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Someone should inform this woman that the season is over, and that's why they're not getting many tourists.

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Hope everybody caught the<a href="http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/06\/us\/politics\/conservative-georgia-district-urges-gop-to-keep-up-the-fight.html" target="_blank"> NYT story</a> , where they talk to an almost-named-after-his-hat teabagger:

Mr. Tripcony, the surveyor, said he underwent heart surgery not long ago without health insurance, “a bad blow.” He has been making payments against the cost. He had heard of the online marketplace for insurance that opened on Oct. 1 under the Affordable Care Act. “I just don’t trust it,” said Mr. Tripcony, who has an equal distrust of President Obama. “I don’t like him, and I don’t feel comfortable with anything he’s got to do with.” Mr. Tripcony said he had a better idea for a system to provide health care at a fair price. “I think it should be the same for everybody,” he said. “One big company, whether owned by the government or private.” Informed that he had described the single-payer system that Mr. Obama abandoned when Republican critics called it socialized medicine, he said, “Yeah, I know, it’s crazy.”

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I'm not sure about Aegospotami, but it does seem like Thirty Tyrants have taken control of the House.

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You'd think that getting bludgeoned with a bill for heart surgery <i><b>at retai</b>l</i> would be enough to make a guy to wise up, but nooooo....

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I bet they'd really appreciate the full quotation:

"Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction betwen them." -Thos. Jefferson, <a href="http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/jefferson\/archives\/documents\/ih199642.htm" target="_blank">Autobiography</a>

Old Tom gets whitewashed (so to speak) by most people who try to quote him on behalf of their cause. (Both sides do it, so it must be OK.)

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They care about national parks to the extent doing so reinforces their hatred of Obama.

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What Idiots Obammy played them this time. They is going to the Badlands it snowed like ass deep on a tall native American and to get there theys is gonna have to shovel theys way in, cant beat that free road clearing and snow removal service compliments of the teatardy's. He outsmarted them again and made them think it was theys ideea.

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Here's to hoping attendance for these time wasters will continue to be weak. #dontTreadonMeh

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Can't get much more exceptional than that.

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Those enormous open-pit hilarity mines are incredibly productive. Ever see the size of the trucks they use to haul out the jokes?

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Yeah, but they only come in a four-pack....

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Bring the cheap tequila with you, and sure!

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Yes, but can you fit that on a bumper sticker or a poorly spelled sign?

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As long as you stay out of Alberta, sure... We wouldn't want you to get a bad impression ;)

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Is #notinsane taken?

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I've got a place they can occupy.

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