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Archive for November, 2009

Muslim Bashing Idiot Attacks Orthodox Priest By Mistake

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, November 11th, 2009. Filed under Dumbasses, In The News, Religion

Proof that bigoted and stupid usually go together:
A Marine reservist is facing charges after police said he attacked a priest visiting from Greece who he believed was a terrorist.
Police said that Lance Cpl. Jasen D. Bruce, 28, hit 29-year-old Alexios Marakis in the head with a tire iron, then chased him for three blocks.
According to [...]

Beltway Sniper John Allen Muhammed Put To Death In Virginia

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, November 10th, 2009. Filed under In The News

Seven years and seventeen days since he was captured at a rest stop in Maryland, John Allen Muhammed is dead:
Jarratt, Virginia (CNN) — – Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad was executed Tuesday by lethal injection, a Virginia prisons spokesman said.
He was declared dead at 9:11 p.m., said Larry Traylor, director of communications for the Virginia [...]

Steve Forbes: Why Capitalism Will Save Us

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, November 10th, 2009. Filed under Economics, Individual Liberty, Politics

Steve Forbes, who may have been the last viable Republican Presidential candidate worth voting for, was on Morning Joe this morning talking about his new book How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today’s Economy

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Because You’ve Got To Love The Brits

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, November 10th, 2009. Filed under Humor

Some highlights from unpublished Letters To The Editor of the London Daily Telegraph:
SIR – Am I alone in thinking we should tell Vladimir Putin to stick his gas-pipe up his fundament and apply a lighted match to it?
M. E. Martin, Southborough, Kent
(…)
SIR – I recently received a spam email asking if I wanted to marry [...]

Orly Taitz Gets Her Court Date

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, November 10th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Dumbasses, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Politics

For driving like a bat out of hell:
Mustang Orly

As It Turns Out, Oklahoma High School Students Aren’t That Dumb After All

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, November 10th, 2009. Filed under Education

Back in September, I wrote about what seemed like a rather depressing survey contending that, among other things, only 11% of surveyed Oklahoma high school students knew who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Well, it turns out that may not have been all that accurate:
Oklahoma State Representative Ed] Cannaday therefore had little difficulty setting up an [...]

Your Electricity May Be Generated By Nuclear Weapons That Used To Be Aimed At You

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, November 10th, 2009. Filed under Business, Economics, Russia

According to The New York Times, as much as ten percent of America’s electricity comes from material recovered from old Soviet nuclear weapons:
MOSCOW — What’s powering your home appliances?
For about 10 percent of electricity in the United States, it’s fuel from dismantled nuclear bombs, including Russian ones.
“It’s a great, easy source” of fuel, said Marina [...]

Orly Taitz Supporter Calling For “Citizen’s Arrest” Of President Obama

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, November 10th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Politics

With her legal cases coming to an end, it seems Orly Taitz is now in the business of encouraging her supporters to take the law into their own hands:
I am no longer content in waiting for something to be done, because the way it looks to me, after all those efforts, the Government still continues [...]

Pollster: Obama Hurt Deeds In Virginia

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, November 10th, 2009. Filed under 2009 Governor's Race, Barack Obama, Bob McDonnell, Creigh Deeds, Politics, Virginia, Virginia Politics

A week after the Virginia Gubernatorial Election, one pollster has looked at the data and found that President Obama hurt Creigh Deeds in the Old Dominion:
Democrats and the press are on a self-delusional kick that Barack Obama had nothing to do with the results in Virginia and New Jersey.  That’s fine by me.  The more [...]

Happy 40th Anniversary Sesame Street

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, November 10th, 2009. Filed under In The News, Television

If you grew up in the 1970s, this one will sound familiar:

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