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Liquid-Plumr has followed up on their winking ad campaign with a calendar. Via Ad Week: Each month features a hunky model-plumber with centerfold stats (May’s guilty pleasure is sticky buns) and a short piece of copy on plumbing care, with the adjectives “thick” and “deep” used ad nauseam. It is, admittedly, a clever distraction from the actual fact that these …

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Via Guns & Ammo: Daniel Defense recently submitted a commercial to FOX to be played during the 2014 NFL Super Bowl XLVIII. Though the video doesn’t showcase one of the company’s popular DDM4 rifles, this paid advertisement spot was rejected by the NFL. The commercial, which focuses on themes of personal protection and fundamental rights, was originally created by Daniel …

The Los Angeles Times reports: A New Jersey-based atheist organization is castigating the work of Pope Francis and others who respond to natural disasters with prayer, Bibles and rosaries. The billboards then encourage people to go to Atheists.org for more information, including a list of secular agencies that American Atheists endorse for disaster relief efforts. The organization accuses religion in …

Wonkette snarks: Liz Cheney has really been in Wyoming since territorial times, because of how she is an immortal bloodsucking monster like Kathy Bates in Coven or William Hurt in Tuck Everlasting. An absence from childhood through 2012 is really just a little weekend out of town for her. Elect her, Wyoming, and she will serve until the Hellmouth under …

While this clip was posted to Cher’s official YouTube channel, it’s essentially an underwear commercial. And it must have filmed in Key West, because the models are wearing Island House shirts in the one brief shot that they have a shirt on. (Tipped by JMG reader Daddy Ray)

Saying that they fear breaking the law on “homosexual propaganda,” Ikea has removed a story about a lesbian couple from the Russian version of its magazine. An IKEA spokeswoman said the move was made in accordance with laws in Russia banning “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations.” The company replaced the article in Russia with a story about a designer living …

“Americans For Prosperity” is an astroturf group invented by the multi-billionaire Koch Brothers.

Told you this was coming. The title of the current ad is “Show Your Joe,” and Kmart includes sexual content during a Christmas hand bell choir performance. The commercial focuses on several men wearing Joe Boxer underwear thrusting in a sexualized way to the tune of Jingle Bells. They start gyrating and shaking themselves instead of the hand bells, intending …

Remember how freaked out One Dozen Moms got about Kmart’s “ship your pants” campaign? I cannot cannot cannot wait for them to get a hold of this one. (Tipped by JMG reader Todd)

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Three more clips are here.

This promo clip is garnering criticism on Facebook. UPDATE: And poof, it’s gone.