David Jungerman had a farm,
ee-i-ee-i-o.

And on that farm he took in $1 million of government subsidies,
ee-i-ee-i-o.

With a price support here and a price support there,
Here’s a price support, there’s a price support, everywhere a price support.

David Jungerman is a fucking hypocrite,
ee-i-ee-i-o.

Farmer who put up sign claiming Democrats are ‘party of parasites’ has taken $1 million in farm subsidies [ThinkProgress]

Turns out the Obama Administration is redistributionist after all — just like every Administration since Reagan’s:

No group was immune to the downturn. In 2008, as the financial crisis raged, the stock market hit bottom and the Great Recession ate into the economy, the number of millionaires in the United States plunged.

But last year the number of millionaires bounced up sharply, new data show.

And after that decline and rebound, the millionaire class held a larger percentage of the country’s wealth than it did in 2007.

Yes, we know, if only Poor White Trash would recognize their true economic interests, we might get some real action on this front. But they’re aspirational, you see, and now they have even more to aspire to. Everybody wins!

Millionaires make a comeback [LAT]

Florida GOP mob capo Jim Greer was stuffed in the bag this morning by Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents on a charge he looted the state party organization of more than $100,000.

Greer was forced out his gig as party chairman in January amid outrage that he was using party revenues to fund a non-stop bacchanalia that was too Caligulan even for the party of oligarchic excess, complaints that attracted the attention of state law enforcement officials.

The Fort Laudersale Sun-Sentinel reported on the subsequent indictment that hopefully will put this piece of shit away for decades:

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Nobody could have predicted:

In retrospect, the pattern seems clear. Years before the Deepwater Horizon rig blew, BP was developing a reputation as an oil company that took safety risks to save money. An explosion at a Texas refinery killed 15 workers in 2005, and federal regulators and a panel led byJames A. Baker III, the former secretary of state, said that cost cutting was partly to blame. The next year, a corroded pipeline in Alaska poured oil into Prudhoe Bay. None other than Joe Barton, a Republican congressman from Texas and a global-warming skeptic,upbraided BP managers for their “seeming indifference to safety and environmental issues.”

Yeah – BP was so on top of this shit:

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that Topkill wouldn’t work:

“A source told The Times-Picayune that officials would announce the failure of the top kill option at a 4 p.m. Saturday briefing in Robert .

BP is expected to announce that it will move on to its next option, known as LMRP. The procedure involves cutting off the failed, leaking riser at the top of the Lower Marine Riser Package on the blowout preventer to get a clean-cut surface on the pipe.”

And where is the change we were promised? We want the oil companies disassembled and sold off for scrap. [nola.com]

Arch-conservative family values Congressman Mark Souder, elected in the 1994 Gingrich revolution, will be resigning today in light of the disclosure that he has been having an affair with an aide.  Sources are standing by to determine if the aide is a dead woman or a live boy.

[Politico]

The Family Research Council would like you to know that they don’t know who the fuck boy-renter George Rek— hold on, just found his file on an old IBM XT:

In the past 24 hours FRC has received calls regarding Dr. George Rekers and his connection with the Family Research Council. After reviewing the historical records we did verify that Dr. Rekers was a member of the original Family Research Council board prior to its merger with Focus on the Family in 1987.

Reports have been circulating regarding Dr. Rekers relationship with a male prostitute. FRC has had no contact with Dr. Rekers or knowledge of his activities in over a decade so FRC can provide no further insight into these allegations.

While we are extremely disappointed when any Christian leader engages in the very activities that they “preach” against, it is not surprising. The Scriptures clearly teach the fallen nature of all people. We each have a choice to act upon that nature or accept the forgiveness offered by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and do our best to ensure our actions, both public and private match our professed positions.

And that is that. Next time, pal, carry your own luggage.

FRC On Co-Founder’s Escort Scandal: Bible ‘Teaches The Fallen Nature Of All People’ [TPM]

Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with “rent boy” [Miami New Times]