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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:53 PM
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Dick Cheney "found"....he's been buying an ESTATE (Wash Post)
Edited on Mon Sep-05-05 09:17 PM by cthrumatrix
Where the Rumsfelds Retreat, The Cheneys Soon Could Follow (The Washington Post)
By Dan Morse, Page B01, September 05, 2005
ST. MICHAELS, Md. -- They've grown used to having a secretary of defense in their midst -- the way his weekend estate is tucked behind a bend in......

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/Search?keywords=Cheney

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there ya go....people are dying in the largest natural disaster and

cheney is "mansion shopping"


that says it all......

ST. MICHAELS, Md. -- They´ve grown used to having a secretary of defense in their midst -- the way his weekend estate is tucked behind a bend in the road, how he takes casual walks tailed by dark SUVs. Now, residents of this Eastern Shore retreat are preparing for someone even bigger to buy a house down the road: the vice president.

"I´d heard it was going to close either Tuesday or Wednesday of this week," Carroll Hurley, a funeral home owner, said Saturday, seated with his breakfast gang at the Carpenter Street saloon and restaurant.



Is Vice President Cheney house hunting? (Manuel Balce Ceneta - AP)

Whether it´s true -- that Dick and Lynne Cheney are buying an estate here -- could not be confirmed. Those closest to the deal -- Cheney´s office, the purported sellers, the listing agent -- aren´t talking. Hurley admits he´s not certain: "All I have is hearsay. It wouldn´t stand up in court."

Still, a nosy visit here leaves a person with one of two possibilities: Either the Cheneys are coming or a lot of people have bad information. Police Chief Ed Henry -- who breakfasted along with Hurley -- even referred to the lot in question as "Cheney´s house."

The house, listed at $2.9 million, backs up in spectacular fashion to an inlet of the Chesapeake Bay. "Right out by Rumsfeld´s," said Charles Mangold Sr., whose Benson & Mangold agency brokers high-end estates in the area. "It´s under contract, but he hasn´t settled yet."

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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:54 PM
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1. Oh my word.
Oh. My. Word.
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TwentyFive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 01:35 AM
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37. "Cheney had the lamb," said the article. Double entendre?
Did Cheney really HAVE the lamb? Hmm... Wonder what the other people in the restaurant thought.

Well, at least lamb has alot of artery clogging fat, which is comforting to know.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:54 PM
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2. Good. He can let some evacuees live there.
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Save the Gulf, then save the nation!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/electionreform.htm
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CrispyQ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:56 PM
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3. These people HAVE NO SHAME.
They truly have no conscience. They are sub-human.
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mom cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:56 PM
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4. Condi buying shoes, Cheney buying an estate... The tough go shopping.
Edited on Mon Sep-05-05 08:56 PM by mom cat
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maddiejoan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 10:41 PM
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32. They must have made quite a haul on this one.
Maybe it'll be like in the movie Goodfellas. Robert DeNiro warns them not to spend the money too obviously and they end up in a freezer truck.
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 09:38 AM
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54. Bush plays guitar, Condi shoe shopping-Cheney estate shopping
while many hundreds died and continue to die, this should be chronicalized with video-photo's when investigations begin to paint a more clearer picture regarding just what this administration was doing before and the aftermath of Katrina -- also Cheney's statement that Kerry won't protect you, this administration will!"


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Liberty Belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:00 PM
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5. The bourgeoise is alive & well. Olbermann asked where Cheney's been.
I just e-mailed him this clip.
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joanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:02 PM
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8. I'm not aware of anyone else in the media asking where Crashcart has been
but Aaron Brown might bring this up if he is aware.
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July Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 07:52 AM
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49. Has Cheney made ANY public statement yet? nt
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elare Donating Member (243 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:01 PM
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6. What a heartless,
miserable, old fuck.
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:01 PM
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7. He's running for President or something.
These aren't the actions of someone who is planning on retirement in three years.
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txindy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:05 PM
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10. They're the actions of someone planning to make a killing in business
And very soon. Halliburton has already gotten one no-bid contract to rebuild in NO. More will be on the way, I'm sure.
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electron_blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 10:36 PM
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30. yep
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Bumblebee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 10:52 PM
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33. or someone about to call it quits...
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PinkyisBlue Donating Member (617 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 12:54 AM
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35. Billions are Missing
Don't forget that several billion dollars earmarked for Iraq reconstruction projects and contract payments are unaccounted for.

