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They should move the Statue of Liberty…

Cause it seems there isn’t much “liberty” left in NYC.
So now a state assemblyman and NYC’s mayor Bloomberg seem to think it’s a good idea to ban restaurants from using salt in their cooking… BAN SALT!  IN FOOD!  Are they serious?!  These two men should be stripped of their positions of power.  I lived in upstate New York [...]


The Story Behind 5 Banned Toys and Games

To steal a line from Kathy Shaidle, a more appropriate title for this article would be “A few stupid kids ruin some cool toys for everyone.”


It’s REEFER MADNESS!!!

The propaganda was right!
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A San Francisco man claims he was high on a double dose of medical marijuana cookies when he screamed, dropped his pants and attacked crew members on a cross-country flight, forcing its diversion to Pittsburgh, the FBI said Wednesday.
Tell Your Children!


Andrew Wakefield lied, children died… – Part 3

12 years later and some real progress is finally being made on this stupid crap.
A prominent British medical journal on Tuesday retracted a 1998 research paper that set off a sharp decline in vaccinations in Britain after the paper’s lead author suggested that vaccines could cause autism.
Why did he do it? Possibly to make himself [...]


Andrew Wakefield lied, children died… – Part 2

Researcher Who Sparked the Vaccine/Autism Scare “Acted Unethically”
The MMR/autism hypothesis took off in 1998 with the publication of a study of 12 autistic children by Canadian gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield.  Wakefield’s study found traces of the measles virus in the guts of children he tested.  He concluded that the virus derived from the MMR vaccination, and [...]


Give a man a fish… etc… etc…

This story reminds me of something I said at Christmas.
I’m not a psychologist, but I’ve witnessed what your writer from BC refers to as “learned helplessness” over here in Afghanistan.  Example: this past summer I visited a small village near the PAK border where the people had absolutely no water and were relying on a [...]


Quote of the Day

I like John Ratzenburger.
This isn’t the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies.  I was at Woodstock — I built the stage.  And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut-butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who [...]


Internal conflicts are conflicting internally…

Two things I hate:

Hippies
Cops

One thing I love:

Cops beating hippies

BEHOLD!

This is better than pornography.  Also somebody needs to buy this shirt for me:
Maddox rules.


Revolution maybe?

A House subcommittee approved legislation Wednesday aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine its national champion,

The legislation, which goes to the full committee, would make it illegal to promote a national championship game “or make a similar representation,” unless it results from a playoff.
When our senators and congressmen take [...]


Really Ars? Really…?

In an article on the Ars gaming blog, Opposable Thumbs, titled Let’s talk about sex… in video games the author drops this question in the third paragraph of the intro.
But why do people in the game industry get so upset about anything sexual appearing in games, especially when there is so much gratuitous violence permeating [...]


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