Candidate for the list?

ABC News’ Political Punch weblog:

In an interview with Cedar Rapids, Iowa, radio station WMT-AM today, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said executives of AIG should consider following what he described of the Japanese model of shamed corporate executives: apology or suicide.
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“...the first thing that would make me feel a little bit better towards them [is] if they would follow the Japanese example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say I’m sorry and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide.”

Grassley added, “In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.”

Recall the ancient Chinese procedure of committing suicide on the doorstep of one’s enemy, so that his future would be plagued by your ghost.  Maybe we can convince someone to do that to Congress.

Even better, why not leave the over-the-top-rhetoric to the Democrats?

Via:  Ace
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The Greatest Moment in Wacked Out Real Science

An oldie-but-goodie, via Meryl:

Couple years ago, some people I worked with finally completed a long-delayed project to build a very large vacuum chamber for testing plasma thrusters and other advanced spacecraft propulsion systems.  Not the biggest in the business, but maybe top ten nationwide.  Big enough to walk around inside, at any rate, which is the important point.

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The Democrats’ favorite Republican...

...sends a letter to the editor.  Along with Dianne Feinstein.

RINOs: Providing cover for the Democrats since forever.

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And you can stay off my lawn, too

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Just between you, me, and the old, the late middle-aged, and the early middle-aged:  Isn’t it terrific to be able to stick it to the young? I mean, imagine how bad all this economic-type stuff would be if our kids and grandkids hadn’t offered to pick up the tab.

Well, okay, they didn’t exactly “offer” but they did stand around behind Barack Obama at all those campaign rallies helping him look dynamic and telegenic and earnestly chanting hopey-hopey-changey-changey.  And “Yes, we can!”
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Because, as politicians like to say, it’s about “the future of all our children.”  And the future of all our children is that they’ll be paying off the past of all their grandparents. - Mark Steyn

Old age and treachery, baby!

Via:  QandO via Daily Pundit.

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The list

New additions^[1]:

Repeat performances - double plus ungood:

Don’t forget:

UPDATE 090311 16:42:
As expected, the bill kills the Washington D.C. school choice pilot program. Voting to kill the program (i.e., voting against an amendment to remove the provision):

Snowe and Specter are now 3 for 3.


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Public sector heard from

Strange lead paragraph at the New York Post:

[New York City’s economic downturn] will be “deep and protracted” and likely lag behind the rest of the country because of declining tax revenues, according to a budget watchdog group.

So if Bloomberg raises the city’s taxes so they take all of everybody’s money, things will be just fine... ’cause the economy’s all about government income, right?

Also, the story’s account (in its final five paragraphs) of Warren Buffett’s CNBC interview makes for an â€œinteresting” comparison with the one at Kausfiles.

Both.links via Insty.
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