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

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  • Wednesday, January 7, 2009 02:45 PM

    @ Lotus Feet

    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.

    Yeah, well, that's because you folks are completely clueless berks, with not a whit of sentience about the real world around you.

    Yes, we're all Eeeeeevvvuulll Incarnate (as Newt and company kept reminding us with the approved Republican Nomenclatureâ„¢). Epithets like "Commie", "traitor", "seditious", and "Osama lover" spring to mind. Hell, even the more mundane "lib'rul". Cuts to the bone.

    You, OTOH, are simply stoopid, seeing as you think we ought to be seeing the same hallucinations as you ("big goobermint just breeds corruption and waste and can lead to totalitarian nightmares") sans lysergides.

    Sadly, there is no cure.

    Cheers,

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