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• Shannon Elizabeth discusses overtures by Congressional Republicans that it is the job of Congress to fix the national travesty that is college football’s the Bowl Championship Series

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  Elizabeth: “Sure, I get the interstate commerce thingie. But what I don’t understand is why if a bunch of old white guys want to fix something about college football, they don’t begin by filibustering sports bras. I mean, it’s getting to the point where even the outline of a nipple [...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 3:25pm EST
  by Jeff G.

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• Just another reason to hate cap-'n'-tax

  —doubleplusundead

  In case the idea of having your electric bill jacked way up and losing thousands of jobs in an all ready strapped economy wasn't quite enough to convince you that cap-and-trade is a terrible idea that just leads to more taxes, we have this delightful story from Europe: In a' [...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 2:02pm EST
  by Ember

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• Who’s in Copenhagen today?

  —This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

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  While all of the third world is in Copenhagen trying to figure a way to fleece the American taxpayers, Hillary Clinton is there to make their job easier; “The US is prepared to work with other countries toward a goal of jointly mobilizing $100 billion a year by 2020 to address [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 7:49am EST
  by Jonn Lilyea

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• Blog Wars

  —The Bit Maelstrom

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  Hello, everyone!
  
  Sorry for the long absence. I've been hard at work looking for work to be hard at work at. I'm going to be part-time at the current job (which didn't stop them from giving me two new, huge projects to do) which is a mixed bag. On' [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 7:45pm EST
  by blake

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• Unfortunately This is What We Have To Work With in Afghanistan

  —The Jawa Report

  This video would be almost funny, you know, if lives weren't depending on the Afghan Army. You know, Mr. Obama its times like this that I'm glad I don't have your job. Good luck with getting that Afghan Army trained....' [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 11:24am EST
  by Howie

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• NBC Poll: Obama Falls to 47%; 47% Say His Idea for "Reform" is a Bad Idea

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  B+. For the first time, Obama’s overall job approval rating has fallen below 50 percent (to 47 percent). In addition, for the first time since Sept. 2007, a plurality (45 percent) sees the Democratic Party in a negative light. And... [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 7:21pm EST
  

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• Fatboy slim

  —Bring the heat, Bring the Stupid

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  I think I’ve mentioned before that I hated recruiting.  I met a lot of great people, but so much of the job was a pain.  Finding people that wanted to join the Army wasn’t much of a challenge. Finding qualified people that wanted to join was a huge challenge. I talked [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 10:06pm EST
  by xbradtc

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• BULLOCKS! NO TIT JOBS FOR PRE-PUBESCENTS?!

  —Democrat = Socialist

  The fuck is the world coming to?!
  Words About Things: Silvio Berlusconi has had a tough weekend, first he was attacked by a man wielding a souvenir model of a cathedral then Italy banned breast implants for girls under 18. (For any lawyers reading: I’m sure Berlusconi has never [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 8:41pm EST
  

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• USAToday/Gallup: Obama at 49%, 46% Disapproving; Officially Lowest Level of Support for Modern Presidents at This Point in Tenure

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  In polling jargon, this represents a "B+" level of support. When he was inaugurated in January, Obama scored a job rating of 64% approve-25% disapprove in the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll — a net positive rating by a formidable 39 percentage... [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 3:12pm EST
  

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• Mario Has A Day Job

  —Locusts & Honey

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  "Super Plumber" is a glicee print by Pat Kinsell.
  
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 12:53pm EST
  by John

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• Inside Job?

  —The Drawn Cutlass

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  Here in Charlotte, robbers struck at a Salvation Army collection site, robbing employees of 13 Christmas collection kettles with contents estimated at over four thousand dollars.
  
  We have here either the actions of a well-organized and intelligent crime gang, or a gang operating on tips from inside [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 3:26am EST
  by Bob

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• Who Knew That Being President Was A Tough Job?

  —doubleplusundead

  Now that President Hopeandchange is tanking, his shills are (once again) trying to change the focus and blame anything up to and including the United States Constitution, gravity and the Van Allen Belt for his failures. Hey 52%ers. I have some words for... [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 8:34pm EST
  by eddiebear

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• SOME NUMBERS

  —Word Around the Net

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  The one area that's always good to be in during a recession is working for the government.Number of jobs officially lost in the last 18 months: 7.3 millionAverage US federal government worker salary: $71,206Percentage of federal employees making $100,000* or more: 19%Percentage of federal employees making that much before the [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 2:14pm EST
  by Christopher Taylor

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• WORD AROUND THE NET

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  "I think the TARP funds are appropriately used to create jobs to reduce the deficit."-Nancy PelosiThis is a bit old but I wanted to bring it to peoples' attention as it is timely. The ocean's ability to absorb and release CO2 is a phenomenon oceanologists have known about and are' [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 1:14pm EST
  by Christopher Taylor

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• Even Though Exhaling is Now Illegal, Apparently They’re Handing Out Nobel Prizes For It

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  GIVE A BOW, TAKE A BOW Sir Prize has canceled lunch with the King of Norway to attend a Donna Summer concert. That’s so when Donna sings “She Works Hard For the Money”, he can claim one job was saved or created. In other Questionable Statistical News: President Obama’s job approval rating has fallen [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:43pm EST
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• Days of whine and poses

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  What a punk-ass bitch our God-Emperor is: President Barack Obama told House Republican leaders to “stop trying to frighten the American people” even as he and Democrats said they see a possibility for bipartisan cooperation on job creation legislation. Legislation doesn’t create jobs, mein Fuehrer. Well, other than the kind of useless [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 8:07am EST
  by Mike

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• Remember When Obama Claimed To Love "Shovel Ready" Jobs?

