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Who smells BS? Obama does by way of Romney

In a recent Rolling Stone  interview, the following was written: "...executive editor Eric Bates told Obama that he had asked his six-year old if there was anything she wanted him to say to the president ... She said: 'Tell him. You can do it.' Obama replied: 'You know, kids have good instincts. They look at the other guy and say, 'Well, that's a bullsh**ter, I can tell.'" Of course, upon hearing about this, many in the conservative community said things such as the following: "That's really presidential..." "What a good way to set an example for the children..." "I've never heard a president utter such a word in an interview before..." "It takes one to know one, Mr. President..." "Just like what you've been giving us for four years?" That's right. Barack Obama is the first president in the history of our country to use what is coined a swear word. No other president has ...

The Alleged Truth of Barack Obama

How I love political chain e-mails. You know, the e-mails that are sent to you and 25-50 others from an uncle of yours named Bucky, which portrays a wild conspiracy of a politician being a martian from Neptune as being factual. I especially love such e-mails when they center around Barack Obama. All I can say is thank the Internet gods for Snopes.com. Snopes fact-checks these very e-mails and allows people such as myself to check on the e-mail's validity and report back to the sender of the e-mail and all its recipients. No, I haven't made too many friends doing this, but I just hope I've been able to positively influence at least one person to fact-check these darn things before sending it to half of the country and Neptune. Of course, I have run into a couple occasions where the sender of the chain e-mail has, upon receiving my fact-checking response, told me that Snopes is liberally-biased. Yeah, that again. I swear, if the source doesn't include Fox News, Rush Limba...

Extreme Odds

People play the lottery. People play the slots. They play keno, blackjack, craps, roulette, poker, bet on sporting events. Kids believe in the tooth fairy, Easter bunny, Santa Claus. Adults believe in Planet Xenu, Joseph Smith, Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, amongst other religious figures and icons. Some people still believed former President Bush when he spoke. Others believe there was a 9/11 cover-up. Heck, some even believe that the Chicago Cubs will win a World Series in the future. Let's play the odds, shall we? When it comes to keno, blackjack, slot machines and poker, I haven't seen or heard of people losing TOO much money. Blackjack is a pretty even game, where the house doesn't hold a major advantage. He or she may hold a bit of an edge at poker. Keno takes longer to play, so hopefully less money will be lost. In the slots, there are $1 machines, but also quarter, nickel and even penny slots. If anyone loses a great deal of money on the penny or nickel slots, they hav...