MeFi comment:
"When I casually mentioned this lady as McCain's choice today (while at the gym) three out of three times I was told by each person I was speaking to that they were voting for McCain.
HOLY SHIT!
You found McCain voters in FAYETTEVILLE? Alert..." [
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favorited 20 times, recently by nonmerci, lunasol, Stewriffic, zardoz, Epenthesis, Optimus Chyme, msali, redfisch, feathermeat, stefanie, chiababe, malpractice, Caduceus, Kwine, mrgrimm, jtron, contessa, cashman, Nattie, Rubbstone
2 ¼ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"I am also concerned that neither party mentioned ... the bombing at Pearl Harbor.
Naw, we're buds with Germany now so mentioning it would be just uncool...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by infobomb, lukemeister, lodurr
2 ¼ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"They also left out sobbing quietly while whimpering "I'm sorry, mommy" over and over until the angels make it all better." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ColdChef, MikeKD
2 ½ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"And as for people still getting abortions if they were made illegal-
At least I would live in a country where abortion was considered wrong. That stands for something.
To be clear, if given a choice between:
(A) Abortion is legal, but..." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by non sum qualis eram, ValkoSipuliSuola, marble, Lou Stuells, puddleglum, DevilsAdvocate, glycolized, cybercoitus interruptus, kosher_jenny, clarahamster, dejah420, shitcock, schyler523, scody, Pope Guilty, ooga_booga, Rumple
5 ¼ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"A lot of us pray for the mercy of God to be poured out on this country because we know just how much we deserve judgement.
...and then we go into the ballot box, and we vote to keep the hungry unfed, and we vote to keep the unclothed naked, and we..." [
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favorited 55 times, recently by lalochezia, allkindsoftime, MikeKD, russilwvong, sevenyearlurk, cass, weebil, graventy, Space Kitty, Penks, atropos, jokeefe, Optimus Chyme, gamera, rokusan, jamaro, Faint of Butt, peacheater, palomar, redfisch, nicepersonality, Hlewagast, ClarissaWAM, jlbartosa, lord_wolf, horsewithnoname, jocelmeow, jonp72, romakimmy, Lentrohamsanin, blueberry, the_bone, ValkoSipuliSuola, grouse, Rumple, kosher_jenny, sheila t, every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes, designbot, malpractice, jaronson, non sum qualis eram, shiu mai baby, letourneau, agregoli, Rhaomi, The Bellman, winna, cashman, damo, EarBucket, dirigibleman, Blazecock Pileon, orthogonality, Balonious Assault
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Uh, no it's not. Why do you want to assume race has anything to do with this?
Because of the Republican Party's longstanding antipathy towards black people and their 40-year history of directly appealing to southern racists using the threat of..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by glycolized, shiu mai baby, fourcheesemac
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Some of us feel that abortion was made legal ONLY BECAUSE it was LEGISLATED from the bench.
That makes it sound as if abortion had always been a crime before that, but abortion was generally legal until quickening in the US until the mid/late 19th..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jb
Yesterday
Ask comment:
"Option one: look at some of the various prediction pages (538, pollster, electoral-vote, Iowa markets, etc) and make a guess,
Option two has several steps:
Step 1: Become deeply familiar with the literatures on American voting behavior,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by moss
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Fence! The! Build! Fence! The! Build! U! S! A! U! S! A! Fence! The! Build!
ITYM:
Fence! The! Build!
Fence! The! Build!
U! A! S!
U! A! S!
Fence! The! Build
FTFY. HTH. HAND...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by colt45, EarBucket
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"That is a very legitimate question...as far as I can tell any criminal penalties would be directed at abortion providers, not the pregnant women.
...which once again proves that you don't really think abortion is murder. If you did, you'd support..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by dejah420, Morrigan, scody, Penks, amyms, clarahamster, milarepa
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Don LaFontaine is finally free from a world he never made." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by dirigibleman, Brainy, bunnytricks, jjb, EarBucket, kittens for breakfast, headspace, tommasz, Jimbob, Donnie VandenBos, champthom, doctor_negative, Pope Guilty
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Is the often cited "most liberal" ranking wrong/skewed/misleading in some way?
Yes. National Journal puts it out.
National Journal is not in the business of discovering who is the most liberal senator in a disinterested fashion...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by contessa, AsYouKnow Bob, orthogonality
4 days ago
Ask comment:
"The original Solaris
The Soderbergh one too. It's obviously a very different film, and probably less true to Lem because of the differences, but it does an amazing job of capturing the emotional core of running up against the unknown, unknowable,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Why is this an issue for you?
It is an issue for jsonic because jsonic likes to find things to chide metafilter for. If it hadn't been that, he'd have been offended by something else, possibly something only he could see.
It's the equivalent..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by breath, grouse, blueberry, saffry, cj_, shitcock, AsYouKnow Bob, Caduceus, marble, madamjujujive, kuujjuarapik, Blazecock Pileon, Shepherd, COBRA!
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"By the way, can we can the comments saying she was picked to garner the moron vote?
I think this woman has brains.
Why on earth would you think those things don't go together?
Remember also that the other work she has done-such as the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"For the record, Fayetteville is filled with Democrats.
I don't doubt it. Democrats that keep voting for Republicans for President, like you find all over the south.
