Shocking News!

She's better off without him.

Those Kenyan fathers are such deadbeat rats anyway.

Plus, this leaves a clear path to go after Octomom in 2012.

"BOSTON – More than one out of every five dollars of the $126 million Massachusetts is receiving in earmarks from a $410 billion federal spending package is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys.

The bill includes $5.8 million for the planning and design of a building to house a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate. The funding may also help support an endowment for the institute.

The bill also includes $22 million to expand facilities at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum and $5 million more for a new gateway to the Boston Harbor Islands on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, a park system in downtown Boston named after Kennedy's mother and built on land opened up by the Big Dig highway project.

A spokeswoman for Sen. Kennedy, who at 77 is battling brain cancer, said he hadn't requested the money for the library and institute, and that there are dozens of other earmarks in the spending bill for homeless services and community health centers.

The $22 million JFK library earmark was sponsored by fellow Massachusetts Democrat Sen. John Kerry, who is also a top sponsor for the money for the Kennedy Senate Institute. Kerry defended the library project, which he said is needed to upgrade the facility.

"This National Archives project will eliminate the worst archival storage space problem in the presidential library system and it will facilitate six years of work to expand the library," Kerry said in a statement. "This shovel-ready project will also bring much-needed jobs to the area."

A proposal to build a national institute on the U.S. Senate and to name it after Kennedy has been under discussion since 2003, but accelerated after Kennedy was diagnosed with cancer.

Local officials last year announced they were seeking up to $100 million to build the institute, which they said would focus on the Senate in general and Kennedy's more than four decades of service to the body. The facility will be located in Boston on a four-acre plot near the JFK library.

About $20 million has already been raised for the institute, including contributions from drug companies, insurance companies and hospitals. Tentative plans called for a replica of the Senate chamber itself, as well as programs to train new senators.

The list of earmarks provided by Kennedy, Kerry and the state's all-Democratic congressional delegation highlights programs throughout the state, including $3 million to preserve New England fisheries; $1.7 million for land acquisition at Cape Cod National Seashore; and $333,000 to study any links between environmental pollutants and breast cancer.

"These funds will create jobs that are desperately needed, and will provide lasting benefits for all our citizens long into the future," Kennedy said in statement accompanying a list of earmarks.

The billions in earmarks in the federal spending bill have been a source of contention.

President Barack Obama signed the bill which he described as imperfect. He said it must signal an "end to the old way of doing business."

Critics led by Republican Sen. John McCain have denounced the 8,000 pet project contained in the bill as pork."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090312/ap_on_re_us/spending_kennedy_legacy

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Whoops!

Sorry.

Some actual content there.

My bad.

THIS JUST IN:

In a stunning sign of attempted bipartisanship, President Brick Hosanna Obongo has this evening nominated Bristol Palin as the next ambassador to Octomom.

Flem at 11...

This is truly sad and tragic news. It just proves that even the finest families have the same problems as the rest of us. I know when I was a child and my mother was bilking the state for thousands of dollars in false per diem claims and flying us around in jets, staying in luxury hotels and billing the state illegally for the costs, I could never figure out why people didn't believe I was conducting state business. This whole pregnancy thing would have never happened if Sarah had PAID someone to have the birds and the bees talk with Bristol instead of doing it herself. If you've ever heard Sarah try to explain something, you can understand why Bristol came away from her little talk thinking she'd just been given instructions on how to make buns in an EasyBake Oven. Bristol and her child are going to be fine. Mommy is making a fortune destroying what's left of the republican party.

When I saw the RSS Feed headline for this post, I thought Swampland might actualy have a post about the Sy Hersh and his revelation about Dick Cheney's "assassination squad."

Silly me.

A vice president's assassination squads will take a back seat to pregnant hillbillies every time in the MSM. There are priorities and then there are priorities.

The only thing really shocking about this news was that it wasn't announced on the Jerry Springer Show.

"I know when I was a child and my mother was bilking the state for thousands of dollars in false per diem claims and flying us around in jets, staying in luxury hotels and billing the state illegally for the costs, I could never figure out why people didn't believe I was conducting state business..."

STOP RAGGING ON FANCY LEFTOSI.

Sy Hersh = Jihad Joe Klein in drag

Both unwatchable, like Mavis Letterboob.

"The only thing really shocking about this news was that it wasn't announced on the Jerry Springer Show."

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He has an exclusive with the extended Jesse Jackson family.

AS:
"This dude could use some .. advice."
Click. Ouch!
That was a sneeky way of getting me to be a member at NYT.

