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I thought China was leading the way, with 2,433 people killed in coal mine accidents in 2010.

The good news is that this was down 10% from 2009. The bad news is that -- being evil socialist commies and yadda yadda durrrrrr -- they got it down by choosing "job-killing regulations" over people-killing non-regulation. Real Amercian™ Republicans, of course, prefer the latter, for freedumb.

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That would be the first transparency in the entire GOP campaign.

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You and your damned facts! What have facts got to do with Republican politics?

Please prefix this stuff with (OT) so we know in advance, OK?

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So the GOP really <i>is</i> taking a page from the North Koreans.

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<i>The mine had to be shut down for “safety and security” reasons during Romney’s visit.</i> Right. I'm sure it's in the rules somewhere that you have to shut down operations for grandstanding GOP politicians. No doubt the owners cheered Mitt wildly. Anything that interferes with production in order to keep miners from getting killed, on the other hand, is socialist big gub'mint jerb-killin' intereference with a patriotic Amercian business, and cause for outraged fist-shaking at Obummer.

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Whoops...meant "Bond" villian...my autocorrect thinks I'm a hippie.

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and here in chi thanks to bp's tainted gas or whatever they did in IN (it's always IN isn't it?)

why are talking to the troll?

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well i guess i should be thankful that this is an earworm i can live with for the rest of the afternoon.

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i guess it's better than working for a massey.

but not by much.

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i thought it was 'right to work'?

sounds more like 'right to support mitt romney and my asshole boss'.

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"...If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate..."

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Legitimate rape

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You know, I was justing saying the other day "Its not hot enough outside right now...I sure wish there was more heat-retaining carbon in the atmosphere to raise the planet's average temperature." Thanks, Mitt!

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Rhetorical question, right?

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Romney is a Dickens villian, like Moonbase Gingrich was a bong villian...I guess Santorum was a villian from a Disney movie.

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If no-one will pedal bicycles, there will be no point in peddling them!

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