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If you’re like me, you grew up at the club, learning to swim and play ball.

But Republican Senators are on a witch hunt, vowing to deny the club government funding unless it accounts for it’s executive spending.

One bone of contention is the $4.3 million spend on business travel in 2008. Congress and The Senate itself racked-up almost that exact amount, spending $14.4 million between 2000 and 2004. And that’s just the chunk paid for by “private interest groups”. Government spend is a secret. We only pay the bill, we don’t get to actually see it.

Money spent on conferences was likewise criticized. A total of $1.6 was spent for the year. You may recall that AIG spent nearly half that amount on one single conference right after receiving a major government bail-out.

Yet another thorn in their sides was the $360,774 annual salary paid to the club’s CEO. Expert say this is not out of line with what similar charity executive are paid, but perhaps the Senators are just miffed because they make just $174,000.

AIG of course made the news when it capped salaries at a mere $500,000, except for executive who they deem “essential”. Their CFO makes $3 million in cash a year, $4 million in stock.

Well, I suppose saving big business should be the government’s priority, or we may all be out of a job.

Wait… we already are!

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OH YEAH!

Is that even possible?

Yes, say the promoters behind Smucker’s Stars on Ice, who have reportedly “uninvited” Champion Figure Skater Johnny Weir because he’s been deemed not “family friendly”.

SOI is of course the brain child of openly homophobic former Champion Scotty Hamilton, who is known to give tour tenure to his golfing buddies.

I guess Johnny rotten ran over the diminutive star’s dog with his Miata, or whatever it is that gays drive these days.

Well, the fur will fly, at least off ice, as GLAAD sticks it’s pink nose in, and kicks up a sequined fuss. It’s all fun and games until someone loses an Gaga inspired eye piece.

I predict there’ll be tears before bedtime.

Life imitates art.

Not content with simply watching the bizarre antics onscreen, an LA woman took audience participation to the extreme and had a meat thermometer plunged into the neck of a fellow viewer.

A meat thermometer!

Did she think they were watching Gwyneth in “A Perfect Murder”?

The ruckus was the result of her being asked by her victim to not speak so loudly on her cell phone while the movie ran.

Hmm… I wonder whose side Emily Post would take in this one.

I selfishly hope the incident keeps people from attending the overhyped horror film cum art flick.

Apparently not content with running just the asylum, the inmates are now running the movie theater.

It’s like someone pushed the rewind button on urban sprawl!

In a bold move, Detroit city officials propose massive demolition of 20th century sprawl, and a return to the natural landscape it once was.

Please, please, please, please let it be true.

And I want the Burns brothers right on it, making one massive time-lapse film where Motor City goes from birds, trees and fields, to endless rows of soulless, identical “tiny boxes on a hilltop”, back to birds, trees and fields.

Next stop: Phoenix!