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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 05:28 PM
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Breaking:: The United States of America is about to go Under as a Despotic Empire
What Schumer/DiFi did was fuel the move of destroying this once great Democracy...If we go Despot...we will set the stage for many other Nations to do likewise....

Humanity will be fucked way beyond what we see today.

The Pressing Issues of GW, rising sea levels, etc will not be addressed in a timely fashion....

Schumer et al has fucked us and the Planet all in one vote....
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 05:29 PM
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1. After all the shit that's gone down, and all the other awful things that could happen
I seriously doubt this *one* vote is the one that pushes us over the edge.
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 09:28 PM
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19. True, we're already in a totalitarian *free fall*
Watch out for that sudden stop for it's going to usher in another "depression." :(
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TwilightZone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 05:39 PM
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2. This is getting silly.
This is getting truly ridiculous. Compared to the Patriot Act, the IWR, the tax cuts, signing statements, etc., this one vote means little in comparison. It certainly isn't the end of the Republic, regardless of the hyperbolic declarations to the contrary.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 05:40 PM
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3. No shit.
the chicken littles are in full control of GD.
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Perky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 05:49 PM
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5. Got that right.
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Mojorabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 06:50 PM
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7. In an abstract moral kind of way
it is a kind of death knell for everything this country has stood for.
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slowry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 11:44 PM
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28. You really are batting 100.0, in defense of * and his enablers. n/t
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 07:08 PM
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10. I look at it as DISGUSTING.....this was the one place to do the OK CORRAL thingy and we wimped out
CAVED like the rats we are....fuck it all...I am so issed at the Dems for not getting Schumer/Di to vote for Humanity...instead them 2 went for Vanity

If we cannot UNITE...then what are we????

WIMPS and COWARDS
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 09:24 PM
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17. It's only a baby step. Just another baby step. If it's not torture, then can the cops use it?
You know, if it's nessesary? Like what if they find a guy they think kidnapped a child, and he won't tell them where the child is?

Just another baby step.

Nothing much, really.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 11:45 PM
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30. Soon dem Brown Shirt dudes will come for us....one step at a time...
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Hawkowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 01:51 AM
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42. You mean Blackwater shirts?
You realize that the infamous brown shirts started out as private security, just like Blackwater?
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 01:07 AM
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32. I didn't know dat...what a coinkydink...ominous
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kenfrequed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 04:18 PM
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55. Well yeah
A lot of them were unemployed and signed on for free food a uniform, a pair a boots and a place to live.

The brownshirt organizations were partially privately funded by various corporate interests who sought people to help harass and beat up socialists and unionists.
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 09:30 PM
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20. Alas, yet another slight ... drip drip ... and we're getting ever closer ... closer. n/t
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 05:46 PM
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4. If we don't put our foot down soon
and forcefully, some future history page may well refer to us as "the good Americans" for quietly going along and trying not to upset the apple cart.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 08:45 PM
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11. We had the Op and blew it...schumer/Di sold us down the river...I will never forgive them...
POS is what they are...fuck um...86 da buggers....
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tex-wyo-dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 10:32 PM
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23. Unfortunately, i don't see people in mass #s...
Rising up until things get really, really bad in their everyday lives...and by that time it'll be way too late.
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Hawkowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 01:57 AM
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43. Indeed.
The parallels with 1930's Germany are beyond frightening at this point. If the economy continues its slow meltdown, along with the disappearing dollar, or * starts WWIII with Iran, we are THERE.
Our culture of rabid flag waving, unquestioning obedience of the bushbots, and the COMPLETE control of the MSM by the corporate state, leaves us with one foot over the threshold into despotic fascism.

By the time a lot of us will have decided it's a good time to get out of Dodge, we no longer will be allowed to leave. Terrifying.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 01:09 AM
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33. Yup, its all there...coming to a town near you....Fascism
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OzarkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 05:53 PM
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6. Economic problems alone will bring us down
Inflation rising, dollar weakening, debt rising, jobs disappearing...

Yet none of the Dem leaders in Congress bother to address the situation and none of the '08 candidates will talk about it.

