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PostPosted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The friend of a friend, who is a Ron Paul supporter, insists that the Federal Reserve (which was a decentralizing institution) is a pinnacle of centralized control.

In all seriousness, though. What? Girl needs to get her ass in a money and banking class pronto.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Knights Templar run the money system, dude!
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

some people don't articulate their positions very well, to say the least.

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I really need to read RAW's book on Natural Law.


it's funny! unless you're really hardcore into rothbard, that is. i got it before loompanics went under.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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What Happens When Schools Block Computer Porn

Guy #1: Dude, that man squirrel is about to rape that woman squirrel.
Guy #2: Do squirrels have wieners?
Guy #1: I don't know... I want to see if he sticks it in her!
Guy #2: Oh my god! They're 69-ing each other! This is awesome!
Guy #1: Holy shit! He just stuck his head up her squirrel-gina!
Guy #2: [Captivated silence.]

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2007/11/04/7378
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/10/atlas-first-mus.html
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ugh.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Concurred, ugh.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mega-ugh.

i still laughed, though.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 3:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

smoke the rock of good news:

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/123338.html

the CSM link doesn't show up.

nevermind it's back:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1102/p01s02-usju.html?page=1
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

what the fuck?

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Toddler in stroller: Fuck you! Hahaha! Fuck you! Hahaha!
Tourist mom: Did that baby just say 'fuck you'? This is the tenth time we've been to the city, and I've never seen anything that odd.
Tourist daughter: We are on Canal Street, Mom.
Tourist mom: This is very true. Way to go, stroller kid! Yeah!

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ron paul sets single day fundraising record at 4.3 million

the reaction from mother jones is hilarious.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

but not nearly as hilarious as this!

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/11/06/ron-and-the-paulbots-celebrate-a-terrorist-by-raising-35-mil/
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jesus Christ those people are speds. Isolationism was old by 1917 but it hardly matters what you get up to in the middle east if you end up with usury laws and the return of the 18th amendment at home anyway.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thankfully we already have drug prohibition and usury laws so at least we're not missing out on that part of the "what if" scenario.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

man, coming here is like shooting myself up with a vein-full of bummer.

Can you post some stuff that doesn't make you pity and hate the human race at the same time?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Christ, will you Yanks leave our holidays alone? It's especially understanding when you haven't a clue who Guy Fawkes was and why exactly he aimed to do what he endeavoured. Here's a hint: It was on religious grounds.

I blame the V for Vendetta film. Why bother brushing up your history or political understanding when you can get a crypto-pro-statist piece of deluded propaganda filth provide you with easy answers?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Can you post some stuff that doesn't make you pity and hate the human race at the same time?


read the evolution of cooperation by robert axelrod.

alternately read prometheus rising by robert anton wilson. i'd loan you a copy but mine was loaned away along time ago. it's about as uplifting and life-affirming a text as i can think of, horrible dreaded terrible cover art aside.

dracko: i never saw the movie myself. as cool (and successful) as the massive fundraising effort was, the whole grassroots nov. 5 thing was decidedly less cool.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 8:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seriously, don't bother: It's by far one of the worst, if not the worst, films made this decade.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, I had a friend who read and loved the book. He told me when he went to see the movie he had to leave because the movie ruined the book so much. Something about adding in a pointless love story and things like that.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Can you post some stuff that doesn't make you pity and hate the human race at the same time?


Ratatouille. I can't make this shit up.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Yeah, I had a friend who read and loved the book. He told me when he went to see the movie he had to leave because the movie ruined the book so much. Something about adding in a pointless love story and things like that.

Oh, it's far, far more than just yet another abominable adaptation of an Alan Moore graphic novel.

But I've ranted on this subject to the death. It usually ends with: If you liked the film and thought it provides any useful political insights, you're the sort of person who'd vote for Hitler just for "a change of pace" and then be surprised to see yourself on the war path.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

you realize that just makes me want to see this now, right?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you must, download it.

P.S. It is poorly shot too okay
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

no i believe you but it's a bit like bluebeard's closet.

in lighter news:
http://fair-use.org/benjamin-tucker/instead-of-a-book/
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

curious blurb in this very incomplete story on a school shooting in finland:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/a-deadly-school-shooting-this-time-in-finland/?hp

this graf comes from a 2002 story on a german shooting:

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Stunned and grieving, some Europeans have taken to re-examining their societies, fretting that they have lost the communal warmth that once prevailed outside large cities.

Instead, they fear they are leaving their frailest citizens feeling isolated in an indifferent, money-driven marketplace, which is widely described as an American pathology spreading with globalization.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

back to the lighter side:

hey it's the kgb bar nonfiction reader!

yeah ok if joyce carol oates doesn't give you a seven foot erection then nothing will.

stop looking at me like that.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.miamistudent.net/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=9eb1bb26-6e45-4b9e-b240-3cbc82c776b6

this is a weird little story.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How the Hell is that a racial incident?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

in light of the jena six thing, i believe, is the thought process behind this.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

more dispatches on america's straight ass weird racial relationships:

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“You have to be kidding me,” I said. “Right out in the open like that?”

