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manos99

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Saturday, April 12, 2008 09:41 PM

I tell ya what would make me bitter

If every time I had to mail a package at the post office, I had to look up at the friendly smiling face of President Medusa staring down at me from a picture frame, while afterwards walking to the newstand, I pick up a paper and read about the American marine corps attempting to suppress Iranian insurgents in Tehran, going now on 8 straight years.

Now THAT would make me BIG TIME bitter!

For now, relax a little.

Saturday, April 12, 2008 09:52 PM

luminesce

If you're trying to be luminescent, you're not trying hard enough.

For now you're just about the dimmest bulb in the box.

Saturday, April 12, 2008 09:54 PM

cythera45

Are you the actual disease or just a symptom?

Saturday, April 12, 2008 09:57 PM

What's wrong lumi?

Don't go looney!

Saturday, April 12, 2008 10:00 PM

cythera45

Do I need to be vaccinated against you?

Saturday, April 12, 2008 10:02 PM

Yo!

KateTex in the HOUSE!

Saturday, April 12, 2008 10:06 PM

john houseplant

My momma always taught me to eat my vegetables, not become one.

Saturday, April 12, 2008 10:10 PM

lolcait has been doing laxative commecials lately.

At least that's the shit I heard.

Saturday, April 12, 2008 10:18 PM

lumi! You're a parody of a parody!

Hillary's insipid inspiration is Barry Goldwater!

Saturday, April 12, 2008 10:23 PM

Tom

Put on the payne!

Saturday, April 12, 2008 10:28 PM

Amen!

I'm all for integrity, and if I could find an ounce of it in Hillary I'd vote for her.

Saturday, April 12, 2008 10:34 PM

Yo! cythera45 & homeboy houseplant

Ain't it thrillin'? I'm illin' like penicillin!

Saturday, April 12, 2008 10:51 PM

frankepi

To be frank

I don't get the big contentious bone, And I don't like Joan's grandious tone, but knowing the way she lords it, she won't let this one alone.

You can bet on it. That's not a prediction, that's wait and see, this is what WILL be.

Saturday, April 12, 2008 11:01 PM

madam I wanna add one

Is it okay to pack thousands and thousands of our people off to fight a trillion dollar boondoggle war in Iraq, and not even admit you were wrong? She's a waste of a discrace.

Saturday, April 12, 2008 11:08 PM

Villemar

You say you're an elitist. You should try some of my fine wines. See I like to buy a bottle of cheap champagne, say like a bottle of Cold Duck, and mix it with a fifth of ripple. I like to call it Champipple.

Saturday, April 12, 2008 11:15 PM

Slick & Silly

It's 'ol Shithouse Billy!

Saturday, April 12, 2008 11:28 PM

madam

Don't get mad. Everybody knows that the Clinton's are the most maxed out Machiavellians that Mephisto ever gave the grade. In their Billary book, it's by hook or by crook. So you gotta know when to duck and know when to weave, and then take a step back, and just try again to breath. To me their both starting to feel like a soul sucking tumor, so I just try to hold on, and keep a good sense of humor.

Saturday, April 12, 2008 11:43 PM

cythera45

Why don't I off myself? Because I have to innoculate the good people of this planet from all ugly viral strains of cythera45. The symptoms of contracting cythera45 are serious. They start with the shits, then progress to postules, then delerium, liquidification of the brains, and then eventual spontaneous combustion. It ain't pretty - it's really pretty shitty.

Saturday, April 12, 2008 11:53 PM

cythera45

I swear by all that's holy, that I am the one, the only, MANOS the HANDS of FATE!

Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:00 AM

We are the whisper in the Dark

We are the many amongst the few

We are the mountain of the dew

We are the keepers of the zoo

We are coming after you.

WE ARE LEGION

Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:04 AM

slancio

Welcome to the legion brother.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:20 AM

Fester

I don't think luminesce's brain pan is big enough to remember much.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:24 AM

Kiss my Grits

Flo - from Alice

Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:52 AM

I'm tired of twits trotting out...

...the MCcain mindfuck.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:55 AM

luminsece

It IS easier to criticize than create, but the problem is that you so consistantly create shit.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 01:06 AM

lumi

I'm nobody's spokesman, I'm a humble supporter. Obama speaks for Obama. I'm Manos. Manos speaks for Manos. If I were receiving a salary - THAT would make me a spokesman!

I know that you're not too swift, but do you think you're begining to get my drift?

Sunday, April 13, 2008 01:11 AM

If I got big bucks to back Obama

Then I'd be his SpokesManos.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 02:55 AM

lumi

We've heard your talking points about a million times before, they're like bad tee vee reruns, and they just don't score.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:39 AM
Original article: "Smart People"

"Educating Rita"

About the middle aged woman who goes back to college with Michael Caine as her alchoholic professor-mentor? I remember that movie. It was a popular play in London in the early 80's too. Now THAT was a movie.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:13 AM

Carol

You might be right. But people's nerves are worn to the bone, they're worried about their country, their kids, and their homes. Parsin' words just ain't acceptable, and Joan should know that, if she's half way respectable.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:18 AM

No..

But she'll win the nomination on Neptune.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:35 AM

If people want to be patronized to...

They're not seeing the whole picture. The word twisting machinations of the Clinton machine are calculated and intentional, they're so transparently trashy, they're classically Clintonian, and convetional. If people elect not to think outside of the box, Hillary will give a few more Iraqs.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:47 AM

Bed time for Bonzo

Sleepy Time for Suarez

WAKE UP!

Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:50 AM

calbears

I think somebody can see clearly now.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:57 AM

Suarez

I'm in the curtains, I'm in the plants, I'm the ancient ghost of Cyrus Vance. I am omnipresent it's plain to see, an inescapable who-what-and-where mystery.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 01:33 PM

What I think is really Hillariable...

...is that work class whites are injected into the end all election equation, as the only important variable.

Hillary be nimble, Hillary be slick, but don't count your chickens, so sure or too quick.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 01:43 PM

Suarez

Grow yourself a heart

and get yourself smart.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 01:54 PM

Fester the Quester

I like your looking ahead attitude.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 02:08 PM

brumhhilde

I'm not afraid of jack sprat shit, the McCain in the fall thing - it don't mean spit.

It's nothing but a ruse, "that guy's gonna lose."

Sunday, April 13, 2008 02:17 PM

The primary is the thriller

but fear is the mind killer.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 02:22 PM

Concerned John Birch Society

Concerns appreciated.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 02:42 PM

J. Versen

I know I read that. "The black and white overclass." Is there any such animal, or does Joan just perceive people in pretty oversimplified black and white terms anyway?

Sunday, April 13, 2008 02:58 PM

I mean

What is a "black & white overclass?" An underground freemason's lodge of yuppies and buppies banded together to shaft the working man?

What's it all about Alfie?

Sunday, April 13, 2008 03:04 PM

Suarez

You make your living at language?

Suarez it is impossible to disguise, as the fact drops from your eyes, that you making your bad living, by bare naked lies.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 03:20 PM

Gallup poll still puts Obama in the lead

Looks like this clap trap flap all full 'o crap

is just a withering weed.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 03:24 PM

maureen

Maybe the black and white overclass can solve this dumbly entrenched ethnic rivalry.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 03:31 PM

Surez

I know you're sore

but wailing whine

is such babyish bore.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 03:42 PM

I nominate my dog Omar

To be first secretary of the Dog pound. A tisket a tasket, a bone in every basket.

Sunday, April 13, 2008 03:53 PM

dolores

you ARE a flower

your words have

sincerity

grace

and power.

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