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I have a legitimate use for that as she forwards emails of pics of my nephews sometimes.

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Yes, or actually I have thought about what is going to happen over the next 10 years as she is slipping into dementia and has become more and more confrontational with strangers and family about how she sees the world.

She almost got in a fight and had to be told by my sister to calm down when she started talking/yelling at someone over them using food stamps to buy steaks at her local Food Lion grocery store. Fucked up thing about it is that people around her were supporting her and from what I gather from my sister the person was seriously ill and almost crying as they left.

My mom collects a government pension, Social Security and games the system for medicare because she "deserves it", le sigh.

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Never too late for an abortion.

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Ahhh, rural Florida. Where the men are men and the sheep are nervous.

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It certainly fits Dixie County, where each citizen probably has just one.

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One of the few specific things the US Constitution states the Federal government must do it pay its debts. There isn't anything in there about the Supreme Court ruling on laws being Constitutional. But all Federal debts must be paid.

Yet those who yell the most about the Constitution being our rule of law were the first to be willing to default on that debt.

Kinda like the folks who brag about being true Christians, or having a strong marriage? If you have to tell everybody about it you're probably not real.

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aaaaAAA

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Not just love...but Muskrat love.

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"Some governments have tried to follow that ruling by displaying the commandments with <strike>other</strike> legal documents, like the Magna Carta and Hammurabi's Code. "

Needed fixing.

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That's still my all-time favorite Johnny Damon poster.

"Each figure represents a symbol..." You get to guess about what symbol, then you get to guess what the symbol symbolizes, then you get to do this for every figure, then you get to gusss why the fuck any of therm are there in the first place. So yeah, it leaves room for interpretation. (I've got George Steinbrenner and Mo Rivera figured out, and I know Jeter is in there somewhere, but so far that's all I've got.)

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Is Lincoln doing an Al Jolson version of Mammy?

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<i>"Cross City" lives up to its name.</i>

Unsurprisingly, it is named for the surliness of its citizens rather than the Christian crucifix.

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Right wingers blame everything on the First Amendment.

As usual, they argue that "everyone" wants the commandments and homily to God officially associated with their courthouse. If majority rule is the only real standard, we don't need the Bill of Rights. A majority can enact mandatory church attendance, or outlaw a political party, or confiscate guns. All of those would pass somewhere. The Bill of Rights is for things that are unpopular.

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It's not a graven image, technically speaking, if the words aren't engraved into it, right? Inks are cool if I'm not mistaken.

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My mom is a Teatard and all of her handmade signs she takes to her local rallies in NC are in all caps.

I also have a gmail rule setup to send anything from her with Obama or Democrat in the title straight to trash. Too bad I can't filter out by all caps.

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Oh, for fuck's sake people, get over yourselves and just move it to private property, like in front of a church or something.

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