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The sharp eyes at Powerline caught AP writer Emily Fredrix really messing up on the Tebow ads for Focus on the Family that aired on the Super Bowl last night, which did not discuss abortion:
And a commercial by conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, perhaps the most anticipated ad of the night, hinted at a serious subject although it took a humorous tone too. Heisman winner Tim Tebow and his mother talk about her difficult pregnancy with him and how she was advised to end the pregnancy—implying an antiabortion message—but ended with Tebow tackling his mom and saying the family must be “tough.”
John at Powerline wondered: “How can anyone misreport on a 30-second commercial?
How can she misinterpret it?
Easy.
She didn’t watch it and instead referred to her outrage notes supplied by the abortion industry.
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For eight years, anytime someone criticized a leftist, we heard the wails out outrage. If anyone merely insinuated that their tripe was not helpful to the country, we were told that dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Of course, that was when the dissenters agreed with the leftards.
Now, in 2010, dissenters are dangerous. How do I know?
Because we just learned from the White House itself that dissent helps Al Qaeda.
And no, I didn’t draw that conclusion; that’s what they said.
In an oped in USA Today, John Brennan — Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism — responds to critics of the Obama administration’s counterterrorism policies by saying “Politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals of al-Qaeda.”
Brennan writes that, “Terrorists are not 100-feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.”
In the oped, titled “‘We need no lectures’: Administration disrupts terrorists’ plots, takes fight to them abroad,” Brennan writes that politics “should never get in the way of national security. But too many in Washington are now misrepresenting the facts to score political points, instead of coming together to keep us safe.”
Wow…
So if you’re critical of the President, you’re a terrorist.
Meet the new boss… Same as the old boss…
Reddit Likes for February 9, 2010:
Peyton Manning(notes) didn’t shake hands with New Orleans Saints players after his Indianapolis Colts lost 31-17 in Super Bowl XLIV. Apparently some think this is a sign of poor sportsmanship from the NFL’s greatest player. It’s not.
Walking off the field without congratulating Drew Brees(notes) may go against our misguided notion of what sportsmanship should be, but it wasn’t at all disrespectful or bitter. It shows how much Peyton Manning wanted to win the game. And who can argue about that?
I can.
It’s tradition.
For a guy who claims to love and respect the game as much as Peyton does, and who’s following the footsteps of his father (Archie Manning) and leading by example for his younger brother (Eli Manning), not congratulating the opposing Quarterback is low, cheap, and classless.
I expected more from Peyton.
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It would be charitable to call this one a mess: Two prominent Queens politicians are under scrutiny because the nonprofit they set-up to aid Katrina victims delivered barely 1/30th of their funds to evacuees. According to the ethics watchdog group National Legal and Policy Center, tax records show that only $1,392 of at least $31,000 raised to help Katrina families was paid to victims.
Go read the rest. It’s equally aggravating.
So the true question is… Where in the hell is the money?
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There remains an ongoing desktop Twitter application war. Traditionally Tweetdeck and Seesmic have been at loggerheads for the lion share, although Tweetdeck has remained in the lead so far. Increasingly it appears that Seesmic is heading towards trying to be a much more mainstream application, for anyone on any platform, from celebs to your non-tech friends. But for power Twitter users, Tweetdeck seems to be go-to app so far. Of course, all that can change, but that seems to be the landscape at the moment.
Is it me or does Mike Butcher seem to be straining to point out that “hey, you shouldn’t count out Seesmic!” Strikes me as odd that he’d qualify Tweetdeck’s success so much…
Oh wait… It’s not that odd… Loic is a good friend of Don Mikey.
Carry on then!
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A new study suggests that beer is a significant source of dietary silicon, a key ingredient for increasing bone mineral density. Researchers from the Department of Food Science & Technology at the University of California, Davis studied commercial beer production to determine the relationship between beer production methods and the resulting silicon content, concluding that beer is a rich source of dietary silicon.
Makes sense… Aside from when they’re puking, have you ever seen a big time beer drinker hunched over?
Good news for all you lushes!
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With Mitch Landrieu winning Mayor and Saints winning Super Bowl, symbolism plain: NO has now ended the post-Katrina era.
Definitely! It’s not like the guy who was Lt. Governor (ie: the #2 in the state) during the Katrina mess is still around.
Oh… Wait… The new Mayor is who? He did what?
Oh…
Darn…
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If students can’t get a free ride, MTA retirees shouldn’t either, Mayor Bloomberg said Friday.
