Good Old Neon

"values voters" Total fucking morons - this level of prideful stupidity should be considered a national emergency.

Yeah, but Jesus was also god, so, that would be like god/Jesus locking himself out of his own house

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I absolutely love these books - just love them.

Would you mind providing evidence backing this assertion? To suggest that they

Dylan

If it would help change anyone

I smell a jinx.

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Lawn darts will find no purchase in a billowy cloud. Oh, and enjoy your Pat Boone while you're up there - - the rest of us will be rocking out in hell (if also sweating profusely).

Asking a conservative why and how they like Wilco, is, to me, sort of like asking how on earth a liberal could ever befriend a conservative or a conservative, a liberal.

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I do not believe our lack of compassion is the child of religion, any more than I believe religion gave birth to compassion. To a large extent I agree, but religion is in the unique (and, I would add, unparalled) position of justifying and perpetuating (and, in many cases, simply creating out of thin air) those fears and abuses of power

And why is it that Palin/McCain rallies have begun to sound more and more like that scene in Frankenstein where the frightened villagers form a posse, just before they go on a rampage? The mere utterance of the word

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The end must certainly be near as it sounds as though we agree on something.

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In a nakedly blatant attempt to bribe, er, I mean, positively influence voters, especially those of you who, like Dave Wallace, were born and/or reside in the second-to-none-state-of-Illinois, and thus, pretty much won the nation

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Agreed. I thought he nailed the sort of breathless, exasperated quality often on display in Walberg

The situation is so dire and complex that identifying and implementing a winning strategy now seems nearly impossible, at least not without a major effort from all involved parties. Which, is not very encouraging considering the Middle East

Well, if you zoom right in there on Morgan Hess

From the Washington Post (an excerpt from a much longer article) - "Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man