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Unfortunately this is not the dumb Alabama town. This is the smart Alabama town.

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That's what I was saying to myself ! I missed it too.

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Very little logic, shitload of pandering.

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pretty sure dianne feinstein's in there somewhere. before she became part of the military industrial complex.

thanks for the history fun.

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I have a friend who had a women's clothing store, a very nice one with expensive, high-quality shoes and clothing. On very rare occasions the most appalling thing would occur: a woman would enter a dressing room to try on an outfit, POOP inside, then leave. She told me that other retailers she'd meet at market confided to her that it was some weird sexual fetish some women had. They said it happens a lot in California.

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You mean return the stuff that's at the bottom of Boston Harbor?

Original proof of purchase required, Colonial!

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freedom conquers freedumb. there may be some hope for us yet.

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I guess that explains why there's so much "more" gun violence in the UK, Sweden, and Japan.

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And he's probably going to change "his mind" about gay and transgender people by the end of the twenty first century at this rate.

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These laws are a perfect example of creating a problem where none existed. Transgender people can't be one tenth of one percent of the population. You're not usually in any bathroom more than a few minutes. Why in the hell would you make any law about where they pee? How the hell are you going to enforce it? What cop is going to want to be on potty patrol? What's actually going to become awkward is when trans folks who have gone through years of hormone therapy and "look" like their chosen gender go into a bathroom that they haven't used for years.

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From voter i.d. laws to prevent widespread electoral fraud to legislation preventing the imposition of Shariah to bathroom laws preventing transgender predators from attacking their womenfolk, it seems Republican legislators are constantly passing laws in response to crimes that exist only in their heads. Perhaps with all this extra time on their hands, they could find a hobby or something instead of making everyone's lives miserable?

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It's a different Oxford (though probably very much the same), but I've never heard any other version of the tune besides that which is on "Freewheelin'". So here:

http://youtu.be/tAVPJH7IQxc

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Could you explain it to my mom now?

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It was intended in the spirit of mocking Ann in the same way we might suggest someone who is virulently anti-gay might actually harbor gay fantasies, although honestly I don't know her position on these laws. Apologies if anyone was offended.

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Or confirm the damn SCOTUS nominee.

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What about all those gay women and men using the bathrooms of their gender? Isn't that some sort of yuuuge problem too? C'mon conservanits! They look like they're supposed to but...get this *looking conspiratorially from side to side*... (in a whisper) they're different. Surely those are grounds for another pointless, unenforceable law.

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