The American Thinker reports, essentially, that water continues falling to find its own level. More interesting is this observation, since we're on the subject of pork:

Tax cuts donÂ’t create debt; overspending does.

Based on current estimates, the federal government will bring in almost $2.2 trillion worth of income tax receipts in fiscal 2005. This is more than it received during the final stock market bubble year of 2000, and is guaranteed at this point to be an all-time high. If Congress spent the same this year as it did in 2000, there would be about a $400 billion surplus. Unfortunately, spending is estimated to be almost $700 billion more this year than in 2000 - a 39 percent increase. As tax receipts are coming in at a record level this year after two economic stimulus packages, it would be devoid of budget acumen to conclude that the projected $330 billion deficit is caused by anything but overspending.

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At least one fatality.

The good news is that Texas officials seemed prepared for this. Fearing evacuees stuck in ferocious traffic would run out of gas, officials directed fuel trucks to be positioned along the escape routes.

Yes, this does come on the heels of the Katrina disaster, and everyone's being especially vigilant. Still-- Haley Barbour was able to prepare his state. Mississippi was also ravaged by Katrina-- you just don't hear much about that, because 1) Biloxi isn't as sexy a town as New Orleans but also 2) Barbour performed well and the media isn't interested in competency at the state level.

They only want to cover Louisiana, where loval and state officials allowed hundreds of people to die and tens of thousands to be stranded. Their incompency can be blamed on Bush, who apparently is supposed to do their jobs for them.

Talking up Haley Barbour's strong leadership would cast Nagin and Blanco in a bad light, and undermine the media's preferred narrative that FEMA is supposed to use their transporters to beam in during a storm and start setting up replicators to begin producing food out of empty air, so there's no need to mention him.

Thanks to DB.

Update from DB: 24 dead.

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Ever wonder how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Me neither, but this guy has a nice discussion on it.

What keeps me up late at night, is wondering how many degenerate subhumans can fit on a postage stamp.
But now, the problem is solved!

My only complaint is that there were so many better pictures that they could have used.
Like these.
Or these.
Or even these.

I guess as Americans we'll just have to get by with Muppets starting on September 28th.

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Anyone's who's been forced to suffer through America's Next Top Model knows that Tyra Banks frequently insists, improbably, that her breasts are real.

She underwent a sonogram on some makeover show to prove this absurd claim.

Verdict? She was telling the truth.

I don't know... I'm still not sure I buy it. I call shenanigans, and I further call for a blogosphere investigation.

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Not crazy blog money, but finally someone's offering to co-opt me.

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Eh. They're just setting up their "fair and balanced" credentials for next time.

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I have mild curiosity about how it sounds, because really, DAF was one of the worst Bond themes. That British tosser did a much better job sampling a much better theme, Nancy Sinatra's haunting You Only Live Twice.

But here's where I don't get. In the old, old days, black rappers could swipe hooklines and such with abandon, because WPWL (white people with lawyers) weren't listening. Now rap is the country's biggest or second-biggest genre of music, and we've seen rappers sued for unauthorized sampling. Vanilla Ice, of course, got nailed bigtime for his complete swipe of the hook from Under Pressure. (Note to Oliver Willis: He's white and not especially articulate.)

So, in 2005, what the hell is this idiot Kanye West doing stealing from Shirley Bassey without so much as contacting her lawyer beforehand?

Is he dumber than I thought?

I just think it's sort of funny that Kanye West hasn't heard of the various lawsuits, Rolling Stones suing the Verve Pipe, all the others.

Kanye West

He doesn't care about white people. Or about the Man's oppressive rules about "intellectual property rights" and "copyright infringement." Those are just white-people code for "a new slavery."

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* But Were Afraid To Ask.

Remember what I was just saying (genius me) about the growing professionalism of blogs? Well, Mark From Mexico jerks one out into the cheap sheets with a comprehensive essay on the problems with, and promise of, extracting crude oil from shale.

Must reading if you have any interest in this at all. At the very least, you'll be able to pose as a geologist at a cocktail party, and you've all heard the stories about the crazy kind of tail geologists get.

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If you haven't followed the complex mess of Paul Krugman's latest distortions -- followed up by outright lies to cover those errors up, when a correction was demanded -- Don Luskin provides a brief and satisfying recap.

Remember, at the gathering of leftwing moonbats at Atrois' political cuddle party, Paul Krugman was in attendance, and told the leftwing paranoid on-line conspiracy-theorists from whom he gets 90% of his "information"...

I couldn't do what I do without you.

That's the man the New York Times carries as its most influential leftwing columnist.

While the MSM continues to denigrate blogs and other alternative media as "unreliable" and "hopelessly partisan," the New York Times continues to employ a rabid leftwing ideologue and serial fabulist, and its editorial page editor refuses to force him to abide by the Times' clearly-announced rules of factual correction.

Alternative media continues to increase in professionalism and accuracy (well, not this one of course, but there are others I've heard about), and the stuck-on-stupid liberal legacy media continues to sink.

We'll meet somewhere in the middle.

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This video is so completely awesome I'm almost sure it's a hoax.

Watch it anyhow.

FACTS:

Asian women are mammals.

Asian women are awesome, and by awesome, I mean totally sweet.

The purpose of Asian women is to flip out and Super-Snooka-Suplex-Slam would-be thieves.

Thanks to George.

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