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ODE TO GLENN BECK:
So Beck is going to start his own news website is he, well, AP, take that!
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As Summer Fades
Summer has turned quickly into fall,
The air much colder,
The sea air so sweet,
Leaves falling from the trees,
Like ten thousand passions.
...Where you and I will always meet.
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Dear Alan Simpson Former Senator, Current Political Gadfly:
I have a few questions for you former Senator, is that how I shoud refer to you? Can I Call you Al? Well Al, you really stepped in it, and you made me laugh hard. I always think you old guys will learn, you know, understand the public, even a little bit, but you don't do you? You old white guys are just plain out of touch with what it is to live in America as a regular person. And as much as you try, you just don't get it, do you. Will you all ever come around, will you ever get it? Listen up, I am going to tell you a few things you really need to know. [Read more]
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George Bush's Legacy: Losing Afghanistan in 2001
I have been a little angry lately, things are not going right in Afghanistan and I want everyone who reads me to know why. This isn't going to be too long, because I need to get a bike ride in this morning. [Read more]
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America by Heart: Reflections: The PreBook
It was going to be a long day, the day she sat down to write her book. She was positive she could get through this, and it wouldn't take long. She was well known because of her mastery of Facebook, Twitter, and the Big Scam. *More on that later* So she had a seat at her very beautiful desk. This was a desk she purchased from a Real Housewife, and boy was it beautiful. because Teresa Guidice had excellent taste.
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My Gardener is a Beckerhead, and is Probably Attending Beck U & Other Oddities in American Life
How do I know, he asked me if I was investing in gold or selling gold. OMG, this guy, even though he is a landscaper, or some such thing, has three kids, gets his health care from the state because he doesn't make much money, recevies food stamps, and aid to go to school. But he always rants about ObamaCare, socialism, fascism, etc! What? Yes you are thinking the same thing I am. However, Beck is ripping off poor folk, who don't know any better, and I feel bad for them. While at the same time, i wonder if I should fire him for being such a numbnuts.
Oh well, I never fire anyone. So at least he has that. [Read more]
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Secret Communication Sent to Wikileaks by a Private? I Just Don't Believe This Story.
Yesterday or the day before that, as we all know Wikileaks dumped 76,000 secret documents onto their site, and are editing another 15,000 or something like that to dump soon, for all the world to see. And to tell you the truth, I have little to say about Julian Assange, except, who in the hell told him that hairstyle was flattering. He looks like a broke down, Diane Sawyer.

Okay enough of that, let's get serious. Let's talk about top secret documents, let's talk about electronic security and let's talk about the Pentagon. [Read more]
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I Am A Nerd, an Unashamed Nerd! PAX Comes After ComiCon: or How To Bond with Your Adult Nerd Children
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Worst Economy Ever

Meet Eric Roberts, acclaimed movie actor, older brother to Julia Roberts, he stars in: Worst Economy Ever, a new series, created by me, with exactly one entry.
This economy is so bad, Eric Roberts had to take a job as an actor on The Young and the Restless. Yikes! [Read more]
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The Real Andrew "Appletini" Breitbart

I'd always assumed Breitbart looked as horrible as he seems. His evil intentions remind me of One of Shakespeare's most evil creations, he manoeuvres his way to the throne by a series of murderous plots. He is ruthlessly violent when he needs to be, but it is his skill in twisting language to his own ends and an ability to hide his true intentions that allow him to control events in the play so completely. Yes you know who it is, King Richard III.
h/t to atalsfugged at Gawker for supplying us with this awesome, awesome picture.
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Populism, Party Disunity, and American Politics
The TeaParty has big dreams. They dream of third party status, becoming powerful, directing public policy, controlling the government. As a movement, they are big, big dreamers.
Throughout American electoral history social movements in search of political power have transformed themselves into pseudo political parties, often with quite limited success. Important examples include the temperance and agrarian movements, as well as efforts by leftist and labor groups and the Progressives of the 1940s. The National Organization for Women is just another one of those movements that attempted to build a third party, and failed. Of course none of these movements have become competitive political parties.
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Mitt Romney and the Cold War Redux
Well in an unexpected move to prove his manliness and tough guy persona, Mitt Romeny has come out in favor of nuclear proliferation.

In his zeal to oppose all things Obama, Mitt Romney accused the President of underming American Security, by signing a treaty with Russia, so both countries would commit to reducing their nuclear arsenals. [Read more]
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On Beck University, Unemployment Benefits, and the Chris Matthews Follow Up
We are all so incredibly lucky to witness the inception of Beck University! Beck University has exactly two employees and Beck, the employese being a strange PhD named Dr. Stoner. His obvious profession is not Botany as one would expect if you were born with a name that made one think of 4/20, and another fellow by the name of David Barton, who is a the rights favorite pseudo-historian accoriding to People for the American Way. [Read more]
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The Week in Political Dick Moves : Jun 28 - Jun 30
Yes, it is only Wednesday, but damn there have been some big politcal Dick moves so far this week. [Read more]
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In the News
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Obama Campaign To Court Super PAC Cash They Loathe
TPM 2012 - Within body of text:
The decision was handed out after new FEC filings revealed conservative groups outraised their Democratic counterparts by a four to one ratio. In recent weeks one Republican donor alone, Sheldon Adelson, has given over $10 million to a Super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich. Mitt Romney’s Super PAC raised $30 million in 2011. By contrast, a Democratic Super PAC founded by former Obama aide Bill Burton, Priorities USA, raised only $19 million.
Politico also has interesting piece on this too.
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Jim Bakker’s Christian amusement park is now a post-...

In 1986, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Heritage USA was the third most-visited amusement park in the US, behind only Disney World and Disneyland. Now the park that once entertained millions of guests is falling to pieces, and looks more like the scene from a post-apocalyptic movie than a place for family fun.
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Truth, lies and AfghanistanBy LT. COL. DANIEL L. DAVIS
I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the enemy. Over the course of 12 months, I covered more than 9,000 miles and talked, traveled and patrolled with troops in Kandahar, Kunar, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika, Kunduz, Balkh, Nangarhar and other provinces.
What I saw bore no resemblance to rosy official statements by U.S. military leaders about conditions on the ground.
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Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein speaks out in support of...
Just when you thought it was safe to hate Goldman Sachs…
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A Mortgage Tornado Warning, UnheededYEARS before the housing bust — before all those home loans turned sour and millions of Americans faced foreclosure — a wealthy businessman in Florida set out to blow the whistle on the mortgage game.His name is Nye Lavalle, and he first came to attention not in finance but in sports and advertising. He turned heads in marketing circles by correctly predicting that Nascar and figure skating would draw huge followings in the 1990s.But after losing a family home to foreclosure, under what he thought were fishy circumstances, Mr. Lavalle, founder of a consulting firm called the Sports Marketing Group, began a new life as a mortgage sleuth. In 2003, when home prices were flying high, he compiled a dossier of improprieties on one of the giants of the business, Fannie Mae.In hindsight, what he found looks like a blueprint of today’s foreclosure crisis. Even then, Mr. Lavalle discovered, some loan-servicing companies that worked for Fannie Mae routinely filed false foreclosure documents, not unlike the fraudulent paperwork that has since made “robo-signing” a household term. Even then, he found, the nation’s electronic mortgage registry was playing fast and loose with the law — something that courts have belatedly recognized, too.
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