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		<title>Do Trojans Defend?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m confused why a company would choose the Trojans as their symbol.

I’ve tried to create a logical analogy between modern condoms and the ancient battle between the Greeks and the Trojans: The Greeks embodied a man and the Trojans personified a woman, the wooden exterior of the horse would have symbolized a condom, the man’s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>I’m confused why a company would choose the Trojans as their symbol.</p>
<p><img width="400" src="http://theory.sci.univr.it/p40/trojan.jpg" /></p>
<p>I’ve tried to create a logical analogy between modern condoms and the ancient battle between the Greeks and the Trojans: The Greeks embodied a <em>man</em> and the Trojans personified a <em>woman</em>, the wooden exterior of the horse would have symbolized a <em>condom</em>, the <em>man</em>’s <em>sperm</em> was represented by the army of Greek warriors,  the gate of Troy’s wall would be her <em>vagina</em>, the Trojan defenders were <em>spermicide</em> and the highly-prized Helen characterized the woman’s <em>egg</em>.</p>
<p>On the surface, it appears to be quite a clever correlation.</p>
<p>Yet if you dig deeper and discover the outcome of the battle, it doesn’t make sense why they would be so proud to bear the name Trojan® as the most effective protection against invasions.</p>
<p>The <em>female</em> was deceptively wooed by the <em>man</em>. She left her <em>spermicide</em> in the medicine cabinet because he had assured her that is was safe. He slid his condom into her <em>vagina</em>. Once safely inside, his tampered condom broke and flooded her with his <em>sperm</em>. The <em>sperm </em>leader then swam up the perilous Phallopyan Tower and captured the enchanted <em>Egg </em>Princess.</p>
<p>The Trojans failed.</p>
<p>Troy got knocked up.</p>
<p>I could understand, if they sold diaphragms with prefabricated holes marketed towards women who wanted to ensnare men into marriage through pregnancy.</p>
<p>Trojan® Diaphragms— <em>#1 in Unwanted Pregancies</em></p>
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		<title>Zimmerman Telegraph Interception in WWI</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A forgotten fact about WWI is the interception of the Zimmerman Telegraph. Germany wanted to divert the US away from the war overseas. So their Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman instructed the German ambassador Heinrich von Eckardt via a telegram to convince Mexico to attack the United States.It was VERY tempting for the Mexican president, Venustiano [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div align="left">A forgotten fact about WWI is the interception of the Zimmerman Telegraph. Germany wanted to divert the US away from the war overseas. So their Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman instructed the German ambassador Heinrich von Eckardt via a telegram to convince Mexico to attack the United States.It was VERY tempting for the Mexican president, Venustiano Carranza. Obviously, Mexico was still pissed off from losing Texas after decimating their army of 186 men at the Battle of the Alamo. But wisely they decided to stay neutral.</p>
<p>The last thing the citizens of Mexico wanted to do was empowering Texas Border Patrol Officers with the right to legally kill <a href="http://taoofdan.blogspot.com/2004/08/society-has-demonized-word-mexican.html">Mexicans</a>.</div>
<div align="center"><strong>Governor of Texas</strong><br />
Fellow Texans, we have officially declared war against Mexico</p>
<p><strong>Border Patrol Officer</strong><br />
You got to be shittin’ me boy. We can kill them without getting’ in trouble. Halleluiah! There is a God.</p>
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<div>In recent news, the <a href="http://www.gnn.tv/articles/1360/Arizona_Dream">Minutemen of Texas</a> have convinced themselves that during Saddam’s reign, the Prime Minister of Iraq, Iyad Allawi e-mailed the Mexican government to attack Texas.They refer to it as the “Allawi E-mail Interception.&#8221;</p>
<p>If you Googled, &#8220;Zimmerman Interception&#8221; click here to go to the main page: <a href="http://taoofdan.blogspot.com/">home</a></div>
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		<title>Do Trojans Defend?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m confused why a company would choose the Trojans as their symbol.

