MeFi comment:
"Assuming the Muslim terrorist beliefs are truly held, I frankly fail to understand how people so entangled in this sort of thing manage to continue it. If Obama gets elected, I am rather sure he will commit no acts of terrorism against America. I am..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by nickyskye, shmegegge, Pope Guilty, birdherder, EarBucket, dansdata, starzero, Dreama, zarah, blueberry, yertledaturtle, brownpau, winna, Kato, bunnytricks
Almost 4 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Imagine Clinton in the White House. That's changing the culture. People would gripe. Some would be angry. But would it attract the same amount of violent hate? Not even close.Someone doesn't remember the 90s, and how incredibly and inexplicably..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by WinnipegDragon, Pope Guilty
5 ¼ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"I was at an Obama rally today and whenver the beat ended with 'McCain' or his policy, the audience jumped in with a big ol' "Boooo."And, I assume, a few shouts of "Kill him" and "Off with his head", right?
... right?..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by Mick, EarBucket, Dreama, null terminated, MythMaker, winna, Nattie, The Ardship of Cambry
8 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Adler Planetarium statementI think McCain should just go whole hog on this tactic. Start quoting the head mutant from "The Omega Man" about the evils of science and the purifying cleansing powers of fire...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by contessa
9 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"what is up with the hysteria about ACORN helping homeless people vote? if we are willing to still consider them people, they should be able to vote, right?Your faith that Republicans consider homeless people to be people is charmingly ingenuous...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by contessa, blueberry
9 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Conservatives Call Obama’s Correct Pronounciation Of Pakistan ‘Exotic’ And ‘Annoying’.You talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by shitcock, brain cloud
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Yes, if McCain said that his wife Michelle was in the audience, we would be calling it the product of an aging mind." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by brain cloud
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, um, Veterans' Affairs would be at best a questionable choice. McCain talks a lot about his support for veterans, but many veterans who actually pay attention to how he votes on veterans' issues are... unimpressed, to put it charitably...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"You know, once Obama becomes president, I'd really like to see him (and I think he would, given the kind of man he has shown himself to be) offer a position in his administration to McCain that would be at least a gesture to his experience and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"After the debate, Palin praised McCain's performance, saying the night went "great."Oh, you betcha!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Reverend John
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Something that struck me (two instances of the same essential thing):
Early on, McCain directly said to one of the audience members something like "I'm sure you never heard of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before last week".
Then,..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by blueberry, dejah420, finite, amyms
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
""That one." God, he's such a snide, nasty, small man. That's what people are seeing, and how far it really is from the big maverick-y myth that's been perpetuated for so long.Huh? It's easy to be a maverick about Senate votes. But being a..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by zardoz, finite, clarahamster
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
""I'm gonna kick some ass with my own pipe wrench" is, quite possibly, the greatest single lyric of all time.
However, I'm not convinced that it's accurate. It has always seemed to me that that shot was of one of the bad guys raising his..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by darkstar, Rock Steady, Dreama, puke & cry, five fresh fish
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"In fairness, on the positive side, at least it's different than the other Ramones song in existence." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by whir
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I did find it amusing that Palin co-opted the phrase "Never Again" from the Holocaust and used it in reference to... the credit crisis.Well dontcha know, gee golly, maybe it's just because I'm a Joe Six Pack Hockey Mom Washington Outsider,..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by schyler523, brain cloud, blueberry, Devils Rancher, lord_wolf, afx114, Senor Cardgage, Miko, Artw
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Sarah Palin Imagines the Vice Presidential Debate
GI (serious): Governor Palin, Senator Biden, thank you for joining us this evening. Governor, the first question is to you: Many people are saying that blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by kosher_jenny, Balisong, Coffeemate, kcds, designbot, vhsiv, bitter-girl.com, spiderwire, Dark Messiah, Senor Cardgage, bigbigdog, topynate, zardoz, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Is there a Sarah Palin VP Debate Drinking Game (tm) yet?Drink whenever you remember that there's a decent chance that this woman will become the President of the United States of America.
I know I'll need a stiff one whenever that occurs...." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by grapefruitmoon, bitter-girl.com, papafrita, schyler523, lord_wolf, Orrorin, axon, malevolent, dhartung, MikeKD, shiu mai baby, sevenyearlurk, FelliniBlank, clever sheep, pointilist
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't know that refusing to acknowledge Obama means McCain is racist.Yeah. John McCain may very well be racist -- I wouldn't be surprised -- but what he's showing is merely that he's a small, petty, bitter man...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by PROD_TPSL, blueberry, Meatbomb, scody
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"So if it’s a pod of whales and a murder of crows, do you call it a team of mavericks?I just looked this up in the OED, too. It turns out that the proper term is actually "a coven of mavericks"...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Garak, Galvatron
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
""The chant is 'Drill, baby, drill'."
