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Gordon Wagner

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  • Monotheism is a control device

    [Read the article: Mike Huckabee's leap of faith]
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    GOD TOLD ME YOU NEED TO ACT THIS WAY AND DO THIS AND THIS AND NOT THAT ***OR ELSE HE WILL DAMN YOU FORVER***.

    Well, isn't THAT dandy! The downside is that I personally don't buy a f*cking word of it. Further, anyone who relies on an invisible deity in the sky is insane in my book.

    "Huckabee"? What kind of inbred cowf*cker name is that? I want nothing to do with "Huckabee" or the other idiot Mormon (second "m" silent btw) or the shit-fake Thompson character.

    Anybody addressing any solid issues and demonstrating more than a dime's worth of difference from the other suits? Anybody not of The War Party? Hmm... let me think...

  • A Jewish President?

    [Read the article: Michael Bloomberg: Trans-partisan savior]
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    Is Israel the fifty-first state? Some kind of "sister" nation? No? Where, precisely, would President Bloomberg's allegiance reside?

    Nothing doing. We already have a nearly full field of candidates who fall over themselves swearing fealty to Israel, which, the last time I checked, is a FOREIGN COUNTRY.

    It's splendid that 2% of the population has enough money (that "mania for gold which Cicero mentioned) to sway politics. Good for them. Capitalism at its finest. But the President of the United States ought to put this country first, second and third. Which eliminates virtually all of the candidates running as far as I'm concerned.

  • Did you know that Iowa Caucus results are tallied by an Israeli intelligence firm?

    [Read the article: Mike Huckabee's leap of faith]
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    You can't make shit like this up:

    http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=116052

    Voxeo Corporaton is part of Elron, an Israeli defense intelligence firm. It's at times like this that I don't feel like I'm paranoid at all. There is yet another connection laid bare. All that remains is to add it up. Quacks, webbed feet...

  • He's like a mannequin in a department store window

    [Read the article: Barack Obama's nouvelle vague]
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    Looks good, right? He's just a marketing technique with legs, a groomed, manufactured candidate. A first-term Senator who figured he'd run for President? Aw heck, why not? He's just plain folks, right? Kind of like Gary Hart without the dalliances? But with the coke in his past? NO SUBSTANCE, nothing different. Just another weasel in a suit looking to cash in and hold the reins of power for a while. What won't you believe?

    You know what the difference would be between a third Bush43 term and an Osama/Obama term? Not a damn thing.

    Just because there are six or eight of fifty War Party candidates doesn't mean they're different from one another. It's that "Freedom of Choice" Coke-or-Pepsi decision that Americans like to delude themselves into believing that there is "freedom" in this country. Would you like this War Party candidate? Or would you prefer this War Party candidate? Both are endorsed by AIPAC and will change nothing of substance.

    What won't you believe? Wake UP.

  • ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US

    [Read the article: This Modern World]
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    Billy the K is the kind of Zionist who ought to be compelled to wear a gold star as fair warning to others. Some kind of hideous dwarf crossed with Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars. "Hi, I'm here to promote the interests of a foreign country as your own, don't mind me."

    Newspapers. As relevant as baseball.

  • Bush? A fuck up?

    [Read the article: The Bush legacy: No fat for the lean years]
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    The hell, you say. C'est impossible. He did so well with his Texas businesses... and the Texas Rangers ball club... and, um... ok, well, maybe not, but gosh darn it he saved us from "terrorism," whatever that's being defined as being today...

    Dubya! Pop quiz!! What's worse than a recession? Because that's what's right around the corner. Enjoy the ride, you've earned it!

  • Who's counting the votes?

    [Read the article: Nice day for voting]
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    Apparently it's a single company that handles New Hampshire, Vermont and a couple other dinky-ancient states Down East. But I'm sure those Diebold e-voting machines aren't anywhere near as hack-able as they were in 2004...

  • Who counted the votes?

    [Read the article: McCain: The last man standing in New Hampshire]
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    I understand it's a single private company. McCain? Are you kidding? Brittle old psychopath.

  • What about Diebold?

    [Read the article: Clinton rocks the vote in the Granite State]
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    Who counted the votes? A single shady company using Diebold e-voting machines? Does something smell?

  • LHS Associates and Diebold e-voting machines

    [Read the article: Clinton rocks the vote in the Granite State]
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    http://www.lhsassociates.com/aboutus.html

    "LHS Associates is the [i][b]exclusive[/i][/b] value-added reseller of the Accu-Vote product line in the New England area. We also provide the highest quality in Voting Booths and Election Supplies in the industry. No other election services company can match our unique advantage; we are local."

  • 18% interest?

    [Read the article: The plastic ATM machine]
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    Hey, don't use your credit card, I will personally be only too happy to loan you money at 18%. I'm sure not getting that in the stock market or through CDs. I'll even give you a little plastic card if that will sweeten the deal.

  • Diebold e-voting machines had nothing to do with the polling errors

    [Read the article: And sometimes, people are just wrong]
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    And we're in Iraq to spread peace and freedom.

  • Vote fraud? I see no vote fraud.

    [Read the article: A new democratic spirit]
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    No vote fraud here. Nope. Not a whiff of it. Those darn pollsters were just plain wrong, that's all there is to it.

  • Hostile room

    [Read the article: "We're all fascists now"]
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    "Loving and gentle, all else is treason."

    When you foolishly flock to the latest PC holy war, you have already lost. Certainly a lot of hostile opinion in the letters so far.

    Truth(tm) is an impossibly fragile gossamer entity. You just cannot fasten a handle on a soap bubble and drag it intact to class for show-and-tell.

    I'll take the holy, but spare me the war.

  • It's not about credit

    [Read the article: Ben "tough guy" Bernanke puts up his dukes]
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    It's about solvency. Remember playing musical chairs? Do you want to be the one caught holding billions of dollars of worthless paper?

  • LHS Associates does the vote-counting for all five New England staes

    [Read the article: Was the New Hampshire vote stolen?]
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    http://www.lhsassociates.com/aboutus.html

    John Silvestro's private company IS the "chain of custody" for the NH election. Why is vote-counting done in secret by a private company? Diebold's good name is not enough to provide any degree of faith, and when polls are as wrong as they were in NH in a third-world country, vote fraud is assumed.

    For me, it's a matter of simply not trusting any e-voting scheme, nor trusting any private company to tabulate anything more than the number of days in a week. Bush43 was appointed in 2000 and the Ohio Presidential race was severely compromised in 2004. Why wait until November to begin examining what is by now an established pattern of vote fraud?

    [i]Saxby Chambliss to the white courtesy phone... paging Saxby Chambliss... [/i]

  • Princeton e-voting video

    [Read the article: Was the New Hampshire vote stolen?]
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    Worth reading and watching:

    http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_len_hart_080112_princeton_university.htm

    http://www.fliggo.com/video/FrvJDAUx

  • Repatriation

    [Read the article: Another San Francisco tragedy]
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    Think it over.