MOD Friday
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Posted on 04 December 2009 | 6:07 am 
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Good morning, Rangers! Far Side Friday.
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I forgot to say how much I enjoyed the Far Side! Such a good one.
Merci, mh.
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The last two sentences make this Jason Linkins post hilarious.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/04/tennessee-mayor-facebook_n_38 0142.html
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December 4th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
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What a fucking idjit. Thank God they are stupid enough to post their vitriol so they can be exposed. Check out this doofus’s pic in THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL link. He looks just like Jim Carrey’s character in DUMB AND DUMBER. Coincidence? I think not.
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December 4th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
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OMG, that is crazy squared. Here’s the link.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/dec/04/mayor-fires-at-obama- online/
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December 4th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
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December 4th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
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Crazy squared!
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!!! http://chronicle.com/article/Updated-Report-on-Virginia/49360/?sid=pm& utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en
Chronicle of Higher Education: “During the nation’s deadliest campus shootings nearly three years ago, Virginia Tech officials locked down some administrative buildings and warned their own families more than 90 minutes before alerting the rest of campus, according to revisions to the state’s official report on the tragedy. . . . “
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December 4th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
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Well, isn’t that lovely? The lawyers are going to have a fine time with that.
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I’M FINISHED FOR THE DAY!! WHOOO!!
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December 4th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
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Yahhoo.
away.
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Love that FARSIDE, MH!!!
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Perusing down the thread, I saw Kellygirls’s comment about the minarets. Did you see Jon Stewart last nite? They did a skewering on that. Jon Oliver interviewed the Swiss Ambassador to the UN about what “neutrality” means. For the first time, I saw how distasteful neutrality could actually be in its raw form. The man was so passionless, had no opinions. Ofcourse, the flip side is we have wars–but I now wonder if the human “thing” that has made us have wars is not violence, per se, but our passion.
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December 4th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
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War is an industry in the US, nothing more.
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Holycrap Marie!!! They serve np booze whatsoever at the grand junction CO airport and they are blasting FUX news! Fucking Colorado !!!
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
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Ironic, huh? I, for one, would have to be real boozed up to listen to Fux News.
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
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Well duh
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December 4th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
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No booze???? Didn’t they get the memo that Prohibition ended in 1933????
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December 4th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
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My question, exactly. The state isn’t even in the Bible Belt.
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December 4th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
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Grand Junction’s little airport averages around 6 flights a day. There isn’t enough business to warrant a bar. Believe me, Coloradoans love to drink, there are several great wineries in the Grand Valley and a plethora of bars, clubs and night spots for a small town. As far as Fux News goes, I have no answer. Dipshit with a remote, I suppose.
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December 4th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
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It’s barbaric! When I landed in Dallas I found a loverly wine bar near my gate. Here’s to the Bushes!
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December 4th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
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if you think CO is bad, then you don’t ever want to land in Utah.
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December 4th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
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OMG, no. No booze, no coffee or tea, no Coke or Pepsi.
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December 4th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
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Paul Krugman in the NYT is warning that we should be afraid if health care reform fails.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/opinion/04krugman.html?_r=1&ref=opin ion
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
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Krugman is right. If we don’t deal with this now, we will have to adopt REAL socialized medicine. The health care industry know this and this is a last ditch effort to bleed Americans dry while their party lasts.
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December 4th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
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Krugman is almost always spot on. I point to the current administration considering another stim plan for jobs. Krugman said the first one wasn’t big enough and a second would be asked for.
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December 4th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
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Oh, yes, especially the insurance & pharmaceutical companies.
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December 4th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
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Aetna just proved Krugman’s point.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/04/aetna-forcing-600000-plus_n_3 80130.html
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December 4th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
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Good article, Kit.
One thing that I would have liked to have seen done is by first, just starting with Universal Catastrophic Coverage. Every American would be covered, no holds barred, for major medical concern: cancer, heart attack, diabetes–anything that is life threatening. Their surgeries, chemo, whatever the prescribed course of action–would be covered. I think any neo would have been hard-pressed to explain why he/she would deny that to his constituents.
