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Having grown up in Wisconsin, it took me while to realize that some other folks' mothers DIDN'T make that salad.

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Here in New Hampshire, Oldest Resident usually does go to a different person each year.

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Mr. Serolf,

Haven't seen much of you lately.

Cheers.

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Similarly, "At least they fucked over the public employees", or, most generally, "At least they fucked over somebody else worse than they fucked over me. Har. har. har."

But, no doubt, with a special lean towards "those people".

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Because they die regularly?

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*counts backwards through elections .. 22, 23, 24 *

Well, certainly one of them right along here.

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I missed this earlier, but have I mentioned that Ronald Reagan is the closest thing to pure evil that has ever inhabited the Presidency, and will eventually be recognized (if there are surviving historians) as the root cause of the deterioration and failure of the American Experiment?

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Yeah. They'll blame Obama.

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This is a breathtakingly and colossally stupid article written for left wing mathematical illiterates. No wonder you all enjoyed it so much! Listen up dummies. Most rural counties are Republican. There are more rural counties in the US than city/urban counties and they have smaller populations. The population of the urban counties AND the percentage of the minority citizens on welfare, food stamps, section 8 housing, "Obama phones", utility support, free internet, etc., ad nauseum is approximately double the national rate.

These are facts. Now go lie about them at your leisure. But if you commentators are going to be so smug about these fallacies could you at least be just a little bit less stupid? It would be a real breath of fresh air. Otherwise just continue right on with highly edited and warped fantasy news shows ala the Daily Show.

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When we get to ratio of more than 1 starving child in the US vs 1M obese ones this will cease to be the dumbest comment on the internet. So relax, I think that you will have the title locked up for quite some time.

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This is a breathtakingly and colossally stupid article written for left wing mathematical illiterates. No wonder you all enjoyed it so much! Listen up dummies. Most rural counties are Republican. There are more rural counties in the US than city/urban counties and they have smaller populations. The population of the urban counties AND the percentage of the minority citizens on welfare, food stamps, section 8 housing, "Obama phones", utility support, free internet, etc., ad nauseum is approximately double the national rate.

These are facts. Now go lie about them at your leisure. But if you commentators are going to be so smug about these fallacies could you at least be just a little bit less stupid? It would be a real breath of fresh air. Otherwise just continue right on with highly edited and warped fantasy news shows ala the Daily Show.

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1/5 of the population is on food stamps and 1/3 of adults do not work any hours per week and we are the fattest country in the world - take that Mexico! Now is the time for stupid people on this website to ponder the deep mystery of facts while enjoying the garden view from mom's basement or a studio apartment......

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Threw up on his shoes?

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You and other thoughtful, caring people with the ability to see things from more than one perspective. Repubs see no shades of grey, no extenuating circumstances, just good guys (them) and bad guys (not like them). Drives me wild.

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But she probably thinks abortion is an abomination.....

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My mother managed to drag her recipe all the way from Minnesota and inflict it on New Mexico.

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