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Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Any More Ridiculous…

… the porn industry begs for money. I’ll leave all the horrible porn puns for Twitter. No I’m not making this up, I’m not that funny. FIVE BILLION DOLLARS YA’LL! And no, they don’t need money, admit Larry Flynt and Joe Francis – internet traffic has grown, despite a slight slip in DVD sales. But I suppose they’re entitled – they’re liberals after all. Check this out: 

But the industry leaders said the issue is a nation in need. “People are too depressed to be sexually active,” Flynt said in the statement. “This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such but they cannot do without sex.”

“With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind. It’s time for congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America. The only way they can do this is by supporting the adult industry and doing it quickly.”

Good Lord. I want to write something snarky but I can’t even top that. I’m pretty sure people are still having sex. Sorry to burst your bubble there, guys. Anyone else slightly distraught that we’re relying on the likes of Franken and Murtha to laugh this out of Washington?

JUST SAY NO TO BAILOUTS!

This is why this bailoutpalooza leads to socialism. How can you say no to a piddly $25 billion when you’ve made it clear that you won’t even stop at $700 billion?

WASHINGTON – Congressional officials say Democratic leaders have decided to put off a bailout vote for the auto industry until December and will insist that the Big 3 first come up with a plan showing how the money would help transform their industry.

Because anyone who can afford to have someone draft a solid proposal deserves to have money thrown at their problems. IT DOESN’T WORK. Money cannot fix fundamental problems in industries. When huge industries are thrown lifeline after lifeline, hanging on by a thread, it kills the effectiveness of the free market by failing eliminating the weak links. In order for some to succeed, others must fail. PERIOD. And Detroit WON’T succeed if things stay the way they are, regardless of whether or not they have another $25 billion to cover their butts for a while.