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a round up, just for laughs »

By American Girl in Italy on Sep 21, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

There has been a slew of posts on the internet machine the last week that made me giggle. I think you’ll agree. 1. IMAO made an observation about the new Democrat logo: “The Democrats unveiled their fancy new logo today:” “Didn’t take long for me to figure out what it looked like:” It didn’t take [...]

OMG! now this is hate: take 2 »

By American Girl in Italy on Sep 18, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

/ Bumped Up / Ed. Note: An error occurred in the original posting of this story – almost the entire story having been deleted. It has been corrected. Sorry for the confusion. For those of you who may have missed it, Bristol Palin was on the Jay Leno show the other night. She was there [...]

that’s why they’re called crushes… »

By American Girl in Italy on Sep 14, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

“Obama’s public persona is so predictable and his image so overexposed that even the left is over him. He’s gone from fascinating and cool to a crashing bore in less than two years. . . . Obama was in essence the latest trend, equivalent to this season’s fashion or the newest cell phone, which they [...]

where were you? »

By American Girl in Italy on Sep 11, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

I was at home, in Seattle, sleeping. My mom called and told me to turn on The Today Show. I watched the burning tower, I saw the second plane hit, and I watched them fall. It was a day we will never forget.

to burn, or not to burn »

By American Girl in Italy on Sep 9, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

Pastor Terry Jones, from the Dove World Outreach Center in Florida, recently announced plans to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. General David Petraeus warned that the planned Quran burning could “endanger American troops in Afghanistan and be used to incite violence around the world”. There have already [...]

“just to take away the silly arguments and the games…” more on az immigration »

By American Girl in Italy on May 1, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

This is a follow up to my earlier post, arizona immigration law: what’s more inconvenient, showing i.d. or being kidnapped?. There have been some language revisions to the Law that are important to highlight. I also included an article by one of the lawyers who helped draft the bill, who explains some of the misconceptions [...]

can you feel the love? ~open thread »

By American Girl in Italy on Apr 28, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

Have you heard about the Geico voiceover actor, Lance Baxter, who was fired after leaving this message for Freedom Works? Well, apparently this ruffled a few feathers. As a result, FreedomWorks has been inundated with threatening phone calls, leading blogger Tabitha Hale, who also works at FreedomWorks, to put together this video (via Right Wing [...]

arizona immigration law: what’s more inconvenient, showing i.d. or being kidnapped? »

By American Girl in Italy on Apr 28, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

If 70% of Arizonians support the Immigration bill, which means they are willing to show their identification if asked, what’s the problem? Who doesn’t carry identification all the time, anyway? I never leave home without my DL. And from what I understand of the law, the Police can’t profile, or just stop anyone without probable [...]

eugene – a hate free zone… »

By American Girl in Italy on Apr 25, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

Sarah Palin, former Vice Presidential candidate and Alaskan governor, spoke at a gathering of Lane County Republicans in Eugene, Ore. on Friday, April 23, 2010. She was greeted by someone who wanted her to know that Eugene Oregon was a “hate free zone”. Oh really?

SEC jacks-off while bernie made-off with all the dough ~open thread »

By American Girl in Italy on Apr 23, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

psst, hey joan, hope this helps »

By American Girl in Italy on Apr 22, 2010 in Current Affairs, MSNBC, Morning Joe | View Comments

This was so funny, I had to watch it over and over. Mika was killing me.

the big easy beatdown »

By American Girl in Italy on Apr 20, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

With all the left wing frenzied hysterics over the alleged “dangerous, racist, extremist tea partiers” and the hostile, accusatory language, you would think when there was an actual violent attack, the media would cover it, no? Well, hold on. The media did cover the alleged road rage accident that was allegedly over an Obama bumper [...]

is michelle obama a birther? ~open thread »

By American Girl in Italy on Apr 12, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

Did you know Michelle Obama is a birther?

“all black people are good athletes” »

By American Girl in Italy on Apr 11, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

In yet another attempt by someone at msnbc to smear Conservatives, Norah O’Donnell actually says, “all black people are good athletes”. “And I think it’s open to some criticism because it suggests that the president is an athlete and some people may suggest, you know, because all black people are good athletes. I mean that’s [...]

a tale of two targets »

By American Girl in Italy on Apr 8, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

Sarah Palin’s map: “Dangerous, violent, menacing, threatening, monstrous, paranoid, extremism, pouring more and more gasoline on the flames, far beyond politics as usual, crossing the line”. [Might I add, it's just plain scary!]

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