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That’s Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska in his budget Halloween costume of Joe Biden in Congress today. Biden may respond in suit by dressing up as a Disgraced Anti-War Republican. [AP]

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A family of scientifically advanced, bipedal polar bears migrated from the North Pole yesterday to participate in an adorable dance-off outside of the Capitol. And by dance-off we mean, in the WP’s words, “demonstration intended to voice a broad list of complaints about global warming, war and sexism.” The savvy beasts joined a full-size Condoleezza Rice bobblehead doll and many well-wishing humans in a rally vaguely related to the “October rebellion.” That’s the one in which a bunch of anti-neo-liberal ‘bags attacked Georgetown last Friday, and where some chick got hit in the face with a brick.

Watch the cuddly bears dance and sing about the military-industrial complex, honey pots and so forth in the video above. After the jump, watch these same cuddly bears get arrested by stupid meanie cops!! MORE »

The Jacobin fury over the IMF and World Bank having some meetings this weekend continues! As we mentioned last week, a disorganized (but furious) band of marauders called the October coalition has been holding protests and demonstrations since Thursday, most notably the “Disrupt Georgetown!” rally last Friday which targeted flaneuring Victorian plutocrats and their soily “silk-lined bedsheets.” No joke, blood was spilled outside of an Abercrombie & Fitch! And they’re outside Capitol Hill today! And the IMF and World Bank don’t give a shit! Photos (via the Georgetown Voice) and mild commentary after the jump. MORE »

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in rayburn or something????? anyway, get on it!

It’s a scene we all know so well in DC, if we’re kind of rich: Everyone’s finishing their grilled steaks on the patio behind the pleasant Capitol Hill rowhouse and having another glass of $75 Bordeaux and then a hooded hoodlum slips into the backyard and presses the barrel of his gun against a 14-year-old girl’s head. MORE »

The Longworth building is apparently closed off entirely, and there are reports of, uh… a “huge line to get into Rayburn.” MORE »

* For the winos. [Metrocurean]
* For the hippie winos. [The Green Miles]
* “When the Nationals leave for Virginia, Portland, or Vegas, I think we should rename the (at least) $611,000,000 stadium the “Anthony Williams/Jack Evans Monument.” After all, they were the ones who were so desperate to cement their legacy with a baseball team. Then we should shoot them out of a cannon in the direction of wherever the team decides to move.” [why.i.hate.dc]
* Why should DC police care about Capitol Hill? [District Matters]
* “Charlie Palmer’s Steakhouse … is seriously one of the most ‘DC’ places I have ever visited in my 8 years in this city. Everywhere I turned there was a man in a navy blue suit fingering a Blackberry.” [hey pretty]

Aren’t you glad George Allen lost his senate seat for calling Jim Webb’s Indian guy a Tunisian monkey in Italian or something? Yes, Macaca George was a racist dingbat in love with a prop football and slavery, but he wasn’t a heavily armed lunatic.

The emerging and evolving story of Webb’s aide being arrested and jailed for trying to sneak a loaded handgun and tons of ammo into the Russell Senate Office building is starting to sound like a hilarious outtake from “Pulp Fiction.” Yesterday we learned that Webb and his ninja gunmen had sacks of weapons when they showed up at National airport, so Webb was forced to leave his guns with the staffers for his flight to Beirut or wherever, and then there were guns everywhere and nobody was keeping track and next thing you know this former Marine has put one of Webb’s loaded semi-automatic pistols (or maybe even a Micro Uzi) in a briefcase — along with two fully loaded extra magazines — through the X-Ray machine and the Capitol cops lock him up.

Read Webb’s delusional Conrad Burns-esque excuses, after the jump.

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Here’s a great house for Robert M. Gates, because it’s being sold by another ex-CIA boss, Porter Goss! MORE »