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ckafrica
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### News that makes us laugh, cry, or both

Post by ckafrica » Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:07 pm

I thought we needed on news specific
Cello-scrotum a hoax
Edit: I'd just like to point out that picking Daily Show and Colbert is cheating as it nearly always makes be do both.
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Post by Username17 » Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:12 pm

Nashville rejects English-Only bullshit.
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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:53 pm

> FrankTrollman wrote:Nashville rejects English-Only bullshit.
> -Username17

Nice.
If they ever do make America English-Only, I'm learning Ulster Scots and speaking it as a primary language just to fuck with people.
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Post by Bigode » Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:17 am

Girls purged from school. Infraction: good taste.

> Hans Freyer, s.b.u.h. wrote:A manly, a bold tone prevails in history. He who has the grip has the booty.

> Huston Smith wrote:Life gives us no view of the whole. We see only snatches here and there, (...)

> brotherfrancis75 wrote:Perhaps you imagine that Ayn Rand is our friend? And the Mont Pelerin Society? No, those are but the more subtle versions of the Bolshevik Communist Revolution you imagine you reject. (...) FOX NEWS IS ALSO COMMUNIST!

> LDSChristian wrote:True. I do wonder which is worse: killing so many people like Hitler did or denying Christ 3 times like Peter did.

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Post by ubernoob » Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:17 am

> Bigode wrote:Girls purged from school. Infraction: good taste.

Buuuulllshiiiiiiit. That's fucking retarded.
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Post by Koumei » Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:14 am

Very stupid indeed. Sadly, it doesn't surprise me any more. With any luck, they can later on play the spite card and successfully sue the school for made-up trauma / claim it is the deep-seated reason behind any failings or crimes.
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Post by Draco_Argentum » Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:08 am

If they charge a fee for tuition they're a business.
This sort of shit is why its hard to attack scientology though. Fuckbags know they can't weaken the protection that religion gives without hurting their own ability to be raging arseholes.
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Post by Absentminded_Wizard » Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:20 pm

I like how they threw them out for "suspicion of being lesbians." No actual lesbian sex, and we're not even sure if these kisses involved any tongue or not. And some heterosexual women tell their friends they love them all the time. Really, what the heck was their evidence, other than some ambiguous MySpace profile data?

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### Republicans are Limbaugh's bitches

Post by Lago PARANOIA » Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:36 pm

Verdict: Definitely laugh. Courtesy of dailykos.
I'm not going to embed the link, the URL should speak for itself.
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/bipar ... augh-fans/
And what exactly did he say to necessitate this apology?

> Yesterday GOP Congressman Phil Gingrey of Georgia made some perfectly ordinary comments to The Politico about Rush Limbaugh. Gingrey said that it’s easier for outside opinion-makers — such as Limbaugh and Sean Hannity — to aggressively attack Democrats than it is for elected GOP leaders, who have to work with the Dems.
> "I think that our leadership, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, are taking the right approach," Gingrey said. "I mean, it’s easy if you’re Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or even sometimes Newt Gingrich to stand back and throw bricks." Many interpreted these remarks as the equivalent of telling Rush to "back off."
> Turns out that Gingrey’s measured remarks provoked such a violent outcry that he has now been forced to apologize.
> "Because of the high volume of phone calls and correspondence received by my office since the Politico article ran, I wanted to take a moment to speak directly to grassroots conservatives," Gingrey said in a new statement released by his office. "Let me assure you, I am one of you."

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Post by Koumei » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:22 am

Wizard: surely they should know about the phrase "pics or it didn't happen" (innocent until proven guilty, unless Bush altered that one as well).
Lago: Wait, Limbaugh HAS fans?
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Post by JonSetanta » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:49 am

> offending-limbaugh-fans/

OH RIGHT like THAT isn't an easy thing to do, nor a DAILY OCCURRENCE.
You can offend them just by being the wrong race, religion, or sexual preference.
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Post by virgil » Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:12 am

> Koumei wrote:Wait, Limbaugh HAS fans?

Her certainly does. My mother's a major fan. Considers him sexy and everything. I'm going to take a cold shower now.
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Post by Username17 » Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:24 am

Shoe Thrower still in jail, gets monument in Saladin's home town.
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Post by Lago PARANOIA » Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:36 am

Damn, Steele won the RNC chairmanship instead of the crazy racist guy.
That kind of makes me sad. I would've loved to have watched the GOP implode. It might anyway, since the current chairman is pro-choice.

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> In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.

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Post by JonSetanta » Sat Jan 31, 2009 11:21 am

> FrankTrollman wrote:Shoe Thrower still in jail, gets monument in Saladin's home town.
> -Username17

Cool guy, threw a shoe, doesn't afraid of anything.
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Post by traverse » Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:48 pm

> FrankTrollman wrote:Shoe Thrower still in jail, gets monument in Saladin's home town.

