Klingon Brains!

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My Batleh Says: Gimme All Your Money

Police in Colorado Springs are looking for a man who robbed two 7-11 with a Batleh, which the newspaper described as a "Klingon Sword."

Execs shriek as Obama caps compensation on institutions receiving TARP funds

Brian Beutler quotes an article in which the head of a "compensation consulting firm" complains that the limits imposed by President Obama's financial recovery team "will make it hard for the companies to recruit and keep executives, most of whom could earn more money at other firms."

Notice that these are executives at banks that are presumably failing mostly due to mismanagement. Yet the expectation here is that they're valuable, re-hireable executives who could go anywhere and get paid better.

I don't get that at all.

Cheney adds to the right's ammunition dump.

I've read about this in a number of places this morning. Cheney has joined the chorus of right-wing voices gleefully saying if <sotto voce>please, dear God, let it be "when" so I won't be remembered as a knave and a fool</sotto voce> the US gets hit again, it will be because Obama undid all of the "good" things the Bush/Cheney administration did.

Steve Benen documents the lies in Cheney's latest round of interviews.

On the other hand, the crazies are right about one thing...

On Stephanie Miller this morning, the crew was defending Obama's right to keep the Oval Office as warm as a Hawaiian summer. I'm sorry, but it's a bad example when the president jacks the thermostat while I install a new programmable thermostat and lower the temperature in the house two degrees for waking and ten degrees during sleep because my monthly gas bill is now higher than electricity use. The man should put on a sweater or something. "He's the president, he can do what he wants" was the excuse they used during the Bush era.