Oops, we just located 2.9 million dollars of it.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 05:22 AM
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42. :)
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Bumblebee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 10:53 PM
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34. Why not? What if he is planning to retire there, next to Rummy?
They both are definitely ripe for it, agewise and healthwise.
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 07:51 AM
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47. yeah, right
his campaign will need more than a pacemaker to get it going.
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:03 PM
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9. it coulda been worse
he coulda been shopping for shoes
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despairing optimist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:12 PM
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11. The Swamp Thing Finally Goes Home Again
Why, $2.9 million is chump change to him. Why such a cheap pad? I guess it's only temporary until he and Lynne move into New Orleans now that the ground has been broken down there. The 17th Street Canal will probably run through their living room like that Frank Lloyd Wright house in Pennsylvania, Falling Water. Too bad that name is already taken.
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CC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:12 PM
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12. Well so he is making one
of his favorite undisclosed locations another home. :puke: Guess he doesn't want to have to be driven so far to go hunting.






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FormerRepublican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:16 PM
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13. No problem.
All we have to do is exercise the new powers the Supreme Court has given us, get his new house condemned so a shopping mall can be built, and buy ol' Dick a house in New Orleans. He's in luck - it's a buyer's market! I'm sure we can find plenty of people who are willing to sell 'ol Dick a house, and the vast majority of Americans would be more than happy to help him move in. Hey, they got the levee fixed, and I'm sure he won't mind just a bit of a mess - after all, plenty of his Halliburton pals will be around. And dead bodies laying around are nothing new for him.

I've heard they have a nice house in the 9th ward that's just perfect for him.
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:18 PM
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14. tell america...this is their VP
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NVMojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:21 PM
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15. elitist pigs ...
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 07:51 AM
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48. Oh wait
I thought that was John Kerry?

:sarcasm:
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Virginian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:25 PM
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16. But Halliburton doesn't have an office there.
Why is he buying on the east coast? He needs togo back to Wyoming or Texas or wherever he say he is from. The east coast doesn't want him.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:25 PM
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17. St Michaels is on MD's eastern shore
No stranger to hurricanes, especially in the last few years.
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tinrobot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:27 PM
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18. Getting ready to "retire" for health reasons.
That way, chimp can appoint his successor in time for the next "election".
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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:28 PM
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19. Mr. "Other Priorities."
Are these people insane?!? Were they unaware? Did they figure it wouldn't happen, or didn't matter?!

(Plus, I do NOT want that jerk and his evil wife in my state!)
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:34 PM
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20. Global warming could hit the Chesapeake, too, pal!!
nt
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:39 PM
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22. People still haven't recovered from Izobel...2 years ago.
Fertilizer runoff (among other things) is killing the fish, crab, and oyster industries. I wonder if he'll start to give a flying fuck if he has property there.
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novak goes postal Donating Member (133 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:38 PM
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21. How Disgusting these people are... Let them eat cake...Oh so sorry
we have ho cake !!!
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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:40 PM
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23. It just keeps on coming doesn't it.
Eating cake, airplaying guitars, buying luxury second homes. Tra la la. Maybe we should all become thieving looting murdering sociopaths and live happily ever after.
Nah, having a soul is better.
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bushisanidiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:42 PM
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24. Oh, give the old fart a break. He has to have somewhere to store the
butt-loads of cash flowing in from his hallilburton $tock...

he probably was so happy that halliburton got the cleanup job for katrina, that he peed his pants!!
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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:42 PM
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25. He's 'addressing housing needs during the aftermath of Katrina'.
And Rice was 'reviewing sources of clothing before Katrina even hit'.