“No, man,” replied African Joe, his Nigerian lilt heavily accenting the no and minimizing the man. “Not right out in the open. It was in the back where it’s dark.”

“Aren’t there cameras back there?”

“No cameras, man. Cameras are all outside that back door. No inside.”

“Shit.” I ran a palm over my head, which my Russian barber had buzzed the hell out of that afternoon at my request. “Twice a month?”

“At least twice a month. Sometimes more. Never less.”

“That never happened to me. Never.”

“Dat’s because you always up at the front, man,” he said. “You never inside anymore with us. Mebbe you come inside sometimes, you can do it too!”

“Goddamn, man. I wouldn’t even know how to go about doing that. How the fuck do you even start that process in front of everybody like that?"

“It helps to be black, my friend.”

“Oh, shit. It’s always white chicks, right?”

African Joe laughed at this, displaying a mouthful of cheap gold caps he’d had installed in England.

“Yes,” he replied, “eets always the white women.”

“How the fuck do you do that?”

“They come up to me, man. They come up and say ting like, ‘Is it true what dey say about the black man?’ And I say, ‘Is what true?’ And then they start talk about the deek!”

“Could that be any more fucking stereotypical?” I asked.

“Then I ask them if they want to feel it, and sometimes I put their hand on it so they can see.”

“And then they start blowing you?”

“One thing lead to another, man. You know how ting go.”

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

a reasonably not boring piece from american conservative:

http://amconmag.com/2007/2007_04_23/cover.html
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

entertaining AND insane:

http://www.cu-strike.blogspot.com/
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok i lied with that last link, it's pretty sad.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

so last night i hadn't seen south park in a while and i didn't feel like reading up on saudi arabia so i watched two episodes. the davinci code was one great - i love people ripping on william donohue so this was about the most savage burn outside of having him sexually assault a baby - but the guitar hero one was hilarious. oh man.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

don't taze me bro, i'm sleeping edition:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07307/830907-56.stm

jesus fucking christ.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://johnallegro.org

did you know john allegro had a website? dead men do tell tales, i guess.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/14524138/detail.html

what's with the weird resurgence of attacks on gambling? especially this penny-ante bullshit? they can't find any nickle bag dealers to bust?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

one final bit of weirdness:

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BY JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
November 7, 2007
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/65974

The rivalry and violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims isn't just limited to Iraq. It is increasingly found in one place presumed shut off from the influence of faraway sectarian politics: New York's state prisons.

In the last two decades, the state's Muslim inmates, who number 7,987, have been increasingly identifying as either Sunni or Shiite, a phenomenon that prison chaplains elsewhere say is most pronounced in New York. Shiite inmates, who make up less than 4% of the Muslims incarcerated here, have long reported religious persecution by the Sunni-dominated Muslim chaplaincy employed by the state. The Sunni-Shiite divide has played a role in at least one stabbing between inmates in 2004, e-mails by prison officials show.

Shiite inmates have long demanded their own chaplains and a separate place to pray on Fridays, apart from other Muslim inmates. A little-noticed federal court ruling improves the prospects that Shiite inmates will see their demands met.

The recent ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opens the way for a trial in which jurors will weigh the demands of Shiite inmates seeking a separate Friday prayer service against the staffing and logistical concerns of prison officials. The court ruling overturns a court decision by a federal judge in Syracuse, Paul Magnuson, who ruled last year that Shiite Muslims could either pray individually from their cells or join the general Muslim service, which Shiite inmates say is Sunni-dominated. Noting that at least five Shiites are needed for a prayer quorum, Judge Magnuson said there even weren't likely enough participating Shiite inmates at any facility to constitute a valid communal prayer.

The 2nd Circuit's decision asks Judge Magnuson to look closer at whether joint prayer with Sunnis impinges on Shiite beliefs and at the prison system's capacity to accommodate separate prayer services. The three federal judges who sent the case back to Judge Magnuson were Roger Miner, Jose Cabranes, and Paul Crotty.

One chaplain said he was not aware of any other state prison system currently offering a separate Shiite service.

"I've not heard of that being a big issue in other places," a vice president of the American Correctional Chaplains Association, A.J. Sabree, said.

Imam Sabree, who is a Muslim chaplain in Georgia's state prisons, questioned why a prison system should distinguish between the two Muslim denominations when inmates from a variety of Protestant groups routinely pray together.

"That would be similar to Baptists saying they didn't want to worship with United Methodists," he said.

The New York State Department of Correctional Services offers a general Catholic and Protestant service, as well as occasional Greek Orthodox, Jehovah's Witness, and Seventh-day Adventist services, a prison spokesman, Erik Kriss, said. The state offers services for Jewish inmates, but does not distinguish between the various movements within Judaism. Services are also offered for inmates who follow Nation of Islam, Rastafarianism, and Native American religions.

