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I think I've cut my typo rate down a full .08 percent. Woo-hoo! (I maintain the typographical errors as some sort of charming artfulness.)

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Practing our little “Sovietology” on the North Korean photographs
and… He’s got some training wheels.

I didn’t think so.

Chambliss staffer fired

Rand Paul: Neo-ConÂ and comments

The Tea Pot Party

Donald Duck meets Glenn Beck

Yah Druids

World’s Oldest Tribe Dies Out

US — China Trade WAR!!! Or not.
… the US House stomps its feet?

Anderson Cooper interviews congressional candidate Renee Ellmers, running in North Carolina against the Muslim Center in NYC.Â Coming soon.

29 Years in Solitary Confinement

Tea Party comics

Likely a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy from old Joseph LiebermanÂ and a noxious one at that

1904 Page Suicide Note

Medvedev Fires Moscow Mayor in Wake of Escalating Feud, leading to reader comments

Palin, Gingrich, Santorum and Huckabee all under contract with Fox; can’t interview on CSPAN.

Wanted: This Guy.Â Have you seen him?

Rush Limbaugh upset by Spanish commercial, sees feminization of culture in it.

Regarding Alan Grayson:Â IÂ really don’t have much of a problem with this adÂ (though it’s largely an eye roll), but good lord do I have a serious problem with Alan Grayson on the “he doesn’t love his country” ad.

Family Spooked as Satan Possesses New BathroomÂ (Gotta Love World Net Daily)Â (coming off the heels of the Kit Kat Bar Appearance.)

Alex Jones: Juice Boxes and Kettle Chips making everyone Gay.

Hillary Clinton’s Clean Stove Initiative

Conservatives nominate Republicans, Republicans nominate Conservatives.

Saxby Chambliss office responsible for “Faggots Must Die” comment

Carter was a ConservativeÂ — most so than Coolidge

I like how paranoid and ideologically strait-jacketedÂ the Ron Rand Paul-tards are.Â They find Debate ModeratorÂ Chris Wallace a “Snake”, settle on… John Stossel!

Joe The Plumber comes out swinging against the Humane Society.

Obama makes sound remarks about America being able to get past another Terror Attack — Republican Seize on it, as does …

Kate Perry: Too Hot for Sesame Street.

Nebraska 2 Congressional Race

Yeah, whatever… that’s a rather odd Archie Comics plotline.Â Meanwhile, Christine O’Donnell is sitting at the cafetaria table with this “Questionable” character.
Yeah.Â Well.Â Just as well.Â Politics appears to be an exercise in High School Weirdness.
(Svenson speaks up here.)

Paul Krugman:Â The Angry Rich — Billionaires are not Populists.

On War Horrors.

Commercializing Catpcha.

For once I agree with LewRockwell Freak Hyper-Austrian Economics: Privatize College Football.

Lady Gaga campaigns to get Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins’s vote on DADT

I’m not really certain why the Joe Miller for Senate campaign is offering up this choice.

In danger of Losing Feingold: don’t
Can not happen…

Ron Paul 2012 Supporters organizing.

Sharron Angle speaks to Birchers in Utah
Searching for source of this op ed.

Kendrick Meek predicts victory.Â Closing in on Crist.Â Who is falling behind Rubio.Â Sure.

Robin Carnahan still running ad Fox News sued over.

Fiery stuff in Vancouver City Council Meeting

Corn Sugar.

Orly Taitz invited to Obama — Reid fund-raiser.

Fact Check: Alaska Republican Senate Candidate never said he wanted to make “Unemployment Illegal.“Â Just my bout of reasonableness in an unreasonable world.

Meet Daniel Webster.Â Alan Grayson’s opponent.

Fox News sues Robin Carnahan

YAF and OAF

Christine O’Donnell: Human.Â Animal.Â Hybrids.

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Hm.Â Ayotte doesn’t quite qualify.Â The other three candidates are in Wisconsin, Florida, and Pennsylvania.

Lisa Murkowski signs being rescued from recycling bin.

Hole in Moon.

Things that are cool.Â Pandora just went from Johnny Cash “The Man Comes Around” to The Mountain Goats “Best Ever Death Metal Band in Dayton”.

Interesting.

Meg Whitman’s interesting ad on Jerry Brown— a little bit of Clinton:Â Something a little annoying in the comments — I can’t quite figure out the contours of “Class Warfare” — are we looking down on the poor or snobs?

Christine O’Donnell.Â We’ll either see more of her through November, or we won’t after Tuesday.

A Voice for Doc Hastings for Speaker!Â Heck, my congressman Doc Hastings is a better spoken guy than Boehner in my opinion.

If the Democratic Senate Candidate wins in Colorado it will be because of theÂ the Gubernatorial spot

Wisconsin Primary — where the further right-winger won’t beat the straight-ahead right-winger:
In the U.S. Senate race, Ron Johnson will have a ceremonial GOP seal of good housekeeping after taking out straw man David Westlake, (creationist, abstinence-only, etc.) on Tuesday in the primary. (Ditto for Sean Duffy, who will steamroll fringe candidate Dan Meilke.)
See here for the Pragmatic voter
See here for the Westlake voter.

