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  • She ate my kitten

    [Read the article: John McCain's female card]
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    I sure miss Sparky...

  • Ouch!

    [Read the article: The House votes for a bailout]
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    They could have used some lubricant...

  • RE: Is this law even legal?

    [Read the article: The end of the Reagan revolution]
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    @DrEast

    Congress had sent a Mental Health Parity bill to the Senate which had not picked it up. They just copied the bailout congress scuttled on Monday onto that and added the pork in and...that's how this bill became a law (and why our assholes hurt right now).

  • Is this billeven legal?

    [Read the article: The end of the Reagan revolution]
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    @DrEast

    Wouldn't have to be.

    Let's say your the Congress and you really want to change our national symbol from the Bald Eagle to, let us say, a lamb. You send me (the Senate) a bill proposing that.

    I'm aware of how keenly you want this to happen, but you have denied my previous legislative attempt to make it legal to relieve little old ladies of their pocketbooks (a program I need money for the administrative costs of such a program).

    It's just tit-for-tat (or tits-up for tat, if you will), but Reid's move did have a legally bogus odor to it.

  • We've maintained the constitution for the past eight years

    [Read the article: The end of the Reagan revolution]
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    for Shrub to wipe his ass on

  • @El Cid

    [Read the article: John McCain's unprecedentedly ugly speech today]
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    Nice analogs...

  • @El Cid

    [Read the article: John McCain's unprecedentedly ugly speech today]
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    I couldn't help myself:

    "...Increasingly quite frothy, even by the standards of jackals with end-stage rabies."

  • Barfing Babies

    [Read the article: Another day, another radical Fed plan]
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    ...so we all get to be like the baby on the commercial who indulges in trading, then pukes...regardless of whether or not we choose to do so...

  • Non-Verbal Aspects of Debate

    [Read the article: McCain-Obama, Debate 2]
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    "I’d be curious what Salon readers think about how the debate will play out visually."

    Here is something from Slate:

    http://www.slate.com/id/2201505/

    "McCain's age and war injures, which make him look vulnerable, will put him at a disadvantage in the Nashville setting. McCain makes a step look like a lurch, a smile look like a grimace. Any attempt to ape Clinton by entering Obama's space for political effect will only make McCain look doddering. But if he simply stands there, the supple, feline Obama will upstage him with his vitality, even when standing still.

    A robot just can't dance with a cat. "

    Love that last line...

  • Perhaps What the Format Needs

    [Read the article: McCain-Obama, Debate 2]
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    Is to have electrodes clamped to their scrotums (if McCain's can be found). That way, anytime one of them is disingenuous or otherwise opts against substantive commentary, Brokaw can just shock the piss out of them...

    Or a cage match!

  • Deported

    [Read the article: Jerome Corsi arrested in Africa]
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    He's at Jomo Kenyatta waiting for a plane already, so they couldn't have done much to him.

  • And of Course...

    [Read the article: The Palins' un-American activities]
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    there is that rumour about the Palins having the full backing of the Rigelian Horde. Just sayin'

  • NV ACORN raided

    [Read the article: The Palins' un-American activities]
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    Off topic, but interesting wire:

    Oskar Garcia,AP:

    "Oct 7th, 2008 | LAS VEGAS -- Nevada state authorities are raiding the Las Vegas headquarters of an organization that works to get low-income people to vote.

    A Nevada secretary of state's office spokesman said Tuesday that investigators are looking for evidence of voter fraud at the office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.

    No one was at the ACORN office when state agents arrived with a search warrant and began carting records and documents away.

    Secretary of State spokesman Bob Walsh says ACORN is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with false and duplicate names.

    The raid comes two months after state and federal authorities formed a task force to pursue election-fraud allegations in Nevada."

    http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/2008/10/07/D93LPR783_voter_fraud_probe/index.html

    When they came for the walnuts, I did nothing, because I was not a walnut...

  • @ BobbyG

    [Read the article: The Palins' un-American activities]
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    Yeah, I think that's it too. Nice brownshirt tactic there.

  • @Scorpio69er

    [Read the article: Krugman: "We are all Brazilians now"]
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    Great, we all have to learn Portuguese.

    I think your question translates this way:

    "Seus netos trabalham para uma râ preguiçosa para baixo pelas docas que empilham pneus."

    But I just started studying the language an hour ago...

  • Re: Debate Rules

    [Read the article: Prelude to the debate: Dow falls 508]
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    I will probably be passed out on potato vodka before it even starts, but I will be drinking in my dreams...

  • Mmm...

    [Read the article: McCain has his own unsavory links]
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    'gotta love the smell of Negroponte in the morning.

  • Big Ol' Naturals

    [Read the article: The GOP goes back to its ugly roots]
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    is what I hope Barack and Michelle wear once they are ensconced in the white house. This would help to quicken the right wing bastards choking on their own bile. And I mean Angela Davis, Pam Grier/Foxy Brown up in their Kool-Aid BIG ol' naturals...

    Henceforth, I only wear daishikis...

  • Translation Abilities

    [Read the article: Krugman: "We are all Brazilians now"]
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    Um...well, I might have got that wrong, btw. I'm sure there was nothing in the original translation request about tires or frogs.

    But hey, they've got over 10,000 fucking intransitive verbs! And not a single word for "doggone".

  • @flyboysdaughter

    [Read the article: The GOP goes back to its ugly roots]
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    Note: Hillary lost.

    While it might be an interesting pursuit to research "30 years" of what Obama's been up to...how interesting can his twenties have been? We all had our twenties - questioning, listless, uninteresting second decades. Nothing we did in our twenties is germane to our 30s or 40s...this is the effect of time on the maturation process.

  • RE:Very gratifying to witness the crowds awaiting Sarah's motorcade...

    [Read the article: The GOP goes back to its ugly roots]
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    Let's hope someone in the crowd has ordinance...

  • How it Feels

    [Read the article: The GOP goes back to its ugly roots]
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    Perhaps we should all listen to a little bit of Nina Simone tonight to put it all in perspektiv...

  • There is Not Enough

    [Read the article: This town hall didn't help John McCain]
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    Potato Vodka in the world...

  • Investment Vehicle Question

    [Read the article: Dow disaster -- down nearly 700 points]
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    So, after I dig the holes in the back yard, I'm wondering if I should use pickle, mayonnaise or peanut-butter jars to bury what little cashh is left, or is it best to use a diversified approach and use all three?

  • @DrEast

    [Read the article: Dow disaster -- down nearly 700 points]
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    Thank goodness I'm in the PNW where we've still got trees and squirrels for fuel and pie...I'm gonna' keep an eye on my neighbor's potbellied pork-belly futures too...

    I wonder what would happen if we closed all our markets, gathered the CEOs/CFO's and regulators and pols together in one place, and set them to the task of figuring out (given a time-frame within which to do it) where all the money and debt is/isn't, then settled on a plan for starting things back up at a realistic point. Then once they had a plan, explain it to the nation and hold a national referendum on either letting them follow through with the plan or introducing them to old Mr. Plank?

  • @senorplaid

    [Read the article: Dow disaster -- down nearly 700 points]
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    Had to sell the matress to send little Vurlene to waitressin' school...

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