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Completely OT, but after watching that I went to another track that reminded me that, despite everything, Layla is Best Song.

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Pretty much exactly.

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Good point.

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Underrated in Close Encounters, imo.

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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H. L. Mencken

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You've proliferated.

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Well, you have to remember that this "beheading" bullshit is far from the worst thing that LePage has done to his state. Still, on balance, the negligent endangerment of 100,000 people probably wins.

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This isn't the Maine of Jessica Fletcher. She'd never allow a governor like LePage to make these kinds of declarations, not with her in Cabot Cove, no sir.

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So it's the guillotine for the Count D' Money!

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The flying bugs in Starship Troopers?

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Ignorance, racism, and a love of the death penalty ... what could possibly go wrong?

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How are these people getting elected? I excuse a lot of ridiculous things where I live because Tennessee. It's expected. But Maine? Come on...

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Voter apathy, nepotism, bribery.

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Fair enough.

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