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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:49 PM

ASSIMILATION.....

Chinese Food has been THOROUGHLY ASSIMILATED into American Food Culture in the same way Pizza, Spaghetti, Lasagna, Fritters of ALL countries, Hamburgers, Bagels, Sushi, Piroshiki, Sandwiches of All types, Kim Chee, Pita, French Fries, Tacos, Chicken Soup, and MANY OTHER Ethnic foods! In the same way the different races who enjoyed these ethnic foods have been ASSIMILATED, perhaps not quite as thoroughly as their foods have! Even the most "American" dish of all, apple pie, came from....Merrie Old England!!!!! America is a VAST melting pot of peoples and their "ethnic cuisine," which has been THOROUGHLY ASSIMILATED and "Americanized", EVEN APPLE PIE!!!!! THEREFORE, Chinese Food IS as "American" as apple pie!Why else can one find "Spring Rolls," a Chinese delicacy on the Jack-In-The-Box(tm) Order Out window?

Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:21 PM

A PAINFUL LESSON.....

THIS is PRECISELY WHY such TRANSACTIONS must be PAID in COLD, HARD, UNTRACEABLE COIN(CASH) OF THE REALM! A SMALL STACK OF 100 HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS IS EASILY TRANSPORTABLE IN A COAT POCKET, AND IS FREE FROM SNOOPING POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED BANKS, INVESTIGATING BODIES AND THE LIKE!!!!! IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH!!!!!!! NEVER LEAVE SUCH TRACKS BEHIND!!!!!!

Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:14 PM

SO YOU WANT TO PLAY ROUGH, DO YA? WELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.......

EXCELLENTLY STATED, Glenn Greenwald! Governor Spitzer's case WAS MOST CERTAINLY a G.O.P. DIRTY, UNDERHANDED, VILE, DASTARDLY PLOT to DESCREDIT and HOPEFULLY FORCE Spitzer to RESIGN! WELL, TWO CAN PLAY AT THIS GAME!!!!! I HAVE IN MY POSSESSION A MOST COMPROMISING PHOTO, WHICH IF RELEASED TO THE PRESS, WOULD BRING the G(rotesque) O(pportunistic) P(ederast) fudge-pachyderm repugnicant-rethug-repubs, the white house and ALL of washington D.C. to its KNEES. Bush, Cheney and Rove are CRAPPING in their pants ANTICIPATING my RELEASING this PHOTO. BE WARNED, G.O.P. = R.I.P.!!!!! MORE TO FOLLOW......

Monday, March 10, 2008 05:24 PM
Original article: This Modern World

YEP! THE WAR HAS PAID FOR ITSELF.....

YEP! THE WAR HAS PAID FOR ITSELF IN UNTOLD HUMAN SUFFERING INFLICTED BY AN IN-HUMAN, SOCIOPATHIC, MENDACIOUS, GREEDY, SELF-ABSORBED, COLD, CALCULATING MADMAN AND BOMBASTIC IMBECILE, ASININE MORON, BRAINLESS BABOON, BEADY-EYED DERANGED RETARDED CHIMPANZEE, George Walker Bush, WHO SHOULD BE SHOVED DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS IN A WHEELCHAIR A LA "KISS OF DEATH!" Tommy Udo[aka Richard Widmark] WHERE ARE YOU WHEN WE NEED YOU?

Monday, March 10, 2008 05:17 PM

THESE SEGMENTS ARE TOO SHORT!

Scott, I love your rendition of ATOM AGE VAMPIRE, but the segemnts are much too short! I guess you are busy so we just have to be patient!

Sunday, March 9, 2008 08:46 PM

THE "AMERICAN PRESS" ARE LIKE BARNEY, Bush's LAPDOGS!!!!!

