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		<title>Former Pres. Carter sues Obama under theories of identity theft</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former U.S. president, Jimmy Carter, filed suit yesterday in U.S. Federal District Court against current sitting president, Barack Obama. According to court documents, Mr. Carter has leveled several legal challenges to President Obama, including violation of intellectual property rights. Said Carter’s attorney, Vincent Nortel, “Former President Carter is protected as a fictional character by common [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Former U.S. president, Jimmy Carter, filed suit yesterday in U.S. Federal District Court against current sitting president, Barack Obama.</p>
<p>According to court documents, Mr. Carter has leveled several legal challenges to President Obama, including violation of intellectual property rights.</p>
<div id="attachment_2356" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 323px"><a class="highslide" onclick="return vz.expand(this)" rel="attachment wp-att-2356" href="http://wineandexcrement.com/former-pres-carter-sues-obama-under-theories-of-identity-theft/2355/obamacarter2/"><img class="size-full wp-image-2356" title="obamacarter2" src="http://wineandexcrement.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/obamacarter2.jpg" alt="" width="313" height="215" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Jimmy Carter casts an evil eye towards President Obama during a prayer breakfast in D.C. last month</p></div>
<p>Said Carter’s attorney, Vincent Nortel, “Former President Carter is protected as a fictional character by common law trademark. President Obama’s striking likeness is clearly actionable. The very things that are most identifiable to Mr. Carter, [Obama] is stealing with impunity.”</p>
<p>When asked how trademark of a “character” could apply to Mr. Carter, a real person, Nortel replied, “Please. No one thinks Mr. Carter is for real.”</p>
<p>The suit also accuses President Obama of infringing upon Mr. Carter’s right of publicity – a privacy law tort that prohibits use of a celebrity’s name, image, or likeness for personal gain. “We haven’t exactly figured out how being like Jimmy Carter should ever lead to personal gain,” said Nortel, “but it worked for him, so we presume it will work for Obama. I’m sure there is a banana republic that will set him up in his later years to monitor supposedly democratic elections, which will lead to endless television appearances, not to mention the unwarranted overvaluation of an opinion that would normally merit the same amount of respect as the opinion of a cockroach.”</p>
<p>Robert Gibbs stated in a press conference today that the President flatly denies any wrongdoing. “I’m not sure how Mr. Carter can conclude that the President is encroaching on any right attached to his identity,” Gibbs said with typical smug incredulousness.</p>
<p>“I mean – besides overseeing administrations connected with exploding job losses, skyrocketing oil prices, weakening American influence and power in foreign affairs, capitulation to nut job Iranian leaders, mass dissatisfaction of administration policies among Americans including notable discontent from his own party, tanking job approval numbers, a laughing-stock vice-president who possesses the gravitas of a rodeo clown, and a deeply entrenched sense of malaise suffered by a population weary of perpetual economic bad news and an increasingly flaccid foreign policy, combined with zero faith in the administration’s ability to enact even a single measure that will contribute to reversing the country’s course from a pitiful but inexorable decline – the two have absolutely nothing in common.”</p>
<p>Gibbs then stormed from the room, but not before dashing through the press pool rows and stealing the pens of each of the attending reporters.</p>
<p><strong><em>UPDATE:</em></strong></p>
<p>Today, the Obama camp has filed a reply in the case and specifically has asked that George Bush be a named party to the case. Stated in the memorandum in support of its motion, Obama claims that “ [i]f anyone is to blame, it most surely is George Bush.” In a strange twist, Carter joined in the motion.<!-- PHP 5.x --></p>
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		<title>Easter miracle: &#8216;Son of God&#8217; autographs sky</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buttermilk, Kans. &#8211; Residents of an up until now unknown rural Kansas hamlet were greeted with an amazing Easter spectacle Sunday morning. The word &#8216;Jesus&#8217; in all capital letters seemingly appeared out of thin air to the the local townsfolk. To some, Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, a story made [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Buttermilk, Kans. &#8211; Residents of an up until now unknown rural Kansas hamlet were greeted with an amazing Easter spectacle Sunday morning. The word &#8216;Jesus&#8217; in all capital letters seemingly appeared out of thin air to the the local townsfolk.</p>
<p>To some, Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, a story made popular by the 2004 Mel Gibson film &#8216;The Passion of the Christ&#8217;.</p>
<div id="attachment_1196" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-1196" src="http://wineandexcrement.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jesus-autograph-150x150.jpg" alt="Photo of the mysterious Easter phenomenon taken from the parking lot of a nearby Wal-Mart" width="150" height="150" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Photo of the mysterious Easter phenomenon taken from the parking lot of a nearby Wal-Mart</p></div>
<p>&#8220;Even though it was His day, we&#8217;re the one&#8217;s who were blessed with a gift. It&#8217;s a miracle!&#8221; said local resident Dancy Spackle.</p>
<p>&#8220;Praise. The. Lord.&#8221;</p>
