Last one to comment is a rotten egg.

And that's according to Politico, not some blogger or liberal columnist.

Everything from the microscopic — the New Black Panther party — to the massive –- think bailouts — is on the GOP to-do list, according to a half-dozen Republican aides interviewed by POLITICO.

 

Republican staffers say there won’t be any self-destructive witch hunts, but they clearly are relishing the prospect of extracting information from an administration that touts transparency.

 

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Today, on the 47th anniversary of the landmark Civil Rights event officially billed as the March on Washington For Jobs & Freedom, a group of the premiere race-baiters in the country will gather on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where Dr. King delivered his famous speech calling for an end to segregation and the beginning of economic justice (hence "Jobs").

This thread's about to go hyperpythonic.

COMPLACENCIES of the peignoir,

and late
Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair,

And the green freedom of a cockatoo

Upon a rug, mingle to dissipate

The holy hush of ancient sacrifice.

She dreams a little, and she feels the dark

Encroachment of that old catastrophe,

As a calm darkens among water-lights.

The pungent oranges and bright, green wings

Seem things in some procession of the dead,

Winding across wide water, without sound.

The day is like wide water, without sound,

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These are Gulf blue crab larvae. Cute little buggers, no? Those tiny orange blobules, however, aren't supposed to be there. Turns out, the blobules bear the chemical signatures of ingested droplets of crude oil and Corexit. It's turning up everywhere along the Gulf Coast.

In theory their stated mission sounds great: expose illegitimate government & corporate secrets whose sole purpose is providing CYA, trading the public good for the private interests of officials.

I'm shamelessly ripping this off from John Cole, who's getting it from Michael Snyder's report in The Business Insider. As you can see, these are facts.

Pigford v.

...the other Senators will eat your lunch over your cooling corpse, then bill your children. 

Ironically, by refusing to support a bill that he considered too modest, he ensured that the bill would be more conservative and favorable to banks.

 

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