It’s now official hybrid drivers biggest assholes on the road:

Hybrid drivers typically drive farther, get more tickets, and have significantly more expensive insurance claims.

Quality Planning found that Toyota Prius drivers get 0.38 violations per 100,000 miles driven, compared to an average of 0.23.-The Car Connection

Also it seems they’re not as “green” as one would think they were:

The long commuters traveled about the same distance whether they drove a hybrid or not, but the everyday drivers of hybrids drove about 25 percent (2,000 miles) farther than those of non-hybrids—largely offsetting any petroleum savings.—The Car Connection

Yeh Baby! “Now this the kind of  Waterboarding I’m  talking about!”

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Shocka! Poor kids making the grade at charter school that stresses hard work, discipline and good old fashion capitalism!

H/T: Sleepy Old Bear

White House officials travelled to France at the start of March to discuss a visit by Mr Obama to Omaha Beach, the site of the American Cemetery, established in 1944 just after D-Day and where 9,387 American personnel are buried. Among them is Theodore Roosevelt Jr the eldest son of the 26th US President.

“It wasn’t going to happen,” said an American official in Washington. “We went through the motions to placate President Sarkozy but giving special treatment to France was not on our agenda.

“During this trip, we wanted to maintain a balance between the British, German and France”. A White House spokesman in London declined to comment. Last month, White House officials briefed that a Normandy visit had been considered but it had not been logistically possible. –Telegraph UK

Yup time to come clean, it is I. —– BCF

and Warren “Cat Meat” Kinsella is still a dick.

Volunteers fanned out across the Birmingham area and Alabama Saturday to pump up enthusiasm for President Barack Obama’s budget proposal in much the same way they did to win over voters during the presidential campaign.

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Those who gathered at Kelly Ingram Park in downtown Birmingham were urged to enlist others who share Obama’s vision and to stay away from trying to convert naysayers.

“We’re looking for supporters,” said DeHaven of Hoover, one of the event’s organizers. “We’re not looking for a fight. That will come later, when we have an army.“—–The Birmingham News