George Voinovich adds 60th vote to Small Business loan bill, gets honored by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

California Newspapers editorialize against Marijuana Legalization
A History of Marijuana Themed Music

Newt Gingrich bashes Kenya

Councilman Phil Davison of Minerva, Ohio tries to pick up the 3 year old vote.

Yeah, that’ll work:Â Â US Chamber of Commerce pres., says responsibility for recovery â€œrests upon business men rather than upon the govt.â€ Canâ€™t expect immediate return to 1929 prosperity, but by â€œcourage and determination,â€ can â€œbegin now to work our way back.â€ Opposes unemployment dole, favors Hoover plan for community responsibility; calls for liberal contribution by all employers who can afford it to unemployment relief funds now being collected across the US.

Update on KyrgyzstanÂ — the coming of Corrupt Democracy

Orrin Hatch’s looming Republican Primary Opponent
Read the comments.
Good on Hatch for coming out swinging with the NYC Islamic Center.Â Might be what loses his job to his nutcase party, though.

David Petraeus on the unnecessary and fruitless politicized attacks on the NYC Islamic Center

Why you could never shake off the Alvin Greene “Plant” theory, and why I’m always a little spurious of 3rd Party Shells (and think they need to go toward hierarchical conventions.)

So it is, Obama.

Libertarians — PUT MURKOWSKI ON THE BALLOT.Â That’d be awesome.

Weekly Standard picks an absurd “Bell Weather”.

Teaching is Hard.

“True Leftist“?Â ThankÂ you, Russia, for providing such useful commentary.

Alex Jones and his group: You know who else believed in Global Warming?Â Charles Manson!

Tony Blair lie

Is Waste Management’s Toxic Dump killing this Kettleman City, California’s babies?

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has a horrible debate performance.Â And it probably doesn’t matter.Â It’s 2010 and she’s run the Illegal Immigration issueÂ into an election victory.
No more debates.Â (After a media drumming her on “What about the headless bodies?”)

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden Loses touch with Washington State.Â Â TellÂ Les Wyden to doÂ like toÂ do less whining and more…

Support McAdams, baby!

GOPÂ weighs in againstÂ Christine O’Donnell.
… gearing up for adÂ with Glenn Beck…

Youth still Democrats.Â Even if they’re not, why would anyone want to belong to a political party?

Â Can’t quite get to the Enthusiasm Gap this way — not realistic to assume it should be “all that, all there”– maybe split the different and factor these factors into half.

Matthew Sheppherd jokes by Montana Tea Party Republicans.Â
Question of the day — the last panel shown fromÂ this Archie “We’ve got a Gay in Riverdale!” comic book — brush it aside?

Â Christwire.Â It is, indeed, a joke.

Some Chicago Dentist is running Hillary for President 2012 commercials in New Orleans

Free Rod Blagoevich!

Vladamir Putin:Â “If you get [permission], then go out and demonstrate,” Mr. Putin said in a newspaper interview Monday. “If not, you do not have the right. If you go out without having the right â€“ you are going to get beaten with a club. Itâ€™s as simple as that.”

Mexico captures the Drug King-pin “The Barbie“.Â He smirks at the camera.

Afghan Bank Failure sends financial jitters

Prison Planet trips over to political effect Â Shooting Tragedy they would shield away if it were one of their nutjobs.:
Boing Boing coverage

Republican Politicians actually attending the Log Cabin Republican Convention

Glenn Beck makes stuff up about holding Washington Memorabilia in his hand

Bush “Miss Me Yet” sign vandalized

McDonalds is hiring

The Young Guns

Urban Bees better than Rurual Bees at Honey

Baghdad Juice Shop Owner

The former employees for The Republican Senate candidate in Connecticut keep dying.

Chris Young for Mayor

The Corruption of the MMS

Ken Jennings:Â “My Kid has read the Complete Peanuts from 1950 to 1976” — and thus has a wobbly sense of the present.
Was this Peanuts’s “Jump the Shark” Moment, and is it still okay to use that phrase “Jump the Shark”?
A Hundred Years Hence… it came to pass just as alerted.
North Korea News, of sorts.

This is not the first time this issue came up. In the 60-70’s congressmnn claimed “no gold” and the Treasury decided to open the vault on 60 Minutes and, sure enough, full of gold.
Kind of the opposite of the Geraldo Al Capone Vault thing.

Anarchist Lemonade Stand Kid Solidarity March

15 Years of Financial Deregulation from the CATO Institute

Tea Party decides to defeat Delaware Republican Candidate
… and New Hampshire

John Fleming of Louisiana and a typical quote.

Mississippi School drops race-only Elections
High School Year book comes complete with inspiring quote from Adolf Hitler.

Facebook does not like activists

Good Luck in battling this regime.