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snopes.com: Corpus Christi - Gay Jesus FilmPosted using ShareThis

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If the video doesn't load, watch it here.

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MoveOn can be pretty slick.

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but I saw this film tonight, and while I can't quite explain why I enjoyed it, particularly the last minute, I think it is a work of genius.

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via Huffpo, by way of Buzzfeed:

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Everybody's Skinny Dippin' da Da duh...

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I got nothing, so here's a cool drawing of Blade Runner.

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The boys are definitely the squarest.Nelson said he and other senators, "perhaps" including Democrats, plan to introduce an amendment "something like Stupak" on the Senate floor. The prospects of such an amendment passing, however, are slim. Republican abortion-rights opponents include Nelson's home-state colleague, Sen. Mike Johanns, have conceded they cannot muster the 60 votes they would need

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I felt as if I'd landed on an Alien planet, had established rapport with the local indigenous fauna, and then, having been invited to their weekly gathering, had been completely shocked from the ridiculousness and utter lack of reason inherent in their kooky, and otherwise meaningless rituals and sermons:from Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot:Consider again that pale blue dot. Take a good long look at

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Morgan Spurlock presents "What would Jesus Buy?":

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Wayback Machine set to Feb 19th, 2009:Under Mr. Steele's helm, the “old” may seem inappropriate in the Grand Old Party's affectionate nickname. He said he is putting a new public relations team into place to update the party's image. “It will be avant garde, technically,” he said. “It will come to table with things that will surprise everyone - off the hook.” Does that mean cutting-edge? “I don't

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyOtherwise you might end up like this woman."Fat, Drunk, and Stupid is no way to go through life."

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Now, with no Executive Branch!Will update with more details later, but for now, read the descriptions of the people depicted and an interview with the artist here.So far, my favorite mouseover descriptions:****UPDATE:Reagan as “a true patriot of freedom”. WTF does that even mean?Thomas “Payne” appearing in this painting, even though he wrote a whole book ridiculing organized religion.The

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Talking Points Memo:When the International Olympic Committee voted against Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics this morning -- after the President and First Lady flew to Copenhagen to push for it in person -- the Weekly Standard newsroom burst into applause."Cheers erupt at Weekly Standard world headquarters," wrote editor John McCormack in a post titled "Chicago Loses! Chicago Loses!"The line

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Favorite Balloon-juice error yet:

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via conservative writer Andrew Sullivan:Nile Gardiner of the Heritage Foundation wrote in The Daily Telegraph: “[Obama’s] appeasement of Iran, his bullying of Israel, his surrender to Moscow, his call for a nuclear-free world ... have all won him plaudits in the large number of UN member states where US foreign policy has traditionally been viewed with contempt. Simply put, Barack Obama is loved

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UPDATE:More recently, this week:

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Modern Life is such a bitch.Infomercial Hell - watch more funny videos

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Because 2 minutes in, you will find your head repeatedly bouncing off of it.

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You're going to have to google "DFH".

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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It's not just blind stupdity, it's hip!We need tanks and hummers, not hybrid cars!We need honest politicians, not communist czars! USA, not the USSR.We need more Ann Coulter and less Bill Maher.[…]I don’t need another lecture from the Socialistic hypocrite.Tuesday was your birthday, but where’s your birth certificate?I can't figure out which is worse, that or this:Seriously,When conservatives try

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...began @03:38.

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These low-info crazy paranoid racist are only worthy of our laughter. Try not to gag on the puke-funnel, mmKay?

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Special Comment, idiocracy-watch edition.Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyTown Halls, Death Panels, Oligarhys, a multi-racial president who is accused of hating half his own ancestry, neuroses about communist artwork, the idea that fascism and socialism aren't mutually exclusive, grass-roots protests bought and paid for by lobbyists and corporations, scared

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Balloon Juice reader Steve S, from yesterday:I tutor in the Deep South. Today, one of my tutorees said he had a sweet afternoon playing video games. His momma had taken him out of school so he wouldn’t see Obama. Politics around here is a mine field, so I said something like “I don’t know anything about that.” He, a sixth grader, said, “You don’t wanta know! He changed the speech after everybody

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And apparently the 9/11 truther petition thing was bullshit.

