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Oh, The Humanity! (Now In Collector Spray Bottle!)
Not sure what to get your Gaza girly to celebrate the holidays? Oranges, red meat and electricity a little out of your price range? Why not get her a bottle of M-75, a citrus-scented perfume with just the slightest undernote of burning flesh! Sexy! Sassy! Perfect for a special night of dancing in the rubble of your favourite disco or everyday going through military checkpoints just to buy some groceries. M-75, named for the Palestinian rockets that rained down on Israeli cities, tells your West Bank woman that you would kill innocent people for her. And, what could be more romantic than that!
M-75 - your lover will explode...with delight!
SOURCE: Ad Meek
[http://www.admeek.com/A&W/national/article_display.jsp?nuvu_content_id=1290952486]
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I Remember When We Used To Use Line Commands To Get Our Porn...In Hex - And We Liked It!
A tweak in Google's search algorithm will mean fewer pornographic images will show up. This is as it should be. After all, if teenage boys can't find Internet porn on their own, they don't deserve to have it!
SOURCE: Geekly News & World Report
[http://www.geeklynews.com/geeklynews/issue/121211/geeklynews/01friendswithbenefitschacha.htm]
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The federal government will not release commitments made by two state-owned enterprises to win approval of their oil-industry takeovers, citing Investment Canada Act provisions that protect the commercial interests of foreign investors. Just weeks after Canada's new copyright law took effect, an Ontario-based Internet service provider has been hit with a demand for personal information about thousands of its customers.
"According to the law, I'm not allowed to communicate these undertakings," Industry Minister Christian Paradis said. "I can tell Canadians that the undertakings that they provided are significant in terms of governance, transparency and disclosure."
"We've seen nothing like this before," said Tina Furlan, director of marketing for TekSavvy. "The magnitude of this is just unbelievable."
SOURCE: 24 Hour News Mashups
[http://politicalmashups.seeblogspotrun.com/]
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A new US school curriculum will make it compulsory for at least 70 per cent of books studied to be non-fiction; suggested texts, chosen with an eye to helping students get jobs after they graduate, include Recommended Levels of Insulation by the Environmental Protection Agency and Invasive Plant Inventory, by California's Invasive Plant Council.
Why? Are students not sufficiently discouraged from reading by current teaching methods?
SOURCE: The Quick and the Detwiler
[http://quick&detwiler.blogspot.com/]
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Three More Verys And We Would Have To Take It Seriously
Lawyers for Tancredo Minuet have argued that all charges of attempted robbery against him should be dismissed because he didn't actually get any of the money he had demanded from bank tellers at gunpoint.
"Look," legal beagle Amanda Speigel argued, "the federal government is making the case that it shouldn't be held liable for misleading phone calls in the last election because there was no proof that anybody was fooled by them. If this argument is accepted, it will establish the 'It isn't a crime if you don't succeed at it' doctrine, and my client wants in on that!"
At least six attempted murderers, four attempted arsonists and an attempted Siberian husky penguin smuggler are watching this case very carefully. Very, very carefully.
SOURCE: The National Whipping Post
[http://www.canada.com/national/nationalwhippingpost/news/story.html?ia=ecda-b6e6-4c18-bf9b-07b657]
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Education Doesn't Uncrazy You, Either.
Sometimes, the simplest crazy is the best.
Ryan Bomberger, co-founder of the Radiance Foundation, a marketing nonprofit that creates anti-abortion ad campaigns, could have taken up residence in the Bag of Crazy for his position that abortion is a war against black people (because, obviously, white women never undergo the procedure). However, it takes a certain demented genius to be able to sum up your contempt for women in four words.
Bomberger's appearance is also a reminder, now that Allen West has lost his seat in the House of Representatives, that crazy is truly colour-blind.
SOURCE: Karl's Big Red Web Page of Unreconstructed Marxism
[http://www.bigred.commie/articles/218^.htm]
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A One-piece Is Best For Diving Into Logic Traps
Eleven science fiction-related lists that you probably won't find on science fiction blogs or Web sites
1. Seventeen robots who were more fun drunk than sober
2. Fourteen science fiction movies that feature pi
3. Eight ways being in a vacuum without a spacesuit can ruin your sex life
4. Two films that feature artificial intelligence that doesn't want to kill us, control us or use us as guinea pigs in bizarre experiments with alternate energy sources
5. Nine ways you probably would have been disappointed by flying cars if they had been invented
6. Ten films where the hero has to fight off an unstoppable alien killing machine, be the best player of a futuristic sport and determine the nature of his own humanity while pretending to be a conductor for a world class symphony orchestra
7. Twenty-seven scenes in science fiction novels that should have been nominated for a Bad Sex in Fiction Award, but weren't
8. Fourteen science fiction movies that feature pie
9. Four television series about space exploration that don't remind anybody of Star Trek...much
10. Nineteen end of the world films with twists that you didn't see coming, but you should have because, honestly, how many different ways are there for ending the world?
11. Eleven science fiction related lists that you probably won't find on science fiction blogs or Web si - wait a minute. Is this an example of an Epimenides paradox? Because, if it is, I'm going to have to get my bathing suit on!
SOURCE: The Web Page of Lists
[http://www.ListsPage.argh/2012/December/Weird_Scifi_Self-reference.asp]
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I Prefer Embracing The New Abnormal (Like All The Other Zombie Movie Fans)
With the world economy still in the doldrums, Canadian management shouldn't expect to make any significant gains next year, the Conference Board of Canada says. "Modest economic prospects matched by modest expectations may provide a degree of stability for CEOs and senior managers that encourages pragmatism rather than rhetoric. It's time to embrace the new normal," the report says.
Then, I woke up.
SOURCE: Martini's Up Canada! Blog
[http:martini.upcanada.blogspeck.com]
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