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Tom Tancredo on the issues...

 

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Liberal Hero #328 - Jarvis Cocker

"Post-Pulp Jarvis Still a Cocky Rocker" NPR Fresh Air

British musician Jarvis Cocker founded the band Pulp at age 15; he made international headlines in 1996, when he stormed the stage in protest at a Michael Jackson concert at the BRIT awards in London. Lately he's been reunited with his father, who left the family when he was a child, denounced American Idol-style TV talent shows, and released a solo album, called simply Jarvis.

 

"Running the World"

The free market is perfectly natural,
Do you think that I'm some kind of dummy?

 

 

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Jeb Blair

"Tony Blair and the RAF chaplain: a secretive journey to Catholicism"
The Guardian

Tony Blair will tomorrow travel to the Vatican to meet the Pope in preparation for his conversion to Roman Catholicism as sources in London and Rome said the outgoing prime minister had taken the decision to seek admission to the church.

From greatest Labour leader
to almost Governor of Florida.

 

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"Failed States Index 2007" Fund for Peace

We are pleased to present the third annual Failed States Index - which has been expanded to include 177 countries. Hundreds of thousands of articles from global and regional sources were collected from May to December 2006 using Thomson Dialog. Utilizing our CAST software to do initial analysis of these voluminous documents and with a review by experts, we compiled the scores below.

Worst
Sudan
Iraq
Somalia

Best
Norway (bastards)
Finland (even more bastards)
Sweden

Iraq gets top points for such things as "Legacy of Vengeance-Seeking Group Grievance or Group Paranoia", "Security Apparatus Operates as a State Within a State" and of course "Intervention of Other States or External Political Actors"

 

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You Yanks are f**king crazy!!

The Holy Land Experience
"Palestinians need not apply"

We're getting The Rapture Question Answered book from their store.
...or maybe The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church book is more rapture for our Dollars.

 

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Iran and the US
equally peaceful

"Give peace a rating - An index of pacifism" The Economist

"The index takes note of internal factors—crime rates, prison population, trust between citizens—and external ones, like relations with neighbours, arms sales, foreign troop deployments."

Sweden is 7th, US is 96th, with Iran at 97th and Israel at 119th Full list

 

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Techno: 1 Hip hop: 0

We're that old that we remember when Moby used to be a hardcore Christian...

"Moby: God Destroys Right-Wing Republicans With Tornados, Hurricanes" Post Chronicle

"But if natural disasters are, as the evangelicals maintain, a sign of God's wrath, then what does it mean that 90 per cent of the damage caused by tornadoes and hurricanes in the US happen in right-wing, Republican states that are heavily populated by evangelicals?