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Hey, it was going swell until some religious nut came out of the woods with what he claimed were God's rules, written on tablets. Patently insane nonsense, but a bunch of dimwits took him at his word, and there's been fighting ever since.

(What's really crazy is that this has happened more than once!)

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If they did show up, they'd be with the protesters this time around. The GOP knows better than to roust them from their recliners on a football day.

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I used to walk past it every day. It's got two shiny spots from all the pilgrims touching it. One of them is on the nose.

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"Smart, normal people with actual solutions to our economic problems" make for lousy video clips, and don't attract the attention of the media (they don't even exist as far as Faux News is concerned.) If you're lucky, you might hear them talking on NPR sometimes. And this election cycle, we've got Obama as the Dems locked-in candidate, and a bunch of clowns trying to out-stupid one another for the GOP nomination.

Obama is in fact one of those smart, normal people, by the way. If we could throw enough of those ignorant, obstructionist dickwads out of Congress, he might have a shot at fixing things, but I'm not optimistic.

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And the electorate vote in millionaires probably with the thought that because they are rich, they are interested in improving the prosperity of fellow Americans. The millionaires are so disconnected from the needs of the average American voter and they don't give a rat's ass.

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No...he's just looking for probable cause.

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Since nothing happens without sponsorship these days, maybe a national restaurant chain can get in on the action and call it a Hooterville.

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Wish I could take credit, but its been making the rounds for a short time now.

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oh THAT was the protest with the cabernet...

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free mumia!

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I could claim to speaking in Teabaggish, but... yeah... okay. Mea culpa.

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Bongos! Nothing scares the wall streeters like pounding on a set of bongos.

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Hey, those billions aren't going to make themselves... you think it's easy screwing $3 out of each and every US citizen? And that only gets you one lousy billion!

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<a href="http:\/\/i1115.photobucket.com\/albums\/k551\/denniverse\/paulkrugmanistired.jpg" target="_blank">This.</a>

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That toddlin' town. The Bronx is up and Manhattan is down.

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One way or another we have all touched, or been touched by that statue.

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