Morning Must Reads: Direct Approach

“What did I miss?”

The fact that Hillary Clinton is hiding on the religious freedom issue, just like George Bush.

“The GOP gubernatorial primary down there has gotten crazy nasty”
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The Dem senate race isn’t much better.

The biggest issue for the past 4 or so days and nothing on Nancy Pelosi’s two cents into the matter?
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How surprising.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2010/aug/17/audio-rep-pelosi-calls-investigation-wtc-mosque-op/
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, called for an investigation of those who are protesting the building of the Ground Zero Mosque on Tuesday. She told San Francisco’s KCBS radio:”

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Investigate those who are protesting the building of the Ground Zero Mosque? Excuse me Ms Pelosi?
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She’s a quack.

Let them EAT PORK!!
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Demonuts and their hunger strike!! Seriously, going on a hunger strike because the Republican in the race will not debate them. Mahatma Gandhi must be rolling in his grave now.
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41193.html
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But unlike the Irish Republicans who died of starvation after hunger strikes protesting British rule in the 1980s, Lutz will only go so far. “I don’t want to die – going to a debate with Duncan Hunter is not important enough for me to die,” he told POLITICO on Tuesday.

He said he will fast until at least Friday, Aug. 20, when Hunter is scheduled to appear at the Politics in Paradise event hosted by the San Diego East County Chamber of Commerce. Lutz promises what he dubbed a “faceoff.”

Big Fat Al Gore comes out of hiding…..
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http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/114717-al-gore-calls-for-us-protests-on-climate-change-inaction
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“Former Vice President Gore is calling for major rallies to protest congressional inaction on climate change.
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In a post on his personal blog headlined “The Movement We Need,” Gore linked to and quoted from an Australian wire service report that “tens of thousands of protesters … have taken to the streets across Australia to urge the major political parties to take action on climate change.”

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Sorry Al…….despite your penchant for “Sex Poodle Acts”, most Americans are now more concerned about JOBS JOBS JOBS……….Get it Al? It’s about the ECONOMY STUPID!!!

“Dr. Laura announces retirement to spend more time with the N-Word.” (gotta love PourMeCoffee)

“…a woman called Schlessinger’s show last week with an upsetting problem. The caller is in an inter-racial marriage — she’s black, her husband is white — and is offended when her husband’s friends and family members make racist remarks. Schlessinger blamed the woman, telling the caller that she’s ‘hypersensitive’ — a problem ‘bred by black activists’ — and needs a better sense of humor. To prove the point, Schlessinger repeated the N-word 11 times, defending it by saying ‘black guys say it all the time.’

Last night, Schlessinger announced that she’s ending her radio show.[...]

Oddly enough, last week, facing criticism, Schlessinger expressed regret for her remarks and acknowledged that her on-air remarks were ‘wrong.’ By last night, however, her contrition appeared to be gone and the incident was everyone’s fault but hers.”

“Big Fat Al Gore”, “Sex Poodle Acts”
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“Americans are now more concerned about JOBS”
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You seem a lot more concerned about Al Gore’s weight and …ahem…poodles, than anything else.
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As far as the non ad hominen attack portion of you rant, building a green energy infrastructure produces jobs and diminishes our dependence on imported oil. Unless you’re a fan of oil companies, middle eastern wars, and kissing up to dictatorships, you’d think it was a good idea, no matter what your level of climate change denial.
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But Sarah wants you to drill, baby, drill, and conservatives can’t seem to quit her. Plus, Al Gore is fat. So…there ya go.

She’s an inverted schmuck. Still doesn’t get the fact that one black guy using the word in question (“on HBO” or wherever) as a term of endearment to another black guy still doesn’t make it right to say it. If I said a word to affend you or your heritage I wouldn’t say it around you – period. (Also have to take into account that the nickname for the Washington, D.C. NFL team is offensive to Native Americans but its historical use makes it, if not less of a slur, at least an unintended one.)
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For someone who’s supposedly learned on advising people on personal relationships to now feel slighted because her First Amendment rights have been, well, amended, that’s just so much hooey IMO. Doctors don’t have to be PC but they’re supposed to have some measure of sensitivity when they deal with people in an office or on the airwaves. Did she learn NOTHING from Mel Gibson?
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Best of luck in your retirement, Rhymes with Witch.

