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Have a nice weekend, Grouchketeers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbCtgu38ZXU

Yeah, count me in , too:

If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, just 25% of voters nationwide would keep the current batch of legislators.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again. Eighteen percent (18%) are not sure how they would vote.

Activists led by a 24-year-old Notre Dame grad want a moratorium on executions in Indiana until "the system's fairness and massive costs can be examined." But those massive costs -- an average of $624,000 per execution, eight times the cost of life without parole -- are there because of the endless appeal process. And the "fairness" the group seeks would only add to the cost of appeals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ffdwBUL78

I know many will be disappointed in this news, but she wasn't a very good judge anyway, always going by her emotions instead of dispassionately studying who had the best technique as established by music critics throughout history:

 "American Idol" principals disentangled themselves from the wreckage the morning after judge Paula Abdul lobbed a grenade into the middle of the show in the form of a tweet saying she wasn't coming back.

Is Evan Bayh so unbeatable that Republicans shouldn't even bother to challenge him? The Journal Gazette's Tracy Warner almost says that, in a column from last week headlined "Republican candidates launch quixotic races."

Some combination of all those factors is likely behind the candidacy of two Republicans who plan to seek their party's nomination for the honor of losing to Sen. Evan Bayh in 2010.

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Atheists 2, bus companies 1:

An atheist group that recently won its fight to buy ad space for signs on Bloomington city buses was denied in Indianapolis.

The group, known as the Indiana Bus Campaign, filed a federal lawsuit that said Bloomington Transit's policy of not allowing controversial material violated the First Amendment.

Some weeks, you have to search high and low (mostly low) for examples of Hoosiers Behaving Badly. But other weeks, well, they just leap right out at you. Today, we have the 51-year-old man who had a perfectly rational explanation for why he was naked in a cemetery:

The man said he had been golfing all day and that he undressed in his truck because his underwear was wet. He said he left his truck naked to look at the flowers because he did not have his glasses.

"For what it's worth" department. Ratings are out for the govenor (upgraded to "taxpayer friendly") by Watchdog Indiana, which:

provides the only ratings of state legislators and the governor based on how their votes on key legislative proposals from 2002 to the present affect the state and local tax burden of Hoosier working families.

Without making any judgments about either cause, we can say that here in this letter to the editor we have a "pot calling the kettle black" situation:

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) recently made the news again by suggest-ing that the president have compassion on a fly that was bothering him.

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Had any of these same people ever taken one step toward protecting other life — human life?