Via Watertiger, a children’s book about Mommy’s plastic surgery.
“Well you see, dear, Mommy went into cardiac arrest while Mommy was getting her boobs done…”

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Really, I think people who spend this kind of money on this kind of stuff are just crazy. Even their used prices are too high.

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Bikini waxes for eight-year-olds.

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Wow. Great logistics supply chain there, guys! What do you want to bet this was a civilian contractor?
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said on Tuesday that it mistakenly shipped non-nuclear ballistic missile components to Taiwan from a U.S. Air Force base in Wyoming.
It said the items have been returned to the United States.
At a news conference, […]

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This

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Got this email from Brendan:
Oh man. I spent the AM listening to the Glenn Beck show, post-Super Tuesday.
If you didn’t listen to right-wing radio this AM, you missed some great schadenfreude. Put it this way: it started with Beck saying that conservatives have three choices now: “to park the car in the garage with […]

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Stands for Fucking Crazy Clowns, the people who apparently think you excrete through your gluteus maximus:
WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $1.4 million fine against 52 ABC Television Network stations over a 2003 broadcast of cop drama NYPD Blue.
The fine is for a scene where a boy surprises a woman as she […]

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George Soros on the market meltdown (h/t Empire of Dirt):
“Since 1980, regulations have been progressively relaxed until they have practically disappeared.
The super-boom got out of hand when the new products became so complicated that the authorities could no longer calculate the risks and started relying on the risk management methods of the banks themselves. Similarly, […]

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Yeah, I don’t understand it, either. Why would any sentient being take out all their home equity to sustain a lifestyle they can’t afford?
In the past five years, I’ve seen people take out HELOCs for House & Garden-type remodeling projects, extended dream vacations, swimming pools, a family cruise … the list goes on. The most […]

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It’s all very upsetting, all the more because it’s so predictable. You put Republicans in charge, they deregulate everything, economic disaster ensues and then the Democrats have to come in the next election cycle to clean up the mess.
And then the Republicans will blame the whole thing on the Democrats, anyway.
The turmoil on Wall […]

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This story from last week kind of puts the Mummers Parade into perspective:
Scores of professionals are being treated for the after-effects of excessive drinking at a field hospital set up in the centre of London.
Last night 11 people were treated by ambulance service paramedics at a stretcher tent inside Liverpool Street station as part of […]

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See, this Corrente post illustrates why I can’t feel good about Barack Obama. Via Lambert:
Obama published a diary on Kos in 2005. Here’s an excerpt.* Readers, I’m not making this up!
According to the [implicitly false, remember] storyline that drives many advocacy groups and Democratic activists - a storyline often reflected in comments on this blog […]

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If you pray, say a prayer for Kenya.

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Are we still allowed to listen to them?
UPDATE: Gee, the Post got it wrong! They’re suing the guy for downloading.

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Just a little flashback about how the Republicans got the vapors over Clinton, cited the Almighty Rule Of Law and yet were oh so strangely silent all through the Bush administration:
Article 4 ABUSE OF POWER
The President misused and abused his office and impaired the administration of justice.
The President made false and misleading public statements for […]

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Always seem to go hand in hand with sexual kinks.

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This is even more maddening when you think that Harry Reid just ignored Chris Dodd’s hold on the FISA bill. Apparently some holds are more equal than others:
Stopping stuff is Sen. Coburn’s specialty. In a Congress that has had trouble passing even the simplest legislation, Sen. Coburn, who proudly wears the nickname “Dr. No,” is […]

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Conservatives are so eager to think of themselves as oppressed, their fevered imaginations sometimes run away with them.
There, there.

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Yeah, I figured it was something like this:
Retired Col. W. Patrick Lang, a former official in the Defense Intelligence Agency, reveals that senior CIA analysts pushed for the NIE’s key judgments on Iran to be released, threatening to speak to the media if they weren’t:
The “jungle telegraph” in Washington is booming with news of the […]

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Go read about Sheldon Whitehouse’s speech today on FISA.
He paraphrases the classified documents he’s seen to summarize thusly:
In a nutshell, these three Bush administration legal propositions boil down to this:
1. “I don’t have to follow my own rules, and I don’t have to tell you when I’m breaking them.”
2. “I get to determine what my […]

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Is this enough to take down the populist preacher? Only if the mainstream media runs with it.

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Yep. This type of parenting isn’t doing your kid any favors.

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Here’s an enlightening tidbit from my Foundations in American Education textbook:

If correct, the hegemony theorists’ analysis has many implications for education, two of which are fundamental. First, it appears that society is educating in deeply contradictory ways. On the one hand, citizens are taught in the schools and through the media that they live in […]

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Toys that kids sit and look at.

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I’m sure the fact that the right-wing prime minister is so friendly with Bubble Boy has nothing to do with this:
PARIS (Reuters) - The Paris prosecutors’ office has dismissed a suit against Donald Rumsfeld accusing the former U.S. defense secretary of torture, human rights groups who brought the case said on Friday.
The plaintiffs, who included […]

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