<p>The phenomenon, which appeared in the skies of the rural Kansas village, has scientists baffled.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen some strange cloud formations, but never in my life ones that are not only comprised of Roman alphabetical characters, but are also arranged in such a way as to spell out a word. And not just any word, but a name. And not just any name either. The Son of God&#8217;s himself,&#8221; stated Runk Bunkmeyer, Chief Meteorologist for Wichita ABC affiliate KAKE.</p>
<p>Skeptics, however, aren&#8217;t buying it.</p>
<p>&#8220;Jesus [HAY-soose] is a well known Hispanic name,&#8221; said Tenth Lipbalm, a linguistics expert. &#8220;I don&#8217;t recall of any mention of the &#8216;Son of God&#8217; being born in Spain. Or Mexico for that matter.&#8221;</p>
<p>Local youth minister Gym Upbeat argues that it is simply God&#8217;s way of reminding us that &#8220;Hey, I&#8217;m here guys. Hello?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;No way. It&#8217;s a warning. And it&#8217;s message is clear: God is mad at the liberals for electing Osama [sic],&#8221; Spackle insists.</p>
<p>While the jury may still be out on this one, one wonders: How much will the famous signature go for on eBay?<!-- PHP 5.x --></p>
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		<title>WikiLeaks document dump inadvertantly includes editor&#8217;s medical records</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of classified documents, including those detailing military strategy in the Afghan war, were released today by WikiLeaks.org, a self-propagandizing and unscrupulous website dedicated, ostensibly, to transparency in government. However, in a fit of what can only be called incredible stupidity, within the trove of posted documents, WikiLeaks apparently also inadvertently released the medical records [...]]]></description>
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<p>Thousands of classified documents, including those detailing military strategy in the Afghan war, were released today by WikiLeaks.org, a self-propagandizing and unscrupulous website dedicated, ostensibly, to transparency in government.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">However, in a fit of what can only be called incredible stupidity, within the trove of posted documents, WikiLeaks apparently also inadvertently released the medical records of the group’s frosty-headed editor-in-chief, Julian Assange. And doubtless, those records are every bit as titillating and provocative as the aforementioned military documents.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For instance, though always widely speculated, the public now has irrefutable proof that Assange was indeed lobotomized when he was sixteen.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“No one but a blithering idiot could believe that it is in anyone’s interest to reveal top secret military strategy in an ongoing war, ultimately putting innocent men and women at significant and unnecessary risk,” said Peter McGraw, a policy consultant for the Pentagon. “So no, I’m not surprised.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As shocking as Assange’s lobotomy, it is not nearly as strange as the reason behind the surgery.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“Well,” said his Australian mum, “he was always a strange boy. Craved attention and all that. But as he got older, he became more aggressive … and a bit more deviant. This is hard to recount, but … well, one day he dressed himself in a rain slicker, and nothing else, and began flashing passing motorists from a highway overpass,” she said grimly. “But one of the vehicles was a very large semi-trailer and the driver blasted his horn. Julian’s always been a nervous boy and, well, after wetting his pants he fell off the overpass and conked his head very hard.” After wiping her eyes, she continued, “but that was nothing compared to this. I could live with the fact that I had a perverted half-brained son. But one that would perpetrate this heinous act? Publishing secret information that might put soldiers in jeopardy? I just wish I knew what I did wrong.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Other information detailed in the medical records was equally astounding. For instance, much of Assange’s pathology – from his narcissism to his relentless pursuit of the spotlight – likely stems from (pardon the pun) a tragic mistake during his circumcision which was conducted when Assange was 10, and at his request. According to the leaked records, Assange arranged for the procedure to be performed by an Aborigine witch doctor (his mum says he distrusted regular doctors for being “in on the conspiracy”). However, the operation went horribly wrong when the witch doctor, who was evidently allergic to Assange’s Benetton cologne, sneezed.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“Oh, don’t worry, he didn’t lose it,” said his mum. “But he’ll never achieve … well, let’s say ‘anything more than half mast.’”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Opponents of Assange’s document dump are seizing upon the revelations to discredit the <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">myopic misanthropic maladjusted miscreant </span>journalist.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“With a deformed wee-wee and an ice-cream scooper taken to his head, it’s no wonder he is incapable of recognizing the harm his reprehensible site causes,” said McGraw. “But the fact that I now pity him still doesn’t change the fact that he should be sharing his views with the padded walls of an institution, and not the digital superhighway.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One other bit of information revealed in Assange’s medical file is sure to astound those who have met him: he is in fact not albino, just really really creepy looking.</p>
