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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-03

@georgedonnelly #FSP is attractive idea. good mountains nearby. other considerations family/friends/job not in NH… convince them, too? in reply to georgedonnelly # http://snipr.com/grnh6 – “Fuck single mothers.” not what I expected. But interesting. # is not particularly worried about swine flu. # meredith viera is *really* hard to look at. just saying. # http://snipr.com/h5drc – Why? multinat’l assault forces practice invading florida. # http://snipr.com/h5dxv – A new libertarian line-of-attack when debating medical marijuana with #tcot # dcx bankruptcy… happy friday, detroit. # http://snipr.com/h5iye – oh hai… public choice theory in action. # http://snipr.com/h5j0m – fake cops with real guns. I f*cking told you this would happen. check the archives: http://snipr.com/h5jsv # http://snipr.com/h5mpf – LOL: “By doing this,” Paulson sez, “You can keep borrowing…” # RT @KipEsquire Federal officials also said there was no shortage … Read entire article »

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Should Government Fix NCAA Football Cartel?

I should have a category called “Ass-hat politicians” because I really don’t know how else to classify this. Fresh from the government-has-solved-all-the-serious-problems wire, the NYT is reporting that a lawmaker intent on eliminating NCAA Football’s Bowl Championship Series in favor of a playoff compared the BCS to Communism. (As an aside: I’m curious what Barton thought of the de facto nationalization of banks like AIG and automakers like Chrysler?) Oh, the hilarity. Republican Rep. Joe Barton of Texas said Friday that efforts to tinker with the BCS are bound to fail. He told a House hearing that the BCS is like communism and can’t be fixed. — Lawmaker Compares Football’s BCS to Communism (5-1-2009) My first reaction is: it’s pretty clear that Barton has no fucking clue what communism is, because … Read entire article »

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