OT, but here’s the lowdown on Washington’s primary:
http://vote.wa.gov/Elections/WEI/?ElectionID=36
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There are some pretty interesting notes to take from this. One is that it doesn’t look like any “superstorm” is going to hit Washington.
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Being that R’s are more likely to vote in primaries than D’s, this does not look good to them. Didier, the teabagger candidate, got just 12%
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Looks like normal primary fare here…

“Kids don’t have a pause button.”

“As schools handed out pink slips to teachers this spring, states made a beeline to Washington to plead for money for their ravaged education budgets. But now that the federal government has come through with $10 billion, some of the nation’s biggest school districts are balking at using their share of the money to hire teachers right away.

With the economic outlook weakening, they argue that big deficits are looming for the next academic year and that they need to preserve the funds to prevent future layoffs. Los Angeles, for example, is projecting a $280 million budget shortfall next year that could threaten more jobs.”

(not to mention that any stimulative effect is negated if these districts hoard those funds until next year)

Apparently not all of the CIA’s interrogation tapes were destroyed.

“Discovered in a box under a desk at the CIA, the tapes could reveal how foreign governments aided the United States in holding and interrogating suspects. And they could complicate U.S. efforts to prosecute Binalshibh, who has been described as one of the “key plot facilitators” in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Apparently the tapes do not show harsh treatment — unlike videos the agency destroyed of the questioning of other suspected terrorists.

The two videotapes and one audiotape are believed to be the only existing recordings made within the clandestine prison system and could offer a revealing glimpse into a four-year global odyssey that ranged from Pakistan to Romania to Guantanamo Bay.

The tapes depict Binalshibh’s interrogation sessions in 2002 at a Moroccan-run facility the CIA used near Rabat, several current and former U.S. officials told The Associated Press. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because the videos remain a closely guarded secret.”

“We’re anemic; we’re slow; we’re crawling, but we’re not going backward.

“The Commerce Department said construction of new homes and apartments rose 1.7 percent in July, but applications for building permits fell by a higher than expected 3.1 percent. Building permit applications are considered a good gauge of future activity.

Home sales have struggled to regain momentum after a home buyer tax credit expired at the end of April. So signs of stabilization in the market are considered somewhat positive after the sharp declines that followed after the expiration of the tax credit.

And industrial production jumped 1 percent in July, double the 0.5 percent growth forecast by economists. Rising output at the nation’s factories, mines and utilities comes after multiple manufacturing reports had shown a pronounced slowdown over the past couple of months.”

A death in the right-wing family.

“Kilpatrickisms still shape the vision of America’s cultural warriors–witness the “black racism” charges involving the minuscule New Black Panther Party or the brouhaha around Shirley Sherrod.

But Kilpatrickism–its faux color blindness and its uncompromising faith in the market–is his most poisonous legacy. Kilpatrick’s paeans to color blindness and his suspicion of integration are echoed in current conservative jurisprudence. Read Chief Justice John Roberts’s opinion in Parents Involved (the Supreme Court case that struck down voluntary school integration programs in Seattle and Louisville) if you want to see Kilpatrickism redux. And it infuses the antigovernment, pro-business rhetoric of the right.

Whether or not Kilpatrick rests in peace, it will be a long time before his ideas are buried and gone.”

Had no idea that was what they were called.
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At least, now they have a category to fit in. I would have preferred something a bit less euphemistic, though…

Clean energy: China charges ahead of world.
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“Recent incentives and policies encouraging alternative energy have helped Chinese companies leapfrog over competitors to lead the world in areas such as solar power.”
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2012565355_chinatech.html
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So far, 2010 is the world’s hottest year on record, NOAA data show
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/13/AR2010081306090.html
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On the other hand, it did snow in 2010, and as noted scientist James Inhofe has demonstrated, that disproves global warming.

