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
more than 12 hours 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
more than 12 hours 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
Yesterday
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
3 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
4 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
4 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
4 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
4 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
4 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
4 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
5 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
5 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
6 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
6 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
6 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
6 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
6 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
7 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
7 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
7 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
7 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
7 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
8 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
8 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
8 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, naju, vacapinta, oozy rat in a sanitary zoo, Floach, greytape, dmd, h00py, rdr
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Second, you don't say things like that in public if you're a politician with any kind of ambitionI am not claiming the story you're talking about is true. However, I frankly don't see any reason to believe that McCain is not the kind of man who says..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bunnytricks, dhartung
9 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Yeah, um, thanks guys. Condescend much?
TheNewWazoo, your search reveals, essentially, three things.
Alan, yours reveals those same three things, repeated many times each over forty links or so.
Is it unreasonable of me to think that there..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by kev23f, John Kenneth Fisher, hjo3, Nattie, Optimus Chyme
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"To people saying McCain won regardless of truth and content because his soundbites score points or whatever:
MediaCurves: Independents say Obama won 61% - 39%
CBS: Uncommitted voters say Obama won 40% - 22% (with the other 38% saying it was a..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by mer2113, tehloki, jonp72, raysmj, Nattie, homunculus
9 days ago
Ask comment:
"I guess I don't understand what's not to understand.
You told him you don't want to have sex without a commitment. He told you he doesn't want to commit. What's the confusion?..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blueberry, Ookseer
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Don't make the Canadians angry, you fuckers. You wouldn't like notice us when we're angry.We're not scared of you. Sarah Palin will protect us when Harper rears his head into our airspace...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mek, frenetic
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"And not only that, but also who do you think is America's first and best line of defense if Santa goes on a murderous rampage? Alaska, that's who." [
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favorited 31 times, recently by Goofyy, tzikeh, blueberry, infinitefloatingbrains, wittgenstein, Senor Cardgage, xena, king walnut, emd3737, mitzyjalapeno, Twicketface, tehloki, natteringnabob, Atom Eyes, sotalia, msali, MythMaker, newmoistness, axon, pantufla, teleri025, M.C. Lo-Carb!, Lipstick Thespian, darkstar, piedmont, pmbuko, hal9k, Legomancer, phirleh, h00py, hazyjane
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"If Palin were a man, we'd all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes.I think this is a poor analogy.
I could be wrong, but my general impression about Biden's verbal missteps is that he..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marble
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The entire concept of this is enough to make me want McCain impeached from his senate seat if it's even legally possible to do so.The Constitution doesn't explicitly forbid it, but neither does it explicitly say that it can be done.
In fact, the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by RussHy, LobsterMitten
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Sarah Palin calls Henry Kissinger naive.
Or, giving her all possible benefit of the doubt and putting it in the best possible light for her, Sarah Palin doesn't believe Katie Couric when Couric correctly points out to Palin that Henry Kissinger..." [
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favorited 1 time
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Kirk won in Wrath of Khan by thinking in three dimensions, while Khan thought in two.
Barack Obama will win in this election by thinking in three dimensions, while John McCain thinks in fifteen, fourteen of which are not actually real...." [
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favorited 5 times
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I know that this is a stupid question, but if Johnny Mac is suspending his campaign why are they still running his spots on my local TVBecause, as has been made abundantly clear over the last several weeks, John McCain is a pathological liar.
Was..." [
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favorited 1 time
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Since we're mapping people to characters from Fargo, I'd just like to add that by far the best matchup, possibly even of any politician to any character in any movie ever, is Dick Cheney as Gaear Grimsrud...." [
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favorited 1 time
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Stepping back from it all, dispassionately ignoring the fact that there's still a chance that these lunatics could actually win the Presidency of the United States, it's actually becoming entertaining to watch the escalation of absurdity that the..." [
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favorited 3 times
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm sure conservatism will one day recover - because it is right about the main issues: government needs to be kept in its place, taxes should be low (...)I'm sick of this shit. Our taxes are low, relative to historical rates. For rich people,..." [
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favorited 24 times
13 days ago
