Fun facts about Alaska:

• Alaska pumps less than 800,000 barrels of oil a day, compared to two million barrels twenty years ago.
• Oil taxes account for 85 percent of state government revenue.
• Oil prices were still at $115 per barrel on August 29, when Sarah Palin was plucked from obscurity. Friday’s close was $61.
• Alaska needs an average annual oil price of $74 to balance its budget.

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If it’s Saturday, it must be Stinque.

Brave New World [Flickr]

Although there’s yet no evidence of couples seizing the moment Tuesday night at Grant Park, it’s looking like America will experience a baby boomlet next summer:

Contributors to Twitter, which allows users to post brief alerts about what they were doing, deluged the site with reports of their election night passions, prompting others to speculate that maternity wards in blue states would be unusually busy in nine months time.

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Patrick Moberg

President-Elect Barack Obama will be holding his first—

Whoa. President-Elect Barack Obama? Is this shit for real?

Guess so. And the new Leader of the Free Universe will be holding a press conference shortly, where he’ll remind us that Presidents didn’t always speak English as a second language. He’ll also remind us that we’re completely, totally fucked. Yes we can let GM go bankrupt!

Obama v. Congress: The Auto Industry Bailout [Ambinder]

Use this forum to post your ideas about how we can rebuild the party. The best ones as voted by the community may be incorporated in the plan we deliver to candidates for RNC Chairman.

The next RNC Chairman should…

free delivered bags of cheetos
From my experience, I wanted to help spread the message and fight our troops. but it was very tough to do that when I ran out of Cheetos. I had to keep leaving my mom’s basement and driving two blocks to the store to buy more. Even worse was when I didn’t have the money. How can I fight the libtards without Cheetos?

Stop having sex with men in public bathrooms
I mean, seriously. It’s bad publicity. Go on craigslist and have your shame-filled, down-low gay sex in the privacy of a stranger’s bedroom.

say the words “Hussein,” “Ayers,” and “Rev. Wright” a lot
I mean, like, every time he opens his mouth

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Flippin Eck has added some wonderful Grant Park photos to our Election Jam. Relive the moment, and invite a hundred friends to huddle around your computer to get the proper feel of it.

Stinque the Vote!