Ok momento, I will be serious here. Where is your proof that

“building a green energy infrastructure produces jobs”

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Do you have any credible evidence this is even remotely true? Do you have any proof that “green energy jobs” can or have ever been produced.
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Van Jones’ outrageous rants do not count.
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Here is what I have found tho….
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http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/13/spains-green-jobs-boondoggle/
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Every “green job” created with government money in Spain over the last eight years came at the cost of 2.2 regular jobs, and only one in 10 of the newly created green jobs became a permanent job, says a new study released this month. The study draws parallels with the green jobs programs of the Obama administration.
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President Obama, in fact, has used Spain’s green initiative as a blueprint for how the United States should use federal funds to stimulate the economy. Obama’s economic stimulus package,which Congress passed in February, allocates billions of dollars to the green jobs industry.
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But the author of the study, Dr. Gabriel Calzada, an economics professor at Juan Carlos University in Madrid, said the United States should expect results similar to those in Spain:
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“Spain’s experience (cited by President Obama as a model) reveals with high confidence, by two different methods, that the U.S. should expect a loss of at least 2.2 jobs on average, or about 9 jobs lost for every 4 created, to which we have to add those jobs that non-subsidized investments with the same resources would have created,” wrote Calzada in his report: Study of the Effects on Employment of Public Aid to Renewable Energy Sources”

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Just in case you decide to disagree with Malkin, who does fantastic research on this particulr subject, here is her source as well.
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http://www.juandemariana.org/pdf/090327-employment-public-aid-renewable.pdf

“On the other hand, it did snow in 2010, and as noted scientist James Inhofe has demonstrated, that disproves global warming.”
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But in Renton, last summer, it was 110F on one day, and 103F on two other days, so that proves that global warming is correct!
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How is Prof. Inhofe going to saddle those pickets…

John Bolton drumming up war with Iran…again.

Having told the Israelis that they have but a few days to strike Iran and take out a soon-to-be functioning nuclear plant that the Russians will be facilitating, Bolton has essentially given his approval and tacit authorization for this strike. On the bright side, Bolton has “authorized” Israeli strikes on Iran too many times to count, and Israel has remarkably yet to follow through.

Does Bolton rule the world? I’m mystified…

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Mosque-Developer-Says-No-Meeting-Scheduled-With-Gov-100967889.html
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“Mosque Developer Rejects Meeting With Paterson
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I guess that peaceful, and desire to show that most all Muslims are really concerned with tolerance or other faux pas statements this RADICAL MUSLIM has proposed in the past to hide the real reason for building this mosque at ground zero.

“I want to regain my First Amendment rights”
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I am sick of media provocateurs who play the victim when their bad behavior is criticized (Ann Coulter has made a career out of this tactic). They sound so tough — right up until they’re called out for their vicious statements. Then, rather than taking responsibility for their outrageous remarks, they whine that their ‘freedom of speech’ is being interfered with or that they’re being ‘censored’. What is the form of censorship they are suffering? Other people are exercising their freedom of speech to condemn the nasty remarks. Other people are exercising their freedom to avoid doing business with sponsors of the bad behavior.

…..is and will always be nothing but a LIE.
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As the majority of the far left extremists as represented by Nancy Pelosi call most Americans the “radicals who need to be investigated”, this charlatan of the Muslim world continues to pursue a monument to those Terrorists who blew up both the Twin Towers on 9/11/01.

What’s interesting is that when you think about it, Dr. Laura is really complaining that she can’t be uncivil to people without being called on it.
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The people who are playing to the “First Amendment” argument really seem to “Advocates for Arseholes”…

What country does he currently run – Fredonia??

Just goes to show us what good things can come to America when John Bolton, FOX news, and a million bucks join together. Can’t wait for the cheerleader twins to chime in.

Most deadly war since WWII continues to rage through Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Ethnic cleansing spill-over from Rwandan genocide and militia versus government warring over lucrative resources, such as coltan. Throw in international corporate investments and illicit stoking of resource-wars and there exists a rapid dissolvement of any semblance of stability, yet massive finacial incentive in global tech industries to keep the conflict raging and access to blood-minerals open. The latest:

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/08/13/how_about_that_lra_strategy

affend = offend. Holy smokes.

http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=185060

WASHINGTON – Israel has only mere days to launch an attack on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor if Russia makes good on its plan to deliver fuel there this weekend, former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton warned Tuesday.

He said that once Russia has loaded the fuel into the reactor — slated for Saturday – Israel would no longer be willing to strike for fear of triggering widespread radiation in an attack.

This is a very, very big victory for Iran,” Bolton told The Jerusalem Post. “This is a huge threshold.”

