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A woman so stupid she married Jonah Goldberg is the person Sarah Palin chose to ghost”write” her editorial collage of American exceptionalism.

It’s not as if Alan Simpson hasn’t uttered a series of disqualifying comments throughout the past year, but this time he really takes the cake.

Bill Hader: “TSA agents are ready and standing by to give you something a little extra to feel thankful about this holiday season.”

Mica stepped up his criticism against John Pistole, the TSA Administrator, but he became one of the first prominent Republicans to basically take the side of the security state against the public.

Christine at Foreclosure Industry gives her 10 reasons why the MERS problem cannot be fixed by legislation, and it’s a pretty good list. I would add that it’s simply not the only problem, or even the biggest problem, that the banks have. Of far bigger importance is the possibility that the trustees for the mortgage-backed securities they created never secured the assets from the originators. If the notes never transferred to the trust, there’s no way to retroactively do that now; the trusts are governed by very specific pooling at servicing agreements that for the most part give the trust 90 days to transfer all the required assets. You cannot transfer the loan after it’s slipped into default, 3 or 4 years after setting up the trust. It violates the laws and contracts under which the investors purchased the securities.

After having spent five months in the Gulf, I decided to read Bob Cavnar’s book of the story behind the Deepwater well blowout starting with chapter 7 on the “BP-government merger.” This was one of the most troubling twists in events that I had witnessed in the Gulf. I figured if he could shed some light on this, then maybe he would have frank insights on how we got into this mess – beyond the human error – and how we might avoid another.

It’s absurd to claim to be a spokesman for free enterprise when you choose a professional career of living off the government teat and are now trying to get another “gummint” job.

And Obama’s personal march of folly continues.

There isn’t money for our crumbling infrastructure, but there is plenty of private sector money to create obscene machines and create a demand for them.