All Further Articles for 2012-02-misc
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In Riverdale, A Happy Long Life Free of Prejudice The homophobic One Million Moms is freaking out because Archie comics has not just an openly gay character, but one who just got married. To a guy. Who's black, for Jiminy Cricket's sake. They want Toys 'R Us to get rid of those nasty comics right now. Archie's CEO, though, blithely wishes the new couple all the best, thanks. “We stand by Life with Archie #16...Riverdale is a safe, welcoming place that does not judge anyone. It’s an idealized version of America that will hopefully become reality someday." Read more |
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Redeeming Daniel Pearl Daniel Pearl, the WSJ reporter abducted and killed in Pakistan in 2002, was posthumously baptized by the Mormon church, which for some unfathomable reason felt it had the right to "save" the Jewish Pearl according to its own narrow, presumptuous tenets. Pearl's parents, who have already endured so much, are incensed. “Rest assured that Danny’s soul was redeemed through the life that he lived and the values that he upheld." Read more |
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Words Not To Say Online: Sick, Wave, Cops, Smart, Ice, Worm and Many More Proving the Feds are even busier monitoring social media than perhaps you imagined, the watchdog group Electronic Privacy Information Center has posted a 39-page Department of Homeland Security manual listing hundreds of seemingly innocuous words that could get you into trouble. God bless the Freedom of Information Act. Wait. Can we say "freedom," "information," and "act"? Read more |
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Soccer At Gitmo. Really. The U.S. military is giving Guantanamo a $744,000 soccer field, which has Fox News outraged that liberals are turning it into "a country club." We're outraged Obama is giving them, not freedom or due process like he promised, but soccer. Add the field's cost to $800,000 a year per detainee and over $500 million in renovations . Moral cost: Priceless. Read more |
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Rich People Are Creeps New studies show, unshockingly, the rich are different from us, ie: slimier. An analysis by the WSJ found the rare 1% facing foreclosure stay in their mansions longer than others faced with losing homes. And researchers at UC Berkeley found rich folks are more likely to do ethically-challenged things like cheating, stealing and cutting others off at intersections. But beware: If you win the big one, you likely will too. Update : Still, that banker's 1% tip story? Hoax. Read more |
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Mitt Time-Travels After Taking A Few Plastic Uncomfortable Laps So it seems Mitt 'Silver-Foot-In-Mouth' Romney is all ready for Michigan, having showed he's one of the common folk by telling them some of his best friends are (very rich) NASCAR team owners and recalling the Golden Jubilee, that landmark celebration in automotive history, which he remembers so clearly even though he wasn't born yet. Go get 'em Mitt. Inevitably, Colbert has a swell time with him and that other appalling guy. Read more |
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Homecoming: Our True Voice Is A Chorus A photo of the homecoming kiss between Sgt. Brandon Morgan and his partner Dalan Wells has gone viral since it was posted on a Gay Marines Facebook page, with almost 41,000 'likes' at last count. Update: The creator of the page pays eloquent, modest, moving tribute to the photo and what it represents to his brothers. Read more |
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Proudly Clueless Banker to Likely Weary Waitress: 1% Tip and Get A Real Job Some banker jerk who ate a $135 meal at a California restaurant left his server a $1.33 tip - and sneered she should "get a real job" - to show his contempt for the 99%. His pointedly douchebag move was recorded by an underling who on his (now off-line) blog Future Ex-Banker describes himself as a conflicted "cog in the wheel of this increasingly ugly industry." Restaurant workers are fighting for a living wage in Florida and nationwide. It's hard work; don't forget your (non-contemptible) tips. Read more |
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F-35 (Still) $1 Trillion Fiasco The Pentagon has decided to continue "low-rate" production of the F-35 stealth jet, the most advanced, ex pensive and dysfunctional U.S. weapons program, despite an estimated pricetag of $1 trillion, a history so troubled NATO allies are meeting soon to reconsider it, and a current morass that has left military pilots hanging out in Florida for a year taxiing them up and down the runway. Your tax dollars at work. Read more |
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And the Rotten Banana Award for Satanic Witchcraft Enticement Goes To...Paranormal Activity 3 Miss the Oscars? Check out World Net Daily 's Rotten Banana Awards for the 20 Most Unbearable Movies promoting homosexuality and other "anti-human and anti-God themes." Top Vile, Vulgar & Anti-Christian Award went to Kevin Smith's "Red State." Other lucky winners: “Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star,” Slimy Pornification Award, “The Skin I Live In,” Lurid Transgender Abuse Award, and “Happy Feet Two,” Environmentalist Hysteria Award for its "radical environmentalism, magical thinking and same sex partnerships." Now you know. Never trust a dancing penguin. Read more |