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News Flash: North Korea Wins Earth Day for Record 45th Year in a Row!

Nick Gillespie | 4.22.2015 6:12 PM

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  1. Libertarian   11 years ago

    Jerry Brown's Utopia!

  2. Episiarch   11 years ago

    Somebody honeydicked them.

    1. Pan Zagloba   11 years ago

      Maybe it was a big dog. Big, orange dog. Big, stripy, orange dog...

    2. BakedPenguin   11 years ago

      They hate us because they ain't us!

      1. Steve G   11 years ago

        anus?

  3. Tman   11 years ago

    So ronrey........

  4. Pro Libertate   11 years ago

    Man, the future. . .it's beautiful. So dark and bleak.

  5. Mongo   11 years ago

    I'm taking yer Mom out for Uranus Day, Nick.

    1. Pan Zagloba   11 years ago

      Mongo no longer pawn in game of Life!

      1. InfiniteRecursion   11 years ago

        +1 for Blazing Saddles ref

    2. Episiarch   11 years ago

      I'm sorry, Mongo, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.

      1. Mongo   11 years ago

        That's also the year that Mongo-pawn-in-game-of-life jokes end too.

        1. Almanian!   11 years ago

          In Soviet Russia, jokes pawn YOU!

        2. Free Society   11 years ago

          Telegram for Mongo, no millenials have seen the movie, it's already over for you.

          1. Pan Zagloba   11 years ago

            no millenials have seen the movie

            If true, this, and nothing else, will be what brings the Republic down 🙁

            1. txgypsy   11 years ago

              was over at a buddies house watching a million ways to die in the west.......great movie,btw...then we watched blazing saddles.....buddies 17 yo daughter spent the whole movie..."oh my god, that's sexist....oh my god, that is raccccciiisssssttt......omgomgomg", me being smartazz that I am..."oh ma gawd,......its called COMEDY"........Mellinials just don't get it......

              1. ElJefe72   11 years ago

                Millennials: The Unfunny Generation

  6. Hyperion   11 years ago

    Yeah!, everyone should be more like North Korea!

    1. John Galt   11 years ago

      The pols in Washington are working harder than I've ever seen them work on anything, ever, to make us just like North Korea.

  7. Paul.   11 years ago

    Ot: progressives in Washington still not happy with Obamacare. I got solicited for donations to make single payer healthcare a reality.

    Given everything else going up the flagpole that's getting vigorously saluted, I expect this will pass easily.

    1. MarkLastname   11 years ago

      What difference, at this point, does it make?

  8. John Galt   11 years ago

    Awesome. Hopefully all the hypocrite Earth First loons will be packing their bags for NK.

    1. Enjoy Every Sandwich   11 years ago

      Especially since every day is Earth Day in North Korea!

  9. The Sego Sago Kid   11 years ago

    I dunno.. I bet it took a lot of energy to build that giant wall around every inch of their border, and uses even to make it bright like that at night. Hell, you can see it from space!

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