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One thing that even the dim bulbs in the media should understand by now is that there is in fact a class war going on, and it is the rich and powerful who are waging it. Anyone who does anything that empowers the little people or that threatens the wealth and power of the plutocracy must be destroyed.

Welcome to human history, JC. Twas ever thus.

After reporting that some Muslims in Indonesia are acting barbarically, Sullivan's minion clutches his US flag pillow and dreamily sighs:

What a blessing it is to live in a country where sectarian violence is unthinkable.

Ahem...

• California mosque vandalized, Ground Zero mentioned
• Springfield mosque vandalized
• South Carolina mosque vandalized with bacon
• O.C. Mosque Vandalized With Spray Painted Threats
• Hudson mosque vandalized
• Ground Zero Controversy Fueled Attacks on Texas Mosque
• South St. Louis mosque vandalized

Those are all from the very first page of Google results for "mosque vandalized".

The Consumerist:

A pregnant woman in Colorado went to her local Safeway pharmacy to have her antibiotic prescription filled. But the medicine she ended up receiving was Methotrexate, a drug used in the treatment of cancer, but which can also be used for medical termination of pregnancy.

The woman, six-weeks pregnant with her first child, took some of the medicine under the assumption that it was the correct drug. But then she began feeling nauseous.

"I came back and I looked at the bottle and it wasn't my name," she said. "My doctor immediately told me to try and make myself vomit to see if I could get the medicine to come back up."

She immediately went to the hospital where she was given charcoal to absorb the Methotrexate, which had been intended for another Safeway customer with the same last name and a similar first name.

Screw up the lyrics to the national anthem, during the Super Bowl? Blech.

Additionally: Top 10 worst National Anthem renditions ever (congrat's Christine!)

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If you ever find yourself in an argument with the North Carolina Department of Transportation, be very careful you don't argue your points too well:

Cox and his North Raleigh neighbors are lobbying city and state officials to add traffic signals at two intersections as part of a planned widening of Falls of Neuse Road.

After an engineering consultant hired by the city said that the signals were not needed, Cox and the North Raleigh Coalition of Homeowners' Associations responded with a sophisticated analysis of their own.

The eight-page document with maps, diagrams and traffic projections was offered to buttress their contention that signals will be needed at the Falls of Neuse at Coolmore Drive intersection and where the road meets Tabriz Point / Lake Villa Way.

It did not persuade Kevin Lacy, chief traffic engineer for the state DOT, to change his mind about the project. Instead, Lacy called on a state licensing agency, the N.C. Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, to investigate Cox.

Cox says Lacy is trying to squelch dissent.

"All we ever tried to do was express our view about this," said Cox, a computer scientist. "We never expected something like this. We think it's wrong. We're just trying to make our neighborhood safe."

Lacy said his complaint "was not an accusation" against Cox.

"I'm not trying to hush him up," Lacy said.

Cox has not been accused of claiming that he is an engineer. But Lacy says he filed the complaint because the report "appears to be engineering-level work" by someone who is not licensed as a professional engineer.

Behold! Our national discourse!

Michelle Obama¹: We can't wait for the 2012 Dem convention! We're gonna to go to Charlotte and have some good BBQ! We love North Carolina! Yay!

The Charlotte Observer²: No, there's no good BBQ here. My favorite place is in Lexington, NC - an hour north. Charlotte BBQ sucks!

Politico³: I smell a scaaannndallll!

Conservatives⁴: This proves, YET AGAIN, that the Obamas don't know anything about this country because they hate Hate HATE HATE America!

Full length version at MediaMatters.

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