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		<title>Airlines to require passengers to void bowels before flights in bid to reduce CO2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sisyphus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON – The Air Transport Association (ATA), which represents leading U.S. airlines, announced today that its membership had reached a binding consensus on a controversial new way to combat C02 emissions – a forced reduction in passenger weight through mandatory pre-flight bowel movements. ATA member airlines carry 90 percent of U.S. airline passengers, giving most [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WASHINGTON – The Air Transport Association (ATA), which represents leading U.S. airlines, announced today that its membership had reached a binding consensus on a controversial new way to combat C02 emissions – a forced reduction in passenger weight through mandatory pre-flight bowel movements.</p>
<p>ATA member airlines carry 90 percent of U.S. airline passengers, giving most passengers little choice in the matter.</p>
<p>Under the program, which begins next month, passengers will need to check in a minimum of three hours prior to departure, regardless of flight time and destination. The extra time will be used to administer a potent, quick-acting laxative that the ATA says will “guarantee a powerful bowel movement prior to boarding.”</p>
<p>The program has been dubbed “Clear Rectums for Airline Productivity,” or CRAP.</p>
<p>“Our member airlines carry more than 600 million passengers per year,” said Debit Memo, managing director of non-imaginary numbers for the ATA. “If you assume just eight ounces of latent pre-flight fecal matter per passenger, the CRAP program will lighten our load annually by 300 million pounds. That would save us 3 million gallons of jet fuel per year, which translates into at least 70 million fewer pounds of carbon each year in the atmosphere.”</p>
<p>Despite more than doubling energy efficiency between 1978 and 2007 – a far cry from the auto industry’s dismal performance during the same period – the airline industry has come under increasing pressure from environmentalist harpies to crack down on carbon emissions. “Because of their successful governmental lobbying efforts and our own desire to spend less on fuel, we have been moved to ‘take a CRAP,’” said Memo.</p>
<p>But CRAP is already creating a foul odor for passenger rights groups. Kate Hanni, the self-created micro-celebrity who hurled herself into the media spotlight after being stuck for hours on a plane grounded by a once-in-a-century thunderstorm system that affected half a continent, said, “This is an outrage. Passengers should have the right to poo wherever and whenever they want, including right in their over-priced airplane seats. I do, and will even more often now as a show of support to my fellow passengers.”</p>
<p>Hanni said she will raise the topic on her next trip to Capitol Hill – her 57th since founding the Coalition for an Airline Passengers’ Bill of Rights.</p>
<p>Airport officials, who initially expressed concern, now support the idea as a potential revenue-enhancing opportunity. Many major airports plan to dramatically increase the number of airport restrooms to make it easier for passengers to respond to nature’s urgent call, but will make them pay toilets, according to Airports Council International &#8211; North America (ACI-NA), a trade group for U.S. airports.</p>
<p>“By doing this, we can both ensure passenger convenience while offsetting the loss in segment fees that have resulted from the dramatic cuts in airline schedules during the recession,” said Vlad Tailstrike, a spokesperson with ACI-NA.</p>
<p>Troubled by the fact that many of the virulent bowel movements that are known to result from the airline laxative are bound to occur during the long, snaking lines that are a TSA legacy, the agency nonetheless supports the initiative, but only after making some changes of their own to accommodate it, said Pat Ironbra, a spokeswoman.</p>
<p>“We will add plastic containers, similar to hospital bed pans, that passengers can pick up, like the bins they place their laptops in. They will simply be able to relieve themselves right in line, without noticeably slowing the process”</p>
<p>Ironbra said that although the bins will be dumped when full, they will be immediately reused. “We have to be green as well, you know. Washing them would waste time and energy.”</p>
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<p>Memo, of the ATA, said the laxatives will be dispensed at ticket counters, automated kiosks and TSA checkpoint entries. Airline officials will be posted at each location to verify ingestion of the laxatives and validate boarding passes with a stamp, much like some bag-inspection and other airport clearance procedures are currently managed.</p>
<p>He would not offer details on what the laxative is made of, nor how it acts, saying only, “This not your typical, off-the-shelf laxative. When you take this, you will feel the effects usually within 30 minutes, no more than an hour, and they will be remarkable.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very important that they be quick acting, as having the passengers moving their mail inflight would be a pointless waste of time,&#8221; he said, adding that the industry was considering a fee passengers could pay for the privilege of eschewing the laxative.</p>
<p>&#8220;Think of it as an excess baggage fee,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t want to leave your solid waste at the airport, you&#8217;re going to have to pay us to transport it, just like tourists hauling all those silly outfits they&#8217;ll never wear do now.&#8221;</p>
<p>Although the policy will not be enforced until next month, the airlines plan to start educating passengers about the new program beginning next week, when an informational campaign centered around the slogan, “Be Kind, Leave it Behind,” kicks off at the nation’s 15 busiest airports. In addition to signs, posters and LED messages, hired actors dressed as friendly, smiling-turd mascots will be on hand to distribute Q&amp;A brochures.<!-- PHP 5.x --></p>
