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  • @rockbalboa

    [Read the article: Steele calls Limbaugh "incendiary, ugly"]
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    I agree with you. Your buddy Rush is not the leader of the Republican Party, just the face and the mouth. Too bad for you most people can't tell the difference.

  • This is the best Kasimir Pulaski Day

    [Read the article: Steele apologizes to Limbaugh]
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    ever!

  • The bottom line is that the Republican Party

    [Read the article: Steele apologizes to Limbaugh]
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    has been hijacked by a blowhard who believes that there is no such thing as bad publicity. Let me know how that works out.

  • Translation:

    [Read the article: Steele on Limbaugh: "We are all good"]
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    "I kised his big fat ass so he wouldn't crush me with it."

  • We live in a society where I can walk into a liquor store,

    [Read the article: Everybody must get stoned]
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    buy a bottle of grain alcohol and literally drink myself to death in 2 hrs and it is PERFECTLY LEGAL.

  • Rush is gonna be the gift that

    [Read the article: Quote of the day]
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    keeps on giving. At least until an angry Republican puts a bullet in him for the good of the party.

  • @-- ginsushark

    [Read the article: Everybody must get stoned]
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    Maybe we should start with the social and health effects of tobacco and alcohol? How about the social effects of having the highest prison population in the world and the highest percentage of our population in prison?

  • "Rush Limbaugh runs the Republican Party"

    [Read the article: GOP to Steele: Shape up or ship out]
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    It's a succint phrase that is easy to remember and repeat, ad infinitum, until it becomes as accepted as "the Sun rises in the East."

  • Actually, Limbaugh's ratings are slipping

    [Read the article: The Republicans strike back]
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    so he's doing his best to attract attention to himself. Limbaugh's humping the Republican Party for his own person profit. How Republican of him.

  • It's called

    [Read the article: Army says deployments not linked to suicides]
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    POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

  • @-- matthewbenzor

    [Read the article: Obama has a new fan -- Joe Lieberman]
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    There have only been 14 US Presidents who were Freemasons. The last one was Gerald Ford.

  • I think it's the typical

    [Read the article: Obama has a new fan -- Joe Lieberman]
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    I'm-so-much-smarter-than-the-rest-of-you syndrom so prevalent in poltics.

  • @notorbitboy

    [Read the article: Rumble in the jungle: Limbaugh v. Gingrich]
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    No problemo. Yes, we're making Rush the center of attention and a lot richer, completely at the expense of the Republican Party. Ya see, the plan is to leave Rush wealthy beyond his wildest dreams and the Republican Party in smoldering ashes.

  • Well, we made a bunch of "crazy promises" to the Afghan people

    [Read the article: Afghanistan is worse than you think]
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    back in 2001. The official message from the United States Government was "We will never abandon you again." From an international relations standpoint, abandoning the Afghanees is about as toxic as invading Iraq.

    We are in Afghanistan under a UN mandate and it would be in our best interest to extend that mandate so we can share the burden. For whoever thought that Somolia and Yemen are worse than Afghanistan here's the average life expectancy stats:

    Afghanistan 44 (it was actually 46 when we invaded)

    Somolia 57

    Yemen 69

  • @-- farragut

    [Read the article: Afghanistan is worse than you think]
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    Your president Bush effectively surrendered Afghanistan in October 2001 when he allowed the ISI to fly the Taliban Commanders out of Tora Bora to safetey because he was too cowardly to finish them off. We're in the process of cleaning up the shitty mess Bush created through his egregious incompetence.

  • Advice to Cramer:

    [Read the article: Cramer talks down Stewart feud]
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    It's think THEN speak.

  • @-- justsayin

    [Read the article: The invisible man of "Saturday Night Live"]
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    Mine too, and it still cracks me up. "He only took tips"

  • @FarmerTed

    [Read the article: House passes 90 percent tax on AIG bonuses]
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    Where I work, if the company is not profitable, nobody gets a bonus. In my view, if an unprofitable company gives out bonuses, they are simply screwing their shareholders. Therefore, I firmly believe that nobody at AIG is entitled to a bonus.

  • "This is just a foretaste of what eternity will be like!"

    [Read the article: Finale wrap-up: "Big Love"]
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    A great scene where Barb learns that her sister is responsible for getting her exiled from the LDS Church and the whole thing ends in a wreck of tears. Couldn't help but think the about unhappy truths you may uncover when you reach the White Man's Heaven of Western Religions. Maybe not the eternal bliss you were counting on. BTW "Your 15 minutes are up"

  • Just like many of us,

    [Read the article: AIG exec quits over bonus issue]
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    he gambled and lost. He should take comfort in knowing that there have to be Losers in order for there to be Winners. Life is unfair that way and freedom is, of course, untidy.