Glenn Greenwald has presented one of the BEST views of EXACTLY WHAT IS WRONG with news coverage in the U.S.A. Jeremy Paxman of the BBC should be REQUIRED VIEWING and STUDY for American reporters on HOW TO CONDUCT A PROBING, RELENTLESS, POLITE YET UNYIELDING ENQUIRY INTO THE OBFUSCATION AND PREVARICATION OF THE SO-CALLED "POWERFUL"! Tim Russert is like LITTLE MISS MUFFET compared to Paxman! THIS IS PRECISELY WHY I NEVER WATCH AMERICAN NEWS, BECAUSE LIKE THAT BUFFOON Tucker Carlson, THE MEALY-MOUTHED CREEPS Richard Wolffe and David Gregory, THE OBSEQUIOUS TOADIES OF Bushland Uber Allies LIKE David Broder, George Will, Victor Davis Hanson, Charles Krauthammer, Bill Kristol, John Fund, Jonah Goldberg, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Bill O'LIE-lly, Rush RIMBugger, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Joe Klein, THESE SO-CALLED "journalists" AND "commentators" NEVER, NEVER, NEVER PROBE THE SECRETIVE DIRTY LITTLE INSIDIOUS MACHINATIONS OF Bushland Uber Allies, BECAUSE THEIR ARE AIDERS AND ABETTERS OF THE CRIMINAL Bush REGIME!!!!! I WOULD LIKE TO SEE Bush, Cheney, ANY HIGH Bushland Uber Allies DARE TO FACE Jeremy Paxman's RELENTLESS QUESTIONS! THEY WON'T BECAUSE THEY KNOW HE WON'T LET UP, HE WON'T GIVE THEM A BREAK OR GO EASY ON THEM, WHICH IS EXACTLY AS IT SHOULD BE!!!!! THAT Bush SEGMENT WITH THE Irish LADY REPORTER SHOWED HOW Bush CAN'T HANDLE EVEN RELATIVELY PROBING AND VERY POLITE QUESTIONING, ALWAYS HAVING TO SAY "Let me finish" BECAUSE HIS RETARDED CHIMPANZEE PEA-BRAIN WONT ALLOW HIM TO THINK FAST ENOUGH TO COVER UP THE STREAM OF LIES EMENATING FROM HIS TWISTED MAW!!!!! HAH!!!!!

Saturday, March 8, 2008 01:36 PM

A DISGUSTING STATE OF AFFAIRS....

Well, Glenn Greenwald, the ONLY REASON I CAN GIVE FOR THIS MISERABLE, COWARDLY CAPITULATION to this CRAZED RETARDED CHIMPANZEE and commander-in-THIEF Bush by the Democrats in both the House and Senate would be to GAIN a FILIBUSTER and DEBATE-PROOF MAJORITY in both the House and Senate, and a VETO-PROOF MAJORITY IN BOTH HOUSES OF THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH!!!!! THIS, HOWEVER, IS A MOST COWARDLY AND ROUND-ABOUT WAY OF ACCOMPLISHING THIS GOAL, AND MY PERSONAL PREFERENCE AS I AM SURE YOURS IS, Glenn, IS TO DIRECTLY CONFRONT Bush, Cheney, Bushland Uber Allies and the white house AND FORCE THEM TO ADMIT THEIR WRONGDOING, ILLEGAL ACTIVITY AND LAWBREAKING AND MAKE THEM LEGALLY PAY FOR THEIR HIGH CRIMES. I AM SURE MOST AMERICANS WOULD SETTLE FOR IMPEACHMENT BUT I PREFER EXECUTION IN THE MOST EXCRUCIATING MANNER POSSIBLE! BUT THE GUTLESS Democrats WANT TO PRESERVE THEIR MAJORITY AND OWN POWER RATHER THAN DOING THE RIGHT THING, i.e., PUNISHING THE CRIMINALS Bush & Cheney AND Bushland Uber Allies FOR THEIR MYRIAD HIGH CRIMES IN ACCORDANCE WITH AMERICAN LAW OF THE LAND!!!!!

Saturday, March 8, 2008 01:26 PM
Original article: The super-bollworm cometh

A MODEST PROPOSAL....

The EASIER approach would be to DEVELOP CARNIVOROUS PLANT LIFE like FANGED HEADS of LETTUCE, CABBAGE, COTTON, TOMATO, BEAN, CORN, WHEAT, RICE, ORANGE, APPLE, FRUIT, ALL FOOD and TEXTILE, HUMAN-USE CROPS SO THEY CAN EAT THOSE CRITTERS LIKE THE BOLLWORM THAT USED TO PREY UPON IT, IN RETURN!!!!! OF COURSE, THERE IS THE PROBLEM OF LOSING HUMAN PICKERS AND HARVESTERS TO THESE VORACIOUS FLORA, BUT HELL, THERE ARE A LOT OF EXPENDABLE MIGRANT WORKERS, Nicht Wahr, right-wing-nut IMMIGRATION OPPOSERS? THOUGH MY PERSONAL PREFERENCE WOULD BE TO MAKE YOU right-wing-nut immigration opposers, ALONG WITH ALL CRIMINALS IN OUR OVERCROWDED PRISONS, TO "WORK" AS PICKERS AND HARVESTERS, i.e., BE EATEN BY THE HUNGRY CROPS! HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!!!!!

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