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		<title>Adult reading rates on the rise thanks to ease in difficulty levels</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sisyphus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON – The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is crediting the steadily eroding reading levels and puerile plot structures of modern literature for a trend-reversing upsurge in U.S. adult reading rates. According to its recently released report, “Reading on the Rise: A New Chapter in American Literacy,” for the first time since 1982, the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">WASHINGTON – The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is crediting the steadily eroding reading levels and puerile plot structures of modern literature for a trend-reversing upsurge in U.S. adult reading rates. According to its recently released report, “Reading on the Rise: A New Chapter in American Literacy,” for the first time since 1982, the percentage of American adults who claim to have read at least one novel, short story, poem or play in the previous 12 months has risen.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ani Adagio, chairman of the NEA, is convinced the upward trend is due solely to relaxed readability levels and “remedial plot structures.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“To improve any measured success rate, you must either increase your real achievement or lower your standards. Clearly, we, as a society, have chosen the latter,” she said, pointing to recent reading fads such as “Harry Potter,” “Bridget Jones,” and “any of the pre-chewed pulp churned out by Oprah’s book club.”</p>
<div id="attachment_219" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><a class="highslide" onclick="return vz.expand(this)" href="http://wineandexcrement.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/mwsnap022.jpg" rel="lightbox[218]" title="mwsnap022"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-219" title="mwsnap022" src="http://wineandexcrement.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/mwsnap022-150x150.jpg" alt="The NEA claims 50.2% of U.S. adults managed to read at least a poem over the past year" width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The NEA claims 50.2% of U.S. adults managed to read at least one whole poem over the past year</p></div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Indeed, a generation ago, 1,000-page epics such as “Atlas Shrugged” were able to command best-seller status with complex plotlines that treated abstract concepts such as philosophy, politics and other metaphysical subjects.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Writing like that is like flossing with piano wire to the modern reader,” said Adagio. “For today’s author, you’re much more likely to retain readers’ attentions with characters sporting Elven ears, spacesuits, or, preferably, both.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Even more troubling, Adagio admits, is the fact that it is impossible to gauge the accuracy of the survey, in which 50.2% of U.S. adults claim to have read at least one poem, short story, play or novel in the last year.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Are they counting online reading?” asks Adagio. “Does someone who just went online to check out the lyrics to ‘Big Pimpin’ qualify that as having read a poem? We don’t know, but we suspect so.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Adagio suspects that an “Internet-adjusted literacy rate” of about 10% is more likely. “But we just don’t have the funding to confirm that.”</p>
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		<title>Police: Nancy Grace &#8216;person of interest&#8217; in Anthony murder</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ORANGE COUNTY, FL &#8211; In a stunning move by the Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Department, CNN fixture and self-described legal analyst Nancy Grace has been named a person of interest in the murder of Florida toddler Caylee Marie Anthony. &#8220;She seems to know an awful lot more about this case than even Casey [Anthony],&#8221; said Dick [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ORANGE COUNTY, FL &#8211; In a stunning move by the Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Department, CNN fixture and self-described legal analyst Nancy Grace has been named a person of interest in the murder of Florida toddler Caylee Marie Anthony.</p>
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<p>&#8220;She seems to know an awful lot more about this case than even Casey [Anthony],&#8221; said Dick Surelock, a detective working on the case, who spoke on a condition of anonymity.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a high-profile case, and sometimes that means high-profile suspects.&#8221;</p>
<p>Chunk Mullets, a spokesman for the Casey Anthony defense team, lauded the announcement.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s about time. It&#8217;s like we been saying all along: Casey&#8217;s innocent. Woo ha!&#8221;</p>
<p>FBI profiler and author of the best-selling true crime series &#8220;Everyone&#8217;s A Serial Killer Sometimes&#8221;, Hannibal Bundy isn&#8217;t surprised.</p>
<p>&#8220;Killers often like to share intimate knowledge of their crimes with the public. It gives them a sense of empowerment as well as a forum where they can bounce their ideas off others. They love feedback, particularly from the media. In Nancy&#8217;s case, we see someone who is already a part of the media and thus, even more empowered and awash in feedback.&#8221;</p>
