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We raised a glass to you James. You were missed.

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"That's the trouble with the liberal lamestream media: always paying attention to what we said, instead of what we say we said."

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Drivers of the short bus are trained to be especially careful about their passengers.

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I lost your address. Oh, wait....

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GT[R]:

Look, Jackson, I didn't waste my seven years in high school!

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This is probably too late in the thread to get the number of upfists it deserves.

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Jimmy libel! <a href="http://gothamist.com/2012/0..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://gothamist.com/2012/09/14/jimmy_mcmillan_wi...">http://gothamist.com/2012/0...

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Point taken, but: what the fuck-fuck-fuckety-fuck is the administration doing <a href="http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/09\/12\/obama_admin_disavows_apologetic_statement\/" target="_blank">disavowing the Cairo embassy's twitterings</a>? I am personally in favor of insulting religious feelings, and would have preferred them to say something like "this movie is a puerile piece of tripe made by people without two brain cells to rub together". However, with a bunch of angry people outside your door who would like to persuade to please go home to bed, I can understand issuing the sort of emollient rubbish that has become standard in dealing with religious nutters of all stripes. To look on the bright side, I suppose this new mood of 1st amendment absolutism means we can expect a spirited defense of P.Z. Myers's right to abuse crackers from Mr Frothy any day now.

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the horse you DANCED in on

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Actually, gingham and polka-dots, but that is a horrifying picture.

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Ah. Yes. Abashed newbie was about to apologize for missing the update when I saw your and Dr Zoom's replies. I still can't find your original comment (the link doesn't work for me, and your replies I see to Gyrus are about something else). The "disavowal" seems to have spread beyond Politico and Salon; it has, natch, got to Breitbart. I shall read Salon with a more jaundiced eye in the future. I'm sorry, and ashamed. I think I'll go back to lurking for awhile.

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i am listening to random news and it seems appropriate to say here:

i am very glad hillz is in charge of our diplomats right now.

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Apparently, Romney is a follower of <a href="http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicolai_A._Vasiliev" target="_blank">Nicolai Vasiliev</a>. At least now we know what world he will be ruling in the afterlife - the <a href="http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-World-Null-A-van-Vogt\/dp\/0765300974" target="_blank">World of Null-A</a>.

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And the review... "Must buy for a Homeschooling family". Oookay.

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Nakoula, rhymes w/ Dracula?

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"But we will not apologize for our constitutional right to freedom of speech."

Better: "But we will not make craven, cowardly apologies to Muslins for our freedumb, as some - such as black Muslins from Kenya - would."

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