This season, it features:

-Singing Senators

-Koch(esque) Brothers Drones

-their childrens' reality show

-SuperPACS

-FoxNews-coached RW Authoritarian senators

I could go on and on...

...they're implying a body may have been found. FYI.

ABC affiliate link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Education_Organization_Act

Purpose
Congress established the United States Department of Education (ED) on May 4, 1980, in the Department of Education Organization Act (Public Law 96-88, 93 Stat. 668, October 17, 1979). Under this law, ED's mission is to:

• Strengthen the federal commitment to assuring access to equal educational opportunity for every individual;

• Supplement and complement the efforts of states, the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the states, the private sector, public and private nonprofit educational research institutions, community-based organizations, parents, and students to improve the quality of education;

• Encourage the increased involvement of the public, parents, and students in federal education programs;

• Promote improvements in the quality and usefulness of education through federally supported research, evaluation, and sharing of information;

• Improve the coordination of federal education programs;

• Improve the management of federal education activities;

• Increase the accountability of federal education programs to the president, the Congress, and the public.

Voting
In the Senate, 69 voted in favor and 22 voted against separating education from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. In the House of Representatives, 215 voted in favor and 201 voted against. President Carter signed the bill on October 17, 1979.

Following the establishment of the Department of Education, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was renamed the Department of Health and Human Services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live

The opening skit with John Belushi and Michael O'Donohue:
https://screen.yahoo.com/snl-firsts/

The first monologue:
https://screen.yahoo.com/george-carlin-classic-monologue-1-000000814.html

I still recall sitting in front of the ol' Radiation King TV watching this (I was 10).

Source: MSNBC

St. Louis officials are looking into a report of misconduct by a member of the grand jury investigating the police shooting death of unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, The Washington Post reported Wednesday evening.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/michael-brown-grand-jury-under-review-misconduct-report

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For contrast, another lifeboat test drop (more conventional) :



I love this shit!