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"George just barely singled to first. "

I'm pretty sure he reached on an error.

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Queenie does actually play <em>some</em> role in British foreign policy. She is the one with whom the dignitaries wish to hobnob, and also the one that gets to sign stuff all fancy-like.

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"Hey, Condi, since you're so musical, you wanna blow my skin flute? heh heh heh."

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Although I doubt Massachusetts would be doing very well if Mitt was still governor, 47th ranked state in job creation and all that.

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Israeli PMs seem to be more inclined to leave the table right before US elections.

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I'm not sure she's a moron. She's a specialist whose specialty self-deported, and then was given a high-level super-generalist management job and didn't have the fuck of an idea what to do about it. Poster child for the Peter Principle.

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To Mittens, there is no "foreign" policy. His money is at home anywhere in the world.

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So did I.

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Plus, I heard that's where all the skinheads are.

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Well, there <i>was</i> this "Powell Doctrine", which Powell then ignored.

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If you consider her job to be ignoring warnings of threats which were later realized in a devastating way, and complicity in the commission of war crimes including "the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole", then yeah, sure, she did her job to perfection.

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Bush would have had the fucking mission accomplished banner draped over his shoulders like a sash.

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Archaeology libel!

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It is profoundly stupid to create two enemies for every one you kill.

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I'm thinking performance artist, myself.

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Hopefully blended grain whiskey. Don't want single malt prices going up.

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