I can’t pick an outrage today because there are too many, so I will link to several that are pissing me off.  You can certainly add others in the comments.

• After already doling out an $85 billion bridge loan in September, the Federal Reserve Board announced yesterday “that it would provide up to $37.8 billion to the embattled insurer the American International Group to help it deal with a rapidly dwindling supply of cash.” This despite the little executive bash AIG threw.
• “Todd Palin talked with over a dozen state officials, many of them repeatedly, in his crusade to get a state trooper fired whom he considered to be a bad cop, a dishonest person and a threat to the Palin family, according to his sworn statement given Wednesday to a legislative investigator.”
• On Monday, the Ohio Republican Party filed a motion in federal court against the secretary of state to get the list of all names that have been flagged by the Social Security database since Jan. 1. The motion seeks to require that any voter who does not clear up a discrepancy be required to vote using a provisional ballot.

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McCain Addresses Crowd as “My Fellow Prisoners”

Can’t post the video from the computer on this jobsite, but you can click through. I think he’s flashing back to the Hanoi Hilton.

[via Think Progress]

AIG executives went on luxurious retreat one week after receiving $85 billion bailout.

I say it’s time for that revolution Jefferson kept talking about.

Today, the House Oversight Committee discovered that, just one week after the federal government bailed out insurance giant AIG, company executives went on a retreat to a luxury resort. The executives spent nearly $500,000 on manicures, facials, pedicures, and massages, among other things. During a hearing today, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) asked, “Have you heard of anything more outrageous?”:

CUMMINGS: Let me describe for some of you the charges that the shareholders, taxpayers, had to pay. AIG spent $200,000 dollars for hotel rooms. Almost $150,000 for catered banquets. AIG spent $23,000 at the hotel spa and another $1,400 at the salon. They were getting manicures, facials, pedicures and massages while American people were footing the bill. And they spent another $10,000 dollars for I don’t know what this is, leisure dining. Bars?

I want heads on pikes over the East River.

Heh indeedy:

Immigration authorities in Kenya say they will deport the American author of a highly critical book about US presidential candidate Barack Obama.

The author, Jerome Corsi, was in Kenya to launch his book which accuses Mr Obama of supporting an alleged plot to turn Kenya into an Islamic state.

Officials said that Mr Corsi did not have the right visa.

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Today we deal with Ann Althouse.  She is the Robert W. & Irma M. Arthur-Bascom Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, whatever that is.  She teaches conlaw, federal jurisdiction, and civil procedure. She is, so help me, tenured. Her schtick is that she’s nonpartisan – a total crock given her Bush cheerleading and guest-blogging for that noted nonpartisan Glenn Reynolds.

Althouse is also a deeply silly person. Lefty bloggers love her mainly because she will write about any stupid shit that pops into her head:

As to the zoo, I do think people roam about looking for animals to identify with. No one stares at the camels. There’s always a crowd gazing into the eyes of the chimpanzee. It is far more interesting to watch the people as they watch the animals or to watch the animals and think of people.

What?  Even if those observations are accurate, why write them down? This A.E. Housman quote could not be more apt: “Nature not content with denying [her] the ability to think, has endowed [her] with the ability to write.”

After the jump, check out the professor’s take on Hillary Clinton’s homage to The Sopranos:

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Before I present the OWOTW, I want you to know something.  Going forward, I may not answer the questions the way that you or Nojo want to hear, but I’m going to talk straight to the American people and let ’em know my track record. And if any of you call me on it I’ll shoot you in the face.  Got it?

Now on to our OWOTW.  A long time ago at Agitprop I had a weekly feature called the Wingnut Roundup.  I had to stop though – exposure to that much right wingnuttery took its toll.  Mostly it makes you want to curl up in the fetal position, but it can also result in increased alcohol comsumption and trips to the shrink to get your medication adusted (upward).

But I am going to wade back in for you, dear Stinquers.  I’m not ready to revisit the lunacy of Powerline, Hugh Hewitt, or Atlas Juggs, but I can start small.  Meet our OWOTW after the jump.

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Something to laugh at in these dark times:

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Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency