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Posted 11:20pm pst, Friday, March 11, 2005

Extraordinary Machine

What a great start to the weekend. I just discovered that the long-delayed Fiona Apple album, Extraordinary Machine, has been leaked to the internet.

I wrote about this a few months ago. Sony's been holding this back for over a year, but a station in Seattle somehow got their hands on it and now it's everywhere. Major props to the Free Fiona site for championing the release.

I won't post a link to it; Sony's lawyers are already on the case, but if you Google it, you'll find it.

Just a fucking amazing album. Stupid-ass Sony.


In one of his orchestrated town halls, President Bush thought he'd load the guest list with Federal employees already enjoying the "benefits" of the Thrift Savings Plan, in other words, private investments. Well, it didn't go quite as well as Bush planned. The best part is the last bit.

Excerpt from Whitehouse.gov:

THE PRESIDENT: Let me ask you something about the Thrift Savings Plan. This is a Thrift Savings Plan that has a mix of stocks and bonds?

MS. WEBSTER: Yes, sir.

THE PRESIDENT: Now, how hard was that to learn how to do that?

MS. WEBSTER: And I chose the safe plan, government bonds. (Laughter.)

THE PRESIDENT: That's all right. Well, not so safe, unless we fix the deficit. But other than that -- (laughter).


Senior GOP senators and reps have apparently realized that cutting the legs out from under their base, i.e. Red States, is probably a bad idea. So instead, they're going to fuck the poor and cut THEIR programs instead.

Move afoot to cut food programs for poor
Offered as alternative to Bush plan to reduce farm subsidies
The Associated Press
Updated: 10:08 p.m. ET March 11, 2005

WASHINGTON - Cuts in food programs for the poor are getting support in Congress as an alternative to President Bush’s idea of slicing billions of dollars from the payments that go to large farm operations.

Senior Republicans in both the House and Senate are open to small reductions in farm subsidies, but they adamantly oppose the deep cuts sought by Bush to hold down future federal deficits.


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