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UrbanAchiever
10/02/09

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Let me see if I can get this straight:

Senator who champions conservative social values is backed by his family, which makes its money by profiting from large-scale gambling. The senator, who has tried to impeach a previous president for adultery with an unmarried aide, cheats on his own wife with someone in his employ, the wife of a friend also in his employ. He then tries to pay off the cuckolded husband with money from his casino family, with jobs, and with clients for the cuckolded husband's new job. The cuckolded husband's new job involves lobbying the very offices over which the cheating senator has influence.
Plus, the paid-off husband goes public when he feels like he's not getting enough cash to make up for his heartbreak.

I don't know why conservative politicians express such shock and outrage over liberal values - this is the plot to a torrid Hollywood film à la Body Heat.

These people just need to go away and privately tear each other to shreds instead of doing on the taxpayer's dollar.

I'd rather direct my outrage at the warmongers, health care saboteurs and their ilk.
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intime
10/02/09

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Another Republican goes rogue!
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morninggloria
10/02/09

@intime: Marriage! I do it my own way! I don't follow any rules!

(I love this comment so hard.)
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intime
10/02/09

@morninggloria: Well, life is always exciting when you're a maverick.
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badmutha
10/02/09

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Ok at first I read that Ensign RECYCLED his wife. I think that is a crime.
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Lymed
10/02/09

@badmutha: He did separate from her and then go back to her...
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greengrey
10/02/09

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Oh, J. Peterman...
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keldo
10/02/09

@greengrey: He's better looking AND gave us the Urban Sombrero.
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SarahMC
10/02/09

@greengrey: LOL spot-on.
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cate3710
10/02/09

@greengrey: I can see that, but I was thinking more this...
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greengrey
10/02/09

@cate3710: All old white men look the same.
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Political Party Girl
07/09/09

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I don't know, Latoya, with the real estate market crash, you may want to demand cash reparations. It's true that a pound of flesh won't have much value, but 40 acres and a mule just doesn't go as far as it used to either.
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Devonna
07/09/09

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This was an exceptionally awesome crappy hour, btw.
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ellaesther
07/09/09

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Also, I meant to say that Megan's comments about "patterns of isolated incidents," at the 9:36 and 9:37 marks, are so, so smart (as smart as the funny ones were funny! But I promise not to break anything this time), and I will be importing them directly into my brain, because it's just so well-put.

Thank you!
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Lymed
07/09/09

@ellaesther: Her comments are something that any person who has felt oppression finds familiar.
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Sputnik_Sweetheart
07/09/09

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"Our Judeo-Christian heritage is an essential foundation stone of our great nation and should not be held hostage to yet another effort to place guilt on future Americans for the sins of some of their ancestors."

Um, what? Seriously, I want to say something about how we are NOT a nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles or any other religious principles, but I think the above quote broke my brain. So, yeah. No more intelligent, coherent thought from me for the time being. I like string.
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Lymed
07/09/09

@Sputnik_Sweetheart: Well, we are a nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles. That doesn't mean that religion should be a part of governing or all of the religions' principles are a part of our country. But it is hard to deny that the founding documents had language that was influenced by the founders' religion.
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Sputnik_Sweetheart
07/09/09

@Lymed:George Washington explicitly stated that the US was not founded on Judeo-Christian principles:

"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion…"

And many of the prominent founding fathers were atheists, agnostics, and critics of organized religion.

[www.nytimes.com]
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Lymed
07/09/09

@Sputnik_Sweetheart: I think we may differ in our definition of what it means to be founded on Judeo-Christian principles. I don't think it means the country was founded on the religion or that the religion is in any way a part of the country or its infrastructure. But I believe some of the principles of the value system of Christianity was brought into the founding of the country. That doesn't mean it is ok to post the 10 Commandments at a school as related to the founding documents. It doesn't mean we are a Christian nation.
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Sputnik_Sweetheart
07/09/09

@Lymed: But while different religions have different beliefs, they often have a similar moral code or value system. For example, many religions (some of which were around longer or independently of Christianity) have their own version of the ethic of reciprocity: karma, the silver rule, the law of return, and the golden rule, just to name a few. Many of the founding fathers didn't strongly identify with Christianity and considered themselves Humanists, so I don't think it is fair to say that they were influenced by Christian values, per se.

But I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. :)
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Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
07/09/09

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"he wanted $1 million for Ensign having fucked his wife"

So he's Woody Harrelson, Ensign is Robert Redford, and Tom Coburn is Oliver Platt.
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Maritsa
07/09/09

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My stomach hurts after reading about the murder of Marwa el-Sherbini. That poor woman and her family, my God. And in a courtroom - WTF? Are there no metal detectors in German courtrooms? No pat-downs? If there's one place you need that stuff, it's courthouses.

Between that and the story out of Philly where a country club turned away a group of African-American children, I'm just calling it a day.
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ellaesther
07/09/09

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Ok, fundamentalist Christians (and fundamentalists of any stripe, while I'm at it):

God gave you a brain. In Deuteronomy, He even calls on you to "love the Lord you God with all your heart, soul, AND MIND." He expects you to use it, and if you makes mistakes (like, oh, I don't know, SLAVERY?), it's your bad.

And though I wrote this elsewhere, and thus am repeating myself, I think it bears repeating:

We cannot be both a Christian nation, and the United States of America.

Pick one.
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ellaesther
07/09/09

@ellaesther: "the Lord YOUR God."

Sheesh.
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Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
07/09/09

@ellaesther: "if you make mistakes (like, oh, I don't know, SLAVERY?), it's your bad."

Exactly, it's called FREE WILL.
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Lymed
07/09/09

@ellaesther: You don't understand, by "all your mind" God means to completely give your mind over and stop thinking
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CollegeCamel
07/09/09

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Ew ew ew why did I click on the naked Italian link???
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tscheese
07/09/09

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I would really love to know what's going on in that photo of George W and Friends in crazy Star Trek: TOS pajamas, complete with funky foam-rubber 60s props.
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Megan
07/09/09

@tscheese: It's actually at the APEC summit, every year they get the heads of state to wear traditional garb. That was Vietnam's year.
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Lymed
07/09/09

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I always imagine that Rep. Peter King really hates it when Rep. Steve King does things like this...because I bet he gets some nasty phone calls mistaking the Kings.
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ellaesther
07/09/09

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Momentarily stopping my reading to say:

Plus, in King's case, that pound would be really, really bitter and probably not have any resale value. It would taste of the slow decline of white male privilege, hate and dill. Just because I hate dill.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...!!!!

Quite possibly the funniest thing I've read or heard in months!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...!!!

Ok, going back to read now!
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ellaesther
07/09/09

@ellaesther: Oh dear. My laughter broke it!

I'm sorry Jeze-goddesses! I'll put up a plaque in which I acknowledge your role in my breaking of the comments!
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BearDownCBears
07/09/09

@ellaesther: Stop wrecking the internet.
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ellaesther
07/09/09

@BearDownCBears: Oh HAI, BearDown! For some reason, Gawker media de-hearted you for me, so I have just set that to rights.

And also: Ok. I'll try. It's just that the internet was really asking for it.
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