{"id":564,"date":"2009-07-15T21:51:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T03:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=564"},"modified":"2009-07-15T22:33:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T04:33:05","slug":"wednesday-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Weirdness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Atwood documents the slide into tastelessness<\/a> exhibited by advertising for an online game. I remember seeing all of those ads, but I didn’t notice that they were all for the same game.<\/p>\n

Can there be tasty tastelessness? That’s what human-flavored tofu<\/a> would appear to be. What’s the market for that, anyway? Vegetarian zombies?<\/p>\n

Does your cat go after the mice in your (home) office? Get a kitty inbox<\/a> so you can get work done. After all, workplace safety<\/a> is very important.<\/p>\n

I’ve heard that smoking is a filthy habit that costs too much money, but twenty-three quadrillion dollars<\/a>? I guess this is how the Democrats are planning to fund their new healthcare plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Conspiracy theorists ahoy! Because of the lack of documentation<\/a> on President Obama’s background, an Army major fought deployment to Afghanistan on the basis that Obama was not legally the Commander-in-Chief. His orders have now been revoked, and his attorney, Orly Taitz, is claiming<\/a> that because the Army hasn’t<\/em> defended its position in court, it must be unable<\/em> to defend it.<\/p>\n

\n“Do you know what this means?” Taitz asked in a telephone interview with Military.com Tuesday, about an hour after hearing from Maj. Stefan Cook, the officer fighting his deployment to Afghanistan. “It means the Obama administration has blinked. They have no cards to play with. The moment I filed a lawsuit, they didn’t even fight!”<\/p>\n

“Can you imagine what are the consequences? This is disastrous” for the administration, she said. “We’ll have no military. Because anytime any Soldier, any Sailor, any Airman does not want to follow any orders, all he has to do is call an attorney and say ‘I don’t want to follow this order because I question the legitimacy of the commander in chief.’ “<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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