too stupid to be fiction
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I don’t think that word means what you think it means
Post Service warns of default… The USPS, a self-supporting government agency that receives no tax dollars, said it suffered a loss of $329 million in the first quarter of federal fiscal year 2011. That compared with a loss of $297 million a year earlier. Don’t worry, they’re going to raise rates, cut hours, and lobby Read more
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Anybody got a sense of scale here?
30,000 pigs floating down the river in the recent Aussie floods? Didn’t that seem like…well…like a LOT of pigs? Sometimes quantitative literacy is really, really simple, if you just pay attention. Update (8 February). Maybe 30,000 isn’t too unreasonable a number! Read more
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It’s like a metaphor or something
I’m beginning to suspect this sort of thing is occurring at every level of the Federal government. Tip from the Instapundit, who did NOT say “the country’s in the very best of hands.” Read more
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Kick me AGAIN!
Not content with getting punked by his fave Chinese piano player, Barry gets set up by his own speechwriters with the phrase “winning the future.” Read more
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Maybe Jared Loughner shot the wrong congressman
Stay classy, Loretta. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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Time to cut the Federal budget, Exhibit #2
Maybe we should hire some folks who know how to turn the lights off at quittin’ time. Read more
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Pull the other one, it’s got bells on it.
Uncle Sam has recovered $4 billion of the estimated $60 to $90 billion in Medicare fraud, and claims bragging rights. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius touted the Affordable Care Act as one of the toughest anti-fraud laws in history. “The days when you could just hang out a shingle and start billing the Read more
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“Kick me” Obama strikes again
Barack-O’s guest pianist played him for a chump. Can we swap him for some Chinese who don’t insult us to our faces? Update (25 January). Tommy Vietor, official White House Thumbsucking Doubletalker, explains to the hoi polloi that it was not an insult. Yeah, piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining. Too bad, Read more
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Why Texans think Californians are stupid, #3
Governor Moonbeam has appointed Linda Ronstadt as California’s official Secretary of Song. Tip from American Digest. Read more
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$5 gas?
Lots of bloviating (and wisecracking) about “What Would Happen If You Woke Up To $5/Gallon Gasoline?” over at The Truth About Cars. The answer is much simpler than anyone has mentioned. Not a g*ddamned thing. It was $4.989 a gallon when you went to bed, a$$hole, and nothing besides another record wave of home foreclosures Read more
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