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J.D.Regent
11/20/08

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OMG Janet Napolitano for DHS!!!!!! NEW DAY MOTHER FUCKERS.
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TheCatlady
11/20/08

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Regarding the bailout, the auto CEO's have a lot of gall asking for money after flying there in their PRIVATE JETS at a reported cost of approximatley $20,000 per. Is there no shame? At least they got a bitch slapping from senators:

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Shelwood
11/20/08

@TheCatlady: Ridiculous and wasteful of both money and fuel, to be sure. Yet it adds up to a mere fraction of the amount AIG has spent on upscale retreats for high-ups after receiving more than $100 Billion in pure bailout, not a bridge loan like the auto guys are asking for, don't have to payback, taxpayer money. So, you know, could be worse, could be a pheasant hunt.
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Kittenish
11/20/08

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Didn't Specter hop the train to Crazy Partisan Town a long time ago? Jack.Ass!
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DixieCaverns
11/19/08

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Oh lord...if things keep swinging this way (and sweet lord, I hope they do!), does that mean that we're going to have to put up with middle-class, straight, white conservatives talking about how "oppressed" they are for the next four-eight years? I mean, it's a price I'm willing to pay in exchange for, say, being treated like a full citizen of this country, but jesus shit, it's going to be annoying.
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Shelwood
11/20/08

@DixieCaverns: Oh, it doesn't matter how things are swinging, they were going to whine regardless. They had already started even before the election. Not only are they unaccustomed to not getting exactly what they want, they have a remarkable ability to shift blame. They take credit for everything good and everything bad is someone else's fault Note how during the Bush administration, they blamed Clinton for 6 full years, then Congress -- despite their inability to get anything passed -- for the last two. And Limbaugh is somehow already blaming the recession on Obama. It's really a remarkable skill, that level of denial. So, since nothing is their fault, it's totally unfair that they aren't still in charge, since they are still under the impression their philosophy is the only valid one.

Ignore them and bask in their irrelevance.
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Repent
11/19/08

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I guess now would be a bad time to say that I'm the only one here who supports Propisition 8.
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cwisto moweina has got yer goat
11/20/08

@Repent: what's "Propisition 8"?

I only know of propositions
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ceejeemcbeegee is not here
11/19/08

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Again, this sista filling in for Maddow needs a new makeup artist. I know the myth is it's hard to find foundation that matches our skin tone (it's not) but really! The networks should have it down by now!
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Shelwood
11/19/08

@ceejeemcbeegee: I've been addicted to MSNBC for the past few months, but their production quality is appalling from top to bottom. The weird beeping noises. The idiot lighting person who loves throwing in an orangey gel that makes everyone look so jaundicey you think their livers are about to go. The bizarre hair dyes. The occasional camera zooms into Rachel's throat.

But the makeup people may be the worst of all. I'm pretty sure they poached them from a funeral home. The foundations are often horribly caked on, but at other times you find yourself thinking, "Hey, does Lawrence O'Donnell have leprosy?" when only odd patches of his face are that lovely orange color they love. They clearly have exactly three shades of foundation: light orange, dark orange and chocolate brown. That means Alison gets the same shade every other person too dark for the dark orange gets, that heinous flat medium brown (the orange lighting gels don't help -- pinks and lavenders are best for medium to dark skin tones). At least she's not being forced to wear the false eyelashes like Rachel.
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will_this_dissertation_ever_end?!
11/19/08

@Shelwood: "At least she's not being forced to wear the false eyelashes like Rachel."

And now I'm scarred for life. I wish they'd just let her put her damn glasses on, for real.
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GeorgeFayne
11/20/08

@will_this_dissertation_ever_en...?!: God, those glasses are so hot. I might die if they let her do it.
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MeganGlass 就是一个古代的三明治
11/19/08

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Well, good on ol' Mitt. Glad the auto makers won't get bailout money, since GM has gobs of liquid cash on hand that they just don't want to have to touch. This could be just the thing to make our auto industry not suck horrendously.
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Mr. Mittens (né nodoubt9203)
11/19/08

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yes!!! i was at the rally in long beach and everyone was talking about this.
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WantToTouchtheWahine
11/19/08

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Tell me something. What parents name their child "Greg Craig"? SERIOUSLY!
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whats_in_a_name
11/19/08

@WantToTouchtheWahine: Ones closely related to the kind that would name their kid Fenway Park.
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Penny_Esq
11/19/08

@WantToTouchtheWahine: I know a dude named Jordan Jordan. Uncalled for, seriously.
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WantToTouchtheWahine
11/19/08

@Penny_Esq: YES WE DID!!!: But Pilot Inspektor works cuz he's a celeburrtie, of course.
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sallykimball
11/19/08

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Not that he had much of a chance at it anyway, but Mitt Romney just lost Michigan in 2012.

