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Posts Tagged ‘charities’

FUNNY SPEECHES

Presidential Candidates Roast Each Other At Alfred E. Smith Dinner

Friday, October 17th, 2008

So sure, he was dreadfully awkward and only vaguely humanoid on the David Letterman, but that’s because the pampered plutocrat John McCain feels weird around people who fly coach. Later on yesterday he went to a fancy white-tie dinner and had a rip-snorter of an evening, indeed! MORE »


VETERANS

Charities Work to Screw Over Vets, Too

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

They look sad now, but they have gunsGiving donations to charities set up to help wounded veterans is a really, really good thing, except when the charities are designed to enrich themselves and their friends and don’t give a crap about really helping veterans. And, naturally, there are plenty of those.

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CONSERVATIVES

Email of the Day: Fill-in-the-Aggrieved Party
Or, How Not to Get Us to Plug Your Charity

Monday, June 5th, 2006

redacted.jpgHa ha, “tree hungers.”

You tree hungers Libs took time to ream our [redacted] a few months ago. Now that we are doing something that you hypocrites would normally applaud: [redacted]

Why don’t give the attack a second go around and do some good for the people of [redacted]?

What’s wrong? Does our cause buck your neo-cons are “bigots, racists, homophobes” mantra?

Yeah that is what we thought.

These people of [recated] thank you for nothing.

[reacted]
Creator of [redacted]

Here is the press release you’ll never mention: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/6/[redacted]

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MEDIA

When We Hear a Politically-Themed Satirical Song, We Reach for Our Revolver

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

We’re not quite heartless enough to mock benefits for deserving charities, but… well, we’re about to mock a benefit for a deserving charity. Because the theme of the benefit is “The Funniest Celebrity in Washington.” MORE »