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The Tea Party Still Hates Big Bird [VIDEO]
Fresh off an election year reprieve, Big Bird came to the White House to film two new public service announcements marking the third anniversary of Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" initiative while trolling Mitt Romney with a victory dance. And if you thought these feel-good PSAs couldn't possibly stir the angersphere into a rage, you have not been paying attention:
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Tennessee May Starve Children Until Their Grades Improve
When we last caught up with Tennessee state senator Stacey Campfield, he was giving unsolicited medical advice by blaming AIDS on a gay airline pilot having sex with a monkey and calling the disease "virtually impossible" to contract via heterosexual intercourse.There's just one problem with acting like a cartoon arch-villain: each of your evil schemes must be grander than the last. The AIDS thing came after Campfield demanded the word "gay" be banned from Tennessee classrooms, so how has he topped himself now?
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9 Strange New Laws for 2013
On January 1, 400 new federal laws took effect. Meanwhile, state legislatures passed 29,000 bills and resolutions, many of which came into force on the first of the year. Local government added thousands of new laws.
Ignorance is no excuse, so start cramming on all the weird new regulations you have to follow as of Tuesday:
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Kim Kardashian Is Pregnant With the GOP's Future Hope
Please hold the Mayan apocalypse jokes, but Kim Kardashian is pregnant with Kanye West's baby. Kanye made the announcement during his concert in Atlantic City, telling the audience, "Stop the music and make some noise for my baby mama" while pointing to Kardashian.This Internet-exploding news wouldn't have political implications, except as a way to avenge the British for believing that they could out-celebrity-baby the United States, were it not for a certain Kanye lyric…
And I'll never let my son have an ego
He'll be nice to everyone, wherever we go I mean
I might even make him be Republican
So everybody know he love white peopleVarious Bush progeny have dibs on the next few election cycles, but come 2048, Kimye is going to be apocryphally quoting Thomas Jefferson on "the government you elect is the government deserve" at his inaugural address.
Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images
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It Takes an American Eagle to Snatch a Baby
For those of us who wanted to believe, it came as sad news that this "Golden Eagle Snatches Kid" video was a hoax concocted by students at Centre NAD in Montreal. We should have been suspicious from the start: a Canadian eagle wouldn't so much as flutter a hair on a baby's head without squawking a profuse apology in English and French, as required by Canadian law.
No, to snatch a baby, it takes a powerful eagle. A manly eagle. An American eagle. History proves it:
Tags: Animals, Canada, Children
