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Category Archives: Politics
Shooty. No Shooty.
So I wrote about the photo w/ caption AFP released where it was claimed an Iraqi woman was holding “two bullets which hit her house following an early coalition forces raid”. Many, many, many people called bullshit on this photo … Continue reading
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Bad, Evil Opus!
Opus Akbar by Cox & Forkum Washington Post, Other Newspapers Won’t Run ‘Opus’ Cartoon Mocking Radical Islam The Washington Post and several other newspapers around the country did not run Sunday’s installment of Berkeley Breathed’s “Opus,” in which the spiritual … Continue reading
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AFP replaces caption lie with another lie
In my del.icio.us post yesterday, I had a link to the story over at Little Green Footballs detailing the false caption that AFP released with one of its photos. Below is a screenshot of the photo along with the original … Continue reading
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Yet another BS Lawsuit.
Want yet another example of a frivolous lawsuit in America? Here ya go: Man says hold the cheese, claims McDonald’s didn’t, sues for $10 million A Morgantown man, his mother and his friend are suing McDonald’s for $10 million. The … Continue reading
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But we don’t want the truth!
We just want the smear. Back in October of 2006, I wrote two entries about a photoshopped picture. Someone took some pictures of a girl in a bikini off of a couple of websites and modified them to look like … Continue reading
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So plastic is bad now?
Ok. Got it. Just been reading a few articles on the proposed ban on all plastic bags for Annapolis, Md. Alderman seeks to ban bags Annapolis’ proposed plastic bag ban sparks controversy I only ask the above question since I … Continue reading
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Who are the real sex offenders here?
Teens face sex-crime charges for slapping classmates on the butt Two 13-year-old boys from Oregon were charged with felony sex abuse — later downgraded to misdemeanor counts of sex abuse and harassment — after they swatted female classmates on the … Continue reading
Public Transportation on I-83.
Stumbled across this article in the York Dispatch last night: State funding could get Rabbit Transit a run into Maryland A plan to connect public transportation systems between York and Baltimore could be up and running within a year, now … Continue reading
You can’t win
Stumbled across this entry on Daily Kos today: London Bomb–What a Crock of Crap!! Its funny…. if an attack manages to be successful, they’ll scream it’s because of the incompetence of BushHitlerMcChimpyCo OR it was an inside job. If an … Continue reading
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CAFE Predictions
Lots of discussion out there about raising the CAFE standards. Some relatively resonable (low 30′s range), some unreasonable (low to mid 50′s). The discussion seems to be centered around safety concerns with vehicles modified (mainly made lighter) to meat new … Continue reading
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Idiotic Newsweek poll
Just happened to stumble upon the results of a recent ‘poll’ from Newsweek this morning: NEWSWEEK Poll June 23, 2007: Conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. Please note the statement CORRECT ANSWER IS IN BOLD at the top of … Continue reading
Turns out Paris Hilton didn’t like jail. Who knew?
You know, I really did my best to just ignore this whole damn thing. I didn’t want to hear about it, I didn’t want to read about it and I sure as hell didn’t want to write about it. But … Continue reading
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Do you even pay attention to what you’re saying?
Scene: Last week at the boys baseball game. In a rush to get to the game, I left my camping chairs in the driveway and was stuck sitting on the bleachers with the ‘chattering moms’ (the women who never watch … Continue reading
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American flags replaced with swastikas
Flags replaced with swastikas in Wash. Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans’ graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday. Forty-six flag standards were found empty and another 33 … Continue reading
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Wikipedia Edit
Back in early April I was researching material on mass graves that had been discovered in Iraq. During this I came across an entry which seemed to fit under wikipedia’s ‘vandalization’ policy. The changes that had been made to this … Continue reading
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Memorial Day doesn’t rate for Google
Google (National Review Online) It’s kind of sad. They change their homepage logo for all sorts of holidays and occasions. Just last week they paid tribute to Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday. But Memorial Day doesn’t seem to rate anything at … Continue reading
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Jericho
I was complaining recently about cancelled television shows and the general low quality of available network television. We are becoming (well actually, we already have become) a wasteland of ‘reality’ TV, brainless ‘men/dads are idiots’ sitcoms and CSI/ER shows. Not … Continue reading
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Dictator Bush
Mid-day Sunday (5-20) the sites Reddit and Digg both had the same story link with identical headlines in the number one slot. Bush Declares Himself Dictator During Catastrophic Emergency. This of course fired up the anti-bush comment machine at both … Continue reading
Fred Thompson
I’d just like to say I’m getting tired of all this Fred Thompson hype. Sh*t or get off the pot. And thats all I have to say about that.
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Why We Banned Legos
You know, this whole thing is so idiotic I’m almost left speechless. Almost. Why We Banned Legos Exploring power, ownership, and equity in an early childhood classroom Children dug through hefty-sized bins of Legos, sought “cool pieces,” and bartered and … Continue reading
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