https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqfsLG6Kuz0

It’s an old line, but if you remember the Sixties, you weren’t really there. Proving the point, Virginia Foxx (R-Jesse Helms) reveals her flower-child roots:

“We were the people who passed the civil rights bills back in the ’60s without very much help from our colleagues across the aisle.”

While we don’t recall LBJ switching parties to pass the Great Society legislation, we’ll take Ms. Foxx at her word. We also look forward to her next speech, explaining how it was Hubert Humphrey who mounted that despicable racist Southern Strategy a few years later.

Foxx: Republicans ‘Passed Civil Rights Bills Back In The 60s Without Very Much Help’ From Democrats [Think Progress]

Monty Python’s Flying Circus debuted October 5, 1969. And we’ve blown another anniversary.

Pythonline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iS-9oh8nkc

Fast and Furry-ous debuted September 16, 1949. How could we miss the 60th anniversary of the first Road Runner cartoon?

And that’s just the overall count. Among self-identified New Jersey “conservatives,” 35 percent are either certain or unsure.

One in Three New Jersey Conservatives Thinks Obama Might Be the Anti-Christ [Washington Independent]

Okay, let’s clear this up:

The nation’s wild horses would be protected from slaughter and given millions more acres to roam under legislation moving toward passage today [Friday] in the House of Representatives.

Supporters of the bill mobilized after the Interior Department announced last year that it may have to kill thousands of healthy wild horses and burros to cull the herds and prevent overgrazing.

It’s called the “Restore Our American Mustangs act” (insert Ford joke here), and the CBO estimates the price at $200 million over five years, plus another $500 million to buy 20 million acres of land after 2013. The AP story estimates 36,000 wild horses and burros are affected.

So: Whether to spend that kind of money on that purpose is an honest question. But where do the pony rubbers come in?

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Office of the Republican Whip

Bank of America SuperBowl Orgy & Festival of Wanton Greed & Entitlement Makes Taxpayers Vomit Blood and Puss and Shriek for the Skulls of Bank of America Execs.

Bank of America is one of those institutions that can only exist in a fascist dystopia ruled by savagedly fuckwitted gangsters, a bank so criminally incompetent that its very size and raging degeneracy now threatens the larger national economy.

It entered the naughts a huge, mostly West-coast bank, known for the cackling imbecility of its employees and the rapaciousness of its fee schemes that force its banking customers to pay horrific charges for services that were free 20 years ago. In short, Bank of America was the equivalent of a really stupid biker gang of a bank, dangerous if you got near it but mostly easy to avoid.

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