Bolton, who also once oversaw US non-proliferation policy, said that when Russia announced the plans to load the fuel last Friday, “the element of surprise was essentially taken away” from Israeli calculations.

Bolton noted that he doesn’t “have a clue” as to whether Israel would actually attack, but he said, “If Israel was right to destroy the Osiraq reactor, is it right to allow this one to continue? You can’t have it both ways.”

Israel took out Iraq’s Osiraq reactor during a stealth mission in 1981. It is also believed to have conducted a similar strike on an alleged Syria nuclear site in 2007.

Russia signed a contract with Iran to construct the Bushehr reactor in 1995, but has several times delayed completion. In announcing the long-overdue fuel installation, which should make Bushehr operational in September, Russia did not indicate why it was going ahead with the final stages now.

In addition to Bushehr — for which Russia says it has guarantees it will receive back the spent fuel, the material needed to make a nuclear bomb — Iran has its own uranium enrichment facilities.

Iran expert Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council said that the uranium enrichment plants are the real backbone of Iranian efforts and expenditures to get a nuclear weapons capability, and he suspected that they, rather than Bushehr, would be Israel’s primary targets in any attack.

He suggested that Bolton was setting up a “straw man” by focusing on the fuel delivery to the Bushehr reactor.

“It’s not at all clear that Bushehr would be a high value target because it’s only tangentially related to any conceivable Iranian nuclear weapons program,” he said. “My suspicion is this isn’t a game changer. This isn’t going to give Iran enough fissile material for a bomb overnight.”

Berman added that since Bushehr is the most public Iranian nuclear facility, and therefore well monitored by international inspectors, it was also a less likely candidate for use by Iran to construct a bomb, though he nevertheless said if it became operational it would be “an enormous PR coup for the Iranians.”

Bolton dismissed the idea that international inspectors would contain the threat from the Bushehr reactor, pointing to instances inspectors had been kicked out.

He also said it was unlikely that Israel would attack Bushehr now and make another sortie against the enrichment facilities in later months because that would be a much more challenging task. For one thing, he point out that an attack on Bushehr would likely spur the Russians to transfer to Iran advanced missile defense systems it has agreed to sell Tehran but refrained from actually delivering.

Instead, Bolton indicated, if Israel were to attack now it would probably hit multiple targets.

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While the formerly known as Neo / Exiled portrays Bolten as someone who is fear-mongering on whether or not Israel will attack Iran for this obvious super-threat against their existence, he makes it sound like an inevitable event on Israel’s part.
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That is not the case, and Bolten himself says it is very unlikely now”
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I guess all the pandering Obama did with the Russians has failed miserably, isn’t that the real story here?

Does Bolton rule the world?
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Well, as a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), and the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), I’d say…yes.

Making fugu, American-style.

“John Paul says, at first, he couldn’t believe his own scientific data showing toxic microscopic marine organisms in the Gulf of Mexico. He repeated the field test. A colleague did his own test. All the results came back the same: toxic.

It was the first time Paul and other University of South Florida scientists had made such a finding since they started investigating the environmental damage from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The preliminary results, the scientists believe, show that oil that has settled on the floor is contaminating small sea organisms.”

Actually, Rusty, I stated that Bolton has pulled this crap in the past and Israel has yet to follow through, which suggests that I don’t think the attack is inevitable. Nice try, though.

So building a church next to the former Murrah building is a tribute to McVeigh?
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R is for reprobate
A is for asinine
C is for cuckoo
I is for intellectually depraved
S is for stupid
T is for tired of your….

Thanks for this link, grape.
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RIP.

Headline from today:
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Wind turbine company to plant 600 jobs in Michoud
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http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2010/08/wind_firm_to_plant_600_jobs_in.html
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I repeat: That’s a headline from today, Aug 18, 2010.
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You seem to be enjoying the United States being dependent on middle eastern oil, so I seriously doubt you care about the facts. I’m sure you’ll say its a pork project, or its only 600 jobs (never mind that this is happening elsewhere). Or you’ll say its a waste of tax payer money and we should be building more nuclear or coal-fired plants or sift through shale for the last bit of oil or some such.
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After all, Michelle Malkin told you Spain is a mess and Al Gore is fat. So…there ya go.
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I could pick apart the whole King Juan Carlos University study, it really is a prime example of data cherry-picking, but someone’s already done that work: http://www.truthfightsback.com/distortions/entry/king-juan-carlos-university-study-debunked/

Derek says: “if I can help the democrats lose in some small way I will feel I’ve accomplished something. Staying home is about the only option until a left-wing party emerges. You don’t seem to get the fact that they, the democraps, are the enemy of the Left, just as much as the Right. In fact, they are more of an enemy because they pretend to be on the Left side and yet they are just another group of war mongering incompetents.”
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http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/08/17/morning-must-reads-million-dollar-touch/#comments#ixzz0wyREZlL2
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Derek, I find your real feelings so interesting, I’m just going to repeat them so everyone can know where you stand.

