When I was in the 4th grade my class went on a field trip to the San Francisco Zoo, and I don’t mean we attended a meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
The chimp exhibit was a big hit with the children; we enjoyed making faces and taunting them until one chimp and then another retaliated [...]

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In a close vote a few hours ago, US Senators [Overwhelmingly Republican] voted 53-46 against “Cloture” — a procedural vote to limit debate on the immigration bill, to move it forward for further consideration. The “Ayes” failed to garner the 60 votes, with which to keep the bill alive.
The smoking “murder weapon” is in the [...]

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Mitt Romney: [Republican Presidential candidate]
“Well, the question is kind of a non sequitur, if you will. And what I mean by that — or a null set.” — after being asked during a Republican debate whether is was a mistake to invade Iraq.
“I purchased a gun when I was a young man. I’ve been a [...]

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The Supreme Court upheld the suspension of an Alaska high school senior for raising a banner that read “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” at a school-sanctioned event outside campus. 
The High Court said students can be punished for statements that an administrator reasonably interprets as promoting illegal drug use.
Any reasonable person would have interpreted the kid’s banner as a [...]

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David Aaronovitch of timesonline.co.uk writes:
“The departing Prime Minister is Bliar, the mendacious, spin-obsessed, manipulating fraudster who lied to take us to war, undermined our independent civil service, took cash from the rich and rewarded them with peerages and favourable decisions, and suborn our politics.”
“This Bliar is also, at best a naive, messianic prating fool when [...]

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