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This is pathetic:
For more than 30 years, crowds have flocked to the small English fishing village of Lyme Regis to watch an annual tradition two teams of fishermen standing on wooden platforms as human bowling pins, hurling a dead giant eel at each other. But the ritual was abruptly abandoned after an animal rights activist [...]

Tags: Political Correctness

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Gov. Mitt Romney has apologized for referring to the troubled Big Dig construction project as a "tar baby" during a fundraiser with Iowa Republicans, saying he didn’t know anyone would be offended by the term some consider a racial epithet.

Exactly what did Romney think "tar baby" meant?
Stupid, Mitt.  Very, very stupid.
Some people feel that a [...]

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A lot of print has gone into the debate over what exactly "marriage" is. Namely, some homosexuals have been fighting desperately for the honor of being called Mr. and Mr. or Mrs. and Mrs. so-and-so. Along with this debate, part of the counter-argument has been that if we open the door to gays getting married, [...]

Tags: Shock and Awe

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with sanity, that is.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered government and cultural bodies to use modified Persian words to replace foreign words that have crept into the language, such as "pizzas" which will now be known as "elastic loaves," state media reported Saturday.

Folks, you guys in Iran have a serious problem on your hands.  [...]

Tags: International Issues

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A new poll by InsiderAdvantage shows Johnson leading McKinney 46 percent to 21 percent, with one-third of voters undecided. The survey recorded the responses of 480 likely voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

Oh, please, don’t tease me like that!  Meanwhile, Andrew Young, former mayor of Atlanta, ahs [...]

Tags: US Regional Politics

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Andrea Yates, believe this or not, was found NOT GUILTY of systematically killing her four kids by drowning them in a bathtub. Now, everyone admitted she did it, she was just found LEGALLY not guilty. That’s BS folks. She killed them. No if’s, and’s, or but’s. Now, because of this, at some point down the [...]

Tags: Corporal Punishment

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This is just nuts. David Ignatius of the Washington Post has garnered a certain amount of criticism in the blog world for telling Condi Rice how to stop the Israeli/Hezbollah conflict.  His plan is simple, accept the Hezbollah offer.  Now, I’ve got a serious problem with David’s idea.  Well, actually, I’ve got several.  The primary [...]

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I just love this guy:

Guess he’s not too concerned about second hand smoke?
Other titles pondered were:

Flirting with disaster
Man fined for exposing volcano to second hand smoke.
One thing here is credited as being potentially lethal.
Cigarette butts destroy the environment.

Gimme some other good ones in comments!

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This folks, believe it or not, is a REPUBLICAN fundraiser:

This folks, is what the partying Democrats are offering at the same time:

( Yeah, I know, I’ve run that pic before. )

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My friend over at Idude.org has pointed to a little ‘help" the US is getting ready to supply Israel with in their issue with Hezbollah.  Namely this:

As Idude and Wiki points out, that is a 5,000 pound missile.  This ain’t your run of the mill scud folks.  When this thing hits, it will make [...]

Tags: International Issues

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