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August 19, 2006
Smelly Foreign Leftists Allege United States Located In North America
Here's a AP picture that Yahoo just published of some strange, unpleasant people in a far-away land. The caption reads:
An activist reacts as she sees other colleagues as they tried to get near the U.S. embassy in Manila Saturday, Aug. 19, 2006. The leftwing demonstrators are denouncing the alleged U.S. support for Israel during the war in Lebanon. Some of the protesters were arrested later. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Now, here are some of the other murky allegations made by these jealous, carping foreign malcontents:
• There is a country called the United States
• The United States is located on a planet called Earth
• Earth orbits around something called the Sun
Are any of these allegations correct? There is evidence on both sides. Perhaps we'll never know.
Posted at August 19, 2006 08:28 AM | TrackBackActually, only #3 is right on, and certain medieval minded Catholics like the silly Anchoress probably would question even that.
The United States is in North America: so, when I cross back to EP from Juarez, I simply say "American", a conceit, because everything south of the river to the tip of the Argentine is "American." Nonetheless, it is acceptable, and one is allowed to return to the holy land.
But there are really two united states. the other is Mexico, the formal name of which is "Estados Unidos Mexicanos", or, "United Mexican States", something which may have escaped the attention of the faculty at storied Stuts, and therefore that of her students and alumni.
Having been asked, not always politely, to go back to Mexico, I didn't do the normal .com when I put up my web page. Rather, I did the .us to remind the bastards that I'm still here and that when dead, I will be buried here in my small effort to further pollute the land.
Posted by: Jesus B. Ochoa at August 19, 2006 09:41 AMLet's get it over with and give the whole ME back to the Turks. They did a much better job with it than the Brits.
In exchange,Turkey can't join the EU.Too many swarthy people will destroy European Kulchur.
AP claims they "abhor inaccuracies, carelessness, bias or distortions." (neat "fair and balanced" picture there). At least they've moved away from the annoying practice of reflexively adding to the caption of all photos in which every last person's name wasn't known "and an unidentified person". It was getting too annoying and might have caused people to have second thoughts about the zeal with which they were pursuing the holy grail of objectivity.
Posted by: sk at August 19, 2006 10:15 AM"An activist reacts as she sees other colleagues as they tried to get near the U.S. embassy in Manila" - sounds like something written by a robot.
Posted by: abb1 at August 19, 2006 10:45 AMNOTE;
Location caption says Manilla, NOT New York, Atlanta, D.C., Chicago, LA, Denver, Miami, etc.
No lack of lack of participation here. sad.
Reminds me of the News Hour whose motto is only tell half the story in order to slant it in favor of Bush because Jim Lehrer has faith in Americans and that they can put 2 and 2 together despite being lied to and misled by the News Hour. This is what is known as fair and balanced.
And besides, the topic of Israel is far too sensitive to be discussed in polite circles. In polite circles if someone errs and mentions Israel the proper response is to shyly blush, look in the other direction and change the topic to the proper method of planting watermelon seeds.
Posted by: rob payne at August 19, 2006 01:06 PMBig Light in Sky later to appear in East! Stay tuned for more on Faux News.
Posted by: americanintifada at August 21, 2006 03:19 AM
