Archive for August, 2009

Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-Aug. 2 Edition

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LEAD STORY-The (UK) Independent: Secret Life of Sperm–Do Eggs Have a Built-In ‘Loser’ Code? While definitive ejaculations on this story might be premature (and might cause the ink to run), this scientific theory causes ‘bulo’s, uh,  brain to shift into overdrive: Thousands of infertile couples could be spared the pain, anguish and expense of fruitless […]

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Best Health Care System In The World!

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Newsweek‘s Jonathan Alter channels his inner blogger to defend our current health care system: Why should I be entitled to the same insurance that members of Congress get? Blue Dogs need a lot of medical attention to treat their blueness. I’m just a regular guy and definitely deserve less. I had cancer a few years […]

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Late Night Video — Banned Commercials

Filed in National by on August 1, 2009 2 Comments

These are from Ikea. Not sure if they were banned here or elsewhere….some portions of these 3 commercials may be NSFW

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Blacks need to know when enough is enough

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First Glenn Beck with Obama is a racist that hates white people (including his mom and her parents I guess) Now Coulter telling us how minorities, blacks and women should act. Don’t worry,she’ll be on Hannity. What she said wasn’t the opinion of a network. So, it’s all good. COULTER: In fact, I have been […]

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Right Wing Townhall Harassment Strategy

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So I guess given the persistent ratcheting up up the paranoid, hateful and just plain fact-challenged rhetoric of the wingnuts this can’t be a surprise — one of the teabagging organizers is providing detailed directions on how to disrupt townhalls held by Democratic congresspeople this August

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Brandywine Valley Drive of a Lifetime

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Brandywine Valley Drive of a Lifetime

The National Geographic Traveler magazine has a feature called Drive of a Lifetime, and the Brandywine Valley makes this list in this month’s issue.

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How Do We Deal With This?

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Dave Weigel at the Washington Independent breaks down the Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll even further and finds this startling bit of news: So what proportion of Southern whites doubt that Obama is an American citizen? While Ali did not release the racial breakdowns for the the South, and cautioned that the margin of error in […]

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Put Up Or Shut Up – More Of This Please

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Anthony Weiner (D-NY) hits it out of the park by double-daring Republicans to back up their trash talk about government run health care… by voting on eliminating medicare. It’s about time someone called them out.  Make them put their vote where their mouth is – if they dare.  It’s quite a dilemma for the GOP, […]

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Kissing and making up…then screwing America

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It’s a pleasure to see corporate media giants having civil discourse behind the scenes. I can’t think of anything I would rather read about.  I mean, who wouldn’t want confirmation that News/Media executives from competing companies get together to talk strategy and cease attacking one another for the betterment of both bottom lines. I watch […]

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Deep thought

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Exposing corruption and fraud is an awesome idea, just don’t expose it while you hind behind stated motives we all know aren’t true and representative of the people doing the exposing.

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