Apparently Denver has plenty of jail cells but not enough limosines for next week's DNC convention. Hmph.
Denver has a good public transportation system, so what is the problem? I suppose that some Democrats are just too special to soil themselves sitting on dirty public bus seats. Or maybe Denver doesn't keep its buses cooled to 65 degrees in the summer. Oh, the humanity.
The DNC is also expecting kooks to turn out in record numbers this year, so they had the city convert an old warehouse into a special secret holding facility for protesters who are arrested. Big Dog writes,
So let’s get this straight. The same Democratic party that howls about Guantanamo Bay and secret CIA prisons in other countries knew about a secret prison right here in America built for their convenience. Some might call that a bit hypocritical. Others, like me, might ask why it is that the Democrats oppose prisons (secret or not) that house terrorists and other enemies of our country but are in favor of a secret prison to house people who show opposition to the Democrats?
Indeed.
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The Chinese are concerned about the number of empty seats at the Olympics. After all, they gave the citizens of Beijing special passes to the events and extra days off. But common sense tells me that the Chinese have better things to do than waste their time supporting what is becoming nothing more than a huge symbol of the ultimate deception of Communism. A government that goes all-out to impress the international community, yet treats their own citizens like dirt, will garner very little widespread support.
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With all the current controversy surrounding the Olympic gymnasts, you might be wondering what happened to Nadia Comaneci, the 14 year old who dazzled the world in 1976 with her perfect "10.0" score on the parallel bars. Well, she is 46 years old, married, and living in Oklahoma.
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This is probably the worst clothing ad campaign idea ever.
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Kristy Grant, the Volusia County, FL, "cat lady" has won her fight to keep 150 cats on her multi-acre cat sanctuary.
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Legendary record producer Jerry Wexler has died at the age of 91. Wexler turned Atlantic Records from a struggling indie label into the nation's R&B powerhouse through the recordings he produced for Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and many others.
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Here is a lengthy story about Pottsville, IA, home of Agriprocessors, which was raided by ICE back in May. The town, which was home to hundreds of immigrants from Mexico and South America who worked at the plant, has been devastated. I always find it difficult to read the stories of those who willfully endure suffering just so their children can have a chance at a better future in America. And I am angered by those who have no problem inflicting that suffering just so they can make a bigger buck.
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If you think that "alternative energy" is somehow morally superior to fossil fuels, then you should read this NT Times story. It seems as though "Big Wind" is just as corrupt as "Big Oil."
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Rasmussen is reporting that 55% of those it surveyed believe that media bias is more of a problem than out-of-control campaign contributions. Could the recent -- and glaringly obvious -- press cover-up of the John Edwards affair have affected this opinion poll? Politicians have exhausted a lot of wind over the subject of campaign finance reform over the years, but curiously they seem reluctant to talk about bias in the press. Here's a place for them to start: The Washington Post just admitted that its stories on Barack Obama outnumbered its stories about John McCain by 3:1.
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The National Review's Stanley Kurtz has been investigating the relationship between Barack Obama and former Weather Underground terrorist turned academic icon Bill Ayers. Kurtz reports that the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago houses some 130 boxes of records that could prove very enlightening, but the University has been stifling his attempts to view the contents of those boxes. Silly me -- I thought liberals were always opposed to any efforts aimed at keeping materials away from library patrons.
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I'm not a believer in the idea of the world "ending" via an unimaginable apocalyptic disaster. If you share my skepticism of "Left Behind" and other doomsday scenarios, you might enjoy this episode of Penn and Teller's Showtime series "Bullshit!" (language warning, for those of you who haven't figured that out yet).
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