It’s been far too long since I did a Scramble. In fact, length was and is the problem; it was taking me way too long to put together near the end of the daily run, and despite the suggestion from Fausta that I do a side dish, this family-sized one once again stretched way too long (hey, I’m part of a big family). Oh well, let’s celebrate with Metallica…
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Oh, heck with it; we need some hair of the dog as well (thanks, Alexander, though since Bailout 2.0 – Now With Extra Liberalism And Pork passed, I’ll take that whiskey straight from the still).
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I don’t care how big this is; I’m not splitting it in two.
- Before we get to the brass tacks, Sister Toldjah and Ed Morrissey are celebrating their 5-year blogiversaries.
- Executive decision; I’m not going to do too much on last night’s debate. I could be here all day just on that. Instead, I’ll send you to Gabriel Malor’s recap (note; Gabe is a certified AoSHQ Moron, so the language may be a bit rough, especially in the comments, where the cobbled-together system Ace uses makes gobbledygook of the table).
- E.M. Zanotti has the react of the night from her inbox – "Sarah Palin field dressed Biden like a botoxed moose." Something tells me that’s going to be in the next MRQ over at Real Debate Wisconsin.
- If you missed the debate, C-SPAN has the full video (H/T – John McCormack. Because I can, I’ll put it in here as well.
- Jim Geraghty and friends filleted Joementum Version 2.0.
- Cindy found a disturbing gesture from Joe Biden at the end of the debate. That would be at the 1:32 mark in the C-SPAN video.
- Ed Morrissey found Biden’s knowledge of the Constitution sorely lacking.
- Marc Sheppard explains the crap sandwich with yellow-but-not-Dew drink that came out of the Senate. Let’s see, take one stalled step toward socialized medicine, graft the bailout on it, throw in a heap of “targeted tax cuts” (pork me), sprinkle a bunch of greenery (and anti-oil production), and then shove the annual AMT “fix” and Hurricane Ike relief in to get a few conservatives on board this liberal “Holiday” tree and get the rest to vote “for” a de facto tax increase and “against” the sheeple, and you got the socialism that passed while I was typing this out.
- How much pork? Paul Socha found it to be hundreds of billions in pork.
- Dad29 explains why mark-to-market is a bad idea that’s making the bad loans truly toxic. Hint; look at LIBOR.
- Darleen Click pictures why we have those bad loans. Bonnie and Clyde didn’t have federale badges like Fannie and Freddie though.
- Bill Quick wonders how a Communist got so rich. Little-known fact, LIBOR was originally a construct of Vladmir Lenin.
- John Washburn has an alternative plan. Of course, the Credit Generation will hate it because they won’t be encouraged to live beyond their means.
- Michelle Bachmann has another alternative plan that Paul Ryan should have worked with instead of going with the crap sandwich.
- Stephen Green explains why the crap sandwich won’t work; INFLATION!
- Marcus Aurelius explains Supply and Demand 201.
- The Pheisty Joey had some fun with an ObamiNation volunteer.
- Uncle Jimbo caught Barack Obama doing everything but voting a lot of the time. Since I already did “School’s Out”, and you’re probably out of music by now, let’s do some Motley Crue.
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- Michelle Malkin is all over the fraud being perpetrated on behalf of Obama in Ohio.
- Jim Hoft reports Obama is bringing in the big guns to take full advantage over at O(verrated)SU while the football team is busy getting crushed at Camp Randall.
- Bonus Malkin – she reports that Obama bought himself a brainwashing channel on Dish.
- How did he pay for that channel? Rick Moran wonders if it’s foreign cash. Unfortunately, we won’t know because the FEC won’t look into it.
- It goes oh-so-well with brainwashing. James Wigderson has the second video, along with a bonus Blue-Out day targeted at the young skulls full of mush.
- Bonus Uncle Jimbo – he has the Pyongyang Remix of the first video.
- Dad29 proves that Obama is a typical Chicago Machine pol.
- Flip notes that Obama is so liberal, even his poker buddies, specifically one whose Will County executive office was searched by the FBI in connection with a fraud investigation involving Will County and federal grants, say he’s too liberal.
- Blue Collar Muse exposes a couple more of Obama’s friends profiting handsomely at the expense of taxpayers with housing units so substandard, they were deemed uninhabitable.
- That and the Ohio fraud aren’t surprising, considering Jeff G. asserts Obama is ACORN’s Senator.
