Saturday, March 24, 2012

Stuff below the fold

With his retirement, Brian Lamb's style of asking short questions about facts, not emotions, will be missed on TV...

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via Instapundit:

Where are the 200 million dollars?
To Congress: I can't remember where I put it.
Friday news dump: Oh I remember: I transferred it to JPMorgan...

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Celebrating Nowruz in Kurdistan resulted in the police breaking up the party in Turkish Kurdistan...
Turkey outlawed it's celebration until the year 2000... Not even Saddam Hussein dared to do that...

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Speaking of ethnic tension: President Obama is stoking a murder case in Florida to enrage he black base and the anti gun lobby and to support him in the upcoming election

The problem? The perpetrator had physical evidence to support his claim of self defense, and was Hispanic...

Mother Jones is following this case and the law that allowed it in detail.

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or maybe the story is being touted to let the press to ignore the protests for religious freedom held around the country
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StrategyPage discusses the fight to eliminate polio that is made worse by conspiracy theories in Muslim areas.

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StrategyPage explains that Iran will get a nuke, but in their podcast they explain why this may not be as bad as it seems.

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China will end organ donations from condemned prisoners.

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The Pope visits Guanajuato an area of Mexico that still remembers the war for religious freedom against a repressive government in the 1920's...

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