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Proof positive that Silly First Name Syndrome kills

by Whaleoil September 4, 2010

Surely this is enough evi­dence to end the silly first name syn­drome dis­cus­sion. A month ago, six African-American teenagers drowned in a sin­gle inci­dent in Louisiana, prompt­ing soul-searching about why so many young black Amer­i­cans can’t swim. When 15-year-old DeK­endrix Warner acci­den­tally stepped into deeper water while wad­ing in the Red River in Shreve­port, he panicked. […]

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Awesome Arizona

by Whaleoil July 30, 2010

Today is the day gun-rights advo­cates have had in their sights for a long time. Start­ing today, Ari­zona res­i­dents at least 21 years old can carry a con­cealed weapon with­out a per­mit. The change is part of a broad weapons law by state Sen. Rus­sell Pearce passed by the state Leg­is­la­ture in April that eases restrictions […]

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Wednesday Weapons — Jousting

by Whaleoil July 21, 2010

Joust­ing is mak­ing a come­back. The lat­est ulti­mate extreme sport. The gates of the Gulf Coast Inter­na­tional Joust­ing Cham­pi­onships opened at 6 p.m. one Fri­day in Jan­u­ary at a 4,500-seat arena 13 miles out­side Pen­sacola, Fla. Some of the spec­ta­tors were dressed in leather dou­blets and vel­vet gowns; some wore jeans and cow­boy hats or […]

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7 things politicians can do to help bloggers

by Whaleoil July 21, 2010

I was read­ing an arti­cle last night from a blog­ger telling the GOP the 7 things they could do to help the right side of the blo­gos­phere. I could have writ­ten this myself and replaced Repub­li­can with National/Act. It is a very good post though and has some very good ideas, if National or Act […]

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Why the Recording Industry is going broke

by Whaleoil July 14, 2010

The clue here is that it isn’t because of piracy, but you can see why they need dra­con­ian laws to pro­tect their nice lit­tle car­tel, they sim­ply just suck at busi­ness and they want gov­ern­ments to pro­tect their sorry asses. The RIAA’s “busi­ness plan” is even worse than I’d guessed it was. The RIAA paid Holmes Roberts […]

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The Evolution of Political Advertising

by Whaleoil July 8, 2010

I am con­stantly impressed with the stan­dard of polit­i­cal adver­tis­ing in the US. Their attack ads are superb, and there are none bet­ter than those by Ladd Ehlinger Jr. Ladd Ehlinger Jr. jokes that he’s only shot cam­paign ads for three peo­ple, and he’s man­aged to get two of them named “worst per­son in the […]

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A Whale of a ship

by Whaleoil July 1, 2010

If the Fed­eral author­i­ties in the US would get off their arse there is a ship avail­able that could help skim up the oil in the Gulf of Mex­ico. Fit­tingly it is called the “A Whale” and it is a mas­sive ship 340m long and 60m wide with a draught of 11.3m. A mas­sive, newly-retooled supertanker […]

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S.C.O.T.U.S. upholds 2nd Amendment and extends to States

by Whaleoil June 29, 2010

In its sec­ond major rul­ing on gun rights in three years, the Supreme Court Mon­day extended the fed­er­ally pro­tected right to keep and bear arms to all 50 states. The deci­sion will be hailed by gun rights advo­cates and comes over the oppo­si­tion of gun con­trol groups, the city of Chicago and four jus­tices. Justice […]

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Change you can believe in

by Whaleoil June 17, 2010

Barack Obama promised “Change”. Amer­i­cans have got chump change and you know things are bad for the Pres­i­dent once Jon Stew­art starts whal­ing on your ass. The Daily Show With Jon Stew­art Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Respect My Author­i­tah www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Polit­i­cal Humor Tea Party Related Posts:Len Brown chan­nelling ObamaExclu­sive: John Key and […]

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Maybe Tugger Jones can help?

by Whaleoil June 12, 2010

Related Posts:For­mer Labour min­is­ter busted for dodgy spend­ing­Pinko excuses – 101 – Blame the workersTen­der­watch – Estab­lish­ing more Bro-rocracyEnjoy­ing Rugby on the Ratepay­er­sHappy Birth­day Mr Mayor

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Rectum? Damn near killed him

by Whaleoil June 10, 2010

I’d say he was try­ing to enlarge the cir­cle of his friends. Gavin Stanger, 24, of East Wenatchee, Wash­ing­ton smug­gled the fol­low­ing into jail, in his rec­tum, all at once: a green cig­a­rette lighter, cig­a­rette rolling papers, a golf-ball size bag of tobacco, a bot­tle of tat­too ink, eight tat­too nee­dles, a one-inch-long smok­ing pipe […]

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America’s top national security issue?

by Whaleoil June 8, 2010

Does any one have an idea what the US should have as its top national secu­rity issue? Bar­bara Boxer, US Sen­a­tor for Cal­i­for­nia thinks it’s cli­mate change, Carly Fio­r­ina dis­agrees. Gotta love those Amer­i­can polit­i­cal ads. Wish we did the same here. Related Posts:No Related Posts

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Imagine…

by Whaleoil June 2, 2010

…liv­ing with this bore for 40 years…. Well done Tip­per. Related Posts:Cli­mate Change Roundu­pAl Gore doesn’t get Man­BearPig joke­CLI­MATE­GATE – Al Gore is either a liar or dumber than a sack of hammers

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Now that’s classy

by Whaleoil May 27, 2010

Some­times the CIA is all class and other time no class at all. This is just so much class. Jeff Stein reports that the CIA in 2003 con­sid­ered mak­ing a fake sex tape of the Iraqi dic­ta­tor with a teenage boy as a way to dis­credit him: The ideas were patently ridicu­lous, said the other […]

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Oh no! Protect us from people wearing singlets and tank tops

by Whaleoil May 15, 2010

hat tip to Graeme Edg­ler from Face­book The Her­ald have a very good exam­ple of just how dumb some of the main­stream media are, along with their sub-idiots. In this case it is an AP repeat. Not even Sarah Palin could be blamed for this egre­gious mis-use of the eng­lish lan­guage. The AP sub-idiot or […]

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