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Pretty much everything in Stockholm is pricey and eating Swedish meatballs out is no exception. If you’re hanging out in the Gamla Stan (old quarter), expect to pay about 148 Swedish kroners for traditional Swedish meatballs served with boiled potatoes. And if you’re counting in US dollars or euros, which most of you are, that’s about 16 euros or $25 US dollars. This is an outrageous amount of money for mystery meat served with starch and that price is pretty stock standard in Gamla Stan, with a great exception that we stumbled upon.
We decided to give a cute place called …read more

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Another month has come and gone, and slowly we’re all getting older and crustier. Here’s a look back at some of the highlights from June.
Prescription drugs kill more people than illegal drugs. We also learned that nobody in the state of Florida died from marijuana in 2007.
The fact that nobody died from marijuana in Florida led me to wonder, is it even humanely possible to die from an overdose of weed?
June saw Europe go nuts with Euro Cup fever. So I decided to list 10 things that annoy me about soccer.
John McCain might be old and decrepit now, but …read more

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Last night Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton appeared together at a fund raiser, not for his campaign though, to re-pay her campaign debts. Obama announced that he had personally written a check for $2,300 in honor of Mrs. Clinton’s unsuccessful do whatever the hell it takes to become the most powerful person on the planet run.
You certainly have to question the motives of a person who finances so much of their own money (20 million) for a run at the presidency (also see Mitt Romney). But you know, if you lose, and you championed your campaign as that of working …read more

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Wow, that sure is a delicious looking latte! And it’s not just any old latte either, it’s a French brioche latte, served in a bowl. Why is it served in a bowl? Ask Al Gore, he knows. Perhaps it has something to do with the environment.
Al Gore’s elitist endorsement of Barack Obama last night was huge. If there is one area that Obama needs to solidify, it’s the latte sipping, Prius driving, gay marriage parade, save the whales foundation, vegan hippie elitists. Al Gore gives Barack Obama this much needed boost.
And was there a more fitting place than Detroit, Michigan …read more

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This short clip from CNN crunches the numbers. In a nutshell, if you make less than $112,000 a year, you will get a bigger tax break with a Barack Obama presidency than a John McCain presidency. But if you make over $2.9 million a year, ouch, Obama plans to raise your taxes by $700,000!
So Sirened recommends that readers who make less than $161,000 a year vote for Barack Obama (even at that income level Obama plans to cut taxes by almost as much as McCain). And readers who make over $2.9 million should vote for John McCain since he …read more

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At having any chance to be president, Ron Paul was finished before he got started, but at having loads of chances to be a royal pain in the ass, the Ron Paul campaign lives on! The most recent embarrassment was Ron Paul finishing ahead of McCain in the Montana caucuses, on the final day of the primaries. Romney won Montana and picked up 25 delegates, I’ve said this before, take it to the convention Mitt!
The next Ron Paul thorn in the RNC’s ass event will be a rally on July 12th in Washington D.C., previewed in the above video. …read more

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While these days John McCain looks more like Emperor Palpetine, there was a time (during Shakespeare’s era) that Johnie Mac was big pimpin’-. I’ve talked before about John McCain’s Brazilian sexcapade, when he was a young buck in the Navy, doing what sailors do best on shore leave-getting drunk and hammering home some locals.
What’s been coming up more in the news lately though is McCain’s first wife, Carol McCain. She wasn’t discussed so much during the primaries because McCain’s mother Roberta kept her locked in the nuclear bunker under her home. She was then released when McCain became the presumptive …read more

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Even though Hillary Clinton formally conceded on Saturday and endorsed Barack Obama (and thankfully she finally did something to put her issues, country and party above herself-of course she kinda had to for the future of her political career) the wounds are still far too fresh for many of her supporters. I really can’t blame them for their frustration seeing as how many of them put a lot of hard work and/or had a lot of belief in their candidate. And the race was oh so close and controversial.
So out of this frustration, a website has formed called Ex-Hillary Clinton …read more

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Last night John Stewart wrapped up the historic events of Tuesday: Barack Obama becoming the first African-American nominee for president of the United States, Hillary Clinton getting more votes than anyone in history (according to Clintonian math) and John McCain speaking in New Orleans to a small group of hobos.
At least Hillary has made it known that she will officially concede on Friday, psych, Saturday. Yay, the “long baton death march to the White House” will finally be over-for the democrats. And just 5 more months until the general election, and then an additional month for the Supreme Court …read more

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Before Barack Obama claimed the democratic nomination last night, crabby old John McCain came out to complain about him because he is ageist towards young people. McCain warned old people in New Orleans that if Barack Obama gets elected president he will steal their prescription medications, sell them on the black market and use the money for crack. McCain believes this is “change you can’t believe in.”
What are changes to believe in with a McCain presidency?
-A mandate requiring restaurants to offer their senior menu to both citizens and illegal Panamanians starting at the age of 50.
-Pesky “public school” earmarks will …read more

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