I know it wouldn’t have been perfect–I know–where’s the preventive, etc? But at least there wouldn’t be Americans who are afraid to go to the Dr. when they find that lump or are having chest pains.
The rest could have fallen in later. But we need universal catastrophic NOW.
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December 4th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
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That’s a good idea, Zo. A lot of catastrophic stuff isn’t preventable anyway, they keep trying to say that it is, & diet and exercise are important but like the ad says Diet and exercise are not always enough.
Then there are accidents. You can look both ways before you cross the street, and some damn fool will come around a corner too fast. (this actually happened to me one time. Almost, but something made me look behind me as I stepped off the curb.)
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December 4th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
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The beauty of Obama presenting universal catastrophic coverage would have been the same effect that we are seeing from Al Franken’s rape bill: the neos would have looked like fools to deny it. By now, it would be over and done with. They would have had to grudgingly vote for it, or risk exposing themselves as the socios that they are.
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December 4th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
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I LOVE Wonkette!
http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/roguebling4mayhemil y.gif
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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That is too funny. Now I love Wonkette.
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
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hah! I esp. love the flashing “Me!” in the corner. Very appropriate.
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Oh my! Looking GOOOOOOD!
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/04/up.in.air.review /t1larg.jpg
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December 4th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
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LOL – where’s the pug?
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
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http://toberead.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/george_clooney_01. jpg
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
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December 4th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
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DREAMy…..Yum!
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Bravo President Obama!!!
this ought to drive the rightwingnutz even further over the edge!!!
http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/04/news/economy/jobs_november/
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December 4th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
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Indeed.
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December 4th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
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About the November Jobs Report
“The headline numbers on unemployment and payroll employment in today’s jobs report are encouraging, while some of the details in the report remain troubling.
* Private and government payrolls combined shrank by just 11,000 jobs in November and earlier estimates of losses in September and October were revised down sharply. Nevertheless, payroll employment has declined for 23 straight months and net job losses since the recession began in December 2007 total 7.2 million. (Private sector payrolls have shrunk by 7.3 million jobs over the period.) Each February, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics issues revisions to its payroll employment statistics based on more complete information, and preliminary estimates indicate these revisions could add about another 800,000 job losses to these figures.
* The pace of job losses has slowed markedly — to an average of just 104,000 per month over the past three months, compared with 645,000 jobs per month lost over the November 2008 to April 2009 period.
* The unemployment rate, which was 4.9 percent at the start of the recession, stood at 10.0 percent in November, down from 10.2 percent in October. Potential job-seekers remained on the sideline, however, as labor force participation edged down to 65.0 percent. It has not been lower since January 1986.
* The decline in labor force participation was offset by higher household employment, and the percentage of the population with a job was unchanged at 58.5 percent, its lowest level since October 1983.
* The Labor Department’s most comprehensive alternative unemployment rate measure — which includes people who want to work but are discouraged from looking and people working part time because they can’t find full-time jobs — edged down to 17.2 percent in November. That figure is 8.5 percentage points higher than when the recession began, and with the exception of last month is the highest on record in data that go back to 1994.
* Nearly two-fifths (38.3 percent) of the 15.4 million people who are unemployed have been looking for work for 27 weeks or longer. That’s the highest percentage on record in data going back to 1948. Regular unemployment insurance benefits typically run out after 26 weeks.”
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3023&emailView=1
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Bravo Sen. Al Franken!
The ReThugs are mad at Franken b/c he FORCED them to have to vote against rape victims!
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/senate-gopers-its-al-franke ns-fault-were-being-attacked-for-votes-against-anti-rape-amendment.php ?ref=fpb
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December 4th, 2009 at 11:37 am
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Go, Al!!!!!!
That’s the way to get ‘em on the run. On the record….. 
