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The Most F*cked-Up Christmas Card I've Ever Seen

(posted to Flickr by user nycmstar)

Seriously, this is a real Christmas card, from the U.S. Citizens Committee to Keep and Bear Arms.

Whatever happened to gold, frankincense, and myrrh?!?  I am absolutely appalled.

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UPDATE 3:30 P.M.: This was originally posted at metafilter last year, the comments thread is priceless.

Say Good-Bye to the World's Longest Undefended Border, Part 2: New Anti-Terrorist Machine Guns Adding More Lead to the Great Lakes

The United States Coast Guard have started to patrol the Great Lakes with machine guns mounted on their vessels and are conducting live-ammunition training drills on the U.S. side to prepare officers to combat terrorists flooding (...flooding?!) across the border from Canada by boat...The high-powered drills have stunned environmentalists, boaters and mayors in cities dotting the lakes in both countries who are outraged that the U.S. government would jeopardize the safety of pleasure boaters and commercial fishermen who could stray into the line of fire. Just as infuriating, they say, is the risk of lead exposure to fish and the more than 40 million people who draw drinking water from the Great Lakes. (Philp, Margaret.  "Great lakes machine guns raise ire in Canada: U.S. Coast Guard conducting live-ammunition training drills", The Globe and Mail, September 28th, 2006)

Again, the world's longest undefended border is gone and it's not coming back.
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Say Good-Bye to the World's Longest Undefended Border

Canada and the U.S. used to pride themselves on what was once called "the world's longest undefended border".  Consider that another victim of 9/11.  The Department of Homeland Security announced on Thursday that Boeing, best known for making airplanes, has been picked to install high-tech border sensors along parts of the U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico borders, starting as soon as 8 months from now.  The plan is to eventually have both borders completely covered.

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