Good Ol’ PNAC. For those who sane choices in foreign policy, this bit of Bush-era insanity can still be perused:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/

Cheap Labor Republicans would likely obstruct efforts in this direction, as using American labor would negatively impact short-term corporate profitability.

“The appeal of bolstering manufacturing and upgrading infrastructure cuts across lines of race, gender and class. Even a demagogue like Rush Limbaugh would have trouble characterizing them, as he did health-care reform, as ‘reparations.’ Just as important, the public is right. Every bit of economic news confirms its apprehensions that by off-shoring our manufacturing, we have not only eliminated millions of good-paying jobs but we have also rendered ourselves incapable of regaining our economic health. The two major economies that are booming amidst the global bust are China’s and Germany’s — that is, the two major economies most oriented to manufacturing. In the month since I first noted this in a column, China has surpassed Japan as the world’s second-largest economy, and German exports have continued to soar. If China and Germany’s growth rates for their second quarter are annualized, they come to 10 percent and 9 percent, respectively.

When it comes to reviving American manufacturing, however, the Democrats have sounded an uncertain trumpet. The Mellman survey asked whether, on balance, the president and the two parties have bolstered manufacturing or not. While Obama’s ratings were modestly favorable, those of the Democrats were not (45 percent to 48 percent), and those of Republicans were worse (35 percent to 57 percent).”

Highly recommend King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild for background about Congo’s history.

Oh, speaking of:
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There is a wind farm going up on Radar Ridge, on the north side of the Naselle River.
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It’s an area where there are not many jobs outside of maritime and tourist industry:
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http://www.energy-northwest.com/radarridge/

I was just reminded of this interesting bit of Dr Laura’s history: She quit a CBS TV deal when they refused to muzzle Howard Stern (who was bad mouthing her at the time).

About the rubber wars? I haven’t read that, but I’m quite familiar with the seemingly endless troubles in Congo. I wrote a piece on it last year.

http://www.theinternationalonline.com/articles/89-blood-minerals-continue-to-finance

Why won’t the Republican debate?

Here we go again…here’s a historical sampling of headlines:
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Sept 10, 2009 – War between Israel and Iran in 2010?
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May 6, 2008 – Target: Iran? On Israel’s 60th birthday, the Jewish state may be readying for its biggest fight yet.
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Dec 19, 2007 – Will Israel Strike Iran?
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Sept 3, 2006 – Israel plans for war with Iran and Syria
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This drumbeat never seems to stop, does it? I stopped at ’06, but could keep going. There are probably versions of this headline written in cuneiform on stone tablets.

The video: Nancy calls for investigations of those who OPPOSE the Ground Zero Mosque
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“monument to those Terrorists”
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If Cordoba House is a “monument to those Terrorists”, then what is the New York Dolls Gentlemen’s Club a monument to?
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http://daryllang.com/blog/4421

I’ll be chintzy with the dessert today, as all I have is some popcorn to pass along.

“Joseph Farah of World Net Daily is excommunicating Ann Coulter from the Church of Bad Craziness, because she’s speaking at a conference sponsored by Republican gay organization GOProud. Watch out! It’s a right wing theocratic homophobic slapfight!

WND dumps Ann Coulter from Miami due to Homoconflict. (Yes, that really is their title.)”

What’s the over-under on how long until she has a show on Fox? I’m thinking of placing a bet….

“Son of Hamas” writer tells what exactly this mosque is all about and represents
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The SON of Palestinian leader and founder comes out against this mosque. Period!! You people are such rubes.
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In reality, accorging to the GOP crackheads, it’s a matter of being insulting – and then – telling the offended person they have no right to be offended.
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Definition of PC:
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“It’s my right to insult you! You have no right to be offended!”

