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  • Biden ‘Brain Freeze’ Refuted [semi-satire]

    10/09/2022 10:59:32 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 7 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 9 Oct 2022 | John Semmens
    This week, GOP critics jumped on President Biden’s apparent gaffe while campaigning at a Volvo Group Powertrain facility in Hagerstown, Maryland when he said “let me start off with two words: made in America.” Dreaded members of the MAGA terrorist organization pointed out that “made in America” is three words. This gaffe recalled an earlier Biden speech in which he touted his support for a three-letter word “jobs.” Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refuted the gaffe interpretation, saying “those so quick to pounce on a seeming error are the ones making fools of themselves. The president’s count of words is correct....
  • Death and the Maidens

    04/17/2007 3:30:07 PM PDT · by blam · 29 replies · 1,566+ views
    Philly.com ^ | 4-16-2007 | Tom Avril
    Posted on Mon, Apr. 16, 2007Death and the maidensPenn researchers tackle Mesopotamian mystery. By Tom Avril Inquirer Staff Writer Aubrey Baadsgaard says the ancient victims may not have walked into the Mesopotamian tomb and sacrificed and drank poison. She hopes CAT scans of two skulls yesterday will back up her doubts. JONATHAN WILSON / Inquirer Staff Photographer Dozens of maidens, wearing headdresses of gold and lapis lazuli, walked down into a tomb in Mesopotamia 4,600 years ago. Each raised a cup to her lips, drank some poison, and lay down to die, hoping to join a king or other royal...