Oh, snap! Joe Biden forgot Poland!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by vbfg
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Disgusting that they share the position on making marriage unavailable to same-sex couples.This is true of Obama and Biden in terms of the religious sense of marriage. In terms of the civil sense of marriage, they're all for it.
And frankly, this..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by palomar
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"did he say "Bosniac's" ?Yes. I was surprised by that, so I looked it up, and according to both the OED and Merriam-Websters, "Bosniacs" is a synonym for "Bosnians"...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by moss
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Perhaps the problem is simply that she doesn't know what the word "specific" means." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"There's a 4 point margin of error with that poll. Its still a dead heat. Those numbers are meaningless except MAYBE for Virginia and Minnestora.A 1% lead in a poll with a 4% margin of error corresponds to a sixty percent chance of the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Not that the "newspapers" thing isn't awful enough on its own, but...
I just remembered that her college degree is in journalism." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by Skorgu, every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes, like_neon, Mental Wimp, blueberry, palomar, pb, brain cloud, Artw, Miko, spiderwire, Bookhouse, scody, shiu mai baby, cashman
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"What I want to know is when Putin rears his head into our airspace, how is she going to find the time to send those out there if she's reading all newspapers?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Morrigan
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"That "newspapers" video... it is just so awful that, while I'm watching it, I get a low level gut feeling that it's impolite of me to watch. I feel like I should look away, out of basic human decency.
And maybe I'm reading too much into..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Honestly, before you listed some of the (Supreme Court cases) I knew, I had a deer-in-the-headlights reaction myself in actually naming the cases.Are you running for Vice President of the United States of America?..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blueberry, fourcheesemac
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Homer Simpson as Sarah Palin
"You've been Safety Inspector for two years. What initiatives have you spearheaded in that time?"
"Uh... all of them?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by EarBucket
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"she can be as mean, nasty and combative as possible.Yeah, because that worked so well for John McCain. It's going to work superbly when it's coming from a featherweight who doesn't even understand what her scripted attacks are supposed to mean.
I..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by shiu mai baby, fourcheesemac
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Ah, Miko, I had never seen MarkovFilter before. That's great, thanks.
Sticking my own username came up with the following, which I am highly proud of:
"Nice, so because Obama can recognize that McCain was checking out her ass...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by streetdreams
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Wait. So it this web 3.0 or web 2.0.1 or what?Web 2.0 version 2.
Ah, for the halcyon days of 2000, when I could have invested fifty dollars in this at the IPO and been a millionaire by 10:30 AM.
Much more pleasant than the market today, when I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Spatch
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I really, really would like to see someone play a Joseph Welch to McCain's Joe McCarthy." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by darkstar
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I mean, the previous interviews made her look unprepared, ill informed, and not deserving of serious consideration. And all that's bad enough.
But this "hold my hand while the mean lady is mean to me" interview goes far beyond that. It..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by darkstar
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"So, name one possible VP who would have had a serious shot at saving the McCain ticket.Jesus.
Of course, the McCain campaign would keep him in a media-free protective bubble, because they wouldn't want it to get out that he has crazy ideas like..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Megami, blueberry, mothershock, Rumple, EarBucket
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Nice, so because Obama can recognize that McCain isn't always constantly wrong in all things, he is not fit to lead? What is their logic?I believe the logic is IF OBAMA LOVES MCCAIN SO MUCH WHY DON'T HE MARRY..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Atom Eyes, bookwo3107, misha, Popular Ethics
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"being more of a 'worldgame' football player (soccer) than a US 'football' player, I had no idea just how rigid and structured the game was!!
you mean ordinarily there are only 5 players on the field who are allowed to catch a pass? !Well, six...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, grubi
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"On a more serious note, a lot of people have pointed out that (A) earmarks don't assign new funds to agencies, they just make sure that those agencies spend some of their already-existing funds on specific projects, and (B) Congressmen probably..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by substrate
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I haven't seen the whole interview, but I've seen a bunch of clips. My favorite* so far is this one. Truly ludicrous.
*: by which I mean the one which makes me fear for my country the..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by ooga_booga
11 days ago
