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Posted on 14 September 2011.
Dick Cheney claims his new book In My Time is accomplishing exactly what he set out to accomplish, shattering dreams of an idyllic America and pissing people off. “This is a war zone people, and the sooner you get it into your thick heads, the better,” said Cheney at a recent book signing at the local Army Navy Surplus Store in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. Continue Reading
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Posted on 17 July 2011. Tags: Murdoch, News of the World, puppies, rupert murdoch, scandal, Wall Street News, Yorkshire terriers
The scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World is spreading to Murdoch’s other holdings and some say it could spell doom for his News Corporation empire.
Realizing immediately that his newspaper apology was doing nothing to quell the anger rising exponentially across the globe against himself and his clan, the media mogul decided it was time to bring out the big guns to fight the onslaught of criticism.
Murdoch has reportedly bought 1,000 adorable puppies of some of the cutest breeds around, including English Bulldogs, Yorkshire Terriers, and Shih Tzus, and he has personally taken it upon himself to pass the puppies out at news conferences to his accusers. Continue Reading
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Posted on 07 July 2011. Tags: conspiracy theories, faked moon landing, Jerome Corsi, JFK, Joseph Farah, ufo
OUTER SPACE - Conspiracy theorists Joseph Farah, publisher of World Nut Daily, and Jerome Corsi, author of the best selling book Capricorn One: NASA, JFK, and the Great ‘Moon Landing’ Cover-Up, are suing the magazine Esquire, its parent company Hearst Communications, and the article’s writer Mark Warren, for implying that Corsi’s book is a hoax and, therefore, being pulled from the shelves. Continue Reading
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Posted on 15 June 2011. Tags: amazingly dull, blase, boring, poetry, prose, review, super dull
A young, aimless writer. A format no one cared about. The words everyone has to look up in an online dictionary. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be an unknown poet, this is the poem you need to ignore. Critics are raving about the new prose poem that everyone is calling the most boring event of the year. Continue Reading
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Posted on 06 June 2011. Tags: intelligence, la times, meghan daum, mentally retarded, new media, news, newspaper
In a recent column in the LA Times, writer Meghan Daum explained to America that anytime President Obama stumbles over his words, it’s because of an “intellectual stammer.” Needless to say, doctors were amazed that they had missed this diagnosis and quickly had it added to medical books for validity.
The AMA presented Meghan with an award, and congratulated her on successfully managing to diagnose a person she’s never met personally with a, previously thought, non-existent condition. Continue Reading
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Posted on 26 May 2011. Tags: bestseller, misogynist, NY Times, psychology, relationships, self help, self-flagellation
A new self-help book by previously unknown psychiatrist and author, Dom N. Adeur, Ph.D. is quickly making its way up the NY Times Bestseller List. It’s OK to Smack Your Inner Child has been hailed by Dr. Adeur’s peers as a ‘breakthrough book for adults who have nowhere else to turn but inside.’
Dr. Adeur explains that for too long, we’ve allowed our inner child to take control of our adult lives. In his book, Adeur often calls his inner child a “brat who needs a serious spanking.” Continue Reading
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Posted on 14 April 2011. Tags: Britain, Cameron, Dancing on Ice, Glee, intellectuals, MENSA, satire, Twilight, writers
British PM David Cameron today admitted that “in the clearest possible terms” Britain is currently stretched to breaking point.
Military involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Libya have undoubtedly taken a heavy toll on available resources, and the financial squeeze has resulted in Britain having no ships in its navy and no planes in its air force.
