Two bits of news.

First: you remember that guy who threw his shoes at Dubya?  He’s out of the clink.  No word on whether he was picked up by his brother, driving a used police car.

Second: you know that other party in Japan that got beat more than the Washington Generals?  Looks like they — the Democratic Party of Japan — have laid an ass-whuppin’ on the Liberal Democrats.  And now, let’s meet our next contestant, and Johnny will tell us about him!  [“He’s a industrial efficiency expert who loves to watch baseball!  Meet Yukio Hatoyama!” (Applause.)]

Title: “End the Fed”

Author: Ron Paul

Rank: 36

Blurb: “What most people don’t realize is that the Fed — created by the Morgans and Rockefellers at a private club off the coast of Georgia — is actually working against their own personal interests.”

Reviews: “Rarely has a single book not only challenged, but decisively changed my mind.”
–Arlo Guthrie

“The Federal Reserve, which serves private banks, has compromised our economy and is undermining our freedom. It can and must be stopped now.”
–Vince Vaughn

Customers Also Bought: “The Left, The Right and The State,” by Lew Rockwell

Footnote: Wait, Arlo “Screw My Dad” Guthrie and Vince “CBS Schoolbreak Special” Vaughn are Paultards?

End the Fed [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

Fuckabee:

The 2008 Republican presidential candidate suggested during his radio show, “The Huckabee Report,” on Thursday that, under President Obama’s health care plan, Kennedy would have been told to “go home to take pain pills and die” during his last year of life.

And the right-wing echo chamber keeps going, and going, and going …

Huckabee: Kennedy Would Have Been Urged to Die Earlier Under Obamacare [Sam Stein]

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Destined to join Stuff On My Cat and Stuff White People Like in Internet immortality is the hot new Twitter feed, Shit My Dad Says. Written by 28-year-old Justin about his 73-year-old father, it reads like an undiscovered Walter Matthau movie:

• “You know, sometimes it’s nice having you around. But now ain’t one of those times. Now gimmie the remote we’re not watching this bullshit.”
• “The dog don’t like you planting stuff there. It’s his backyard. If you’re the only one who shits in something, you own it. Remember that.”
• “You need to flush the toilet more than once…No, YOU, YOU specifically need to. You know what, use a different toilet. This is my toilet.”

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It was a product of a different era, really.  Yet the fact remains that Reading Rainbow is no more.  But don’t take my word for it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6j8EiWIVZs

We haven’t been following all the twists, but that dude who packed an assault rifle to Barry’s Phoenix healthcare rally? His pastor had given a Very Special Sermon about Obama the day before:

You’re going to tell me that I’m supposed to pray for the socialist devil, murderer, infanticide, who wants to see young children and he wants to see babies killed through abortion and partial-birth abortion and all these different things — you’re gonna tell me I’m supposed to pray for God to give him a good lunch tomorrow while he’s in Phoenix, Arizona?

Nope. I’m not gonna pray for his good. I’m going to pray that he dies and goes to hell.

Well, the Lord heard his prayer, and sent the Secret Service to offer communion.

CNN: Secret Service Interviewed Pastor Who Prays For Obama’s Death [TPM]

George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush:

George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush won’t attend Ted Kennedy’s funeral tomorrow, the AP reports. All of the living presidents had been expected at the senator’s service in Boston, but the 85-year-old Bush changed his mind after learning his son would be among the mourners, a rep says. Bush [43] will “amply and well represent” the family, the spokesman says.

The only thing W “well represents” is his own disgusting legacy. We’re reminded of that every time he surfaces.

Interestingly, the Bushes were nearly edged out by this man.