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More birthers believe that Obama was born in Indonesia than Kenya (where did *that* come from?), and while 6% know that he was born in Hawaii, they refuse to concede that Hawaii is part of the U.S. It's hard to know what will be tougher to explain to my future children: Sarah Palin or birthers.
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President Bush pressured Tom Ridge to raise the security alert level the night before the 2004 election, to frighten people into voting for him. My God, the more information that comes out about the Bush White House, the more I think that these people are nuts for opposing a Truth and Reconciliation Committee. The alternative looks like jail time.
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This is how far the moon is from Earth, to scale. A quarter million miles isn't quite as far as I thought.
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The CIA hired Blackwater to execute a secret assassination program, which they hid from Congress for seven years. Dick Cheney authorized the program, saying that there was no need to inform the legislature. This is basically what the fringiest leftists were accusing Bush, the CIA, and Blackwater of doing, as early as 2002. And—whaddya know?—they were right.
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Mother Jones' expose on Fiji Water, the country of Fiji, and the cognitive dissonance that's necessary to perceive the company as being eco-anything. Fiji has a nationwide problem of a lack of access to safe drinking water. But this American company is bottling their water and shipping it halfway across the world so that yuppies can buy it, propping up a repressive dictatorship while they're at it. Instead of buying Fiji water, why not just kick a puppy? It's cheaper. And local.
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“Instead of buying Fiji water, why not just kick a puppy? It’s cheaper. And local.”
wow, thats genius. heh, I’m looking for a puppy now . . . but will a kitten do if I cant find one?
There’s a 3:1 kitten:puppy ratio in all things, so you’ll need a few of ’em.
damn it! things are always way too complicated.
“Mr. Ridge provides no evidence that politics motivated the discussion. Until now, he has denied politics played a role in threat levels. Asked by Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times if politics ever influenced decisions on threat warnings, he volunteered to take a lie-detector test. “Wire me up,” Mr. Ridge said, according to Mr. Lichtblau’s book, “Bush’s Law.” “Not a chance. Politics played no part.””
So was he lying then? Or is he lying now? (I wonder which would sell more books???)
On Hawaii, maybe these folks were confused by the resolution passed during the Clinton Administration apologizing for the overthrow of Hawaii’s former sovereign government. Maybe, true to their conviction of self-determination, these conservatives refuse to recognize anything other than the Kingdom of Hawaii. =) Or I guess, they could have missed the chapter in US history that talked about the popular movement to convert Hawaii from a territory to a state. I mean since it was essentially immigrant labor that rose up and broke the power of the business elite, it is probably a repressed memory.
When I hear people say that “Obama is doing too much, to fast”, I remind them that they should count their blessings, because if his plate was not so full, Obama’s cabinet meetings would be dominated by a review of Bush Administration High Crimes and Misdemeanors evidence.
Add violation of Federal law regarding political manipulation of DHS to the list.
I think he’s telling the truth when it fits my worldview.
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Heh, don’t we all? :-)
Bottled water is so weird in general. I was out running errands this morning, and forgot my water bottle, so bought a bottle at the grocery store, as it’s about 200 degrees in Philly and I had a long walk home. It was just water, store brand, whatever.
Except the pitch to sell this water was that it had no calories. The whole bottle was covered in type about the lack of calories in that very bottle of water. I’ll wait for you all to get out your smelling salts. Mirabule dictu, no calories!! My god!
Wait, what now? All water has what? Oh. Hmm.
Next thing, it will sold on the basis of it being ‘wet’.