That’s almost a given…

Oh well.
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Let be said that one can never teach an old dog new tricks…

While some have debated how much the mosque thing might influence things nationally, new polling suggests that it might end up tilting every single local NY race, including gov with more than half of respondents say it’s at least some kind of factor in influencing their vote

Cuomo still seems to be polling pretty well ahead, but the drumbeats sadly still seem to be only starting. And Lazio, for all his vileness, is making out like a bandit seems.

Yay, tolerance and sanity. Oh wait, we’re all out of that here, it seems, at least if you dare to be a Muslim.

Last but certainly not least, Maureen Dowd, the far left’s biggest spokeswoman has now come out and said “Obama Needs Bush’s Help On Ground Zero Mosque”.
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It’s like that old woman on the facelift commericals saying,
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“CAN YOU BELIEVE IT???!!!!!”

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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/08/18/maureen-dowd-obama-needs-bushs-help-ground-zero-mosque
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If I were George Bush and Obambi called for my help, I am afraid I would have to say to him, “GO JUMP IN A LAKE SOCIALIST BOY, get your pal Hillary to pull you out of this mess”

Technically, a “homoconflict” is a fight with one’s self…

But, here you go mo-mo, your biggest enemy is not anyone on the right on this issue, especially when it comes to wind farms….
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http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1258373/environmentalists_appear_to_be_winds_biggest_enemy/
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Environmentalists Appear to Be Wind’s Biggest Enemy
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They are your very own liberal NUTBALLS who oppose your green energy bull-crap

And there you have it! The petulant left will stay home, because it is all about power, not the issues.

Geh…Paladino, not Lazio, my bad.

And allthings – Where did you read that in the link or my post, exactly? >_>

Technically, a “homoconflict” is a fight with one’s self…
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Hmmm…then that would mean that Farah and the staffers at WND are deeply closeted gays?
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I dunno if I have that quite right, but considering that some of the most anti-gay blowhards are self-hating gays themselves, it wouldn’t be a surprise.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to infer that it was anything you implied, or said. Just an observation that with feelings running high on this issue that many on the left are feeling a little sorry for themselves are are electing to stay home, waiting for the world to share power with them instead of using what power they have.

I love how FoxNews calls it the Ground Zero Mosque in the chyron. No quotes or anything. The fact that it’s not at Ground Zero and its not a Mosque doesn’t seem to bother anyone in Fair-and-Balanced-land.
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Oh, and looky looky, Fox found an anti-Muslim Muslim. Well, since one Muslim is against Cordoba, I guess all of them are against it, right Rusty? That’s your usual logic regarding Muslims and their “conquest of the west and the institution of Islam into western countries and society” as you’ve previously claimed.
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It’s like Alan West is proof that African Americans love the Tea Party. Coincidentally, the same Alan West that said Islam a “very vile and very vicious enemy that we have allowed to come in this country because we ride around with bumper stickers that say co-exist.”. No wonder the right-wing loves him. He hates with the best of ‘em.

“Bush 43 stays out of the Park 51/Cordoba House debate.”

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“There’s a picture of the World Trade Center hanging up by my bed and I keep one in my Kevlar [flak jacket]. Every time I feel sorry for these people I look at that. I think, ‘They hit us at home and, now, it’s our turn.’ I don’t want to say payback but, you know, it’s pretty much payback.”

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/payback/

I’m sorry, but I couldn’t let this pass by.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/16/AR2010081605042_2.html?sid=ST2010081702374
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On the 47th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jrs, I Have a Dream Speech, Al Sharpton and his bunch of radical cronies are going to pursue a “counter-march”. Imagine that!!
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Well all I have to say Mr Sharpton is good luck. With now well over 27,000 buses full of people who will descend upon Washington on 8/28/10 we’ll see who has the largest march that day.
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Enjoy!!

Last line of your link, Rusty:
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“That all makes wind the right solution,” he said. “And more utility companies are taking notice of that. There’s a myth that the pubic is against wind. And they aren’t.”
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You’re debunking yourself now. Let’s not make it that easy, I enjoy a challenge.
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(Oh, and don’t think I didn’t notice your attempt to reframe the argument from jobs to environmental impact. I’m just going to assume you threw in the towel on the jobs argument).

