A billboard placed in New York City’s Times Square on Tuesday, the 21st, by the Media Research Corporation, a group that tracks the notorious liberal bias in the media. You know, the kind you can’t find anywhere else except Glenn Beck’s head.
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Quote of the Day
“I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college, because of their indoctrination mills, absolutely. The indoctrination that is going on at the university level is a harm to our country.”
— Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, in an interview with conservative radio host Glenn Beck.
Santorum and Beck mulled over a number of social and political issues, but hearing them converse about education is like Abbott and Costello discuss quantum physics. Higher education makes people think outside the religious and social boxes in which their families and communities place them. Therefore, in Santorum’s convoluted view, it’s better for them not to go to college and just stay ignorant. I guess that’s why he and Beck get along so well. Add Sarah Palin into the sloppy mix and it’ll be the holy trinity of stupid!
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Texting Affects Ability to Interpret Words
As if some of us hadn’t figured this out already, new research designed to understand the effect of text messaging on language found that texting has a negative impact on people’s linguistic ability to interpret and accept words. The study found that those who texted more were less accepting of new words, but those who read more traditional print media such as books, magazines, and newspapers were more accepting of the same words. Data was culled from examining university students, so you know the researchers tried really hard.
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Lawsuit Claims Obama Can’t Be President Because He’s Black
This apparently is for real. An Alaskan man, Gordon Warren Epperly, filed a lawsuit to have President Obama removed this November’s ballot because…he’s biracial, or a mulatto. The suit states, in part:
“Barack Hussein Obama II, a.k.a. Barack Hussein Obama, a.ka. Barack H. Obama has the race status of being a “mulatto.” Barack Obama’s father (Barack Hussein Obama I) was a full blood Negro being born Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya and raised in the Colony of Kenya. Barack Obama’s mother (Stanley Ann Dunham) was a white Caucasian woman being born in Wichita, Kansas on November 29, 1942 and raised in the state of Washington and in the state of Hawaii.
As stated above, for an Individual to be a candidate for the office of president of the United States, the candidate must meet the qualifications set forth in the United States Constitution and one of those qualifications is that the Candidate shall be a “natural born citizen” of the United States. As Barack Hussein Obama II is of the “mulatto” race, his status of citizenship is founded upon the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Before the [purported] ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the race of “Negro” or “mulatto” had no standing to be citizens of the United States under the United States Constitution.
As the fourteenth amendment is only a grant of “civil rights” and not a grant of “political rights” Barack Hussein Obama II does not have and “political rights” under any provision of the United States Constitution to hold any Public Office of the United States government.”
In other words, Epperly still believes that the original framers of the U.S. Constitution meant for only full-blooded Caucasian males to serve as elected officials, mainly president. I already knew the “birther” movement was born of racial hatred and intolerance. But, this move is pure bigotry. White people who wish the United States was a White-only society don’t realize they already have one. It’s called Europe. That’s where Epperly and his like-minded ilk need to go. And, take that idiot Sarah Palin with you!
Judge Orders Man to Apologize Over Facebook Rant
In a clear case of free speech violations, a judge in Ohio has ordered a man to apologize to his estranged wife for a Facebook post he made in the midst of a heated divorce battle (when are divorce battles ever cool?), or go to jail. Mark Byron vented his frustrations over the entire ordeal by stating, in part:
“…if you are an evil, vindictive woman who wants to ruin your husbands life and take your son’s father away from him completely – all you need to do is say that you’re scared of your husband or domestic partner…”
Even though Byron had blocked his wife from his Facebook page (so you know it was serious!), she somehow saw the post and subsequent comments made by others. That violated a restraining order she’d placed on him. So, the judge, in turn, commanded Byron to post an apology every day for 30 consecutive days, or be incarcerated for 60 days. Byron chose the apology scenario obviously in order to avoid jail time, but more importantly, so he could visit his son.
Men have enough stacked against them when they enter child custody battles without being told what to say or how to feel. But, Byron is right: all a woman has to do in our politically correct society these days is say that a man abused her somehow – or even just threatened to abuse her – and he’s in trouble. The legal precedent of innocent until proven guilty has been subverted by the feminist left in recent decades where men accused of sexual and / or physical abuse are presumed guilty until they prove themselves not guilty as charge.
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Picture of the Day
What’s believed to be a rare snowy owl has been seen at Robertson Park at Lake Ray Hubbard, just east of Dallas recently. This is the 6th reported sighting of the bird, which is usually confined to the Arctic Circle.
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Quote of the Day
“I don’t think we’ve seen in the history of this country the kind of attack on religious freedom we’ve seen in Barack Obama most recently requiring the Catholic Church to provide for its employees and its various enterprises health care insurance that would include birth control, sterilization and the morning after pill. He tried to retreat from that, but he retreated in a way that was not appropriate, because these insurance companies have to provide these same things, and now the Catholic Church will have to pay for them.”
– Newt Gingrich at the GOP debate in Mesa, AZ, February 22
Fact check: the Catholic Church is exempt from Obama’s contraception mandate.
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Digital Publishing Advances in Developing Countries Foretell Dramatic Change and Challenges
In 2000, at the age of 23, Argentine-born writer Octavio Kulesz founded an independent publishing house, Libros del Zoral, with his brother Leopoldo. Libros del Zoral has published more than a hundred titles since, mostly works by fellow Argentine scribes. But, he’s expanded his reach across the globe in recent years and wants to help people in the “Digital South,” the metaphoric area that is home to the greatest number of developing nations. Literature, like art and music, has always been able to give the average person a voice; free of political and economic restraints. Now technology is helping to increase that power with the rise in sales and distribution of e-books. “The exchange with colleagues across the globe remains essential, both in terms of knowledge and business,” Kulesz says of his efforts to bridge that proverbial digital divide. This is not just a noble endeavor, but a significant achievement. Already home to the vast majority of people on Earth, the “Digital South” can’t be locked in a prehistoric time capsule and forgotten.
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Cartoon of the Day
Personal observation: he apparently evolved just after homo-erectus. Being a recovering Catholic, I feel I’ve evolved, too – homo and erect.
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