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  1. FOX News Special Alert

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / October 29, 2008 / Leave a comment
    John McCain Photographed Socializing With Terrorist In the photograph it appears that Senator McCain is voluntarily involved in an embrace with an “arab” identified as “Hussein.” While details remain sketchy Fox News is unafraid to bring you the facts, it appears at this point that the combination of all of...
  2. Clearing up the confusion III

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / October 27, 2008 / Leave a comment
    How about some analogies to clear up the current socialism confusion: 1. Barack Obama is to socialism as _______ is to communism. Accepted Answers: John McCain – Barack Obama is not a socialist, John McCain is not a communist. Apples – Barack Obama is not a socialist, Apples are not...
  3. Clearing up the confusion II

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / October 27, 2008 / Leave a comment
    I thought that perhaps a word association game could clear up some of the confusion: Not a SocialistJohn McCain has a consistent record of supporting free enterprise, with one notable exception, the Bailout of 2008 in which he and other law makers proposed the government take partial ownership in private...
  4. Clearing up the confusion

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / October 27, 2008 / Leave a comment
    I thought of a few ways fun ways to clear up the socialism confusion running rampant in this country. So, here goes method #1: Dictionary.comSo – cial – ism (noun) : a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means...
  5. Race and Politics

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / October 25, 2008 / Leave a comment
    There have been a couple popular opinions circulated that I flat out disagree with and I want to attack. Since I’m pseudonymous I think it is worth pointing out that I am a young, white, male democrat raised in (relatively) racially vanilla Mt. Lebanon. This gives me absolutely no authority...
  6. Asshat

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / October 24, 2008 / Leave a comment
    I’ve been known to comment that PittGirl is a little tough on Santonio Holmes, Asshat is not a nickname many aspire to. However, now that he has slowed my fantasy team to a crawl by possessing pot I am inclined to agree. I can’t wait to see how long the...
  7. The World of Threes

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / October 24, 2008 / Leave a comment
    I was going through my google analytics report and noticed that I’ve had a couple hits deflected from the bazaar world of threes. It appears that this is the reincarnation of a deceased blog, arriving (again?) in the burghosphere October 18, but I do not know the details. What I...
  8. Because Sometimes You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / October 23, 2008 / Leave a comment
    John McCain on his, er, support for Western PA:
  9. We Have a Winner

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / October 22, 2008 / Leave a comment
    We have a winner in the fight for control over DRM, and it is no one. For those of you who long ago sold your soul to Apple, bought an iPod, downloaded iTunes and don’t even know what DRM is, here’s a quick explanation. Remember how the music industry whined...
  10. Not a Lot of News

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / October 20, 2008 / Leave a comment
    As the world holds its breath to see how Wall Street will respond to its first net UP week in quite a while, I have little to report and even less time to do it. I read the post-gazette and the burghosphere this morning and it seems that no one...
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