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Monday, June 9
Mom spanked the gay out of me (funny, off color, enjoy)
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Riley Jones
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 10:18 PM EDT
The Post editorial board: The Mark Steyn complainants don't understand freedom of speech
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 10:12 PM EDT
Freedom of speech does not include the right to have one's views published or broadcast. Nor does freedom of the press carry with it an obligation to give equal space to views opposed to those held by the press's owner or his editors. Indeed, a right to be published or a right to equal time could only exist if someone — presumably a government — restricted the freedom of the press More>>>
FOSTER: Thank You, Andrea Mitchell, For The Ready-Made Column
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 07:24 PM EDT
I learned something about myself Thursday that I did not know: I’m a redneck. But then again, so is every one of you reading this column. Or so says Andrea Mitchell of NBC News. Mitchell, the wife of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, actually went on MSNBC on Thursday as Barack Obama was leaving the stage in Bristol and quipped live: “Interesting images today. Barack Obama, Mark Warner, in Southwest Virginia. This is real [chuckle] redneck ... sort of ... uhm ... bordering on Appalachia ... country." More>>>
Newsbusters: More Obamessiah Worship Overlooked by MSM: Victory Worthy of Another Chapter in Bible
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 06:00 PM EDT
Imagine, if you will, that former Arkansas Gov. Mike "majored in miracles" Huckabee had won the Republican nominating contest and in the rapture of exhuberance at the historic moment, a Republican congressman who is also the son of a famous religious right clergyman exulted that "the event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance." That would certainly get widespread attention in the MSM, being so over-the-top and messianic pronouncement about a Republican presidential figure. More>>>
'Bush Lied'? If Only It Were That Simple.
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 05:50 PM EDT
Search the Internet for "Bush Lied" products, and you will find sites that offer more than a thousand designs. The basic "Bush Lied, People Died" bumper sticker is only the beginning. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, set out to provide the official foundation for what has become not only a thriving business but, more important, an article of faith among millions of Americans. More>>>
Chuck Norris: Congress, get off your gas, and drill!
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Riley Jones
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 04:20 PM EDT
Last Thursday oil prices increased $5.50 per barrel in one day. Last Friday marked the biggest single-day surge in oil price history, rocketing $11 more to $138 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In just two days, oil costs increased 13 percent. Average Americans are literally driving to the poor house on financial fumes. With gas at more than $4 per gallon, roughly two cars in every household, and the average annual gas usage at 700 gallons, you do the math. Americans are being forced to use their hard-earned money that once put food in their stomachs to now put petroleum into their tanks, but to drive the exact same distances they drove a decade ago for four-to-five times the price. More>>>
Note to Self- When in New York, don't sleep with the natives
by
Riley Jones
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 03:24 PM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) - A city Health Department study finds that more than a fourth of adult New Yorkers are infected with the virus that causes genital herpes. more »
Ask You Movie Review- Don't Mess with the Zohan (Funny, Off Color)
by
Riley Jones
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 03:06 PM EDT
McCain, Obama Overlap on Environment, Immigration, Guantanamo
by
Riley Jones
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 11:47 AM EDT
"They are peculiarly connected,'' said Stephen Hess, a scholar at the Washington-based Brookings Institution who served as a speechwriter for President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In part, that's because ``one is following the precepts of his party and the other is going off in another direction,'' Hess said. McCain is a ``maverick'' who often bucks Republican principles, Hess said. His emphasis on issues may change as he tries to appeal more to his party's conservative base and separate himself from Obama, Hess said. And the American voters thought they were getting a choice... McCain has to 'separate himself' from Obama but Dubya said McCain was a 'True Conservative.' I don't think Dubya has a clue what 'conservative' means.- Riley More>>>
A short, stunning video on the 'Tree Man'
by
Riley Jones
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 11:31 AM EDT
