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Monthly Archives: July 2008

US believes the fiction that torture is OK

In the Fox TV show “24”, counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer tortures someone around 12 times a day. While Bauer’s use of torture magically always elicits the truth from its deserving victims, the lawyers who are designing our nation’s interrogation policies seem to be basing their opinions more on this fictional TV show than on either the poor […]

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McCain’s Sinking Feeling

© Tony Auth

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Why they hate us

From the National Review: If Obama could go to Germany and give a speech in English and be not only understood but well-received, why does he say we all need to learn another language?

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Late Night Humor

“After a quick meet-and-greet with King Abdullah, Obama was off to Israel, where he made a quick stop at the manger in Bethlehem where he was born.” -Jon Stewart “Hey, did you see [Barack Obama] playing basketball with our troops in Iraq? Did you see that one shot he made from 40 feet? 40 feet. […]

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Government admits FOX is their propaganda arm

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Drain on the Economy

Another huge bank bailout, paid for by us, the taxpayers. Is this how markets work? © Matt Davies

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Wishin’ Accomplished

On June 11, 2003, on Fox News, Neil Cavuto said “… many argue the conflict isn’t over.” McCain responded, “Well, then why was there a banner that said mission accomplished on the aircraft carrier?” Thanks to TPM

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Open letter to the colonies

We, in Ireland, can’t figure out why you people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States. On one side, you had a pants wearing female lawyer, married to another lawyer who can’t seem to keep his pants on, who just lost a long and heated primary against a lawyer, who is married […]

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The marketplace works

© Ruben Bolling I was cracking up laughing when Bush first said that, since oil has always been so heavily subsidized in this country. No wonder Bush’s oil company lost money.

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OMG! Germany associated with Hitler!

Fox News makes lemons out of lemonade (at 1:20 in the video), pointing out that there are monuments in Germany associated with Hitler! The whole video is hilarious, of course: UPDATE: The push to associate Obama with Hitler has turned even weirder, if not downright sinister. On Glenn Beck’s CNN show, guest Ben Stein said […]

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What do you do when you run out of enemies?

Makes it kinda hard to keep selling fear. © Tom Toles

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Late Night Humor

“President Bush went on to say, today there are no short-term solutions to the energy crisis. Apparently, there are no second term solutions either.” -Jay Leno “Human rights activists have sent a letter to President Bush, asking him to raise human rights issues with the Chinese government during the Olympics. Unfortunately, they also sent a […]

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Obama & McCain – same planet, different universes

  Source    Obama    McCain LA Times On Monday, the Illinois senator was photographed in a helicopter touring Baghdad with Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the U.S. military commander in Iraq. On Monday, the Arizona senator was seen on television riding in a golf cart with former President George H.W. Bush at Bush’s oceanfront estate in […]

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The Gospel of Obama

Excerpts from http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4392846.ece In the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness. In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the […]

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The ‘eductaion’ of Fox News

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