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The polywater guys are about as close as anyone came to that.

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There's a surprising amount of Hindu mythology in it. Which makes the book seem like a missed opportunity for those who are just interested in the historical scenario.

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I really liked that aspect actually.

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He fixed it since then.

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they don’t deserve that.

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ann coulter?

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Yeah, I didn't mean to say that it wasn't good, just that it's an unexpected curve ball for a lot of typical alt history readers.

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Apparently they are the "really big criminals" Dinesh has in mind.

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Photo shoot at La Jolla? Will Mitt make a cameo, shooing away some unruly teens?

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Well, ... Republican.

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If school's out for the summer, and he doesn't have anything to do, maybe he can do some community service tutoring the children who live in San Diego's homeless shelters, whose lack of a fixed address bars them from school, and who have no toys, no safe place to play, and no access to books.

Seriously fuck this guy.

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He shoulda shot some guy to death while playing cop. Then he could've gone to the Caribbean for his summer vacay.

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"No one who speaks German could ever be evil!"

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or maybe he can just STFU and go clean some toilets somewhere

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drove his BMW into a swamp

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Towards the end of that VF article, DdS notes that he's tutoring illegal immigrants in English and that they're making him rethink his previous formulation that the virtue of an immigrant is proportional to the distance he traveled to get to the U.S.

Gee, isn't that nice? Now if only every other dickwad conservative could be forced to interact with the people they target with racist invective, maybe the quality of our political discourse would go up.

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