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Obama's stimulus boondoggle is of historic proportions all right. Historically bad. This is just bizarre. Obama's staff and this reporter are celebrating the passing of the "most major sweeping comprehensive legislation as relates to economic activity ever" with virtually no debate, no input from the American people, no basis for expecting it to work, and passed on a purely partisan basis. Why would anybody think highly of the president or our government because of that?

Reason gives us a partial list of all the waste and pork that made it into Obama's final stimulus boondoggle despite Congress' "scrubbing" process.

Democrats want to change the census to count imaginary people. The census workers interview people and track down the homeless, but that's not good enough for Democrats. They want to add people who can't be found at homeless shelters, park benches, or under bridges and other habitats for the homeless where these individuals supposedly stay. This is nothing but an attempt to boost the census in certain districts with phantom numbers to bring more government money into these districts. The solution to this is to stop handing out government money.

G7 pledges to avoid protectionism. That's a good thing.

Suspected US missile kills 27 terrorists in Pakistan. Pakistan officials talk about defeating the Taliban, but they aren't doing anything to defeat them. We really screwed up when we undermined Musharraf's administration.

This is a great story about a 61 year old off duty police woman who stopped a pick-pocket ring by going after the pick pockets, but if I had done that, I'd be on trial for assault, and that's just wrong.

It looks like Sen. Feinstein's attempt to end net neutrality failed to make it in Obama's final stimulus boondoggle.