Finally, Little Ricky admits he doesn’t live here anymore.

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I read this all over the liberal internets this morning, and so when my best friend called me on my way to work, I asked what she thought, being as hair is such a Major Thing in a black woman’s life. She snorted.
“Oh, please. See, this kind of shit is what makes liberals look so [...]

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Hope no one’s counting on FEMA, either:
With the 2006 hurricane season starting in just five weeks, many home insurers from Texas to Florida to New York are canceling policies along the coast or refusing to sell new ones out of fear of another catastrophic storm.
In the widest insurance retreat from coastal property since Hurricane Andrew [...]

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Isn’t that funny? We weren’t sure when conditions would be right to bring home 30,000 troops from Iraq, not realizing it all depended on how low Bush’s poll numbers would drop.
Silly us.

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Woof, woof! Anything for a pat on the head from the oil companies:
While Republican leaders sharply criticize soaring gasoline prices and energy industry profits, GOP negotiators have decided to knock out provisions in a major tax bill that would force the oil companies to pay billions of dollars more in taxes on their profits.
House and [...]

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Happy Administrative Assistants Day, y’all!
And remember: Raises, not roses.

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Think Progress reports:
CNN is told by three force sources familiar with the investigation that this morning Karl Rove, the president’s deputy chief of staff and top political adviser, is meeting with his attorney and is to meet this morning — if it is not already under way — with the special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald. According [...]

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Because they’re special:
Washington — Eighteen of America’s wealthiest families, including the Timkens of Canton, are bankrolling efforts to permanently repeal estate taxes that would save their families a total of $71.6 billion, according to a report released Tuesday by public interest groups.
Groups funded by the super-rich have engaged in a deceptive campaign to convince [...]

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Via Will, who debunks another al-Qaida fairy tale.

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‘Cause it ain’t gonna fix itself:
MONTEREY, California (Reuters) — The record Atlantic hurricane season last year can be attributed to global warming, several top experts, including a leading U.S. government storm researcher, said on Monday.
“The hurricanes we are seeing are indeed a direct result of climate change and it’s no longer something we’ll see in [...]

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Free for thee but not for me:
It’s the slow season for the laundromat in tiny Milford, Pa., yet owner Darryl Wood has raised the price of a wash by 50 cents this year, to $2.50. The reason? Electric rates have more than doubled since January, threatening to close the lid on a business his family [...]

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So it turns out this chemical used to mimic the taste of butter can kill people who work in the manufacturing plants that use it. Naturally, the FDA and OSHA’s all over it. Right?
Bronchiolitis obliterans causes inflammation and obstruction of the small airways in the lung by rapid thickening or scarring. The irreversible condition is [...]

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John Dean on our increasingly dangerous president and the likelihood of an “October Surprise”:
But more likely, Bush may mount a unilateral attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities - hoping to rev up his popularity. (It’s a risky strategy: A unilateral hit on Iran may both trigger devastating Iran-sponsored terrorist attacks in Iraq, with high death tolls, [...]

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Nancy Pelosi:
If you want to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and therefore improve our national security situation, you can’t do it if you’re a Republican because you are too wedded to the oil companies. We have two oilmen in the white house. The logical follow-up from that is $3 a gallon gasoline. There is [...]

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Great idea:
Democrats are set to introduce a measure that would create a “federal gas tax holiday” by eliminating the federal tax on gas and diesel for sixty days, RAW STORY has learned.
The measure, proposed by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), would reduce the cost of gas by $0.184 per gallon and the cost of diesel by [...]

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Even over softball.

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The vote is tomorrow. Please call your Congress critter today and ask them to vote no on the Cope bill.
And go read what Matt Stoller wrote today if you still don’t understand why this is so important.

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Reassuring, isn’t it? If the Republicans have their way, these numbers will be even worse:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 40 percent of Americans making between $20,000 and $40,000 a year went without insurance for at least part of the year last year, according to a study published on Tuesday.
The research by The Commonwealth Fund also [...]

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Now, why did we not see this coming? Bubble Boy just said he’s directed the EPA to “ease” environmental restrictions so they can open more refineries.
UPDATE: Steve Soto is skeptical.

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If only the Democrats don’t screw it up this time:
April 24 (Bloomberg) — Democrats outdid Republicans last year in attracting political donations from investment banks, brokerages and fund managers for the first time since 1994, helped by support from hedge funds and companies such as Merrill Lynch & Co.
Democrats got $13.6 million, or 52 [...]

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But they’re better off now, right?
BAGHDAD, April 25 (Reuters) - Insurgents have succeeded in crippling Iraq’s energy industry and the government has ignored calls for help in the battle against corruption and smuggling, the oil ministry’s inspector general said on Tuesday.
“It has been going on for two or three years now without stopping. Actually it [...]

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And so the pendulum swings:
In its polling, Democracy Corps “uses the actual candidate names in each congressional race (and generic language in cases where there is no clear nominee), providing a level of specificity lacking from any other national measure of the congressional contest.”
Here are the striking results:
In contests where a Democratic incumbent [...]

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This is great:
Pluck me, Craig, a summer peach
Beyond the average Lister’s reach,
Who eludes the straining digits
Of m4w’s mental midgets;
Who’s had it with the .jpg pics
Of every Tom and Harry’s —–,
And guys with numberable hairs
Posed by ‘Vettes that aren’t theirs;
Who’s fun (and funny too!) and nice,
Yet open to a little vice.
There’s one that’s often [...]

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Even the Hummer crowd’s pissed off at him now.

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Billmon:
If this continues, cholera is going to end up with a higher approval rating. It looks to me like the only “five point” plan that could possibly revive Shrub’s political fortunes is the star on the end of Tinkerbell’s little wand.

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Wired has a good story on Al Gore’s life after politics. And by the way, I’ll be at a private screening of An Inconvenient Truth this week - and I get to meet Al. Aren’t you jealous?

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This is truly shocking. If I had any doubt we’re marching toward fascism, this settles it.

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Well, looky here. From Daily Kos:
Earlier today, a friend of mine who flies for the Air Force sent me an email reporting that sometime in the middle of the day today, the Air Force’s IT people put a block on DailyKos. He was on a coffee break and wanted to show a colleague a diary [...]

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Yay, Connecticut!
I gotta think this isn’t great news for “Trader” Joe Leiberman, who so happily swapped his self-respect for a kiss from Bubble Boy.

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Standing-room-only seats on airplanes.

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