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I hereby use my Official Negro card to approve this exceptional use of nigger. I think we need a seconding by another Official Negro to pass it, though. Any takers? Racism jujitsu, fuck the world!

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The last time gas prices were this high, Congress actually bothered to question oil company execs about it and they mysteriously dropped again. Given who is in charge of Congress now, this time I doubt we'll be so lucky.

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Underground ruffnecks, pounds of respect <a href="http://www.lyricsdepot.com/..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.lyricsdepot.com/gangstarr/code-of-the-...">http://www.lyricsdepot.com/... Since this has not been seconded, I declare a Negro Executive Order, therefore my decree is law of the land. Man, I have really earned my monthly Being A Black Dude Check this month, thanks Barry!

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Rock the casbah? Ali, this is Wonkette. We rock the cash-bar.

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And you're a "winter," I guess?

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Down here in Dixie, there are occasional spandex-wearing bicyclists, but most of the rest pretty obviously have lost their licenses for multiple DUI offenses.

Wonkette regulars should be honored for promoting alternatives to fossil-fuelled transportation through alcohol abuse.

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The Repubicans -- especially when Dubya was president -- dismiss fuel price increases as the beneficent invisible hand of the market at work, sucking that fungible money out of peoples wallets into terrorist training camps in Saudi Arabia.

But mention a 0.5% tax increase and they can't say "job killing socialism" fast enough.

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I was line for gas behind a woman in a serious SUV the other day and she ended up with $120 worth of gas. I'm old enough to remember people dumping these big station wagons and buying Volkswagens in the late 70's; wonder if that will happen to SUVs?

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