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Madoff Was Beaten in Prison – WSJ.com

Bernard Madoff, in jail in Butner, N.C., after admitting last year to a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, was assaulted by another inmate in December, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Since I’m a atheistic scrooge, here’s all the Christmas spirit I can muster…

Office Space is one of my favorite movies of all time. I even liked Idiocracy. So I was looking forward to seeing Extract. There were a few funny parts but for the most part it wasn’t that good. It has a very sitcom-ish plot. Oh well.

On a slightly related topic, a co-worker of mine was recently laid-off. He found out a couple of weeks before it was official. So for those two weeks he changed the name tag on his cube to Samir Nagheenanajar. He has a great sense of humor. I’ll miss having him around the office.

First up Whoopi Goldberg:  ”It’s not rape Rape.”  - whatever that means; personally I’d rather not be raped or rape raped:

Next we have Rep Trent Franks – “Obama is an Enemy of Humanity”: <-click to see the video

Obama’s first act as president of any consequence, in the middle of a financial meltdown, was to send taxpayers’ money overseas to pay for the killing of unborn children in other countries,” said Frank. “Now, I got to tell you, if a president will do that, there’s almost nothing that you should be surprised at after that. We shouldn’t be shocked that he does all these other insane things. A president that has lost his way that badly, that has no ability to see the image of God in these little fellow human beings, if he can’t do that right, then he has no place in any station of government and we need to realize that he is an enemy of humanity.

Umm, yea. You both suck. The country would be better off if both of these people would just shut the fuck up.

In the next congressional election I want to be able to vote against someone else’s congressman. Or possibly have congressional seat musical chairs. Have everyone in my district vote for the representative in another district (and vice versa).

Congress’ approval rating is currently 37% but everyone likes their own representative. I want to vote against Murtha:

In 20 years, Mr. Murtha has successfully doled out more than $150 million of federal payments to what is now being called the airport for no one.
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The airport has an $8.5 million, taxpayer-funded radar system that has never been used. The runway was paved with reinforced concrete at a cost of more than $17 million. The latest investment was $800,000 from the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to repave half of the secondary runway. (Never mind that the first one is hardly ever in use.)

I absolutely hate this kind of shit. He’s just buying votes:

Bill Polacek, a local businessman and a member of the airport’s board of directors, told me that the citizens of Johnstown need Mr. Murtha’s earmarks. “Quite frankly, if he didn’t do that, we wouldn’t elect him,” he said.

Been in a fairly useless meeting for an hour now. Someone please kill me.