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At least you get it. It's been years and I STILL don't get it.

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You have two choices:

a) God will fix it if I begb) I don't believe in weather.

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Good one, Doloras.

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I thought that was St. Buster the Brown, and Tige his familiar. Then again, I'm not Catholic.

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Nice. If NOAA turns into a second- or third-tier enterprise, so will Weather.com, AccuWeather and all the others that basically glom off NOAA.

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you mean the Chinese hacks, I mean the American PR firms selected by the People's Republic will not be out done by the PR firms hired by the Latin American dictators.

Do you also mean that Lisbeth Salander isn't keeping the world safe from such sweatshop owners?

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Must be related to the genius who made the term "reaching out" so common which annoys me because it sounds so euphemistic like "looking forward to being part of the conversation" which commits NOTHING other than buy time to spend one's time counting in a garage by the motorway.

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It occurred to me that "Be the change you want to see" came from the same man who practiced what he preached and walked around in the clothes he made from the thread he spun.

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I misread that as "missing panties" and wondered what that poster was going to look like.

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[ewww!]

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[gauche libelz]

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It's like Christianity. No allegedly Christian kingdom or state in history was ever run on the principles Jesus of Nazareth advocated. They ended up, as they always do, in the hands of the scribes and Pharisees. After the Zealot dagger-men were quite finished.

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Yup. Idealism is easy to describe but hard to put into practice.

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And then, "The Asshole is making a movement" could be code for him giving a speech.

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No Donnie broke wind

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"Who could have known that we would be looking forward to being a part of the conversation about offering thoughts and prayers."

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