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As one does.

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There is many a tail to be told.

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She's my new hero.

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Yeah, she's adorable.

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I think we should all legally change our names to passwords that no one else can easily guess. And yes special characters are allowed: #fu, @fu, >fu

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God, we miss the Car Guys! Still listen to reruns just to hear closing credits:)

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Did you ever meet that Japanese-Russian pole dancer? Ivana Takemi-Klozov?

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I didn't agree with Ken Blackwell in just about anything, but there was one time when that did happen.

During a radio interview in 2004, the reporter asked Blackwell what would happen if a change in the status of the war in Iraq, or another terrorist attack on US soil, forced George W. Bush to cancel the federal elections.

Blackwell said, "Let me stop you right there. There are no federal elections. There are 50 state elections, and the chief elections officer in each state makes all the decisions concerning those elections according to the laws of their state."

Actually, there's more than 50 with DC and the territories, but he was trying to get that important point across on radio. Every state passes their own sets of laws determining how elections are conducted there, from the elegibility requirements for candidates down to the final tabulation of votes cast.

The President and his administration have no role in that aspect of election law.

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Frank Luntz found that "Fuck you, I got mine!" doesn't poll well for certain demographics. That's why they went with, "Those people took yours away from you."

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By a wag, I hope?

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Remember the guy who hacked into Sarah Palin's non-government email account with 2 seconds of googling for the answer to the security question? He got sent upriver, so someone thinks that sort of shit is pretty serious.

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The World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) was held one year in The Hague. The convention ran Thursday through Monday. Overlapping that was an international symposium of fireworks manufacturers that ran Monday through Friday.

Every night, a different company would put on a display. This was for their peers, so they pulled out all the stops and showed off their latest cutting edge stuff.

For the overlap, the Worldcon attendees would go up to the roofs of their hotels, smoke some killer weed, and ooh and aah their asses off.

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Sounds like the jock and the nerd on the Monday morning school bus concerning the weekend homework.

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That's why the medical people are so obsessed with your birth date. It's another check to confirm they've got the right records.

I got my first cataract surgery on my birthday. It was just the next available date. From the moment I walked into the lobby of the place, everyone I dealt with asked my name and birth date. I gave them the date, they checked their records, then there was a brief moment before recognition kicked in, and they looked down at the date at the bottom of the computer screen and wished me a happy birthday.

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My state requires me to provide the last four digits of my SS# or driver's license # to vote absentee.

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Zip codes alone give them a wealth of information.

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