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Remember that CEI video we mentioned last month, the one attempting to cast doubt upon global warming? We found it amusing; but many people had far more visceral reactions.

Howard Mortman collected them here. Several are gems; here’s our favorite:

You sick lying soulless ignorant son’s of bitch’s! Selling out that kid in your commercials future for a few more dollars. Nothing in the Science supports the misleading claims in your adds. You can expect an especially large amount of warming in your future… IN HELL! Anyway have a good day… Jackasses! Ignorance and greed mixed together… what a shitty combination.

More heartfelt responses to the CEI ad appear after the jump.

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The good folks over at Atlantic Media have a crisis on their hands. And since they recently showed us such great hospitality, at the recent Michael Kelly Award Dinner, we thought we’d do them the favor of publicizing their plea for help. Here it is: MORE »

Oh ye of little faith! A number of you doubted the authenticity of the close encounter with Dustee Tucker that we passed along on Monday, from a tipster who claimed to have met her at Starbucks.

Truth be told, we did too. But we now have reason to believe that it was quite authentic, based on what appears to be email correspondence between Dustee and our source.

We now must ask: Is Dustee Tucker a real person? She seems superhumanly nice. She charms an entire Hawaiian resort. She’s besties with the baristas at Starbucks. And she engages in pleasant email correspondence with a man who hit on her in a Starbucks — instead of calling the police and/or seeking a temporary restraining order, which is what most women would do in her shoes.

After the jump, the correspondence — which must be read to be believed…

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Another choice bit of FEMAil, from page 398.

DHS, heckuva job managing FEMA. Oh, sorry, are heckuva job jokes passe? We forgot due to the crushing depression brought on by remembering all this shit. MORE »

The Center for Public Integrity (something we’re in favor of in an abstract sense, but probably wouldn’t recognize if we saw) got their hands on 900 pages of Michael Brown’s emails during the Katrina disaster. We think a lot of the juicy stuff’s been left out or redacted, but there’s a hell of a lot to sort through, so who knows. Feel free to take a look yourself, and send us anything particularly interesting, but we think the tenor of the thing can be summed up by this one:

(Also fun is the exchange that begins with an email on page 723 with the subject “REDEEM YOURSELF BY SAVING THE ANIMALS IN THE GULF!!” — Brown, a genial sort, responds enthusiastically, leading one to wish someone had emailed him with the suggestion of saving the people there) MORE »

Edited slightly for formatting, content untouched. You don’t mess with genius.

1) You guys don’t get it. Porter Goss USES national intelligence.

2) Note that Porter Goss abruptly resigned to leave for his farm two days after Fran Townsend put out Bush’s Pandemic Flu Plan — in which Bush first told us “You’re Fucked” — see here.

Next, he told us “You’re on your own” — see here.

Which looks a lot like the Bush Hurricane Katrina plan.

3) In the 1960s after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Porter Goss left the CIA and settled on Sanibel Island near the bottom of southwest Florida — one of only two spots in the USA that would have survived the massive fallout from a Soviet Nuclear Strike — see here.

4) Now, the news reports that “Goss and his wife own a central Virginia farm, where they raise cattle, sheep and chickens. ” See bottom of here.

It just so happens that Central Virginia is one of the few spots in the country that does not have geese carrying Avian flu flying over it. See here and here.

5) Face it — when the pandemic hits, interstate transport shuts down and you guys in Washington are feeding on each other like cannibals –literally, not just politically — Goss will be setting on his front porch eating goat cheese, sipping homemade Cabernet and enjoying the rural sunset. Laughing his ass off as he tells his wife about how Donald Rumsfeld talked Dick Cheney into buying an estate on the Chesapeake Bay –an area which receives the largest dump of migratory goose droppings in the country.

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Sometimes we’re accused of being too liberal, and sometimes we’re accused of being too conservative. But we think that we’re “just right,” based on the presence in our inbox of this message, nestled in between “Dear Blogger” emails from the Wall Street Journal. MORE »

The State Department: on the cutting edge of threat assessment! That is, if our inbox is to be believed… MORE »

Following on the heels of yesterday’s gem, here’s a snippet from another great press release from Harry Reid: MORE »

Remind us to ask Kim Eisler about these. MORE »