July 3rd, 2008
You’d think a group of politicians would know something about being politically correct. But when they don’t, this is the site they end up on. The Seattle Times reports that the Washington State Democratic party has been running a video about Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi that tries to tie him to organized crime.
It […]
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June 28th, 2008
A Los Alamos, New Mexico man on Friday lost his bid to change his legal name to something protesting government regulation of free speech. His choice? F___ Censorship.
The man who wants to be known as Mr. Censorship was appealing in a state court after a state district judge refused the name change. The state […]
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June 17th, 2008
In a Romanian village, a dead mayor is better than a live one. At least, it is according to voters.
The mayor ran the village for almost two decades. He died just after voting started. Guess what? He still won by 23 votes. Officials had decided to keep the election open in case the opponent won. […]
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June 11th, 2008
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain quipped Monday that he was using Google to find potential running mates. You’re not fooling anybody, John. You’re just trying to prove that at 71 you’re hip enough to know about search engines. I bet after that he talked about pimping his ride.
Who was the Republicans next choice, Regis […]
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June 6th, 2008
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met the band Kiss when they shared a hotel in Stockholm. She was there for a conference on Iraq; they were there for a sold out concert.
The normally staid Rice said she was “thrilled” to meet the band, who […]
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June 3rd, 2008
There’s a lot of feel good going on with the Democrats because they’ve come a step closer to electing the first Black president. But while the massive happy dance is going on, let’s not forget the weekend’s events. The whole superdelegate infested, chaotic process broke down in complete ridiculousness on Saturday.
Yeah, so superdelegate votes […]
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May 7th, 2008
We see all kinds of dumb news around here but this piece is so exceptionally stupid, well, you be the judge.
News Station Tampa Bay 10 reports that Florida substitute teacher Jim Piculas was fired after being accused of wizardry. You heard me, wizardry. No, this news is not time-warped in from Salem in […]
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May 1st, 2008
There are some angry Italians out there after the finance ministry posted taxpayer earnings from 2005 on its site. Tax authorities claimed that they were trying to increase “transparency” but no one seems to know what kind of transparency they’re talking about. The site almost crashed when people flooded the site to check on their […]
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April 29th, 2008
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Yeah, Jeremiah Wright has crossed the line from controversial to completely off his religious rocker. It’s one thing to insinuate the United States goaded the terrorists into attacking us on 9/11.
Sen. Barack Obama had managed to talk his way out of the initial […]
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April 27th, 2008
Not too long ago, the La Mesa (near San Diego) mayor, Art Madrid, was found drunk in public. The police found him lying on the sidewalk, vomit nearby. They wound up taking him home. The police are being criticized because they didn’t perform a sobriety check on the mayor or the city employee found […]
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