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Hey, it's tough being born a Mississippi Republican -- you start out with two strikes against you.

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You don't find a whole lot of Jesus in Leviticus. Or in Mississippi, when you get right down to it.

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Actually, even the invisible Guy in the Sky got this one right: Moses married a Cushite (Ethiopian) woman, and when a few people objected, God hisself came down to earth to personally kick their racist asses. (Numbers 12:1) Maybe if these bible-thumping cretins OPENED THE FREAKING BOOK before they started pounding on it, we'd have a nicer country.

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All Kochs are veiny in the dark.

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Correction: elected leaders don't decide why you get to marry. They decide who you <i>don't</i> get to marry. Think of it as Freedom Parameters.

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When I'm alone in my living room, I like to put ZZ Top on the stereo, and play "air quotes."

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from Huckleberry Finn:

"Good gracious! anybody hurt?"

"No'm. Killed a nigger."

"Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt."

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"Opposite marriage."

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He died!? Damn. When he was 91, he survived a train colliding with his car.

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What about our brother ElviouslyQueer?

The Magnolia State. #50 in per capita income. #1 in percentage of African American population. Primal goo from which Haley Barbour slithered. EQ survived it, and lived to snark about it. Give him his due, Wonkies.

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Stay classy Mississippi GOP.

And I would love to make sweet, sweet love to Pam Greer. That woman is H O T. And do it in Mississippi after drinking some Mint Julieps and eating crawfish gumbo. Sexy thoughts indeed....

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Pine Top Perkins, who taught B.B. King how to play the guitar.

RIP Pinetop.

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O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command. With glowing hearts we see thee rise, The True North strong and free! From far and wide, O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

**sings and packs his bags**

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The pollster didn't ask if the respondent felt that the government should be smaller, by any chance?

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(ya beat me to it by a mere 16 mins)

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