  —doubleplusundead

  Yeah. Me too. Of course, tell that to these 500 coal miners. A Pittsburgh-based coal company, CONSOL Energy, will lay off nearly 500 of its West Virginia workers next year and its CEO blames environmentalists dead-set against mountaintop mining who have waged “nuisance” lawsuits for the job loss. But CONSOL [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 4:21am EST
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• Good. And. Hard

  —Cold Fury

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  I was all set to post something on this latest of the many examples of the “stimulus” scam working exactly as intended — in this case, as outright graft and bribery — but DrewM really says all that needs to be said about it: Money paid? Six million dollars Jobs saved? 3 Paying [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 4:42pm EST
  by Mike

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• Video: Krauthammer – “Today, The Democrats ARE The Law”

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  Yesterday on Special Report, Charles Krauthammer charged that the allocation of TARP funds to Obama’s jobs package is illegal, but that won’t stop the Dems, who have a “congenitive inability” to control their spending; [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 4:13pm EST
  by nicedeb

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• Stimulusmania...Six Million For Hillary's Pollster

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  Money paid? Six million dollars Jobs saved? 3 Paying off your former political rival's debt with public money? Priceless Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008. Federal... [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 3:15pm EST
  

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• Good Thing The Stimulus Money Went To Shovel Ready Jobs

  —doubleplusundead

  Yeah, I know. Obama claims he saved or created a bazillion and eleventy jobs with the Porkulus. And he thinks it was so awesome that Round 2 or 3 (I forget which) would be just the fix to the jobs problem. If so, expect a lot of Democratic Pollsters to [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 7:19am EST
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• The Good News: We’re Winning the War!

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  THE BAD NEWS: It’s the War on Jobs. Tigerhawk: “Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said her agency will seek to enact an array of 90 rules and regulations next year aimed at giving more power to workers and unions.” [...] Already our economy is struggling against health care “reform,” massive new regulation and/or taxation on [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 5:50pm EST
  by Noel

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• The definition of insanity

  —This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

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  So, while his popularity falls because unemployment is rising (against his promises), manufacturing continues to decrease, the President decides that he must be doing something right so he proposes more of the same unrestrained government spending; President Barack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals Tuesday, saying the nation must [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:33pm EST
  by Jonn Lilyea

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• Rush’s Apoplectic Response To Obama’s Jobs Speech

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  I’m afraid this poor man is going to have a stroke, responding to Obama’s lame speech at The Brookings Institution: markknoller on Twitter reported: Obama closes speech: “The skies are brightening.And the horizon is beckoning once more.” I tweeted back: Are oceans receding too? Hat tip Pat Dollard: Rush Nails The Mental Patient RELATED: Once again, [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:09pm EST
  by nicedeb

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• Football Recap

  —Francase Place

  The Falcons looked horrible, and at 6-6 may not even break the curse of consecutive winning seasons. With the Saints coming in next week, I'm a wee bit scared.
  
  Tech: nice job going to the Orange Bowl, even if you got your butts handed to you by a down' [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 9:22am EST
  

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• Here's Another Sign

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  Army of Mom
  
  1. "Hi, I'm from ACORN, and I believe we can come to an arrangement."
  
  2. Gallup becomes ever more 'selective' in its sampling techniques to keep Obama's approval ratings up.
  
  3. Three more jobs 'created or saved' by the [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 9:17am EST
  

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• Still under fire

  —This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

  I know I wrote about this yesterday, but here’s an update - CJ has a lawyer and he’s going after the school system. He needs about 7 grand for his lawyer and he’s got almost half of that just since yesterday. You guys are doing a great job, now get [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 8:52am EST
  by Jonn Lilyea

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• The War on Jobs

  —Cold Fury

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  THE WRONG WAR AT THE WRONG TIME FOR THE WRONG REASON The administration just concluded a “Jobs Summit”, even though almost no one in the administration has ever created a job. They must have meant jobs for bureaucrats. Iain Murray: The EPA is about to announce that greenhouse gases endanger public health [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 5:45pm EST
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• Roundup: Economy/Porkulus edition

  —Alabama in Between

  (1) By Jim Geraghty's reckoning, the Allentown slice of the porkulus spent over $11 million on various projects with no identifiable jobs created. "Hey, I think I spotted the problem with the economy! All of this money is being thrown around, but nobody's created any jobs with it!"
  
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:09am EST
  

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• Cash for Clunkers eCrunchers! [Darleen Click]

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  Obama’s latest brainstorm.
  WASHINGTON – In his latest job creation effort, President Barack Obama is trying to find practical and politically feasible ways of spurring hiring among skittish employers.

  Among the ideas expected in his economic speech Tuesday is an expanded program that gives people cash … [[...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 3:30am EST
  by Darleen

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