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In contrast, Escalades and Chargers aren't bringing home the bacon like they used to. Hey Obama, TEAR DOWN THOSE GAS PRICES!!!! (LOL)

Ford posts best quarter since '98

I'm talking about Mr. M., not K, foo. K's always a good read. If somebody'd spent my $75K on chartered flights to sign a book that was fabricated, I'd be a wee bit pissed, too. He's got the power of the pen, and he's using it. Good for him.

You know, the one people bought because they thought it was a true story. Only it wasn't.

Not much bigger. His first book alone sold over 5 million copies.

Madonna was all hot on building a school in Malawi. The money poured in, the vultures came calling. $13 million went somewhere - just not into a school. Wealth redistribution from the hyper rich to the slightly less so.

Well, I did post under my real name once. Nobody's perfect.

That's why I've never changed my anonymous avatar; I believe in openness.

Trump, Palin, Bachmann, Mitt OMFG. This is gonna be a turkey shoot. Where's that lyin' New Jersey phat phuck?

He's got the Gravitas.

What the fuck are you talking about? Nevermind, I don't care. The font matches his combover....

I do like that photo, though.

It's called consideration, although a realize that a fully actualized progressive is above all that...because WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY IS TOO IMPORTANT!

Fraud is fraud, regardless of how many schools CAI built. If the org solicited money to build schools and spent it on chartered flights to book signings instead, that's fraud, plain and simple. This kind of crap, and the cult-of-personality conceit behind it (Mortensen still insists that CAI wouldn't survive without him - although it seems like it would be better off without him at this point) makes people in general more wary - for some, this is a convenient excuse to stop giving. On the flip side, it makes some people more street smart in their giving - a good thing for more time tested, legitimate charities, considering the huge number of less scrupulous organizations out there that play this bait and switch game. Bible Thumperz have been playing this game forever, but it's played across the social spectrum - even though its often more incompetence than skulduggery at work. Hey, even Madonna's playing it. Urgent calls for money to meet some high stakes deadline, pictures of big eyed, pleading children, fervent pleas from failed TV actors, and, as in this case, wonderful, heartfelt stories that seem too good to be true (however unreadable they may be), should steer one's donations elsewhere. As for Mortensen himself, that 'travellers' scarf' alone is justification for a good ass kicking by some less-than-charitably minded construction workers.

Whatever happened to just posting a link? Try it sometime, folks. I don't know about anyone else, but posting the entire article in an attempt to 'force' people to read your pet tome may cause a lot of rapid scrolling. Reading? Not so much.

I couldn't make it past page 10 of his fawning, self aggrandizing feel good story. As of about six months ago, every online dating woman in America was apparently reading it, however...if the Twilight Series wasn't keeping them too busy, that is. Still, sounds like he's done some good, even if through some 'creative' means. The truth lies somewhere in the middle, probably.

As predicted: GOP ready to raise debt limit Basic negotiation dynamics in action.

I love the Mandaterz central idea: the kooks from my district voted my crazy ass in, so everybody in the country must feel the same way. Too bad their own party members don't even vote with them. Kind of a weak Mandate, that. What is strong is thare ability to stop up the congressional flow of normal work and raise a stink in the process. Thare basically the political equivalent of an impacted turd finally set free to go South.

It's new. It's brown. It's you.

Apparently not!

Who else have you brown carroted?

There's one good spot to cross at least, even if the river comes up a bit. It's a couple of hundred yards downstream from the big bend just downstream of Moonlight. Follow the rippled shallows diagonally across the river and you'll keep you sacks dry.

Without the chaos of Spray, there is only chaos

I instinctively trust any movement that categorizes folks as 'pinheads' and 'patriots'. Why wouldn't anyone?

It's both a joy and a weakness. I have little patience for people who can't get to the fucking point, I'll admit. STFU and say something, already.