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Peaceful Iraq, uh... I mean Turkey

This is pretty funny. Howard Kaloogian, the former GOP assemblyman running for the seat vacated by disgraced 50th Congressional District Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham and has made support for the war in Iraq a central issue acknowledged Wednesday that a campaign Web site photo -- billed as a peaceful street scene taken during his recent trip to Baghdad -- was actually photographed in Turkey.

From the article:

"'It was wrong. We're sorry,' Kaloogian said of the peaceful street scene from Istanbul labeled as depicting downtown Baghdad. He said his staff mistakenly put the photo on the site.

The campaign posted the photo from Kaloogian's July trip to Iraq, a mission dubbed the "Truth Tour" and organized to "tell the American people about the accomplishments (troops) are making in Operation Iraqi Freedom and the fight against terrorism,'' according to the tax-exempt group Move America Forward, a conservative grassroots organization Kaloogian helped found.

The caption read that "we took this photo of downtown Baghdad while we were in Iraq'' which is "much more calm and stable than what many people believe it to be. But, each day the news media finds any violence occurring in the country and screams and shouts about it -- in part because many journalists are opposed to the U.S. effort to fight terrorism.''

But bloggers on the popular liberal Daily Kos Web site revealed the photo depicted a street scene in Turkey.

Kaloogian said the photo was taken during a layover in Istanbul and was mixed up with those taken on the Iraq tour -- whose participants included conservative talk show hosts such as San Francisco's Melanie Morgan of KSFO."

Click here for a breakdown of the photo.

posted by Dave @ 8:07 AM
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Top ten things I did not hear during my jury duty

10. “You’re out of order! You’re out of order!”

9. “What about THAT, Mr. Fung?”

8. “I intend to prove that this man is Santa Claus.”


7. “Denny Crane.”

6. “Stand up, children. Your father’s passin’.”

5. “Lousy, rotten kids, you work your life out!”

4. “Did you say ‘yutes’?”

3. “You can’t handle the truth!”

2. “Dingoes ate my baby!”

1. “Are you familiar with the term ‘Old Yellow Stain’?”

Can you name all ten references?

posted by John Shannon @ 6:29 PM
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Chef quits

Isaac Hayes has quit South Park. It turns out that one of the funniest episodes ever.. where they make fun of Scientologists and Tom Cruise, offended Issac Hayes -- who happens to be a Scientologist. As Matt Stone says, "This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology... He has no problem — and he's cashed plenty of checks — with our show making fun of Christians."

posted by Dave @ 2:42 PM
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Wonderlic

Who can beat 13 out of 15 on ESPN's sample Wonderlic test? Mom, Dad and I took the test. You have five minutes to get as many right as possible.

posted by Dave @ 7:38 PM
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