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This, also.and 16 years later, Redemption.

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...and tries to out-batshit Glenn Beck...Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy...and inevitably fails. Gloriously. You can't out crazy Glenn Beck. So Awesome.Bring on the Apocalypse. We are all Mayans now.Also, in a totally unrelated thing, I came across this quote from one of the classics of American Literature.“No man, for any considerable period, can wear

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Technically, today is Sunday. Praise be to Allah.What you are about to watch occurred on Thursday:As of 72 hours later, this individual is neither in a straight-jacket or a padded cell, nor is he unemployed.Self-described conservative Andrew Sullivan's terse comment:This Is On National Television:What else is there to say?80% Glibertarian, Reason.com editor, and Randian prick in general, Radley

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It was a year ago yesterday that John McCain announced his running mate and candidate for Vice President of these United States. And while driving to work, listening to her speech in my car, I actually said, aloud: "Who the FUCK is Sarah Palin?!"That phrase was a very popular Google Search in the days that followed. She has since quit being Governor of Alaska after 2.5 years of service, and now

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It's like a Coen Bros' Project Alpha with Dick Cheney as the dupe:

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Healthcare Napkins AllView more documents from Dan Roam.

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I’m currently listening to a book on tape version of Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine. It’s not enjoyable at all, but it is one of the most informative and striking books I’ve ever read. Disaster Capitalists and a certain school of economists envisioned a free-market utopia based on computer models under the belief that a human-created monetary system could be considered a hard science like

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from Bloomberg:Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Don Hewitt, who created the enduring CBS television newsmagazine “60 Minutes” and was its sole executive producer for 35 years, has died. He was 86. He died today, CBS News reported on its Web site. A spokesman for “60 Minutes” said he was diagnosed earlier this year with a tumor, according to CBS News. Although he often said he wanted to die at his desk,

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Cute follow-up to bad news:I went over to my ‘rents house and I did give my mom and my brother a big hug. They needed it, and my mom saw this thread, and though perplexed about the format, purpose, and etiquette of the blogosphere, she appreciates the kind words expressed by total strangers.We all explained Maxie's absence to my 4 year old niece and then my younger brother, her father, saying,“

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Via Radley Balko:The remaining half of America’s great freedom-loving couple has passed away.Yeah not so much.Again, between the stark dichotomy of free markets vs. free people, you need to define "freedom" for clarity's sake...After right-wing “free market” economist and longtime University of Chicago professor Milton Friedman dropped dead in 2006, it did not take long for the U of C

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1994-2009She annoyed the piss out of me so often, I’d swear I hated that dog. If you took her off a leash for even a second, she’d decide to give you a tour of the most heavily wooded area around my parents’ house on the coldest or darkest days of the year by making you chase after her. And now she’s gone, and I teared up a little at work. But you were a good dog, and all you ever wanted was to

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A four image photo-essay:

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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[OT- a little closer]New Jersey Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Chris Christie's bio as U. S. Attorney:Putting Terrorists Behind BarsObscure businessman and British citizen, Hemant Lakhani, came on the radar screen of the FBI because of his desire to broker the sale of shoulder-fired missiles to shoot down American passenger jets. His independent efforts to find an arms buyer and his

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Miley Cyrus utilized a stripper pole in her performance at the Teen Choice Awards. Oh my god.As if her washed-up parents weren't already exploiting the hell out of their daughter's youth and sex appeal. I only mention this because today, of all days, Wingnut back-bencher Laura Ingraham felt compelled to comment on this incident.Yeah yeah, they mocked her stupidity, her idea of a trailer park,

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Tulsa:A mayoral candidate has resurrected a controversy over Creationism at the Tulsa Zoo. A push to exhibit the Christian story of creation at the Tulsa Zoo failed four years ago. Republican candidate for Tulsa mayor, Anna Falling, is bringing the issue front and center.It's the same exhibit and the same arguments, but now it is given from the bully pulpit of a candidate running for mayor."

