Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Have you not seen pictures of their rallies?” a friend back home asked me. I have; they’re absurd. Like any gathering of the politically discontent, the movement has its share of loonies, guys in tar-and-feather just as happy smearing Obama as handing out Oswald conspiracy pamphlets. But the Tea Party still isn’t just some barmy half-brother of the GOP. Genuine Tea Partiers find much to blame with both major parties; beneath the noise, there’s a serious desire to re-examine the nation?...
This Sunday, I will be participating in one of the most absurd sporting events known to mankind...
...neither of these are what make CRASH-Bs such an absolutely absurd event. What’s really unfathomable about CRASH-Bs is the low entry barrier. You don’t have to be Olympic or National team caliber. You don’t have to be a college star. In fact, you don’t have to be any kind of great athlete...
This, as we all know, is absurd, something you would never see in more mainstream sports...
...Frank Hytten, the CEO of the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC), dismisses conclusions that the ACPP is to blame as absurd. "The guideline has been in place for more than 20 years, and in that time, the absolute first principle has always been child safety," he says. Hytten faults inadequate support and training for child-protection staff as the problem, not the concept itself. "You have the least experienced staff on the front line, and they are often overwhelmed by the complexity and highly charged emotional situations in which they have to work; taking a child...