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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 08:15 PM
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First it was the War on Xmas. Now it's the War on Fathers
First it was the War on Christmas. Then it was the War on Easter. Now it's the War on Fathers.

Just in time for Father's Day, the right wing tells us how America is being feminized.

Coming Soon: The War on Columbus Day.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50463

THE WAR ON FATHERS
How the 'feminization of America'
destroys boys, men – and women


In honor of Fathers Day, the June edition of Whistleblower magazine is a mega-eye-opener exploring one of the most crucial but little-reported phenomena of modern America – what WND calls "THE WAR ON FATHERS."
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 08:16 PM
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1. World Nut Daily will say literally anything to get hits
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 08:20 PM
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2. what's next, the War on Carbon Dioxide?
oh wait, they're already doing that...

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/18/new-ads-funded-by-big-oil-portray-global-warming-science-as-smear-campaign-against-carbon-dioxide/

New Ads Funded by Big Oil Portray Global Warming Science as Smear Campaign Against Carbon Dioxide

Yesterday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute – a front group funded by ExxonMobil and other big oil companies – launched two advertisements in response to Al Gore’s new movie, An Inconvenient Truth.

The first ad portrays global warming science as a vicious smear campaign against carbon dioxide. The ad, which despite appearances is not an SNL parody, helpfully reminds us that carbon dioxide is “essential to life” because “we breath it out.”

more...
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 08:23 PM
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3. They're just starting a War on Intelligence.
And winning.

Redstone
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Lefty48197 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 10:03 PM
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8. They've been slaughtering intelligence for decades
and they're damn good at it.
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 08:28 PM
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4. gynophobia - a disorder among conservatives
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Ringo84 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 08:54 PM
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5. Re:
Yeah. Whatever works to energize the nuts.

ANOTHER example of hypocrisy: mAnn and other RWers say that liberals play victim politics. Uh huh.
Ringo
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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 09:14 PM
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6. The "war on Columbus Day" has been going on for decades
Just ask any Native American what they think of Columbus Day :hi:
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-14-06 09:36 PM
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7. This Norwegian-American is still waiting for Leif Eriksson Day.
:D
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