Via Paul Krugman the business world’s answer to I Can Has Cheezburger? : LOLFed.com.

McClatchy had this as their lead story, Obama calls on his Internet campaign army to march again.

It’s an e-mail campaign to all of the volunteers explaining all of the opportunities to continue to provide service to the Obama political machine as it marches forward. Then at the end you see the real reason for the e-mail:

In the hallmark of a campaign that ran on small donations, volunteers are once again invited to make a financial contribution. This time it’s to the Obama-Biden transition effort.

Will the suckers bite again? They didn’t quit after FISA, will they quit after LIEberman? How much kool-aid can they drink before they understand that they aren’t going to get anything but an e-mail thanking them.

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I live surrounded by Eglin AFB. It is one of, if not the, largest military facilities in the world. They test weapons here. They also have the headquarters of the Air Force Special Operations Command, the Army Ranger School, the Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal School, an Army Special Forces Brigade, an Air Force Fighter Wing, a National Guard tank training area, and a half-million acre national forest on the base.

The first runway was built at the site of the current main base in 1933, so it is not exactly something new to the area. The local airport is located on the base and uses the Air Force’s runaway and tower facilities. The fact that there are planes taking off and landing can in no way be considered a new phenomenon.

These realities make this report from the Pensacola News Journal, F-35 decision delayed, blatantly absurd:

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So I started to waste my time on Blogger four years ago. It’s all Andante’s fault.

It’s hard to believe that people have had nothing better to do with their lives than to stop by here about 140,000 times. Nearly 20,000 times they found something to say about the 4,900 or so posts I’ve made.

We really need to find a hobby.

So Long

Is this thing shrinking?

[Editor: It is time for Income to stop growing. Property has been the same size as her mom for a while, but “I” seems to keep getting longer.

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