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As if our heating bill wasn't high enough already.

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Gee, I wonder why Britons suddenly left the churchs. It simply COULDN'T have been two world wars that killed whole generations and decades of scarcity and hardship in their wake. No, it was the free healthcare, for sure.

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I guess the children in Newtown didn't pray enough for the Republicans to think their deaths are worth something, anything! to diminish the flow of guns into every corner of our lives.

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This is a gross calumny on Sir Topham Hatt! For many years he was a mere functionary in the vast, soul-destroying socialist bureaucracy that ran the British railway system. Really. Although I was a great fan of the books as a kid, I didn't pay much attention to the real-world aspects, but the Rev. Awdry apparently did, and Sir Topham was downgraded from Fat Director to Fat Controller in 1948 on nationalisation.

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But I thought no one expected the Spanish Inquisition . . . ?

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There is an old, probably apocryphal story about Patton & MacArthur. According to the story, Patton, MacArthur, and Omar Bradley were at the front in the First World War and an incoming shell screamed over their heads. Bradley hit the dirt, and when he got up, he looked at Patton and MacArthur, who were both still standing, glaring at each other for having the temerity of not allowing each to be the sole unflinching hero.

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ISWYDT...

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They get in and then they have their minds blown, because a lot of them want to go into pre-med and the biology department at most colleges has no patience with rejecting evolution.

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As a % of GDP, the debt of the Scandinavian countries is, in fact, <a href="http:\/\/www.nationaldebtclocks.org\/" target="_blank">rather on the low side. </a>

The authors have succeeded admirably in excluding facts, and the associated liberal bias.

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All their "pro-life" bleating notwithstanding, I'm not convinced that the Xtards actually feel that there's a disconnect.

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When the people learn to expect your inquisitors, you know you're doing it right.

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I take it that you don't have a working fireplace.

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I know <a href="https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=pvhYqeGp_Do" target="_blank">just the thing for that</a>...

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Holy shit. That takes surreal to a whole new level.

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