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The United Nations has released this advertisement for US consumption:

I really don’t want my kid seeing this advertisement.  You think he’d want to play soccer if he saw it?  Once again, the United Nations is proving how useless they truly have become.  This is just stupid.
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I just love Opensecrets.org.  They get all kinds of neat stuff.  Especially for those like me who prefer numbers and facts to "what someone else said".  Today’s fun with numbers lesson involves the political stereotype that Republicans are all about big money and greed.  That’s been the main staple of Nancy Pelosi for about five [...]

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Either John Kerry is so elitist he gets his own table at a mess hall. Or, no one wanted to join him. However he wants to spin this, it’s a mess. I seriously question the man’s sanity. What’s amazing is this is the man who was almost President. And, at [...]

Tags: Idiot of the day, john-kerry

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This was a rather heavy read for a late Christmas night:
Iran is suffering a staggering decline in revenue from its oil exports, and if the trend continues income could disappear by 2015, a National Academy of Sciences analysis found.

And, I stumbled on this while trying to find the actual source document for the above information:
President [...]

Tags: International Issues, International Politics, Oil Supply

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A lot of adults are debating whether Christmas should be a religious celebration in the United States. There has been adult arguments about whether Christmas trees should be in airports, adult fights over companies allowing charities to raise money during Christmas. All over the country, adults find negatives to worry about and fret [...]

Tags: christmas, kids, Political Correctness

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I’m fairly shocked by this one.  Congressman Virgil Goode wrote this letter to his constituents:
Thank you for your recent communication.
When I raise my hand to take the oath on Swearing In Day, I will have the Bible in my other hand.
I do not subscribe to using the Koran in any way. The Muslim Representative from [...]

Tags: Shock and Awe

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This is totally un-freaking-believable:
A federal appeals court tossed out the 10-year prison sentence of a St. Louis, Mo., woman who rented her 9-year-old daughter out to a pedophile more than 200 times at $20 a session……

The woman, whose name is being withheld to protect her daughter’s identity, often held the girl down in their home [...]

Tags: Idiot of the day, Political Correctness, Supporting the Death Penalty, War On Drugs

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Leading up to the election, Mark Foley was on every paper, every tv political comment show, and 99% of the political blogs going.  After the election, no one cares.
Well, here’s what’s happened since election day:

No cover-up was found.
No charges have been filed against Foley
No charges have been filed against ANYONE
Nothing has been proven to have [...]

Tags: Ethics, The Media

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Barack Obama has been the golden boy of the 2008 presidential election.  However, that’s mainly because almost no one outside of Illinois has a clue who he is.  With the media’s enraptured support, Obama has enjoyed almost every media angle there is with most just drooling over his presence.  However, when the spotlight starts to [...]

Tags: 2008 Presidential Race

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Time magazine named everyone who reads the internet as their "person" of the year:
…Time cited the shift from institutions to individuals citizens of the new digital democracy, as the magazine put it. The winners this year were anyone using or creating content on the World Wide Web.

How lame is that?  Why not name everyone who [...]

Tags: Political Correctness

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