The Surreal Week That Was

Coburn, Tom--

As an Ob/Gyn and a Senator, he is honored to be the doctor to John Ensign.

Brain, property of Jackson, Michael

Missing. Last seen at LA County Coroner's Office.

Johnston, Levi

Made most sensible deconstruction of recent Sarah Palin events by any member of extended family, advisors, talking heads, or media.

Riots, China

No one seemed to care about the massive ethnic riots in that country. Or what has been happening in Honduras.

Dykstra, Lenny

Gets "nailed", filed chapter 11 bankruptcy. Blames banks for it in interview with Jane Wells on CNBC. Still owns Wayne Gretzky's old home for now.

Dunbar, Cynthia

Considered front runner for the Texas Board of Education Chairperson's seat. Has publicly railed against the concept of public education as unconstitutional and tyrannical, and believed founding fathers wished for a "Biblical Litmus Test" for public office.

Fire, playing with
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Snopes, Wikipedia, and Obama himself have given differing accounts of his birth hospital. That doesn't mean he wasn't born there, but it does tend to cast a bit of doubt on their credibility.
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You'd think that those who claim to know for a fact where BHO was born would be able to get their stories straight on the details, right? Eventually, someone in the establishment is going to point out that those like Tumulty who've also stated for a fact where BHO was born have been relying on faulty assumptions.
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(Once again, for the BHO cultists: I'm not claiming that BHO wasn't born in HI. My claim is that no definitive proof has been offered despite what people like Tumulty say.)

Noonan, Debbie

Shows a remarkable grasp on reality strangely absent from certain writers from Time.com

Murphy, Mike

ditto

The Family

Creepy religious right group made up of Republican Congressmen affiliated with "C Street" which sees them as "the chosen" leaders even if they rape children and exposed on The Rachel Maddow show which both Ensign and Sanford were members of

Newton-Small, Jay:

Offered definitive proof that it was not intellectual prowess that carried her through journalism school.

Paul Dirks

Peggy you mean?

Cover Article, Last Week's Issue of TIME

Worst article on marriage ever. Sums the purpose of marriage up as an excuse to breed (the majority of people disagree that is the primary purpose). Claims marriage is primarily suffering and torture which good people must endure for the children's sake. Also claims America will fall if the traditional family does not stay intact. Amy Sullivan and James Dobson are likely contributors.

Clarity, fleeting moment of:

What Paul Slansky was able to find (link) in a place where it is rarely exhibited.

Palin, Sarah, animal rights, vegetarianism (not), salmon

Reveals latest smoked salmon-infused anti-vegetarian position in an exclusive interview to TIME's Jay Newton-Small.

NBC, Philadelphia affiliate:

Having covered the story of the Black kids excluded from the swimming pool, saw their own comment threads liberally sprinkled with completely unapologetic racist remarks.

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Swim_Club_Turns_Kids_Away_Fearing__Change_of_Complexion__Philadelphia.html#comments

Congressional Budget Office-

Expensive and un-expansive estimates of Senate health care plan costs from were constantly promoted by media two weeks ago in regards to an incomplete plan without a public option; then promptly ignored when the estimates included a public option and the price dropped and the number of people insured increased dramatically.

Lies:

What CIA head Leon Panetta admits his agency told Congress “from 2001 to this week”; mysteriously omitted or offered as partisan claims by US media.

Obvious, Blinding glimpse of
Burris, Roland, senate, re-election, probability, low

Discovered by Sen. Burris from analysis of extremely low re-election odds.

CA, IOU's, SOL, budget impasse, funny money, banks
subtopic - Clampetts, Beverly Hillbillies, the

California banks to stop accepting fake money.

Clampett family last seen fleeing east to CA border. Rumors of massive IOU trading pyramid, foreclosures, and oil price manipulations.
Caution to police: Clampetts armed and dangerous, all skilled marksmen. Jed and Jethro can fire muskets over their shoulders. Granny is also a good shot.

Brooks, David

Victim of sexual harassment.

Drudge, Matt declares misdirection the only viable response to Republican implosion

Leads the conservative push to use optical illusion in photograph to paint the President, best known family man as a pedophile to avert attention away from the exposure of leading Christian pro-family Republicans like Senator Ensign, Governor Sanford lying in the gutter and in the case of Ensign dragging his parents who paid hush money down in the muck with him.

Taibbi smacks Goldman Sachs then slaps Steven Gandel of Time mag silly

http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/07/07/on-the-everyone-was-doing-it-excuse/

Am I drunk or this a hand on the inside of my thigh?

Swampland Layout, The New

Difficult to decipher which page you're on with

Inaccurate count of comments on home page with

More laborious to read on an iPhone with

Otherwise I like

Moore, Shannyn

Alaskan blogger becomes international starlet thanks to Sarah Palin and lawsuit threat.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/10/shannyn-moore-sarah-palin-business-media-moore.html

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Stapleton, Megan
Stapletongue, Meg, Palin PR, Palin, Sarah, Johnston, Levi, acting coach

For Sarah, with friends like these, who need enemas?
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/us_world/Sarah-Palins-Worst-Enemy.html