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    For real? What could you possibly be trying to convey with that?

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      Even if it's a photoshop, it's bizarre.

      He claims it is promoting a Wildlife Museum.

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        But neither of those animals is native to PR. That's just ridiculous.

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          It would have been really funny if the family had done a series of them by posing in life-size museum dioramas.

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            Meanwhile, our dear leader just used a photo he took last year for his.

            http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1100881--stephen-harper-and-his-family-re-gift-their-christmas-card?bn=1

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              Hmm...Puerto Rico could be worth keeping a closer eye on for their politicians. Besides that Christmas card, they of course had the Republican senator who was found to have taken photos of himself and had a profile on Grindr. He explained that he took the photos--including one of him bent over on a bed, showing off everything--to document his weight loss. Because of course everyone tracks their weight loss by the appearance of their anus.

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                Meanwhile, our dear leader just used a photo he took last year for his.

                Not buying your family any new clothes for an entire year sends an important message about fiscal responsibility does it not?

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                  Heh. And the kids grow up - or not - so fast, don't they? Seems like just yesterday that Steve was shaking hands goodbye to Rachelle on her first day of school.

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                    Incandenza wrote:
                    Hmm...Puerto Rico could be worth keeping a closer eye on for their politicians. Besides that Christmas card, they of course had the Republican senator who was found to have taken photos of himself and had a profile on Grindr. He explained that he took the photos--including one of him bent over on a bed, showing off everything--to document his weight loss. Because of course everyone tracks their weight loss by the appearance of their anus.
                    That one was hilarious. Republicans seem to get caught in gay sex scandals so often I just assume they're all in the closet.

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                      Eva Peron was lobotomised several months before she died of cancer.

                      The nature of Perón’s illness was initially shrouded in silence. Her doctors diagnosed advanced cervical cancer in August 1951, but as was common at the time, the patient was told only that she had a uterine problem. According to the biographers Nicholas Fraser and Marysa Navarro, secrecy was so paramount that an American specialist, Dr. George Pack, performed Perón’s cancer operation without her or the public ever knowing. He entered the operating suite after she was under anesthesia.

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                        Weird. But then the Perón cult is weird in almost every respect. I think it's largely incomprehensible unless you're from Argentina.

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                          She's a loon, but it is important to note that she is an Indiana STATE senator, not a member of the US Senate.

                          The Indiana state senate is one of the many part-time state legislatures with little meaningful power, meeting for only 30 days in even numbered years and only 60 days in odd numbered years.

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                            A lower-case wtf, from today's MSNBC:

                            Dallas Police detective C'mon (pronounced Simone) Wingo, the detective in charge of the case, explained that in August she was contacted by the girl's grandmother...

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                              ursus arctos wrote:
                              She's a loon, but it is important to note that she is an Indiana STATE senator, not a member of the US Senate.
                              Which is not made clear in the NME article at all. It's only explained slightly more in the Rolling Stone article that they linked to and basically re-wrote.

                              But since the law would only apply to the singing of the anthem at events sponsored by public schools and universities, not sure then how Steven Tyler could have been fined for changing "home of the brave" to "home of the Indianapolis 500" at the Indy 500, other than on grounds of grand douchebaggery, of course.

                              NME didn't mention this, from the RS article:

                              If this bill passes in Indiana, it would not be the first state law strictly governing the performance of the national anthem. Massachusetts has a law imposing up to $100 in fines for playing the song "as dance music, as an exit march or as part of a medley." Michigan prohibits anyone from performing the song in a public space except in its entirety and "without embellishment."
                              You have to wonder just how often those laws are enforced.

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                                Without embellishment? Does a singer at a major league baseball game turning the anthem into a 16 minutes R&B number count as embellishment?

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                                  I've asked this before, but do young schoolchildren still "pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America", as we once did? Because I can envision serious repercussions for any kid who, say, emits a protracted belch during the second line, as John Fixmer did when we were in the first grade.

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                                    Just don't look down.

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                                      The Exploding Vole wrote:
                                      I've asked this before, but do young schoolchildren still "pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America", as we once did?
                                      Indeed they do. Or at least they do at my daughter's elementary school. And I'm sure it's just as meaningless a jumble of words to them as it was to me when I was drowsily mumbling them every morning in grade school.

                                      My father always makes a point of leaving out "under god" when he says it. That's how it was originally written, of course—"under god" was added in the fifties during the Red Scare. And of course the original was written by a socialist (Francis Bellamy), something else modern-day pledge-thumpers don't like to talk about.

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                                        CV, it is unlikely that the law would withstand constitutional challenge, but it is perhaps even more unlikely that anyone would bother to challenge it, given the apparent lack of enforcement. We don't have a process whereby legislative bodies are barred from passing unconstitutional statutes, challenges are post facto (though application of suspect statutes is often suspended by a court pending resolution of the constitutional challenge).

                                        That said, one reason for the limitation of application of the law in question to public schools and universities is likely that the Supreme Court has been less protective of speech in those contexts (particularly if the students in question are minors).

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                                          I wonder if Beezow Do Do's parents know that he is in trouble.

                                          Also, is Zopittybop-Bop-Bop a treble-barreled surname?

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                                            His Facebook page is public.

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                                              Four Year Old Shoots Two Deer, Father Brags to Fawning Press.

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                                                Incandenza wrote:
                                                He likes the Dead, so he can't be all bad.

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                                                  An early candidate for Police Report of the Year.

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                                                    Adirondack house for sale.

                                                    All mod cons, great views, extensive grounds, Cold War missile silo and control room bunker.

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