Calling it like I see it as always

12 Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular Music

Seeded on Tue Dec 6, 2011 4:15 PM EST (Basil Marceaux For Governor Of Tennessee! [VIDEO])

Flo Rida's “Low” has sold 8 million copies – the same as The Beatles' “Hey Jude”

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My Life Working Retail And A Few Annoyances

Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:00 AM EDT

A few months back I was offered a job at one of the many "arts and craft" stores in my city. At the time I was very leery of working a job of that nature. First I know very little about arts and crafts.

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not-news, jobs, satire, work, fun, crafts, complainers, grabbers, wild-child

Advice to the GOP and "Birthers", Give it a rest and do the right thing!

Fri Apr 22, 2011 5:20 PM EDT

Every once and a while you just have to say "WTF!". You see I am at a point in my life where I am just sick of all the petty bull@!$%#. I am a Conservative and a very proud to be one. But I to am finding myself sick of this whole President Obama Birth Certificate Fiasco.

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politics, us, obama, bush, democrats, gop, president, washington, war-crimes, crazy

BREAKING: The End of NPR - A hidden camera captures the sound of the last nail slamming into their coffin.

Seeded on Tue Mar 8, 2011 1:33 PM EST (Human Events)

Seeded by Driftwood1 (Clipped by Rob Ballew)

Conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe gets his camera into the most interesting places. The other day, he slipped it into a lunch meeting between National Public Radio executives and two men they believed were representatives of a Muslim Brotherhood front group.

politics, tea-party, muslim-brotherhood, npr, national-public-radio, zionists

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White House memo notes shortage of applicants for contest to have Obama to speak at high school graduation

Seeded on Mon Mar 7, 2011 11:34 PM EST (CBS News)

The White House is ramping up an effort to promote a nationwide competition to decide which high school wins a commencement speech by President Obama.

politics, us, white-house, obama, democrats, schools, cbs, high-school, duncan, commencement

ObamaCare's March Madness:: WSJ Opinion

Seeded on Mon Mar 7, 2011 9:39 AM EST (Wall Street Journal)

Sports fans relish this time of year for the NCAA Championship Basketball Tournament, aka "March Madness." But this year the tournament has a serious contender for that title. March is also ObamaCare's anniversary month.

politics, us, obama, congress, budget, medicare, obamacare, seniors, march, hcr

World's youngest granny is just 23

Seeded on Mon Mar 7, 2011 9:22 AM EST (The Sun Newspaper Online)

Mum-of-two Rifca Stanescu was 12 when she had her first child Maria. She urged the girl not to follow her example - but Maria gave birth to son Ion while only 11. Rifca had married jewellery seller Ionel Stanescu when she was 11 and he was 13.

odd-news, uk, romania, grandma, 23, euorope, stanescu

The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Obama Administration Energy Policy

Seeded on Sun Mar 6, 2011 8:06 PM EST (freedomworks.org)

Amongst the litany of failures by the Obama administration's domestic policy, none seems to be more salient than their naïve utopian energy policy.

politics, us, obama, congress, middle-east, energy, oil, epa, green-energy, cap-and-trade

Number of healthcare reform law waivers climbs above 1,000

Seeded on Sun Mar 6, 2011 7:56 PM EST (TheHill.com)

The number of temporary healthcare reform waivers granted by the Obama administration to organizations climbed to more than 1,000, according to new numbers disclosed by the Department of Health and Human Services.

politics, us, obama, democrats, gop, congress, healthcare, obamacare, hcr, hhs

Video: Sebelius Cracks! Admits the Obamacare Books Were Cooked

Seeded on Sun Mar 6, 2011 1:16 PM EST (FOXNews.com)

The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee invited Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to swing by and have a little chin wag about the budgetary implications of ObamaCare.

politics, us, gop, house, health-care-reform, medicare, obamacare, sebelius, shimkus

U.S. Military Is Worse Than Al Qaeda, Attorney for Westboro Baptist Church Says

Seeded on Sun Mar 6, 2011 1:02 PM EST (FOXNews.com)

The U.S. military is "slaughtering innocents" and is worse than Al Qaeda, the attorney who successfully defended the right of her church to picket outside a Marine's funeral said Sunday.

us-news, us, supreme-court, christians, westboro-baptist-church, phelps, al-quada, militay, pentagin

U.K. Pulls Plug on United Nations Spending, in Move That is Bound to Hearten U.S. Critics

Seeded on Sat Mar 5, 2011 10:35 AM EST (FOXNews.com)

Critics of U.S. spending on the United Nations got a huge boost—and supporters of that spending, especially the Obama Administration, took a body blow—from an unlikely source this week: the British government, long one of the U.N.'s staunchest supporters.

world-news, us, europe, congress, uk, un, rice, cameron, unicef, norad

Diabetic Oregon Man 'Doing Fine' After Dog Eats Toes

Seeded on Sat Mar 5, 2011 10:25 AM EST (FOXNews.com)

A diabetic man from Oregon who awoke to find that his dog had eaten three of his toes says he is recovering and hopes to leave the hospital soon. Nathan Jones told The Associated Press on Friday that he is "doing fine" and resting, but he declined to speak further

us-news, diabetes, oregon, jones, toes, veternarian, doig

Planned Parenthood's Birth-Control Myth :: Kirsten Powers (Opinion)

Seeded on Sat Mar 5, 2011 9:57 AM EST (thedailybeast.com)

In the U.S., the story isn't much different. A January 2011 fact sheet by the pro-abortion rights Guttmacher Institute listed all the reasons that women who have had an abortion give for their unexpected pregnancy, and not one of them is lack of access to contraception.

us-news, us, congress, sex, abortion, funding, planned-parenthood, guttmacher-institute, contreception

Poll: Am I The Only One Who Thinks Newsvine Polls Are Useless And An Easy Way To Pick Up Page Hits?

