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Wut?

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Proton disassembly? I think we can schedule that in twenty billion years, give or take a week.

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Please arrange to be at home during the scheduled service period.

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Oh yes she . . . oh wait. That was a different Stephanie.

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Releasing the tape had exactly the desired effect on right-wing racist fuckwads. Jackson just didn't appreciate that he had a wider-than-usual audience.

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Obviously not Hitler, because he - aided by IBM - kept excellent records.

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So we logged requests for this tape, but we didn't log requests because clearly we were too busy to write anything down (read: leave an incirminating paper trail) and now we're not even sure those requests existed in the first place?

Yeah, as arguments go it's about as solid as Jell-O.

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It's a damn shame that NOT ONE JOURNALIST bothered to ask for a copy of the 911 call, or for a statement from the clerk, the officer's name, or for a copy of something more relevant to the shooting incident- like the incident report.

Yup, it's a damn shame that every single journalist instead obsessed about a tape they didn't know even existed, a tape that the police themselves didn't bother about until several days later when a clearly surprised store owner wondered what the hell they wanted it for.

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funny how there seems to be nothing whatsoever on record even now from the clerk or the store, other than their comment that the incident wasn't that big of a deal to them.

You'd think all that "sunshine" would entail a statement from "the victim" for such a "horrendous crime" yet none exists. You can bet that if either the clerk or the store owner had anything bad to say about Brown, it would have been all over the news...

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To be fair, how would anyone have known they wanted to see the video of Rob Ford running and stuff if someone hadn't released it? <a href="http://wonkette.com/559223/..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://wonkette.com/559223/your-morning-inspirati...">http://wonkette.com/559223/...

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Baghdad Bob

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SMOTI is probably dialng them up right now.

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I knew I shouldn't have fallen asleep in Quantum Mechanics...

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