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Ain't we lucky? “ The Coming Fury of an Angry America It cost 1 billion dollars and four years to have .9% of the earth elect the President of the United States in 2008. It took a similar amount of time and money to be the guy that lost. Hundreds of millions more are expended to elect the 535 people who make up the United States Congress. (Rantburg) Cape Cod Times Scott Brown for Senate Sarah Palin a Vessel for Mounting White Discontent? Sarah Palin a Fame Monster? Re NYT Blow job -- The author is dismayed that a "plurality" of Whites consider George W. Bush a better president than Barack Obama. He thinks Whites who did vote for BO did it because he was "Negro-Lite." Does this mean that we'uns are better informed, and way, way smarter than these canker blossoms? Yes.  Yes it means just that. Tigerhawk Collection of Today's Retractions Retraction #1 Goddamn. If you read the whole thing it is clear that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was wholly unprincipled and unprofessional in its glacier "science." If that is the quality of work coming out of the IPCC, the Climategate email hack is just the tip of the iceberg. As it were. Retraction #2 U.S. intelligence agencies are quietly revising their widely disputed assertion that Iran has no active program to design or build a nuclear bomb. OMFG! The New York Times Connects the Dots ... the connection between a former Gitmo detainee and the Christmas Day bomber. The medical secret behind Mona Lisa's smile? This stuff cracks me up.  She had too much cholesterol. ”