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This Week In Schadenfreude
schadenfreude (SHäʹdÉ™nfroid’É™/), noun: Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else’s misfortune. Okay, maybe not full-on schadenfreude, but these stories certainly induced a certain wry smile or two from Yours Truly. JammieWearingFool: Somali pirates receive ransom, hilarity ensues. This is the dramatic moment a ransom of $3million was paid to Somali pirates to end the world’s…
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Porkbusters Update
Instapundit has a roundup of congressional reactions to the Porkbusters idea, with Nancy Pelosi(!) leading the House Democrats in pledging to return pork earmarked for her district. Tom Delay and Don Young seem a bit more, well, intractable on the the whole. Keep up the pressure, folks. It’s obviously struck a nerve in D.C.