Also, it frustrates me whenever the media refers to what the car companies want as a "bailout". They are looking for a bridge loan. I may be drinking the Kool Aid here in my cozy little Detroit suburb, but what I've read is that the car companies really do believe in their restructuring plans, and just need some money to get through this time period where no one can get a loan to buy a new car. I'm not entirely gullible- I know they've said this before, and I sort of understand why people want to let them fail. But it would be devastating to Detroit and the surrounding suburbs, and eventually it would affect everyone. Part of me thinks that the timing is wrong- I wonder how much of a controversy this would have been if this had happened before all of the other bailouts of AIG and Bear Stearns.
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Penny_Esq
11/19/08

@sallykimball: I think it would have been just as controversial, but it would have had a lot better chance of happening. As between the two industries, if I could choose one to give a few billion to, it would be the auto industry primarily because that industry isn't confined to blue blood Wharton grads in million-dollar midtown apartments. Especially since now we see that "bailing out" the financial sector isn't refilling our parents' (or our) retirement investments.

This is why I'm not in charge of these decisions, though. I like to make moral judgments about things that require more sophisticated economic analysis.
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whats_in_a_name
11/19/08

@sallykimball: If that's really the case there's even a precedent for it being done. In the early 80's the government actually co-signed a loan for Chrysler, just like a parent co-signing a loan for a minor.
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Cam/ron
11/19/08

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I admire how Nate Silver kept his cool during that interview with an incredible blowhard. Somebody tell me why full-grown adults still use the "pinhead" insult.
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aspiringexpatriate
11/19/08

@Cam/ron: It was a very entertaining read.

What is the actual truth on 'launching his career'? I mean, when Obama would've started campaigning, William Ayers was a respected professor who had connections in Chicago. It doesn't sound off-base if Obama's first campaign event was there, but you know, I'd just like to think that someone knows the "truth" and isn't afraid to talk about it.
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Cafezinha
11/19/08

@Cam/ron: I like "pinhead" because of it's massive under-utilization. In the age of "motherfucker", "faggot", and "stupid bitch", it's kind of refreshing and different.
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
11/19/08

@Cam/ron: I like it because it clearly pegs him as a Bill O'Reilly fan.

I wonder if you can track trust-structures by exploring the propagation of outdated insults...
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Cafezinha
11/19/08

@braak: Aw, crap...did Bill steal my favourite insult?

That pinhead.

I mean...that...jackanape!
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Lawyerette will perform legal services for food
11/19/08

@aspiringexpatriate: I thought he "launched his career" after interning at Sidley Austin and turning down a full time job in favor of community activism. Which definitely did not occur in Bill Ayers' living room.
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aspiringexpatriate
11/20/08

@Lawyerette, FTW!: You never know what those crazy socialist leftist fascists do behind closed doors, what with their gay marriage and their short skirts.
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BeckySharper
11/19/08

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Come on California Supreme Court! Reverse that bullshit already!
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DangerMouse
11/19/08

@BeckySharper: Seriously! Why didn't they realize that civil rights changes never get a majority at first, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't happen??? Like interracial marriages. UGGGGGHHHHH.
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BeckySharper
11/19/08

@ejc.yippee.skippee!: Exactly? Can you imagine if Brown vs. the Board had been put to a popular vote?
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ceejeemcbeegee is not here
11/19/08

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Attention LA Jezebels:

Join the African American LGBT Community

in a peaceful march/protest against Prop 8

Sunday, November 23, 2008, 11:00am

March Begins at 11:30AM

Meet at the Leimert Park Fountain (Crenshaw/Vernon)

All gay, lesbian, bi, transgender and their families and friends are invited to participate

Please feel free to bring your own signs

Please do not wear red or blue

For more info, please contact Rev. Freda Lanoix at MYSPACE.COM/REVFREDA

ORGANIZED BY "LOVE AT WORK - THE EXCHANGE"
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UnSeelie...I am baaack!
11/19/08

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Go California High Supreme Court, lets get this amendment corrected.

Dont give up on the good fight....Life, Liberty, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS!!!
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ceejeemcbeegee is not here
11/19/08

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Nate... kindly switch places with Mr. Love.

Thanks.

[jezebel.com]
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