new “Progressive Talk” in PortlandÂ at 91.5 FM. Â Well, it looks like Carl Wolfson, Thom Hartmann, some local, and music.

John Walsh to run for Senate in Montana, meaning the Democrats might just keep this seat.

Jon Stewart on the GOP:Â “Self Righteous Orwellian Zebra Queefs”.

How the GOP Shutdown of 1995 turned states blue and insulated Republican Congress-critters.

hDisney World Extends Hours so employees can sign up on the ACAÂ “DoleRomneyObamaCare” markets.

Russia calls Greenpeace Pirates.

Conan Obrien fills in gap of shut down panda cam with — what else?

Say. Â What’s going on with Bitcoin? Â Dark stuff.

Blame the “Responsible” Moderates.

Sinead O’Connor pens open letter to Miley Cyrus.

Facebook building aÂ company town.

Lemonade Land is Lemonade with a sprinkling of crime.

Tesla Motors now working against the government that helped it.

“CalvinBall”. Â Whoever said it — if it was the Obama Administration official or this blogger.

The Final 12 Hours before the Government Shutdown.

NRA Hunting show cancelled after unfortunate Hitler comparison.

The Virginia gubernatorial and lieutenant races a good test on the “Republicans losing because not Conservative enough” theory.

What happens when students take to the Internet and make fun of their principal? Â Lawsuits, and Lawsuits dismissed.

Vote in 2014 like you didn’t vote in 2010.

Truman thumps his chestÂ — not the reluctant vice presidential candidate he claimed.

Christian TV host asks God for a military Takeover.

“Snoop Dogg”/ Lion charge follows accusation of race-baiting in racial analysis.

Alex Jones dawns lizard mask to warn of dangers of ACA.

Moby Dick

Government shutdown shuts down Freedom of Information requests, but not the opening of new centers, and who’s getting their jobs canned right now?.

TheÂ “Quasi Impeachment”.
Time to roll out that damned 1 Trillion Dollar Coin.
Green Eggs and Ham tweets.
Congress Drinks.
The devolution of Richard Burr.
The specter of John Calhoun, and what we need to know about what’s going on in the House.
Rand Paul — “Liberal Hero”? Â Commenters go to town on this, and the Laws of the Overton Window push Rand Paul into the Center against Ted Cruz.
The 5 Minute Rule: Â The Five Minute Rule states that you can listen to any politician from the Paul family for precisely five minutes and agree with pretty much everything that person says. But that at exactly the 5:00:01 mark, the conversation will be Raptured up into the Izonkosphere and the CAPITAL LETTERS will starT to Come OUT. Â

A New Constitutional Convention proffered by Mark Levine and company. Â The John Birch Society opposes; most commenters roll their eyes.

Bill Maher: The California Miracle. Â Another Jerry Brown love-fest.

Britain’s attempt to filter out esoteric content from the Internets.

NSA spied on Senators in the 1970s.

College Republicans film gotcha video of Senate Candidate Grimes walking into the back of her car-seat, for some nonsensical reason.

TheÂ alt tv simpsons message board.

Seymour Hersh: Â Bin Laden’s death one Big Lie, and also everyone in government is lying. Â (Here’s the emphasisÂ tcomparison between prisonp Â plane tand boing boing).
The NSA knows who our friends are.

New Texas ads on taxpayer dime seem suspiciously like the launch of Rick Perry’s Presidential bid.

National Review tells it like it is:Â Ted Cruz, man of the People, leading The People’s Revolt and… whatever.

Daily Paul links to old George Carlin video.

Bill Gates regrets control alt delete.

Modoc County joins Siskiyou in state of Jefferson bid for secession

Who is the Republican team of 80 who forced the current Defund Obamacare or else caucus?

The list of the GOP House’s debt ceiling demands.

North Dakota Nazi Land falls apart; government demands leader install running water.
The showdown over the weekend in photos.

Doctors grow Nose on Man’s Forehead
Snopes calls it true.

Blue Man dies.Â Â One of those Collodial Silver users.Â Like the man who ran for Senate of Montana and helped out Jon Tester.

George H W Bush in attendance at gay marriage, insists no further political meaning.

FEMA not up to anything out there.Â Then what are those black helicopters???

How Russia became Alcoholic, and the government’s contradictory attempts on that score. Â Leaves out Yeltsin for some reason.

Glenn Beck misuses the word “literally’. Â Unless, you know, you’re actually in a book. Â Or this is somehow the year 1984.

Twitter more invasive than Facebook now.

9 out of 10 British men lie about liking sports.

Counter-intuitive: Â Obama’s playing his second term well.

From Harpers: Â Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi announced that he would not relinquish his senate seat despite a conviction for tax fraud earlier this year and a police investigation into his alleged solicitation of underage prostitutes. â€œBerlusconi is on trial for living with women,â€ said Russian president Vladimir Putin. â€œIf he were homosexual, nobody would dare touch him.â€^[20]^[21]

Facebook apologized for permitting an online-dating site to run an ad featuring the photograph of a girl who committed suicide after she was gang-raped then taunted on Facebook, and Coca-Cola apologized to the family of an autistic girl after her sister discovered the words YOU RETARD printed under a bottle cap.^[27]^[28]

Jefferson Lies lies.

Man attempts to pay water bill with Crack Cocaine, doesn’t succeed.

A single better laid about a third of the bets for Romney’s election chances on in-trade.

The Powell Memo and the “End of the American Dream”.

From The National Review:Â The Conservative War on Food Stamps is the most baffling political move of the year. Â (go after Crop support, not the poor.)
Paul Krugman weighs in.
And on big agri-business: Â the farming business actually remains with the farmers.

The strangest names in political history. Â Like frogs?

So. Â What’s going on in Egypt?

Literature: what’s wrong with modern it?

North Dakota town braces for impact of on rush of neo-Nazis.

Lenders gauging you by social media like numbers.

Pyongyang Undergoes Radical Changes.

Syria opposition forces fighting one another: Â al qaeda versus the secularists.
You know, all this stuff.