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Sorry Mr. Chavez, I’m going to have to disagree with you on this. The devil wouldn’t have been stupid enough to invade Iraq.

UNITED NATIONS (CNN) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tore into his U.S. counterpart and his U.N. hosts Wednesday, likening President Bush to the devil and telling the General Assembly that its system is “worthless.”

“The devil came here yesterday,” Chavez said, referring to Bush, who addressed the world body during its annual meeting Tuesday. “And it smells of sulfur still today.”

Update:

I didn’t realize that Chavez was holding up one of Chomsky’s books while calling Bush the devil.

I never realized Chavez was so interested in Linguistics…

This is how USA and allies milking blood and oil from Middle East. The continent is Middle East, and there is written “Here again blood and oil is being poured”.

A gallery of Soviet Propaganda Posters which are against the US.

Remember, Google is watching….always.

I could have done this if I wanted to…..and if I wasn’t an idiot

With college tuition rising to record levels across the country, one University of Virginia student figured out a way to save himself from the crush of student-loan debt.

The solution? He finished college in just one year.

David Banh, of Annandale, is the first person ever to complete UVa’s traditional four-year bachelor’s program in a single year.

“I was impressed … I would say amazed,” said Donald Ramirez, vice chairman of the mathematics department.

Banh, who turns 19 later this month, graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria in 2005. A year and a summer later, he was a UVa alumnus.

Thanks to a mountain of advanced placement credits, Banh was already ahead of the game.

“I flirted with the idea back in high school, and thought I could finish college in a year and a half, in three semesters,” Banh said. “But after my first semester [at UVa], I realized I had all this extra time, and that if I stayed for a second year I didn’t have a way to pay for it without taking out loans.”

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More cartoons here.

Today’s Wikipedia lesson teaches us how to cuss in Latin.

What’s even more amazing about this is it happened in the ninth with the Dodgers down by 4. (Even a few years later, it’s still weird seeing Nomahh in anything other than a BoSox jersey)

Your taste buds have been dying to know what spooky treats might be headed their way come Halloween, right? Well look no further my friends, for I have been collecting a ton o’ Halloween candies to show you this season so you can cut out all the guesswork and go straight for the good stuff! There’s over 30 varieties reviewed here so you’re bound to find something you like! All of the candies featured here are rated on a 1-5 scale: 1 being worse than a zombie eating you alive, and 5 being better than escaping from that very same zombie who wanted to eat you alive.

(Thanks Jacob)

All 118 letters of it with pronunciations.

(via Monitor Duty)

Sam Harris’ Editorial in today’s LA Times. He brings up a lot of talking points and this may be a good article to discuss in the forum.

A cult of death is forming in the Muslim world — for reasons that are perfectly explicable in terms of the Islamic doctrines of martyrdom and jihad. The truth is that we are not fighting a “war on terror.” We are fighting a pestilential theology and a longing for paradise.

This is not to say that we are at war with all Muslims. But we are absolutely at war with those who believe that death in defense of the faith is the highest possible good, that cartoonists should be killed for caricaturing the prophet and that any Muslim who loses his faith should be butchered for apostasy.

Unfortunately, such religious extremism is not as fringe a phenomenon as we might hope. Numerous studies have found that the most radicalized Muslims tend to have better-than-average educations and economic opportunities.

Given the degree to which religious ideas are still sheltered from criticism in every society, it is actually possible for a person to have the economic and intellectual resources to build a nuclear bomb — and to believe that he will get 72 virgins in paradise. And yet, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, liberals continue to imagine that Muslim terrorism springs from economic despair, lack of education and American militarism.