MeFi comment:
""'I know the hunt is on; they're pulling out all the stops,' said a Defense Department official with knowledge of the situation who asked not to be named. 'They are leaving no stone unturned. They want to find bin Laden before the president..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by mandal, Henry C. Mabuse, homunculus
2 minutes ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh fuck, that bank I just mentioned? The one who's failure I said would get lost in the FNM/FRE noise? Well, actually I think it will end up getting a little press after all. John McCain's son was on the board, and quit about a month ago...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by JHarris, furtive, fourcheesemac
2 ¼ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"This woman is the Sarah Palin of math education." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mai
Almost 4 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"If you're trying to raise money for a single purpose, you should create a fundraising page on my.barackobama.com. That way you'll be able to actually prove how much you're donating. Rather then picking on Konolia, it might be interesting to create..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dawson
4 ¾ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Speaking of 1990s nostalgia, have you guys seen trailers for the Wackness" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by penduluum
Almost 7 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"This has got to be one of the craziest messaging decisions ever: Harris is conceding that Palin's not even ready to be a vice presidential candidate, let alone be president.
I just don't see how they can sustain two weeks of keeping Palin in..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by glycolized, five fresh fish
7 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Right - so in Delmoi's version of science, it is impossible (or impossible to seriously believe ) that a younger woman could have a child with Downs
It's not impossible, I never said it was impossible I said it was extremely unlikely, which it is,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MikeKD
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Seriously look, no one is going to change their opinion on abortion in this thread, it's a waste of bandwidth in a page that's already 4.4 megabytes. The moral and philosophical issues are not simple and not really resolvable.
"Truth to tell,..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by ValkoSipuliSuola, marble, Lou Stuells, Caduceus, shiu mai baby, orthogonality, dogrose, davar, lord_wolf, sondrialiac, kliuless, ten pounds of inedita
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"It is really uncouth of non-Americans to contribute to the Obama campaign. Y'all will give flak when the USA does it to other countries, but you're gonna give yourself a pass when you yourself do it?
Dude, what? The U.S. government..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by davar
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"IF it turned out to be true she had an affair, I would want her to step down. For the very same reason Edwards should have not run.....and especially since she accepted this after the Edwards scandal broke. That would be the height of stupidity. --..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by blueberry, glycolized, Missiles K. Monster
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Konolia and the republicans is excited about her because the people who tell her The people who tell her (and the rest of the republican base) are exited about her. Now, that isn't in particular a bad reason to like someone, if you have people who's..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blueberry, glycolized
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"So, we really need to get started NOW.
Konolia, there are two points about drilling and why it's not important for us to do it
1) It won't make much difference for a long time, so there's no emergency, and if we wait longer, the value of that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"And it's not me saying Obama wouldn't know how to be president. I am saying that it is wrong for the Democrats to claim Palin is less qualified than he. It is a ridiculous argument and it's time to drop it.That's absurd. Obama is far more qualified..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by blueberry, glycolized, RussHy, gladly, Joey Bagels, shiu mai baby, shitcock, jayder, clarahamster, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Via Atrios: Perhaps I'm focusing on an irrelevant issue, but the presence, or non-presence, of Johnston on the stage tonight strikes me as important. It's one thing for delegates to be understanding and compassionate about the fix these two teenagers..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by blueberry, AsYouKnow Bob, dejah420, BrotherCaine, lunit
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"I disagree. The McCain camp has already showed their skill at jujitsu moves which blur the line between "smear" and "valid question." For a lot of people, "hitting her on substantive issues" is just going to look like..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by clarahamster, BrotherCaine, sondrialiac, Pope Guilty
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"None of which is EXECUTIVE experience. He wasn't planning budgets, etc when he was in the Senate.
McCain doesn't have any of that of that kind of experience either. And by the way, the Obama campaign's monthly budget is larger then Wasilla's..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by glycolized, five fresh fish
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Indeed. The past 8 years have been Republican. Make McCain own that and if you have time, point out a few of the lies Palin has told. But don't make her the center of attention, she's just the VP. Nail McCain and his party to the wall on the current..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"ericb, I fail to see what you are bringing to the table ... whatever, I just wish you would contain yrself here a bit. It's an embarrassment.
That's absurd. Ericb is bringing new information to the thread, which is a lot more interesting then..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by RussHy, ryanrs, fourcheesemac
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"That was actually John Edwards, in the 2004 VP debate.
Kerry and Edwards both mentioned it, but only Kerry caught flack for it, for whatever reason.
