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The DOJ pursues the "real criminal" in the NSA spying scandal

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  • Wednesday, January 7, 2009 01:23 PM

    "Even though Republicans are innately evil...." says it all about the cranks who bark in this here saloon, my frems.

    If the people who disagree with you are innately evil, then it's a OK to murder them, right?

    This is what makes your breed of thought downright toxic to the human race.

    Nobody I know on my side of the fence thinks that your Democrat heros like Kookcenich and Madam Hairspray, Dianne Feinstein, are inherently evil. We really just think most of you, if you spent some time with what we called in college, "critical inquiry," yep, most of you would come around and see the light that big goobermint just breeds corruption and waste and can lead to totalitarian nightmares where the authorities decide that all of them innately evil ones need to be eliminated.

    Many of the people you hatefully call "neocons" are neo because they used to embrace your politics, but let it go when they got fed up with all the bull shit posturing and ego tripping of left wing leadres, and when they got fed up with all the graft and corruption, and when they saw that our public schools in places like Oakland and Newark don't work but just feed a bureaucracy. Yet, many of you think good people like Leon and Amy Kass who were very brave freedom riders in Mississippi close to 50 years ago are now "innately evil."

    Can't you see that thinking like that really really sucks?

    Do you ever think, my frems? Go ahead and think. I promise it will not hurt one bit. It may even liberate you.

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