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tom payne

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  • ackymacky

    [Read the article: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?]
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    Nice straw man, thimblewit. A plain meaning of what I said was clearly that those recreational drugs that are now illegal were legal. Of course alcohol is a drug, a dangerous addicting one. You must need to practice typing to take that long to make a point that dull. Time for your suppository. Nighty night, moron. Shorter than maroon, and more to the issue. Woodstock. Jeez. How outdated a reference can you dredge up? The sixties were over before that rainsoaked dopefest ever took place. Monterey Pop was the high water mark. I was there.

  • billcrap

    [Read the article: A look at exit polls from the Mississippi Democratic primary]
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    Another Bigot for Hillary. They should teach you more veiled references to race, like "states' rights" or "reverse racism". You're so blunt you do your cause a disservice. Another word for blunt is dull. that too. love heywood

  • droogy plops a greasy steamer

    [Read the article: Who would the GOP rather face?]
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    What a remarkable vocabulary you possess, oh droogster devine. How many anal and fecal references can you stuff into one post? Your postulate, your rhetorical suppository, is that all the super delegatees will vote for Hillary and save the day. You do start your drinking early in droogyville, don't you? Bottoms up. Grab your ankles. Feel the surge. love heywood

  • achy breaky fart

    [Read the article: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?]
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    You've lost the thread, son. The whores that were gettin Spitzered were hardly hardship cases. They were high paid, high end "sex workers". Of course desperate times call for desperate measures, in which a father steals bread for his children, or a woman does the deed for a hundred bucks to make the rent. Not laudable, but understandable. Don't project whatever precarious circumstance life has foisted on you to justify what the Governor did, or what those women who did it with him did. He was a pubic, uh, public figure. Now he's not. Prostitution is evil, period. But there are far worse things than hump-a-buck. I'll bet even you can name some. Give it a try.

  • Piece Core

    [Read the article: Who would the GOP rather face?]
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    Hey, give the Droogster some slack. He saved the world, or tried, and now he's old and pissed off. How those correlate escapes me, but so does much of what excrete from ol' droogy. Just stay upwind.

  • Daughters

    [Read the article: Quote of the day]
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    Spitzer's teenaged daughter will pay the highest long-term price for their father's betrayal. It's not that his wife wasn't betrayed, it's that girls/young women at that age are particularly vulnerable. they needed a father; they got a john. What a schmuck.

  • Poor Shawn

    [Read the article: Hillary's race against time]
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    Meds wearing off? The support my entire extended family has for Obama is dependent on nothing other than what the man has said and done. We're not media dupes. We're not sexist pigs. That would be a tough one for my wife, mother, two daughters, three aunts, et al. Jeez. Grow up. Look at the numbers. The approach to Florida and Michigan tells me all I need to know about Hillary's ethics. Utter bulspitzer.

  • more bullschitzer

    [Read the article: Hillary's race against time]
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    Obama's florida ads were on national cable channels and not targeted at the state at all. Know of a way of deleting cable content by state? Of course not. Hillary was the only name on the ballot in Michigan. all the other candidates had the sense of fairness to have their names removed. And she wants the delegates seated, and counted, based on those bogus erection results. That is so patently anti-democratic it makes Ferraro's tired tirades sound almost reasonable. The Clinton campaign assumed victory; they have proceeded to squander her double digit national leads, and are now firmly, and probably irretrievably, entrenched in a clear, solid second place. Out of two. Or last, if you'd prefer. If you want to insult an entire family, some former republikans, some independents, and some Democrats, in several states, that all support Obama, get out a lubricant of your choice and knock yourself out. We read books. We peruse website. We know some history. For the umpteenth time, we'll all vote Democratic in the fall, come what may. but no funds will be forthcoming for a woman who has comported herself as she has, and has done the wink and nudge when one of her surrogates- notably her husband, who ought to know better- goes off the reservation. Her Platte River resume doesn't impress any of us. foreign policy experience is not travel. She was duped into the Iraq vote that you all find so terribly inconvenient; that she was not alone among "Democrats" like Joe "the senator from Tel Aviv" Lieberthing doesn't get her off the hook. She wants her vote back. Cry my a river. Tell that to the two million Iraqi refugees, or the half million dead Iraqis, or the 4000 dead Americans, or the 40+ thousand maimed Americans. She was complicit. You can rewrite history, but you usually have to wait a generation or so. Live people with memories won't buy that bag of ripe bullspitzer. kisses, tommy

  • Another Clinton Thread?

    [Read the article: The bowel movement]
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    Oh. That kind of movement. sorry. As far as John being denigrated, try Tom: uncle tom, peeping tom, tom turkey, tom the pipers son and pig thief. We never call it the john- loo, water closet, dumpatorium... there are many options. Don't lose hope. And who is Hope when she's home?

  • salt'ncrappy

    [Read the article: John McCain runs for George Bush's third term]
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    You must be in the upper one percent that's actually made money in the past seven disastrous years. bush is a war criminal, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and million of refugees. He's put the whole fuggin' war on a credit card. He's not a conservative; he's a fascist. McLame has had his nose up Bush's ass since South Carolina in 2000. He's a lobbyist's wet dream, a belligerent jerk, a serial adulterer, and a not terribly effective liar. Other than that, he's fine. Sober up. Read some history. Get help.