Aug
31
Global Warming Could Cause Tilt in Earth’s Axis, As Could Al Gore Slipping in the Shower
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Run for your lives, but lean more in one direction when you do it! The world as you know it is about to be turned upside-down… literally: Oceans warmed by the rise in greenhouse gas levels could cause the Earth’s axis to tilt, according to a new study by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Researchers say [...]
Aug
31
Joe Biden Beats the Health Care Straw-Man Unrecognizable
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Vice President Biden is now heading up the White House’s “Realty Check” push. That in and of itself is funny enough, but in a posting on the White House website, Biden begins his reality check by perpetuating an almost immediate myth: That those opposed to Obamacare think the current health system is just hunky-dory. This [...]
Aug
31
Obama’s Plummeting Approval Numbers: A Theory
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This morning, I was stuck in traffic for almost an hour due to road construction. During the delay, I was listening to a local talk show, and being discussed was a Rasmussen poll conducted over the weekend that showed President Obama’s approval ratings hitting a new low at 47%. As I sat still amid a [...]
Aug
30
The hero of the Middle East, as well as a sole-brother with much of the U.S. mainstream press, will be back on the journalistic market soon: The Iraqi journalist jailed after hurling his shoes at former President George W. Bush, will be released next month after his sentence was reduced for good behaviour. Muntadhar al-Zeidi’s [...]
Aug
30
The Future of Camelot: Kennedy Relative Gives Finger to Crowd
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They should have had this girl do the shameless pitch for national health care during the funeral instead of Ted’s grandson — I’d have felt more comfortable hearing it while getting flipped off: (FOX25, myfoxboston) – A woman that appears to be the daughter of Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg gives the middle finger to an unknown [...]
Aug
29
Orrin Hatch Writes Song for Kennedy: “Headed Home” — Great Chorus, Good Verse, But the Bridge Needs Work
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Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, a longtime friend of Ted Kennedy, has co-written a song in honor of Hatch’s late friend. This continues a long tradition of Republicans honoring Democrats when they pass on, such as Hatch is doing with Kennedy — and of Democrats honoring Republicans when they pass on, such as… er … well [...]
Aug
28
It really isn’t surprising to learn that Kennedy would talk about the latest Chappaquiddick jokes. I mean, this is a man who drove a car into the water and left a girl to die, but who later went on to name his dog “Splash” and write a book called “Back on Track.” It’s almost as [...]
Aug
28
Whoops: Charles Rangel Fails to Report Half His Assets
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Congress is nothing but a huge septic tank that is long overdue for a comprehensive and powerful purging, starting with this wretched bilewad: New York Democrat Rep. Charles B. Rangel, who is the subject of two House ethics investigations of his personal finances, failed to report at least $500,000 in assets on his 2007 Congressional [...]
Aug
28
Hey, the media didn’t spend all that air time, energy and money getting Obama elected and subsequently give him hour-long infomercials for free just to let the fear-mongering opposition on their air to oppose him: The 33-second ad by the League of American Voters, which features a neurosurgeon who warns that a government-run health care [...]
Aug
27
3 Things That Could Get You Carded: Buying Cigarettes, Buying Beer, and Asking Your Congressman a Question
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At the town hall meeting of Virginia Rep. Jim Moran on Tuesday night, Moran carded a guy before he would answer his question. Seriously. The questioner looks like a high school kid trying to buy beer at 7-11. Moran obviously thought the building was full of more plants than a greenhouse, but if it was, [...]