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Who here uses Facebook? Uh huh, that’s what I thought, pretty much all of you. Guess what? You’re all going to fucking die. Or that’s what The Nation says in an article they just posted, and kudos to them for getting a whole issue to press the night of their Christmas party. Double kudos for showing me such a good time and not skimping on the booze. As a result, I almost feel bad about what I’m about to do. But, hey, my people did kill Christ so that really says something about my Christmas spirit. Anywho, we’ll take a look at The Nation’s paranoid schizophrenic Facebook-as-Fascism story and explain why it’s, well, retarded, right after the jump. MORE »

• Gonzo was against destroying the torture tapes, probably because he liked watching them. [TPM]
• Aw, what a cute token thing Congress has done in the face of massive, worldwide catastrophe. [WorldNet Daily]
• Hey, can we put people with a disdain for the democratic process on the Federal Election Commission? Great, thanks. [Carpetbagger Report]
• The CIA gets a one way ticket to subpoenaville. [TPM]
• Oooold neeeeews. [Political Wire]
• Cynthia, thank God we won’t be without you for long. [Fresh Intelligence]
• Millions of people may love Oprah, but the other 280 million of us can’t fucking stand her. [Swamp Politics]
• Joe Biden’s going to be on the teevee and not even for a debate! [Political Radar]
• NoLa riots may soon be coming to Houston. [Michelle Malkin]

It’s safe to say New Orleans has some housing problems these days, as in, people need housing and there isn’t any. The city planned on demolishing 4,500 public housing units today to help that situation and, in response, opponents planned a large protest outside of City Hall. At some point the police must have gotten a little uneasy because they shut the City Hall gates. The protesters broke through and so, naturally, the police beat the living shit out of them. More, plus some video, after the jump. MORE »

Fox News is reporting on the teevee that Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda’s, um, second in command, is taking questions from readers of a jihadist website somewhere out there on the internets. We’re on the mailing list, obviously, so we sent a few in. You can see them after the jump, and if you think of anything we should have asked, leave them in the comments. MORE »

Well, the Lakota Indians have fucking had it. The people that brought us such leaders as Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse announced today that they are withdrawing from their treaties with the US of A and are becoming an independent nation on account of all 33 of those treaties being totally ignored by the government they signed them with 150 years ago. Maybe it has something to do with the decades-worth of royalties on the oil extracted from their land the Dept. of the Interior refuses pay them. Just a wild guess. MORE »

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Things have wrapped up in Boston, so Wonk’d will return to its regular programming of bringing you sightings of famous-for-Washington people, in Washington, sent in by our readers. The final round of Beantown sightings include MatthewFuckingYglesias, Sen. Tom Harkin, David Brooks and a meta-Wonk’d Ana Marie Cox.

If you see someone out there and want the world to know about it, email us at tips@wonkette.com.

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Gay blogger Byron LaMasters of the Burnt Orange Report, whose attentions we’ve been trying to get since Monday, spoke with your guest editor this morning via Instant Messenger.

Bottom line: even though “gay” was never mentioned, the gays were happy with the convention. Although there was no ass-fucking in Boston (too busy!), the gays were “satisfied by the positions they took.” Sounds dirty to me!

Byron, who is famous-for-Austin for being “on top of” of the Gay Governor rumors–was able to get one major scoop at the Convention. When the Dallas Morning News reported its list of Texas Democrats Missing in Action at the Convention…they forgot that the Former state senator and Texas Supreme Court Justice mentioned had been dead for four years, noting, “It’s abundantly clear that Texas Democrats are running away from the Kerry / Edwards ticket!”

Edited transcript after the jump

Burnt Orange Report [BOR]
Convention Bloggers: You be the judge [Wonkette]

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