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No, that belief is a different sincerely held belief where it's ok to make money on the slut pills our other sincerely held belief finds abhorrent. I also have a sincerely held belief in hypocrisy.

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And...when we return from the break for station identification, Holly has a shocking report on how water is wet.

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UK passport --> acceptable ID.

Once in awhile I wish that Bamz would drop the unflappability and just unleash his inner Luther.

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I don't. They baked this shitpie all by themselves without any help from me. When I was a kid a family of bonehead racists moved in down the street in our very Irish neighborhood. We were the only family on either side of the street who <i>never</i> made friends with them. Not because we were stuck up and not because we didn't try at first, but because in the end we just couldn't get past the overt honkiness. We got along with everyone else but them. The family knew why and they hated us.

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Rawr.

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Right next to where he inspired Jefferson to make America a Christian Nation.

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Yeah, who knew that so much of the white population was of the tea-partying, Fox News-watching type who believe that the liebrul Demoncrats recruit large numbers of black people to go and vote multiple times in each election, which is the <i>only possible reason</i> why that party's candidates ever win any of them? Yes, we all know that conservatives constitute a non-trivial portion of the white American population, but when did this particular faction come to represent not only almost all RWers, but the overwhelming majority of all white people in the US? Especially since although we do encounter them in everyday life, it is far from constantly?

Then again, maybe I just need to get out more...

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Racist honkies are the other white meat.

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Possibly, but more likely it is because a certain number of sportsball announcers are.

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What I find really surprising here is the large majority support for voter ID laws under all conditions. I don't think it is consistent with other polling data on the subject.

EDIT: Oops, I didn't see tjwright321's comment above, which already made this point.

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You have to dig deep into the details of the study to find that all of the respondents were contacted while they were sitting in bars.

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Every time I look at SMOTI, I hope I'm of a different race.

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Explains why Bella Abzug was such a hottie, right?

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Relax -- the GOP is tackling the problem.

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"I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, 1799

Looks like the inspiration didn't take.

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Well, it <i>was</i> a St. Louis sportsball crowd, and we know what <i>they</i> can be like...

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