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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 10:33 AM
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Never in my life have I smiled at a cough
Edited on Thu May-21-09 10:33 AM by ChairmanAgnostic
Until now. Darth Cheney is going on and on about how he saved the universe, and he began to cough. A rather deep, unstoppable cough.

And I smiled.

Is that wrong of me?
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 10:33 AM
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1. nope, I did the same thing
:evilgrin:
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DangerousRhythm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 10:34 AM
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2. ROFL!
You are not the only one...
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 10:34 AM
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3. Darth Cheney is evidence that not all technological advances...
will be used for "good." That pacing device in his chest must be running on sheer "satanic" power.
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FVZA_Colonel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 07:57 PM
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34. That man is a god-damn Sith Lord.
If he'd been around in the 70's, I know Lucas would have used him as inspiration for Palpatine.
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 10:36 AM
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4. The cough = divine intervention, or, a higher power is listening..lol....n/t
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 10:36 AM
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5. The penny drops. He is providing his criminal defense
ahead of time.

My motives were pure! I did what was necessary. It was your your good!
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Mira Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 10:44 AM
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6. I hoped he would expire right then and there N/T
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Optical.Catalyst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 08:13 PM
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36. I am kind of pulling for him to expire in jail
The end of Cheney comes while he is alone, in a locked, cold, concrete cell, in an undisclosed location under Leavenworth, Kansas.

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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 10:47 AM
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7. He sounds less and less energetic.
Almost never looking up. I wonder if he is prestroke?
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SusanaMontana41 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 10:50 AM
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9. When Crashcart drops, be it today or later,
I'm dancing. Hope the deluge that follows sweeps the Bush cabal out to sea.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 11:27 AM
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17. I keep wondering what is going to happen to DU when Cheney croaks.
Edited on Thu May-21-09 12:13 PM by Arugula Latte
Normally, when a prominent rightwing evildoer dies, we have the traditional "Death Flame War" where people divide into the "don't speak badly about the dead" and the "good, I'm glad the MFer is gone" camps. I can't imagine we'd have too many in the former camp when Dick bites it. I mean, who will mourn Charles Manson? Cheney was responsible for tens of thousands more deaths and maimings than Manson was.
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ArbustoBuster Donating Member (956 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 11:28 PM
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39. Can I reserve a nonsmoking table in the "glad the bastard is gone" section please?
I promise I won't sing "na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, good bye" loud enough to bother the other tables.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 11:00 AM
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42. You got it.
Your confirmation number is 666EVIL.
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JayMusgrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 10:49 AM
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8. Cheney is digging a deep deep hole for the Republicans
and I think Fox News wrote his speech.

Or maybe Rush Limbaugh.
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Graybeard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 10:50 AM
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10. Could it be this swine has the flu?
Wasn't it the advise to stay home if you are coughing or have other symptoms? Go back into your hole and stop spreading your contagion.
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 10:58 AM
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11. let's deal with this analytically
First, he is a swine, although some of the species bovine might object.
Second, he is sick. Sure, it starts with mental illness, but it remains an illness.
Third, his speech flew the coup of logic and rationality.

So, yeah, swine flu it is.
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SusanaMontana41 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 11:06 AM
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13. Not really fair
to swine to compare them to this monster ...

:evilgrin:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 11:25 AM
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16. Or just a
swine.
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mantis49 Donating Member (398 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 05:59 PM
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25. I'm hoping it's a sign of exacerbation of
Edited on Thu May-21-09 05:59 PM by mantis49
Congestive Heart Failure that won't respond to treatment. Fatal only to Darth.
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 10:59 AM
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12. So, three, perhaps three and a half sets of coughs?
Towards the end, he rarely looked up. His voice wavered a few times, more towards the end. His make-up was good. It hid his serious pallor.

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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 11:08 AM
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14. He seemed to get redder and redder
or was that just me....?
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 11:23 AM
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15.  So the old hack was
hacking his head off?
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shaniqua6392 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 12:14 PM
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18. I wished he would have a stroke and be paralyzed for life.
He would just lay there and not be able to speak or spend any of the money he ripped off with his Halliburton buddies. I want him to wear a diaper and drool. Is that wrong of me?? I don't think you should worry about smiling at his cough. I think I have you beat. :evilgrin:
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Seedersandleechers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 01:19 PM
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23. ah, then us tax payers will be paying the bill for his care.
Maybe just a slow ride in an ambulance will do.
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Holly_Hobby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 12:20 PM
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19. Congestive heart failure n/t
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 12:54 PM
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20. Is the heavy, labored breathing due to his heart problems? It's creepy, to say the least.
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 01:01 PM
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21. watch him go to hospital in an undisclosed location
sometime this week.
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dgibby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 07:09 PM
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Either that or he really IS Darth Vader!
The wheezing, shortness of breath, cough are all symptoms of congestive heart failure.
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 06:27 PM
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26. My first thought, too. Fluid buildup in lungs. n/t
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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 01:02 PM
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22. Hey, I've got my voodoo doll out today ... I'll see your laugh-at-cough and raise you some pins
in the face!
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 06:53 PM
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28. For those who don't have one...
here's a virtual voodoo doll

http://www.virtual-design.com/demos/voodoodoll/voodoo.asp?section=demo&subsection=voodoo

turn the sound on

have fun with pins, knives, and burning torches


:7
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 01:35 PM
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24. Why Won't He Just Die
and put a grateful nation out of it's misery.
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 06:50 PM
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27. I just keep hoping he gets tinier and tinier
like the incredible shrinking man in the movie.

Then he is crushed by a water molecule.



How's that for waterboarding, Dickless??!!!!!


:evilgrin:
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indimuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 08:28 PM
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38. LOL!
HA! thx...
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 07:04 PM
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29. Well said...
K&R
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 07:09 PM
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30. just saw some coverage of the "coughs"
and a period where he refused to look up at his audience. This man was suffering up there.

just not enough.

Imagine that SOB lecturing us about "values" and contrived anguish. That SOB.
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 07:23 PM
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31. I'll bet the bleeding around the eye
gave a slight inner smile as well. I'm afraid he will die before justice though. No matter, he will have to stand before his god at some point.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 12:51 AM
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40. the result of anti-clot therapy?
I believe a bleed like that can result from anti-clot therapy in people with ischemic heart disease.

I'll bet a superior diagnostician could tell us a lot just by looking at that photo.

Many people have noted his pallor, his rosy cheeks, his cough as related to congestive heart failure. Now we have a clue about his treatment.
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 09:27 AM
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41. Does it hurt?
:hands folded in prayer with fingers crossed:
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Hieronymus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 07:52 PM
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32. It's heart failure ... he makes me crazy listening to his gasping and coughing.
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Hepburn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 07:53 PM
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33. You only smiled?
I fucking rooted for the cough and had the video recorder ready ~~ just in case!

:evilgrin:
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Jim Lane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 08:12 PM
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35. I hope he stays alive so as to be served with subpoenas.
Multiple subpoenas.

He doesn't show? Jailed for contempt.

He shows and lies? Jailed for perjury.

He shows and tells the truth? Jailed for multiple crimes, but (ooh, am I gonna flamed for this) with some leniency in sentencing if he helped the DoJ convict Shrub and some of their henchmen.
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cooolandrew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 08:22 PM
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37. Than fully President Obama made his case made simultaneously, people can contrast the views.
Edited on Thu May-21-09 09:10 PM by cooolandrew
Totally unreal that Cheney sees a future of further torture/enhanced intrrogation . It's even more shocking how he talked in terms as though he still ran the US, his megalomania is stunning.
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