Mike Huckabee: Fat and Fiction

Dang! Was Mike Huckabee fat or what? I read Plutarch’s blog post on the lack of interest by the media in how Huckabee shed a full size human worth of weight. I obviously lack Plutarch’s sophistication but will nonetheless contribute to his call for investigation. Plutarch suggests the main stream [...]

Journalists & We the People Fight Corruption

If you’re looking to let loose with a little reflection this New Year’s Eve, this video shows people exercising their right and duty to throw off abusive Government. Congress may not be holding the administration accountable, but We the People are.
The New York Times has an excellent year end editorial, [...]

Anonymous Free Speech Protected

Your right to remain anonymous online is safe for now. A New Jersey Superior Court Judge has ruled in favor of a blogger who only goes by the name, daTruthSquad.The blogger strongly criticized a malpractice suit filed by the township of Manalapan, New Jersey against former city attorney, Stuart Moskovitz. The township subpoenaed [...]

From the John-McCain-has-a-Black-Baby Handbook

From the “John McCain has a Black Baby” Handbook of Dirty Politics (conceived by Karl Rove) comes the fake Mitt Romney family Christmas Holiday card. Republicans across South Carolina got this little gem in their mailboxes this week. Though the card looks as if it’s from the Romney family, Romney spokesman, Will [...]

Winning Trumps Truth in Hannah Montana Contest

An essay that won a six-year-old girl tickets to a Hannah Montana concert was a big, fat lie. “My daddy died this year in Iraq” the essay began. Mother Priscilla Ceballos says, “We did the essay and that’s what we did to win… we did whatever we could to win,”
Ceballos of Dallas, [...]

God®–A Muslim trademark in Malaysia

Muslims monopolize the word god in Malaysia prompting a church and newspaper to sue. The government decreed that the world Allah can only be used by Muslims. This amounts to a big problem for all other religions since “allah” is the Maylay word for any god.
Opponents to the law [...]

Doh! Clinton Tells Voters to Caucus on the Wrong Day

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tells voters to be at their precincts on January 14th. That’s 11 days after the caucuses.
At a rally, former U.S. President Bill Clinton asked supporters to sign and mail cards that said “Yes! I’m an Iowan for Hillary…I, _____, pledge to support Hillary Clinton at my precinct [...]

Dirty Pictures Compromise Miss France

Miss France 2008 keeps her crown but loses her chance to be Miss World or Miss Universe. Miss New Caledonia will step in for that role.
Twenty-two year old Valerie Begue of Reunion was featured in a magazine that published racy photos. She did not grant permission, and it was three years [...]

Spare Batteries to be Confiscated at Airports

A New Year means new regulations at the U.S. Department of Transportation.  On January 1st spare lithium batteries are a no-no when you check your luggage.  Batteries installed in your computer are fine.  Spare batteries in your carry-on pack is okay, too.  From the Department of Transportation:

Spare batteries are the batteries you carry separately from [...]

Christian Town Loses Devil’s Prefix: 666

The holier citizens of Reeves, Louisiana were never too happy about the triple six telephone prefix assigned in the 1960’s.
Reeves Mayor calls it “divine intervention” that now people can get rid of the 666…though Divinity may have had less to do with the switch than Louisiana’s two senators who lobbied for the change with the [...]