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From TPM:CNBC approached Tea Party activists, looking for angry protest events that would make good television, according to a leaked email from a Tea Party discussion group. And one Tea Bagger responded by flagging an upcoming event that, he said, "should be a riot ... literally."Yesterday, Tea Party Patriots national coordinator Jenny Beth Martin sent an email, obtained by TPMmuckraker, to a

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Via TPM.You can't be against something, until you can define it.Here's a wingnut vocabulary test:Please provide a short definition of the following words:1)Freedom2)Socialism3)Liberty 4)Tyranny*UPDATE*:*UPDATE* II: The dumbest fucking guy on the planet today.Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

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A Sullivan Reader writes (Reprinted here in full): Your obvious shock and dismay at the sheer angry ignorance of the health care teabaggers reiterates my largest problem with your rosy immigrant's view of America. You have often underestimated just how poisonously dangerous the American populist right is. I don't blame you. You came to America after the rise of Reagan. Most of your life in

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Presented without comment:

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If you haven't looked at Luke Chueh's gallery, go now!

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To everyone who voted for the man who chose this woman to be his #2:The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.Taste it.

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Melancholy, Beautiful, Nonsense.

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Supposedly it's one precondition leading to another along the inevitable, non-negotiable arrow of time.

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If you think HBO was degenerate in any way for airing programming with such amoral characters as The Sopranos, then exactly what does that make of the very voters that approved of government officials that granted companies like Blackwater no-bid contracts, no oversight, and billions of dollars?Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyWhat matters is the actual

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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Dead of a Heart Attack at the Age of 59.

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First Hispanic Woman on the Supreme Court.

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...Go straight to hell. This is so fucking stupid (via Sadly):Tucker: (taken aback) A car cake?! How come they get a car cake?! Church: What are you complaining about, man? We're about to get a tank cake in the very next drop. Tucker: (disappointed) You can't pick up chicks in a tank cake. Church: Oh you know what? You could bitch about anything couldn't you?

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November 2008:*****Released by Gallup on Monday:

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*****Private Military Contractor formerly known as Blackwater, now known as XE,implicated in murder, arms-dealing, and other Christianist ideals...A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company's

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Part I: Going to the Casino and cheering for the house while playing at the blackjack table.Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyPart II: Someone needs a cold shower. (listen closely to the raucous gut-laughter at about 5:20)Let me say this just one more goddamned time. Barack Hussein Obama could have been born on MARS, the fact that his mother, Stanley Anne

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from The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Zeke Zimbinski gets all the girls.Turning a commitment to God into a code of Omerta. Nonchalant fundies need to look up the word "Oligarchy". The first amendment's statements on freedom of religion do not apply to your children. You want to cure your own diabetes or gangrene with prayer or honey, have at it. Your children aren't protected by your singular, credulous, unpredictable, anecdotal

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I dream of a place where government is small enough to drown in the bathtub.I dream of a government where fair market principles are actually implemented.I dream of a free market that is truly free from the oppressive chains of a regulatory authoritarian government.I dream of a country without gratuitous bureaucratic monstrosities like Departments of Education, or Health and Human Services.I

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From the aptly named "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness".

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There's soldiering: Engaging and defeating an enemy through use of military force, and then occupying his territory.And then there's Policing. Somebody needs to inform police in this country that there's a difference."The patrolling officer on his beat is the one true dictatorship in America, we can lock a guy up on the humble, lock him up for real, or say fuck it and drink ourselves to death

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Howie Kurtz has nothing on Stewart's media criticism.Also, a must see birther takedownAlso, too, lets say for the sake of argument Obama was born in Kenya. His mother was a US Citizen which according to laws passed in the 1950s, would have automatically made BHO a natural born US Citizen born on foreign soil (Even before that it's likely that it would still be the case, as John McCain was born in

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This scene coming to you soon in your nearest Irish Courthouse.Goddamnit.

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyWhat a pro.Case in point...

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"We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket.""Oh, indeed."

