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Gordon Wagner

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 09:28 AM
Original article: The race vs. gender war

Neither candidate represents anything resembling real change

They're both more-of-the-same Democrat-In-Name-Only candidates. This is a prime example of "freedom of choice" being a choice between different brands of soda pop -- it means nothing.

How do you sleep?

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 09:36 AM

Why is Ron Paul's campaign "doomed"? According to whom?

Because the mainstream media wants us to choose from their sock puppets? How about something resembling actual change this time around? Like a return to Constitutional government?

Why is this funny? I am not getting the joke.

Thursday, January 17, 2008 09:04 AM

Keep ignoring Ron Paul and maybe he'll just go away

The Mainstream Media certainly seems to be holding its hands over its ears and going "WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO" really loudly so it can't hear anything.

Romney - 443,139 Total Votes

McCain - 361,546 Total Votes

Huckabee - 207,308 Total Votes

Paul - 84,554 Total Votes

Pardon my French, but FUCK "Mitt" Romney and the brittle psychopath McCain and the inbred twangy Huckabee. Nothing doing. I don't want anything to do with those more-of-the-same idiots.

Can we get a President with some notion of what the Constitution says? Is that asking so much? And how is it possible that EVERY candidate isn't pledging to get the fuck out of Iraq already?? THOSE are the "front-runners"? It sounds like a busload of drunks who have no intention of sobering up making lofty statements about how they're going to sober up. And you may as well include Osama and Bill's wife in the GOP list because they're strictly more of the same.

Saturday, January 19, 2008 07:43 AM
Original article: Who owns the moon?

Any other news this week?

Stolen NH election? Funny business in the Nevada caucus? Economy about to collapse? Even another puff piece on Jennifer Aniston would look good compared to lunar mining rights.

Monday, January 21, 2008 12:04 PM

It would be great

If you could get salon.com to add an "Add to my Netflix Queue" button at the bottom of your reviews...

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 08:42 AM
Original article: Dead party walking

I'm still not getting why Ron Paul is unelectable

Because everyone I talk to is impressed by what he had to say. McCain, Guiliani, Huckabee, the other dolt I can't name -- all cut from the same fascist mold. Do. Not. Want.

And as for the overreported Hillary-Osama WWE event, who cares? They're cut from the same cloth, too, and the only real debate is whether or not there's so much as a dime's worth of difference between them.

Ron Paul represents the promise of reform and liberty. Has the MSM succeeded in hammering home its lie of "He can't win"?

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 09:18 AM

Pelosi and Reid are part of the problem

They've abdicated. I hate them more than I hate Bush43 and Cheney. They're useless fucking liars.

Hillary Clinton? Are you INSANE? She will change NOTHING.

Which of all of the Presidential candidates represents real change that may help return the USA to its Constitutional foundation? Let me think.... hmm... let me think...

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 01:34 PM
Original article: Is Obama getting "testy"?

Uppity?

Testy.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 01:35 PM
Original article: Everybody does it

Speaker Pelosi to the white courtesy phone...

Lying to start a war? Isn't that an impeachable offense..?

Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:15 AM

Brittle, delusional psychopath

When do we invade Viet Nam a second time? WE'VE GOTTA GO BACK AND FINISH THE JOB!

Say, when did the "insurgents" become "Al Qaida"? That was some neat Mainstream Media sleight-of-hand, was it not? Not that calling patriotic citizens of Iraq attempting to repel western invaders deserved to be called "insurgents" in the first place.

Planet Earth to John McCain: You are fucking INSANE, John. Stand down. Call off your candidacy. Join some humanitarian organization and go back to Viet Nam and perform some kind of service to humankind while you attempt to come to terms with your own personal demons. The world is not our enemy. We do not have God on our side.

"Surrender" in Iraq? We are the PROBLEM in Iraq. There are no remaining achievable military objectives in Iraq.

Friday, January 25, 2008 05:58 AM
Original article: A GOP thriller in Florida

Dr. Paul and the Four Stooges

Two mentions of Dr. Paul in the article. Nice. Keep ignoring him and maybe he'll go away. That would appear to be the fervent hope of the mainstream media and the GOP.

McCain is like that school principal in The Simpsons cartoon, brittle and angry, back in Viet Nam, killing gooks for freedom (er, why were we in Viet Nam?). He's the worst of the lot, which is saying something given that Giuliani comes off as some kind of horrible vampire, ready to plunge the nation into an era of Dante-like fire and brimstone. The other twits seem vacuous, willing to say anything to get elected.

Cmon, guys, let's have some Ron Paul coverage. He's raising plenty of money and his base of support is fanatical. We can have a decent President once in a while. Stop being assholes about blacking him out of news coverage. Face some genuine issues for a change.

Friday, January 25, 2008 06:05 AM

How's your Zune, burnunit?

chortle.

Friday, January 25, 2008 08:50 AM
Original article: A GOP thriller in Florida

Lynx

Bought right into the swift-boating, did you? Cut from the same cloth as the "wipe Israel off the map" mistranslation.

Saturday, January 26, 2008 08:35 AM
Original article: Honor killings and Islam

Thank God it wasn't another rant about Israeli sex slavery

I've read too many articles about the sex slave trade in Israel, snaring women from Eastern Europe and holding them as virtual slaves in Israel. It seems like every major news outlet has had its own expose of that widespread disgrace in Israel. It's been so widely covered I'm just burned out on the topic.

It would have been refreshing to hear something negative about Islam, unfortunately I shun web video. Learn to type.

Saturday, January 26, 2008 01:49 PM

If e-voting and optical scan counting can produce

untraceable results, why bother with an audit or a recount? I, too, looked at http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ to see what the current status of the NH recount was.

It just doesn't make sense that polling suddenly became fallible just as e-voting came on the scene. If this had been an election in a third-world nation, the discrepancy between polling numbers and ballots would stand out like the red flag it is.

Monday, January 28, 2008 08:50 AM

322

Nothing happening here, citizen. Move along, move along.

The Knights Templar, the Illuminati... on and on. It's not plausible that there wouldn't be "secret societies" formed through history.

But here's a book that dismisses all of them with a Reaganesque chuckle. Nice.

Monday, January 28, 2008 03:08 PM
Original article: Egypt's Gaza nightmare

Wow, coverage of Gaza in Salon..?

And here I thought the mainstream media blackout of Zionist war crimes was absolute. Shut my mouth and Great Snakes. Wonders never cease.

Oops, sorry, my bad -- they're not WAR CRIMES when Israel perpetrates them. I've gotta get that fact through my thick skull.

Monday, January 28, 2008 03:13 PM
Original article: Punch-drunk Rudy

So without Rudy...

We're down to the Insane Vietnam Vet, Religious Psycho A, Religious Psycho B and Dr. Ron Paul on the GOP side. Hmm. Will common sense prevail?

Monday, January 28, 2008 07:00 PM

Collective punishment is a war crime. That cannot be spun.

>By punishing all Gazans for the indefensible actions of a few

W-a-r c-r-i-m-e.

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