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[10:05] AnonymousHillStaffer: USA USA USA
[10:05] wonkette: YES
[10:06] wonkette: FUCK GHANA
[10:06] AnonymousHillStaffer: haha they just showed people in times square watching on the big screen
[10:06] AnonymousHillStaffer: there were like 20 people watching
[10:06] wonkette: ha
[10:06] AnonymousHillStaffer: because NOBODY CARES
[10:07] AnonymousHillStaffer: im watching on univision though so it seems a lot more important
[10:07] wonkette: of course
[10:07] wonkette: i wish i got the Ghanian networks
[10:08] wonkette: they’ll be burnin’ some flags tonight
[10:08] AnonymousHillStaffer: the coverage would be things like “death to america”
[10:08] AnonymousHillStaffer: or “courageous ghanans bring death to america–in soccer”
[10:08] AnonymousHillStaffer: haha
[10:08] AnonymousHillStaffer: i love when other countries burn our flags MORE »

Sad about missing the ice cream and the dadrock and the picnic and the seersucker yesterday? Well, cheer up — you could be the Comics Curmudgeon, whom we force each and every week to look through the detritus of Today’s Cartoons for the unfunniest of the unfunny. And then we make him spin it into gold, while we count our money and trawl Facebook for more pictures of those strapping young Frist boys.

This week, it’s all crazy, all the time in toon land. After the jump: blood, guts, flags, and polar bears. Join us, won’t you?

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On this, the most pointless of patriotic holidays, we pause to… well, do something. Something flag-related, probably, but we don’t really know what. We’d think barbeques, but it’s a Wednesday and the weather’s kinda crappy. What kind of patriotic holiday is allowed to happen on a Wednesday? And we don’t even get a half-day? Fuck the flag, man. This is bogus.

All-media Flag Day Coverage Roundup, after the jump. You know you’re excited.

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• Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) has learned nothing from HBO’s Big Love. [Political Animal]

• Lieutentant Ehren Watada refuses to go to Iraq when Stryker Brigade is deployed. Wizbang readers want him shot: “They had a better way of dealing with this sort of thing during WWII. It was called a ‘firing squad’” and then turn on each other: “You cry babies have no clue and shit for memories.” [Wizbang]
• House Appropriations Chairman Jerry Lewis’ (R-CA) is even more screwed. Remember when Letitia White bought a house with a defense contractor who wanted funds earmarked from Lewis’ committee? And then that house turned out to be the headquarters for a Political Action Committee? Today we learn that PAC is operated by Lewis’ stepdaughter, Julie Willis-Leon. [TPM Muckraker]
• Zakaria Amara is punk as shit: “I hate flags. I hate countries… I hate man made laws…. I hate nationalism with a passion…” Or, as the Sex Pistols put it: “Get Pissed Destroy!” [Pajamas Media]

* Can’t keep your corrupt public servants straight? Consult this list (bulleted, for easy reference) and you’ll sound like you read [Daily Kos] a lot. [Daily Kos]
* When he’s not postcoitally escaping Ann Coulter, Alec Baldwin’s defending his commendation of Bill O’Reilly. Respect Bill’s skills, if not his ability to hold back cheap shots at a Baldwin. [HuffPo]
* All those Mexican flags on the left coast got Michelle Malkin confused. Send Old Glory to the DeskJet and wave her proudly. [Michelle Malkin]
* Running out of ways to disappoint Jesus? Pierce your tongue. Contract Herpes. Share someone’s toothbrush. Increase your odds of being smote by the increasingly hard to please Christ child. [Evangelical Outpost]
* Globalization need not confuse you. India’s money + China’s money = Jars of 7,000 pickles with free dental insurance behind the nutrition labels. [Booman Tribune]

* Stake wielders: disarm. Only upside-down American flags can destroy Michelle Malkin. [Michelle Malkin]
* Captain Ed waxes philosophical over the upside-down flag photos and considers who the object of “the illegals’ ” loyalty is. [Captain's Quarters]
* Mark Noonan analyzes two immigration opinions (one from Tony Blankley, who does not blog) and concludes: Pissing off Hispanics won’t preclude your midterm GOP victory. [Blogs for Bush]
* Roger Simon wonders what’s not to love about being a rich white guy. [Roger L. Simon]
* Kos contributor DarkSyde can’t get behind the guest worker program, as everything Republicans touch turns to wage-raping gold. [Daily Kos]

Last week, we introduced you to our helpful Hill staffer friend. Still recovering, as are most at the Capitol, from his three-day weekend, he sobered up just long enough to answer more of your questions.

Today, our man on the inside tackles (and peppers) Hill living, Hill drinking, hot chicks, and, of course, commemorative flags.

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