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyAwesome. Just Awesome.Also, a compiled list of the lies of Sarah Palin. (They number more than 30)

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Sarah Barracuda is a tough as nails patriot who can stand up to Congress, Vladimir Putin, and Joe Biden, but David Letterman makes her cry.Sarah Palin has always, is now, and forever shall be a wingnut. Her followers are exclusively Wingnuts.Wingnuts have 5 speeds:1st Gear: Chest-thumping bed-wetterOMG, we can't put bad people in prisons on U. S. soil. WE'RE ON U. S. Soil! 2nd Gear: Projection

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"Recently we learned of a malicious desecration of a photo of the Governor and baby Trig that has become an iconic representation of a mother's love for a special needs child," Palin spokeswoman Meghan Stapelton said in a statement provided to CNN. "The mere idea of someone doctoring the photo of a special needs baby is appalling."Nevermind the photospread in Runner's World where she's

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Mitt Romney's foreign policy strategy in Place-mat form:This map is leading me to believe that Jihadis want world domination so that they can surpass USA in freedom having capability? Or is Mitt doing that assuming here?

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via TPM, the rumor mill is picking up some "chatter", that Palin is resigning by way of Friday news dump to obscure a huge scandal about to drop. A sane person can only come to one or more of the following conclusions:A) A complete and utter moron.B) A non sequitur filled pathological lying narcissist.C) A coward.D) More crooked than Clay Davis.

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SHE'S DONE.I admire the grace with which Senator McCain conceded on election night, and felt we dodged a bullet from letting a pathological loon a heartbeat away from the presidency,but at this point, anyone and everyone who still wants her to run for and be President in 2012 needs help. They need a psych exam, a padded room, and lots of Thorazine.*****UPDATE: Wow, I just watched the video. She's

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"Point of order, Mr. Chairman. I have a suggestion.""Mr. Bolton, if you suggest the use of military force one more time, I will immediately motion for a roll-call vote to have you kicked off the fucking planet!Now, does your suggestion involve bombs?""..."Three op-eds in 1 month in major publications all advocating military strikes on Iran.Not Counting Yglesias's title from January of this year,

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Remember all the 2001-2006 bullshit that if Americans voted for the Democrats, then we'd all be less safe? Republicans are the only party that keep you safe. If you're against the war, then you're rooting for the 'terrists.From the American Prospect:This gets to the essential creepiness about Beck's emotional display introducing his whole 9/12 project--the man wasn't weeping because he wished the

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I had to look them up. Tosh.0Thurs, 10pm / 9cHeidi and Spencer Interview - Extendedwww.comedycentral.comDaniel ToshMiss Teen South CarolinaDemi Moore PictureDaniel Tosh, on the other hand, I know all about that guy:Tosh.0 Extreme Salvia Challenge - watch more funny videos

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Digby from earlier this month:In case you were wondering what Glenn Beck thinks about all this right wing violence (and who doesn't?) here it is:The pot is boiling and this is a warning to all Americans of things to come.It looks like this was the work of a lone gunman, nut-job, who once wrote an article titled "Hitler's Worst Mistake: He Didn't Gas the Jews." But you're going to see a lot of

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See also, Carl Sagan, Skepticism, and here.

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Rocked silent in a soft lullabyPanic stirred me awakened by a ringing phone in timeWhere and when would I see her?Crazy were the words that scribbled out your mouthI stuttered replacing your face to those wordsWhere and when would I kill her?I'll wish on this, i'll wish with thisI wish... to the bitter end of my dayWhere were you?So you had your turn and you made it workNow i'm the laughing stock

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Also, "It's NOT FAIR!" and "Where's the birth certificate?!"Also, I might add, I'm glad YouTube, and Web 2.0 was in it's infancy during the many turmoils of my own white adolescence.

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Okay, let's see this put into practice:The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cZicam Recallwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorStephen Colbert in IraqMore Homegrown and hybrid Skepticism here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

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Wow. This video could also be a tipping point:Battle w/ Police - Tehran, Iran - June 20th 2009Uploaded by mightier-than - News videos hot off the press.

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In Farsi, it means "Voice" or "Call".From Youtube:Basij shots to death a young woman in Tehran's Saturday June 20th protestsAt 19:05 June 20thPlace: Karekar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st.A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could

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Senator Nelson, I believe someone might be talking about you. Walk two steps behind please.

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