<p>Suspicions were first raised when Grace began spending the majority of her show covering the popular Florida murder.  Grace garnered &#8216;person of interest&#8217; status once her show became a seemingly non-stop source of information unknown to police.</p>
<p>&#8220;Ms. Grace&#8217;s obsession with Caylee, coupled by the constant praise of her own offspring, could be a sign of an outward projection of deep-seeded guilt,&#8221; said Bundy, who cautioned the analysis was purely speculative.</p>
<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t know the true source of her pathology unless I have her on my couch.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So to speak,&#8221; he was quick to add.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Grace is expected to meet with detectives in Orlando sometime next week.</p>
<p>Grace, best known for her breathlessly accusatory verbal screeds on overly-hyped legal cases, could not, surprisingly, be reached for comment.</p>
<p>However, a source close to the hawk-nosed harlot of hyperbole claims Grace is &#8220;delighted to be visiting Orlando.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Holiday renamed: now called St. Poseur&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["...There’ll be a real St. Patrick’s feast for true Irishmen, but we’re claiming it back!  From this moment forward, today will belong to all you corporate toads, wannabee’s, and hangers on.  Today shall now be known as Saint Poseurs Day!  …And no true bloody Irishman would ever drink a green beer, you bastards!”]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">BOSTON  – The Ancient Order of Hibernians today announced the renaming of the annual feast of St. Patrick.  The event, held every March 17th, will no longer be known as St. Patrick’s Day.  Rather, in light of the annual co-opting of all things Irish, the holiday will henceforth be known as St. Poseurs Day.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The Hibernians are an ancient Irish-Catholic fraternal order whose members must show Irish-Catholic ancestry.  Gerry Doherty, the head of The Order and Grand Master of today’s parade, made the announcement from atop the reviewing stand.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">“Today used to be a day for the Irish to celebrate.  It was a Holy Day spent feasting in tribute of Saint Patrick, the Patron Saint of Ireland,” Doherty began, “but now it’s an excuse for all you bastards who aren’t even Irish to pretend you are, by wearing green and getting drunk.  There’s more people who aren’t Irish here today then are.  And ya don’t have a clue why you’re here.  There’ll be a real St. Patrick’s feast for true Irishmen, but we’re claiming it back!  From this moment forward, today will belong to all you corporate toads, wannabee’s, and hangers on.  Today shall now be known as Saint Poseurs Day!  …And no true bloody Irishman would ever drink a green beer, you bastards!”</p>
<div id="attachment_959" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 484px"><img class="size-full wp-image-959" src="http://wineandexcrement.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/lowrider.jpg" alt="What's more Irish then a lowrider?" width="474" height="314" /><p class="wp-caption-text">What&#39;s more Irish then a lowrider?</p></div>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">According to Doherty, manufacturers produce over 10 million gallons of green dye just for beer, with another 100 million gallons used to create green clothing, which non-Irish sheep annually hoard, then discard without caring a lick about the actual holiday they’re defiling.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Much like other traditionally Christian holidays such as Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Easter, it’s the corporate co-opting of the holiday that bothers the Hibernians every bit as much as  the ignorance of the celebrants.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Out in the crowd, Bryan Downey, a half-Irish college student who has never been to Ireland and thinks Sinn Féin is a person, seemed most offended.   “Look at all these idiots,” he said adopting an obviously faked Irish brogue, “Most of ‘em don’t have a drop o’ Irish in ‘em.  They couldn’t tell the difference between the Ulster Unionists and the IRA if they sat down and drank a pint o’ Guinness with ‘em.” He omitted the fact that he, himself, couldn’t really tell either.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Despite their green garb, most parade-goers actually appeared even less Irish then Downey.  However, while they lacked any Gaelic or Celtic heritage, they still dyed their hair, drank alcohol, ate lots of food, celebrated all things green, and worst of all, they genuinely appeared to enjoy themselves regardless of their origins.  Many seemed unaware that the name of the party had changed.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">When asked about the name change, Juana van Park, a visibly intoxicated parade-goer proudly wearing a t-shirt reading “Kiss me, I’m Irish.  Or drunk.  Or whatever,” told reporters, “I’m not Irish or even Jewish – they’re Jewish in Ireland, right? – But that’s OK.  I really love U2.  They’re so cute.  I just love them.  Sunday, Bloody Sunday!  Sunday, Bloody Sunday!”</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The fact that U2 are an overrated bunch of Clash-wannabe’s (and The Clash are bloody English!), and that Thin Lizzy is a far superior band went over her empty head.  When informed that she was singing a protest song, she answered, “It is?  Oh, well,” and then staggered away mumbling something about drinking another car bomb and then buying a fez hat.</p>
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		<title>Police confiscate, use, more than $1.2 million in illegal drugs from Phish fans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“This is a total bummer, man.  Like, wow! ... The Man is totally oppressing us!”

