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Gordon Wagner

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  • No. No. No. No. No.

    [Read the article: Hillary is us]
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    In January 2001, before her husband had even vacated the White House, Hillary Rodham Clinton was improbably sworn in as the junior senator from New York, a state in which she had resided for one year

    That's carpetbagging. Whom is her constituency in NY, btw? Dual-citizenship types?

    Hil is a DINO: Democrat In Name Only. You know, like Joe Lieberman.

    Then there is the fact that Clinton has refused to condemn George Bush and the war in Iraq. She voted for the war; she voted for the Patriot Act, a bill that stripped away the very civil liberties she was so keen to protect as a law school student. She resists the idea of designing a timetable for troop withdrawal.

    Getting it yet? Is there some broad stripe of take-your-medicine thinking, here? Where HAVE the Democrats been since 9/11/01? Better, where were the Democrats after Fat Tony and The Supremes APPOINTED Dubya President..?! Where were they after the "statistically impossible" 'victory' for Dubya in 2004? What issue needs to arise before we can detect a freaking PULSE from the Democrats..?!

    Hillary Clinton? No. NO. NO.

    I'd sooner vote for Satan than Hillary Clinton -- I feel Satan has far more integrity.

    Did this article need to fill four web pages? Don't thin your whitewash so much.

  • Apples and Israelis

    [Read the article: Abramoff's "rock star"]
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    Rostenkowski

    Close but no kreplach. Abramoff and Mehlman were essentially agents of a foreign government. It will, as during Iran-Contra, go unnamed. Can you take a deep breath and step back far enough to gaze at the whole web of corruption in one glance? When does that AIPAC spying trial begin? No wonder Olmert is wild to spur the US into raping Iran -- we need a good distraction.

  • This is sooooo 1971...

    [Read the article: Feminism vs. femininity]
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    Dichotomy

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    A dichotomy is any splitting of a whole into exactly two non-overlapping parts.

    In other words, it is a mutually exclusive bipartition of elements. i.e. nothing can belong simultaneously to both parts, and everything must belong to one part or the other. They are often contrasting and spoken of as "opposites." The term comes from dichotomos (divided): dich- ([in] two) temnein (to cut).

  • Shoot down every DINO that appears on the radar.

    [Read the article: Lieberman's Republican problem]
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    Joe Lieberman (the Senator from Tel Aviv) is clearly #1 on that list -- DINO: Democrat In Name Only.

    It was pathetic that Lamont was trying to out-Zionist Joe by proclaiming his allegiance to Israel -- which, I believe, is a foreign country. Any pol that can't comprehend that fact ought to be tossed out on their ear. America first. Period. Israel? A foreign country, not our business -- STAND UP and disown the "fourth branch of government" that appears to have an unnatural and unsavory hold on US politics.

    Was that not politically correct?

  • The Chinese visited Mexico long ago

    [Read the article: Globalization and the blue agave]
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    http://www.1421.tv/pages/evidence/content.asp?EvidenceID=27

    You would also do well to find a book called "Pale Ink" which documents early Chinese exploration of what we call the New World.

  • Any real news today?

    [Read the article: iPod: I love you, you're perfect, now change]
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    I like my iPod. I like all my Apple products. Good industrial design is a true joy to live with.

    I'd like to see Farhad Manjoo sent to Iraq to do some reporting, talk to the folks on the street, find out what's really happening over there. You understand what I'm saying.

  • Pull the ripcord

    [Read the article: My mom is mentally ill and it's tearing the family apart]
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    Change the locks, change your phone number, do whatever you need to do to isolate the mental patient from your life. If you found yourself with a piece of shit car you would get rid of it, correct? Tough life. Defective people = worth removing.

    It's YOUR life. Take care of yourself. If you're dainty, you die.

  • E-Voting machine were designed to rig elections

    [Read the article: "Hacking Democracy"]
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    From day one, from the beginning. Believe it.

  • A wild and crazy guy..?

    [Read the article: "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation"]
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    Didn't Steve Martin do this character about thirty years ago..?

  • Why not jump in the water to save a drowning person..?

    [Read the article: My mom is mentally ill and it's tearing the family apart]
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    Because they'll try and climb on your head and drown YOU as you try and save them.

    When my ex was hospitalized initially the month she was away was a profound but uncomfortable revelation: life is infinitely better without her. Once we rolled around to the point in time she began to perceive us as a threat to her (go figure) I was only too happy to see her move out.

    Ten years in that whirlpool was more than enough.

    It takes a lot of time

    to push away the nonsense

    Take my compassion -- push it as far as it goes

    My interest level's dropping, my interest level is dropping

    I've heard all I want to, I don't want to hear any more

  • Quote that seems to fit

    [Read the article: "Jesus didn't smoke no weeds!"]
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    "LSD is a chemical which causes psychotic behavior in people that don't use it."

    I forget the exact source, but it does seem to fit this post-9/11-moral-high-ground-Wal-Mart-rent-a-cop-because-I-said-so thread.

    A weed? Illegal? That is absurd.

  • If you have to ask

    [Read the article: Is lunch a date?]
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    We'll see you back here in about a month asking if oral sex is really cheating, k..?

  • Clarification

    [Read the article: Fox: Just "a standard election"]
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    When a Republican is voted out of office, do they report directly to prison..?

  • Eric and Dylan's greatest hits

    [Read the article: The video game bullies]
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    You remember that they were both Jewish, yes? And that one of the Trench Coat Mafia's fathers was an FBI agent... oh, but right, right. We need to ban video games. They're evil. Obviously. We don't need to think, we need to act, particularly when the camera is upon us, mais oui..?

  • Declare Joe an agent of a foreign power

    [Read the article: Lieberman won't rule out switching parties]
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    And throw him the fuck out of the country. There's a seat in the Knesset waiting for you, Joe, waiting for you IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY. America first. Israel not at all.

  • Don't get married. Ever.

    [Read the article: I want my fiancée's exes to die violent, painful deaths]
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    Call off the marriage. If you're immature/unhappy about her exes and she knows it but isn't changing her tack at all regarding them, pull the fucking ripcord. You don't have to eat all of an apple to know that it's bad. Get the fuck out of the relationship. I hear that text messaging is ideal for breaking up with someone.

    Personally I'd wait until she's menstruating and you're certain that she's not bearing any little fuckhead sperm-egg combos you may have helped whip up...

    Stay single. Forever.