MeFi comment:
"What I find interesting about the trolls is how closely they echo the official talking points. This is the week to smear Obama about his past associations, so these are the links we're seeing here, and on every other popular political site, today. A..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by cashman, blueberry, Miko, brain cloud, fourcheesemac
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"From the letter to the editor that 4CM links to above:
McCain has not said one word about the outrageous lack of enforcement of mine safety and health laws in the Bush administration, while Barack Obama has consistently promised to appoint someone..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MikeKD
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't believe that Palin is stupid. I'm sure there are topics upon which she can wax rhapsodic. She just clearly knows as much about national and international affairs as I do about major league baseball. If I were put on the spot about sports, and..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by blueberry, EarBucket, cashman, fourcheesemac
9 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I can't wait to see the new kinds of relationshipfilter questions that pop up after dating.metafilter.com goes live.
If I recall correctly, someone mapped this out to humorous effect in a previous DoMe thread.
And while we're sorta on the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by MLIS, pointystick
10 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I demand to be played by Danny Trejo. In real life. I think I'd get more done with my day if I were Danny Trejo. Does Danny Trejo have writer's block? He did once, and he strangled it and fed it to his dogs...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bonobo
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Compared to the Charlie Gibson interview, the difference in interpersonal dynamic in the Palin/Couric interview is fascinating. She sure says "Katie" a lot less often than she said "Charlie."
Palin is a charmer, and I'm pretty..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by chuckdarwin, every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I will pay someone cash money to have this political thread not be about konolia." [
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favorited 123 times, recently by milarepa, flibbertigibbet, kryptondog, shitcock, avocet, drdevice, kev23f, redfisch, Secret Life of Gravy, jocelmeow, shinynewnick, schyler523, KathyK, mammary16, jessamyn, GeckoDundee, marsha56, Dormant Gorilla, ersatzkat, ymgve, Lentrohamsanin, dopeypanda, lupus_yonderboy, idiopath, chuckdarwin, jabberjaw, MythMaker, EatTheWeak, the.carol.baxter.experience, Deathalicious, rokusan, sambosambo, nonmerci, darkstar, zardoz, gen, Joey Bagels, lumensimus, nax, merelyglib, etaoin, orrnyereg, clearly, ooga_booga, drezdn, Nice Guy Mike, normy, hecho de la basura, marble, des, Balisong, katillathehun, Missiles K. Monster, cj_, Space Kitty, LMGM, dhartung, the littlest brussels sprout, Shutter, pxe2000, box, butterstick, emelenjr, leftcoastbob, Ron Thanagar, 0xFCAF, Bernt Pancreas, dosterm, flamk, ambrosia, knapah, stinkycheese, spaceman_spiff, PROD_TPSL, maryh, shiu mai baby, bigbigdog, kableh, Sphinx, mattbucher, baphomet, like_neon, Skorgu, lord_wolf, RussHy, tehloki, Mick, sveskemus, bitter-girl.com
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Saturday Night Live's parody of the debate was unfunny all the way through, but the worst part is how no one has figured out how to make Obama funny. It looks like they're going with the "he's a corrupt Chicago pol" angle, and it just..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blueberry, mothershock
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Nevermind was the first CD* I ever bought, and it was one of the main soundtracks to the year I first had my driver's license, and therefore could for the first time in my life have my own soundtrack as loud as I want to have it. I won't debate its..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by paleyellowwithorange
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Most of the very smart people I know think Mensa is a bad joke. There's a lot more to intelligence than joining ridiculous clubs, too.
"I worried about the arbitrary 132 cut-off point, until I met someone with an I.Q. of 131 and, honestly, he..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Senor Cardgage, BrotherCaine
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"It always makes me feel better when I read something like this. It's a reminder that somewhere in the Republican party there are people with whom I have ideological disagreements, and nothing more. It isn't just the party of greed-drunk criminals and..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by teleri025, Skorgu, blueberry, yhbc, scody
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Actually the gas face was more of a Huuuuuhhhhhabibbleahh! Kind of a lip wobbling head rattling number that would be apropos here but in fact isn't what Couric was performing.
