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FUCK THIS SHIT. WORDPRESS JUST ATE ABOUT 40 FUCKING LINKS AND I’M TOO DISGUSTED TO EVEN FORMAT WHAT’S LEFT OVER.

And it fucking crashed because I thought to try to save the post in progress, which is pretty much what happened the last time it did this.

Seriously, dozens of fucking links and I’m not about dig them out of the trash to load them again.

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I want to highlight one story because no one else is picking up on it, and it’s pretty damning.

Did you know that before the pirates killed those four American Bible thumpers, the U.S. Navy threw their negotiators in the brig? THEN the hostages were killed. And, it’s entirely possible the hostages weren’t killed on purpose, but died in a fire fight.

Not exactly the story the major media is telling, now is it?

I’m not pro-pirate in the sense of actual piracy on the high seas, but no one wins when the military gets to make shit up and the media salutes before sharing. And, as always, we’re not getting any of the back story on why Somalia is the way it is, and how fucking little Africans have to do with any of the shit East Africa is in.

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A remarkable but not terribly critical look at the Koch brothers in today’s NYTimes. Tobin Harshaw includes a lot, including a lot of hooey. Example:

So who are David and Charles Koch? “The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama,” according to Jane Mayer of The New Yorker. Two philanthropists who “want to use their wealth to give others the same opportunity to succeed that they have had,” according to Kimberly O. Dennis at National Review.

Same opportunity to succeed? OK. let’s go back in time and give our parents tens of millions of dollars so we can get that kind of head start. Fred Koch made his money developing oil production for Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union, letting Charles and David start life with platinum spoons in their mouths.

Politically, Harshaw jumps straight into the he said/she said, and closes with … [insert drumroll]… a blog comment from some paid troll:

The KOCH brothers must be stopped. They gave $40K to Scott Walker, the MAX allowed by state law. That’s small potatoes compared to the $100+ million they give to other organizations. These organizations will terrify you. If the anti-union thing weren’t enough, here are bigger and better reasons to stop the evil Kochs. They are trying to:

1. decriminalize drugs,
2. legalize gay marriage,
3. repeal the Patriot Act,
4. end the police state,
5. cut defense spending.

I would appreciate any links in support of any of those specious claims. Whatever ideological beliefs the Kochs may have, their money hasn’t gone to anyone who’s introducted any bills to do any of those things. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Harshaw also links to OpenSecrets.org which looks at money in terms of Kochs v Soros, and then refuses to tally it all up at the end because they can’t make sense of all the money the Kochs shovel into think tanks (and they double list Soros’ 527s to create a false sense of balance). No tallies for the money the Kochs have given the Cato Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks, Institute for Humane Studies, Bill of Rights Institute, Market-Based Management Institute, Mercatus Center, or the Reason Foundation. Soros’ list is much shorter, and much of his think tank money goes to promote democracy in other countries and to advance healthcare.

But of the money OpenSecrets does tally, the Kochs shut down Soros $61 million to $47 million.

Just the way our nation’s Founders intended.

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Zillions of Wisconsin links:

One million union supporters expected to rally today nationwide

WI voter ID (i.e., voter suppression) thwarted, for now

IN Deputy A.G. Jeff Cox fired for “live ammo” tweet

David Dayen tours the capitol

Lifelong Minnesotan Jonathan weighs in

Gov. Bridgefail endorses Walker [more]

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Other atrocities:

Michelle Malkin makes more stuff up

Even the ADL has had its fill of Glenn fucking Beck

[Beck dropped by Madison

Coarsening MN's quality of life for a few bucks

Consistently hypocritical

One of the many crimes of Roger Ailes

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News:

Why you don't read about the GM bailout anymore (hint: it worked)

Leading candidate to be next Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff is being smeared (and the fact that he was right about Afghanistan being a clusterfuck waiting to happen pretty much spells out who's doing the smearing)

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Etc.:

However it got started, Anonymous has shut down Westboro Baptist's website

Dirty air triggers more heart attacks than cocaine (and the penalties for polluting are?)

Paypal shut off an account raising money for Bradley Manning, then turned it back on (after getting 15,000 signatures on a Daily Kos petition) (don't use PayPal, they're Christianist patriots)

New Bits

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And just in case you haven't figured out where this is all headed, fuck you if you're not a millionaire, and to hell with you if you don't live your life the way the libertards who fund the Republicans tell you to.

For being all about freedom, they sure hate it when you do something they disapprove of:

Take a totally fucked up, all-but-brain-dead baby off life support, and you're committing assisted suicide

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