Barack supports/ed marijuana decriminalization. ::Cheers::

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He had raised his hand in an early democratic debate for not decriminalizing marijuana. To quote the Washington Times story…

Asked about the two different answers, Mr. Obama’s presidential campaign said he in fact has “always” supported decriminalizing marijuana as he answered in 2004, meaning the candidate mistakenly raised his hand during the presidential debate last fall.

I can’t believe this man is still on TV…

…and it’s wonderful…

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In other news…

My favorite “Worst Person in the World” in a long time…

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Who runs this woman’s campaign?

I mean come on… This is too easy… Hillary’s official campaign song is “When The Lady Smiles” by Golden Earring from the year 1984…. Never heard of either of those two names or that year? Well, here’s the video for said song… The word “controversial” might come to mind… Let it… . . . Let it simmer…

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In other news, if you have a next-gen system (read not a Wii (even though it really is the most next-gen of all the next-gen systems, but we won’t get into that right now…)) and you aren’t playing “Burnout: Paradise” what in the world is wrong with you… It is graphically stunning, the crashes are the best I’ve ever seen in a video game, and the driving engine is superb… I’m hooked on it right now, despite some of the terrible music in the game… with one large exception… the title song… Can anyone guess it?

Fonzie to Get Bronze Statue in Milwaukee

Fonz FINALY! I’ve been saying for years that the Fonz needed his own statue. It should look similar to the bronze statues of Mary Tyler Moore in Minneapolis and of Bob Newhart in Chicago. Price-tag, $85,000.

Long after we’re gone, our decedents will be reminded that once there was a man who’s coolness reigned supreme.

Aaaaaaaay!

Costello on SNL

I’d never actually seen this video before… Switching songs live on air is ballsy for an artist that had just released his first album… He was banned from SNL for 12 years after this…

Timeless lyrics in this writers opinion…

I was tuning in the shine on the light night dial
doing anything my radio advised
with every one of those late night stations
playing songs bringing tears to me eyes
I was seriously thinking about hiding the receiver
when the switch broke ’cause it’s old
They’re saying things that I can hardly believe.
They really think we’re getting out of control.

Radio is a sound salvation
Radio is cleaning up the nation
They say you better listen to the voice of reason
But they don’t give you any choice
’cause they think that it’s treason.
So you had better do as you are told.
You better listen to the radio.

I wanna bite the hand that feeds me.
I wanna bite that hand so badly.
I want to make them wish they’d never seen me.

Some of my friends sit around every evening
and they worry about the times ahead
But everybody else is overwhelmed by indifference
and the promise of an early bed
You either shut up or get cut up;
they don’t wanna hear about it.
It’s only inches on the reel-to-reel.
And the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools
tryin’ to anaesthetise the way that you feel

Radio is a sound salvation
Radio is cleaning up the nation
They say you better listen to the voice of reason
But they don’t give you any choice
’cause they think that it’s treason.
So you had better do as you are told.
You better listen to the radio.

Dr. Paul is allowed to speak by Fox again… How nice of them…

From last night 1/10.08…
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What they said…

“…hey, maybe we should have read more of his writings before inviting him on air…”

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Norman Solomon has written some excellent books/pieces if you’d like to read them…
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Google’s list of his books…
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His site…

Neil Cavuto can blow me… RP ‘08…

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Just so you can recognize it in the future, this is what you would call a “hit piece” by FNC… Nice try by the way Neil… “…and to be fair”… Suck it Neil…
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There are some things I disagree with on Dr. Paul, but his overall message “Just leave people alone to live their lives” resonates with me quite a bit…
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For all of you who heard of the Tea Party, here’s a few graphs showing what that day looked like… $6.04 Million is quite staggering when you consider the average donation was ~$102…

‘Tis the Season to be…an Atheist?!

Breaking news at this hour! A con-tra-va-see!

Did you know that atheists are trying to infiltrate the holiday season by indoctrinating our Christian youth?

How, you ask? Through the guise of a fantasy holiday movie entitled The Golden Compass. The film has been adapted from a book, which was part of a children’s series entitled His Dark Materials. The author of the series, Philip Pullman, is an atheist who wrote the books in order to construct a sort of counter narrative to C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia. It has some unflattering metaphorical representations of the Church and shares the vision and values of nonbelief to
children.

When the studio adapted The Golden Compass to film, it removed or whitewashed all of those critical elements, rendering the original storyline completely unrecognizable. So why are the demagogues and Christian watch groups frothing at the bit over the film’s release if its anti-religious elements have been abandoned?

Bill Donohue said that while the film itself isn’t objectionable, it could encourage the children who go to see it to read the series, which would denigrate Christianity and promote atheism for kids. As a result, he and his band of monkeys in the Catholic League have organized mass boycotts of the film. It’s a very reasonable position: Other people do not have the right to posit an opinion, narrative, fantasy tale, or any other sort of expression that directly dissents with the opinions that Bill Donohue holds. I’m not sure if you were aware of this, reader, but Bill Donohue is actually God in disguise.