CHILDREN’S TREASURY OF OBAMA SCANDALS: You never know which of these chicken-shit Scandals of the Obamanation will become the thing old white morons cackle about for the next eight/twelve years, so might as well clip ‘n save this list of THE MOST SCANDALOUS 17 DAYS IN HISTORY. [Gawker]

We don’t really talk about the “comedy” around here because, come on, we are already writing about Sarah Palin every day, for real. But this is kind of cute. This Hayden Panettiere was in D.C. earlier this year, saving the whales. Now she is just cold hatin’ on the old crazy person who wants to kills us all, in the war. Whoa, hey, another one after the jump. MORE »

DID YOU KNOW WINGNUTS ARE CRAZY? A couple of National Review lady writers on the fun conservative blog “The Corner” both wrote some very mild criticisms of famous Russia-looking-at Alaskan Sarah Palin. And now all the half-wit half-literate anger bears who usually send their deranged murder fantasies to, say, Wonkette, are sending all this dumb bile to these conservative ladies! [Gawker]

Yes, a McCain advisor said that John McCain “helped create” the motherfucking BlackBerry, which is an insult to John McCain, who lost his ability to type or invent small digital devices that have tiny little keys when he was in Vietnam for FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, ALAN. MORE »

THE WIT AND WISDOM OF DANA PERINO, SUPERHERO SPOKESLADY From the press gaggle at the White House yesterday afternoon: “Q. I also wanted to ask you about Afghanistan quickly. What is the President’s reaction to the attempt on President Karzai, and doesn’t it raise questions about the stability of the government security forces there? MS. PERINO: Well, I would point back to one thing that the President has said, which is that when you are dealing with terrorists you have to be right 100 percent of the time and they only have to be right once.” Oh sure! Unlike with, say, rapists and car mechanics. [White House]

These are the Top Ten “most memorable TV moments of the past 50 years,” according to a new British poll: 1. 9/11. 2. Princess Di’s funeral. 3. First lunar landing. 4. Berlin Wall knocked down. 5. Bob Geldof cursing at Live Aid. 6. “The Two Ronnies’ famous ‘Four Candles’ comedy sketch.” 7. “The dance performed by Ricky Gervais in his role as manager David Brent in The Office.” 8. Monty Python’s “Dead Parrot” sketch. 9. England winning the World Cup. 10. JFK’s assassination. [Reuters]

Mitt Romney’s favorite cereal is Chris Chocola. [Bostonist]

There are nerds on Wikipedia arguing about politics. [Washington Post]

But what was it like at Disneyland and Disney World on September 11, 2001? [Jim Hill]

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A Wonkette Operative and former lobbyist directed our attention to the planned vote restricting the use of corporate jets by members of Congress. The rule, propsed by Russ Feingold and MAVERICK RENEGADE Senator John McCain, would require that our Reps and Senators actually pay to travel on the Corporate plane. MORE »