  • Good for the Texans!

    [Read the article: Texas prepares for evolution vote with national implications]
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    The next logical step is to close down whatever natural history museums exist in Texas. Hell Yeah! Git-R-Dun!

  • I don't expect Obama to touch the laws on the Federal Level,

    [Read the article: Will growing pot grow our economy, too?]
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    at least during his first term, if at all. This does not mean that he won't tolerate states acting in their own interest as far as drug policy is concerned. I believe the key to this issue is States Rights.

  • I haven't heard or read any statement by

    [Read the article: Will growing pot grow our economy, too?]
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    Obama saying that marijuana is "mbad". He simply said that legalizing mj is not a good *strategy* for economic recovery. And I agree with that statement because *strategy* implies that it is the fundamental principal of your effort.

    Or to put it another way, it is the equivalent of declaring "economic recovery will achieved by legalizing marijuana". Now that still leaves open the potential for using legalized mj as a *tactic* in the overall *strategy* of economic recovery. Baby steps, 1 state at a time.

  • @RD

    [Read the article: Will growing pot grow our economy, too?]
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    Legalizing weed, which I favor %100, will not prevent the Mexican Cartels from warring over the cocaine and heroin trade. My guess is that these are their big-margin items anyway.

  • The Laugh

    [Read the article: Will growing pot grow our economy, too?]
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    Ya know, the possibility exists that Obama's laugh may have been a reaction to the fact that he is asked about legalizing mj 10 times a day.

  • It's about as well though out

    [Read the article: House Republicans offer their own budget, sort of]
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    as their post-invasion plan for Iraq.

  • That's

    [Read the article: House Republicans offer their own budget, sort of]
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    thought, not though.

  • @-- yeahOKsure

    [Read the article: House Republicans offer their own budget, sort of]
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    "What's to think out"

    You Regressives should translate that to Latin and inscribe it on your coat-of-arms.

  • Dear Lord protect me from

    [Read the article: Former McCain staffers angry over Palin prayer remark]
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    your followers.

  • There are 3 organizations in region

    [Read the article: Obama's Afghanistan strategy gets warm reception]
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    who are united in an effort to bring as much destructive force against the civilian population of the US as they can possibly achieve. Al Qeada, Taliban & the ISI. The ISI potentially have access to Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. No amount of "policing" is going to contain this threat.

    This is the price we are pay for having an embicile and a sociopath for leaders for the past 8 years.

  • Rule of Law Redux II

    [Read the article: DOJ asks judge to set aside Stevens' conviction]
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    In this country Ted Stevens is innocent until proven guilty. Same as **YOU**.

  • America's problem is the combination

    [Read the article: GOP senator wants guns allowed on Amtrak]
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    of greed, naricissism and guns. Hunters should be able to transport their firearms in checked luggage on Amtrak, just the same way they do on planes.

  • What can't be disputed is that,

    [Read the article: Who's to blame for killing of police in Pittsburgh?]
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    when it comes to assault weapons, all of these supposed "Law & Order Conservatives" simply spit in the faces of all of the major Police fraternal organizations who wish to see them banned.

  • Pawlenty just doesn't want to wind up on his knees

    [Read the article: Minn. Gov. says "few more months" for Senate resolution]
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    begging for Rush Limbaugh's forgiveness.

  • Slim Pickens has been around Salon

    [Read the article: Obama makes surprise visit to Iraq]
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    a whole 5 months so he really knows alot about the history of "Salonistas".

  • Religions are just cults with

    [Read the article: Is the U.S. a Christian nation?]
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    colleges and football teams.

  • Yup, Taliban, Al Qeada and ISI

    [Read the article: Obama wants $83.4 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan]
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    want nothing more than to deliver a nuclear device, courtesy of Pakistan/ISI, to American soil.

  • I blame Disney for making movies

    [Read the article: Time for pirate story to walk the plank]
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    that glorify piracy. We must act fast for the sake of The Children. Oh, won't SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

  • It's all part of the Republican's new

    [Read the article: It's official: Coleman will appeal]
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    "There's No Such Thing As Bad Publicity" approach. The actions of Coleman and Bauman gaurantee a permanent Republican majority in Minnesota for all time.

  • "Tea Bagging" means something completely different

    [Read the article: "Who wants to pay taxes? WE DO!" ]
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    where I'm from.

  • This is like a dream come true!

    [Read the article: Now Rick Perry really is talking about secession]
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    To quote the Gipper:

    "We begin bombing in 5 minutes"

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