“Maureen Dowd, the far left’s biggest spokeswoman”
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Now, THAT’S funny!

“BOY”
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In poker, that’s called a “tell”.

He’s good at that, momento.
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When I catch him at it, he always says that I’m taking a “victory lap”…

That’s his MO, momento:
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When he’s caught race-bating, he always digs up anti-Black blacks…

Over 200,000 showed up in Seattle for a pro-pot rally*. How about this? I’ll but you a beer if you manage to beat a bunch of stoners.
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http://blog.norml.org/2010/08/14/planets-largest-pro-cannabis-rally-needs-our-help/

It has the appeal of being twisted a number of ways. If I were to keep it at the party level, it certainly would be a “homoconflict”.
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Another word to add to the lexicon…

I know the teabaggers had a humungous protest rally outside where BO was staying yesterday. Truly humongous.
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Over 200 people…

Since Glenn Beck followers lead in the Official GOP Crackhead Kill-O-Thon Race for the Most American Corpses, do you think that they will be able to resist such massive temptation?
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I’m “dying” to see this…

Sounds like Chappelle playing that blind black Klansman….

I see and raise 250…

Crowd size, body part size, what’s the diff to ya?

foghorn:
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Please don’t bait him into boasting about Glenn Back’s audience!
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BTW, Sarah “Thunder Thighs” Palin is 0h-fer on yesterdays’ primaries:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/18/palin-goes-0-for-2-on-primary-night/

Well, for “eye openers”, there’s always Hutch.
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I’m sorry to say that he is our “asset” with somewhat more than passing resemblance to Chapelle’s character.
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Um, on the inside, I mean…

Has anyone noticed that if Blago tried to smile any wider, he’d start bleeding at the corners of his mouth?

“Palin is 0h-fer on yesterdays’ primaries”
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Fitty I hope people (the media) don’t notice.
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November may be a surprise for them when they learn exactly how much/little juice she really has.

Maybe he wants everyone to notice that he’s a distant cousin of the Joker.

Thanks, appreciate it.

Hate to revert to WTC but here is a link to some tourists honoring the sacred site. Do you think there were Muslims among them?
http://hotchickssmilingatgroundzero.com/

I know 53 but the need for him to let us know how large these audiences are is, well, all-consuming.

I am so glad I can give my little 3rd graders who always seem to comment on my posts to this blog something to chit-chat about.
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It truly makes my day!!!

Nope april2563, just hot chicks. None of them were wearing burqas.
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Imagine that!!

Hey Paulnot, when can we start calling her endorsement “The Palin Curse”?

Hey IQ53, got any links to your LIES oh I mean your little drivel about the protest you are talking about?
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Oh that’s right, you never post anything to back up your claims. What else is new.

m0mentom0ri – November 3rd. Not a day before!
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Also, there is a “blue” joke to make with “The Palin Curse” but I will leave it to someone else.

Just for my buddy and pal, Paul-no-nut
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http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/08/10/4861668-palins-endorsements-by-the-numbers-and-by-gender
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Among the 28 candidates she’s endorsed, according to her Facebook page, 10 have been women and 18 have been men. And of the 12 Palin-endorsed candidates who already have faced voters, four men and four women ended up winning the GOP nomination, while two men and two women have failed to win their party’s nod — so a 67% success rate for Palin’s endorsements.

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Now what is Obama’s percentage rate of success again with his endorsements??
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Oh how things do change, especially with “Change You Can Believe In”
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“The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -17 (see trends).

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Overall Obama’s approval rating is a dismal 41% by Gallup’s polling.
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Who was it that said Rassmussen is nothing but a right-wing shill so far as polls are concerned?
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That same individual at the time was saying how much more fair and balanced Gallup was than Rassmussen, but today Rassmussen has Obama at 45%.
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Now I am so confused. Is Rassmussen biased or not?
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Hmmmmmm
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Doesn’t seem to be. Seems Rassey is right down the middle on this one.
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But, it is only a matter of one more Ground Zero gaffe for Obambi to slide on into the 30′s with his approval. Don’t you all think????
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html
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http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

“Physician” -you didn’t include yesterday’s results.
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You didn’t break it down by incumbent.
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And, perhaps most importantly, general elections matter not republican on republican love.

