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DC Examiner covers Sen Harry Reid’s thoughts on the $600M upgrade:

The Capitol Visitors Center, which opened this morning, may have tripled its original budget and fallen years behind schedule, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid found a silver lining for members of Congress: tourists won’t offend them with their B.O. anymore.

“My staff tells me not to say this, but I’m going to say it anyway,” said Reid in his remarks. “In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it’s true.”

But it’s no longer going to be true, noted Reid, thanks to the air conditioned, indoor space.

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It isn’t even noon yet, but I’ve already had my fill today of leftists preaching to me that Obama is our President-elect and I need to galvanize behind him instead of complaining. While I respect the idea of supporting our next President, I have to wonder where that attitude has been for the past eight years. The same liberals chastising me for expressing what I feel is justifiable discontent less than 12 hours after my candidate lost are the same ones who have spent the better part of the last decade blaming our current President for everything from the housing crisis to rain on a summer day. Now that their “Messiah” is set to assume the Oval Office, it is suddenly time for all Americans, regardless of political leanings, to coalesce behind their leader? I’m not buying into the hypocrisy.

The 2008 Presidential candidates (including McCain, but especially Obama) also owe Bush an apology. Far too much time was spent dragging the man’s name through the mud in an effort to appeal to the public’s disenchantment and garner votes. Bush has made plenty of mistakes as President, but he has also done a lot of good for which he has gone largely uncredited. He has kept us safe since 9/11 and rid the world of a lot of terrorist threats. While spending has often been reckless under his administration, we were actually headed the right direction with our budget deficit until Democrats took over Congress two years ago. I don’t agree with every decision Bush has made, but I certainly don’t agree with the idea of blaming him for every perceived injustice and imperfection in this country.

Unlike Obama, I’ve never heard Bush whine, complain, or try to silence anyone who has had something negative to say about him. Despite his flaws, he is a class guy who understands that fierce criticism comes with the job.

In the words of Oklahoma State head football coach Mike Gundy, “That’s all I’ve got to say; makes me wanna puke.”

Internet televangelist Bill Keller on Oprah Winfrey: “…she is the queen of the new age witches.” She’s the prophetess of all the new age movement. “She’s making millions and millions of dollars selling the spiritual crack of our day…leading millions of souls to the flames of Hell.”

Well, alrighty then.

Parents with backbones are now adding a marketing department to their arsenal:

After finding alcohol in her son’s car, she decided to sell the car and share her 19-year-old’s misdeed with everyone - by placing an ad in the local newspaper.

The ad reads: “OLDS 1999 Intrigue. Totally uncool parents who obviously don’t love teenage son, selling his car. Only driven for three weeks before snoopy mom who needs to get a life found booze under front seat. $3,700/offer. Call meanest mom on the planet.”…

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 It’s for the kids!

Interesting piece comparing two stadiums filled with people from natural disasters.  One was filled with blood, rapes, and stabbings (which turned out to not have actually happened) and the other is filled with happy people and rock concerts?

Will FEMA and Bush get credit here?  Does it come down to a competent mayor or perhaps the Gov-inator?  Things to ponder…
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Here’s a good rule of thumb for new college freshmen:

Don’t keep accusing your crazy roommate of stealing from your purse, or you may wake up with her standing over your bunk with a knife…

As ARO pointed out recently, taxes weren’t the main culprit in the Minn. bridge collapse.  As it turns out, pigeons are more to blame (besides the cracked steel and missing bolts).  Apparently “pigeon droppings contain ammonia and acids…”  Maybe we should have open season on some flying rats that promote acid rain (just like we should on the rats with fuzzy tails). 

Great cartoon and history lesson about the true impact of the United States on the world:

On the Fourth of July Americans will cynically celebrate the greatest setback world progress has ever endured in all of human history. The rest of humankind will, of course, be grieving over the dark day when the United States of America was born. To understand the full scope of this tragedy we must look back at the pre-7/04 world and see what it was like to live on planet Earth before 1776.

Prior to July 4, 1776, not a single person in the world starved, got sick, worked hard for a living, or experienced any pain and anxiety. No one had ever been oppressed or unfairly exploited because the oppressive and unfair American system had not yet been created…

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