At some point while reading this round-up, your heart will break, your funny bone will be tickled and your ire will be raised.
1. When pop culture meets real-life…it ain’t pretty!
Salt Lake Tribune: Motorist’s quip about ‘Grey Poupon’ met with cocked, black handgunA Sandy man took offense to a motorist, who, after getting him to [...]
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The wingnuts and Obamabots in the blogosphere were abuzz this morning about a video clip from the movie “The War Room,” of Mickey Kantor, a former Clinton advisor, purportedly saying derogatory things about the residents of Indiana. The clip has been doctored.
According to D.A. Pennebaker, the director of “The War Room,” the clip from his film “had been doctored” [...]
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This story is one that boggles the mind. He jumped, pulled chute, chute failed, he hit ground, and he survived! Holy cow, that just had to hurt like hell. I’m talking about the kind of hurt involved with being locked in a cell and having the sounds of conservative pundits piped into the cell 24/7.
Skydiver [...]
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Surprise, surprise. I’m shocked. SHOCKED I SAY!
Yet another goverment program finally comes to light that the Bush administration and GOP have totally politicized and used as nothing more than as means to enrich themselves by using their currently unbridled power to steal money from our country, directing our tax dollars to their crony backers. They always get big kickbacks of course. Though the GOP refers to them as donations by supporters to their party and candidates.
A scorching internal review of the Bush administration’s billion-dollar-a-year reading program says the Education Department ignored the law and ethical standards to steer money how it wanted.
The government audit is unsparing in its view that the Reading First program has been beset by conflicts of interest and willful mismanagement. It suggests the department broke the law by trying to dictate which curriculum schools must use.
It also depicts a program in which review panels were stacked with people who shared the director’s views, and in which only favored publishers of reading curricula could get money.
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Filed under: Bush, Education, Religion, Spirituality, Republicans
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