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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Miss Upton's response that she didn't hear the question seems reasonable. Having not heard the question, she decided to throw in all of the appropriate beauty pageant answer buzzwords: "Education. Iraq. South Africa. Our Children. Our Future."
The only one she was missing was "9/11." And "world peace."
It reminds me of that scene in Miss Congeniality (2000) with Sandra's Bullock's character Gracie Hart as a pageant contestant. Everyone else asked this question has answered the same way...
Stan Fields: What is the one most important thing our society needs?Gracie Hart: That would be... harsher punishment for parole violators, Stan.
[crowd is silent]
Gracie Hart: And world peace!
[crowd cheers ecstatically]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212346/quotes
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
