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Oklahoma teabaggers and Republican legislators are considering creating an armed state militia to fight federal laws, with guns. Oh, and in totally unrelated news, next Monday is the 15th anniversary of the bombing of Oklahoma City’s federal building. (AP)
America’s Grifter™ Sarah Palin has earned $12 million since quitting her job as Governor of Alaska last July. But she is so principled that she’ll obviously give up all that cold hard cash to run for public office again. Right? (ABC News)
A retired Catholic bishop has an exciting new explanation for the Church’s growing child-raping scandal: the God-killing Jews—who, he says, totally deserved that whole Holocaust thing—did it! (Corriere della Sera via Open Salon)
Rush Limbaugh blamed unions for last week’s disaster at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch Mine. Like many of Massey Energy’s mines, Upper Big Branch is a non-union mine. (Think Progress)
New Yorkers love their Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, maybe because to our knowledge he has not fucked prostitutes or harassed domestic abuse victims. (CNN)
Former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) apparently spent his time in Congress sexually harassing everyone all the time, even when he was at a dead soldier’s funeral. (WaPo)
Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) has a solution for all of America’s problems. It is massive tax cuts, like all of the GOP’s other solutions for anything. (The Plum Line)

FOX News is sad that Barack Obama is so mean to the Senate Republicans, who are just interested in good-faith negotiation! (FOX News)
Is Texas Gov. Rick Perry totally gay for earmarks? Yes, according to fellow Republican and opponent Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison! (CNN)
New York Gov. David Paterson will not run for reelection because governing is just so hard! And definitely not because of any domestic violence scandal or abuse of power, or anything. (NYT)
Black people were much better off as slaves than they are now because they are all abort-o-holics, according to Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ). I for one am looking forward to when Michael Steele has to go on TV to defend this statement. (TPM)
Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio is all about fiscal responsibility, which is why he will pay back the Florida GOP for the flights he accidentally charged to the state party’s credit card. (Miami Herald)
Thailand’s highest court fined former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra almost $1.5 billion after finding him guilty of corruption. This practice, known as “accountability,” could never happen in this country! (Guardian)

ACORNs! ACORNs Everywhere!

A majority of Republicans–majority!–are insane enough to believe that the ACORNs stole the 2008 election for their squirrel-king Barack Obama. (Public Policy Polling)
But, in the great state of Upstate New York, even Republican election officials do not believe that ACORN stole the NY-23 election from wingnut Doug Hoffman. (Watertown Daily Times)
Rudy Giuliani will not run for governor of New York because ACORN would just steal it back anyway. However, he did say 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11. (NYT) Update: Crafty ACORN lies?? (CNN Political Ticker)
President Obama will not announce his Afghanistan policy until after Thanksgiving, in order to give his ACORN overlords time to look over it. (Foreign Policy)
Charlene Lugar, wife of Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) was arrested for DUI at 6:18 pm yesterday in northern Virginia. Is this ACORN’s doing as well? (Roll Call)
Former professional wrestler and secret ACORN operative Superstar Billy Graham blasted Republican Connecticut Senate candidate Linda McMahon for the terrible things that she did while running World Wrestling Entertainment. (Hartford Courant)