I'm so glad we've moved beyond "Bimbo Teen Barbie" who thought math class was too hard:
JC Penny was called out for selling this t-shirt, emblazoned with the words "I'm too pretty to do homework so my brother has to do it for me." What a positive, empowering message for girls aged 7-16, apparently the target market for this design. The Village Voice reports that JC Penny has quickly pulled the shirt and issued a statement, saying in part "We agree that the "Too pretty" t-shirt does not deliver an appropriate message, and we have immediately discontinued its sale."
Jesus Christ to the power of ten.
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Wisco: Red state welfare queens revisited
And this:
Sorry red states, hope you didn't need this:
Missouri, Tennessee and Alabama should probably start calling Eric Cantor's office right about now.
###Cleaning up after Hurricane Irene could cost billions, but FEMA has less than $800 million in its coffers. So the Federal Emergency Management Agency is freezing aid money earmarked for states like Missouri, Tennessee and Alabama that were ravaged by floods and tornados earlier this year – to make sure they have enough to help with the immediate needs of states strafed by Irene.
Jesus' General reviews Darth Cheney's book. Be sure to vote that you like the review (not the book)
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The Department of Justice today filed suit to block the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile, saying that if the companies were to join, millions of consumers would suffer with higher prices and fewer choices.
This is a victory for anyone who believes in free markets. I mean real free markets. Not crony capitalism. A monopoly is not a free market nor is corporate hegemony over the marketplace.
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This is what science does. Not magic, not prayer, not faith in anything but pure, factual science. "Researchers have shown for the first time that a single intravenous infusion of a genetically engineered virus can home in on cancer, killing tumor cells in patients without harming healthy tissue. Scientists have been intrigued for decades with the idea of using viruses to alert the immune system to seek and destroy cancerous cells. That interest has taken off in recent years as advances in genetic engineering allow them to customize viruses that target tumors. The field received a boost in January when biotech giant Amgen Inc agreed to pay up to $1 billion for BioVex, the developer of experimental cancer-fighting virus OncoVex. But the only "oncolytic virus" so far approved by a regulatory agency is for treatment of head and neck cancer in China. In a study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, scientists at institutions including the University of Ottawa and privately held biotech company, Jennerex Inc, said a small, early-stage trial of experimental viral therapy JX-954 found that it consistently infected tumors with only minimal and temporary side effects. The experimental virus will next be tested in a mid-stage trial of patients with liver cancer. "With chemotherapy you get drastic side effects," said Dr John Bell, chief scientific officer at Jennerex and senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. "Patients on this treatment only had 24-hour flu symptoms, and nothing after that." "
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More lies from Tony Perkins - I guess his history with the KKK helps with the scare tactics
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This little film depicts the life of a farmer as he slowly turns his family farm into an industrial animal factory before seeing the errors of his ways and opting for a more sustainable future.
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About fucking time! Apparently, the country has lost its appetite for crazy. First, the Sarah Palin mockumentary opened to empty theaters. Then Michele Bachmann on the cover failed to boost newsstand sales of Newsweek, and Christine "I'm not a witch" O'Donnells book has sold a whopping 2200 copies -- with 1500 of them going to her supporters in Delaware. So our question is this: Why does the rotting press corpse in this country keep giving these crazy bitches oxygen?
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Stop oppressing Whitey!
MSNBC's kindly old grampy character, Pat Buchanan, continues to believe that white people — 70 percent of the population and rulers of the world for thousands of years — are being oppressed.
MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan took his white man's grievance road show to the Laura Ingraham program today, where he lambasted the Obama administration's effort to hire more minorities to the civil service. He complained that, if anything, there are too many people of color in the federal bureaucracy as it is. Saying minorities are "inordinately overrepresented" in the civil service, Buchanan said there's "affirmative action for women, for Hispanics, and for blacks, but none for white males." The oppressed majority's numbers "are diminishing, dramatically," he warned.
Yep. And Mark Halperin was suspended for saying the word "dick" on Morning Joe.
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Fox host Charles Payne wishes Bill Nye "The Science Guy" would quit confusing his viewers with all of that outlandish science-talk.
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The Center for Responsive Politics is now predicting the 2012 election could cost as much as $6 billion thanks in part to Citizens United.
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Way to go, Utah! Beer Burkas: Utah Legislators Require Restaurants To Install "Zion Curtains" To Prevent Customers From Seeing Beers Being Opened or Poured
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This is downright nuts. Why do we leave our own people with massive bills for wars and then not even enough equipment to get through events like Irene clean-up? These costly wars have to end.
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Who would have guessed that Malaysia, Poland and Lithuania had such fantastic health care? After all, we all know the US has the best of everything. We know this because our political leadership tells us this every day whenever reforms are discussed. How is it possible to be better than number one?
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Jill: Well, I guess Boehner "put him in his place"
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OMG! Socialism!
In Groton, CT, the town Senior Center has set up showers for people who do not have hot water (as a result of Hurricane Irene).
Socialism!!!! Why isn't Halliburton setting up some of their electrical showers and charging people to use them?
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New Wikileaks revelations suggest that U.S. forces executed a number of women and children in Tikrit, Iraq in 2006 and then used an airstrike to cover up the evidence of the killings. Phillip Alston, U.N.'s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, apparently had tried to probe the killings but got no response from the United States, which "was the case with most of the letters to the U.S. in the 2006-2007 period."
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Solyndra, a solar energy company that received $527 million in government loans, has declared bankruptcy. The firm cited difficult global business conditions and stiff competition as factors for its bankruptcy, as had two other solar energy companies that filed for bankruptcy in August. Energy Department officials said China's deep subsidies to solar energy threatened the ability of American firms to compete.
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The California legislature is set to pass the California Dream Act, which would allow illegal immigrants to receive state-financed aid for college. The bill would not create a path to citizenship, but would provide more education benefits for illegal immigrants than any other state. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said during his campaign last fall that he would sign the bill if it passed.
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Michele Bachmann doubles down on drilling in Everglades - says only radical environmentalists would oppose.
The list of nay-saying "radical environmentalists" include: fellow presidential contender Mitt Romney, President George W. Bush, and his brother former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) — not to mention most Floridians. Indeed, fellow Tea Party leader Rep. Allen West (R-FL) promised yesterday to to "straighten her out" against targeting "an incredible ecosystem." Given Bacmann's renewed obstinence, it's a promise he'll most likely fail to deliver on.
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