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Definitely one of the most creepy campaign videos I’ve seen in a while…

I love the fake news trailer in this…

Man when the Onion is right, the Onion is right:

DENVER—After years of battling crippling premiums and agonizing deductibles, local resident Michael Haige finally succumbed this week to the health insurance policy that had ravaged his adult life.

Haige, who had suffered from limited medical coverage for nearly a decade, passed away early Monday morning. According to sources, the 46-year-old was laid to rest at Fairplains cemetery, surrounded by friends, family members, and more than $300,000 of mounting debt.

Amazing to hear even more evidence that the Bush administration knew that there was absolutely no evidence that there were W.M.D’s in Iraq:

RNC attack ad on Obama…

I only just heard about this movie, but I have to say, I’m quite impressed with their ‘fake’ presidential ads. What’s kind of worrying though is that I’m waiting to see something similar in real life… I especially like the ‘some of the facts in this ad are exaggerated, while others may be completely fictitious’ disclaimer at the end of some of them…

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Just goes to show me that if I live long enough, anything can happen:

I have to say that so far I’ve not been too impressed with the idea of drilling for oil in the U.S itself. The fact that such oil would take years (apparently) to make any difference on the market, that the amount of oil that would be released from such drilling and the destruction of the wilderness areas that the oil lies under all seem to suggest to me that its more of a ‘let’s look like we’re doing something’ measure rather than any sort of intelligent policy….

Interesting video, and while there’s nothing in it that many haven’t heard before (Jonathan Hickman’s ‘The Nightly News’ comes to mind as a source of such discussions) it is still interesting to see such a big name talking about such things:

Whats really interesting watching McClellan on this is how he really seems to ignore the way that the people in the White House were willingly lying to the public. I mean, certainly he gives the impression of almost completely lacking the ability for self-reflection. I mean, he certainly seems to be trying to say, against the evidence of his own book, that the people involved weren’t lying except that they ended up lying. Which is a really weird position. It seems like, from his point of view, he is trying to show how others lied, but in order to avoid the realisation that he was one of those liars he tries to suggest that the lying wasn’t deliberate?
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