Maybe Bush has already achieved victory in Iraq

A friend of mine recently gave me a disturbing scenario:  what if Iraq has descended into civil war because Bush and his neo-con puppetmasters want it that way?  What if Bush's repeated failures to end the violence aren't failures at all, but rather the desired result?  Consider:  the continued violence…

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I love the taste of pork, but I wish I didn’t

Not after reading this article about pig-farming in Rolling Stone. This is the teaser at the top of the article: America's top pork producer churns out a sea of waste that has destroyed rivers, killed millions of fish and generated one of the largest fines in EPA history. Welcome to…

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Death to the death penalty

According to this article about Saddam's execution, "Iraq's death penalty was suspended by the U.S. military after it toppled Saddam in 2003, but the new Iraqi government reinstated it two years later, saying executions would deter criminals." Deter criminals?  Since Iraq reinstated the death penalty in 2005, the murder rate in…

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Church Advertising

Sometimes I see signs in front of churches and wish I could change the message.  Here's a location where you can make your own sign.  The site includes many actual signs, at least that is the claim, because some are just too ironic (or honest) to be real signs.  For example:  …

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