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Way OT and almost too late, but happy cephalopod awareness week!

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Rebel Yell?

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So, Romney is praised for being assertive, but Joe Biden is criticized for being rude? WTF?

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Wasn't he an extra in "Children of the Corn"?

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CK:

Ole Newt has a Trophy Wife - too bad she's a Participant.

[Yes, I do think I've used that joke here before. I still think it's funny.]

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As long as restrooms don't count.

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He had to interrupt, Ryan was just stringing too many lies together to be able to remember them until Ryan was done and refute them after. Just as a tactical point, better to be thought a dick than simply let the lies stand, especially as so many of them were absolute doozies.

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Maybe it was <a href="http:\/\/www.sportsauthority.com\/product\/index.jsp\?productId=11334635&amp\;mr:trackingCode=0DD73F7A-FBF2-E011-9A77-001B21631C34&amp\;mr:referralID=NA&amp\;mr:filter=46053839151&amp\;mr:keyword={keyword}&amp\;mr:ad=24776982231&amp\;mr:match={matchtype}&amp\;mr:adType=pla&amp\;{copy:iq_id}=&amp\;{copy:camp}=" target="_blank">one of these</a> and he had the good sense to realize that would not be a good thing for a Congresscritter from Wisconsin to be photographed wearing.

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<blockquote>Ryan - you believe life starts at conception and anything after that is murder (because, let's get it straight, your minister told you that and you're not capable of analyzing that any further or figuring out that it's actually not in the bible)</blockquote>

Not only is it not in the Bible, when Exodus 21:22 says that the penalty for causing a woman to miscarry shall be merely a fine, as long as "no further harm" comes to her, it's impossible to claim that offense is considered equivalent to killing a person, especially as the immediate followup is: "If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe"

A fetus is not a person, biblically.

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IOKIYAR.

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Somebody was serving up a bunch of stuff.

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In other circumstances you might have to forgive it as just not thinking about JB's past in the moment, but that story was clearly rehearsed beforehand, the horrible segue that Ryan used to inject it shows he was determined to find any opportunity, even a really bad one, to get it in, and Biden's talked powerfully about the loss of his wife and children on multiple occasions.

Almost makes you wonder, did someone think that story would knock Biden off his game? Bad move, Old Handsome knocked it out of the park with his answer:

<blockquote>So I don’t doubt his personal commitment to individuals, but you know what? I know he had no commitment to the automobile industry. He just—he said, ‘Let it go bankrupt, period.’ Stop talking about how you care about people, show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.</blockquote>

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how to expose a charlatan.

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It's almost as if the dumbell is a metaphor for something else he might be grasping in his hand and pulling towards his mouth. If only I could work out what...

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Hopefully not just better, but also less rapey.

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<blockquote>crashed in a parking lot in Massapequa</blockquote>

Funny thing is, between Sunrise Mall and the train station, it's <em>very likely</em> that an alien crashing in Massapequa would do so in a parking lot.

The name still never fails to make me think of the Optimum commercial with Barry Bostwick, though.

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Yu gotta get better mussels, then they are so tasty

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