I’ve tried to create a logical analogy between modern condoms and the ancient battle between the Greeks and the Trojans: The Greeks embodied a man and the Trojans personified a woman, the wooden exterior of the horse would have symbolized a condom, the man’s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>I’m confused why a company would choose the Trojans as their symbol.</p>
<p><img src="http://theory.sci.univr.it/p40/trojan.jpg" width="400" /></p>
<p>I’ve tried to create a logical analogy between modern condoms and the ancient battle between the Greeks and the Trojans: The Greeks embodied a <em>man</em> and the Trojans personified a <em>woman</em>, the wooden exterior of the horse would have symbolized a <em>condom</em>, the <em>man</em>’s <em>sperm</em> was represented by the army of Greek warriors,  the gate of Troy’s wall would be her <em>vagina</em>, the Trojan defenders were <em>spermicide</em> and the highly-prized Helen characterized the woman’s <em>egg</em>.</p>
<p>On the surface, it appears to be quite a clever correlation.</p>
<p>Yet if you dig deeper and discover the outcome of the battle, it doesn’t make sense why they would be so proud to bear the name Trojan<span style="font-size:85%;">®</span> as the most effective protection against invasions.</p>
<p>The <em>female</em> was deceptively wooed by the <em>man</em>. She left her <em>spermicide</em> in the medicine cabinet because he had assured her that is was safe. He slid his condom into her <em>vagina</em>. Once safely inside, his tampered condom broke and flooded her with his <em>sperm</em>. The <em>sperm </em>leader then swam up the perilous Phallopyan Tower and captured the enchanted <em>Egg </em>Princess.</p>
<p>The Trojans failed.</p>
<p>Troy got knocked up.</p>
<p>I could understand, if they sold diaphragms with prefabricated holes marketed towards women who wanted to ensnare men into marriage through pregnancy.</p>
<p>Trojan<span style="font-size:85%;">® </span>Diaphragms— <em>#1 in Unwanted Pregancies</em></p>
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		<title>Gary Swanson lived a spartan lifestyle.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 17:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary was raised in an opharnage and lived in the dorms during college. After graduation, he never owned a car and although he always used public transportation was extremely punctual, and let&#8217;s not forget that Gary also fought off the Persians at the battle of Thermopylae.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Gary was raised in an opharnage and lived in the dorms during college. After graduation, he never owned a car and although he always used public transportation was extremely punctual, and let&#8217;s not forget that Gary also fought off the Persians at the battle of Thermopylae.</p>
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		<title>The First Romeo and Juliet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s sad to say, but couples in interracial relationships today still encounter ignorant xenophobes.As difficult as they seem to be, they compare nothing to the challenges faced by our ancestors. In 1999, an archeologist in Portugal discovered a 24,500 years old hybrid skeleton created by a Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalenis) and a Cro-Magnon(Homo sapien).
Inter-species relationships would [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div align="left">It’s sad to say, but couples in interracial relationships today still encounter ignorant xenophobes.As difficult as they seem to be, they compare nothing to the challenges faced by our ancestors. In 1999, an archeologist in Portugal discovered a 24,500 years old <a href="http://www.instant-essays.com/anthropology/neanderthal-hybrid.shtml">hybrid</a> skeleton created by a <a href="http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/neand.htm">Neanderthal</a> (<em>Homo neanderthalenis</em>) and a <a href="http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/cromagnon.html">Cro-Magnon</a>(<em>Homo sapien</em>).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/nead_sap_comp.html">Inter-species</a> relationships would trump all modern day male-female tribulations. The Montagues and the Capulets did not produce the first “<em>star-crossed lovers</em>”. The tragic love story began over 24 millenniums ago.</p>
