Archive for July 8th, 2008

When’s the next time you will eat at McDonald’s?

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McDonald’s Ad: “I’m Lovin’ It When China Wins” Ronald, Grimace, the Hamburglar, and the other characters at McDonald’s have chosen the slogan “Wo jiu xihuan Zhongguo ying,” for their Chinese marketing campaign. When translated the phrase means “I love it when China wins.” Think “I’m Lovin’ It” with a sino addendum.

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The DHS Starts Ripping Off Really Bad Star Trek

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And this is how you know that your government exists only to transfer taxpayer funds to their pals — witness: an Electronic ID bracelet that also stuns misbehaving passengers. Someone at Homeland Security is actually thinking about this device that you’d be fitted with when you check in; that will somehow also be coded to […]

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Surprised?

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surprised?

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Irony

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irony

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Postponed: Book Club Pushed Back a Week

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I have not gotten a firm committment from anyone reagrding the book club meeting on Thursday so I’m going to push it off a week, hoping that the week after the holiday was the cause for low response.  So the new date is going to be 6:30, July 17th at The Lobby House in Dover.  […]

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Obama v. Clinton: The First State Version.

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Before I left on my mini-Fourth of July vacation down the shore, wherein I got sunburnt but thankfully missed the CC/PDD dust-up of which I know little and care about even less; I posted a story about Carney’s first TV ad buy the Salisbury media market, touting his leadership in the Bluewater Wind deal.  Markell is […]

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Better QOD

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who was your favorite teacher when you were a kid (not college)?

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Separated at Birth?

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Separated at Birth?

Charlie Copeland and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom

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QOD

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Is there statistical evidence that if everyone had a gun there would be less crime?  If so, wouldn’t the same evidence point to indicate the same conclusion could be found if no one had a gun? 

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