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Chimps Kick Human Ass in Short Term Memory Study 2007-12-03 09:47:00 In the second time this week we've posted on simians being tested, chimpanzees outperformed humans in short term memory tests conducted at Kyoto University in Japan.If that wasn't bad enough, the chimps taunted the hapless students with lewd gestures afterwards. Of course, with their intelligence growing, you can't help but wonder if the chimps are slowly hatching their plans for world dominance.They can't do much of a worse job with this world than the humans did. And the only thing we would have to worry about is their world domination leading up to this piece of hammy acting: Read more:Chimps
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National Debt Grows $1 a Minute 2007-12-03 06:21:00 Our government apparently has the mindset of a degenerate who borrows money all over the place with pretty much no intention of paying it back. You know that guy in some way. But, for the government of the free world to act like just shows what they are made of.This article tells us that our national debt is growing $1.4 billion a day and $1 million a minute. Just stand there for sixty seconds and contemplate another million dollars lost for your children's futures. Let me remind you that a lot of this debt grew under an allegedly fiscally minded Republican administration who spent as much money as a cokehead at a strip club. Someone has to tell this government that when they ask you if you want champagne, your wallet's going to be light at the end of the night.According to the calculations, the debt for each family is currently $30,000. Do any of you have that laying around? Don't you get the impression when you hear these numbers that we are essentially doomed? Especially if we ge Read more:National
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Wesley Snipes Plays the Race Card 2007-12-17 19:51:00 In this interview with Entertainment Weekly, Wesley
Snipes attempts to explain his problems with the IRS recently and eventually brings out the race card to explain that as well as why his movies are going to straight to DVD.So, of course, your movies don't just plain suck, do they, Wesley? Or that instead of trying to be an action star instead of the somewhat serious actor he was early on, he was pretty much dooming himself to as short span career along the lines of Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme?I don't know whether Snipes is guilty of tax fraud, but, as far as his career goes, he sold that a long time ago to make crappy movies. And race has absolutely nothing to do with that.And now, Jamie Foxx does his impression of Wesley Snipes: Read more:Plays
McCain & Lieberman Photo: Before The Kiss 2007-12-17 19:22:00 Joseph Lieberman
endorsed John McCain
today joining together in a union of irrelevance. Doesn't it look like McCain is trying to cop a feel of Lieberman's nuts? Get a room, you guys! Read more:Photo
Anti-Christian Hate Crime a Hoax 2007-12-17 17:51:00 This story details how a student at Princeton, who was a member of a socially conservative group, admitting to fabricating an assault on himself, as well as sending threatening e-mails to himself, other members of his group, The Anscombe Society, as well as a conservative professor. One of the group's reasons for existing was to promote chastity in the name of Christ himself.This moron's name is Francisco Nava. That is him pictured above. Please, let's all remember his name and face. If I need to come up with a name for a douchebag in one of my scripts, this may be the name I use.As I have mentioned in recent posts, there seems to be a tendency on the part of Christian
Conservatives to play the part of victim, despite the fact that Christians are the majority religion in this country. Perhaps, some Christians want to bring back crucifixions so that they can fall over each other to be the first one martyred for their beliefs.However, this once again demonstrates that perhaps those w
Marriage Bliss Story of the Day 2007-12-17 13:37:00 Yesterday afternoon, a domestic dispute between a married couple got out of hand when they both whipped out their guns and started blasting away. The wife shot first, but the husband had the better aim and blew away his spouse. Til death do you part, indeed.What I hope to learn from this story is whether this shoot-out happened due to the many petty, stupid arguments married couples have to pass the time. Did he spill too many chips on the couch while watching the football game?Or, more importantly, did each of these two need their own gun in the house? Isn't one enough to protect their home? What's funnier is that the wife's gun was a shotgun and it appears the husband had a smaller gun. Guess he had to take her out, as she was clearly wearing the pants in the house. Read more:Bliss
Explosion at the Fox News Building! 2007-12-17 12:25:00 A small chemical explosion happened on the 45th floor of the building that houses Fox News in New York today at 10:39AM.Later tonight, Fox News will lay blame for this explosion on the liberals. According to them, the heating and cooling system was provided by a company run by lefties, who rigged the explosion because they want to be more like the terrorists. Read more:Explosion
