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Posts Tagged ‘harry truman’

NO ROOM FOR NUANCE

Harry Truman, A True Leader, Would Have Performed Abortions With His Own Bare Hands

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Harry Truman killed babies.Hey remember that time Barack Obama was at the Jebus Summit and he emerged from the Silence Cone to mutter some waffly bullshit about abortion? That Obama is no Harry Truman! According to Boston Herald political sage Michael Graham, Harry Truman — a Democrat who constantly stopped bucks at his desk — would never have hedged on one of the most politically radioactive issues of our time when discussing it in front of a hostile audience he was trying not to offend. Nope, Harry Truman would have rolled up his sleeves and started personally performing abortions onstage, if that’s what he believed in! Meanwhile, Barack Obama “passed the buck” to somebody “above his pay grade.” MORE »


FUNNY PICTURES

Cabal Of Dead Democrats Meeting For Gambling, Larfs

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Image taken directly from Ken Mehlman's fever dreamsIt turns out that Hillary Clinton is not the only member of her family to speak with the dead. One artist has captured in paint definite proof of two living Democratic ex-presidents in sinister commune with the long deceased. What sort of liberal witchcraft is this coven engaged in? And what does it mean that Bill seems to “have all the chips,” while FDR “deals the cards”? MORE »


WASHINGTON POST

Poppycock and Shit, Or, a Short History of Cussing in the Wash Post

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

If history is any guide (and like reruns on TV, it may be all we’ve got to guide us into the unknown), the Wash Post is part of the problem of what the multi-talented (read: thankfully dead) entertainer Steve “Steverino” Allen decried as the vulgarization of language. MORE »