birdbrain

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What Steyn found interesting is that the people who prevented another terrorist attack on the United States after 9-11 are under threat of investigation, while "birdbrain" Janet Napolitano is in charge of Homeland Security.

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  • "Greetings Same to you, birdbrain," Stunk said politely. —  Night Mare
  • Evidently the appelation "birdbrain" didn't bother her, as her bird brain was perhaps the most powerful brain in Xanth. —  Dragon on a Pedestal
  • DEUS did not need to look at any indicators: the indicators were its senses and it read their state directly with its brain—which, because of its three-centimeter size, the jokers of the Eurydice had called the "birdbrain." —  FIASCO - Stanislaw Lem
  • She's not a "birdbrain," she said, but she is picking up the habit.
  • What Steyn found interesting is that the people who prevented another terrorist attack on the United States after 9-11 are under threat of investigation, while "birdbrain" Janet Napolitano is in charge of Homeland Security. —  Media Matters for America - Limbaugh Wire
 

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