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Note to the religious right: auto-replace is not your friend

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:15:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: To funny by far!

The American Family Association’s OneNewsNow website, for example, takes its AP articles and replaces the word “gay” with the word “homosexual.” I’m not entirely sure why, but it seems to make the AFA happy. The group is, after all, pretty far out there.

That means

Tyson Homosexual easily won his semifinal for the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials and seemed to save something for the final later Sunday.

Homosexual didn’t get off to a particularly strong start in the first semifinal, but by the halfway mark he had established a comfortable lead. He slowed somewhat over the final 10 meters-nothing like the way-too-soon complete shutdown that almost cost him Saturday. Asked how he felt, Homosexual said: “A little fatigued.”

Dept. of You Can't Make This $!&# Up!: Craig and Vitter Team Up!

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:50:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Yep, they team up to support the Federal Marriage Amendment to the Constitution!

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

Just this week, a group of Republican senators re-introduced the Federal Marriage Amendment to the Constitution, which, as we know, would ban gay marriage.

But the funny part is looking over the list of the 10 original sponsors. Most of the names are predictable — Brownback and Inhofe, for example — but there are two others whose names stand out: Sens. David Vitter (R-La.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho).

Yes, two of the principal sponsors of a constitutional amendment to “protect” marriage include one far-right Republican who hired prostitutes and another far-right Republican who was arrested for soliciting gay sex in an airport men’s room.

As my friend Kyle put it, these two are “not exactly the poster boys of the family values crowd or particularly upstanding examples of the supposed sanctity of the ‘union of a man and a woman.”‘

Tags: vitter, craig, you, can't, make, this, $^!&, up!

Evidence Faulted in Detainee Case

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:54:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is what the Republicans feared, that their flimsy reasoning would be blown out of the water!

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

In the first case to review the government’s secret evidence for holding a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a federal appeals court found that accusations against a Muslim from western China held for more than six years were based on bare and unverifiable claims. The unclassified parts of the decision were released on Monday.

With some derision for the Bush administration’s arguments, a three-judge panel said the government contended that its accusations against the detainee should be accepted as true because they had been repeated in at least three secret documents.

The court compared that to the absurd declaration of a character in the Lewis Carroll poem “The Hunting of the Snark”: “I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.”

“This comes perilously close to suggesting that whatever the government says must be treated as true,” said the panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Tags: courts, law, detainees, justice, war, war on terror, gitmo

Defending Wes Clark

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:33:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Cont...

"Is what Wesley Clark said true? Let's check some other facts: John McCain made claims about progress in security by walking through the streets of Baghdad. But as I recall, he was protected by at least a platoon of American soldiers and helicopters lying overhead. In matters of national security, as General Clark pointed out, "it's a matter of understanding risk," and it's "gauging your opponents;" and it's also a "matter of being held accountable."

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

I have known General Clark for many years: we served in the same Army and for the same country. He's a patriot. So to suppose that somehow Wesley Clark would denigrate John McCain's service to his country, while praising his bravery during the time that Senator McCain spent in an enemy prison, is absolutely ludicrous. So let's check the facts.

On CBS's Face the Nation, General Clark said that he believed John McCain was "untried and untested." Journalist Bob Schieffer asked him to explain what he meant. How could Clark make such a claim when "you're talking about somebody who was a prisoner of war? He was a squadron commander of the largest squadron in the Navy. He's been on the Senate Armed Services Committee for many years. How can you say that John McCain is un-untested and untried?"

Tags: wes clark, mccain, mclame, truth, soldiers, worshipping, empty, uniforms, swiftboating

Pinball never died in this arcade

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:50:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The only really good thing to come out of the 70s, well that and the Who, the Ramones and KISS!

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Tim Arnold, 52, has about 800 pinball machines stored in his backyard hangar in Las Vegas. About 200 more machines reside in his Pinball Hall of Fame, where anyone with quarters can play them. What's the use of having cool games, he figured, if you play them alone?

Players can spend hours in the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas reliving childhood memories with their favorite games. It's a memorial to a pop culture touchstone.

LAS VEGAS -- Tim Quintana hunches over a pinball machine and stares down Spider-Man's archenemies: Kingpin, Lizard and Scorpion. He pulls the plunger and a silver ball shoots onto the playfield, a maze of brightly lit bumpers and targets.

The ball darts over a comic-book-style drawing of Spider-Man reaching for his lady love, Mary Jane. The machine beeps: Blip-blip-blip-blip. The ball clangs off two mushroom-shaped bumpers. It plows into three square targets. Blip-blip-blip-blip.

"It makes you feel like a kid for an hour,"

Tags: tag, pinball, arcade, fun, vegas, 70s