I mean, look. Cumberland County went just slightly for Bush in 04... but..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Optimus Chyme
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I just think it's really bizarre that people think it's a crazy big deal that a person who doesn't believe in getting an abortion didn't get an abortion. Of course she didn't get an abortion, she was NEVER going to get an abortion
Depends on how..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marble
7 days ago
Ask comment:
"Someone will inevitably suggest LaTeX (too late!), which is a program that only a computer scientist would love.
This just isn't true. For things like writing a book or long paper, LaTeX is dead easy: you just write your text, with the following..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by peacheater, yonation, nasreddin
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Let the VPILF jokes begin.
Meh. Give me Jennifer Granholm or Stephanie Herseth any day.
Or Margaret Thatcher. What, you don't think power is sexy? Tell me you don't think power is sexy...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by clearly
7 days ago
Ask comment:
"there ARE reasons other than racism that a country might mandate a particular language
Such as? What are the reasons, other than ethnic chauvinism, why a country might specifically forbid itself from offering any services in translation? Note:..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by iamkimiam
8 days ago
Ask comment:
"The main reason to have english as the national language is to reduce the cost of government. Producing forms and training government service staff in multiple languages is extraordinarily expensive
...but dramatically less than the cost of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by iamkimiam, peacheater
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Aren't they all LOLs of one kind or another?
O HAI I UPGRADED YOUR ANUS
MAH ZEPPELIN!
GOIN TO THE SKY BRB
GOD SPEED MOON MEN
U CAN HAS CLUB" [
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favorited 7 times, recently by whitelight
9 days ago
Ask comment:
"I'm me and not other people, and people differ. That said:
I'd rather that you just come straight to the point and not pretend that, hey, a natural conversation just happened to turn to your admission. I'm not stupid and I can tell when I'm..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by synecdoche
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Of course not. We'd all be better off if you just made me God-Emperor of America.
First thing: crush my enemies.
Second: see them driven before me.
Third: hear the lamentations of their women. If necessary, women will be provided.
Fourth: ?..." [
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favorited 1 time
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I PUT RELISH ON MY HOT DOGS. MUSTARD AND SWEET RELISH. IT IS BEAUTIFUL AND GRAND.
Durn Bronzefist:
I have, or at least had, relatives in Sistersville, WV. Sistersville is a tiny, dying oil town on the Ohio. In the early 80s, it had an..." [
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favorited 2 times
10 days ago
Ask comment:
"papaya, from what I gather what you're missing is that you only get the difficulty points for things you successfully complete.
So I, a sedentary fat slob, can't enter Olympic gymnastics, claim that I'm going to leap 100 meters into the air, give..." [
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favorited 13 times
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I will say that kosher hot dogs are not that great
YOU SAY IT WITH FORKED TONGUE, TOVARISCH." [
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favorited 1 time
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Nobody tell boingboing or the world will drown in a sea of papercraft LHC parts." [
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favorited 5 times
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"DevilsAdvocate: didn't President Tom Beck come first?
The more I see movies like 10.5 and The Day After Tomorrow, the more I realize Deep Impact is about as good as that sort of movie seems to get...." [
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favorited 1 time
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"His mother is white, from Kansas. He was raised by her and her parents. Why do people call him black?
Which part of the bus do you think he'd get to sit on if he found himself in 1948 Montgomery?
If detained by the LAPD, how do you think he'd..." [
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favorited 1 time
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Forbes's methodology, which leans heavily on Who's Who in America and ratemyprofessor.com
I thought that was a joke at first. Wow.
Now to improve my university's ranking by giving myself about 100 glowing reviews...." [
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favorited 1 time
12 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Every time a "meh" is uttered, an angel gets its wings CAUGHT IN A TURBINE.
Seeing as how I already have popcorn:
meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh..." [
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favorited 1 time
12 days ago
Ask comment:
"Unless the alternative is, literally, the street, then you don't have any real obligation to house her. And frankly, that seems almost impossible. She really has no other friends or family?
So even if she goes to stay somewhere else, maybe I..." [
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favorited 2 times
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Useless, as it doesn't seem to distinguish between just regular thighs and Americanthighs, nor does it include her motor." [
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favorited 4 times
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"What's really annoying is that the best of all possible worlds is simple, and easily achievable:
Use an electronic machine to do your voting. Then it prints out a ballot. You can look at the ballot and make sure it's like you want. Then you put..." [
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favorited 1 time
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I was kinda hoping to see da Vinci, alexander the Great, Plato, maybe Charlemagne
Hi, I'm Blaise Pascal! You might remember me from such things as my wager! I'm here now to tell you about the new miracle of mechanical adding machines......" [
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favorited 9 times
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"One of the diving events that wasn't shown live on NBC was basically here's the American divers, here's the Chinese diver who's the big threat for gold, and here's a couple more at random (Germany was one, I think).
Even that is better than..." [
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favorited 4 times
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Even NBC explained this, though I could easily have misunderstood Costas's rambling explanation and Bela Karolyi's histrionics. Anyway, what I gather is this:
When you do Olympic gymnastics, or at least the individual events, they make sure that..." [
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favorited 2 times
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Anybody whose opinion of you is in any way dependent on what underwear you wear is someone whose opinions are utterly worthless. Wear what you find comfortable.
If you mean attractive to the ladies, by the time you're down to your skivvies you've..." [
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favorited 9 times
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Sheesh, everyone knows loose leaf tea is much better than bags.
Some people really like the whole tea-bag experience." [
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favorited 1 time
2 weeks ago
