This Week in the Mercury
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
News Good Morning, News!
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:07 AM
The FBI is investigating the corrupt corporations at the center of the Wall Street crash -- and they may want to hurry before these companies blow through the $700 billion we're planning on giving them.
North Korea kicks out U.N. monitors, decides to get the band back together. Their band's name is "Nuclear Holocaust" by the way.
A video has emerged that shows Sarah Palin praying with a "witch hunter." Man. That almost sounds kinda cool!
A new poll finds that 18% of voters are "persuadable." If only my odds were that good back in high school.
As reported here yesterday, lesbian Clay Aiken has come out of the closet.
An effigy of Barack Obama was found hanging in a tree in Newberg, Oregon. THANKS A PANTLOAD, NEWBERGIANS!
Bill Clinton dropped by The Daily Show last night, and here's what he had to say about the economy.
And... here's what he had to say about Barack Obama getting elected!
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Check out the abrupt audio shift and the change in Jon Stewart's body position.
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Regarding The Assembly of God Church, I was raised going to an AoG Church... I have one word to describe the people that went there. Batshit fucking crazy motherfuckers. There were a few normal people that just wanted to be into Jesus. There were also a lot of people that spoke in tongues and hated gay people and believed everything was Satanic. It was kind of adorable in retrospect.
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