- PJ-Comix laughs at the DUmmies who fear (hopefully correctly) that Obama has peaked too soon.
- Matt Wolking contrasts Obama’s call for hearings on the mortgage crisis to John McCain’s attempt to act on that back before we got the crap sandwich with yellow-but-not-Dew drink.
- Brian is very glum over the inability of McCain to make the reality of his separation from President Bush perception. You care to guess which exact Google search term gets more results – “Bush-McCain” or “Clinton-Gore”? Gore was Clinton’s VP, for crying out loud, and McCain was and is a significant rival of Bush.
- Jim Hoft reports one of McCain’s Missouri offices suffered a break-in, with a laptop stolen. I’m sure Missouri’s law enforcement community will be all over that…wait, they’re too busy being Obama’s Toofer Squad.
- Ed Morrissey reports the longest R drought (at least among the 50 states) just might end. Guess Wisconsin will finally be number one (excuse me while I hurl).
- Warner Todd Huston reports McCain finally caught on to the fact the New York Times was just using him and left their pet columnist on the tarmac. Nice.
- JammieWearingFool points out a massive conflict of interest, Fannie Edition, over at the Now Barack’s Channel network.
- Steve T proves words are everything for presstitutes.
- Speaking of words, Mary caught The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ loading up the word cannon on McCain.
- Michelle Malkin found the Boston Globe literally in the bag for Obama.
- If you were wondering how far is too far, JammieWearingFool found the line at wearing an Obama shirt while covering an Obama rally as a presstitute.
- Coop has the understatement of the week, courtesy MSNBC.
- David Limbaugh explains bias.
- Alexander found the inner workings of Congress eerily like a Three Stooges short.
- Lawhawk caught New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) saying, “Term limits? Now that I used term limits to worm my way into office, I don’t need no stinking term limits.”
- Jim Lynch proves it’s all about the name. No word on whether the candidate formerly known as Joe Biden will start shaving his legs.
- Dan Kenitz lists the eight biggest dummies in politics.
- Tom McMahon 4-blocks the ‘Rat half of the bipartisan Party-In-Government’s view of the law. Honestly, except for the lower-left portion, we could apply it to the Pubbie half as well.
- J. Gravelle illustrates (literally) how a 100% increase becomes a 90% “decrease” in government math.
- Fred rolls video of typical ‘Rat voters explaining why they’re voting for the more-socialist half of the bipartisan Party-In-Government.
- Kate pictures the Most (Un)ethical Congress Evah! Since they didn’t quite get around to banning certain familial payoffs, they’re more than happy to make said payoffs.
- The Headless Blogger explains why students from out of state should not be voting in Wisconsin. Of course, since they tend to vote for the ‘Rats, it’s encouraged by the state in blatant violation of state law.
- Speaking of violating state election law, Dad29 caught the Milwaukee Election Commission allowing ACORN to hire at least 7 felons as voter registration workers. Can we check the registrations they submitted now, or is the Doyle-controlled Government “Accountability” Board THAT FAR in the tank for their fellow ‘Rats?
- Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin find that watching debates while drunk is a time-honored DC tradition. I’m sure Stephen Green would like a royalty check for taking the idea (I’ll send mine once the DC bars send theirs).
Off-topic, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the inaugural Drinking Right-DC Edition is the same night as the 2nd Presidential Debate. I’ll be drunkgrogging instead of drunkblogging that night, but Shoebox or one of the guest bloggers are welcome to set up shop.
- Michelle Malkin has the next entity waiting in line for a bailout – the state of California.
- Lance Burri says that kangaroos are on the menu because of Gorebal “Warming”.
- Patrick McIlheran wants to be like the Swedes, at least when it comes to education. That’s right, the Swedes. It seems that competition in education works.
- Michael Yon explains the situation in Afghanistan.
- John explains the “Military Support to the Civil Authority” mission. Nick, you might want to pay attention.
- I can’t finish without some good news – Matt Burden reports Marines are still Marines.
- I also can’t finish without some goofiness – thankfully Jimi found a wicked-good ad for Miller Genuine Draft.
Guess I need to close with a song because I don’t know when I’ll do one of these again. It is barely morning on the left coast. I simply have too many good blogs to keep on doing this (267 feeds in the bloated reader at last count), so I dedicate this trip to the future past to the Soviets…
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