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Like most Brits in America, there are many things that I have never been able to wrap my head around: beef jerky, health insurance and, most of all, jam bands. The tie-dyed subculture is huge in the US — so huge that Vermont legends Phish are currently in the midst of a 13-night run at Madison Square Garden (ending Aug. 6). As an avowed punk-rock enthusiast, I like music to feel like a hard, fast punch to the face. So an evening with 18,000 hippies flailing around like demented jellyfish to endless guitar solos is my idea of hell.

Actors may make us laugh or cry. But they need to realize that the only words of theirs that matter are scripted With less than two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office, liberal movie and TV stars were determined to use the 74th annual Golden Globes awards ceremony on Sunday to have the last word. Tens of millions of Americans tune in to show every year for a good time, but this year they were subjected to the ravings of Meryl Streep, a crazed left-wing Hillary Clinton supporter (she spoke at the Democratic National Convention last summer)...

A new book climbing the New York Times Bestseller List warns Americans of a minority of religious fanatics who are hijacking a great religion and working to destroy the United States Constitution and set up a theocracy in America. Nonbelievers will be discriminated against or even summarily killed. Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Muhammad Atta? No, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, and Tim LaHaye. ...

See for example this thread first. To the folks at Montana State-- Those kids are a little bit late From Egypt, you say? And they've "lost their way" ? Let's call them "From Al-Qaeda, with Hate"

Democrats Rip Bush on Terror War, Economy By RON FOURNIER ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE (AP) - Sen. Joe Lieberman accused Howard Dean in a campaign debate Tuesday night of turning his back on Israel, and the Democratic presidential front-runner shot back that he and former President Bill Clinton held the same view on the issue. "It doesn't help...to demagogue this issue," Dean quickly added in the sharpest clash of the young Democratic debate season. Two days before the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Democrats criticized President Bush's handling of the war on terror at the same time they began...