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Far away in another solar system is a planet called Freckula. Everyone there has freckles but no one picks on anyone because the people know that freckles are kisses from God. There is peace in the land because the freckles make everyone really good looking and so nobody ever feels like fighting....

Far away in another solar system is a planet called Freckula. Everyone there has freckles but no one picks on anyone because the people know that freckles are kisses from God. There is peace in the land because the freckles make everyone really good looking and so nobody ever feels like fighting.... This is an exerpt from SourBob. I used to read him back in the early days of blogging when there weren't many of us out there. The man is one of the funniest humans on earth. Check out some of his work.

Is it patriotic to pay higher taxes? Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) recently told those making over $250,000 per year that, "It's time to be patriotic...time to help get America out of the rut." But if he's really so concerned, writes Associate Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward, why do Biden's own tax returns reveal such a stingy record of charitable giving?

That’s how much this proposed bailout is going to cost. Are you ready to shell out $2,500 to help Wall Street firms that made bad (often government-influenced and government-incentivized) decisions? Doesn’t matter. You’re going to. Either through taxes or devalued currency. And that’s just until the next crisis, which is inevitable now that we’ve sent the message to big corporations that taxpayers will pay for their mistakes. And don’t blame this on the free market. There’s nothing free-market about any of it. It’s corporatist socialism. Maybe if I wish real hard, Sec. Paulson will announce a federal bailout of Radley Balko’s student loans.kes.

I think that every taxpayer should file for Bankruptcy next Monday. If the Federal Government is going to allow the spendthrift banks, investment banks and mega insurance company AIG to go bankrupt and have Uncle Sugar transfer their debt to the taxpayers then the taxpayers should return the favor....

The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar?

1. She really, really wants to be president, and, true to form, still won't officially concede now that her chances are nil. 2. She openly speculated that — god forbid, of course — Obama could be assassinated. 3. Re: the vice-presidency: "I'm open to it," she told reporters yesterday. Now circle back to fact number one. Do you detect the makings of a real-life Manchurian Candidate here? I presume Obama will be wiser than to pick for his running mate the same pro-war, stop-at-nothing, stoop-to-anything careerist who's tried to sabotage his campaign with a generous selection of smears and falsehoods from the Rove playbook — if for no other reason than that he'd have to hire a full-time food taster.

A bailiff who forgot about a woman locked in a courthouse holding cell and left her there for four days without food, water or access to a bathroom has been suspended for 30 days but will keep his job, officials said Wednesday.

Listen, it's obvious we're having a problem in the communications department. In the future, you've got to tell me what it is you want right away, because otherwise I've got no way of knowing that you don't want to see my penis. I'm a pretty sharp guy, but you can't expect me to know how you're feeling all the time. Unless you tell me, I'm going to just assume that you want to see my penis.

I am not prejudiced. Far from it. What I am—or, I should say, who I am—is a man who loves his country so deeply that he is unwilling to stand idly by while our nation allows itself to be completely annihilated by another incoming comet.

I’ve mentioned before that the “what’s next?” argument about Bush administration violation of civil liberties in pursuit of the war on terror is getting harder and harder to make. We’re pretty much to the point of “what’s left?” One of my points in that post was that not only is the administration illegally spying on American citizens, its supporters have actually argued for arresting and imprisoning journalists who dare to write about it.

In case you missed it, on Hannity & Colmes last night, controversial pundit Ann Coulter -- who supports Mitt Romney for president -- said she would back Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, over Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. "She's more conservative than he is," she said. "She will be stronger on the war on terrorism...I will campaign for her if it's McCain."

Some words of wisdom from Thomas Paine, the anti-Christian, pro-booze, logorrheic Christopher Hitchens of the Founders. Today's Libertarian Moment of Zen was brought to you by Liberty Fund, on whose dime I am currently attending a conference on the author of Common Sense, The Crisis, and the words above, from Rights of Man.

The Washington Times reports that Barack Obama, who told an audience of college students when he was running for the U.S. Senate in 2004 that he favored decriminalizing marijuana, still holds that position, although he opposes complete legalization. According to his campaign, Obama mistakenly raised his hand during a presidential debate last fall when the candidates were asked which of them opposed marijuana decriminalization:

"From the descriptive point of view, the difference between the physician and the veterinarian is that the former treats human diseases or sick people, whereas the latter treats animal diseases or sick animals. From the moral and political point of view, the difference between them is that the...

Proof positve that the establishment and political elite treat American soldiers like canon fodder, once they return from battle doing the elite's bidding of fighting useless wars for Neo-Con's Empire. 1: Required that soldiers discharged early because of battlefield injuries repay their enlistment...

LOL.....I don't know why but this makes me laugh hysterically.

Street Vein had a list of Children's Book titles that never made it. Well, here is one that did.

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