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Shop Black Friday 2007 at Amazon.com

November 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment

Support this blog by taking advantage of some of the great deals available during the Amazon.com Black Friday Deals Event. Below are some of the highlights at Amazon.com: $10,000 Amazon.com Shopping Spree Sweepstakes Enter for a chance to win a $10,000 Amazon.com Shopping Spree. It only takes a few seconds to enter and no purchase [...]

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Stalin ‘New Pitchman’ for Vladimir Putin’s Russia

November 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Less than a week ago, I posted news that Russians Will Never Live in Freedom Under Putin from our friends at La Russophobe. Today, they alert us to an article published in a German magazine that contains some hard-to-believe news about Josef Stalin as …the New Pitchman for Vladimir Putin’s Russia: We’ve opined many times [...]

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Utah Man Forgets to Say ‘Don’t Taze Me, Bro!’

November 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments

The guy in this Utah Highway Patrol dash camera video should have been wearing a “Don’t taze me, bro!” t-shirt to ensure his feelings were properly conveyed to the trooper who had pulled him and his pregnant wife over for allegedly speeding. [Note: Unfortunately, "He took a ride with the taser" won't fit on a [...]

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Toxic Toys Video Addresses China Trade Issue

November 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment

I’m not too familiar with the the group, Campaign for America’s Future, which claims to be concerned, like so many Americans, about the incidence of lead-contaminated toys and other products from China making it to the shelves of U.S. stores. I do, however, like their humorous take on the issue of tainted toys which is [...]

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Update on Flight 93 Memorial Offered

November 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Early last month, I published a post, Controversy Surrounds Flight 93 Memorial Project, about the controversy surrounding the design of a memorial to Flight 93, the aircraft which crashed into the Western Pennsylvania countryside on Sept. 11, 2001. While several bloggers have posted information on the topic, Velvethammer at Ironic Surrealism II has a great [...]

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Smalltown Thanksgiving Parade Offers Unique Fare

November 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Before diving into feasts of turkey, ham and the like, many Americans will park themselves in front of their television sets tomorrow to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Not Tavin Dillard. The star of Sweet Tea Films fame plans to participate in his hometown’s parade that, according to his description in the video below, [...]

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Aussies Launch First Online Political Party

November 21st, 2007 · No Comments

The internet, which has succeeded in democratizing so many other parts of life, has now set its sights on one of society’s most stalwart professions: democratic lawmakers. A recently launched Australian political party called Senator On-Line promises to let its members vote on every bill that comes before the nation’s parliament. The party’s representative then [...]

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