Add to this the crippling cost of welfare payments to the workshy, not to mention an exodus of wealthy retirees to the Spanish Costas, and the inevitable result is the implosion of a nation. Continue Reading
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Posted on 13 April 2011. Tags: big business, conservative bias, fox, fox news, interns, leaked emails, liberal bias, wikileaks
WONKI-LEAKS #264 Our team of ever intrepid hackers have recently managed to intercept the following instructions being given to new FOX interns via e-mail as they help the massive television and radio giant prepare the scripted material for their pundits and ‘reporters’:
The basic maxim to the type of journalism that FOX News specializes in is- ‘You can dig up dirt on anyone.’ This should be memorized and utilized every day in your investigations. Continue Reading
Posted in Books, Newspapers & Misc, Entertainment
Posted on 12 April 2011. Tags: first person shooter, gaming, Gen. Bradley, Libya, Milton Bradley, video games, war, war games, XBox 360
The CIA is mum on a new secret operation designed to take the Taliban out once and for all. The concept of Operation “Xbox 360 Fever” is based on this country’s own experience with realistic computer games. “It is mainly aimed at the male soldiers who know nothing but fighting since they were young,” said Lt. Col. Milton Bradley, no relation to General Omar Bradley. Continue Reading
Posted in Books, Newspapers & Misc, War Zone
Posted on 07 April 2011. Tags: cable news, conspiracy, fired, fox, fox news, glenn beck, goldline, survival seed bank
Dramatic drops in ratings combined with a lack of any reputable (top-of-market-paying) advertiser willing to be part of his show have finally taken their toll on Glenn Beck and his FOXNews program.
Beck offered a rare olive branch, saying, “…I want to verify something that is true,” which marked a noted departure for Beck, who normally avoids verifying the truth, preferring only espouses crazy conspiracy theories and conspicuous product placement for his gold, seed and Armageddon survival oriented sponsors. Continue Reading
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Posted on 06 April 2011. Tags: best seller, book review, Charles Manson, Helter Skelter, NY Times, Oprah
Corcoran State Prison, CA- You see what they try to do. They get in our minds. We gotta beat them by being in our own minds. You’re not the thought police. I’m the f’ing thought police. It’s because I think. They don’t think, you don’t think, but I think. That’s right! I think! I Think that stupid nurse thinks she can just do that stuff to me, but ohhh! Have I got news for her! Continue Reading
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Posted on 04 April 2011. Tags: Kamikaze, ski resorts, skiing, snowboard bindings, snowboarding, sudden death
Most sports enthusiasts are under the mistaken impression that the fine art of snowboarding is a recent development. Of course, most people who believe snowboarding is a fine art in the first place are snowboarders themselves who have suffered brain injuries due to not wearing a helmet.
We at the Snowboarding Historical Research Institute wish to correct that falsified thinking and present to you our Concise History of Snowboarding Timeline. Continue Reading
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Posted on 02 April 2011. Tags: anger, autobiography, bill o'reilly, fox, fox news, Tom Hanks
In an upcoming autobiography by Bill O’Reilly in which he prefers not to play himself, O’Reilly has hired Tom Hanks to step in and portray the “love him or hate him” darling of Fox News Channel.
“At first I thought, man, this is really weird,” says Hank about being approached to play Bill O in the book. “But the more I read about O’Reilly’s life, I realized this guy really needs help, so I said sure, why not?” Continue Reading
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Posted on 22 March 2011.
With the recent announcement that despised telecom giant AT&T would be purchasing T-Mobile for $39 billion came the launch of a grassroots opposition movement dead-set against the transaction. If you have an opinion about the merger, this may be of interest to you.
The site is called www.StopThisMerger.com, and it looks like it is going to cover all the news that you need from now until the merger is completed… or it isn’t. Continue Reading
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Posted on 23 February 2011. Tags: 'Known and Unknown', book signing, bush administration, Donald Rumsfeld, Rummy, Secretary of Defense
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was often the center of controversy during decades of public service. It appears that tradition will continue in his new career as author. Rumsfeld’s recently released 800 page memoir “Known and Unknown” has set the publishing world afire, according to industry insiders. Continue Reading
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Posted on 11 February 2011. Tags: acquisition, aol, ariana huffington, Huffington Post, media consolidation, merger, Time Warner
It’s already being called the deal of the century, and there are still eighty-nine years to go. Liberal news aggregator and alleged Gabor sister Arianna Huffington now owns AOL.
Media watchers are at a loss to explain what happened or why it happened. Some experts talk of a rapidly changing era of mass communication not seen since Steve Guttenberg invented the printing press. Others maintain the usually savvy Huffington has made a fool’s bargain this time. Continue Reading
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