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My Sarah Palin video
Sarah Palin's Song. Doin' what the Lord tells me. http://www.youtube.com/v/yeHF7Nrnrc4
Posted to Slate V: News and Politics by mathpol on October 22, 2008
Re: Joe the Plumber...
There are a lot of questions being asked now about the star of last night's debate, Joe ''The Plumber'' Wurzelbacher. To many he seemed perfect-- maybe a little too perfect for the role he was playing: Joe Six-Pack.It turns out Mr. Wurzelbacher is not a licensed plumber. He's not a licensed plumber, yet he is planning on starting his own plumbing ...
Posted to Low Concept by zuq on October 16, 2008
A little behind the times
I don't understand how this is all of the sudden a new ''buzzword'', this type and a lot of other types of lingo have been in use for a very long time on the net such as the use of ''FAIL'' and ''epic fail.'' This goes back to when Obama did his little ''fist bump'' with his wife and people, not knowing what it's meant for freaked out. Fist bumps ...
Posted to The Good Word by Creep on October 16, 2008
Staggering incomprehensibility
This is truly frightening. It seems she assumes her listener shares her own inability to grasp a complete thought. Perhaps she thinks us so stupid and hungry that she need only scatter crumbled fragments on the pool of dialogue and she'll be able to rip this election right from the waters before we recognize her chum for the fisherman's lure it ...
Posted to The Good Word by SplendidMarbles on October 15, 2008
Hitchens' "Vote for Obama"
Hitchens has hit the nail on the head again. As an Independent voter, I came into this election with the assumption that I could live with a victory on either side- were McCain to win, I wouldn't slit my wrists or flee to Canada, and were Obama to win I wouldn't commit sepuku or move to the Caribbean. While both candidates have their strengths ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Porkins on October 13, 2008
What they reveal
It is my belief that a person's sentences reveal her/his thought processes and sometimes reveal the lack of thought process, as well. As conscious individuals we have the power to choose, and therefore edit, what we speak and write. If one is put on the spot, however, like a deer in the headlights, that ability to edit is paralyzed. I liken it to ...
Posted to The Good Word by michele.lafferty on October 2, 2008
The Great Game -- Anglo Amero Brits and Kamchatka!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waziristan Honestly, I do not know why it is, that I both love to read Christopher Hitchens every week, and disagree with his every point almost without exception. Maybe it is his ''the sun never sets on the British Empire'' world girdling perapatetic meanderings around the World Map of Current Events and political ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard2 on September 19, 2008
The reason
The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer-- and they don't want explanations that do not give them that.
Posted to Fighting Words by oldeschool on August 26, 2008
Obama can "Talk the Talk... but can he Walk the Walk?"
When it comes to speeches and motivating those poor neglected ignorant Democrats... Obama is the King!! Throughout the campaing, he has change position on issues several times and more so than McCain. This new position now about off shore drilling is one of his latest flip ups and is all because the polls stated that the majority of American ...
Posted to XX Factor by MiamiVice on August 4, 2008
Re: New Rumor, Barack Loves
Interesting that you needed to reference a report from seven years ago. Here is something more recent. http://www.who.int/entity/whr/2007/07_overview_en.pdf On page 6 you will see the only reference to any sort of ranking in health care but please take note that the U.S. had the lowest verified events of potential international public health ...
Posted to Low Concept by Analytical.2.A.T on June 22, 2008

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