“...we gonna trip balls, [have sex with] some hookers, and kill some dogs.  Or maybe [have sex with] the dogs and kill the whores.  Who cares!  It’s party time!”]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_868" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 240px"><img class="size-full wp-image-868" src="http://wineandexcrement.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ggpoindexter.jpg" alt="Yes, my name really is Poindexter." width="230" height="288" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Yes, my name really is Poindexter.</p></div>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">HAMPTON, VA – The eagerly awaited reunion of the band Phish became a bad trip for many fans last night, as police made 194 arrests and confiscated around $1.2 million in illegal drugs.  In addition, $68,000 in cash was confiscated.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The newly re-united Phish, a so-called jam-band, played their first concerts in five years this weekend, and played approximately two songs.  It is estimated that the three concerts were seen by 75,000 fans, about four of which will remember the show.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">“This is a total bummer, man. Like, wow,” said self-described Phish-head Stoney Crust. “They were, like, laying into this totally crunch groove, and my bro was scoring some &#8216;shrooms [psychotropic mushrooms], and next thing you know, wow! The Man is totally oppressing us! It’s all a total Nazi-fascist drag, man.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">While police did indicate that most of the arrests happened peacefully, they apparently had to taze several concertgoers whose hallucinations were sufficiently powerful that they were only semi-aware, at best, of being arrested. All detainees were booked and promptly released after being forced to launder their clothes, delouse and to &#8220;take a freakin’ shower for the love of Christ,&#8221; according to police.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">“This is a banner day for law-enforcement,” said prosecutor Gerald Poindexter at a press conference this morning.“Over a million dollars worth of illegal drugs, removed from the street. A banner day.”</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Outside the courtroom after the press conference, Poindexter was overheard making plans to use the seized contraband in a lavish party.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">“Whoo boy! Jackpot! We goin’ to Mike’s, and we goin’ have a good time! Sooy!” he said into his cell phone either unaware or uncaring that the press corps could hear him.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">“Mike&#8217;s,” apparently is the estate of Michael Vick, whose sentence was recently reduced from prison to house arrest after a conviction on federal dog-fighting charges. Poindexter was the prosecutor for the State of Virginia who chose not to pursue state-level charges against Vick despite his admission of guilt under oath in Federal Court. He is now responsible for monitoring Vick’s house-arrest.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">“We goin’ out to Bad Newz” (Vick’s estate) “with this [stuff], and we gonna party like rock stars! Eh, Jethro!” continued Poindexter, “Call all the boys – we got enough for the whole force!”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Poindexter spent the next several minutes making detailed plans with his friends on the details of the party, which he described several times as a reward for a job well done. He indicated that the concert was a deliberate set-up, and that he fully expected that “the dirty hippies” would flock to the area, bringing large quantities of illegal drugs with them.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">He further went on to elaborate that the entire reason for allowing the concert was so that his officers could confiscate the substances for their own recreational use. The concertgoers, Poindexter felt, “would never know what hit them,” and were “too drug addled and stupid to ever figure it out.”</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Poindexter concluded the call by saying “we gonna trip balls, [have sex with] some hookers, and kill some dogs. Or maybe [have sex with] the dogs and kill the whores. Who cares! It’s party time!”</p>
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		<title>Obama to propose &#8220;Maximum Wage&#8221; law</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON – President Obama, who has long been planning to impose salary caps on the banking industry, has decided to expand the rules to cover the entire economy, according to an excerpt from a rambling interview that will be aired during next week&#8217;s NFL Pro Bowl game in Hawaii. The pay limits in the banking [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WASHINGTON – President Obama, who has long been planning to impose salary caps on the banking industry, has decided to expand the rules to cover the entire economy, according to an excerpt from a rambling interview that will be aired during next week&#8217;s NFL Pro Bowl game in Hawaii.</p>
