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I invert pork rectums.
I was going to ask a really stupid question. What rectums have bones in them?
You’re right. Dumb question.
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The Comedy Stylings of the Economist Readership and Editorial Board
THANK you for all your entries in our latest caption competition. We asked you to provide a pithy caption for a photo accompanying an article in our Business section. It showed Kim Dotcom, the eccentric co-founder of file-sharing site Megaupload, who has been arrested in New Zealand at the request of American officials.
We received a treasure chest of gems this week. Many readers went with a pirate metaphor. New Conservative suggested ”A pirate and his booty”, a theme several others echoed. (We emphasise that Mr Dotcom denies all wrongdoing.) For some reason, quite a few readers drew attention to Mr Dotcom’s physical appearance. “If only I could touch my toes” was suggested by fU4Fra7snW; guest-ijaiojo came up with “Too big to fail?”
Other fine efforts included:
chocolatecity: “I had one simple request: sharks with frikken’ laser beams attached to their heads”
JW_uncapped: “The YMCA dance was not one of Kim Dotcom’s strongpoints”
Devin423: “She’s also my lawyer”
guest-iioaenw: “In hot water”
Is it me, or do these captions stink worse than Dotcom’s bicycle seat?
HT/ jpm
Need Nicknames For Candidate’s Followers
Ron Paul has his Paultards, Paulbots, Ronguloids, Paulestinians.
Mitt Romney has his Mittens, Mittwits.
Santorum has his Knitwits, Sanatoriums (Okay, I just made those up).
Newt Gingrich has his Newtered, Newt Kids on the Block (okay, I’m tired).
There is a long time to go before the primaries are over, we need more creative slams. Whatcha got?
Fried food not a direct cause of heart risk, new research finds
A new study has found that there is no direct correlation between the amount of fried food people eat and their risk of heart disease. Instead, the research found that long-term heart risk depended more on what kind of oil was used in the cooking process — olive oil and sunflower oil are considered the healthiest.
The study, published in the British Medical Journal, studied the eating and cooking habits of 40,000 people in Spain for nearly 15 years. The Mediterranean diet favored by most individuals in the study leans heavily on fried foods, particularly fried fish, but also the healthier olive and sunflower oils for the frying.
The Telegraph reports that study participants were then broken into four different groups, based on how often they ate fried foods. Over the course of the study there were 606 medical cases linked to heart disease, but those results were fairly evenly split between the four subsets. More from the study:
ht/ occamsrazorx
Push ‘Em Back, Push ‘Em Back, Waaaaaay Back
Networks ‘cheerlead’ for Obama
by Bill Bumpas – OneNewsNow
A media expert says the TV networks treated the State of the Union address as a celebration of President Barack Obama while ignoring some of his key failures.
Assessing the analysis of ABC, CBS and NBC, Dan Gainor with the Media Research Center tells OneNewsNow that the news reporters had the pom-poms out for the president.
“NBC particularly was bad,” says Gainor. “They’re pretty much serving the cheerleading role for Obama. They talked about it being ‘rousing,’ and of course they highlighted that the speech was about ‘fairness’ [and] it was ‘optimistic.’
“[But] that’s exactly the kind of cheerleading that they do for Obama any other day, so it’s not to be surprising.”
In a BiasAlert posted online, MRC chronicles what it calls “fawning” exchanges among NBC’s correspondents as they “framed the [State of the Union] address as a boost for Obama’s re-election campaign.”
Gainor says the media failed to focus on key issues like the president’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Editor’s Note:In a poll conducted Wednesday among OneNewsNow readers, 94 percent of more than 4,200 respondents described the bias of the liberal media during this election season as “clearly pro-Obama.”
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Read the article here.
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Well, duhhhh. But the more we say it, the more people will hear it. Maybe not enough to make a difference, but who knows…
NannyNannyBooBoo School
by Scott Mayer, American Thinker
On Wednesday Michelle Obama unveiled the new Federal school-lunch regulations, as part of her anti-obesity campaign. I don’t remember seeing a culinary section in the US Constitution. Under current leadership, the Federal government appears to have an enormous appetite for our freedoms?
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Suddenly the Left is all worried about parental efforts being undone at school? Not quite. It’s the parents’ responsibility, not the federal government’s, to make sure their kids eat well at their homes, their friend’s houses, their grandparent’s houses and at their schools. If enough parents aren’t happy with what’s on the menu (which they can read) they’ll either complain to the school (a local issue) in order to force changes, or hit the school in the pocketbook by packing their kids lunches on their own. That is unless their kids go to one Chicago school where even that is no longer allowed because parents aren’t to be trusted with making their own kids lunches. Forget about metal detectors, this school is more worried about having ‘food detectors’ to make sure no one is packin’-lunch.