They are so responsible!
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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:43 PM
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i know the perfect house-warming gift!
a cat 5 hurricane right after he closes the deal. too bad the water's too cold there.

ellen fl
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Maestro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:43 PM
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26. How totally disgusting!
These people have no shame. Callous beyond words! Hey Cheney, Cheney off!
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ignatius 2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:44 PM
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27. And it is near Rumsfeld so they can have bar-bee-cues together and finish
plans on how to destroy the world.
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smoogatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 10:04 PM
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28. Oh, man--St. Michaels used to be a nice little town.
Great place to stop for blue crabs and beer. Don't know if I could handle all the bad, neo-con juju that's going to be hanging over it, now that Dick and Rummy are living there. Icky.
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klook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 10:31 PM
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29. Hope the place is in a flood plain.
:grr:
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Applan Donating Member (435 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 10:39 PM
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31. Ah yes Dick has done very well these last few years
very well indeed
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 12:56 AM
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36. Once again, "let them eat cake!"
let them buy a manion
let them buy new shoes
let them play golf


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go west young man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 01:43 AM
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38. Hey just because the peasants are literally in the streets...
you cant expect Queen Isabella/Imelada Marcos/Dick Cheney to give up thier riches! Those Halliburton stock dividends have to be used for something! Whats the point of a kickback if you can't spend it on lavish things you dont really need while people go homeless on your watch!
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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 01:48 AM
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39. Gee, Dick and Lynne... don't let the rotting corpses in NOLA stop you
from house-hunting. We wouldn't dream of troubling you, you worthless excuses for human beings.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 01:50 AM
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40. Where does it say ANYONE SAW CHENEY last week? this week?
Edited on Tue Sep-06-05 01:56 AM by aquart
The article reads, honestly, like a perfect PR plant if you want to give the impression that someone who isn't around, is.
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 09:19 AM
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53. Right, where are the pictures?
I hear old snarlin dick is here, there, everywhere, but, no pictures. How can we be sure that it isn't a body double, and the real bloodsucker isn't either dead or next to it in some undisclosed location?
I want pictures!
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swimboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 09:38 AM
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55. I heard he's in hospital after his body rejected Chandra Levy's heart.
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Dunvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 03:48 AM
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41. Okay...doesn't mean he's still house hunting today...
...but where the hell IS he?
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PurpleChez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 07:22 AM
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43. Ceaucescu the whole bunch of them
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Spike from MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 07:27 AM
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44. Damn. I thought he was having lunch with Rehnquist.
Just wishful thinking on my part I guess.
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Freedomfried Donating Member (684 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 07:47 AM
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45. Good one Spike!
Wish those 2 were eating cinders with their chief downstairs.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 07:48 AM
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46. What a disgrace
Edited on Tue Sep-06-05 07:49 AM by FreedomAngel82
*sigh* Imagine what the rightwingers would've said if this was Edwards.
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morffin Donating Member (128 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 08:04 AM
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50. There goes the neighborgood
These gangsters have such a tight control on the media and the message that they dont even try to hide their disgusting behaviour.

Playing Golf......going to a musical comedy.......mansion shopping....all while one of the great cities in the world is awash in corpes.

These people are beyond vile.

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swimboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 08:31 AM
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51. Dark Mark sighted above St. Michael's MD.
Rumors of death eaters and dementors add to national malaise.
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Tace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 08:47 AM
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52. This Is Likely A Good Time To Negotiate A Good Price On Coastal Propery
Dick bought the farm.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 09:40 AM
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56. And the Vice President's mansion isn't good enough for him??
Fuck him. Fuck him and his greed.
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