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    Image of Le Kangourou de Kataroo Le Kangourou de Kataroo
    11/24/09

    In reply to Stupak Amendment Energizes Both Sides Of Abortion Debate
    GET THE FUCKING BISHOPS OUT OF THIS GODDAMN DEBATE!

    I did not elect them. I am not Catholic. I am not represented by them. If the media just STOPS paying attention to them, maybe they'll go away.
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    Image of Agumen Agumen
    11/24/09

    @Le Kangourou de Kataroo: There are many religious people who they do represent. People have a right to religion and a right to representation.

    You may not like it, but taking away their right to debate and argue would be wrong. They aren't the ones making law, they're just putting the religious argument across. More tolerance is needed.
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    Image of virginiawoolf virginiawoolf
    11/24/09

    @Agumen: Maybe it's just me but if they want to hold on to their tax-exempt status, they should refrain from spouting off their opinion regarding political issues, period.

    Otherwise, I'm sure this economy would benefit quite well from taxing those mother fuckers like every other business.
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    Image of Le Kangourou de Kataroo Le Kangourou de Kataroo
    11/24/09

    @Agumen: They are NOT just putting the religious argument across. They are essentially telling congresspeople that they either vote THEIR way or they will pull all support. They're not speaking in a political vacuum.
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    Image of SarahMC SarahMC
    11/24/09

    @Agumen: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is one of the most powerful lobbying organizations in America. The Stupak amendment was practically written by Catholic Bishops.
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    Image of bitingfairy bitingfairy
    11/24/09

    In reply to Stupak Amendment Energizes Both Sides Of Abortion Debate
    I want my right to pick and choose what my tax dollars fund! I'm gonna start sticking notes to my returns saying that I'm totally cool with this funding abortions, but no wars please.
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    Image of lilbobbytables lilbobbytables
    11/24/09

    @bitingfairy: I want all my tax dollars going to healthcare and schools. That's it! Please refund the rest in a check payable to Cash!
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    Image of Benevolent_Dictatrix (patently absurd) Benevolent_Dictatrix (patently absurd)
    11/24/09

    @lilbobbytables: I want all my taxes going to NEA grant recipients who use feces and religious imagery in their art, and that's IT. Got it, IRS?
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    Image of limber limber
    11/24/09

    @Benevolent_Dictatrix (patently absurd): I want mine going to that secret UFO research I totally know exists! and ONLY them!

    And then when they accept my tax filing, thus proving there IS a secret programme? Sweet confirmation, baby. And they won't even realize they did it.
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    Image of HannahBethD HannahBethD
    11/24/09

    @limber: i just read your comment in Jack Hodgins from BONES voice and it made me chortle. Thanks.
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    Image of suzannelb suzannelb
    11/24/09

    @bitingfairy: Agreed! Put me down for Head Start and the part of Rahm Emanuel's salary that keeps him in charcoal grey suits.
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    Image of bitingfairy bitingfairy
    11/24/09

    @suzannelb: Rahm gets none of my money! I want him so destitute that he has to walk around Washington in nothing but a tiny towel.
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    Image of bluetrain84 bluetrain84
    11/24/09

    In reply to Stupak Amendment Energizes Both Sides Of Abortion Debate
    Ha, it's funny that the guy from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops wants "everybody covered and nobody deliberately killed." That statement encompasses both ends of the political spectrum all at once (liberals who want universal coverage, conservatives who are anti-choice), good luck achieving both of those goals simultaneously. Also, I assume by "everybody" he actually means US citizens, I strongly doubt that he wants undocumented workers covered.
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    Image of fauxfruit fauxfruit
    11/24/09

    @bluetrain84: Or women, really, when their lives are at risk due to pregnancy complications and they cannot depend on insurance to cover the procedure that will save their lives.
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    Image of spamanda spamanda
    11/24/09

    @bluetrain84: I'm really pro-choice, but honestly that sentiment is how I think TRUE christians should feel. Everyone should be taken care of and no one deliberately be killed. I can see why anti-choice people would feel this way.
    Of course, I also believe this extends to wars and to the death penalty....
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    11/24/09

    @bluetrain84: The Catholic Church actually supports the rights of immigrants, including undocumented workers. The Church supports immigration reform and some Catholic churches that have opened themselves up as safe havens to undocumented immigrants.
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    Image of jemandtheholograms jemandtheholograms
    11/24/09

    @Lymed: That's awesome and I totally support that. But being as we live in a country that theoretically separates Church and State, I don't want the Catholic Church being part of the discussion on healthcare.
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    11/24/09

    @jemandtheholograms: I don't want the Catholic church involved in the discussion on healthcare either. However, they are actually a huge health care provider in this country. There are very large Catholic health systems that run hospitals and I think that is one reason they are getting so much attention talking about reform.
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    Image of jemandtheholograms jemandtheholograms
    11/24/09

    @Lymed: Fair point. They do have a lot of hospitals. I just wish that there was a way to separate the fact that they are providing health care as a religious institution and the religion (which I guess is sort of opposite of the point, but wishful thinking).

    #tips
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    Image of bluetrain84 bluetrain84
    11/24/09

    @Lymed: Oh, I didn't know that they had an official stand like that, thank you for pointing it out! I was just commenting that those two ideals are generally on opposite sides of the political spectrum rather than being considered together.