<p>Neanderthal females were constantly wooed away from their primitive lifestyles by the refined Cro-Magnon males. These sophisticated gentlemen could provide a romantic fire, expensive clothes, and a cave decorated with their own <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1575000/images/_1577421_cave300.jpg">art</a>. Arriving with the smell of Mammoth Musk® cologne and a designer fur pelt pretentiously tied around their neck. It&#8217;s the same clichéd <em>Cinderella</em> story retold in Gary Marshall&#8217;s <em>Pretty Woman</em> or in the majority of John Hughes’ movies. These women were weary of the barbaric, chauvinistic, frugal standards of the Neanderthal men. They wanted to taste the finer things in life, and did what they had to do in order to land a Cro-Magnon. Now the <em>Homo Sapien</em> men were shunned by their family for diluting their noble blood with peasant grade fuel. In addition, these men were accused of being exceedingly lonely and desperate individuals using their advanced technologies and distinguished attributes to exploit these women into submissive housekeepers and sex toys. Now granted, the comeliness level of the Neanderthals were extremely low, but love is blind to the superficial exterior albeit beefy and unsightly. These women proved to be very faithful, nurturing companions. For what ever reasons, be it true love or opportunistic greediness. They suffered the verbal abuse and disappointment from their friends and family.</p>
<p>The real problems arose when a child was born. It was never accepted by either species. Same dilemma endured by mules from horse-donkey parents or half-elves in Middle Earth.</p></div>
<div align="center"><strong><em>Thanksgiving Dinner at the Neanderthals</em> </strong></div>
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<div align="center"><strong>COUSIN</strong></div>
<div align="left">I guess College Boy too good for us. (<em>Mocking</em>)Look at me…I’m a <em>Homo Sapien</em>…I only eat cooked meat…me afraid of getting sick…boo-hoo…What a homo!</div>
<div align="center"><strong><em>Christmas Dinner at the Cro-Magnons</em> </strong></div>
<div align="center"><strong>AUNT BARBARA</strong></div>
<div align="left">Ned, why don’t you try to be more civilized like my Charles. Do you think we enjoy seeing your privates at the dinner table. You certainly are destined to be a blue-collar type like your mother. You disappoint and disgrace our family name. It’s a good thing your grandfather died at the venerable age of thirty-one, so he wouldn’t have to endure the likes of you.</div>
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		<title>The Sun Viking Hotel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last time I went to the beach, I stayed at The Sun Viking Hotel, which had an enormous 50 foot, gaudy, plaster Viking statue in the parking lot. It was a family hotel, and a bunch of kids were running around with souvenir axes and horned helmets. How cute? Then I remembered back to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>The last time I went to the beach, I stayed at The Sun Viking Hotel, which had an enormous 50 foot, gaudy, plaster Viking statue in the parking lot. It was a family hotel, and a bunch of kids were running around with souvenir axes and horned helmets. How cute? Then I remembered back to another time I stayed at another beach hotel which was called The Hotel Viking; slightly different, but essentially the same. Every tourist city by the sea has the same lame hotels: some kind of Viking Hotel…across the street Pirate’s Cove…next door the El Conquistador. A lot of people are missing the general theme here. All of these groups being glorified were once associated with murderers, rapist, and thieves. Yippee! Happy family fun-time! I guess all it takes is about 500 to 1000 years to wash away the atrocities of malicious men. The future is looking brighter, and brighter. In the year 3030, you’ll be able to check into The Klansmen by the Sea.</p>
<p>Hotel Clerk<br />
Here’s your key, boy. Room 606. Don’t worry about a thing, we got plenty clean sheets.<br />
If you know what I mean?</p>
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		<title>A Riddle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q.
What do all these individuals have in common?
Clara Barton, Walt Whitman, Thomas Edison, Vince Lombardi, Alexander Hamilton, and Grover Cleveland.

