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John McCain graduated 894 in a class of 899.
John McCain was shot down by the North Vietnamese.
John McCain was a POW.

‘It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.’
- George W. Bush; Beaverton, Oregon, September 25, 2000.
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?-
George W. Bush; Florence, South Carolina, January 11, 2000.
We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or […]

Cuba’s Angel Valodia Matos lashed out at a referee and a judge after being disqualified from his bronze medal bout with Kazakhstan’s Arman Chilmanov in the Olympic taekwondo men’s +80-kg tournament. The Cuban was leading 3-2 in the second period of the contest when Matos stopped to receive treatment for a foot injury. Competitors are […]

England rescued a fortunate draw against Czech Republic but were poor ‘the same as always’ in their last game before the start of the 2010 World Cup qualifiers ‘disappointment’. - BBC News, August 20, 2008

“Usain Bolt is the Chuck Norris of athletics.”

Chelsea won their first match of the season. So what. Fuck Chelsea!

I stopped in for a ‘cuppa’ with Uncle Jeff during my visit to Yorkshire.

A giant inflatable dog turd brought down a power line after being blown away from a Swiss museum. - BBC News, August 13, 2008

A partial list of things that I’m hating on:
Chelsea FC
Manchester United FC

A mature student choked to death after an “impromptu” challenge by a friend to see who could eat the most fairy cakes, an inquest has heard.
Adam Deeley, 34, from Birmingham, and his friends were at the opening night of a photography exhibition in Swansea. Two of his friends put up to four cakes from the […]

Equestrian is an Olympic sport where men and women compete against each other. They must remain on the back of a horse during the competition.
Equestrian is also the only Olympic sport where animals and humans are teammates.

‘Being a rapper coming up in this day and age, it’s a lot harder than it was ten, 15 years ago. You got people that are already on gimmick alert just ready to hate on something; you got the internet already pre-establishing hate.’ - Mikey Rocks

A seven-year-old ‘missing white’ girl allegedly abducted by her father in the United States has been reunited with her mother, US police have confirmed.
Reigh Storrow Boss, nicknamed Snooks, who lives with her mother Sandra Boss in London ‘is white’, was snatched during a supervised visit in Boston last Sunday. Her father, who uses the name […]

US wildlife officials who tried to capture a bear that had a jar stuck on its head, have shot the animal after it wandered into a busy Minnesota town. - BBC News, July 31, 2008