Not all Muslim women wear burqas, Rusty. A burqa covers the entire body. Many wear only a hajib – a scarf that covers the head and sometimes the face – or a face veil usually called a niqab. Many wear clothing more typical of the west. Also, these garments are not always prescribed – it varies amongst Muslim sects – and it is sometimes up to the individual woman as to the level of adherence to the modesty requirements laid out in the Quran. Not all women who wear burqas, hajibs or niqabs are wearing them because their faith demands it.
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Again, you seems incapable of differentiating Muslims. I’m assuming your response was supposed to be some sort of a joke, but its either mean-spirited and ignorant, or mean-spirited and bigoted. If its the former, I suggest you learn about Muslims from someone other than Alan West. If its the latter, you’re on your own.

So do you all think you can get SEIU and ACORN to pack some buses for your Al Sharpton rally?
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How many do you have to date?
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ONE?
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Two?

Here’s a thought momentoad……..go grab your buddy IQ53′s hand and both of you jump in a big lake!!

Burqas, hajibs or niqabs, none of the women who good ‘ol berthapril2563 posted pictures of had anything on their heads or bodies with the exception of normal clothing. Imagine that. THAT was the point made and nothing more, dingbat.

Now here’s a hot chick for ya april2563
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Wow, Rusty! That’s stunning! Is there anyone who’s less popular than Obama is?
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“Do you approve or disapprove of the way the Republicans in Congress are handling their job?”
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7/13-19/10
Approve 29%
Disapprove 59%
Unsure 12%

“Now what is Obama’s percentage rate of success again with his endorsements??
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“AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!”
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I don’t know – maybe you ought to look instead at the $ he’s raising for Dem candidates, far outpacing Republicans by million$.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

“Dr.” Laura has a degree in physiology not psychiatry. In other words she was meant to be a gym teacher.
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Her mantra for years has been the Shlafly agenda. Berate women for working but do not apply that standard to yourself.
Her harshness with women in distress is legendary.
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In her N word tirade, it was not her use of the word that was offensive. It was her debasing of the caller’s concerns, her snark concern Obama, and her disrespect for the NAACP.
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As usual with her, she can dish it but can’t take it.

Millions oh my oh boy. Yea right floghorn. Show me a link to the numbers buddy boy. Oh that’s right just like your pal IQ53………….YOU CAN’T
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PPPPPPPPPPPPFfffffffffffffffffft

Here, Rusty!
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Stick! Fetch the stick! Stick, Rusty:
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Paragraph 11:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012648096_apwaobamaseattle6thldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
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It seems that 200 was way too generous…

Rusty.
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Bloomberg, totes up 1.3 million for Seattle visit. Read down to 17th paragraph:
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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-17/obama-calls-on-republicans-to-back-small-business-aid.html
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Sorry Rusty, you looze…
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What’s wrong with you today? I just did!
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012648096_apwaobamaseattle6thldwritethru.html
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I do a lot better battling with Rusty the old way. Humor is so much more effective…

Rusty:
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Palin’s 0 for 2 today. Obama is at least 1 – 0 on the primary circuit here.
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See above, right after you gloat about how “IQ53 CANT!”.
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’cause I just done dood it…

momentomori: As usual, he who shall not be named, misses the point about the “hot chicks” post. The pictures give one an idea of how the sacred site is now honored. When the rebuilding is redone, it will be 99% commercial usage.
The right likes to make comparisons. How about we build an amusement park at the Murrah building site? Where is the sensitivity?
Lets tear out the muslim worship center in the Pentagon and make it a tourist site. Think of the concession stands that could profit.

Thx Fitty. Just goes to show that it doesn’t take much effort to shoot down a neocon
…his argument, anyway.

“Just goes to show that it doesn’t take much effort to shoot down a neocon”
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Was it Patrick who said “Sticks and Stones Will Break My Bones but Whips and Chains Excite Me”?
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That’s Rusty. He takes a ticking and keeps on licking…

Welcome. Actually, foghorn, being right here in the middle of it gives me great perspective about it.
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But, as usual, Rusty has never particularly grasped the concept of personal experience. It’s how us old fat bald guys* like me get wiser…
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*With one exception whom, of course, doesn’t speak from personal experience.

No. Like this, Rusty:
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Let them EAT WITH A FORK!
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There. Fixed it…