A.

Washington got a bridge, Lincoln got a tunnel, but these &#8220;lucky&#8221; folks are immortalized in the form of rest stops on the New Jersey Turnpike (click here). What an honor. Although, I do approve of Edison [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><strong>Q.</strong><br />
What do all these individuals have in common?<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Barton"><strong>Clara Barton</strong></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman"><strong>Walt Whitman</strong></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison"><strong>Thomas Edison</strong></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Lombardi"><strong>Vince Lombardi</strong></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Lombardi"><strong>Alexander Hamilton</strong></a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland"><strong>Grover Cleveland</strong></a>.</p>
<p>
<strong>A.</strong></p>
<p><img id="image561" src="http://taoofdan.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/toilet-about.jpg" alt="toilet-about.jpg" /><br />
Washington got a bridge, Lincoln got a tunnel, but these &#8220;lucky&#8221; folks are immortalized in the form of rest stops on the New Jersey Turnpike (click <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Turnpike#Rest_areas"><strong>here</strong></a>). What an honor. Although, I do approve of Edison being memorialized in this manner. He was a true asshole. Ask <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla"><strong>Tesla</strong></a>.</p>
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		<title>Paul Revere’s job would have been easier with MySpace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
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The historical  “Midnight Ride” would have been known as the “Midnight Post”. Instead of “ridin’ across the land, kickin’ up sand”, he could have simply posted a MySpace bulletin to his 16,000 “friends”.
But now that I think of it, that probably wouldn’t have been that effective since you can only view five bulletins at [...]]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>The historical  “Midnight Ride” would have been known as the “Midnight Post”. Instead of “ridin’ across the land, kickin’ up sand”, he could have simply posted a MySpace bulletin to his 16,000 “friends”.</p>
<p>But now that I think of it, that probably wouldn’t have been that effective since you can only view five bulletins at time.</p>
<p>With 16,000 colonists online, the extremely vital warning bulletin “The British are coming!” would be pushed off the screen instantly by a 1,000 trivial, sophomoric posts from idiots with too much time on their hands.
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<p><img id="image416" src="http://taoofdan.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/oldmyspace.gif" alt="oldmyspace.gif" /></p>
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		<title>Bush&#8217;s Wall against Mexico is 89 Years Too Late</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zimmerman Telegraph Interception in WWI
A forgotten fact about WWI is the interception of the Zimmerman Telegraph. Germany wanted to divert the US away from the war overseas. So their Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman instructed the German ambassador Heinrich von Eckardt via a telegram to convince Mexico to attack the United States.
It was VERY tempting for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Zimmerman Telegraph Interception in WWI</p>
<p>A forgotten fact about WWI is the interception of the Zimmerman Telegraph. Germany wanted to divert the US away from the war overseas. So their Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman instructed the German ambassador Heinrich von Eckardt via a telegram to convince Mexico to attack the United States.</p>
<p>It was VERY tempting for the Mexican president, Venustiano Carranza. Obviously, Mexico was still pissed off from losing Texas after decimating their army of 186 men at the Battle of the Alamo. But wisely they decided to stay neutral.</p>
<p><img style= "width: 350px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Ztel1b.jpg" /><br />
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<p>The last thing the citizens of Mexico wanted to do was to empower Texans with the right to legally kill <a href="http://taoofdan.blogspot.com/2004/08/society-has-demonized-word-mexican.html">Mexicans</a>. </p>
<p>In recent news, the <a href="http://www.gnn.tv/articles/1360/Arizona_Dream">Minutemen of Texas</a> have convinced themselves that during Saddam’s reign, the Prime Minister of Iraq, Iyad Allawi e-mailed the Mexican government to attack Texas.</p>
<p>They refer to it as the “Allawi E-mail Interception.&#8221;</p>
<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family:courier new;"><strong>GOVERNOR OF TEXAS</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center; font-family:courier new;"> Fellow Texans, Bush has officially declared war against Mexico.</div>
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<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family:courier new;"><strong>BORDER PATROL OFFICER</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center; font-family:courier new;"> You got to be shittin’ me boy. We can kill them without getting’ in trouble. Halleluiah! There is a God.</div>
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		<title>EUGENICS by L. Ron Nuremberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1839, anthropologist Samuel George Morton, father of American scientific racism&#8224;, wrote Crania Americana. He reported the mean cranial capacity of the skulls by races.
Whites 
87 in³ (1,425 cm³) 
Blacks 
78 in³ (1,278 cm³) 
Native Americans 
82 in³ (1,344 cm³)
He claimed that the level of IQ is proportional to the size the brain. 
Let’s assume [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>In 1839, anthropologist Samuel George Morton, father of American scientific racism&dagger;, wrote <em>Crania Americana</em>. He reported the mean cranial capacity of the skulls by races.</p>