<p>The pay limits in the banking industry were to have applied only to institutions that received &#8220;exceptional assistance&#8221; from the government. Under the new, sweeping rules, workers in all industries would be subject to the restrictions whether or not their companies had applied for government aid.</p>
<p>&#8220;Look, when you think about it, every company gets help from the government,&#8221; said the president. &#8220;I mean, the government provides them with OSHA laws, it provides them with ADA laws, it provides them with a whole host of rules, regulations and guidance – not to mention minimum wage laws. So it&#8217;s only fair that we initiate maximum wage laws across the board.&#8221;</p>
<p>At one point during the interview, the president informs a visibly shaken Matt Lauer that the maximum wage law would indeed apply to the media sector as well.</p>
<p>&#8220;Mr. President, doesn&#8217;t that cross the free speech line?&#8221; Lauer asks at one point.</p>
<p>&#8220;Matt, you&#8217;re still free to speak – but just at a lower rate,&#8221; responds the president, with a chuckle.</p>
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<p>The maximum wage laws will be variable and will include geographical adjustments. For example, a retail worker in a Red State might be capped at about $20,000 per year, while the same worker in Manhattan would be capped at $40,000.</p>
<p>Additional adjustments will be made based on the same time-honored variables traditionally favored by the Democratic Party, such as race, gender, IQ and BMI.</p>
<p>&#8220;So a morbidly obese minority with an IQ of 46 working retail in Manhattan … Matt, we&#8217;re not going to cap her wages at all,&#8221; says the president. &#8220;In fact, we&#8217;re going to use some of the funds siphoned off from previously uncapped and overpaid workers to actually enhance her income.&#8221;</p>
<p>Such redistributions will be possible because the law does not actually affect the base rate companies pay workers.</p>
<p>&#8220;The great thing about this is that the adjustments are all handled back-of-house by the IRS,&#8221; explains Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner in a follow-up piece to air during the NFL&#8217;s draft show in April. &#8220;Companies must continue to pay their going rates. What will happen is the IRS will then come in and adjust that pay via a new tax – the Zero Sum Fair Pay Credit (Debit). Folks who are overpaid, smarter than average, generally in good shape – these folks will naturally see a debit. For our more challenged citizens – violent criminals, single Moms, the illiterate and other victims and pathetic incompetents – those folks will see an increase.</p>
<p>&#8220;The main idea is that by adjusting for the variables of ability and need, we can come up with a variable coefficient that results in every citizen – including the homeless – receiving the same effective pay rate. It won&#8217;t look the same on paper, but in terms of fairness, it will be the same.&#8221;</p>
<p>Best of all, say Geithner and other advocates of the President&#8217;s proposal, some of the money siphoned off by the wage cap will be diverted to help aid the stimulus efforts aimed at shortening the recession.</p>
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		<title>Bombshell: Lincoln, Reagan, Clinton, 15 other U.S. presidents held office illegally</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abolition of slavery, WWII armistice could be at risk WASHINGTON – Eunuch-voiced contrarian Alan Keyes got a lot more than he bargained for as a result of his long-running feud with political arch-nemesis Barack Obama: the possible annulment of the presidencies of 18 U.S. presidents. From his failed bid in 2004 for the Illinois senate [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;">WASHINGTON – Eunuch-voiced contrarian Alan Keyes got a lot more than he bargained for as a result of his long-running feud with political arch-nemesis Barack Obama: the possible annulment of the presidencies of 18 U.S. presidents.</p>
<p>From his failed bid in 2004 for the Illinois senate seat that went to Obama to a fringe presidential candidacy last year, the excitable soprano has always had harsh words for his political bête noire.</p>
<p>Of late, that has included the labeling of President Obama as a &#8220;radical communist&#8221; and the ominous admonition &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure he&#8217;s even president of the United States.&#8221;</p>
<div id="attachment_673" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 263px"><strong><strong><a class="highslide" onclick="return vz.expand(this)" href="http://wineandexcrement.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/bio_alan_keyes1.jpg" rel="lightbox[667]" title="bio_alan_keyes1"><img class="size-medium wp-image-673" title="bio_alan_keyes1" src="http://wineandexcrement.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/bio_alan_keyes1-253x300.jpg" alt="Alan Keyes' efforts to unseat Obama have stirred up a Constiutional hornet's nest" width="253" height="300" /></a></strong></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Alan Keyes&#39; efforts to unseat Obama have stirred up a Constiutional hornet&#39;s nest</p></div>
