About his fellow HuffPo bloggers, not about his 19-year-old roomate/air steward Scott. Basically it's a HuffPo application form:

SECTION ONE: WHO ARE YOU?

Are you famous?
Do you know someone famous?
have you ever brushed up against someone famous?
Was it Warren Beatty?
Did you think he'd be firmer?

Is your husband famous?
(check one of the following)
- Yes I am Rebecca Pidgeon.
- Yes I am Laurie David
- Yes, I am Shiva Rose
- No, but my wife is rich AND famous, I am Brad Hall
- Other lady of leisure:____________________

...

Which of the following countries have you threatened to move to (check all
that apply):
- France
- Canada
- Monaco has no taxes, right?

...

Do you have a black and white picture of yourself, with your chin resting
comfortably on your fist? When you stare at this picture, do you get a
warm fuzzy feeling, not unlike urinating down your leg?

have you ever written any poetry?
-it doesnÂ’t rhyme, does it?
-are you a man?
-if so, when you tell people youÂ’re a poet, do they immediately realize theyÂ’re going to have to pay for dinner?

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Content Warning, towards the end. If you're put off by sexual jokes, stop reading when it gets to Senator Kennedy (who else?). more...

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Blame... Bush?

In Katrina's wake, Louisiana politicians and other critics have complained about paltry funding for the Army Corps in general and Louisiana projects in particular. But over the five years of President Bush's administration, Louisiana has received far more money for Corps civil works projects than any other state, about $1.9 billion; California was a distant second with less than $1.4 billion, even though its population is more than seven times larger.

Much of that Louisiana money was spent to try to keep low-lying New Orleans dry. But hundreds of millions of dollars have gone to unrelated water projects demanded by the state's congressional delegation and approved by the Corps, often after economic analyses that turned out to be inaccurate. Despite a series of independent investigations criticizing Army Corps construction projects as wasteful pork-barrel spending, Louisiana's representatives have kept bringing home the bacon.

For example, after a $194 million deepening project for the Port of Iberia flunked a Corps cost-benefit analysis, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., tucked language into an emergency Iraq spending bill ordering the agency to redo its calculations. The Corps also spends tens of millions of dollars a year dredging little-used waterways like the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, the Atchafalaya River and the Red River -- now known as the J. Bennett Johnston Waterway, in honor of the project's congressional godfather -- for barge traffic that turns out to be less than forecast.

Read the whole thing. Landrieu and Louisiana's Representatives took that fat wad of cash -- money that could have been spent on levee upgrades -- and kept demanding that it be used on porkbarrel projects which would supposedly improve the local economy (but didn't).

Thanks to Tom.

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Karl Rove does it again.

WHO: Katrina Evacuees and MoveOn members

WHAT: Protest outside the White House in support of Hurricane Victims

WHEN: Thursday, September 8th at 1 p.m.

WHERE: Pennsylvania Avenue NW. In front of the White House. (Metro: Red Line: Farragut North. Blue-Orange Line: Farragut West or McPherson Square)

EDITOR'S NOTE: Excellent Visuals -- Signs reading "Shame" and "Help Hurricane Victims"

Can it be any better to be a conservative nowadays?

Karl, I tremble in the presence of your power.
Karl, You are truly the agent of Satan.
Karl, I fucking love you man!

Thanks to anonymous.

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Nevermind, I'm good for now.

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And didn't the unhinged left mock him mercilessly for his suggestion that duct tape be part of his disaster preparedness kit?

Cold Fury seems to remember just that. And he quotes lefty bloggers accusing him of fearmongering and general silliness.

This is a constant pattern with the left-- they constantly denigrate the need for disaster/terrorism preparedness ("I question the timing" is always popular) and then shrilly cry "Why wasn't more done?" when tragedy strikes.

Can't have it both ways, guys. Can't have it both ways.

BTW, I grow weary of hearing about how the "poor can't afford to stockpile food." There are some truly with not a cent to their name, but most poor can buy, for example, rice, beans, tuna, and bottled water.

And yes, you can't cook rice without gas or electricity, but you can allow it to sit in water for a long while until it soaks it in and becomes edibly softened.

Most people, no matter how poor, have some crap in their closets they've never bothered to eat but can in a pinch. Olives, crackers, Uncle Ben's rice, hell, even some chopped clams for that chowder you never actually made... they're all sitting up there, gathering dust, but able to be eaten if you can't eat anything else.

Hell, it beats cannibalism.

I don't get how the fact that many didn't bother to buy $30 worth of very cheap (not very tasty, maybe, but cheap and nutritious) food before the hurricane is Bush's fault.

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Bumped for the elimination show. Don't read if you're on the west coast and don't want to know about the show.

Oh, and if the three people watching the show post comments, try to avoid giving any spoilers in the first 100 characters of text-- because your spoiler will show up in the Most Recent Comments section, and people will end up reading them even if they want to avoid it.

If you can't think of anything to pad out your comment, try writing "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog and then stole his snausages" or something before your actual comment.

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The Democrats have a new friend.

The Venezuelan leader said he felt comfortable criticizing President Bush, noting that Washington has been critical of his own administration on questions of human rights, respect for democracy and other issues. Mr. Chavez has repeatedly accused the United States of planning to assassinate him, and consistently rails against capitalism and what he terms American imperialism.

Yes, indeedy. Its so nice that commie thugs feel comfortable about lashing the U.S.

Don't question his patriotism!

Thanks, Democratic Party. Do you get it yet, fucknuts?

Correction: The original post above makes it sound like Chavez 'felt comfortable' criticizing the US because our own people (Dems) are criticizing us. But after re-reading the quote I see that he is saying he feels that way because Washington has been critical of his own (Chavez's) regime.
Sorry about that.

He does still parrot Dem talking points in the rest of the article, if it makes anybody feel better. Makes me feel a little better.

What can I say. I'm easy to please. A brand new drool cup and a shiny piece of foil can keep me occupied for hours.

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Due, early reports say, to a tip as to his location from a detainee.

Sorry, Excitable Andy. There is a human cost to your lay-not-an-angry-finger-on-terrorists policy. These guys know stuff but don't want to spill it, and our boys have to make them talk.

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Astoundingly enough... it's almost as if all of these murder-cultists work together or somethin'.

Meanwhile, Wonkette, who gets to rip on Bush's long vacations while barely doing any of her own work throughout the whole year, is pleased as punch to report this transcript of a typically-tendentious press conference:

McClellan: We are securing the American people by staying on the offensive abroad and working to spread freedom and democracy in the Middle East.

Q: That's a talking point. That's a talking point.

McClellan: No, that's a fact. Go ahead.

Q: No, it's not.

It's not a fact? Let me repeat: an Iraqi terrorist had the London bombing plans in his pocket.

H/t for both to the Blogometer.

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