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* 2 million people are still without power, 45 people are dead, and a number of towns are still under water.

* Eric Cantor gave a speech today, renewing his commitment to hold disaster funding up unless we cut social programs that help the economy even further. Republicans followed up by claiming anyone pointing out that this is playing politics with a national disaster is the real one playing politics. How dare anyone point out the craven cruelty and political point scoring!

It's so circular it makes my head ache.

Suffice to say if you live in one of the flooded areas you are ******** because that's just how much Eric Cantor and the tea party hatred the middle class.

* Bonus points that when Eric Cantor's district was hard hit by an earlier hurricane, he did not demand "offsets" for Aid. nor did he demand offsets for the random and unnecessary invasion of Iraq, nor did he demands offsets for the oil subsidy.

* Meanwhile a major fire burns in the Dallas Fort Worth area, and we still haven't recovered from those tornadoes. Remember the tornadoes?

* To add insult to injury, Republicans are gearing up to block routine reappropriation for highway maintenance on the grounds firing large numbers of people magically creates jobs. Bonus points for the danger crumbling highways cause to commerce and military readiness.

* Yes, I'm aware of the latest round of pettiness over the President's joint address. I'm also aware of the latest Palin/Perry/O'Donnell Tea Party pettiness. I refuse to go there.

* I am also aware of Glenn beck's race rant, and it is exactly as vile as you'd expect. I don't want to give him the hits, so I'm not linking.

* In Wisconsin, the number of teachers quitting this year doubled thanks to Republican policies we've covered here extensively. The same thing happened in Oregon after they lowered pay and stripped people's retirement benefits. This is always somehow a shock to people who don't teach, presumably because they have no empathy or ability to imagine how they would feel if it happened to them.

* Fighting continues in Libya around Qaddafi's home City. Qaddafi and his son Saif are still at large and feisty. I know it feels like the war is over as more than 90% of the country as well as the capital have fallen and all governments in the region except Algeria are already dealing with the provisional government

* neo_prodigy has an announcement: http://prismcomics.org/display.php?id=2026

* "On Being Female in the Age of the Internet:" http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/383618.html

* Grown men in public on purpose: http://cdn03.cdn.gofugyourself.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/122733206-419x607.jpg

* Miss? I think you forgot something! Or more than one thing, really. http://cdn02.cdn.gofugyourself.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/spl309409_015-419x609.jpg

* "Ferry runs aground after captain stuck in toilet:" http://news.yahoo.com/ferry-runs-aground-captain-stuck-toilet-152430429.html

* This is gorgeous: ********

* I see they've deliberately designed the ugliest Superman costume they could imagine for the reboot. After all people hated the very similar Spiderman design so much so maybe they took that as a challenge. I mean why else would they do it?

* NWS and utterly inappropriate: http://youtu.be/e1IxOS4VzKM