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My sister went to junior high with Michael Jordan.

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And they hated Gray Davis because of the electric bills went up 7 gazillion percent because George Deukmejian jawboned almost every public utility in CA to privatize.

Which left us open to Enron and the like to insane market manipulation.

Davis asked for help from the Federal Govt but that was Dubya at the time and Ken Lay was one of the biggest of all Bush contributors forever.

Ahnold sold himself (not to me) as the Terminator who would march into Sacramento and Terminator everybody.

Turned out, he didn't have the power and couldn't fake his way through.

For one brief, golden moment, the Republicans thought he would be the next Reagan and even proposed cancelling the requirement against a foreign-born Pres.

But, in the end, A.S. fizzled out and turned his attention to knocking up the maid.

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She's no anybody.

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And that only happened because Brigham Young University kept getting their asses kicked in football and basketball.

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The CSA constitution also specifically forbade any bill of abolition-just for the edification of the idiots who say that slavery would’ve faded away on its own even in the Confederacy.

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The Civil War was treason. They tried to break apart the United States, violating the Constitution.

Yet right-wingers continue to celebrate a treasonous war that they lost. I think that explains a whole lot about the South overall (based on who it elects).

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It appears that the radical right may be at the start of a down-swing. If so this is a really stupid thing Haley is doing in terms of her future career.

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It sent some of them--and a lot of soldiers--to their God years before their time.

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So let's trade places.

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Hey! My wearing high-waisted jeans has nothing to do with heritage, and everything to do with covering up my gut.

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It was a State Senator in the Indiana Senate of 1858 who had these various excerpts from newspapers and speeches read into the Senate’s book. What an amazing guy he must have been!!!

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I agree. He was putting it all on the record for history.

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Confederates = losers, Haley. You're defending losers.

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Also losing

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Jeezuzz. It was the flag of treasonous racist white supremacists. If that is the heritage you want to be identified with fine but don’t blame me that when the supermajority of Americans see that rag they think American swastika.

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When it comes to race you can bet the crypto confederates will always pick the most horrible course of action even when weighed against a host of less horrible options.

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