“WE’RE FIGHTING FOR THEM OVER THERE … SO THEY DON’T COME AND LIVE OVER HERE.”

“I JUST WISH I COULD SOMEHOW GO BACK IN TIME, AND AUTHORIZE THE USE OF PRESENT-DAY WATER … FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO.”

“GOOD EVENING, WELCOME TO FOX NEWS.”

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Complete video at Huffpost.

Lisa Casey on Distortions and Contortions from Kabul.

Mark Karlin on the Heritage Foundation defense of the Ghengis Khan heritage: Rape. 

Jon Perr on the latest BCS — Battle of Crazy State - Standings (Talk about red-shirt fresh-men!)

Dave Lindorff at BuzzFlash: Depleted Uranium — Dead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan Are No Joke. 

“OK, GUYS, I KNOW ALL YOU WANT IS A SOUVENIR, BUT IF YOU RETURN MY SIZE 12 COLE HAANS, THERE’LL BE NO QUESTIONS ASKED.”

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BuzzFlash’s Mark Karlin Interviews Rick Perlstein: Barry Goldwater Plumbs the Depths of the Conservative Movement.

The Daily Show’s Queer Eye for the Hawkeye, at One Good Move.

Juan Cole: Obama in Iraq Again Pledges Troop Withdrawal.

“WHAT CAN I SAY, MES AMIS, WE FRENCH HAVE ALWAYS HAD A SOFT SPOT FOR BUFFOONS.”

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BLOGWORTHIES:

BuzzFlash on The Bush GOP’s Latest Threat Aimed At Americans.

Juan Cole on Top Ten Ways the US is Turning Afghanistan into Iraq.

“TO BE COMPLETELY HONEST, AFTER SEEIN’ HOW WASTED THE GOP HAS BEEN THESE LAST FEW MONTHS, I THOUGHT MARIJUANA WAS ALREADY LEGAL.”

Crooks & Liars has the real story.

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Meg White at BuzzFlash on NORML Coming to Virtual Town Hall.

Lisa Casey on the wasted $$ in Iraq.

Juan Cole: Sunni Arab Refugees from Iraq Not Returning.

“ALTHOUGH HIS ADMINISTRATION LASTED JUST ONE SHORT MONTH, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON DECEIVED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, CLAIMING THAT SHAWNEE CHIEF TECUMSEH WAS TRYING TO ACQUIRE YELLOW CORN … FROM AFRICA.”

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Staying on topic, MYDD on the Presidential rankings: William Henry Harrison was robbed!

Obama’s Choice: FDR’s First 100 Days or Lincoln’s Team of Rivals – by Mark Karlin of BuzzFlash.

Speaking of ex-Presidents, William Jefferson Clinton speaks out on the Economic Crisis – at One Good Move.

Lisa Casey with more on the Blago/Burris Insanity.

Juan Cole: Iraq Funding Ponzi Scheme Bigger than Madoff’s.

“IT’S REALLY NO SURPRISE – I’M SIMPLY AWARDING TO MYSELF THE ‘ABSENTEE VOTES’ OF THE MILLIONS OF IRAQIS WHO HAD TO FLEE AFTER OUR INVASION.”

1. Re-sod Guantanamo.

2. Free sterilization of minorities.

3. All state aid in the form of loans — to be paid back to the “Republican National Committee.”

4. “Jet Stamps” — for corporate CEOs.

5. Expand Electric Grid, to facilitate comeback of the electric chair.

6. Mass transit funds — to deport “illegals.”

7. Tax credits for purchases of semi-automatic weapons.

8. Coupons for conversion of analog TV — to Rush Limbaugh radio.

9. Infrastructure spending — erect ten-story ‘Ten Commandments’ in every state capital.

10. Supplemental infrastructure spending — erect world’s largest solar panel directly over Nancy Pelosi’s office.

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BLOGWORTHIES:

Keeping in the spirit, P.M. Carpenter with Naked Republican Goons 33 1/3: The Final Insult, and Madkane says No Quid? No Quo!.

Lisa Casey on the rush to genuflect before Rush.

A worthwhile John Updike tribute, via One Good Move.

Dan Kurtzman’s latest political satire links.

Juan Cole with the early word on the Provincial Elections in Iraq.