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America The Stupid 2007-12-17 11:08:00 This has been up for months and yet today is the first day I've seen this. It was linked to on Hollywood Elsewhere to explain why Alvin & The Chipmunks was successful at the box office this past weekend. Read more:America
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The New Dark Knight Trailer 2007-12-17 07:10:00 This isn't what played this past weekend in front of "I Am Legend", but a full trailer which can be found here. This looks very good. Before "Batman Begins", the last thing I wanted to see was another Batman movie, but Christopher Nolan changed that. Read more:Knight
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Mitt Romney Back-Pedals and Flip-Flops Again 2007-12-17 06:54:00
Courtesy of the website Crooks and Liars, here is a video of Mitt Romney
backing away from his "Freedom requires Religion" statement from his earlier speech. I'll believe when I see it when an atheist or agnostic are ever appointed to a position of power in government. With all the religious litmus tests around, I don't see that happening anytime soon. Read more:Pedals
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Let's Impeach Dick Cheney! 2007-12-17 06:39:00 If you would like to sign a petition to impeach the criminal above, please visit this website set up by Rep. Robert Wexler: WexlerWantsHearings.com.The original goal was to get 50,000 signatures. Now, it is at 70,000+. Read more:Cheney
Hilariously Phony Presidential Candidate Ad of the Day: Rudolph Giuliani 2007-12-17 06:29:00 Apparently, this was the introductory video before a speech he made in Florida on Saturday. Personally, I thought it moved, sounded and felt like a parody with all the cliches about America you can throw at us.There's such a build-up to something great and mind blowing, but all we get is a petty man and exploitation artist. My favorite line is when the narrator says Giuliani
stands up to tyrants, terrorists and bullies. How does he do that? Stand in front of a mirror every morning and ritually whip his own back with a cat-o'nine tails? Read more:Presidential
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A Patriotic Music Video To Make You Vomit Inside Your Mouth 2007-12-16 15:09:00 America We Stand As OnePosted Apr 05, 2005Ever wonder why the terrorists hate us? Maybe this video has something to do with it.This is the "We Built This City" of patriotic songs. The singer looks so damned pained, and so do I watching this crap. Read more:Patriotic
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Man Dies While Hanging Christmas Lights 2007-12-16 08:27:00 A man in East Palo Alto, California died while hanging lights in a redwood tree. His lights touched two power lines electrocuting him.For all of those who think Christmas
is so important, ask yourselves was his life worth it simply to hang up decorations that don't mean a damned thing? Read more:Hanging
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Paranoid "Christian" Bill O'Reilly Thinks Everyone Is Out To Get Him 2007-12-16 07:29:00
You have to watch the clip above and wonder what stirs up Bill O'Reilly
's paranoia. He's complaining that the liberals and media are out to get Christian
ity, which is the majority religion in this country. Because Christianity is, apparently, beyond criticism, particularly when it influences our politicians who should, one of these days, represent all people as opposed to those who believe in the Bible.Once religion becomes a tool for power, as Christianity has often been used, it then becomes part of the debate, as well those who believe in it. It is not beyond criticism, nor are its followers. However, the believers in Christianity love to claim the moral high ground simply because they believe. I would argue most Christians distort and misunderstand religion and claim moral high ground without having an ounce of morality themselves.All one has to do is look at the clip above to see two examples of this, proving that religion needs to be checked in the morality department. Two
Bill O'Reilly: The Opera 2007-12-15 17:13:00 This is an opera taken from the telephone call transcripts from the sexual harrassment lawsuit filed by O'Reilly
's producer. Get out your loofahs and falafels!
Religious Zealot of the Week: Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) 2007-12-15 07:05:00
It wasn't bad enough that Rep. Steve
King (R-Iowa) was able to successfully pass a house resolution declaring Christmas and Christianity important and then went on Fox News to rant against the 9 sensible Democrats who votes against it, he now wants Christianity to be taught in our public schools.This man must be stopped. Now. Read more:Zealot
Viral Marketing Backfires Into Racial Fight 2007-12-15 06:23:00 Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - BacklashPosted TodayJudd Apatow invites Paul Rudd, Justin Long, Jonah Hill and Craig Robinson to discuss Walk Hard in a blatant attempt at viral marketing and a fight breaks out! Read more:Viral
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