A Knight in Dragonland

59-0.
About freaking time!!!

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Not really … but that’s an entertaining thought, isn’t it?
Illinois is experiencing interesting political highs and lows this year. One of our U.S. Senators is elected president, but then our governor is arrested before he can sell Obama’s Senate seat to the highest bidder.
I “love” this quote in the Tribune from Robert Grant, FBI [...]

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If you fire the governor’s chef and then charge the state a per diem for every night you sleep in your own house, does that make you an agent of change or Charles Rangel’s accountant?

Gail Collins, New York Times.

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Governor Sarah Palin my have signed the final death warrant on the already moribund Ketchikan to Gravina Island “Bridge to Nowhere”, but she still supports a project that would cost even more – $400 to $600 million for the Knik Arm Crossing. This project would benefit … (drumroll) … Sarah Palin’s hometown of Wasilla, [...]

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A “culture of ethical failure” pervades the Bush administration. This time those words were used to describe the atmosphere at the Interior Department, where the departmental inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, recently reported astonishing levels of corruption. A section of the department in charge of collecting oil & gas royalties indulged in a [...]

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