The remarkable thing about running through downtown Miami at lunch hour in nothing but Nikes and a red, white and blue thong is how many people don’t notice.They were talking on their phones; shuffling documents; concentrating on walking.
Not until he climbed the steps of the Miami-Dade Courthouse did a few lawyerly types point and smile at the nearly naked man. He was Michael Tisdale, a lumberjack hailing from the Redland, protesting the state of the nation.
This had nothing to do with his being a lumberjack.
Internet research had revealed what he took to be a sinister conspiracy of immense scale, linking the war in Iraq to the global military-industrial complex and profits for key figures in the office of the president of the United States, basically at the expense of young soldiers who are getting their arms and legs blown off on a daily basis, and nobody cares!
”I don’t get it,” Tisdale had said earlier over coffee at Diana’s, on Northwest First Street, clothed.
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October 10th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Thou shalt not steal…
Some news from Singapore. You could say the judge threw the book at him.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singaporean judge sentenced a man to four months in jail for stealing a Bible, admonishing him with Scripture before hauling him off to prison, The St…..
October 10th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Empire State Building To be Lit for Muslim Holiday…
Grotesque dhimmitude from NYC.New York’s iconic Empire State Building is to be lit up green from Friday in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid, the biggest festival in the Muslim calendar marking the end of Ramadan, officials said. This…
October 10th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Hmm..Do we need God?…
You won’t find many atheists feeding the hungry and ministering to the sick in places like Africa or Mother Teresa’s Calcutta.
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October 11th, 2007 at 1:03 am
Once A Marine, Always A Marine? Maybe, Maybe Not….
There is a time-honored saying, “Once a Marine, always a Marine†that normally is true. According to Military Motivator, this may be the one and only exception to the rule.
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October 11th, 2007 at 4:39 am
Ann Coulter misses the mark RE: Fred Thompson…
Those who read here often know I like Ann Coulter. She is frank and harsh but more often then not, right on the mark when she goes after the liberals in America.
But not infallible, as this piece shows. In this article she at…
October 11th, 2007 at 5:06 am
Speaking of Fred!, he gets a perfect score from FactCheck.org…
The joke always goes like this: how can you tell when a politician is lying? His lips move.
Exaggeration, nuance and outright lies go hand in hand with politics.
So there is a thriving market to take the stump speeches and campaig…