But New York State has argued that a separate Shiite service in addition to the generic Muslim service would not be feasible because of space considerations and the funds required for staff to supervise another set of services. The official tally of Shiite inmates is 60, a prison spokesman, Erik Kriss, said, adding that the prison system estimated between 200 and 300 inmates identified as Shiite.

The prison system began counting Shiite inmates in 2001, although some refused to cooperate in the count. Doing so required filling out a "Change of Religious Designation Form," which, according to court papers, bothered some inmates, who said it was the prison's tallying system, not their religious beliefs, that had changed. In a given prison facility, there might be between three and seven Shiite inmates, according to several estimates.

The Friday prayer service of the two groups is generally similar in content. The most noticeable difference may be visual: Sunnis generally cross their arms during prayer, while Shiites leave them by their side.

One plaintiff, Antwon Dennis, who is serving a life sentence for murder, said in a deposition that he needs a separate service led by a Shiite inmate or chaplain for his prayers "to be valid."

The prison system's "failure to recognize that Shiite and Sunni Muslims have unique religious traditions, practices, and beliefs is incomprehensible," a lawyer for the plaintiffs, Claire Coleman of Brune & Richard LLP, said.

Depositions and an interview with one former inmate suggest that some Muslim inmates started identifying as Shiite while in prison beginning in the late 1980s. Several of the five Shiite plaintiffs were Sunni at one point. One plaintiff, Hussein Razi-Bey, 57, sentenced for attempted murder and kidnapping, found Shiite Islam after trying several other religions. During sentences in Minnesota and Missouri in the 1960s, Razi-Bey converted first to Nation of Islam, then to Catholicism, then to Baptism. Later, after several years with the Moorish Science Temple, he embraced Shiite Islam while incarcerated in New York, according to his deposition.

Inmates learn about Shiite Islam from other inmates and through mail order books received from publishing houses as far away as Iran, one former inmate, who asked not to be identified, said.

The plaintiffs say the more than 40 Muslim chaplains employed by the state are predominately Sunni and influenced by the Saudi Arabian movement of Wahhabism.

"In the places where it's been most tense, a lot of times the chaplains have been at fault," a Muslim chaplain who retired in 2006 from the prison system after 18 years, Dawoud Adeyola, said. He is not connected to the lawsuit.

The Muslim prison chaplaincy has been under scrutiny since a 2003 Wall Street Journal article disclosed that after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, two New York chaplains spoke in support of the attacks.

The state prison system has reached out to Shiite leaders in the city for help in hiring Shiite chaplains for inmates, but those efforts have run into difficulties. An early candidate to be the prison's first Shiite chaplain was terminated during a try-out period after he was found trying to bring a knife into the Sing Sing Correctional Facility, one source said. The only Shiite prison imam, Muhammad Abdulmubdi, currently employed by the state is in an unusual position: He is barred from entering any prison pending the outcome of an internal investigation into whether he broke an undisclosed regulation, a source said. Mr. Kriss, the spokesman would not comment, and further details were not available.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok no this one is too good to pass up:

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MASCOUTAH, Ill. (AP) — Two hugs equals two days of detention for 13-year-old Megan Coulter. The eighth-grader was punished for violating a school policy banning public displays of affection when she hugged two friends Friday.

"I feel it is crazy," said Megan, who was to serve her second detention Tuesday after classes at Mascoutah Middle School.

"I was just giving them a hug goodbye for the weekend," she said.

Megan's mother, Melissa Coulter, said the embraces weren't even real hugs — just an arm around the shoulder and slight squeeze.

"It's hilarious to the point of ridicule," Coulter said. "I'm still dumbfounded that she's having to do this."

District Superintendent Sam McGowen said that he thinks the penalty is fair and that administrators in the school east of St. Louis were following policy in the student handbook.

It states: "Displays of affection should not occur on the school campus at any time. It is in poor taste, reflects poor judgment, and brings discredit to the school and to the persons involved."

Coulter said she and her husband told their daughter to go ahead and serve her detentions because the only other option was a day of suspension for each skipped detention.

"We don't agree with it, but I certainly don't want her to get in more trouble," Coulter said.

The couple plan to attend the next school board meeting to ask board members to consider rewording the policy or be more specific in what is considered a display of affection.

"I'm just hoping the school board will open their eyes and just realize that maybe they shouldn't be punishing us for hugs," Megan said.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And these parents didn't think to protest?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i'm sure they did, or else it wouldn't have ended up in the papers.

i just like the "THERE ARE NO HUGS IN SCHOOL" type stuff

affection is not learning people.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm going to provide the laughs that you can't!



BUT IS IT TRUE OR IS IT JUST A HOAX?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 8:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

man this shit.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry, man! I just wanted to be cool!
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

what kills me is the bottom right picture.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This sounds a lot like Jet from Fallout. (Cow farts)
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

man, if this breaks out into the msm the repercussions will be hilarious.

seriously how did the cops not notice the picture on the lower right hand side?

speaking of hilarious: paul v. bernake
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wow

http://reason.tv/roughcut/show/141.html

this ad is really straightforward.

i like it!
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ha ws lulz



http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/323nwhhe.asp?pg=1
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