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Posted At: 4/3/2024 5:55:51 AM
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Once upon a time, in a whimsical world where gas prices danced with bunny hues, theEaster Bunnybecame an unlikely economist. His fluffy tail twitched as he analyzed the correlation between carrot futures and unleaded gasoline. 🐰📈<br/>ThePink Bunny Indexsoared when tulips bloomed, signaling higher gas…
Posted At: 3/10/2011 2:30:33 PM
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After seeing the complete flaunting of the law in last nights decision by Wisconsin Republicans, I realize (and confirmed) that the modern Republican is nothing to do with the grand Republicans from our history. Indeed, the scariest thing I've ever seen. They live, without hope, they believe in…
Posted At: 7/14/2010 7:57:15 AM
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Why are we farking there? Was it Osama Bin Ladin? Remember when they said they had him cornered in a secret lair in the mountains of Tora Bora? I was all excited to see his Dr Evil hideout. Whatever happened with that guy?<br/>Is it to build a pipeline through the country and control the flow of oil?…
Posted At: 1/5/2010 2:55:40 PM
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While North America's airports groan under the weight of another sea-change in security protocols, one word keeps popping out of the mouths of experts: Israelification.<br/>That is, how can we make our airports more like Israel's, which deal with far greater terror threat with far less…
Posted At: 1/5/2010 2:46:24 PM
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The security theater that has been implemented since 2001 has raised the cost (in dollars, time and convenience) of air travel enough to divert enough travelers to the nations highways that I posit that we as a nation have suffered more death and injury than had we reacted to the Sep 11 attacks by…
Posted At: 11/11/2009 5:51:48 PM
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by Thom Hartmann<br/>If Bill Clinton - or, presumably, Al Gore (or even Ralph Nader) - had been President in 2001, the Ft. Hood massacre almost certainly wouldn't have happened. Because George W. Bush was president, it did. Here's why it's Bush's fault:<br/>One of the first lessons aspiring novelists and…
Posted At: 12/12/2008 1:22:58 AM
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It is not the responsibility of non-Muslims to look past barbaric evil attack after barbaric evil attack and recognize that moderate Islam still exists. It is the responsibility of moderate Islam to rein in and destroy the madmen emanating from your societies. Are you too toothless or unwilling to…
Posted At: 9/14/2008 10:28:17 PM
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Baghdad, Iraq - A US soldier shot and killed a tiger at the Baghdad zoo after it bit another soldier who had reached through the bars of its cage to feed it, a zoo security guard said Saturday. The soldiers had been drinking beer when they entered the zoo Thursday night after it closed, said the…
Posted At: 5/28/2008 5:15:57 PM
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Do you think the average US citizen would be safer if we:<br/>Provided universal health care or killed Iraqis?<br/>Provided port security or killed Iraqis?<br/>Secured our borders or killed Iraqis?<br/>Had levies that didn't collapse or killed Iraqis?<br/>Had bridges that didn't collapse or killed Iraqis?<br/>Had a…
Posted At: 3/12/2008 12:03:19 PM
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It’s the ‘Oh Shit!’ Moment on Iran<br/>by Dave Lindorff<br/>Every horror movie has that “Oh Shit!” moment, when the hero or heroes are huddled in some creepy hideout, and suddenly something happens that tells you that the monster is just around the corner, or just about to attack. In “Jurassic Park” it was…