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From Gawker: Five Foreign Cities To Move To When The Tea Party Takes Over America

Toronto

Buenos Aires

Stockholm

Vancouver

Paris

H/T: Gawker

From "The 45 Dumbest Signs At The 9/12 Tea Party Rally."

Really? Only 45?

See them all here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-45-dumbest-signs-at-the-912-teabagger-rally

Teabaggin' Tom Tancredo's Race-Baiting Mission Statement.

Tea Party "Patriots" Are Anything But...

The Mess In Texas.

Dumbass Texas Governor Rick Perry--who made noises about Lone Star secession from the United States a few months ago--is yammering now about "seceding" from any potential national health care plan.

One out of every four Texans lacks health insurance. Texas is dead last in the country in the number of uninsured adults and children. It has the most expensive health care markets in the country and the least number of citizens covered.

This redneck reactionary has been messing up Texas for nine years. The last person who should be opining about the imagined dangers of "Obamacare" is a tea party touch-hole like Rick Perry.

Life'll Kill Ya.

Some like it hot.

From ABC News:

Tea has been touted for its potential health benefits for millennia, but new research shows if you drink it too hot, you may end up increasing your risk for esophageal cancer.

Doctors have long wondered whether very hot beverages increase the risk for squamous cell esophageal cancer. Considering the many things people eat and drink, studies have come back mixed on the hot drink and cancer connection.

But in the Golestan Province in Iran, people tend to drink just two beverages: water and very hot tea. The people in the province also tend to have an abnormally high rate of esophageal cancer.

A research team traveled to Golestan and documented the smoking, alcohol use and tea habits of 871 people in the region, 300 of whom were recently diagnosed with esophageal cancer. According to the study published in the British Medical Journal, the researchers found a strong link between the temperature at which people preferred their tea and the likelihood that they developed cancer.

"We have found many factors and the hot tea is one of the factors," said Reza Malekzadeh, professor and director of the Digestive Disease Research Center at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Iran.

"Having a poor social economic status, not eating enough vegetables and fruit and not brushing their teeth are some [risk factors]. One of the main ones is the hot tea," he added.

Here's the study.

Warren Zevon was right:

Life'll kill ya

That's what I said

Life'll kill ya

Then you'll be dead

Life'll find ya

Wherever you go

Requiescat in pace

That's all she wrote

Hysteria Fits Michelle Malkin To A Tea.

HuffPo's Bob Cesca points out that those idiotic "Tea Party" protests that have been hyped by an unholy alliance between redneck radio and the right-wing blogosphere--as personified by self-loathing fascist-in-training Michelle Malkin--are not only poorly-conceived stabs at populist street theater, but also branded in a hilariously inaccurate way.

Read Cesca's history lesson here--preferably over a nice cup of tea.