Fri Mar 4, 2011 11:18 AM EST

On any given day a person can log onto newsvine and somewhere either in the Newsvine Columnists or Most Active Stories sections and there is a poll. Some polls are basic and interesting, polls about favorite pets, pizza Vs burgers, or even boxers Vs briefs.

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not-news, newsvine, satire, polls, wtf, meta, ist, more-meta, yup-this-is-meta

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum :: Daniel Ayalon

Seeded on Thu Mar 3, 2011 3:10 PM EST (foreignpolicy.com)

The recent unrest in parts of the Arab world has not only exposed the appalling lack of development in these countries, but also a number of fundamental deficiencies in the international system.

world-news, africa, israel, middle-east, un, human-rights, libya, unrest, gaddafi, arab-league

Breaking: Senate GOP in Wisconsin Order Police to Take AWOL Dems Into Custody

Seeded on Thu Mar 3, 2011 2:45 PM EST (FOXNews.com)

Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate passed a resolution Thursday calling for police to take 14 Democrats into custody for contempt after they fled to Illinois to avoid voting on a bill that strip public sector unions of nearly all their collective bargaining rights.

us-news, us, democrats, gop, labor, wisconsin, walker, fleebagging-14, pulic-labor

72% of Shopping Carts Test Positive For Fecal Matter. Carts one of dirtiest places in grocery store, study says

Seeded on Thu Mar 3, 2011 2:13 PM EST (USA Today)

A University of Arizona researcher says you may want to grab one of those disinfectant wipes right before you grab a grocery cart. Professor Charles Gerba, the lead researcher, swabbed the handles of 85 carts in four states for bacterial contamination.

us-news, us, e-coli, shopping-carts, poo, grocery-stores, fecal-matter, gerba

Farrakhan: Jews are pushing the US into war

Seeded on Thu Mar 3, 2011 2:04 PM EST (JPost.com)

Nation of Islam leader says his comments on Jews are meant "to pull the cover off Satan" and "Zionists dominate the US government and banks." Talkbacks (155) Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said on Tuesday that Jews and Zionists are "trying to push the US into war …

us-news, obama, middle-east, libya, jews, gaddafi, satan, zionists, farrakhan, nation-of-islam

Iran threatens London boycott over 'racist' Olympic logo

Seeded on Wed Mar 2, 2011 2:30 PM EST (Yahoo! Sports)

Iran is threatening to boycott of the 2012 London Olympics because it claims the official logo for the games resembles the word "Zion," which is a biblical term for Jerusalem.

world-news, europe, iran, middle-east, uk, olympics, london, jews, racist, ioc

Pakistan's only Christian minister assassinated over blasphemy row

Seeded on Wed Mar 2, 2011 2:05 PM EST (Telegraph)

The assassination comes just a fortnight after Mr Bhatti, Minister for Minorities, said he was prepared to die for his beliefs following a series of death threats. He claimed his faith gave him strength during a recent visit to Canada.

world-news, pakistan, middle-east, islam, christian, taliban, assassination, bibi, taseer, bhatti

Barack Obama repeating Jimmy Carter's mistakes :: Steve Forbes (Opinion)

Seeded on Wed Mar 2, 2011 1:49 PM EST (Politico)

You need to watch only a few minutes of cable news analysis to realize just how ludicrous our national energy policies have become.

politics, us, africa, obama, middle-east, energy, oil, bp, national-security, gulf-of-mexico

Student calls police after Atherton math teacher rattles table

Seeded on Wed Mar 2, 2011 1:39 PM EST (mercurynews.com)

An eighth-grade math teacher at Atherton's Selby Lane School rattled a table to get his students' attention Tuesday afternoon, police said. He succeeded on that score. But the demonstration landed him on paid administrative leave.

world-news, police, student, teacher, us-education, atherton, 8th-grade, table-rattling, redwood-city-school-district, selby-lane-school

The Liberal Left is Drowning in a Sea of Lies!

Seeded on Tue Mar 1, 2011 8:52 AM EST (The After Vine)

Seeded by Pat N (Clipped by Rob Ballew)

We all know the drill. Someone does something terrible, and the liberal left jumps into high gear, ready to smear their political counterparts. Or, they state lies about one group, and forgive the transgressions of another. They vilify their enemies and create their own heroes.

politics, timothy-mcveigh, since-obama, imperialist-america, tea-party-protesters-you, the-after-vine

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Party Like It's 1995? Tea Party Freshman Talks Possible Shutdown

Seeded on Mon Feb 28, 2011 1:30 PM EST (FOXNews.com)

Congressman Allen West, R-Fla., says he has his constituents' support, even if the debate over spending leads to the first government shutdown since 1995.

politics, obama, democrats, gop, government, tea-party, deficit, west, schumer, shut-down

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