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<p>In fact, the perennial also-ran staunchly refuses to address Obama as president and has been furiously pursuing legal action in a bid to oust him from office on grounds he is not qualified under citizenship rules set forth in the Constitution.</p>
<p>But now Mr. Keye&#8217;s tireless legal probes have ignited a shocking firestorm &#8211; one that threatens to shake the U.S. democracy to its very foundations. According to at least one interpretation of the reasoning of Mr. Keye&#8217;s complaint, not only is Obama’s presidency invalid, no less than 18 other U.S. presidents held office illegally.</p>
<p>At the center of the controversy are these words from Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution, cited ceaselessly by Keyes: &#8220;No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.&#8221;</p>
<p>As it happens, 13 states made up the U.S. at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, which, in light of Mr. Keye&#8217;s lawsuit, calls into question the presidencies of Clinton, Reagan, and even Lincoln, to name a few staggering examples.</p>
<p>Although Mr. Keyes is now backpedaling faster than a steroids-fuelled NFL safety to distance himself from that radical angle of attack, scholars say that now that the legal machinery has been set in motion, it will probably end up as far as the Supreme Court.</p>
<p>“This is amazing,” said Constitutional Scholar Redolent Backspins of the University of Charlton Heston in Wilmette, Ill. “This could mean everything from our still being at war with Germany and Japan to the dissolution of the Emancipation Proclamation. I’d be surprised if the Supreme Court didn’t agree to hear this case immediately.”</p>
<p>Just to be safe, the U.S. Pacific Fleet has been placed on alert for possible military action against Japan, while a spokesperson for the U.S. Army says a “careful eye” is being kept on Germany, in case V &#8211; J and V &#8211; E Days, respectively, are judged to be unfounded.</p>
<p>Most legal scholars, members of the House and Senate and even Keyes himself call the moves an overreaction and even absurd, but agree only the Supreme Court can decide now whether a return to WWII hostilities and a reprisal of the absolution of slavery are warranted.</p>
<p>“My only intention was and continues to be the removal of Obama from office,” said Keyes. “Although, it would be nice if we could do the same for every other democrat on the list these radical scholars have turned up – but I still don’t think we should be at war with Germany and Japan – at least not until we get out of this economic crisis.”</p>
<p>The complete list of potentially invalid presidents, aside from Obama:</p>
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<td width="205" valign="bottom">Chester A. Arthur</td>
<td width="96" valign="bottom">(Vermont)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="bottom">William Jefferson Clinton</td>
<td width="96" valign="bottom">(Arkansas)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="bottom">Calvin Coolidge</td>
<td width="96" valign="bottom">(Vermont)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="bottom">Dwight D. Eisenhower</td>
<td width="96" valign="bottom">(Texas)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="bottom">Gerald Ford</td>
<td width="96" valign="bottom">(Nebraska)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="bottom">James A. Garfield</td>
<td width="96" valign="bottom">(Ohio)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="bottom">Ulysses S. Grant</td>
<td width="96" valign="bottom">(Ohio)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="bottom">Warren G. Harding</td>
<td width="96" valign="bottom">(Ohio)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="bottom">Benjamin Harrison</td>
<td width="96" valign="bottom">(Ohio)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="bottom">Rutherford B. Hayes</td>
<td width="96" valign="bottom">(Ohio)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="bottom">Herbert Hoover</td>
<td width="96" valign="bottom">(Iowa)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="bottom">Lyndon B. Johnson</td>
<td width="96" valign="bottom">(Texas)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="bottom">Abraham Lincoln</td>
<td width="96" valign="bottom">(Kentucky)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="bottom">William McKinley</td>
<td width="96" valign="bottom">(Ohio)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="bottom">Richard Nixon</td>
<td width="96" valign="bottom">(California)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="bottom">Ronald Reagan</td>
<td width="96" valign="bottom">(Illinois)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="bottom">William Howard Taft</td>
<td width="96" valign="bottom">(Ohio)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="bottom">Harry S. Truman</td>
<td width="96" valign="bottom">(Missouri)</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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