Denizens, your reading assignment for the week is this treatise right here.
Damned.  Good.  Stuff.
Item:  The Justice Department raided the corporate offices of Reddy Ice, Inc, this week.  Something to do with antitrust violations.  Reddy’s stock shares fell as a result.
Item:  Some hack at the Dullest Moaning Snooze just couldn’t resist.
Shareholders wasted no time in running for cover, shaving  more than 35 percent off the company’s stock price. (emphasis added)
Gr-effin’-oan. 
Today’s blurb out of the Grab-Bag™ comes courtesy of the SpatulaGoddess (long may she exude massive quantities of hawtness).
Behold:
Memo to the Demoscum:  Shoe doesn’t taste so good when it comes from the other foot, does it? 
The party that helped give us John-Boy McZhamnesty had the favor returned last evening when Republicans helped the Duchess win Texas.
“Hillary Clinton is back in the race, thanks in some small part to Republican voters mindlessly following the commands of radio entertainers and crossing party lines to vote for the candidate they view as weakest,” Bud Kennedy writes in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Wednesday.
Well, I’ve never been a fan of Bud the Rotund™, but this blurb does make me chuckle a bit.  (Incidentally, Buddy boy…his name’s Limbaugh.  Rush Limbaugh.  Has a slightly bigger audience than you do.)
Let the Demoscummic bloodletting…continue. 
According to Hal Jay at WBAP/820, OJ Simpson has endorsed the Duchess Hilarious.
So much for that  campaign… 
Item:  The US Air Force just awarded a refueling tanker contract to a consortium between Northrup-Gruman and Airbus.
Item:  Boeing and the city of Seattle aren’t taking it too well.  Washington governette-by-judicial-fiat bimboid Chrissie Gregoire is threatening a protest, and it wouldn’t surprise me if she tried to file a lawsuit, as well.
Reaction:  That’s the liberal/union mentality for you:  A sense of entitlement just because…well, because they’re union.
2nd reaction:  Bet they’re sorry they found those 700 votes in King County now, aren’t they? 
The Dallas C’boys blog is reporting that CB Jacques “Toast” Reeves is going to Houston for $20 extra-large, $8 XL of which is guaranteed.
All together now…wait for it…