The mayor called into question the policy of giving retired transit workers free bus and subway rides since free and reduced cards for city students are on the chopping block.
“Does it make any sense to give retirees passes for the rest of their lives and not give our kids passes so they can go to school? No,” Bloomberg said during his weekly radio show. “It’s pretty hard to argue that that is an intelligent policy.”
Of course it’s not an intelligent policy, but as we’ve learned a long time ago with the MTA, an unintelligent policy doesn’t indicate in any fashion that it will be discontinued or modified.
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So I was at a bar with a friend of mine the other night and naturally talk turned to Tiger. He mentioned his “Genie in a Bottle Theory.” If a genie asks a guy to make three wishes that she will make come true, what would the guy say? “I want $1 billion dollars, a swimsuit model wife and the chance to play golf every day.” Tiger had all that and apparently it wasn’t enough to make him happy. Now I’m just depressed.
True… So very true…
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who sees the uselessness of these idiots in the glass boxes at the subway stations…
It was several years ago and I was returning home when I noticed a strange Asian man was hovering around me and then followed me off the train. I was concerned and went up to a booth attendant and told him that someone was following me. He looked at me blankly and asked what did I wanted him to do. I looked back at him in disbelief. “I don’t know, maybe call the cops?” I thought to myself. I didn’t bother to continue talking with the useless booth attendant.
This wouldn’t be so galling if the TWU (The Transit Worker’s Union) wasn’t so intent on positioning its members as the first line of defense in the subway system every time they want to close a booth or the union wants a raise. In fact, most of them are useless in any kind of emergency.
Just ask Maria Besedina.
Here’s Kesha performing her smash hit, Tik Tok:
Now here’s Stalker Patti from the Opie and Anthony show, with some production help, doing the same song…
It’s astonishing what you can do in studio these days.
Now I’m not taking away from Kesha, and the song is catchy as hell, but you have to admit… Someone with literally no talent and a good producer made a damn good attempt at doing the same song.
Oh yeah, and did I mention Patti’s version took 2 hours to produce?
Yeah.
Exactly.
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For example, look at what $225 a night can get you right in the heart of Manhattan. Do you really think you can get a hotel in Manhattan on that level for that price? (Rhetorical question, of course. You can’t).
Granted, UNITARD is a character in a vacation rental commercial, but in reality, he should be running around New York City on a regular basis because there are a lot of people overpaying like crazy to stay in cramped rooms. I just hope that Unitard grabs you before your next big mistake, er, vacation!
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Let’s face it, there are people in our culture who derive their power from being offended. And there are people who make a pretty good living off of being offended. Hey, I’m not advocating saying and doing things to intentionally offend people, but enough of this hyper sensitivity is enough.
And here’s a piece of free advice for the word police: SHUT THE HELL UP!
We are becoming a nation of sissies. Uh oh, can I say sissies? If not, I sincerely apologize to any sissy I might have offended. And one more thing …
What.
He.
Said.
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CENTRALIA, Pa. – Standing before the wreckage of his bulldozed home, John Lokitis Jr. felt sick to his stomach, certain that a terrible mistake had been made.
He’d fought for years to stay in the house. It was one of the few left standing in the moonscape of Centralia, a once-proud coal town whose population fled an underground mine fire that began in 1962 and continues to burn.
But the state had ordered Lokitis to vacate, leaving the fourth-generation Centralian little choice but to say goodbye — to the house, and to what’s left of the town he loved.
“I never had any desire to move,” said Lokitis, 39. “It was my home.”
After years of delay, state officials are now trying to complete the demolition of Centralia, a borough in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania that all but ceased to exist in the 1980s after the mine fire spread beneath homes and businesses, threatening residents with poisonous gases and dangerous sinkholes.
The story of Centralia is seriously incredible. You need to Wikipedia it if you’ve never heard of it.
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The body of a 16-year-old girl police say was buried alive by relatives in an “honor” killing carried out as punishment for talking to boys has been discovered in Kahta, Turkey.
Turkish police discovered the body after acting on an anonymous tip. The tipster told police that the girl was killed after a family council meeting, and had been buried under a chicken pen. Police say that the girl had complained two months earlier that her grandfather beat her for talking to boys.
The girl, identified by police only by her initials M.M., was said to have a large amount of soil in her stomach and lungs, indicating she had been buried alive.
Every time I hear that every disagreement is just a “cultural difference,” I think of stories like this one. What cultural difference makes this kind of crap ok?
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