Some one get that man's face on a t-shirt, we've got money to make!
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Post by Maxus » Sat Jan 31, 2009 5:44 pm

This made me grin...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/po ... tml?ref=us
Naturally, some people are freaking out over Obama 'disrespecting the Oval Office' because he's relaxing the dress code.
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Post by Koumei » Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:17 am

...a dress code that, from the sound of it, was only put in place by Bush. So even if you don't think that any decision of Bush is objectively bad, it's still hardly a long-standing tradition.
I'm waiting for "shorts, sandals and tank tops" personally.
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Post by zeruslord » Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:22 am

Maybe that is acceptable in Deathworld, but here in 'Murika, I expect my business, political, and economic leaders to be uncomfortable while they work.
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Post by Crissa » Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:47 am

(From Kevin Drum)
Guy gets letter from American Express 'You shopped at some place that other people who didn't pay their bills shopped' (sounds like relining, which is illegal). Months later, American Express says they're no longer doing that and never did it. Only they'll still do that for whatever company owns your mortgage (that's kinda the same, and worse).
Also, American Express previously said that it was perfectly okay that they were cutting people's credit based upon where they shopped.
Reports say that people with long standing lines of credit are having their credit cut to a faction when they actually use the credit currently (not from any other things) - and these are the companies we gave millions of dollars to via the fed so that they wouldn't do this.
Not cool.
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Post by Koumei » Sun Feb 01, 2009 4:37 am

> zeruslord wrote:Maybe that is acceptable in Deathworld, but here in 'Murika, I expect my business, political, and economic leaders to be uncomfortable while they work.

Pfft, until they allow people to show up to work naked in the Southern reaches of Australia (we've had temperatures reaching 46C (115F), and the coolest it has been getting is 33C (91F) at night), every workplace is just going to make the situation worse by having air-con on at full blast.
Indeed, there were 40-min blackouts all over Adelaide so as to ease up the power grid - the alternative being a mass power blackout for a few days. One energy station in Victoria exploded (which sounds kind of awesome if you ignore the problems caused), bushfires have wiped houses out, a number of elderly have been ushered into the next life and hundreds of trains were cancelled due to the heat making the rails buckle.
I actually received a warning SMS from the government, saying "Remember to stay cool, drink lots and check on vulnerable neighbours", and the BBC even did an article on the heatwave.
The only times I've even worn more than knickers this week has been when walking the dog or going shopping. There will not be pics.
So I fully endorse any kind of "It's hot, wear less" policy.
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Post by shau » Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:53 am

> Koumei wrote: Pfft, until they allow people to show up to work naked in the Southern reaches of Australia (we've had temperatures reaching 46C (115F), and the coolest it has been getting is 33C (91F) at night), every workplace is just going to make the situation worse by having air-con on at full blast.
> Indeed, there were 40-min blackouts all over Adelaide so as to ease up the power grid - the alternative being a mass power blackout for a few days. One energy station in Victoria exploded (which sounds kind of awesome if you ignore the problems caused), bushfires have wiped houses out, a number of elderly have been ushered into the next life and hundreds of trains were cancelled due to the heat making the rails buckle.
> I actually received a warning SMS from the government, saying "Remember to stay cool, drink lots and check on vulnerable neighbours", and the BBC even did an article on the heatwave.
> The only times I've even worn more than knickers this week has been when walking the dog or going shopping. There will not be pics.
> So I fully endorse any kind of "It's hot, wear less" policy.

If it makes you feel any better, it has been so cold and snowy here that they actually closed the university.
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Post by Josh_Kablack » Sun Feb 01, 2009 6:56 am

Here's another A soul-crushing failure of the human spirit story
"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
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Post by Username17 » Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:41 am

It was negative fourteen out last night. It was so cold that I put on pants.
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Post by Bigode » Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:06 am

> Koumei wrote:"Remember to stay cool, drink lots (...)"

Is it just me who thinks those contradict each other?

> Hans Freyer, s.b.u.h. wrote:A manly, a bold tone prevails in history. He who has the grip has the booty.

> Huston Smith wrote:Life gives us no view of the whole. We see only snatches here and there, (...)

> brotherfrancis75 wrote:Perhaps you imagine that Ayn Rand is our friend? And the Mont Pelerin Society? No, those are but the more subtle versions of the Bolshevik Communist Revolution you imagine you reject. (...) FOX NEWS IS ALSO COMMUNIST!

> LDSChristian wrote:True. I do wonder which is worse: killing so many people like Hitler did or denying Christ 3 times like Peter did.

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