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Emit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 12:58 AM
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This is 'funny'?
These people make me sick.



Here's the woman who sent this: Holli Webb

http://fwix.com/share/20_a4d47bf956
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 01:01 AM
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1. God, it never grows old with them, does it?
It's like fart jokes.
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truedelphi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 11:50 AM
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25. Kudos for the cartoon. n/t
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 01:03 AM
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2. She tried not to laugh -- I tried not to cry. nt
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Emit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 01:04 AM
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3. Me, too, gateley. I am at a loss for words after seeing this
I had heard about the email earlier but I had no idea this is what was in the content.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 01:14 AM
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8. Truly, it just makes me so sad. I know you feel the same. nt
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 05:54 PM
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43. I saw an anti-HCR demonstration...
and an older woman (SS age) was holding up a sign that read- "Too Old? Too Sick? Too Bad" I just don't understand this country sometimes
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 01:09 AM
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4. Harharhar.
Edited on Sat Aug-15-09 01:10 AM by liberalmuse
This is a word that does not demean the people who it's aimed at, but rather, those who use it. I was talking to an older guy who used that word once when he was talking to me (never used it again around me after that), and he may has well have grown a 2nd head. I just never respected him or considered him a decent person after that.
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 01:11 AM
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5. Holly Webb is one sick fuck
sorry to be crass, but what kind of warped mind finds such garbage "funny"? disgusting beyond belief...and she actually forwarded it! She works as a police dispatcher (I wish I were surprised). She needs to be canned ASAP, as she obviously can't treat those she works with and serves with any shed of respect. I'm getting so sick of racism, homophobia, and misogyny in America these days; it's just seems to be snowballing out of control as all the RW cockroaches scamper out of their holes. :grr:

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Emit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 01:20 AM
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9. I just read a diary at Daily Kos that lists their employers' contact info
You can let the North Canton Police Department (Anita Malachowski's employer) know what you think of this by sending them a note. http://northcantonpolice.org/contact.asp If you’d rather call you can do that at (330) 499-5911. I you love to fax (and who doesn’t!), you can fax away to (330) 966-3731.

You can let the Uniontown Police Department (Holli Webb's employer) know what you think with the following information:

Uniontown Police Department
Phone: 330-699-6444
Fax: 330-699-9501
E-mail: uniontownpd@neo.rr.com


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/14/766851/-OH-police-forward-Air-Force-One-N166ER-image-from-work
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 09:36 AM
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19. Thanks for the contacts
I sent an email to the North Canton Police Department. I wrote the following

The blatant racism displayed by your dispatcher Anita Malachowski has surely and unfortunately hurt your standing in the community and in the country. It doesn't matter what she thinks as a citizen or even that she's evidently a bigot, but when she represents a police department, it matters much more than if a citizen were spreading ugly racism. It matter because one wonders how she responds professionally to crimes being perpetrated against blacks or any other group she deems inferior in your city. Surely this has hurt the entire police department by diminishing any trust you may have built with the community.
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D-Lee Donating Member (457 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 02:18 PM
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39. Thanks for the link and the suggested email text
I used your format and added a different starting text:


One of your police dispatchers used your official email system to circulate a racist joke.

It seems likely that you have a policy against such use of your system.

As another person noted,it doesn't matter what she thinks as a citizen or even that she's evidently a bigot, but when she represents a police department, it matters much more than if a citizen were spreading ugly racism. It matter because one wonders how she responds professionally to crimes being perpetrated against blacks or any other group she deems inferior in your city. Surely this has hurt the entire police department by diminishing any trust you may have built with the community.
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dana_b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 12:12 PM
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29. thanks for the links. n/t
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bulloney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 06:20 PM
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53. If she loses her job over this, what will happen to her health care coverage?
Edited on Sun Aug-16-09 06:22 PM by bulloney
Just askin'.

With a name like Malachowski, would she like to see a bunch of Polish jokes resurface?
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tomm2thumbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 01:12 AM
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6. Holli-sh*t is what I say - nice standing in front of that flag like she knows what it means

I guess when those 'patriotic Republicans' get cornered emotionally, their 12 year old defense mechanisms come out. Guess that is all they will ever be deep down, bratty children.
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 01:12 AM
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7. I'll Bet She Supports Our Troops Too...
at least the white ones.

