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Using the tried and true methods of crowd estimated used by Don Blankenship for his Destroy the Planet One Mountain At a Time Rally and the Teabaggers gathering of 60,0002.2 million in Washington, D.C., I can safely say the Pickin' in the Panhandle bluegrass and barbecue festival drew 4.3 million. That's straight from ABC News.
WASHINGTON-Citing a marked decline in his appearance and personal hygiene, as well as growing piles of personal items under and around his desk, members of Congress have begun to voice concerns that Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) may be homeless.
"At first, I thought he was just burning the candle at both ends," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), who noted that the unshaven Warner is always the first to arrive in the morning and the last to leave the Capitol at night. "But then on Sunday, I dropped by to pick up a few things and found Mark asleep under a blanket of Washington Posts on the Senate floor."
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Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) said he believed Warner was homeless after seeing the bleary-eyed lawmaker rummaging through a trash can on the National Mall. Byrd reported that when he approached Warner, the freshman senator claimed that he was just looking for "some health care reform bill" he had thrown away.
If the formerly wealthy Warner hadn't spent $70,000 to throw a lavish party for the first Daily Kos convention in Las Vegas in 2006 (precursor to Netroots Nation), he might be able to afford to stay at a room at a boarding house. He could crash at my place. It's got a pool and a pond. The pond be good for him.
As we know, CNN Czar Lou Dobbs won't do any journamalising to check out the birthcertificate of the Nigerian born President Barack James Obama (the true name on his birth certificate. He changed his middle name to "Hussein" to get away from the initials 'B.J.' True story*.)
Since Dobbs won't accept Meteor Blades' offer, I will so that we can drive a stake through the heart of this zombie myth. Who better than me to kill zombie myths about Obama being born in Hawaii?
My fellow West Virginia Blue blogger One Citizen posted the actual birth certificate
However, fellow WVaBlue noter Clem "Free on Bail This Week" Guttata posted what he said was conclusive proof that the actual Nigerian birthcertificate is fake since the Nigerian seal did not include eight shafts of wheat until 1964!
This controversy must be settled so after I go to Hawaii to confirm no birthcertificate actually exists there, but instead there is simply a "document" with a "certificate" discussing a "birth" of a "Barack Hussein Obama" (If that is even his REAL name) I'll need airfare to Nigeria. I can meet someone there to conclude a banking transaction as well.
Now some who know my past will think I'm just using this "controversy" as a way to get MB to pay my airfare and motel expenses on a tropical beach for two weeks while I do the necessary research.
But this is simply doing Lou Dobbs work for him. At least the job is being outsourced to a Merican Citizen, which will make Dobbs proud.
At the Energy and Commerce Committee hearing in the House yesterday, the first of four days of hearings, the panel was composed of EPA Administrator Jackson, Sec. of Transportation LaHood, and Sec. of Energy Chu.
Rep. Joe Barton (R-TeXass) used the last 6 seconds of his time to ask how oil got to Alaska. This was to imply that Alaska and the Arctic must have been warm at one point in time for oil reserves to be deposited there. Dr. Chu responded by giving him a short lessons in plate tectonics, that land masses have shifted over the course of 100 million years. "It just drifted there".
Rep. Barton tweeted that he baffled the Nobel Laureate. From The University of California. At least Rep. John Shimkus (R-ILiteral) did not start reading the Bible to try to prove Sec. Chu and Rep. Barton both wrong.
While my son is in Israel this week and into next, I spend a lot of time scanning the net to keep track of what's going on and to make sure he is traveling a good distance from danger zones. In my surfing I found a site called Old Jews Telling Jokes that was put up by a video director named Sam Hoffman and which gets updated on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
One sunny day in 2009 an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he'd been sitting on a park bench.
He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, 'I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.'
The Marine looked at the man and said, 'Sir, Mr. Bush is no longer president and no longer resides here.'
The old man said, 'Okay' and walked away.
The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, 'I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.'
The Marine again told the man, 'Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Bush is no longer president and no longer resides here.'
The man thanked him and, again, just walked away.
The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same U. S. Marine, saying 'I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.'
The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, 'Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mr. Bush. I've told you already that Mr. Bush is no longer the president and no longer resides here. Don't you understand?'
The old man looked at the Marine and said, 'Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it.'
The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, 'See you tomorrow.'
President-elect Barack Obama's approval rating is at 79 percent. As Steve Benen points out at Washington Monthly, that is 14 points higher than George W. Bush's pre-inauguration score, and 51 points higher than Bush's current approval rating. As others have pointed out, people rally around the nation's leader in the time of a disaster and Bush's presidency has been a disaster.
Michigan football practice was delayed nearly two hours late this morning after a player reported finding an unknown white powdery substance on the practice field. Head coach Rich Rodriguez immediately suspended practice while police and federal agents were called to investigate.
After a complete analysis, FBI forensic experts determined that the white substance, unknown to the players, was the goal line. Practice was resumed this afternoon after special agents decided the team was unlikely to encounter the substance again.
The Sisters of Shelley Moore Capito sorority rundown a Top 10 list for why Capito should be re-elected.
#8 - Shelley Moore Capito has a steadfast support for all that is right in America. There is no Republican policy so unpopular she won't get it the good ol' college try. When George Bush needed support to privatize social security, she was right there, inviting him on a listening tour in West Virginia. When the Republicans new the right way to give Seniors prescription medication was not to bog things down negotiations with pharmaceutical, Shelley Moore Capito was right there! When President George Bush needed Congress to keep funding the war without conditions, Shelley Moore Capito was right there!
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