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Gordon Wagner

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  • Uh, Ms. Price..?

    [Read the article: Political displays of affection]
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    Like a dog humping your leg, McCain is just a horny old geezer. His catting around is legendary. Want to bet a week's salary that he favored Palin because she has a) mammary glands b) a vagina?

    It's that simple and that coarse.

  • Osama who?

    [Read the article: John McCain is connecting with voters]
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    Issues are irrelevant. You want a staggering tidal wave of flag-waving bullshit.

    Drill? Yeah, I guess the voters (God bless them) have forgotten the Alaskan Oil Pipeline, paid for, I seem to recall at least in part by the Feds -- when the pipeline was complete, did US oil companies sell oil to US consumers @ the pre-1973-"oil crisis" prices?

    No, they were allowed to charge full OPEC prices.

    You know what Osama ought to do? Demand, WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE, a full investigation of 9/11/01 and a full criminal investigation of Cheney/Bush43's major crimes and misdeeds. He'd also do well to slit the throat of the IRS and of the Federal Reserve. Return the US to the gold standard.

    He'd also do well to address the 761 US military bases sprinkled around the globe.

    Change? OK, let's see it. It had better be big and you had better announce it with a hell of a lot of fanfare. The clock is ticking and your average bonehead Wal-Mart shopper isn't going to be voting for a black Muslim without some really, really compelling reason to do so.

    The Democrats have done what I would have thought impossible: handed the White House to the GOP for another four years, maybe eight. After two terms of Cheney/Bush43, how is this even possible?

    Issues are irrelevant. Sell the sizzle, not the steak. Keep it simple and make it big. By my reckoning there are about three months left until Election Day (Diebold Day would be a better name for it).

    The Black Muslim or the POW/Soccer Mom? Jesus, this is fucked up and sad. Bullshit will triumph yet again.

  • Delectable meeting of caucasian bloodlessness and black life energy

    [Read the article: Letters: Celebration penalties]
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    Consider the dishwater-for-blood white men in suits who own and run the NFL and the black athletes who play the game, albeit concealed beneath helmets and protected with enormous pads.

    It's a cultural thing. Blacks celebrate viscerally. Makes white people uncomfortable.

    I'm focused on football because other sports basically don't matter.

    So the bloodless androids pass another stupid rule. No throat-slashing. No taunting. No being black, essentially. Play your role and get the fuck off the field. It's a wonder they allow that jumping-up-and-down tribal warm up dance all teams seem to now participate in. I swear I saw that in "Zulu" back in the early Sixties. Just add spears.

    OK, dump on me. I realize that wasn't a politically correct thing to have written but I don't really give a fuck about being politically correct.

  • Could it be plain greed?

    [Read the article: WTF? Y have txting costs doubled n 3 yrs?]
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    Nah. C'est impossible.

  • Dude, where's my country..?

    [Read the article: An America-first election -- and Obama benefits]
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    Obama had better dip both oars in the water and start rowing hard. FREE CLUE: The country was highjacked seven years ago by an APPOINTED pResident who at the very least allowed 9/11/01 to take place. Then the rule of law went out the window and we turned into Stalinist Russia. Has Habeas Corpus been fully restored?

    What I'm saying is that there's a target-rich environment and that Obama ought to be hacking away at McSame with an ax.

    But it's not going to happen. Nothing will change. Ever. That's the real underlying message. Pelosi = no change. Obama = no change.

    Might as well relax and enjoy the ride. I think I'll start up an arms company and get in on the pork. Semper Fi, kids.

  • Where's Cheney today?

    [Read the article: Drill, baby, drill]
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    How about a nice speech reminding us all of the key role he played on 9/11/01 orchestrating the attacks with Bush41 by his side? They'd sent Bush43 down to Florida to read to school kids.

    Cheney in Gitmo. What songs would he sing?

  • Whom are we kidding?

    [Read the article: Why this lifelong Republican may vote for Obama]
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    Osama bin Laden died in December of 2001 due to kidney failure. Announcements were run in the appropriate newspapers. US media ignored this.

    Osama bin Laden had NOTHING to do with 9/11/01. But he was a useful boogie man.

    FIND Osama bin Laden? Where's the benefit to Cheney/Bush43 in that, exactly? Emmanuel Goldstein lives! And since he lives, we must be resolute in shredding the remainder of the Constitution and we must continue squeezing boobs @ the airport.

    Did ANYONE ELSE BUT ME read the articles on the British "clear fluid" case being dismissed this past week? Meaning that the insane you-will-obey ban on fluids on airlines should be scrapped at once! Of course, it won't be, because the point is not to keep Horribly Dangerous Fluids off airliners, it's about your OBEYING STUPID RULES WITHOUT QUESTION.

    Did ANYONE ELSE BUT ME read Chris Bollyn's article on the continuing 9/11 litigation and the interesting players involved in that litigation? http://www.bollyn.info/home/index.php

    "The hunt for bin Laden" -- spare me. All of Cheney/Bush43's lies hinge on 9/11/01. An untainted investigation with Cheney and Bush43 testifying UNDER OATH ought to be undertaken.

  • Obama's going to change something?

    [Read the article: "I fear for my country"]
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    What, specifically? People seem to have a lot of hope, but based on just exactly what? Certainly not his FISA flip-flop.

    It doesn't matter how much of an unqualified-for-the-job twink Caribou Barbie is -- Americans are (90%) idiots and they'll love her. And she's got a little Israeli flag in her office! Isn't that cute? Gotta love her.

    The race is over. All the GOP has to do is keep waving those flags (what else do they do, anyway?) and talking about Jesus and morality and those evil Democrats and that fucking liberal media... it's a shoo-in, it's over. The Democrats have fucked it up again.

    A fuckable, photogenic Barbie with the brains of Reagan. We're fucking doomed. She's perfect for America. Empty-headed and sure that Jesus wants us to nuke anyone CNN says is "bad".