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Old 01-06-2011, 11:11 PM
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I remember...one of the most disgusting examples of assholes butting into someone elses business I've ever seen.

I can see why our masters travel in armored limousines.

Had anyone done that to me, they would have damn well needed one.

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South Park gave their own special touch to the Schiavo story. It's a little over 20 minutes but some darn fine satire.

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Old 01-07-2011, 02:19 AM
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i.e., Death Panels.

Of course this is essential to affordable health care. However, it's such a volatile issue that it would provide the necessary ammo for opponents to kill the reform without breaking a sweat.

Remember Terry Schiavo?
Yes, that poor woman.

I can't imagine the indignity of having that grinning asshole Hannity use such misfortune for his feigned concern and blatant political grandstanding. Her husband should have driven to New York, barged into the FauxNews studio and busted a cap in his ass in front of the cameras. I would have crapped my pants from laughing so hard.

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Old 01-07-2011, 07:22 AM
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Regarding transplants has it ever occured to y'all that there is a slight disconnect between them urging the public to sign the organ "donation' part of their driver's license and the outrageous charges the doctors and hospitals make? You might think that they could do a little donating also.

No I did not sign mine, by the time I am through with my organs they will be so used up a dog would not want them.
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Old 01-07-2011, 08:51 AM
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Yes, that poor woman.

I can't imagine the indignity of having that grinning asshole Hannity use such misfortune for his feigned concern and blatant political grandstanding. Her husband should have driven to New York, barged into the FauxNews studio and busted a cap in his ass in front of the cameras. I would have crapped my pants from laughing so hard.

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Bill Frist's (R-Tenn) diagnosis from afar was the icing on the cake. It's silly stunts like this that drove me away from the GOP about 10 years ago. They've taken pandering and manipulation to new lows and their message seems to be designed for clueless people of 7th grade mentality. Whenever I think they can't go any lower insulting peoples' intelligence with their drivel, they serve up something else.

Now, it seems there's a new GOP rule that they have to use the words "job-killing" in every sentence. Give it a friggin' rest, gents.
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Old 01-07-2011, 10:19 AM
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At least come spring they will have provided enough fertilizer for the kitchen garden that I will not need to buy any.
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Old 01-07-2011, 11:14 AM
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Bill Frist's (R-Tenn) diagnosis from afar was the icing on the cake. It's silly stunts like this that drove me away from the GOP about 10 years ago. They've taken pandering and manipulation to new lows and their message seems to be designed for clueless people of 7th grade mentality. Whenever I think they can't go any lower insulting peoples' intelligence with their drivel, they serve up something else.

Now, it seems there's a new GOP rule that they have to use the words "job-killing" in every sentence. Give it a friggin' rest, gents.
Why (job killing) what are you (job killing) talking about, Finn? (Job killer.)
Are you seriously saying (Job killing.) that the GOP would resort (Kenyan) to such a thing (Socialist)? I mean, I have seen no (Muslim) evidence of such a thing. I mean President Barrack (HUSSEIN!) Obama loves his country (KENYA!) just as much as I do. Are you seriously suggesting (Stalinist!) Conservatives would smear (NAZI!) and spread falsehoods (JOB KILlING COMMUNIST NAZI!)? That's ridiculous, they just (Job killing) love America and want the best for our children, (You baby murdering, left wing radical, America hating, sodomite who wants to build death camps and gas all of the white folks.).

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Old 01-07-2011, 11:23 AM
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I'll cop to a bit of plagiarism on my "job-killing" rant. It appeared in a Steve Pearlstein piece that Rob mentioned earlier:

"Type "job killing" into Google and you'll get more than 1.2 million hits. On the Factiva news database, it comes up 11,115 times during 2009 and 2010, compared with 1,373 times during the previous two years. A Republican talking point, a Fox News broadcast or a Chamber of Commerce press release is now incomplete without it.

What's so curious is that it's hard to find almost any Republican concern about employment homicide during 2008, when George W. Bush was president and the economy was shedding 4.4 million jobs. Given the lag with which economic policy works, the biggest net job loss that could credibly be assigned to Obama during his two years in office would be less than a million."


I guess job-killing was OK under Dubya because it was patriotic, God-fearing job-killing.
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Shh, let them keep up their inane blathering, accomplishing nowt and come 2012 we can watch the bloodshed. It will make 2008 look tame.

Maybe they had better appeal to O'Donnell, a little witchcraft might help them out about now.
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I guess job-killing was OK under Dubya because it was patriotic, God-fearing job-killing.
That's right. You've got it.

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So I was looking at the news this morning and saw this
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Cost of healthcare repeal put at $230 billion http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-he...tory?track=rss
And so I thought I would look for a same Jan 7 article at Fox and saw this
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House Clears Way for Floor Vote on Health Care Law Repeal
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011...#ixzz1ASn3bA9A
Not a peep to their tea bagger public how much pushing the GOP agenda will cost the country and how their bagger reps would break the tea party agenda to vote for it.
It will be interesting to see if these baggers do what they say they came to do or follow into submission to Lord Boehner and vote to increase the deficit which they promised not to do.
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