1884 - 1,234 years after it was first planned, the Washington Monument is finally completed.
2001 - For the first time in history, McDonald's teams up with a retail partner on its Happy Meal promotions. The first lead paint recall takes place 3 months later, followed by a swallowing risk recall.
COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!
"A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about."
Newt Gingrich, explaining his presidential platform for 2012
"So many minority youths had volunteered…that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself."
Convict Tom DeLay, explaining why he did not fight in Viet Nam
FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:
Today's sAINTS
a walking stoner grows no moss.
An Oregon man was arrested in what can only be described as a mossy costume. Police say he donned the disguise in an effort to break into the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals in Oregon. . . . the ridiculous outfit wasn't the only problem with the plan -- he was also caught drilling into a bathroom that wasn't connected to the museum's prized quarter-million-dollar gold collection.
Gregory Liascos, 36, has been charged with burglary, criminal mischief and wearing a costume before Halloween.
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A Pig Roast - how fitting.
Abbott Labs' Stent Master, Cardiologist Mark Midei, set a world record, installing 30 stents in one day. Considering that each operation ran at least $10,000 per, and because he was Abbott's biggest profit maker in using their stent technology, Abbott celebrated by sending him a whole slow smoked pig. A more appropriate grift could not be imagined.
Midei is now under indictment for medical fraud. The vast majority of the stints provided no relief to the patients, were not medically necessary, and simply caused the patients post operative pain and suffering.
Medicare paid Midei $3.8 MILLION of the $6.6 Million that he charged from 2007-2009.
Midei has been fighting an internet battle, claiming the claims of fraud were wrong. http://markmidei.com/
If you think medical malpractice is a myth, and doctors need protection, read this.
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The Knights of the Periodic Table
News Item: Mitch McTurtle claims that because 10 years of tax cuts damaged the economy, he needs to make them permanent so the economy can improve even faster.
News Item: Advertisers, after seeing previews of the next "Sarah Palin Does Alaska" episode, begin searching through their cancellation clauses.
News Item: The Vatican: Woman priest? Excommunication. Child rape? Cover-up. Condoms? only for priests and folks who cannot procreate. UFOs? They exist.
News Item: The insolvent State of Kentucky is putting its money where its brains went.
Noah's Ark, a new historical depiction of man's struggles for the last 7,000 years on this flat earth, is being built a few hours away from the incredible Creation Museum. (The museum is famous for unwittingly using gay models to create Adam and Eve) The state plans to give Noah's Ark parent company $37,500,000 in tax dollars.
The separation of Church and State? Not in Kentucky.
On a separate note, Kentucky's Governor, Steven Beshear, admitted that the State's $456 million budget shortfall in 2008 had grown to $1.5 billion in 2010. Let us prey.
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The Mausoleum of Monastic Maniacs
The super rich will get tax breaks for at least two years, causing yet another major blow to America's deficit. In exchange, the unemployed will probably get a three month extension of benefits.
Let's see - $180 a week to keep from starving, times three months, totals $2160 as the entire benefit. After these expire, they will get nothing. People making more than $1,000,000 will receive more than $108,000, while those earning more than $3,000,000 will receive more than $400,000 per year, or $800,000.
Mr. President, there's something very wrong here. If you decide in favor of millionaires, you failed your D-Day test. If you can't see it . . . .
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If you have any spare time on your hands, you may want to compare and contrast the behaviors (and the results) of cases of Don and John.
Don Siegelman
He was persecuted by a political enemy, Leura Canary, the Rovian U.S. Attorney in Alabama, even after she allegedly recused herself. Despite not receiving anything of value, while instead making a decision to aid a worthy cause, he was convicted of bribery.
John Ensign
A US Senator, and high ranking member of Promise Keepers, he had an illicit affair with the wife of one of his political employees. To shut up the cuckholded employee, he managed to get a six figure gift from his parents, and illegally arranged for a lobbyist to hire the poor man, to pay them off.
Guess which one remains a convict, and which one skates.