Good thing Dick Cheney didn’t get hold of one of these while he was in power:

Jinguan Auto, a popular Chinese ambulance manufacturer, has developed a rolling execution studio. Convicts are strapped to a power sliding stretcher that extends out of the rear of the bus as it’s allegedly “too brutal” to haul people on board for their final cocktail. The executions are broadcast to local law enforcement authorities to make sure they are conducted up to code.

Too brutal?

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Bye Brett.

55 A.D.: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus — you know him as I, Claudius — dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome, to be succeeded by Nero.

1812: Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry signs into law a redistricting bill, giving rise to the term “gerrymander”.

1861: The House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.

1902: Police assault universal-suffrage demonstrators in Brussels, not giving rise to the term “Brussels sprouts”.

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GOP Icon Jim Adkisson Chuckles Contentedly, Assured of His Place in the Republican Pantheon of Heroes Forever and a Day

GOP patron saint and hillbilly mass murderer Jim Adkisson this week gleefully confessed to gunning down members of a church in Knoxville, the first strike in a genocidal campaign advocated by his mentors, professional wingnut media psychopaths Michael Savage, Sean Hannity and failed obscene phone caller Bill O’Reilly.

Adkission grinned broadly in satanic bliss on Feb. 9 as he pleaded guilty in state Criminal Court to savagely murdering two people with a sawed-off shotgun at a children’s play staged in the Tennessee Valley United Unitarian Church last July and then mowing down another seven people in a wingnut rampage that delighted and inspired his prophets of hate and rage. Read more »

Both Sully and some Kos diary author — and now, as I write this, Olbermann — are going off on the following video:

The upshot is that there was a bank run in the making on September 18, and that if there was nothing done, the economy of the United States would be completely destroyed in the space of three hours, with the world economy falling apart as a result.

There are several possibilities.  If you buy Paul Kanjorski’s account, then (a) the debate about the worst President / Administration ever is OVER, but (b) the bailout looks better than it really should.  But maybe Hank and Ben were telling a ghost story about impending doom in order to get Democrats — a malleable bunch, them — to do whatever the Bush Administration wanted.  Which is the Bush / Democratic m.o. in 2007-2008.  Or maybe Kanjorski is just covering his own ass for the shoddy bailout plan that allowed all sorts of waste and nonsense.

Anyway: what say you?

I’ve got nothing today, but my email tells me that support for Stormy Daniels’ run against David Vitter (R-LA) for his Senate seat is “swelling”:

We thought we had momentum last week, but looking back now, we could never have foreseen the excitement that our campaign to Draft Stormy Daniels would generate!

As we near 150,000 visits to DraftStormy.com, we continue to be amazed at the outpouring of support from individuals united behind a message of honesty, passion and strength of character. Make sure you are kept up to date on our campaign’s efforts by joining the DraftStormy Facebook group and subscribing to the DraftStormy YouTube channel.

Stinquers, we need to help this woman any way we can.

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