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Read the article here.
French Elle accused of racism after suggesting that the Obamas are first African-Americans to be fashionable
They are kidding, right?
ht/ corky
Rush Says: This is Why People Hate Romney – Talking About His False Claims About Reagan And Gingrich
Michael Reagan, Ronald Reagan’s son, says that Romney is all wet on the facts, as well.
Ronald Reagan’s eldest son Mike Reagan has issued a statement lambasting Mitt Romney and his supporters for claims that Romney’s Republican presidential rival Newt Gingrich was a strong critic of President Reagan.
Reagan says such claims are false.
Even Rush Limbaugh, shocked by the Romney claims, chimed on his Thursday radio broadcast to say “This is obviously a coordinated attack to take Newt out here in Florida.”
Rush slammed the Romney-backed smear campaign against Newt.
“That kind of stuff is why people hate Romney so much,” Limbaugh said.
Limbaugh added that Newt has always been a conservative from his early days in national talk radio in the 1980s.
“He was perhaps the premier defender of Ronald Reagan,” Limbaugh said.
Ron Paul Would Reward Cuba
Ron Paul has it backwards, again. He said last night he would open up diplomatic relations with Cuba, saying that Americans are not under their beds cowering in fear of the communist country any longer. Well, that’s because Cuba is piss poor. When they had the financial backing of the Soviet Union they were willing to point nuclear missiles directly at America.
What has changed? They are still a communist regime. Why would we discuss anything with Cuba other than telling them to ditch their failed political ideology? Ron Paul is an oddball.
Ron Paul took a risky position in Florida in Thursday’s debate, calling for communication and diplomatic relations with Cuba, saying that people’s positions have changed dramatically over the last few years.
Paul said that Cuba isn’t going to invade the U.S. any time soon, and that Americans weren’t looking under their beds anymore, worried. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich followed by pledging to continue the economic embargo on Cuba and to take any action short of military invasion to upend the government of Raul Castro.
Paul’s position is a potentially dangerous one in Florida, a state with a influential voting bloc of conservative Republicans from Cuba who have long favored aggressive policies toward Havana.
H. MANN‘I Second-Guess Constantly’ – Barack Obama
Yet, he still married Moose.
Yahoo
“I second-guess constantly… I make a mistake, you know, every hour, every day,” he told ABC News’ Diane Sawyer, laughing. “There’re always things that you’re learning in the job. And I have no doubt that I’m a better president now than the day I took office just because you get more experience. But when you look at the broad outlines of what we did, had it not been for the steps we took our economy would be profoundly weaker than we are right now.”
Obama’s Former Faith Adviser: ‘I, Frankly, Am Glad American Civil Religion is Dying’
Obama’s former Car Czar – “Frankly, I’m glad American made cars are in the shitter.”
Shaun Casey, the religious affairs adviser to presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008, said at a discussion on Tuesday about “God and Politics” that the demise of religious society in the United States is a good thing.
“I, frankly, am glad American civil religion is dying,” said Casey, who is an associate professor of Christian Ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.
Who would have ever guessed that Reverend Wright was the reasonable Obama spiritual adviser?
Now Wait A Damn Minute
Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice
Hold on, here.
I can almost concede that low intelligence and racism can be linked, because there are a lot of low intelligence blacks that are racist (see how I did the flippetedy flop on yo ass?) But how in the world do you make the leap to “conservatism” from the initial premise of low intelligence and racism?
This is another case of the elite left-wing intelligentsia completely ignoring their own constituency. There are millions of left-wing voters that would have a tough time writing an x on a ballot, yet, conservatism is the natural magnet for morons. Ya, sure. In the world of these “researchers” the left-wing is exclusively made up of journolisters and upper west-side pony-tailed professors.
Jails are just overflowing with illiterate conservatives. Welfare rolls are filled with drop-out conservatives. Drug addicts, muggers, burglars are usually college graduate conservatives, everyone knows that. And Newt Gingrich is an idiot, as well as Milton Friedman, Mark Levin, William F. Buckley Jr., Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, John Bolton, Robert Spencer, Charles Krauthammer, ………………………………….. Having one side of the ideological spectrum make this claim is childish, which immediately puts that side in a bad light. I could make the case that many people gravitate towards progressivism simply because of “studies” like this, which creates a lazy but expeditious route to intellectual credibility – “Hey, look at me, ma, I’m a Progressive. And you always said I was an idjit.”
From Yahoo (and just what kind of bigoted name is Yahoo anyway? I know what they mean – Maureen Dowd)
There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience.
“Prejudice is extremely complex and multifaceted, making it critical that any factors contributing to bias are uncovered and understood,” he said.
HT/ LocknLoad
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