32 year old Dede lives in a remote village in Indonesia with his two children, trying to care for them. Dede, a former fisherman, has an extraordinary skin condition: he has root like structures growing out of his body - branches that can grow up to 5cm a year and which protrude from his hands and feet, and welts covering his whole body. He is known locally as 'Tree Man' and his condition has baffled local doctors for 20 years. In an attempt to earn a living to support his family, he is part of a circus troupe, displaying his Tree Man limbs along with others afflicted with skin deformities in 'freak' shows. Dr Anthony Gaspari, a world expert in skin conditions from the University of Maryland travels to Indonesia to attempt to diagnosis Dede's mysterious condition. He takes skin samples for biopsies back in the USA. What will he discover? We go on an intimate journey with the extraordinary Dede, as he tries to eek out a living in a circus troupe to support his family, and as he is given medical help by Dr Gaspari. The identification and possible cure of his condition, could change his whole life. People like this remind me of just how good I have it in life.- Riley
Feinstein: Clinton won popular vote
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Riley Jones
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 08:24 AM EDT
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), a backer of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) during the primary campaign, reiterated on ABC’s “This Week” that Clinton had won the popular vote — an assertion that is not accepted by Illinois Democrat Sen. Barack Obama’s camp and one that, if repeated often, could harm Democratic attempts to unify behind him. TheSaloon.net had posted several articles on this subject- Clinton Beat Obama in the popular vote: Question- Does anyone care that Hillary won the popular vote in the Democratic Primaries? >>> Not that anyone noticed, but Hillary Clinton now leads in the popular vote for the Democratic nomination >>> But we tread in areas where other outlets wet their pants and run for cover, so... go easy on them. - Riley More>>>
Ouch- Hey buddy, pull the debris from your wreck off the track
by
Riley Jones
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 08:11 AM EDT
Does the Corporate Media EVER tell the truth about Iraq?
by
Riley Jones
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 07:58 AM EDT
A series of great interviews with Iraq vets and others. One Excellent piece of journalism.
Nectar of the Broke: The World's 5 Worst Ways To Get Drunk (Funny, Rough Language)
by
Riley Jones
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 07:48 AM EDT
'Brokeback Mountain' to premiere as opera in 2013
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 01:21 AM EDT
The New York City Opera commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on "Brokeback Mountain," the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx that became the basis for a 2005 movie that won three Academy Awards. The opera is scheduled to premiere in spring 2013, City Opera said Sunday. It will be City Opera's second Wuorinen premiere, following "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," More>>>
States Take New Tack on Illegal Immigration
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 01:12 AM EDT
Three months after the local police inspected more than a dozen businesses searching for illegal immigrants using stolen Social Security numbers, this community in the Florida Panhandle has become more law-abiding, emptier and whiter (ohh, isn't that cute? - ed.). Many of the Hispanic immigrants who came in 2004 to help rebuild after Hurricane Ivan have either fled or gone into hiding. Churches with services in Spanish are half-empty. More>>>
Planned Parenthood reports income for 2006-2007 fiscal year of over ONE BILLION dollars...$335 million dollars of which in the form of subsidies paid by guess who?
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 01:07 AM EDT
The heavy government funding for Planned Parenthood-- up $31.4 millon over the previous year's figure-- came despite the heavily negative political impact of stories linking Planned Parenthood offices to failure to report statutory rape and to racist fundraising appeals. More>>>
Iraqi Sheik Offers To Take Fight to Bin Laden
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 12:54 AM EDT
The leader of the tribal confederation that has fought to expel Al Qaeda from most of Iraq's Anbar province is offering his men to help gin up a rebellion against Osama bin Laden's organization along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. (Snip) When asked if he would send military advisers to Afghanistan to assist American troops fighting there, he said: ''I have no problem with this; if they ask me, I will do it.'' More>>>
About Friday’s Unemployment Spike
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 09 Jun 2008 12:44 AM EDT
It wasn’t Bush, it wasn’t greedy corporations, or free trade, or history’s most over-predicted recession. It was not the oil companies, income inequality, or the excesses of cowboy capitalism. None of these things caused the unemployment rate to jump a half a percentage point in one month. Ask yourself a few questions: Why did unemployment surge at a time when unemployment compensation claims are historically low? More>>> |
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