Common Folk Using Common Sense

“Resident Evil 5″ is the latest in a series of video games, and an upcoming movie, about diseased undead zombies roaming the planet and eating people. This media franchise debuted in 1996, but now that this franchise has earned untold millions of dollars, the Moochers and Crybabies are starting to claim that the game is [...]

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Via USA Today: Budget cuts are forcing police around the country to stop responding to fraud, burglary and theft calls as officers focus limited resources on violent crime. “If you come home to find your house burglarized and you call, we’re not coming,” said Oakland Police spokeswoman Holly Joshi. Wow, the news coming from our [...]

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Via FOX News: NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA’s orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among [...]

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A watchdog group says giving away toys with Happy Meals contributes to childhood obesity and threatens to sue. Because getting a plastic Shrek toy forces you, and your parents, to stuff your face with 500 fat calories. Are Americans to dumb or wimpy to continue as a civilization? Spread The Word:

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From the National Post (Canada): In yet another nod to the protection of fledgling self-esteem, an Ottawa children’s soccer league has introduced a rule that says any team that wins a game by more than five points will lose by default. Kevin Cappon said he first heard about the rule on May 20 — right [...]

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Found at the Oneida Dispatch via SayUncle: Let me get this straight. A terrorist bought a car off of Craigslist, fireworks in Pennsylvania, and inflammable fertilizer, parked his dud-car-bomb in Times Square, got onto an international flight, and was only caught at the last minute as the plane was taxing to the runway. Mayor Bloomberg’s [...]

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Via KHOU-TV: A third-grader at Brazos Elementary was given a week’s detention for possessing a Jolly Rancher. School officials in Brazos County are defending the seemingly harsh sentence. The school’s principal and superintendent said they were simply complying with a state law that limits junk food in schools. Just damn. This action by the school [...]

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Found at the UK Daily Mail: Her offence was to unwittingly sell a goldfish to a 14-year-old boy taking part in a trading standards ‘sting’. At most, pet shop owner Joan Higgins, 66, expected a slap on the wrist for breaking new animal welfare laws which ban the sale of pets to under-16s. Instead, the [...]

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Via FOX News: When 4-year-old Eric Stavros Adler choked to death on a piece of hot dog, his anguished mother never dreamed that the popular kids’ food could be so dangerous. Some food makers including Oscar Mayer have warning labels about choking, but not nearly enough, says Joan Stavros Adler, Eric’s mom. The American Academy [...]

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From The Politico: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) concedes that Republican senators won’t be able to stop Democratic health care reform legislation from passing the Senate before Christmas. “We will fight until the last vote,” McCain told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace. “We owe that to our constituents, because we must do everything – we [...]

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Via The Wall Street Journal: Officials gather in Copenhagen this week for an international climate summit, but business leaders are focusing even more on Washington, where the Obama administration is expected as early as Monday to formally declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant. An “endangerment” finding by the Environmental Protection Agency could pave the way [...]

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Or so says Reverend Jesse Jackson: The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill. “We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.” The remark [...]

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Says Alex Renton in Sunday’s UK Guardian: Fewer British babies would mean a fairer planet. … It’s not the growing number of people in poverty who are causing climate change, it’s the rich. … The worst thing that you or I can do for the planet is to have children. … By today’s standards, a [...]

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Other awards Obama will probably win this year, especially if he continues doing absolutely nothing. award, ObamaSpread The Word:

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Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize today for “offering the world hope and striving for nuclear disarmament” in an absolute surprise and shock to the rest of the world. “The bestowal of one of the world’s top accolades on a president less than nine months in office, who has yet to score a major [...]

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