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Posted at 9:39am on May 7, 2008 If you MUST run with scissors pointed up...

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

(The relevance of this particular graphic is coming... promise...)

Most days you don't have to look far in Michigan news to find a ridiculous headline or a story about behavior that defies logic and common sense.  And that's not a dig on the mainstream media.  Sure, they're responsible for a laughable or frustrating choice of words from time to time but you work with what you're given, you know?  They can only report on what's happening out there (in theory) and it's usually our fair State and the good folks running it who create the ridiculous situations they cover.  

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Posted at 1:28am on Feb. 14, 2008 Your Congress At Work

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Imagine all of the policy issues that could possibly receive Congress's attention at the present time. There is no need for me to list them. Examples spring readily to mind.

Now, look what one committee in Congress spent their time working on today.

Think you got your tax money's worth? If so, may I introduce you to Art. I, Sec. 8 of the Constitution of the United States? Find where that section of the Sacred Secular Document authorizes and encourages a Congressional discussion of whether and/or when HGH was . . . er . . . gluteally injected into the person of Roger Clemens.

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Posted at 7:35pm on Dec. 24, 2007 I'm Pretty Sure That Art. I, Sec. 8 Of The Constitution Doesn't Cover This

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

John Kerry is using his political office to--wait for it!--pressure the NFL into showing the final regular season Patriots game. Note the following language in Kerry's letter to Commissioner Roger Goodell:

For a game of this significance to be used as a bargaining chip or point of leverage between corporations locked in a dispute would say a great deal about the esteem in which America's football fans are held by the big interests. Under the unfortunate circumstance that this matter remains unresolved, leaving 60 percent of households across the country - including thousands in Massachusetts - without access to Saturday's game, I will ask the Senate Commerce Committee to hold hearings on how the emergence of premium sports channels are impacting the consumer, and I will consider what legislative measures may be necessary to ensure that consumers are more than bystanders in this process.

"Nice NFL you have. Be a shame if anything were to happen to it." Is this what United States Senators spend their time on?

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Posted at 11:52pm on Dec. 4, 2007 1,776 Federal Subsidy Programs

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Behold the sad details. Kind of makes you wonder what on Earth it would take to bring about some small government, doesn't it?

Posted at 7:35pm on Dec. 1, 2007 What The Nanny State Is Up To These Days

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

This. I imagine that sometime soon in the future, we'll be busting kids for having bad diets by subjecting them to involuntary GI exams.

Posted at 10:53pm on Nov. 29, 2007 Hillary! To Cure Aids With Love

Well, not really, but the double intendre oozes

By haystack

I almost let THIS go by the board, but I couldn't help myself...it's a disease you know, and I am seeking a support group.

Money and government alone cannot solve the problems, she said. AIDS "is a problem of our common humanity, and we are called to respond with love, with mercy and with urgency," she said.

Well, 'pieces' of this are true enough [the money and Government parts], but really..."love?" And, to sling biblical references around (well, ok-she WAS at a church) and suggest that she'd "been raised to understand the power and purpose of prayer" while quickly contradicting her message by rattling off how much MORE money her Government would spend just got me to giggling...which is it babycakes? Prayer, love, or greenbacks? Inquiring minds really DO want to know.

I was reminded of an old Sam Kinnison act where he suggested the answer to hunger in Africa was NOT to send them food, but to send them U-Hauls so they could...I don't know...MOVE to where the food was?

Anyway, it continued:

More below the fold...

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Posted at 1:45am on Nov. 16, 2007 On S-AHIP

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Any chance that this might get some more attention? And just what on Earth is going on when we are taking a health care program that is supposedly meant for children and extending it to adults . . . while at the same time condemning those who oppose the expansion as "not caring about the children"?