:wtf:
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sharesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 01:46 AM
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10. Interestingly, Snopes says this is an actual FAA registration number for someone's private plane.
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 01:56 AM
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11. Guess what, dumbass? HE'S STILL THE FUCKING PRESIDENT.


You can laugh, you can cry, you can send your racist email shit around and clean your guns and bleach your hooded costumes and make your fucked-up misspelled signs, but you know what?

HE'S STILL THE FUCKING PRESIDENT.

Get over it, numbnuts!

:rofl:

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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 09:36 AM
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20. And she is going no where near that aircraft
Fuck you Holly
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 12:00 PM
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27. Thus the righteously bitter snark-joke: "What do you call the President of the United States?"
Edited on Sat Aug-15-09 12:01 PM by BlooInBloo
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ThirdWorldJohn Donating Member (525 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 02:51 AM
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12. I bet Anita and Holli are now in fear of losing their jobs.
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Chemisse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 04:15 AM
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14. They should be
A police dispatcher has a crucial job, one that can mean life or death for the police and the community. How can the public (specifically the black public) trust them, knowing they feel that way?
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 09:06 AM
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16. The possibility of them losing their jobs has nothing to do with their feelings on race (or humor).
They used workplace computers to send the e-mail.

As offensive as I personally find it, I support their right to privately send messages like this, regardless of their occupation.
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Chemisse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 10:34 AM
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21. That is a good point
Racism makes me lose perspective. I would not want to be fired just for my views, but if I used my work computer to exchange controversial ideas, I could understand it being frowned upon.

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we can do it Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 12:56 PM
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36. They Deserve To Lose Jobs If That's All the Better Judgement They Display
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 01:25 PM
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38. I disagree. However offensive, it's their right to have opinions.
Often, public servants have clauses in their employment contracts that prohibit certain activities on OR OFF duty.

If they're in violation of those clauses, they are in breach of contract. They can also most likely be disclipined for improper use of the computers at work.


...and while I'd support action against them based on these possible violations, their communications are still (rightfully) protected as free speech.
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 02:44 PM
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42. And what if people were to demand your being fired from
your job because they didn't like your liberal views?

Look, I agree that it's sick and disgusting and it makes me sick to think that anyone connected with a police dept. would do this. And I'm also getting mighty tired of hateful racism and demeaning discrimination, etc., etc. HOWEVER. Unless they openly advocate and/or incite violence at a workplace, or unless they openly express such views to customers or harass co-workers, etc., etc., what they think in private has, and should have, nothing to do with their being able to keep a job or not. If it did, a lot of us with liberal views contrary to whatever our bosses may think would be in real trouble, or those with conservative views and liberal bosses would be in a lot of trouble. Both are equally wrong.

The main and crucial difference here is that she used her official WORK computer to send this, very likely a violation and a serious breach of policy. THAT is why she should be shit-canned, not for her views themselves. And not only that, but anyone dumb enough to use her work computer to send something like this I don't want working in a police dept. in any capacity.
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PhiBetaCretin1 Donating Member (88 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 06:09 PM
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49. Both have already been put on leave pending an investigation
from http://ohiodailyblog.com/content/update--dispatchers-malachowski-webb-administrative-leave

UPDATE : Dispatchers Malachowski, Webb On Administrative Leave ...Aug 14, 2009 ... Police Dispatcher Anita Malachowski and Uniontown Police Dispatcher Holli Webb are both on administrative leave pending an investigation into their use of public email accounts and/or time to distribute this email message earlier this week.

Both e-mail accounts have been suspended.

North Canton Mayor David J. Held said “racial stereotypes, racial slurs of any kind are completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated in my administration.” Held said both dispatchers will receive due process, but added: “If there is a finding, they will not be part of my administration.”


NOT SO FUNNY NOW, HUH, Holli and Anita???
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 02:56 AM
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13. In a word:
No.

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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 06:36 AM
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15. Apparently this is what weak, right-wing minds see as "humor".
No wit, no smarts, no imagination. This is something 5th graders would snicker at. And this lame-brained woman.