My without-a-particualr-axe-to-grind friend Fred put together some fairly interesting..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Snyder
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I wonder how the electorate will feel after two months of these potshots on the Republican side as faced up against the refusal to go deeply negative on the Obama team.
Who says they won't go negative. They've done it in the past when things got..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by contessa
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Here's another reason to go after Palin more then McCain, and try to insinuate that she's running the show. It's bound to seriously piss off McCain. And I realize that's mean spirited but fuck it...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Speaking as a native New Yorker, may I say there’s perhaps nothing more absurd than watching a former mayor of New York City sneer at people who like cosmopolitan towns. -- Matt YglesiasHeh.....so, tell me again, why didn't the Democrats nominate..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by penduluum, Artw
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Either I'm completely out of touch with America or the GOP won't get a bump out of this.Out of touch.-- KonoliaWell how would you know? Isn't it possible that you're the one out of touch? Or are you talking about the "AMERICA" which Sarah..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by agregoli
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"His rise is remarkable in its own right - it's the kind of thing that could happen only in America. [laughter]
Yeah, I heard that too and I didn't understand exactly what they were laughing about, it almost seemed like the "joke" was..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
""Don't you think we made the right choice for the vice president of the United States?"
No John McCain, I do not." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by brain cloud
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I am interested on how you all are calling it hate filled. I'd call it being emphatic.What was that line about Obama being a pussy because he was interesting that making sure terrorists were "read their rights"?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cashman
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Any attempt to block spam by statistical analysis will just result in spammers changing their statistical approach. I remember someone's comment about Paul Graham: He came up with "A plan for spam" . That ended up increasing the amount of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Outside the NYT, practically no one calls Obama "Mr. Obama" but just "Obama." Clinton got "Hillary-d" more than she got "Clinton-d."
Do you think the fact that she put that name on her campaign signs,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Optimus Chyme, shiu mai baby
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"heh:
The first time her name ever appears in any news accounts, at least according to Nexis, was an April 3, 1996 article in The Anchorage Daily News that reported this:
Alaskans Line Up For a Whiff of Ivana
Sarah Palin, a commercial..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gubo
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I wish you people had vetted Clinton this well back in the day....
We knew everything there was to know about Clinton and voted for him anyway (Well, I was twelve, but you get the point). If all this stuff about Palin had come out piece by piece..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by blueberry, BrotherCaine, fourcheesemac
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Seems like she hasn't shown her face since Saturday. Are they trying to figure out how to respond to all this, or wait until it all blows over? Or are they planning to dump her?
But man, compare the republican "convention" to the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by blueberry, AsYouKnow Bob, orthogonality
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Photos of Bristol Palin partying with Captain Morgan and friends.
Before we get all upset about "liberals" posting this stuff, check out the bottom of second link: I'm not sure how we survive this as a party. The one thing I do know is..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by blueberry, orthogonality, bitter-girl.com
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"and for the most part we don't understand how our country could have chosen Bush over Gore in 2000 or Bush over Kerry in 2004.
Who says that? Gore ran a pretty bad campaign and bush ran as a moderate in 2000. If he had run on the platform he..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by BrotherCaine, Sailormom
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"“Nobody can quite believe that John McCain picked her...I think the question right now is whether or not the choice is going to be withdrawn....before it gets very complicated with the rules of the RNC...And I think that that’s actually what..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by docpops
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"here's a copy of the comic you can scroll through on google's own book service." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by merelyglib
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
""I'm here to support John McCain because country matters more then party"
Even when that country is the Independent Biblical Nation of Alaska...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by brain cloud, Blazecock Pileon
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Hitting the public with all this Palin dirt at once will cause the RNC to ask Palin to step down now, which would be bad, because that would allow McCain time to recover from the quick addition of a new candidate.
I'm not sure dumping her would..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bodega, schyler523
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I live comfortably, work in my chosen profession, come and go as I please, buy what I want, associate with who I like, and so on.
Hundreds of millions of Chinese people could say the exact same thing. So what?..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by Darned account name, troy, mecran01, lazymonster, waraw, ryanrs, George_Spiggott, lupus_yonderboy, flamk, orthogonality
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"And when liberals and progressives pounce on rumors like this one about Trig's "true" parentage — whether or not it is true, which I'm pretty sure it's not — or rumors about Republican politicians' sexuality (in the absence of crimes..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I wonder what Konolia thinks should happen to women who try to abort their own babies (perhaps with a coathanger) Should they be punished as a 'provider'?..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, Jimbob
3 days ago