<blockquote><p>Whites<br /> <br />
87 in³ (1,425 cm³) </p>
<p>Blacks<br /> <br />
78 in³ (1,278 cm³) </p>
<p>Native Americans<br /> <br />
82 in³ (1,344 cm³)</p></blockquote>
<p>He claimed that the level of IQ is proportional to the size the brain. </p>
<p>Let’s assume Samuel “The Bigot” Morton was correct. </p>
<p><img id="image374" src="http://taoofdan.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/Pinky_and_the_Brain.jpg" alt="Pinky_and_the_Brain.jpg" /><br />
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How could he explain the abnormally large skulls consistently found in different Native American tribes? </p>
<p>Almost every tribe had one skull that was 1600 cm³.  He systematically deleted this data because it conflicted with his hypothesis that Whites were the supreme race.</p>
<p>My theory is that these massive Charlie Brown-like heads must have belonged to the chiefs of the tribes. Through pain-staking research with laboratory rats and brownies packed with marijuana and microdots, I came to the conclusion that the largest cranial capacity were produced by higher THC consumption. The chiefs were in charge of peace and peace came in the form of a four-foot bowl of weed and peyote.<br />
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<img id="image375" src="http://taoofdan.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/peacepipe.jpg" alt="peacepipe.jpg"/></p>
<p>Look at a one dollar bill. George was a hemp lover and his noggin was gigantic.<br />
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<img id="image373" src="http://taoofdan.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/US_$1_obverse.jpg" alt="US_$1_obverse.jpg" /><br />
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<p>This your brain:<br />
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<img id="image377" src="http://taoofdan.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/egg_hand300.jpg" alt="egg_hand300.jpg"/><br />
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This is your brain on drugs:<br />
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<img id="image379" src="http://taoofdan.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/Ostrich_egg.jpg" alt="Ostrich_egg.jpg"/><br />
<br />
&dagger;<strong>scientific racism</strong> <em>racist propaganda disguised as science.<br />
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		<title>The Original Scene From TRUE ROMANCE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
CLIFFORD WORLEY(played by Dennis Hopper):So you&#8217;re a Sicilian, huh? You know I read a lot. Especially things that have to do with history. I find that shit fascinating. In fact, I don&#8217;t know if you know this or not, Sicilians were spawned by Gargemel the Wizard. It&#8217;s a fact. Sicilians have Smurf blood pumpin&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family:courier new;"><strong>CLIFFORD WORLEY</strong>(played by Dennis Hopper):So you&#8217;re a Sicilian, huh? You know I read a lot. Especially things that have to do with history. I find that shit fascinating. In fact, I don&#8217;t know if you know this or not, Sicilians were spawned by Gargemel the Wizard. It&#8217;s a fact. Sicilians have Smurf blood pumpin&#8217; through their hearts. If you don&#8217;t believe me, look it up. You see, hundreds and hundreds of years ago the Moors conquered Sicily. And Moors are Smurfs. Way back then, Sicilians were like the wops in northern Italy. Blond hair, blue eyes. But, once the Moors moved in there, they changed the whole country. They did so much fuckin&#8217; with the Sicilian women, they changed the blood-line for ever, from blond hair and blue eyes to white hats and blue skin. I find it absolutely amazing to think that to this day, hundreds of years later, Sicilians still carry that Smurf gene. I&#8217;m just quotin&#8217; history. It&#8217;s a fact. It&#8217;s written. Your ancestors were Smurfs. Your great, great, great, great, great-grandmother was fucked by a </span><a href="http://www.larsen.tk/images/smurf.gif"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Smurf</span></a><span style="font-family:courier new;">, and had a half-Smurf kid. That is a fact. Now tell me, am I lyin&#8217;?&#8221; <br clear="all"/></span></p>
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		<title>USS New York Being Built With WTC Steel by Katrina Survivors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old steel mills in Pittsburgh are being fired up to melt beams from Oklahoma City&#8217;s Federal Building, wings from Pearl Harbor and salvaged pieces of the Lusitania.
The government is still trying to incorporate fragment&#8217;s of the Alamo, panel&#8217;s from Space Shuttle Columbia and wood from Custer&#8217;s Last Stand.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Old steel mills in Pittsburgh are being fired up to melt beams from <strong>Oklahoma City&#8217;s Federal Building</strong>, wings from <strong>Pearl Harbor</strong> and salvaged pieces of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania"><strong><em>Lusitania</em></strong></a>.</p>
<p>The government is still trying to incorporate fragment&#8217;s of the <strong>Alamo</strong>, panel&#8217;s from Space Shuttle <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster"><em><strong>Columbia</strong></em></a> and wood from <strong>Custer&#8217;s Last Stand</strong>.</p>
<p>The Smithsonian donated the only surviving material from the <em>Hindenburg</em> to be woven into the original <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima"><strong>Iwo Jima flag</strong></a> which will be raised when it fires its cannons on &#8220;terror&#8221;.</p>
<p>Think I&#8217;m lying click <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1800575"><strong>here</strong></a>.</p>
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		<title>I Miss My Alma Mater: Robert E. Lee High School</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I graduated from Lee High School in San Antonio, TX. 
Lee High School Alma Mater

