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The Most Inappropriate Song About Abstinence You’ll Hear All Day
The Most Inappropriate Song About Abstinence Youll Hear All Day
Theres nothing safe for work about this song.
You hear me?
Not. Safe. For. Work.
But its Garfunkel and Oates so you know its hilarious. They sing about a loophole to abstinence that Jesus himself would surely approve of
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More:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/01/18/the-most-inappropriate-song-about-abstinence-youll-hear-all-day/
This is the same RNC that was arguing for a "Unitary Executive" (Dictatorship) when W was pResident.
Scholar says Bush has used obscure doctrine to extend power 95 times
The Bush administration has been using an extreme version of an obscure doctrine called the Unitary Executive Theory to justify executive actions that far exceed past presidents' power, RAW STORY has learned.
The doctrine assumes, in its extreme form, nearly absolute deference to the Executive branch from Congress and the Judiciary.
According to Dr. Christopher Kelley, a professor in the Department of Political Sciences at Miami University, as of April 2005, President Bush had used the doctrine 95 times when signing legislation into law, issuing an executive order, or responding to a congressional resolution.
More:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2005/CanExecutive_Branch_Decide_0923.html
Does anyone remember the dude who was able to fake being a savant?
He was in a mental hospital or something, and he fooled the entire staff into thinking he was a piano virtuoso, but in reality he was just hitting one key over and over again.
Even today, with the right banter and context, large groups of people can be fooled by simple tricks.
Edited to add:
Here it is. I found it:
Andreas Grassl
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andreas Grassl (born 25 October 1984) is a German man found in England in April 2005, who remained unidentified for a long time due to his refusal to speak, communicating instead through drawing and playing the piano. During the more than four months that passed until he revealed his identity, the mysterious story spawned media attention and speculation across the world, dubbing him the Piano Man.
When Grassl was picked up by police on 7 April 2005, he was wandering the streets in Sheerness, Kent, in England, wearing a soaking wet suit and tie, and he did not answer any questions. Remaining silent, he was presented a pen and paper by Medway Maritime Hospital staff in the hope he would write his name. Instead, he drew a detailed sketch of a grand piano. When they first brought him to a piano, he reportedly played music from various genres (ranging from classical music by Tchaikovsky to pop music by The Beatles) non-stop for four hours, and then was taken away by the hospital staff.
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On 22 August, the British tabloid newspaper The Mirror reported that the Piano Man had finally broken his silence after more than four months, and that he had been exposed as a hoax. Additionally, the Mirror's source claimed that he did not play the piano properly, but "just kept tapping one key continuously." Hospital staff have maintained that his abilities were not exaggerated.
More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Grassl
Also:
Piano Man Was a Hoax
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/piano_man_was_a_hoax
They should do what the Sci-Fi channel did, and change their name to "The Hystery Channel." n/t
When Right-Wingers whinge about this, remind them Fox "News" is owned by Murdoch and a Saudi prince.
... And not just ANY Saudi prince. The Saudi Prince behind the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque."
Rupert Murdoch, controlling owner of News Corp., with Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit in March. Waleed holds 7 percent of the voting stock of the media company.
The proposed construction of an Islamic center and mosque close to ground zero in New York City has inspired intense scrutiny from news outlets this month and few have outstripped the Fox News Channel in their interest.
That's especially true on Fox's opinion-driven shows in the morning and evening hours. Familiar figures including Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham have repeatedly asked where the money for the center will come from.
Yet the parent company of Fox News shares a financial backer with the imam who is at the center of the firestorm. The second-largest holder of voting stock in News Corp. is Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, a nephew of the Saudi king. And through his philanthropies, Waleed has given generously to initiatives pursued by the imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf.
But that connection has not been spelled out by Fox to viewers. Fox's intense coverage of the Islamic center, combined with its lack of disclosure about the corporate connection to Waleed, has sparked scorn from some media critics and from liberals including, repeatedly, from satirist Jon Stewart.
More:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129584557
I didn't fuck it up
See also:
G.O.P. Anger Over Tax Deal Endangers Final Passage
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014353292
We need to create an internet meme to go with it.
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