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Golly gee! "Insurance not required, FEMA told flooded town"

IN ILLINOIS

FEMA: Big water swallowing you are not at risk of.
YOKEL: Der, okay mistur gee-man.
JUDGE: YOKEL, good jobs for trusting the government.

Or, oh wait. Wait, no.

CORNSHANKER: Dus I need any floodin' surance?
FEMA: [gestures to creaking levee] Noz. We built you a wall.
CORNSHANKER: [squints in suspicion] I dunno about yew. Didn't it you that built that water wall for them brown people down south?
FEMA: Yea, but they were brown. Just tell the Mississippi that we said that you don't need flood insurance. LULZ!
CORNSHANKER: ROFFLE!!11 VOTE 4 HUCKABEE!

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Obama Opts Out of Public Financing

Obama told supporters in an e-mail message Thursday that he would not accept about $85 million in public funds when he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee.

However, Obama asked supporters Thursday to "declare our independence from a broken system, and run the type of campaign that reflects the grass-roots values that have already changed our politics and brought us this far."

Brenn's translation:
"I am a strong supporter of 100% publicly-financed elections, but because I don't think the publicly-funded election system gives me enough money, I am going to opt out of it in order to raise and spend as much money as I want."

tl;dr preaching the pious socialized route and acting the libertarian one; way to stick to yer principles, mang.

Otherwise, this last weekend I shifted and cracked my bass nut and had to bring her into repair this last Monday. Could take up to a week? Meantime I've been bassless and craving since. I suppose you all have more to mourn about.

-Brenn

Second Best Quote of Last Week

Happy upcoming birthday to flaccid-blogged Luke Douglason this coming Saturday the 21st. Happy workday to me Sunday morning. Also, Germy Kinney is coming back to town for a couple'a weeks here; with any luck I'll have some pictures of the big hairball to share.

Deadly hunt for 'witches' haunts Kenya villagers

Others are skeptical the slain women were witches. At the top of a hill outside Kisii, Joseph Omache practices his craft. Omache is a shaman, or traditional healer. He throws bones and communes with ancestors to help heal physical and spiritual ailments.

"It is very painful when somebody kills another person in the name of witchcraft," he says. "Why couldn't they come to me so that I can perform my herbal potion to identify the real witch so that I can go ahead now to trap him and then we can see what to do?"

Luke: "Arise. Arise chicken arise."

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NOBODY FOR PRESIDENT

On our way home from work, hanging over 94 just before Snelling Ave, Luke and I spotted a giant hand-made "NOBODY FOR PRESIDENT" banner. Had a couple of stars: one anarcho-syndicalist and one anarcho-green. Swell!

I found this linked from a Vin Suprynowicz article, but hadn't previously known: in 1897 the State of Indiana legislated the value of pi at 3.2.

And if you're interested, how we spent our Friday and Saturday.

-Brenn