MeFi comment:
"The Presidency is NOT won by discussing specific policies and programs and records. The Presidency is won by personality, broad themes and by who can elicit a positive response from the populace. I find myself warming to Obama because he seems to..." [
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favorited 33 times, recently by goodnewsfortheinsane
38 minutes ago
MeFi comment:
"Mutant, there are notes on what the speaker was saying here:
It's always darkest before it's pitch black." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yertledaturtle
5 ¼ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"I figured that if we're all going to talk about Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground this month, we should at least all know what it is that we're talking about...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"I really think that Obama at the next debate, after McCain goes off on earmarks for the thousandth time, should say something like.
"You know, I agree with John on wasteful earmark spending, and one of the things I really appreciate about the..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by shotgunbooty, flatluigi, Servo5678, Nattie, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, Mick, brain cloud, Senor Cardgage, marble, Dragonness
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"I suppose I figured that there was only one action in question. Does that mean that all that Finding Two states is that it is within Palin's jurisdiction to fire Monegan?
The finding on Sarah Palin was twofold:
1) It's illegal for the Governor..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by flatluigi, blueberry, frenetic, darkstar, mazola, brain cloud
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"The documentary I referred to earlier, The Weather Underground
Viewable here." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MikeKD
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Why does nobody bother to defend Ayers? There's actually a fairly decent case to be made for defending the Weathermen. I mean, obviously, Obama shouldn't do it -- but Rolling Stone, maybe?..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by malpractice, amyms
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"My mixes are in my website link in my profile. Pretend the 3rd one is my Obama mix." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nudar
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, let's get rid of earmarks entirely.
Here's a handy chart showing exactly what a huge impact that will have on the budget." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by olya, Orrorin, tehloki, jedicus, Slarty Bartfast, kaseijin, Caduceus, cashman, preparat, ORthey, silence, Dragonness, DU, kuujjuarapik, fourcheesemac, chuckdarwin, Hat Maui
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
DEAR AMERICAN:
I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE.
I AM MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA. MY..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by zippy, ikkyu2, tehloki, Hello Dad, I'm in Jail, Korou, dr_dank, jeffburdges, Kid Charlemagne, Frankieist, H-Bar, dejah420
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"As someone who has seen Metallica (when they were still good!) and Justice live, Justice is more metal now than Metallica is." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by SeanMac
2 weeks ago
MeFi post:
Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
favorited 14 times, recently by roll truck roll, bettershredder, Siberian Mist, skyper, Manhasset, lahersedor, opsin, P.o.B., krautland, onkelchrispy, sexymofo, BrotherCaine, mds35, njm
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm not sure how it's different than any of the other bombings and assassinations in Pakistan." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by longsleeves
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"If you want to really do something that would probably make Jesus happy, and the rest of us, too, then memorize and understand the Sermon on the Mount, live by its principles and throw away the rest of the bible. If anybody ever asks you why you're..." [
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favorited 20 times, recently by cotterpin, dejah420, papafrita, anvilcity, Ziggy Zaga, lattiboy, null terminated, tehloki, NationalKato, dlanznar, rocket88, jock@law, Dormant Gorilla, Durin's Bane, Jilder, bent back tulips, runincircles, ninthart, afx114, louche mustachio
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"tkolar, that's uncalled for.
It's not like anybody stands up for the rights of accused pedophiles to score easy points from the peanut gallery.
These are people ACCUSED of a crime. They deserve to be treated with some sense of fairness and..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by ifjuly
3 weeks ago
MeFi post:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that videogames are created awesome.
favorited 14 times, recently by manguero, lou, yonation, Cassilda, prambutan, cardern, Twicketface, Jorus, daniel_charms, unsupervised
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This whole convention makes me want to punch a republican in the face. The Democrats went out of their way not to question McCain's character. What a dickhead, classless move to go belittle and condescend to Obama this way. All it's going to do is..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by ceri richard
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"dawson, what are you talking about -- the DWI story was released by the campaign, unbidden. The troopergate story is all over the news in alaska and has been for months.
Also (saw this at Reason):
45: number of months Sarah Palin has been..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by ceri richard
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm an atheist before I'm a democrat. I quite frankly could care less if the Democratic party ever learns to get "the religious vote". I'd prefer that they didn't. I'd prefer we ran candidates who gave full throated condemnations of the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bouvin
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Konolia, I would suggest to you that those people were never going to vote for Obama. You are living in a tiny, shrinking bubble. As excited as y'all are to vote for another bible thumping idiot, you only get to vote once, and you only add up to..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by nonmerci
Last month
MeFi comment:
"How do you even compare Robotron vs. Rollercoaster Tycoon? Tony Hawk vs. Grim Fandago? World of Warcraft vs. SimCity? GTA: San Andreas vs. Yoshi's Island? Street Fighter vs. NetHack? Guardian Heroes vs. Guitar Hero?
from his GTA 4 review:
At..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by regicide is good for you, joedan, JHarris
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Why does Religion the thing need to be crapped on?
Because it's bullshit. And we shouldn't be encouraging people to believe in nonsense. The less respect we pay it in the public sphere the better. These people should be LAUGHED AT. And here we..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by wildcrdj, Amanojaku, Dormant Gorilla
Last month
MeFi comment:
"See, this is exactly what I fucking mean.
How can a party that intends to govern based on reason possibly accommodate with people who are completely bat shit crazy? Now, granted, this guy is an extreme case, but even 'reasonable' Christians, if..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by sonic meat machine
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Navelgazer: If people aren't out there pushing the maximum possible position of 'no religion', then 'less religion' doesn't become appealingly moderate...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
Last month
MeFi comment:
"You really think so? I love the whole New Games Criticism thing. It's not writing about games, it's about life as someone who plays games. These guys are going to be the people that push games into being an artform, either as critics or designers...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Lentrohamsanin
Last month
MeFi comment:
"But their people tell them the wars are necessary, for their own good, and as we've seen with konolia in that thread, they don't even need to understand why. As long as their people say the war is justified, they believe them.
It doesn't help that..." [
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favorited 1 time
Last month
MeFi comment:
"But I can't really see the purpose of some scattergun "full-throated" approach against merely believing in a deity.
I don't have any problem with 'believing in a diety', as long as they don't claim that diety has some opinions on public..." [
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