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In the movies, Guys named Rudy always come from behind to win everyone’s heart and become the hero.
 
Sometimes it’s the small kid who always wanted to play football for Notre Dame (Rudy).
 
Sometimes it’s a reindeer with a shiny nose (and his pal the dentist elf) who save Christmas (Rudolph).
 
And sometimes it’s a mayor who divides […]

I’ve just about had enough of the wingnut meme that liberals are hateful, angry people because they occasionally use colorful language. It’s disingenuous at best - and it’s coming from people who regularly accuse liberals of being “anti-American” or “traitorous” for having the gall to talk about a vision of America that doesn’t involve […]

Vote for Jerid and all your dreams will come true:
Do it now!
That is all…nothing follows.

On one hand:
A former air traffic controller accused of planting homemade bombs outside the houses of former co-workers and a government official was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to damaging a building.
Prosecutors said Burke, a decorated Vietnam veteran, left five bombs outside homes in the Colorado city of Grand Junction […]

That traitorous asshole Bush (what? If Republicans can say it about liberals, isn’t turnabout fair play?) apparently does support a timeline for withdrawal!
So in fiscal year 2010, the Bush administration is officially projecting that we will not have one troop, not one civil servant, not one installation or falafel receipt or Halliburton disbursement in […]

This is unbelievable. Turner is paying $2 million in “restitution” for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force “bomb scare”.
Authorities feared bombs had been planted when they found more than three dozen blinking electronic signs with a boxy cartoon character giving an obscene hand gesture Wednesday in Boston, Cambridge and Somerville.
The signs, part of a publicity […]

I nearly swooned, the shock of it all! (Emphasis mine.)
Asked if his News Corp. managed to shape the agenda on the war in Iraq, Murdoch said: “No, I don’t think so. We tried.” Asked by Rose for further comment, he said: “We basically supported the Bush policy in the Middle East…but we have been very […]

After ten years I think it’s finally time to admit Ohio’s Charter school program is a failure.
The test scores at for-profit schools are horrible and continue to be horrible.
Even the charter school people know it.  Which is why they tried a new strategy last year: cheating.
Questions raised about materials that boosted test scores
Dayton’s City Day […]

A Turkish book sent to thousands of French schools blames terrorism on Darwinism.
Entitled “The Atlas of Creation,” the 770-page book by Turkish author Harun Yahya quotes several passages from the Koran and asserts that “human beings did not evolve (from another species) but were indeed created.”
Where have I heard stuff like this before?

No, seriously - Rod Parsley thinks that adultery should equal a life sentence in prison.
Televangelist and Ohio “Patriot Pastor” leader Rod Parsley’s Center for Moral Clarity is urging the revival of long-dormant laws against adultery in states such as Michigan, where adultery is technically a felony, although no one has been prosecuted for 36 years.
In […]

There are a lot of similarities between the War on Drugs and the War in
Iraq.

Both are unwinnable. 
Both cause of increasing violence, unrest and loss of American lives. 
Both cost American taxpayers billions.
Both were initiated by Republican-led administrations (Nixon/Bush).  
And both continue despite pleas from knowledgeable and experienced leaders (Army Generals and Police Chiefs) […]

Low (er, non-existent) post volume today because we are getting ready to roll out a new feature here at Plunderbund.
No, I’m not going to tell you what that feature is. Yes, I know - I’m such a tease.

You know what you get with the politics of fear? An insane police department that freaks out over an advertising campaign, and spends three-quarters of a million dollars in response to little magnetic lightup Mooninites. And even charge the guys doing the advertising with felony terror charges! Any college kid should have […]

As a whole, “we the people” are awfully slow on the uptake. Evidence continues to mount that supports the claim that we are painfully ignorant of what is really going on in the world. Despite the fact that the average Iranian “man on the street” thinks al Qaeda and militant Islamic groups are […]