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Enjoy,War (In Toronto) Is Hell
"WAR ZONE?" (screaming headline on the cover of the Toronto Sun)
Deployed Charlie Company to the Princess of Wales Theatre this morning to ensure that supply lines for Backbeat weren't disrupted. We've had reports of raids by small theatre producers on cold cream supply trucks - heartless bastards! Don't they know how itchy skin can get if an actor can't get makeup off his face in a timely fashion?
Alpha Company came back from a reconnaissance in Chinatown District. Half of them had hoison sauce on their chins - I can only imagine what hell they've been through, the poor bastards! Still, I think our efforts to win the hearts and minds of the local population is bearing fruit - they brought back photos of them posing with smiling, happy waiters at House of Gourmet. And, an order of sweet and sour spare ribs for their CO.
In a war zone, a soldier has to grab his pleasures where he can.
SOURCE: Alternate Reality News Service
[http://www.arns.com/sinbin?id=32322641314641314687fx]
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A Storyline Jerry Bruckheimer Would Have Rejected
Drug company Pfizer Inc., bowing to allegations of deceptive advertising lodged by a consumer watchdog group, has agreed to stop saying that its Centrum multivitamin supplements can help people live forever.
"The company disagrees with the concerns of our critics," said a Pfizer press release after the ruling, "but, in order to get public health advocates off our backs, we will make superficial changes that we hope will satisfy a distracted populace."
It will take six months to change information on bottles and 30 days to change information on the company's Web site. The new claim will be that Centrum will help users live 10,000 years.
"Whaaaaaat!" shrieked the Centre for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
"Sounds like you have a blockage," the Pfizer press release told the CSPI. "You know, we have a pill for that..."
SOURCE: High Times and Misdemeanors
[http://www.hightimes&misdemeanors.com/ht&m/legal/content.php?bid=247&add=4&PREPSESSID=0210a3cb91f45725db629d6994753f60]
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DETENTION DIARY: It's Good To Have A Dream...
WEEK TWENTY-EIGHT
Sooooo...with the trial short-circuited, I expect to be let out any day now.
SOURCE: Harpo's
[http://harpos.org/archive/2012/07/15/dd-9000028]
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No, Poetry Doesn't Have To Rhyme...Or Even Make Sense
Odd Words Coming From Somebody Who Has No Sense of the Common*
Remember, I said we want to take a common-sense, step-by-step approach to replacing Obamacare.* John Boehner in an interview with CBS's Norah O'Donnell
SOURCE: Poetry, Cornered
[http://www.cibc.com/ca/personal/poetrycorner/609.html]
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The Thrill Is Gone
The Harper Government of Canada has announced that it will stop subsidizing foreign strippers coming to Canada to work in clubs and escort agencies.
"You want a thrill watching something revealed slowly before your very eyes?" asked Human Resources Minister Diane Finley. "Try submitting a Freedom of Information request!"
SOURCE: Toronto Startle
[http://www.thestartle.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestartle/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1088591830423
&call_pageid=968335201592&col=964316972154]
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Raising The Level Of Discourse One Ill-informed, Racist Tweet At A Time
SOURCE: Ending Trending Web Site
[http://endingtrending.blurgh/a-rock-and-a-right-wing-place/]
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Be Careful What Your Leaders Wish For...
According to the Centres for Disease Control, Florida has been covering up the worst tuberculosis outbreak in the United States in 20 years. But, why would they? Oh, sure, the Republican state government has been cutting funding for health care, including an unfortunately timed announcement that it would be closing a hospital that had treated the most difficult tuberculosis cases for over 60 years.
Still, Republicans wanted to return the United States to the 1890s. Didn't it occur to any of them that infectious diseases in the general population was part of the deal?
SOURCE: The Postington Wash
[http://www.postingtonwash.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49881-2012Jul01.html]
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FEAR! FEAR! FEAR! FEAR! FEAR! Fine Print... FEAR! FEAR! FEAR!
Metro police have revealed the latest statistics, and they are shockers: over 3,000,000 Torontonians have been victims of gun violence in the first six months of 2012.
"This is ridiculous!" said criminal apologist - sorry, lawyer Clayton Ruby. "They redefined the term 'victim' to mean anybody who was within six miles of the discharge of a gun, even if nobody was actually hit by a bullet. It's like saying there's no hunger in the city because everybody is within six miles of somebody who has eaten a meal!"
"Hmm..." Mayor Rob Ford giggled, "I think I like that reasoning..."
SOURCE: Toronto Stunned
[http://www.canoodle.com/NewsStand/TorontoStunned/News/2012/07/02/509727.html]
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The Denunciation Of The Great Satan In The Eleventh Hour Is Gripping...Sort Of...A Little...To Somebody...Probably...
So, we got our hands on a copy of a game called The Stressful Life of Salman Rushdie and Implementation of his Verdict, which was developed by members of Iran's Islamic Association of Students. In the game, you play an Islamic warrior whose goal is to carry out the Ayatollahs' fatwa against the author of The Satanic Verses.
Unfortunately, no matter how you play, you manage to kill Rushdie within the first five minutes. The next 17 hours of the game can be spent listening to speeches about how the Islamic revolution will crush all of its infidel enemies. The...idiosyncratic translation offers some entertainment value, but, really, 17 hours worth?
This will likely hold little appeal for western gamers.
SOURCE: Geekly News & World Report
[http://www.geeklynews.com/geeklynews/issue/125913/geeklynews/01fatwahahaha.htm]
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