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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 02:25 PM
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I'd like to dance on Novak's grave now.
A little time has passed, everyone else has had their time to be classy.

Me? No way. Glad he's gone. Wish he had gone sooner. He stood for, fought for everything I hold as obscene about the American political right wing. He was a sanctimonious liar, a self-serving traitor, and a hateful prick who in the end proved he wasn't just a whore, but really hated that much. I only wish he could've died more than once.

I hope he's found hell. Big "h" Hell, like Dante imagined. I hope he's strapped to a waterboarding table, starving, trying to suck rancid, wormy meat through a white-hot cheese grater for all eternity.

Damn you Novak, and all you caused and emboldened.

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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 02:27 PM
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1. I think you should wait a couple of months.
That way the dirt will settle and you're less likely to sprain your ankle.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 02:27 PM
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2. Well, all rightee, Robb.... catharsis may be good for the soul...
;) and actually you seemed relatively restrained.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 02:36 PM
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7. The evil men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 02:27 PM
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3. I've never understood this speak no ill of the dead crap.
Dying does not erase all the bad someone has done in their life.
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el_bryanto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 02:30 PM
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5. I suppose the rationale has to do with being kind to the family.
I mean while the person you want to rip into has passed, their family hasn't.

Bryant
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T Wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 02:42 PM
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9. You mean the family that lived the good life at the expense of those whom he abused.
Since all the cons care about is their immediate family (e.g., anti-gay Darth getting all upset when his daughter was mentioned - not attacked), I think the familiies are fair game. They certainly should not be shielded from the fallout of their relative's crimes.
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el_bryanto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 02:44 PM
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10. You might feel that way; others might feel difficulty
But that's where the custom arises I believe, and that was the initial question.

Bryant
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 02:29 PM
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4. You might want to wait a while.
I'm pretty sure his grave is going to be "watered" frequently over the next few months, might be a bit muddy.
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 02:31 PM
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6. May I share a waltz with you, Robb? n.t
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 03:10 PM
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11. Join the line
:hi:
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 03:46 PM
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14. If I can hang out with YOU while waiting my turn...
Excellent. :hi:
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 09:23 PM
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27. Cool
:fistbump:
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 02:36 PM
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8. i'd like to piss on his grave. nt
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 03:11 PM
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12. Wait your turn in line.
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 03:22 PM
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13. Gitmo...
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Dr Fate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 04:11 PM
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15. I'd love to see an H.L. Mencken or Hunter S. Thompson write his obit. (links included)
Edited on Thu Aug-20-09 04:14 PM by Dr Fate
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Retired AF Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 04:12 PM
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16. When Kennedy passes
and all the freeptards are making posts like this. Are you going to be all pissed off, or realise that you are no better than they are?
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onethatcares Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 04:43 PM
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17. and they're gonna say what?
bring up the "teddy the swimmer" shit. They've already pissed all over the Kennedys and killed two of them that really wanted to do something for America.

I'll stand in line to piss on Novaks grave. If I'm no better than them, who cares.
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Dr Fate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 05:25 PM
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18. When Kennedy passes, Freepers will still feel the same about him as they do now.
Edited on Thu Aug-20-09 05:26 PM by Dr Fate
When Novak passed, my personal feelings about him did not change either.

I will at least say that I wish his survivors the best.

I hear you, but death does not erase the reality of their lives. I've never understood why I'm supposed to revise or hide my feelings about an individual just because they are dead.
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 05:26 PM
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19. No.
I know I'm better than they are.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 05:46 PM
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21. It will take a Hell of a lot more than some bad words about Novak...
to make us "no better than they are".

And whatever the freepers say about Kennedy will be lies, whereas calling Novak a rat bastard traitor is spot on. My only regret is that he didn't die a lot sooner.
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 06:10 PM
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23. Ahhh yes, I should consider that when I decide on how I behave. Are you real? Who are you
supporting here? freeptards? I don't pay any attention as to what they say. Fuck em.
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sofa king Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 09:37 PM
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28. There is one notable difference: atonement in thought and deed.
Whatever the young Ted did or didn't do (and the Freepers will remind us, no doubt), what he did after he got to the Senate was downright decent. He acted as a model Senator through all the years when the other side didn't. He thought of the plight of others less fortunate than himself. He's still, in his last days, looking out for his constituents. He appears to have empathy, and compassion, and understanding.

Bob Novak, on the other hand, was a callous, selfish sonofabitch to the day he died. He fought every day to keep the bad things the way they are and to keep good things from happening, and he did it using rhetoric, sophistry, deception, denial, treason, and every other evil trick in the book, which he wrote. Someday his writings will be found alongside the other a-holes we never read or think about anymore, the dinosaurs who were willing to sacrifice the present and the future in the quest for a return to an idealized past which they made up themselves.

If we can't point our fingers straight at evil and call it what it is, we are certain to see more of it. But that's just my opinion.
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 09:53 PM
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30. Well put.
"If we can't point our fingers straight at evil and call it what it is, we are certain to see more of it." :thumbsup:
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Kaleva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 05:44 PM
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20. We are who we profess to despise
Some on the far right will convince themselves there are legit reasons for wanting to dance on Ted Kennedy's grave after he passes on. There isn't any difference between the scumbags on the right and left.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 06:05 PM
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22. Here's some differences between the two groups of gravedancers...
Edited on Thu Aug-20-09 06:05 PM by Forkboy
One group thinks women should have no say in what they do with their own bodies...one doesn't.

One group thinks healthcare is something to use as a political ploy to tear down a president...one doesn't.

One group uses terror alerts to scare the populace to help affect elections...one doesn't.

One group hates Gays, Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, Muslims, Jews, etc...one doesn't.

One group believes in the Constitution and doesn't try to undermine it for their own gain...one doesn't.

One group thinks global warming is just a hoax...one doesn't.

One group thinks tax cuts to the wealthiest 3% is a good thing...one doesn't.

One group thinks extra-judicial killing is A-ok...one doesn't.

One group thinks the material a flag is made of is worth more than what it represents...one doesn't.

I'm sorry those issues don't factor into your comparison. They should.
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 06:11 PM
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24. I'd like to make this much simplier. Novak was a piece of shit that helped destroy good people. May
he rot in hell.
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Kaleva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 08:49 PM
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25. One group thinks grave dancing is okay....one doesn't
Decide which group you are in and look around to see who is with you. I'd imagine you'll see quite a few freepers and right wingers. People that you profess to despise are your companions.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 09:03 PM
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26. I'll take 9 out of 10 ten differences.
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Zywiec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 09:45 PM
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29. Yep, it's amazing how some think they are better than the nuts on the right
when they are exactly the same.

:crazy:
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 09:55 PM
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31. remember when DUer symbolman called Novack a traitor to his face
man that really riled up Novack ..:rofl:
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