Get a free house, contributions to pay taxes, and a free trip to Disneyland.

Then mortgage it all with a risky high-interest loan... and default on it.

What do you call that?  Extreme Stupidity.

I only hope that this family chooses not to have any more children. This genetic line has propagated long enough.

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The Senate Select Committee on Ethics thinks that delivering babies for free is an ethical violation of Senate Rules.  That's right-- the ratfucking Democrat leadership is driving through a censure through the Senate Ethics Committee targeted at Senator Dr. Tom Colburn, who continues to deliver babies for free at Muskogee Regional Medical Center.

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Yesterday was a great day. Old friends and new buildings were the order of they day.

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Brian Griffiths has an interesting -- if not possibly misguided -- posting about the fact that the city seems to be going in the direction of replacing the existing the 1st Mariner Arena in the same location rather than moving to a more logical and hospitable spot.

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So Mohammed Atta dies and goes to Paradise, and he is met at the gates by The Prophet, and escorted into a luxurious palace room filled with dates and honey and other delicacies.

Seated around the room are Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Mason, George & Martha Washington, Lighthorse Harry Lee, his son Robert E. Lee,Ann Carter Lee, George Pickett, Thomas Jonathan Jackson, J.E.B. Stuart, and scores of other great Americans.

Mohammed Atta looks bewildered, and the Prophet taps him on the arm, and says:

"I said Virginians".

I'm going to hell now for sure...

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Last night I watched part of HBO's Generation Kill, a dramatized version of Evan Wright's book of the same name.  I remain impressed.  Part 2 picked up with the immediate aftermath of the invasion, and the run up route 7 through the fire fights in Nasiriyah.

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The Maryland Public Service Commission is notorious for its fundamental inability to effectively regulate the energy business in Maryland.  And O'Guvnah O'Malley's inability to move beyond Progressive/Fascist mandates -- like compulsory subsidies for the sales of compact fluorescent bulbs -- is legion.

Government is lousy at picking winners and losers.  And the insistence that we all throw our incandescent bulbs in favor of mercury-laden CFLs is just another perfect example.  Why?  Because private industry is working hard to create another alternative:  LED-based light bulbs.

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Sheila Pratt Dixon has named new leadership for BACVA and the Convention Center.  She has essentially merged the boards, and renamed the new board the Baltimore Convention and Tourism Board.

And, in a move that is completely indescribable and totally amazing, she has named Baltimore banker Ed Hale, Chairman of 1st Mariner Bank, to head the new board.

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The Baltimore Business Journal is reporting thatboth Wachovia and Bank of America are now under fire for their handling of auction-rate securities.  Wachovia is being investigated, while Bank of America is facing a sizeable lawsuit alleging that Bank of America misled investors over the nature of the securities.

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As usual, the drive-by media has totally missed a statement by Barack Obama that should worry many. Luckily, Powerline has picked up on it.  In a speech on July 2, Barack Obama stated:

We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

Wow.  A civilian national security force that is just as "powerful" and just as "strong" and just as "well-funded".

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