:eyes:
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 09:19 AM
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17. The unrec troll strikes again!
So I rec'd this because everyone needs to know that this person who is in charge of dispatching police to crime scenes is a true bigot. Would anyone who isn't white trust their lives to such a person? Because this is the person who sends police to you when you need them.
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 09:34 AM
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18. Recommend. They're racists, and that's what compels them.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 11:12 AM
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22. i beleive this is called racism
Edited on Sat Aug-15-09 11:21 AM by spanone
dear dumb holly, that flag you so crassly stand in front of belongs to persons of every race in this country. you blatantly insult what america stands for.
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Viper Mad Donating Member (113 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 11:18 AM
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23. That number is actually used on an old military trainer
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Binka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 12:30 PM
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35. Your Point Is?
Really. WTF is your point?
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Viper Mad Donating Member (113 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 08:17 PM
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44. No point, I just thought it was interesting. WTF is your problem?
jeezus...
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Binka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 01:23 AM
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45. LOL Right
Back off Viper.
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Hepburn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 11:46 AM
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24. As a native Ohioan....
...I am sick to see this. As an American, I am truly angered.

There is no place for this kind of disgusting racism.

:puke:
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felinetta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 12:00 PM
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26. I am so tired of them spewing ignorant hate and racism. And obviously
repubs in office agree with them.  I never hear them come out
in force to denounce this vile garbage.
Can't they just all go to Texas and secede? 
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ThatsMyBarack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 12:03 PM
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28. Anyone who think THAT'S funny SUX!
:thumbsdown:
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 12:18 PM
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30. i bet folks of color feel really special when they call holly the police dispatcher
america the fucked
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 12:19 PM
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31. Nope, not funny, and that type of humor makes me sick too. nt
Edited on Sat Aug-15-09 12:20 PM by blondeatlast
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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 12:23 PM
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32. sad- she knows it's racist crap, yet still finds it 'funny'-
wonder if she laughs at cunt, or dead cop jokes.


And finds them worthy of passing along.

Some things, Holli- just AREN'T "funny" unless there is a part of you which is sick.
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comrade snarky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 12:27 PM
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33. Much as they try
They just can't keep the raciest crap under their pointy white hats.

Helps me sort out who's who though.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 12:29 PM
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34. I try not to hate people but she's soooo deserving of it.
:banghead:
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 01:10 PM
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37. Please forgive me, I'm really sorry, I'll really really try not to laugh Holli...
But when you get fired...:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 02:21 PM
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40. sick.
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-15-09 02:34 PM
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41. I hope nobody at the DMV gives her a license plate reading
"stupid ignorant bitch." I really, really hope no one does that, 'cause that would be wrong, ya know.
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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 01:28 AM
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46. How much spam email can we send Holli Webb before she begs for mercy?
Her email is holliwebb1@hotmail.com

And notice it was forwarded by someone at the "North Canton Police"? amalachowski@northcantonpolice.org
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SleeplessInAlabama Donating Member (341 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 02:04 AM
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48. I dunno, but I'm willing to find out nt
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NJCher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 01:54 AM
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47. Let's have a little perspective here
What makes this ninny from some jerkwater town nobody ever heard of think that she is in a position to laugh at the president of the United States?

I hope this idiot is fired. Most workplaces have policies where you're not supposed to be doing something like this on company time. I am guessing she did it while she was being paid to perform her job because she sent it out at 8:45 a.m. That's not lunch time and it's way too early for break time.



Cher
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 06:11 PM
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50. We knew the bigotry would eventually ooze from their hateful pores
All too many Republicans are vile human beings.
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crazy_vanilla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 06:13 PM
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51. Bitch! and she deserves the word nt
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bulloney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 06:19 PM
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52. Yessir! Race relations in this country have progressed a lot since the '60s.
People think they're so discreet just because they don't verbally express it. But there are other ways it comes out.

Do I need the sarcasm label?
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 07:18 PM
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54. That joke is every bit as funny as this one from Bill Maher -
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 07:24 PM
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55. Your comparing Bill Mahr's joke to a
racist joke made by some republican hack? Hookay then....
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 09:19 PM
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57. It's "you're" or "you are," and yes.
Edited on Sun Aug-16-09 09:20 PM by Maru Kitteh
I know, one is a slur against a whole group of people who have suffered historically from brutal oppression, who have been ostracized, summarily executed on rumors based in fear, denied human rights, denied property rights, beaten and treated as property, treated as inferior of character and intellect and the other is about ____________.

But the women around here - they just need to lighten up, them and the GLBT's.
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 07:29 PM
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56. I predict she will keep her job.
She'll get a slap on the wrist, and that's it.

If they fire her I'll be shocked.
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