Fluffer: Reporters know who signs their paychecks. You're not going to hear anything about domestic spying or CIA "special operations" here.

Latest Lib Loon Conspiracy:

CHENEY TARGETED THEM PEACEABLE IRANIANS

Too bad he actually didn't.

Early, and often.

Or did he.....

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The light in the loafers speed at which the UNILATERAL SURRENDER party jumps at any chance to get us all killed never ceases to amaze.

Back to what matters:

Clearly, both Bristol and her Mom require professional comforting during this Time of crisis -- and I for one am willing to do the hard work required, to stiffen my resolve even, to see beyond the hot, hot brandishing of Alaskan ointments and thermal lingerie that may very well have to be flown in Thursday, to Meet Up head on this most striking of situations, high heeled in super shorts sure, but where sacrifices are mottled may we all get a glimpse of the bulbous brief moment when bouncing around sans surrogate 3-way those of us seeking TMZ and no more Move On to the flying fickle finger of fate, so help me Hefner...

Oh, sorry.

I thought this was the Al Franken news network.

Never mind.

Now if we can just get Amy to post above and JNS below, we can share a sweet Hula sandwich...

[...] campaign trail, the high school romance between Bristol Palin and Levi has burned out. According to Swampland, Levi Johnston has told the AP that the engagment is [...]

Actually, there's a pretty good case to be made for having "assassination" squads. I put scare quotes around assassination because really, it's just targeted killing of an individual. And to be perfectly honest, there are some people that the government actually does need to kill.
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That said, you need to have due process and legal protections set up around such actions, and a coherent and logical articulation for your argument about why this is necessary. The Bush/Cheney regime was massively, massively lacking in both, and hopefully will spend their final days in prison due to the many, many, many serious constitutional violations and war crimes they committed.
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If anyone is wondering, the rational argument for "assassination" squad type work is that warfare has changed, and if the enemy isn't going to oblige you by putting on a uniform and standing around on a designated battlefield waiting to die, you have to change up your methodology in order to eradicate him. We did the same thing to the Brits by refusing to fight them in nice open field formations and instead engaging them from the "sneaky" woods. See Marion, Francis James (also known as the "Swamp Fox") for an example.
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On an unrelated note, Hula, why do you put up relevant, useful news about democratic abuses of power/money to advance your cause then ruin it with 15 posts of garbage?

http://www.bostonherald.com/track/inside_track/view.bg?articleid=1158019&srvc=home&position=also

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WBZ kicks in with their 2 pesos, on this critical SNL subject.

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"The Bush/Cheney regime was massively, massively lacking in both, and hopefully will spend their final days in prison due to the many, many, many serious constitutional violations and war crimes they committed...."

Will that be in the FDR Jap Camp Suite, Lincoln Habeas Corpus Lounge, or Clixon Rendition Rec Room?

speaking of broken threads, what the hell is up with Time, defense of Rush, Newts new 12 step program, Halprin. They aren't even pretending anymore.

This is only a story because Sarah Palin herself turned this into such a key component of the campaign by hiding the pregnancy and then marketing Bristol as a model evangelical teen mom.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

I've said this before, but Hula has already said it for me...
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Did Bush try to intern any Arabian/Kurdish Americans on the simple suspicion that by solidarity with Afghanis/Iraqis they would become terrorists?
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Did Bush suspend habeas corpus? (etc.)
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When we posthumously convict the Presidents responsible for those abuses...then we convict Bush. In the meantime, sure, have a truth commission. It's important that we restrict the use of right/left lenses as far as possible.

yoshia
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Uhmm yeah he did as far as interning Arabian/Kurdish Americans indefinitely with no charges. Please don't tell me that you weren't paying any attention to the al Marri case.

I'm sure Bristol appreciates all the attention, Amy Sullivan.

Too bad she didn't hear the "abstinence only" message. I'm sure that would have resonated with her like it does with other teens across the country and the world for that matter.
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Bill O'Reilly must be proud.

Wow! I'm like so bummed! I was so looking forward to a televised wedding with those two love birds. Not!

Hey hula, maybe it's your turn on the Bristol merry go round. Go introduce yourself, I'm sure that family will think you are perfectly normal. Time you started sleeping with women instead of guns.

So when does Hef extend the famous "you'd look good in our magazine" offer to Bristol. Maybe Bristol becomes one of Hef's girls. Who knows... the soap opera continues.

When Bristol gets knocked up a second time, how does Sarah spin that?Maybe the breed more white people argument?