“IT SEEMS TO ME, THAT IF WE CAN JUST GIVE THE RACISTS THEIR OWN LITTLE SETTLEMENTS, PERHAPS SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SINAI DESERT, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO STAVE OFF ARMAGEDDON FOR AT LEAST A FEW MORE YEARS.”

Video at HuffPost.

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BuzzFlash’s Mark Karlin: Big Insurance to Government: You Make it Affordable, We’ll Gouge the Profit!

The Patented GOP Formula, at All Hat No Cattle, and Jon Perr takes a nostalgic look back at how that formula doomed John McCain.

Madkane’s Ode to Those “Sorry” Celebrities.

“A SPOKESMAN FOR GOOGLE SAID: ‘WE HAVE NO FREAKIN’ IDEA HOW MANY SHOWED UP, BUT IT DOES CLEARLY APPEAR THAT THEY ALL SUDDENLY MATERIALIZED FROM THE CENTER OF THE EARTH’.” 

“THE HOODS AND BURNING CROSSES WERE MERELY TO KEEP THE PEACEFUL PROTESTORS WARM, ON A RATHER BRISK, 78 DEGREE D.C. DAY.”

“MY FRIENDS, THIS IS ONE INSTANCE WHERE BIG GOVERNMENT IS JUSTIFIED, SINCE THE CONSTITUTION AND DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE GUARANTEE EVERY AMERICAN THE RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY … AND THE PURSUIT OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.”

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Jon Perr has some instructive, actually “10 Lessons for Tea Baggers.”

Your Total Entertainment Guide, at BartCopE!

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BuzzFlash’s Mark Karlin hits the same note with No More Code Words: Racism is Public Again.

Robert Reich and the Truth About the Public Option, at One Good Move.

Dan Kurtzman’s Political Cartoons of the Week. 

“THESE KENYANS WON’T ACTUALLY SHOOT OR MACHETE OUR SENIORS … THEY’LL JUST MAKE THEM RUN A MARATHON UNTIL THEY DROP DEAD.”

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BuzzFlash’s Mark Karlin Gets to the Heart of the Matter: Racism.

Lisa Casey with the Palin contribution to the madness.

Juan Cole with an update on the morass in Afghanistan.

“TO PARAPHRASE MY GOOD BROTHER JESSE, ‘FROM THE OUTHOUSE TO THE STATE HOUSE, TO THE WHITE HOUSE … TO OUTTA’ MY OWN HOUSE!“

Story here.

And from rogue cops to the roguish CIA, at All Hat No Cattle.

“THE FIRST RULE OF SWIM CLUB IS: “YOU PRACTICE RACISM, BUT DON’T TALK ABOUT RACISM.”

 Story here.