“Barack Obama is John Kerry with a tan.”–Grover Norquist.
Friday, June 27th, 2008“Grover Norquist is Karen Hughes with a beard.”
–anonymous Viking Edda.
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Images: (Grover) via latimes.com (Karen) image.cbsnews.com
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Archive for June, 2008
Larry Craig and David Vitter — have named themselves as co-sponsors of S.J. Res. 43, the Marriage Protection Amendment. If passed, the bill would amend the Constitution to declare that marriage “shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman.”–THINK PROGRESS
Friday, June 27th, 2008Surely, you recall these two sports who dragged their wives before Klieg lights to show what happy families they had.
They have raised hypocrisy to the level of capital crime.
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This New Orleans madam, Jeanette Maier. alleged that Dave was a client.
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Images: (men’s room) AP Photo via a.abcnews.com; (Craig) rodonline-typepad.com via satiricalpolitical.com; (Vitter) foxnews.com; (Woman) […]
Miley Cyrus (15): It ‘Still Hurts’ to Think About Vanity Fair Shoot–FOX NEWS
Friday, June 27th, 2008June 27, 2008
When was that…April, May? In human years it ’s almost 16 months ago.
Dubai will have the world’s first–and hopefully only–rotating skyscraper.
Thursday, June 26th, 2008*
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Jimbo Dobson says Obama is “deliberately distorting the Bible” and using a “fruitcake interpretation” of the U.S. Constitution.’–CNN
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008*
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ABC News says the mayor of Gloucester, Mass denies the existence of a pregnancy pact by 17 high school girls.
Monday, June 23rd, 2008*
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Images: (Title) via shillpages.com; (Top two) Village of the Damned via reelstreets.com (third) eindiders.com (Fourth) Village of the Damned via koreanfilm.org
This photo followed the New York Times headline:
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008“At Odds With Air Force, Army Adds Its Own Aviation Unit”
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Two things become immediately clear:
The unit has no age or uniform requirements.
2. The traditional enlistee’s complaint about the military’s “Hurry Up and Wait” policy has taken on new meaning.
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Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images, for The New York Times
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Reuters wrote that the World Champeen cellphone tosser said a slur caused her outrage.
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008*
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Images: (interior of airliner) news.bbc.co.uk; (Naomi) REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo
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Senator Johnny tempts Fate.
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008*
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Images: (McCain plane) AP Photo via huffingtonpost; (Cindy) bp1.blofgger.com via largemorningshow.blogspot.com; (Hand o’ God) Sistine Chapel Ceiling by Michelangelo via oikos.org
Employee Suggestions Help Stanford Hospital Save Millions–Yahoo headline, June 18, 2008
Friday, June 20th, 2008Where do they put all of those patients?
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Image: Original Photo c. Lee Bennett, Jr./ATPM.com
‘Pro-Life’ Drugstores Market Beliefs–Washington Post headline
Monday, June 16th, 2008 I had mistakenly believed that all drugstores were pro-life.
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No Contraceptives For Chantilly Shop
By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 16, 2008; A01
When DMC Pharmacy opens this summer on Route 50 in Chantilly, the shelves will be stocked with allergy remedies, pain relievers, antiseptic ointments and almost everything else sold in any drugstore. But anyone who […]
I walk 47 miles of barbed wire,
Monday, June 16th, 2008 I use a cobra-snake for a necktie,
I got a brand new house on the roadside,
Made from rattlesnake hide,
I got a brand new chimney made on top,
Made out of a human skull,
Now come on take a walk with me, Mikey,
And tell me, who do you love?
Ellas McDaniel (Bo Diddley) –1956
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GOV BLASTS ‘NASTY’ MIKE
By FREDRIC U. […]
I love it when folks take themselves out of the running for a job. This usually happens with over-the-hill football and basketball coaches who say they will not accept the position to head the Lakers, Giants, UCLA or Ohio State.
Sunday, June 15th, 2008Teen idol Frankie Avalon took himself out of consideration for pope after the death of Pius XII. The statement threw the College of Cardinals into a maelstrom which passed when Angelo Roncalli became John XXIII.
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Warner takes self out of VP mix
By BOB LEWIS, Associated Press Writer Sat Jun 14, 6:55 PM ET
HAMPTON, Va. - Former […]
Oil companies may now work on producing Bi-Polar Bears.
Sunday, June 15th, 2008APNewsBreak: Companies get OK to annoy polar bears
By DINA CAPPIELLO, Associated Press Writer June 15, 2008
WASHINGTON - Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.
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The Other White Meat!
Saturday, June 14th, 2008ABC News
Ex-House Speaker Hastert Finds New Home
Former House Majority Leader Will Now Work for DC Lobbying Firm
By JUSTIN ROOD
June 3, 2008—
Former House Majority Leader Dennis Hastert settled in yesterday to new digs in the Washington, D.C. offices of Dickstein Shapiro, a law/lobby firm.
Hastert was said to have been the longest-serving Republican House Majority Leader in […]
Is it possible that greed is the fuel which drives the engine of this creature’s seeming hatred for humanity?
Saturday, June 14th, 2008“Cheney Acknowledges He Lied About China Drilling ‘60 Miles Off The Coast Of Florida
On Wednesday, Vice President Dick Cheney gave a speech to the Chamber of Commerce in which he claimed that China, in cooperation with the Cuban government, is drilling for oil “60 miles off the coast of Florida.” “Even the communists have figured […]
Today, Yahoo Games has a feature on the biggest busts in video game history. While I know little about the subject, I read somewhere that this game was knocking at the sub-basement door.
Saturday, June 14th, 2008STAR CHAMBER TUNA
The object of this game is to prepare casseroles, sandwiches, salads and surprises before the six dolphins caught in the tuna fisherman’s net perish. As a tie in with the Gluttony Channel, a fully-functioning Nimitz class aircraft carrier cyber-galley is available to the players, but Chinese submarines are on the prowl to end […]
“The Supreme Court yesterday rendered a decision which I think is one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”–Republican presidential candidate John McCain, June 12, 2008
Saturday, June 14th, 2008Constitutional scholar John McCain’s comments on the court’s
re-establishment of Habeas Corpus–
the bed rock upon which criminal law due process is founded.
As of yet, he has not listed the other worst Supreme Court decisions…
or his favorites.
Could it be that
Brown v. the Board of Education, Topeka
Gideon v. Lightfoot
&
Miranda v. Arizona
also make his **** list?
Quote: Associated Press
Here’s a real flash! All one has to do is open the package in a room without Boeing’s 747 wind tunnel to know it is impossible to breathe.
Saturday, June 14th, 2008That ‘new shower curtain smell’ gives off toxic chemicals, study finds
An environmental organization finds high concentrations of dangerous chemicals in shower curtains sold at major stores.
By Tami Abdollah, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
June 13, 2008
Vinyl shower curtains sold at major retailers across the country emit toxic chemicals that have been linked to serious health problems, […]
“What a terrific photo of Patricia O’Neal!”–Quittius Martissimus, third base coach under Tiberius Rubirosa
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008*
Ayn Rand (Phyllis Cerf)
Commentary
Washington Independent
Ayn Rand 101
A Glance at the Free Market Coursework Sponsored by BB&T
By Bruce McCall 05/07/2008 | 16 Comments
John Allison, CEO of the banking giant BB&T, calls Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged,” “the best defense of capitalism ever written.” He says that Rand changed his life, and he’s working to ensure that […]