Point conceded. But I bet she did it the moment she got out of the room...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by shiu mai baby, cashman
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"You'll note that Obama is also taking questions from the press right now, because he is not a coward." [
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favorited 38 times, recently by kryptondog, shitcock, giantfist, schyler523, orrnyereg, cass, Dormant Gorilla, marsha56, ymgve, lupus_yonderboy, chuckdarwin, EatTheWeak, colt45, rfbjames, nonmerci, rokusan, scody, darkstar, hackly_fracture, AsYouKnow Bob, jtron, clarahamster, drezdn, shiu mai baby, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing, Meatbomb, hazel, fleetmouse, clearly, clever sheep, the dief, Big_B, RussHy, pardonyou?, maxwelton, turaho, cashman, Solon and Thanks
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"When I was younger, I thought "We Can Work It Out" was an ode to cooperation and brotherhood, but one day I paid attention to the lyrics and realized that its nothing more than a sharply worded demand for total capitulation from the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ktrey
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Also, when Kurt Cobain killed himself, this depressed teenager wrote the single worst poem that has ever been penned by man or beast, and that's got to be worth something.
I don't have a copy of it, and thank God for that, as if I read it again my..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by flatluigi, minifigs, sugarfish
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The story of 74487:
"Real isn't how you are made," said Thread 74487. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by urbanwhaleshark
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I've learned a painful lesson today. Reference Snow, even in jest, and you will get "Informer" stuck in your head.
Here's how you rinse it out...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sys Rq
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I have been following this story since it broke via this thread. I have followed it rabidly over the past 72 hours.
Yeah, I'm glued to the Internet like my grandma watching Days of Our Lives. I'm all like, hush y'all, Bookhouse's stories are on...." [
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favorited 19 times
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Rick Davis's company was taking money from Freddie Mac up until last month.
But, you know, Obama talked to a dude on the phone once, so, like, it's pretty much even...." [
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favorited 3 times
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"A producer on Fox-frickin'-News calls bullshit on the lack of Palin access. Between this and George Will getting as close to endorsing Obama as a man like him ever will leads to the question: outside of people who believe that Obama is the Antichrist,..." [
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favorited 1 time
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Car Wars was so awesome in theory and such utter shit in real life.
Theory: Mad Max + you = super sweet
Real life: Spend ten minutes calculating the angle and length of a skid to determine the correct location to move your little car across the..." [
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favorited 2 times
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"McCain camp calls on reporters to stop calling them liars, while lying." [
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favorited 4 times
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Taibbi is doing his best to be the new Hunter S. Thompson. Cruel and brilliant:
Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she’s a new low in reptilian villainy,..." [
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favorited 1 time
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Palin is still repeating that bridge to nowhere line. She's a marathon liar." [
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favorited 1 time
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Last night Thin Lizzy and I went to the opening night of 9 to 5: The Musical. Early on in the show there was a technical problem, causing a long pause in the performance. To kill time, Dolly Parton (who was in the audience, along with Jane Fonda,..." [
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favorited 6 times
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Sometimes, while refreshing my Recent Activity, I wonder what's happening in the non-Palinville sections of Metafilter." [
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favorited 4 times
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Poll: Racial views steer some away from Obama.
If Obama loses and it can be determined in any reliable fashion that it was plain old white racism that did it, this country is going to be so fucked. Imagine all of these young people awakened to the..." [
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favorited 4 times
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Have you seen where Palin told Hannity that she watched Tina Fey's impression of her "with the sound off"? But that she "nailed it"?
Seriously. That's what she wants you to believe. That she was parodied on national..." [
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favorited 3 times
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I love my small town, but it's also full of child rapists.
Okay, that was not the second part of that sentence that I was expecting. "But the movie theater isn't very good," maybe, or "but it's hard to find a salsa-dancing partner...." [
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favorited 6 times
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The Truman comparison seems especially to rankle Mrs. Palin's critics, perhaps because in many respects it rings true.
Yes, but (as a native Missourian) in the "I knew Harry Truman, and you're no Harry Truman" sort of way...." [
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favorited 4 times
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I find it interesting that Palin conducted government business from a Yahoo! account. And, although I know nothing about it, I wonder how hard it is for every hacker in the world to crack her account...." [
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favorited 2 times
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This is so much less cool than I thought it would be. I was really hoping for something like:
Hey, First Dude:
OMG!! IM GONNA BE VP!!1!! We'd better dig up those corpses and hide them somewhere besides the back yard, huh? Google "body..." [
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favorited 1 time
3 weeks ago
