Archive for the 'Society' Category

Sen. Alexander: Using Reconciliation To Pass Health Care Reform Would ‘End The Senate’–Think Progress headline, 2/28/2010

Monday, March 1st, 2010

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Here is the story.

Your Career: Ten Fastest-Growing Professions–MSNBC.com headline

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Rather than go through the pages of ads to find the careers, I decided to use logic, experience and current events to offer my own list.
1) Telephone Collection Agent
2) Bankruptcy Attorney
3) Food Stamp Clerk
4) Automobile Re-Possessor
5) Major Appliance Re-Possessor
6) Shepherd
7) Crime Scene Cleaner
8) Copper and metal thief
9) Human Test Subject
10) Masochistic Street Performer

“Over the years, Richard Heene has worked as a storm chaser, a handyman and contractor, and an aspiring reality-TV star.”–Associated Press

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

It looks as if the Republicans have a new Joe the Plumber.
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Sheriff: Charges will be filed in balloon saga
AP
By DAN ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer Dan Elliott, Associated Press Writer – 15 mins ago
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – A sheriff said he was pursuing criminal charges in Colorado’s “balloon boy” saga, which first sparked fear for the […]

What happens when the new car smell parts?

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

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It’s the Feast Day of Saint Joseph.
While he is not the patron saint
of post-War American automobile manufacturing,
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Images from 1motormart.com//hubcapcafe.com & Sponge Bob Square Pants
This entry was posted on Sunday, March 19th, 2006 at 9:24 pm and is filed under Society, Automobiles.
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Death Threat–Health Care: And you thought ‘Holy War’ and ‘Jumbo Shrimp’ were moronic.

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

Brad Miller Death Threat:
Capitol Police Looking Into Phone Call Made To Congressman Over Health Care Reform
The above headline in the Huffington Post goes far to sum up the intellectualism of the ruffians who invade Town Meetings about health care and who do not want the government to take control of Medicare and Medicaid.  It’s to […]

Sometimes, it’s a self-produced video of inappropriate Human-Food interaction by two employees of Domino’s Pizza; other times it’s the moronic call of reality TV, but now The New York Post snaps a photograph of our decline.

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

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NEW YORK POST, AUGUST 3, 2009

Regional News
Washed Up! Ipod Guard Whistled
Aug. 4, 2009
Now he’s in deep. The city yesterday suspended the lifeguard photographed by The Post Sunday as he relaxed in his chair listening to his iPod through a headset on Rockaway Beach. The nine-year veteran, whose name was withheld, faces charges…
Regional News
Lifeguard Caught Wearing […]

Vincenzo Kolchak sent me this piece from the online New York Times.

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

OPINION
Timothy Egan - A New York Times Blog
July 20, 2009, 11:05 pm
Methland vs. Mythland
Like a brief, intense summer squall, a media storm passed over small-town America a few years ago, stripping away what was left of the myth of the rural idyll to reveal a cast of hollow-cheeked white people smoking meth behind the corn […]

America’s Poor Are Its Most Generous Givers–McClatchy Newspapers headline

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

This has been so for many years.

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Good luck to the money grubbers.
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Image: (Rich skinflint) via productioninmage gatetheatre.ie; (camel) via en.wikipedia.org;(Let them eat Tasteekake box) tasteekake.com; (eye of the needle) mni.us;

“Top of the World, Ma!!”

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

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Image: Top of the World, Ma via (White Heat) via doctormacro1.info

Santa Claws is ready for the WAR on XMAS.

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

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Image: (Claws) via chicesterinc.com (Santa Claus) via planetsave.com