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Sexism?
Riiiiight - because I dare to address the fact that modern white feminism has shown its racist underbelly in its response to Obama during the primaries (cf Steinem, the NY chapter of NOW), why I must be teh sexist!
Oh please. Look, you and I can sit here and play Race Card versus Gender Card for all eternity...
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OR, we can cowboy up: If Hillary won the nomination, I would have voted for her over McCain. And I say that as a long-time Obama supporter.
I would not have voted for Grandpa...excuse me, McCain... just because he was a male, or against Hillary just because she was a female. So how sexist does that make me?
(Ageist? Sure. I don't think the leader of the free world should be someone next on the Reaper's dance card.)
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Show me one non-white Clinton PUMA...just one...who's planning to vote for McCain, and I'll humbly & justifiably put my race card down.
Just one....jeb? anyone?
"Is Darth Vader getting a hummer?"
I laughed so hard at this I had to fake a coughing fit to keep my boss from finding out I'm not workin' so hard on that Excel report.
Brilliant!
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I am not a stoner - but Keef, if that Talking Yoda Bong was real or ever came into existence, it would be the coolest movie merchandise item of all recorded time.
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Random FanDumb Menace trivia: which actress quietly played the ringer double for Natalie Portman's Queen Padme in the first prequel?
Anyone know?
The first person to answer correctly gets a licensed Jar-Jar Binks tightey-whitey (or granny panty, for the lasses), equipped with an audio loop that screams, "Mii-sa go dump-dump NOW!!" every time you pull the waist down.
The signature drinks served by those handsome, BVD-clad barista studs would be:
The Banana Soy Smoothie (free tushy pinch of the barrista with 32 oz purchase!)
The Chippen-delicious Mocha Latte (comes with 69 seconds of innuendo involving the barista's application of nonfat whipped cream. Offer not available in Utah)
I meant to say "69 seconds of insinuation".
Gahhhh. Brain fart...sorry.
Okay, fair enough - and you give an interesting take on some of those Hillary primary voters.
Ever since I relocated to Sioux Falls for work, I have missed the last two Minnesota State Fairs in a row. =(
My tummy yearns for cheese curds, bottomless fresh cups of 50-cent milk, and honey-sunflowered ice cream.
My city-slicker eyes burn with desire to see all the Clydesdales, cows...and of course BoarZilla: the 1100-pound hog who rules over all other livestock each year - and whose scrotum is the size of an NBA-regulation basketball.
And yet I can't get time off to make the pilgrimage to St. Paul.
Woe, woe is me...*sob* <8-(
But this story brought to mind the scene where a girl fills the interior of her boyfriend's Porsche ragtop with wet cement from a mixer - because she's been spying on him spending time around a hot little babe...
...Only to find out that said babe was actually his sister, and he wasn't being unfaithful at all.
In the movie, I think he forgives her. Ahhh, Hollywood...=)
Cheers,
Lonewolfy
Psycho Hose Beast Aficionado
Or, if you may humor my inner dork for a second: As Hans Solo replied to Princess Leia, I know.
Maddow certainly is an ELITE thinker, all right...but I wonder if she follows any gymnastics? ;-)
The flipside of the Coulters, O'Reillys et al of the Right is most absolutely, sorely needed, IMHO.
Stewart, Colbert and the Air America gang fight back for the good guys (& gals) in the way that defines us as good: with humor and intelligence instead of "their" bile and barely veiled hate.
Ever had to deal with a bully foaming at the mouth on a grade school playground?
Humor defuses such arsewhorls better than any blow-for-blow fight ever could.
And play that looped theme song softly but mercilessly on my laptop until it drives my seatmate(s) bonkers!!
LA to NY flight 68, here I come!
Cheers,
Grandma Mabel
(The One who always forwards 17 'LOLCats" a day to everyone she knows =)
has a secret crush on Gloria Steinem?
You go, boy!
actually looks somewhat cooler in its interior with the random splashes of pink paint.
Just replace the passenger side door, and the cheatin' driver is good to go!
Because he EITHER --
1.) Chooses a woman OTHER than Clinton, e.g. the qualified Kathleen Sebelius, and all the Hilary PUMAs go medieval in their identity politics and vote for Nader - or, lord help us all, McCain
2.) Chooses Clinton herself - and faces all the same Hilary-hatred as a ticket that Hilary took from the Right as an individual. The polarization then costs Obama the election...especially since the PUMAs really want Hilary to be Prez, not VP.
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Look, there are still huge swathes of this country that might still be uncomfortable voting for a black, progressive president.
A white guy veep from the South or thereabouts will remove a lot of that discomfort - Jim Webb, anyone?