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December 4th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
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He is so smart!!!! Probably gonna be one of the best things we ever had in the Senate. Smoke em out of their hidey holes, Al, and expose them for the creeps and frauds that they are!
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following the announcement that the banks will be returning all Stimulus funds, coupled with Unemployment numbers better than expected, the market goes NUTZ this morning.
Bank of America stock soaring!
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:18 am
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Will they be returning the AIG money, or just the TARP?
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:26 am
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just the TARP … I think they’re scared about a couple new Bills that are coming up in Congress … especially if Elizabeth Warren is in charge of oversight
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:30 am
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Ok, so they are keeping the AIG money, returning the TARP money, they’re still investing in derivatives and they haven’t gotten rid of the toxic assets on their books. Yet their stock is soaring. Got it.
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December 4th, 2009 at 11:29 am
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Welcome to Vegas, Baby!
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Good morning, everyone.
Sunny and crisp here in NJ.
Today I CLEAN. Mold and mildew beware !!!!!
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:06 am
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Hi MsDoc
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:22 am
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Hi, there, BG&E. All well in your world???
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:37 am
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Very well thanks MsDoc. I’m glad I don’t have to clean up.
Are they really finished with the renovations?
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:10 am
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Blech!
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When did Switzerland turn into a NeoChristianist nation?
I thought we had the corner on that market.
After the Swiss banned Minarets last week, they now seek to ban all Jewish and Muslim cemeteries?
http://rawstory.com/2009/12/swiss-ban-jewish-muslim-cemeteries/
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:04 am
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Well the Swiss did keep all that money from the accounts of holocaust victims.
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:14 am
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yes, but I thought their only religion was the worship of the almighty Dollar. I didn’t know they were going to go so far as to ban their cemeteries
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:19 am
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The Swiss are very Germanic.
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:26 am
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even the Germans aren’t overtly Christianist … anymore
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:33 am
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There’s more neo Nazis in Germany than anywhere else. It’s not so much about Christianity, as it is about bigotry and racism.
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:09 am
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Facism is alive and well in Europe.
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:32 am
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Sadly,
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:44 am
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That’s funny. Most cemeteries of that nature are on private property.
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Elin & Tiger Woods’ 2009 Christmas Card Photo
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:03 am
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:11 am
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Oh, you naughty!
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December 4th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
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Priceless! Now we see why he couldn’t play this week. Those beautiful teeth–GONE!
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Virginia will probe Salahis’ Polo Cup
“The Salahis say the America’s Polo Cup is sanctioned by the “National Polo League,” an organization whose director says was founded in 1893 and lists teams across the country. But officials for the nation’s largest polo organization said Thursday that they had never heard of the league, its teams or its purported director.
In Florida, a polo magazine editor said the Salahis submitted pictures for a December 2008 article that identified Michaele Salahi as a “former Miss USA.” No record exists of her winning that beauty crown, pageant officials said.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/03/AR2009 120301879.html
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:47 am
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That couple are professional fraudsters.
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:51 am
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I do believe they’re psychopaths… “former Miss USA” WTF???
And WHY anyone would think that claim would be an entrée into the DC social scene is beyond me.
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:56 am
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pathological
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:58 am
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They aren’t from DC so they wouldn’t know their con won’t fly around most social circles. Dog knows how they managed Cartier and Range Rover to participate in their Polo BS.
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:04 am
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“It’s not a lie if you believe it.” George Costanza
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:07 am
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People like that know they are frauds. Believe me. 41 dealings with police? 17 lawsuits?
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:12 am
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they also think they’ll never get caught … or never have a price to pay.
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:16 am
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I wouldn’t be surprised to see them end up behind bars. Not for the gatecrashing, but from this other stuff in their background which will be more thoroughly investigated now.
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:05 am
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Why put a respectable term on them? How about pathological liars/just plain scum?
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:10 am
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That sounds about right.
Don’t breathe the cleaning fumes.
