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<i>Hello. My name is Mandy Patinkin. You killed my father. Prepare to die. </i>

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thank you.

waking up to mittens this morning - and mara liassom nattering on about the dems plummeting hopes for november AND cokie roberts wheezing about bamz' disengagement from europe AND ONE MORE GODDAMN STORY ABOUT THE ACA made me want to slit my wrists.

in retaliation, i am forcing random people in uptown to come into our offices and sign up for OBAMACARE.

fuck off mittens.

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Or tie a dog to his head.

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I've seen wide range of estimates on Iraqi deaths. I went with a lower figure out of hope it wasn't higher and I \"tens\" makes my point as well as \"hundreds\" -- that Mitt Romney is an idiot.

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This comment (if it were allowed) is solid gold!

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I've always wondered if it is some kind of GOP equivalent of 12-dimensional chess, where they use their dead-men-walking, lightning rod hate-sacks like Dick Cheney, or Mittens Romnicus, or Sarah Palin-Who, to deliver trial balloons of shit-talking points, knowing that if the message survives despite the loser who delivers it, that they've got a winning talking point they can get the rest of their minions to shoehorn into every single interview going forward.

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Napoleon? Bobby Fischer?

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<i>"Had we communicated those things, there’s always the potential that we could have kept them from invading a country...."</i>

If only he'd been President of Iraq a few years ago, he could have saved thousands of American soldiers' lives, trillions of dollars and, oh yeah, tens of thousands of Iraqi lives also too.

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What doe the Great Karnac predict about the basketball brackets?

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Just to play<a href="http:\/\/lonelyconservative.com\/2014\/03\/in-2005-obama-pushed-to-disarm-ukraine\/" target="_blank">Devil's Advocate</a> here:

<i>Meanwhile, Morning Jolt reader Doug points out that no one could have predicted Russia’s move on Ukraine… except Tom Clancy, who died in October:

The last Tom Clancy book, Command Authority, published last year, is all about Russian aggression against its former satellites. Dialogue on p. 70:

Golovko added, “Volodin has his eyes on the Crimea, in Southern Ukraine, and he knows once Ukraine joins NATO, that will be difficult for him to achieve. The way he sees it, he has to move soon.”

Ryan said, “He is right that there is no treaty between Ukraine and NATO. And if he does invade, getting Europe on board to fight for the Crimea is a nonstarter.” (Read More)</i>

Getting rid of Ukrainian nukes did seem like a good idea at the time. On both sides of the aisle.

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Here's a rolled up copy of Izvestia, if you need to use it.

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General Guderian stands at the crest of the hill,

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FBI Agent Stan Beeman?

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Now, I'm not saying Mitt's a sore loser, but isn't it interesting...

...okay, you got me. That's exactly what I'm saying.

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The Golden Horde.... Oh, wait.

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<a href="http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Potemkin_village" target="_blank">Grigory Potemkin</a>.

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