Its insanity. Never in all days would I have thought our Dem leaders would abandon our country the way they have.

We're headed for a big crash and no one wants to talk about it.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 08:50 PM
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12. Not enough peeps to complain...which is what them Neocons want....
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 06:53 PM
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8. But, but, but we are not suposed to speak of these
problems!

:sarcasm:
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 07:05 PM
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9. I am hoping beyond hope...that a spark revives the flame of Freedom and Compassion
But, alas, situation is dark and dismal....

What to do? What to do??? That is the question....either we go ahead unified as a People or we die off seperated / divided

We are so fucked....

and yes, I blame the Schumer/Di Fi Pair.....it was a time/place to stand for Humanity and the Dem Party...but, they Caved instead.

pathetic and fucking deplorable....
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Elspeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 08:56 PM
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13. I sometimes wonder if Californians watch DiFi's voting record
Or just vote for her as a reflex
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 09:14 PM
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14. AS far as I am concerned...she is despicable.....sufferin succatash...worse than that
She is a POS....
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 09:21 PM
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15. Her voting improves the furhter you get from San Fran
which she left in a deep economic crisis.
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FunkyLeprechaun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 09:24 PM
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16. I'm sorry if this isn't related to the OP
But my Rant, and I hope you don't mind the all caps:

I CAN'T FUCKING BELIEVE THAT SCHUMER AND DIFI ARE FUCKING VOTING FOR MUKASEY! FOR FUCK'S SAKE... I'VE GOTTEN PURCHASES FROM CHINA THAT WERE MORE FUCKING RELIABLE THAN THOSE TWO DINOS!

That is all.
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Elspeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 09:25 PM
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18. No problem
A lot of us are feeling that way tonight
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 11:51 PM
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31. It IZ related...dem two fuckwads made it OK for the Terrorists to TORTURE OUR TROOPS if/whencaptured
The Pro Torture vote will go down as the beginning of the end times....

Lady Liberty must be appalled.....
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 10:00 PM
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21. But, FOLKS, Schumer recommended this guy - what did you think he'd do --????? Seriously......??????
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 10:47 PM
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25. So making Shumer look good is worth more to him than doing the
right thing...what a soulless, selfish, piece of sub-human garbage!
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 11:42 PM
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26. These 2 peeps, Schummer and Di....are WORSE THAN PUBs...UnPatriotic and InHuman
They stood up for TORTURE...which is to INFLICT Pain, Humiliation, and sleepless nights on dem hard Concrete floors wet with fecal matter and urain

Shummer is Garbage.....
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 10:03 PM
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22. Feinstein sits at the head of what's wrong within the Democratic party . .. .
Can we please isolate these people -- Schumer, Feinstein -- DLC -- and get them targeted and out of the Democratic Party?
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 11:43 PM
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27. ImPeach them ASAP....they don belong in the DEM Party...let um go join Nader
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 01:16 AM
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34. What would Nader want with DLC Dems . . . ????
Or is this still part of the "they gave us the Nader/Scapegoat" and I think I'll chose to believe it rather than looking at the fact that Gore won Florida -- and the election . .. . .

and the Dems did nothing about it -- ????

Or Kerry -- winning 2004 -- and Dems did nothing about it --- ???

And, here we go to 2008 -- still voting on computers that have been stealing votes for four decades!
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 01:29 AM
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39. Yup, its all FUBAR.....only a matter of time before they come to rip our hearts out in a sacrifice
like them Aztecs did...

When the famine comes....the die off will take 5 to 6 billion lives....its all so preventable but we worry who gonna make the point spread in the nx NFL game....and thus forego any action cept pray
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 03:36 AM
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44. There are so many ways we could be fighting corporate-fascism . . .
but it takes cooperation among citizens --- at least those who understand what is happening.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 10:40 PM
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24. They'd better wake up and smell the chimney.
Bush is a wolf in sheep's clothing...good guys don't do the shit Bush has done...outlaws do!
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 01:32 AM
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41. These 2 are worse than W......Schummer and Di are scum
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 07:28 AM
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48. Suck-ee's in love...
Saving face trumps humanity?
Saving face trumps America's good name?
DiFi and Chuck are Lieberman/Miller/BUshco drones. The "ownership" crew owns those two. To the manor born democrats are just exactly like the to the manor born repubs...they look out for themselves and their secret, hidden, agendas above all other considerations.

