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Archive for June, 2010

Arizona Elementary School Asks Mural Artists To Make Faces “Lighter In Color”

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, June 4th, 2010. Filed under Dumbasses, In The News

Seriously, this is not good press Arizona:
A group of artists has been asked to lighten the faces of children depicted in a giant public mural at a Prescott school.
The project’s leader says he was ordered to lighten the skin tone after complaints about the children’s ethnicity. But the school’s principal says the request was only [...]

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Replace Sinatra With Jay-Z ? Are You F***ing Kidding Me ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, June 4th, 2010. Filed under Frank Sinatra, Music

Outrage:
In his massive hit “Empire State of Mind,” Jay-Z raps that he’s “the new Sinatra.” And it turns out he wasn’t joking.
During Saturday’s 142nd running of the Belmont Stakes, “Empire” will be played as the horses are brought out onto the race track, replacing Sinatra’s classic “New York, New York,” according to a spokesperson for [...]

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Helen Thomas To Israeli Jews: Go Back To Germany And Poland

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, June 4th, 2010. Filed under Dumbasses, Foreign Affairs, Israel, Middle East

Wow…………….just, wow:

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Quote Of The Day — Unexpected Pacifist Edition

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, June 4th, 2010. Filed under History, Quote Of The Day

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening [...]

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Is It Wrong To Have A Man Crush On Chris Christie ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, June 4th, 2010. Filed under Chris Christie, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

New Jersey’s Governor continues to impress:
Governor Chris Christie gives remarks regarding teachers and the teachers Union, the NJEA during a Town Hall Meeting in Robbinsville, NJ.
Christie explained that his fight is not against teachers. It is against the NJEA. Christie cited this stat: a teacher who is in the union, pays [...]

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Obama’s Potemkin Recovery

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, June 4th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Economics, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

Today, we learned that the economy had added 431,000 jobs in May but that most of them were temporary Census positions:
Employers added 431,000 nonfarm jobs nationwide in May, the biggest increase in a single month since the recession, the Labor Department said Friday. But the bulk of the growth was in government jobs, driven by [...]

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Bill O’Reilly Compares Gay People To Terrorists

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, June 4th, 2010. Filed under Business, Dumbasses, Economics, Individual Liberty

Asshole:

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S.C. Republican: We’ve Already Got One Raghead In The White House, We Don’t Need One In The Statehouse

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, June 4th, 2010. Filed under 2010 Elections, Dumbasses, Elections, Political Parties, Politics, Republicans

Apparently, the fact that South Carolina Republican Nikki Haley was raised as a Sikh is a problem for some of her fellow Republicans:
Lexington state Sen. Jake Knotts called political rival and Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley a “raghead” on an Internet political talk show Thursday evening.
The term is a slur typically used against Arabs or [...]

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