Damn I love this guy:

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And the Bush body count continues to rise ….

… that a large company, say an oil or coal company, would lie about the chance for a disaster or have no regard for their employees’ safety.

By CAIN BURDEAU and HOLBROOK MOHR
Associated Press Writers

MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER (AP) – British Petroleum once downplayed the possibility of a catastrophic accident at an offshore rig that exploded, causing the worst U.S. oil spill in decades along the Gulf Coast and endangering shoreline habitat.

In its 2009 exploration plan and environmental impact analysis for the well, BP suggested it was unlikely, or virtually impossible, for an accident to occur that would lead to a giant crude oil spill and serious damage to beaches, fish and mammals.

Document: BP Didn’t Plan for Major Oil Spill [WTOP]

Stephen Baldwin—the least Baldwin of all the Baldwins—is bankrupt and talentless. Luckily, he came up with a plan to make money that requires no talent or work: It is a website called restorestephenbaldwin.org. Let’s make a donation! [Gawker]

Suggesting that the black man in the White House can’t conduct normal government operations:

Just another celebration of all those dead people in Oklahoma City. Nothing to see here.

Teabaggers are animated by cackling, inchoate rage and hate, although they do have their icons, chief among them Sarah ‘Talibunny’ Palin, a christofascist psycopath who’s managed to parlay idiocy and incompetence into leadership of a paramilitary cult by leaping to the head of this parade of barking grotesques and crystalizing their creed of xenophobia, genocide, social Darwinism and bankrupting militarism with her demented word salad of Farmers’ Almanac phraseology and neonazi confections.

Small wonder that Delaware radio talkmeister Matt Walsh would feel their wrath at a teabagger festival of hate this month when he called them all out as Talibunny panty sniffers. Oh, yeah. Questioned their independence of mind and dismissed their patron saint as a stroke pin-up. Predictably, they went fucking nuts.

Right-wing radio host calls tea parties ‘the Sarah Palin movement’ [RAW Story]

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As always, it burns:

The truth:

“[W]hile the U.S. government’s influence on American financial institutions has certainly increased since TARP — its ownership in any of the nation’s banks is paltry (6 percent of Bank of America and 7.8 percent of Citigroup as of early 2009, for example). And, it is helping the banks to get back on their feet while earning a profit for taxpayers.”

Bachmann’s Latest Whopper: ‘The Federal Government Literally Owns Banks’ [ThinkProgress]