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Call me Deacon Blues Donating Member (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 02:05 PM
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Sweet Jeebus, the Onion has really outdone themselves this time
This is so tasteless I nearly choked on my coffee . . .


Bush Braces As Cindy Sheehan's Other Son Drowns In New Orleans

WASHINGTON, DC -- According to White House sources, President Bush is bracing for intensified criticism following Monday's report that the body of Tyler Sheehan, son of outspoken anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, was recovered from the receding floodwaters in New Orleans.

Read the rest of this sad story: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40764
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 02:08 PM
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1. Sheehan moved to New Orleans in 2004
to take a year off from the University of California at Berkeley, where administrators had temporarily suspended the stem-cell research program in which he was enrolled in hopes of helping to combat his younger sister Ruth's spinal meningitis. Friends report that his public spirit continued in the Big Easy, as he delivered meals to elderly New Orleans residents affected by recent Medicare cuts, and doggedly petitioned the Justice Department for the release of his life partner, Amin Sagheer, who has been detained without charge at Guantanamo Bay for nearly three years.

:rofl: :spray:

That is SO bad. :evilgrin:
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wryter2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 02:18 PM
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5. LOL
But it'd be better if it was a Christian university of some standing. UC Berkeley would never do that.
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BloodyWilliam Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 02:12 PM
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2. WOW.
The word sublime is used to describe anything that is simultaneously beautiful and horrible. And that article was sublime.

And I feel so terrible for laughing...
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Inland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 02:15 PM
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3. It's gruesome, morbid and funny. nt
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 02:15 PM
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4. It's like biting into an onion,
it leaves you in tears.

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TheUnspeakable Donating Member (960 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 02:21 PM
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6. too funny!!!!

"He made service to his fellow citizens his number-one priority," Ghivarello said. "He made that vow back in 1998, when his best friend, a developmentally disabled black juvenile, was put to death in Texas for a crime he didn't commit."
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Rude Horner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 02:25 PM
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7. I'm so proud that The Onion
is from my hometown, Madison Wisconsin. They really kick butt.

Tasteless - definitely. But I think the message behind the tasteless story is that Bush really screwed up AGAIN!
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