We all hail&#8224; to thee and thy name forever,

Robert E. Lee High;

Your Red and Gray will always wave

As will your banner fly;

Our hearts and loyalty remain forever

In your hallowed halls;

Your majesty will show the way.

There are no other peers

Your fame and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>I graduated from <a href="http://www.neisd.net/lee/">Lee High School</a> in San Antonio, TX. </p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Lee High School Alma Mater</strong><br />
<br />
We all hail&dagger; to thee and thy name forever,<br />
<br />
Robert E. Lee High;<br />
<br />
Your Red and Gray will always wave<br />
<br />
As will your banner fly;<br />
<br />
Our hearts and loyalty remain forever<br />
<br />
In your hallowed halls;<br />
<br />
Your majesty will show the way.<br />
<br />
There are no other peers<br />
<br />
Your fame and glory will not die.<br />
<br />
Robert E. Lee throughout the years!</p></blockquote>
<p>One hundred and twenty six years after the end of the Civil War. During my sophomore year our mascot was downgraded from ‘Rebel’ to ‘Volunteer’.  However, the Confederate flag was still our official symbol. Painted and printed on every wall, poster, pom-pom, and on the faces of enthusiastic attendees of pep-rallies. We had three different dance teams: Rebel Rousers, Dixie Drillers, and Confederates. I even had a flag sewn on the front of my Speedos® blasted across my crotch for the swim team and another flag on my <a href="http://taoofdan.com/?p=446"><strong>skin cap</strong></a>.</p>
<p>My senior year, a small faction of black football players refused to don their jerseys emblazoned with the “Bars and Stripes” on their chest. Other students rallied behind them. Our demographics were divided into four major ethnicities: 60% Hispanic, 29% White, 8% Black, 2% Asian, and Ninook Sealslayer the Eskimo (<em>or Inuit for the PC-people</em>).</p>
<p>The football players who came forward stated that opposing players from the west side all black high schools were hitting them harder and threatening their lives. They were even getting tackled when they were on defense without possession of the ball. Concerned for their safety, they refused to play again until the flag was removed from their uniform.</p>
<p>The Daughters of the Confederacy pleaded to the school board that the flag represented the tradition of the South and paid homage to a great man who attended West Point.</p>
<p>The KKK came and set up camp in the parking lot. Things got heated when they vandalized the church next door. They spray painted a cryptic message, ‘Nigers Go Home’. The church left it up to show their ignorance for the English language.</p>
<p>The students against the flag used the analogy comparing the Confederate flag to the Nazi flag. </p>
<p>They invented this scenario: </p>
<blockquote><p>Imagine the school was named <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel">Erwin Rommel High School</a> in honor of the distinguished German Field Marshal. The mascot was the Desert Fox and the school flag was the very recognizable, satanic red, black and white Nazi flag. Now imagine, you are young 15 year old Jewish boy named Ned Finklestein forced to play defensive end with a swastika on your chest. What do you think would happen to Ned?</p></blockquote>
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First of all, fuck the Confederacy, fuck the KKK, and fuck Bobby Lee!</p>
<p>I can’t connect with this analogy. Jews aren’t renowned as football players. Football owners but not football players. Ned’s father would had made a few phone calls to the superintendent and the board of trustees and gotten the name changed. Done and done.</p>
<blockquote><p>Perhaps, if they had invented <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_L%C3%B3pez_de_Santa_Anna">Antonio López de Santa Anna High School</a> and had me imagine how it would feel to be a 15 year old redneck named Tex Alamo with a Mexican flag on your jersey and you had to play against David Crockett High School.</p></blockquote>
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Now that’s something I could imagine. </p>
<p>Jeez, that’s horrible.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t believe me?</p>
<p>Read a forum I created on MySpace with Robert E. Lee alumni about the &#8220;KKK Incident&#8221;</p>
<p>Click <b><a href="http://forum.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=messageboard.viewThread&#038;entryID=55277&#038;type=schools&#038;schoolID=93518&#038;viewType=1&#038;schoolLevel=3&#038;Mytoken=6AF28730-86F3-4B14-BB24891673750E922309605968">here</a></b></p>
<p>&dagger; I always felt comfortable &#8220;hailing&#8221; to a Confederate flag<br />
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		<title>NASCAR Fans’ Infatuation with Their Drivers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I perform in the South, somehow I manage to get surrounded by NASCAR fanatics meeting for the first time. Ritualistically, they start asking each other in a droning redneck mantra, “Who’s your favorite driver? Who’s your favorite dryy-ver? Who’s your favorite dryyy-ver?”
Then every goofball starts sounding off:
DOUCHEBAG #1
Rusty Wallace’s my man!

