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Quick Sunday link
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Wrapping up a miserable week, and onto another
Work has sucked, my dog has somethign wrong with him, and I’ve got a massive toothache. But paying in art instead of money makes me smile.
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Something funny
From this Wikipedia page on Melungeons
On the other hand, in the tensions about race and slavery leading up to the Civil War, several Melungeon men were tried in Hawkins County, Tennessee, in 1846 for “illegal voting”, under suspicion of being black.
It brings to mind the Dick Gregory joke
“I’d rather be black than gay because you never have to tell your parents you’re black.”
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Link clearing roundup
Thoughts on the recent events soon, here we are just to clear off some tabs
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Realtime election results
For the State of Georgia can be found here
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Election predictions
Obama by 3.5 percent nationally (the polls overstate the Democrats, but not by enough to matter), the Dems pick up 20 or so house seats and make it to 58 senators, Allen Buckley pushes the Georgia Senate race into a runoff, which Chambliss will pull off by a narrow margin in three weeks. Bob Barr does better than any recent LP candidate with over 1% of the vote, coming in at 3% in Georgia. Obama will be a good winner, and McCain will be gracious in defeat, and out long, lurid parade of tired whores will finally be over.
Now everyone read this article on why voting in unimportant.
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Line of the moment – morning edition
From Tom Palmer’s entry on the DC gun case
“When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away”
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Good bailout commentary
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Quote of the moment – election edition
From this diavlog (by Brink Lindsey) –
We’ve reached a point where a top income tax rate of 35% is Social Darwinism, and a top income tax rate of 39% is socialism.
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Weird news from the Motherland
82-year-old traded drugs for sex, Kentucky cops say – in Berea no less!