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:18 am
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I clean better slightly stoned !!!
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:27 am
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AAAAWWWWWWW!
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc9/grandmayoall/Thanksgiving/pug-a -chinoa.jpg
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:27 am
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AAAAAAwwwwwwwwwww!
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:29 am
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:48 am
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I’ll take two, to go.
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:52 am
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Yeah, well when they grow up they poop in front of the back door. Almost stepped in it this morning.
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:07 am
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Well, every rainbow has a muddy lining. And Pug poop compared to Newfy poop…ha!!!
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:12 am
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Sounds to me like Mommy was a little late. At least it was in front of the back door and not in the hall.
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28°F
Current: Partly Cloudy
Wind: SW at 21 km/h
Humidity: 76%
It was supposed to snow but it didn’t.
Morning everyone!
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:38 am
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:42 am
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Hey!
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Good Friday, all you land lubbers. Thank the gods. I was cleaning out my email and found this really good summation of the marriage thing. It’s what I’ve said for the last 3 or 4 years.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mitchell-bard/im-not-in-a-new-york-stat_ b_379501.html
There is a quote in there from NY State Senator Diane Savine of Staten Island that I love.”We in government don’t determine the quality or worthiness of people’s relationships. If we did, we would not issue three-quarters of the marriage licenses we do.”
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:29 am
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I saw this great advert that was done for Marriage Equality in Ireland. Really brilliant I thought… It’s called, “Sinead’s Hand”
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:41 am
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Excellent ad!
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:46 am
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Brilliant!
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:16 am
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Absolutely brilliant. Wish we could do something like that in each of these states
Thanks for posting that.
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:29 am
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this works well: NY Sen. Dianne Savino. Brava!
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December 4th, 2009 at 11:49 am
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I hope one day we will see her on the floor of the U S Senate.
Thanks Kel, for finding it.
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Friday, Friday, Friday!!
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December 4th, 2009 at 7:56 am
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Awwww, c’mon…… cheer up……..
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:21 am
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Weather! 22 deg. now, high expected 34. Winter is upon us! But no snow yet.
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We put the Christmas tree up last night – it looks beautiful! Now we get to introduce our 5 month old kitten to it. Agh. Spray bottles of water at the ready!
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:12 am
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Good luck with that. I remember my Sunny climbed up and laid on the branches like an ornament. She didn’t bother the ornaments, she just liked being up high.
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Birthers and Palin. (interviewed by a rightwing radio host)
HUMPHRIES: Would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?
PALIN: Um, I think the public, rightfully, is still making it an issue. I don’t have a problem with that. I don’t know if I would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think enough members of the electorate still want answers.
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:15 am
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Anything to keep her fan club going.
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:37 am
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oy … after expressing her sympathies for the Birthers, Palin went on her Facebook to bash the reporters for calling her a Birther and “pushing stupid conspiracies”
http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/stupid-conspiracies/18870749 8434
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:31 am
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OMG, she didn’t. I think she is definitely close to the line of sanity.
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Mostly Cloudy
43°F
TGIF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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December 4th, 2009 at 7:12 am
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:13 am
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I’m flying today. fingers crossed!
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:20 am
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Then stop drinking and come back down!
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:20 am
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Flying where?
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:23 am
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Austin, for her mom’s 70th…it’s a surprise (sshhhh)
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:29 am
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Oh ok. Thanks.
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Morning! It’s 41 degrees here in East Windsor…
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December 4th, 2009 at 7:07 am
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December 4th, 2009 at 7:24 am
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December 4th, 2009 at 7:12 am
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December 4th, 2009 at 7:24 am
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December 4th, 2009 at 7:36 am
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Coming right up! A little warm scone to go with that?
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December 4th, 2009 at 8:05 am
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December 4th, 2009 at 7:08 am
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LOVE the Far Sde!
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December 4th, 2009 at 7:13 am
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Me too!
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December 4th, 2009 at 9:16 am
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Me, too.
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