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That Dirty, Stinkin’ Wal-Mart, A Fish Story and Olbermann v. Crowder: Your Weekend Links

Posted by Duane Lester on Jun 6th, 2009 • Clicks

I’m trying to keep these things coming, because I know from past e-mails how much they are appreciated. So, that being said, here are your weekend links:

The South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered Governor Mark Sanford to take federal stimulus money in order to fund the public school system.
“Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., steered millions of dollars in defense work to a campaign donor and the Pentagon went along with it, even though two convicted drug dealers had been deeply involved with the company.”
An all American has died.
The Volokh Conspiracy wants to know: “What Five Works of Fiction Best Explain the 20th Century?“
Here’s a cool video of a seaplane landing on water.
In another non-political story, a fish in Hawaii coughed up a gold watch…“And the funniest thing is that the watch was on time and still ticking.”
Matt Yglesias wants to double the tax on beer to lower assaults and fund comprehensive health care. Nate Silver thinks differently.
Have a little fun with WolframAlpha.
Hot Air discusses the new pay czar, who has the power to “ensure that companies receiving federal bailout funds are abiding by executive-pay guidelines, according to people familiar with the matter.” But don’t worry, it’s just for businesses that took bail out money…right?
10 Funniest Videos of Animals Owning People
Nancy Pelosi was supposed to drain the swamp of corruption, but the current pork barrel brouhaha has pitted old school Dems against the younger crowd. This should be fun to watch.
Write your own Obama speech in 13 easy steps.
John McCormack wrote at the Weekly Standard what I pretty much wrote here on this fantastic blog.
Here’s Tiananmen Square, the tanks and the tank man from a whole different angle.
NASA “Report indicates solar cycle has been impacting Earth since the Industrial Revolution.” Yeah, you read that right.
In Austin, Texas, If you want to sell your home and it’s more than 10 years old, you have to have an “Energy Conservation Audit,” or else.
That dirty stinking Wal-Mart is at it again. This time they created 22,000 jobs. Man I hate those guys. /sarc
The University of Idaho is “paying a Minnesota consultant who spends less than two weeks a month on the Moscow campus $112,500 to serve as its “chief inspiration officer.