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While this year’s entry may be more aesthetically pleasing, his last year’s entry was as big as all outdoors.

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

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(AP Photo/Cheez-It, Ray Stubblebine)
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(Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
That was now…
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This is then…

More Grim Moments in Marketing…

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Why in heaven’s name did they want the tribute in life-size?

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The Post-Crescent, Michael P. King
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This is not the first time a company has employed a national treasure as a means of advertising its products.
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In the Spring, 2005 a public relations team […]

Posted in USA, Oddity, Cuisine |

Where’s that there ‘57 Roadmaster witha whip aerial?

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

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Images: (Crawford (l) in THE OSCAR) via jabootu.com; (ohio county map) via drc.st.oh.us c digital-topo-maps.com (Crawford(r) HIGWAY PATROL) via liketelevision.com

Posted in Ohio, Television, Police |

COINCIDENCE or CONSPIRACY…

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

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Images: (McCain) AP via huffingtonpost.com; (Nosferatu) via wikimedia.org

Posted in Germany, John S. McCain III, Movies |

Man Rips Head From Hitler Wax Figure In Berlin–Reuters, July 05, 2008

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

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Images: (Hermann Goring) cwporter.com; (All House of Wax photos) via moviescreenshots.blogspot.com except (3D paddle baller) via cinemafantastique.com;
(All Hitler and interior photos) via Reuters–by Tobias Schwarz & Wolgang Rattay except (Hitler in a box and Botox) via Adam Berry/Bloomberg News; (3D glasses) diyhappy.com; (paddle ball toy) askville.amazon.com;

Story. 

Posted in Business, Germany, Third Reich |

A reflective moment…

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

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Image: AP image via huffingtonpost.com

Posted in Bush, Bible |

NYPD Unveils $1M Boat To Protect City From Seaborne Attacks–Yahoo headline, 7/4/08

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

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THE NY JULES DASSIN PROWLER-CLASS; PC-18
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“NAKED CITY”

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Images: (harbor) Steven J. Weber, USN via wikimedia.org (police car model) firstgearmodels.com; (16-inch guns & superstructure) picou.org; (wake) ih6.ggpht.com via picasweb.com (explosions) J. David Rogers via web.mst.edu;

Posted in New York, Terrorism, Weapons |

Teen Shifts MLB Power–headline, YAHOO, 7/4/2008

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

“The signing of a 16-year-old, 6′ 7″ phenom should worry the Yankees and Red Sox.”
For whatever reason…
David Clyde
Clyde Wright
Jaret Wright
Billy Pulsipher
David Isringhausen
Paul Wilson
Todd Von Poppel
Bartolo Colon
Brien Taylor
etc
etc.
etc.

Posted in Baseball |

Forever Vigilant…

Friday, July 4th, 2008

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BADGER + BADGER VS. SPY + SPY

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Images: (Badgers) dailymail.co.uk; (bomb) squaregoldfish.co.uk; (Spy vs. Spy) from Mad Magazine via mediabistro.com

Posted in Nature, Weapons, Espionage, Cartoons |

Happy Fourth, everyone!

Friday, July 4th, 2008

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THANKS, TOM. 

Image: (Thomas Paine)
(1737 – 1809), oil painting by Auguste Millière (1880), after an engraving by William Sharp, after a portrait by George Romney (1792).  National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sourceteachpol.tcnj.edu/ via wikipedia.org

Posted in USA, Thomas Paine |

Vincenzo Kolchak writes…

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Tampa Bay Rays’ Evan Longoria, right, and teammate Carlos Pena celebrate after scoring on Rays’Jason Bartlett’s two-run, seventh-inning single off Boston Red Sox’s Javier Lopez during a baseball game Wednesday July 2, 2008, in St. Petersburg, Fla.
(AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)
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“There was something familiar about this picture. The RAYS uniform shirt looks like something out of […]

Posted in Business, Ohio, Baseball, Cuisine, 1950s |

Some Realtors Riled Up Over Rove Speech–headline; The Daily News (Galveston County, TX)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Did I not hear somewhere that if you take a dashboard-size statue of Karl and bury it upside-down in your home’s sanitary sewer or septic system, you’ll be assured of unloading the property before the next news cycle?

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By Laura Elder
Published July 2, 2008
When political strategist Karl Rove speaks, a lot of people listen. Some heckle […]

Posted in Business, Rove |

Outrageous…and only a day after Olbermann^ reported that FOX had placed an employment ad for a “fact writer.”

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

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Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters
“Summary: During a segment in which Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade labeled New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe “attack dogs,” Fox News featured photos of Steinberg and Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered — the journalists’ teeth […]

Posted in Television, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, Keith Olbermann, Fox Channel |

Woman Charged With Trading Sex For Gas–headline, Cincinnati.com

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

One lives and learns.

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Story.

Images: (Gas-X) via amazon.com; (pump) via treehugger.com;  (API) via hispanicwire.com

Posted in Energy, Society, Health, Personal Products, S-E-X |

Ooops! The FBI and those of the media who may prefer press-release-reading were wrong? This wasn’t even an Olympics.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

$5.8 million buys a lot of CD cleaner.

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Images: (Hatfill) via images.mirror.co.uk; (Anthrax) via farm1.static.flickr.com

Posted in News Media, FBI, Terror, Science, Steven Hatfill |

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