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For obvious reasons, this makes me think "<a href="http:\/\/xkcd.com\/804\/" target="_blank">I told you not to take the axiom of choice</a>".

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<a href="http:\/\/grammarist.com\/usage\/a-lot-alot\/" target="_blank">No</a>.

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The <a href="http:\/\/chiroeco.com\/chiro-blog\/niche-marketing\/2011\/04\/11\/you-can-be-a-millionaire-and-never-pay-taxes\/" target="_blank">Steve Martin</a> defense?

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that sounds like one of blago's press conferences.

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Well, that <em>is</em> very <a href="http:\/\/www.ontheissues.org\/sam_brownback.htm" target="_blank">offensive</a>, so it works on that front.

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He loves only whites, Ooooonly whites He loves whites!

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I could care less about it.

<em>A lot</em> less.

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Not the real 1958, of course, the Republicon fantasy 1958 where the Republican President wasn't embarking on massive public infrastructure projects, union membership wasn't significantly higher than today, and the top marginal rate of personal taxation wasn't 91%.

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It's been a while, so I don't remember how <a href="www.channel4.com\/programmes\/mr-pye\/4odac" target="_blank">Mr Pye</a> did it.

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I guess it could have been a joke that he'd been killed and replaced with an <em>Invasion of the Body Snatchers</em> style pod-person, thus explaining his general lack of adherence to anything he ever said he stood for.

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Well, to be fair, <em>1984</em> was inspired by Stalin, but of the two parties, it's pretty fucking obvious which one wants state intrusion into our most private moments, and it sure as fuck ain't the Democrats.

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Don't wear a pledge pin around him!

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<i>NERDLINGER!</i>

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Edward Scissorhands?

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Also too, "Running the most corrupt administration in US history"

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On the 100th anniversary of Woody Guthrie's birth, let's remember a great song he wrote about people coming to the US to work - and the risks they take to try to make a better life for themselves. <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/al..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.npr.org/blogs/altlatino/2010/08/17/129...">http://www.npr.org/blogs/al...

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