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BTF: Somebody downloaded the picture, labeled it so they could find it again, and then posted it without remembering to change the alt-text to something funny.

"The 1919 World Serious," wrote Ring Lardner. "Which the Cincinnati Redlegs won - much to their surprise."

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After Sen. George Norris got a law passed in Nebrasak that political candidates would be on the ballot with party identification, his enemies found a couple of stoogies named George Norris to run against him.

Those were the good old days!

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Did you see the one where the CEO, President and sole shareholder was filling out the SEC paperwork and ... oh ... oh ....

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She's not an R I take it. She's a D. Maybe a double D.

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"A farm in Alpine Township"... where apparently they're growing dirt and electricity pylons.

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Furniture City of days gone by, baby.

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I'm trying to make myself laugh at this clusterfuck, but the problem is: the assholes got away with it, despite being total fuck-ups.

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There are a lot Schmidt-heads in Michigan.

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Even die-hard Stalinists would think that this scheme was a bad idea.

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Sometimes, brevity is also more correct (than, for example, briefness).

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So: paying someone not to vote for your opponent, totes illegal. Paying your opponent to make sure nobody votes for him? Completely fine.

Michigan, please for the love of all that is good, <em>stop being awful</em>.

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Write in campaign?

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The wingers imagine vast perfectly left-wing conspiracies unfolding over decades. Forged birf certs, with planted newspaper announcements; gun walking stings that will repeal the Second Amendment; Vince Foster murder cover-up, etc.

But their own conspiracy <i>between two people</i> fell apart under the weight of its own idiocy. Either the left are diabolical geniuses at conspiring. Or conspiracies are hard to do. OK, third possibility: Among Repubicans, Dubya is the smart one.

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Those two have a <a href="http:\/\/mutuallybeneficial.net\/" target="_blank"> mutually beneficial arrangement</a>.

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Yes let's dwell on people. Let's dwell on whether the candidate is the kind of person who would engage in rank fraud to deprive his constituency of the very core principal of this nation: democracy. Oh look, he is, because he did!

PS, dude, when you're a fucking politician running for reelection, spending stacks of cash to fill the airwaves with politics, don't tell us to ignore politics, you total asshole.

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