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Gordon Wagner

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  • 9/11 wasn't done by "Arab terrorists" and TSA is bullshit.

    [Read the article: Ask the pilot]
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    Airport screenings (Assholes R Us) are a joke. The latest booga-booga involving "liquid explosives" straight from teh faggoty lips of some suit-wearing cocksucker in Washington or London or both -- Ooga! Arab Terrorists(tm) with Liquid Explosives(tm)!!! Probably the same gay Republican fascist who came up with the "Let's roll" fiction.

    Place a quarterstaff in the stewie's area. That ought to be enough to settle down any unruly passenger. Remember that a "weapons free" area is also a SOFT TARGET!

    "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - HL Mencken

  • Why are GOP members so pervy..?

    [Read the article: ABC reporter: Foley's office tried to strike a deal]
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    Take a look at their history... kid fuckers, gay kid fuckers... the more a GOP member pontificates about morality, the more likely it is that they've got some 17-year old male page duct-taped to their bed...

  • Strike the root

    [Read the article: Wimpy Rambos]
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    9/11/01 was allowed to take place and then hugely taken advantage of by Bush et al. Try saying this: "I question the official explanation of 9/11/01." Remember the cover-up..? Bush originally wanted Kissinger to head it up?

    For extra credit, practice saying this: "I want an independent and thorough inquiry into governmental failures on 9/11/01" -- you know, a REAL investigation, and not the bullshit limited quick-peek-ok-let's-forget-about-it cover-up that we got.

    Start there. That will deflate Bush. The rest ought to be easy, or at least self-explanatory. For extra credit, name a foreign country that has effectively infiltrated our federal government for its own ends. Don't bite off more than you can chew.

  • Texas bans Fahrenheit 451 during Banned Book week

    [Read the article: Really bad trip ... to a museum]
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    Texas ought to be allowed to secede. We promise we won't come after you this time. Let us know how things turn out. Bye!

  • This story is a piffle that obscures last week's Enabling Act

    [Read the article: The elephant in the room]
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    Just like Hitler's only scarier. Is one more sick-fuck Republican news? Working to repeal the hideous legislation that our spineless Congress passed last week is a lot more to the point.

  • This story is a non-issue.

    [Read the article: Paging the Ethics Committee]
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    Republican kidfucking has been widely known (if underreported) for some time -- this story is not news. What this story HAS done, however, is to distract people from Bush The Lesser's 2006 Enabling Act, passed by our spineless, worthless Congress last week -- the ONLY issue worth pursuing at this point is REPEALING that legislation, ever before Dubya can sign it into law.

  • Honest to God, guys, this is a NON-ISSUE

    [Read the article: Open the closets on Capitol Hill]
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    Even (especially?) little children know that the GOP is the party of closeted, perverse kid fuckers. THIS STORY IS A DISTRACTION FROM THE DICTATORIAL POWERS DUBYA WAS GRANTED LAST THURSDAY BY OUR WORTHLESS CONGRESS. What the hell -- enjoy your bread and circuses.

  • Where did you go to school..?

    [Read the article: Loving the "freshman 15"]
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    When I entered college I had ***VERY*** little money. Beer or "snacks between classes" were nonexistent. I lost weight! I learned to love (affordable) steamed vegetables. Meat ceased to exist as part of my diet. I can't relate to this story at all.

  • $

    [Read the article: Dude, where's my cross?]
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  • Smoke = fire

    [Read the article: The White House on Abramoff: Whatever it is, we're done with it]
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    >So why don't they go out and find out what's going on with Abramoff? It's clear that they think there is a potential, read guarantee, that there is a cover up.

    Couldn't agree more -- so now there were HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS of contacts between Rove's aide and Abramoff. Isn't that interesting? What's even more interesting would be Abramoff's "Sun Cruz" gambling ships in Florida being frequented by Mohammed Atta prior to 9/11/01.

    It's also interesting that the "mainstream media" hasn't touched that fact. What's the real story between AIPAC, Abramoff and Atta..? You don't have to be a "conspiracy nut" to see that there's something moving under the covers here.

    The official magic-bullet story behind 9/11/01 appears to have hamstrung "mainstream media" something fierce. Time to shake off the cobwebs and do some real investigating. Try and be fearless. Be as brave as you can be.

    It is clearly time to ask ourselves where we are going and why we are in this handbasket.

  • Whom are we kidding..?

    [Read the article: Arnold's comeback]
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    The state's prison system faces an unprecedented crisis. California's sentencing laws have overcrowded the correctional system with 170,000 prisoners, half of whom are nonviolent offenders. The average prison is now about double its capacity, and efforts to ease the problem are estimated to cost $6 billion.

    Thank God we've got all those marihuana users locked up at last! It's for the good of the CHILDREN.

    Disturbing article. Ahnold is a JOKE. No mention of his having met with Ken Lay prior to tossing his (foreign-born) hat into the ring..? He's a retread using a facsimile of the Reagan mold. Right down to the not-found-in-nature hair color.

    Or would you have us believe that this civic-minded Austrian former bodybuilder/action movie star is acting on our behalf, out of the goodness of his heart..?

    What do you keep in a toolbox? Take your time, I'm in no hurry.

  • Nice shot

    [Read the article: The all-time worst president]
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    A single shot from the pearl-handled revolver knocks the gun from the hand of the evil sheriff, knocks his hat off, richochets again and renders his belt buckle useless.

  • "It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the state of Israel."

    [Read the article: The evil of banality]
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    Remember that Powell quote..? About two weeks before he resigned/was fired..? Probably just a coincidence.

    Colin Powell speaks Yiddish, apparently. An interesting factoid.

    He was a Good Soldier(tm)... Anyone recall Powell's peripheral role in the My Lai cover-up? "He deserted the people he was trying to protect"?

    Dig a little bit deeper next time. COUGHhousenegro.

  • Harmless and chatty American gal

    [Read the article: Rachael Ray, my dinner hooker]
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    What's wrong with enthusiasm and bounce? I don't watch her show(s) but I find her MUCH less objectionable than Tony Bourdain, whom I find un-fun and smarmy, or Emeril Lagasse, who's just plain overexposed.

    Seriously, when did pep become a sin? Rachael Ray is cute as a bug. We could do much worse.