We need to clean house in our party ASAP!
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 10:09 AM
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51. Yup, Tis the Insanity of vanity......They got OWNED...dats NO Shit
Our Partee got no fucking rules with teeth with re to proper behavior and breaking ranks....thats traitorous shit
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 11:44 PM
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29. Right now?
I thought that was 50 years ago.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 01:21 AM
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36. Let's play this out...
Suppose we didn't confirm Mukasey - then what?

Bush waits it out until X-mas and makes a recess appointment that would last until the end of his term.

I'm not excusing the conformation - now Schumer has blood on his hands, too that he shares with all of the GOP.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 01:24 AM
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37. If we don't as we had hoped for....at least we would have presented a UNITED NO to TORTURE
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magellan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 01:19 AM
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35. Exactly, this is just the latest example of principle taking the back seat
It's not about WINNING, but HOW YOU PLAY THE GAME. Just because the bad guys are going to win no matter what, doesn't mean you throw your hands up and go home. You stand and fight for what's RIGHT. The Dems have totally lost touch with that concept. They've become very content to surrender before a battle's even been joined. I'M SICK TO THE TEETH OF IT.

As for Schumer and Feinstein -- pathetic cowardly traitors to what this country USED to stand for. They may as well get it over with and defect to the GOP. I can't say worse about them.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 03:46 AM
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45. They be a couple notches BELOW the PUBs...Dastardly Cowards
"...but HOW YOU PLAY THE GAME"..They skipped the Course....
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 01:27 AM
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38. Of course Georgie gets the last laugh, but we should be fighting him each and every step
each and every nomination should be opposed, regardless of the consequences. Make him recess appoint. Don't just f********* give in.
Schumer and DiFi need to be replaced. Harry should see they get nothing they want.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 01:31 AM
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40. Harry should impeach them ASAP.....take them outta the equation....
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Perry Logan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 06:12 AM
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46. If I had a dime for every "Democracy is dead" thread!
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 12:26 AM
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57. Yeah, so what's your point? nm
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earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 06:43 AM
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47. Here's another K & R!
:kick:
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 07:37 AM
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49. And that Feinstein what the fuck? WTF
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 10:12 AM
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52. I wish I knew whad she got for brains...right now...its noodles I suspect
Obviously, its her above the Party, the Nation, and above the Planet,,,That girl don't think, knit, cook, and clean house...she ain't crap.
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many a good man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 09:40 AM
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50. You sound like Daniel Webster
Per my sigline....
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 10:22 AM
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53. I am not trying to be like DW, but I am pissed off with Schummer/Di
Edited on Sun Nov-04-07 10:24 AM by opihimoimoi
because of what I see as a very serious breach of Party conduct....By breaking ranks to vote Pub on this Most important issue .... they have become Traitors in an Unamerican way way beyond their apparent comprehension..It seems they have no clue as to the damage they did......

What is it....some kind of pathogen??? Did they get Infected?

Still, tis no excuse to use the Constitution as toilet paper...drats...there... I said it...

Come, we go drink...:beer:

Fuck beer :whiskey:
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guruoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 02:21 PM
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54. Video: Despotism (1946) Encyclopedia Brittanica Films
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=102585813125825400

despotism

Main Entry:
des·po·tism Listen to the pronunciation of despotism
Pronunciation:
\ˈdes-pə-ˌti-zəm\
Function:
noun
Date:
circa 1727

1 a: rule by a despot b: despotic exercise of power2 a: a system of government
in which the ruler has unlimited power : absolutism b: a despotic state
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 11:51 AM
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58. Thank you...its pertinent to the situation
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-04-07 04:27 PM
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56. So this is news and "Greatest" and DU found Alito and Roberts' appointments to be a yawn...
:toolittletoolate:
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 11:54 AM
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59. Never too late until its too late
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