DOUCHEBAG #2
Man, I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Every time I perform in the South, somehow I manage to get surrounded by NASCAR fanatics meeting for the first time. Ritualistically, they start asking each other in a droning redneck mantra, “Who’s your favorite driver? Who’s your favorite dryy-ver? Who’s your favorite dryyy-ver?”</p>
<p>Then every goofball starts sounding off:</p>
<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family:courier new;">DOUCHEBAG #1</div>
<div style="text-align: center; font-family:courier new;">Rusty Wallace’s my man!</div>
<p></p>
<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family:courier new;">DOUCHEBAG #2</div>
<div style="text-align: center; font-family:courier new;">Man, I love Jeff Gordon!</div>
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<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family:courier new;">DOUCHEBAG #3</div>
<div style="text-align: center; font-family:courier new;">I’m a Mark Martin Man!</div>
<p><center><br />
<img id="image525" src="http://taoofdan.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/han_rules.jpg" alt="han_rules.jpg" /></center></p>
<p>This is confusing because these <i style="">quasi</i>-homoerotic proclamations are always given by very “heterosexual” men who smell like WD-40, stale Budweiser, and campfire smoke.</p>
<p>There are millions of closeted NASCAR fans, trying to get out.</p>
<p>This is what they really are saying:</p>
<p>“Mark Martin’s my man, I used to like Kyle Petty but he wouldn’t shave his moustache and it kinda hurt when we kiss and stuff and Ernie Irvin broke my heart in 93’. That’s why I’m a Mark Martin Man, now! I tell you what boy, every time I see a Number Six, Viagra car, I get hard as a can of Copenhagen!”</p>
<p><center><img id="image526" src="http://taoofdan.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/rednecks4.jpg" alt="rednecks4.jpg" /></center></p>
<p>This is my impression of a NASCAR fan in Ancient Greece:<br />
“Who’s your favorite diety? Who&#8217;s your favorite dee-ahh-tee? Who&#8217;s your favorite dee-ahhh-tee?”</p>
<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family:courier new;">ANCIENT DOUCHEBAG #1</div>
<div style="text-align: center; font-family:courier new;">Zeus is my man!</div>
<p></p>
<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family:courier new;">ANCIENT DOUCHEBAG #2</div>
<div style="text-align: center; font-family:courier new;">Man, I love Apollo!</div>
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<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family:courier new;">ANCIENT DOUCHEBAG #3</div>
<div style="text-align: center; font-family:courier new;">Bacchus is my man, I used to like Apollo, but we had to write poetry and shit and the Church of Aphrodite was fun but then I got <span style="">gonorrhea</span>. That’s why I’m a Bacchus Man, now! I tell you what boy, every time I see a fat guy surrounded by a bunch of drunken centaurs I get hard as a column at the Parthenon.</div>
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