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  • The UN has a mechanism

    [Read the article: Displaced Iraqis to return -- but to where?]
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    The UN has two refugee agencies. One, UNRWA for the Palestinians and one for everyone else. UNRWA determined that every Palestinian everywhere unto the last generation is a refugee. This is probably a good model for the Iraqis. Just declare them refugees everywhere, forever, for an unlimited # of generations. So the Iraqis who live in Damascus and Amman and who are not given any legitimate status there, even to the point where their children are barred from school, would simply be declared refugees to be administered by the UN. The neighborhoods the live in would be reclassified as refugee camps.

  • Two engineers are talking to each other, do you know which one is the extrovert?

    [Read the article: Geeks gone wild]
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    That's the person talking to the other person's shoes.

    C'mon that is perfect for Salon on so many levels.

  • I wouldn't know

    [Read the article: Fox News calls Michelle Obama "Obama's baby mama"]
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    If I venture to voice any opinion at all Alex generally has me banned.

  • Bush made the Supreme Court irrelevant

    [Read the article: Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act]
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    That's not a secret. The Presidency no longer has to worry about what the SC decides. And Obama will be well served to consider that when his insanely right wing partisan court decides against him 100% of time.

  • I did not have sex

    [Read the article: Judge Alex Kozinski regrets posting those pictures]
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    With that midget furry hentai cosplay masturbatrix

  • There were 8 vultures on my lawn today.

    [Read the article: When panic attacks!]
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    I found it soothing.

  • The #1 fav destination in Europe is Sweden

    [Read the article: Displaced Iraqis to return -- but to where?]
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    Not sure why but Sweden has essentially eliminated most of the barriers to entry for Iraqi 'refugees'. Pretty small country so I'll give them that. Just not so sure how that will work for them long run. If there's one way to make a largely homogeneous population feel pissed off it's tax the living shit out of them and then make them feel like foreigners in their own country.

    Hope that works out for the Swedes though. Cause next door Norway isn't nearly as forgiving and friendly when it comes to non natives.

  • Why is it human females don't go into 'heat'?

    [Read the article: Hard drive]
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    Why is it unlike most mammals human females don't have a mating season? Biology or evil patriarchy?

  • A $290 cup holder in an $80,000 car

    [Read the article: Again: The new iPhone is not "half the price" of the old one]
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    Yes it's extraordinarily expensive for a titanium heated and cooled cup holder. But given the car costs $80,000 + another 10-11% driveaway price + insurance, I'm sure no one cares.

    If you really need to count pennies to afford your iPhone you shouldn't get one. Maybe when the Obama rules the land, iPhones will be nationalized and made free to freedom loving peoples everywhere. Until then, it's called making a rational decision.

    I am a Sprint subscriber. I can't really imagine what on God's Gray Earth would possess me to claim to NEED an HTC Mogul. Would be nice to have sure, but imperative? Nah. But therein is the key. You see Farhad it's not about consumers it's about competitive advantage. When AT&T can claim that their kewlest 1337 phone is $199 then it makes the others look dull. Verizon offers 6 phones for more than $200 while Sprint has 7 that are $200 and 3 which are more.

    Now I can't speak for Verizon. But Sprint I'm sure will respond the way Sprint always does. By doing nothing and hoping no one notices. And when people stop buying their expensive phones they'll roll out the prior year's models at half price (AT&T does the same thing, they just sell 'refurb' phones aka used phones) and this will leave the top of the market to AT&T. There will always be a niche for unlocked GSM units but those are a blip on the screen volume wise.

    So it's just a titanium heated and cooled cup holder in an $80,000 car. If you can afford the car you don't care about the cup holder.

  • It's not about how you feel

    [Read the article: Parental consent laws gone amok]
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    It's about forging a legal document. Let me know when I can forge your living will the next time you're on a respirator in the hospital.

  • I am shocked that Salon didn't call out Andrea Mitchell for saying 'redneck'

    [Read the article: Fox News responds]
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    Just kidding. I know you don't care.

  • Swill the Swill, Americans

    [Read the article: The king of beer mergers]
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    Not ALL of you are fat, drunk and stupid, yet.

  • General fund nothing special

    [Read the article: As promised, an economic stimulus]
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    2 college tuitions 2 cars 3 households 1 summer program, prescription drugs, bowling. Will barely notice it. Debt? Wouldn't cover one month credit card bill which is paid in full every month. I've got 5 cell phones, 3 cable bills.

    And don't forget hipsters, this goes into your next years tax sheet as earnings so you will pay tax on it.

  • Dump the AMT or His Highness will be a one term Lord Steward of the Realm

    [Read the article: Obama's new pro Wal-Mart economist]
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    Dump the AMT which within the 4 years of His Royal Presidency will see more than 2/3rds of middle class families dumped up to it. This will result in an additional 25-40% tax burden for many families. It will complete the liquidation of the middle class in America. Now maybe the Stalinists here @ Salon think that's just wonderful. But it's not and in 2012 any candidate can ask 'are you better now than you were 4 years ago' & I promise you a child molester will be able defeat Obama at that point.

    Imagine an America where people can't afford to live on their income because of taxes. Imagine people being homeless and hungry because of taxes. Taxes that ultimately lead nowhere. I predict French Revolution II

  • Kind of funny he a papist

    [Read the article: Louisiana schools open to creationism?]
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    Louisiana is two states. The upstate rock rib Protestant (fundies) and the freewheelin saints and sinnin New Orleans Catholics replete with adultery, homosexuality, gambling, drinking and general licentiousness.

    If Jindal thinks that God Created the Heavens and the Earth, it's probably so that man could create the drive through Daiquiri stand, hookers, crawdads, bourbon and quail shooting.

  • I'm guessing

    [Read the article: Ask the pilot]
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    It didn't flat spin into the Sea of Japan.

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