    #tips
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    Image of Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini
    11/23/09

    In reply to Borders Line
    It took me three attempts to watch this completely through, because I felt like it would make me a better person or some shit, but no. It just makes my brain hurt. This is the sort of thing that makes me want to lose myself in a bottle. Goddamn.
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    Image of dcdulce dcdulce
    11/23/09

    In reply to Borders Line
    I wonder how open they were be if the interviewer was from an ethnic persuasion..
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    Image of willwriteforfood willwriteforfood
    11/23/09

    In reply to Borders Line
    The other day in the car, my bf and I were brainstorming what to get his mother for Christmas. I said what she really wanted - but would never ask her liberal sons for - is a copy of this book.

    He nearly did one of those angry parent moves: Swerving across three lanes of traffic to squeal to a stop by the side of the road, gravel flying, and say "I'm turning this car around and we're going home RIGHT NOW!"

    This is how much he hates Palin: He will not make his mother happy for Christmas if it means giving this political prom princess a red cent. I love a man with principles.
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    Image of BetteD BetteD
    11/23/09

    In reply to Borders Line
    The guy in the Steelers jacket owns my life right now. Thanks peeps! I needed that laugh right now.
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    Image of mordicai mordicai
    11/23/09

    In reply to Borders Line
    GOTCHA QUESTIONS! Like: "Can you think of anything, one thing, for instance?"
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    Image of thecameralovesyou thecameralovesyou
    11/23/09

    @mordicai: This is like a Daily show segment. But even better cause there's no way these people know who this guy is.
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    11/23/09

    In reply to Borders Line
    It was a good interview. The only question is: will anyone actually learn from this? If you're a Republican strategist, you're probably quaking, because while Sarah Palin's personality is winning converts to the party, her lack of tangible policies and plans is going to be hard to sell to the middle-of-the-road Americans that must be courted for a candidate to win. If you're a Democratic strategist, you may be laughing to yourself at how "simple-minded" her followers seem, and that would be a mistake, because if the Reverend Jim Jones showed us anything, its that if you get people to believe in you, whether or not what you say makes sense, they will drink the Kool-Aid.
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    Image of SomeAuthorGirl SomeAuthorGirl
    11/23/09

    In reply to Borders Line
    Cap 'n trade, an' like, people are gonna suffer, an' Marxism, an' America, an' no compromises an' get rid of the polar bears an' stuff. Such as.

    Hi, Sarah Palin supporters: This is why the intellectual elite look down on you. To quote Jon Stewart, it's all the... NOTHING.
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    Image of JesiDangerously JesiDangerously
    11/23/09

    @SomeAuthorGirl: Compromise is for people who are WRONG. And we can't compromise with polar bears. We need to drill for oil, but not just oil. We also need to drill for gas.
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    11/23/09

    In reply to Borders Line
    "I don't know too much about it... but I know I don't like it."
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    Image of GirlFailer GirlFailer
    11/23/09

    In reply to Borders Line
    Auntrypranureal. She was my favorite. I like that after she said "auntrypranureal" you could see her brain go "ABORT MISSION... ABORT MISSION, say conducive, then run away!!!
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    Image of Triana Orpheus Triana Orpheus
    11/23/09

    @GirlFailer: Um, that's how I say it. Damn Southern accent!
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    Image of GirlFailer GirlFailer
    11/23/09

    @Triana Orpheus: Hey, she's from Ohio, she doesn't have an excuse! :) I think she didn't have a clue what she was talking about, and had to give it a few tries, then gave up.
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    Image of DearJamie DearJamie
    11/23/09

    @GirlFailer: Yeah, I live in Ohio. We all have this sort of weird accent, especially us Southern Ohio people. It's just how we say the word.
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    Image of GirlFailer GirlFailer
    11/23/09

    @DearJamie: I'm from Indiana, I'm hip to the special midwestern accents :) It wasn't so much how she said it, it was the fact that she had no clue what she was saying. That's why she had to say it 3 times. I'm knocking the Ohio accent, I'm knocking crazy Sarah Palin supporters.

    #tips
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    Image of DearJamie DearJamie
    11/23/09

    @GirlFailer: Yeah, I agree. I thought you were knocking her accent though.

    To be honest, I also think she probably just didn't know how to say it.
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    Image of hortense hortense
    11/23/09

    In reply to Borders Line
    I'm actually surprised nobody in that line threatened to close the Borders.

    Perhaps that will come at Lou Dobbs' book signing. #hey-o #hereallweek
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    Image of badmutha badmutha
    11/23/09

    @hortense: Oh that was very good.
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    Image of Notes from the underwhelmed Notes from the underwhelmed
    11/23/09

    In reply to Borders Line
    Real America loves Christmas sweaters.
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    Image of Ruby_de_la_Booby Ruby_de_la_Booby
    11/23/09

    @Notes from the underwhelmed: And ponytails tied with grosgrain ribbon. And USA Boyd Bears.
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    Notes from the underwhelmed promoted this comment Ruby_de_la_Booby was starred Ruby_de_la_Booby was unstarred
    Image of sayah sayah
    11/23/09

    @Ruby_de_la_Booby: And Bumpits
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    Image of FroderickFronkensteen FroderickFronkensteen
    11/23/09

    @sayah: And tailgating a book signing.
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    Image of sayah sayah
    11/23/09

    @FroderickFronkensteen: Good one!
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    Image of heykoukla heykoukla
    11/23/09

    In reply to Borders Line
    You can spend your life educating yourself, becoming a decent human being with a conscience who makes an informed choice...and your vote is worth no more than the vote of each one of these individuals. Depressing thought for the day.
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    Image of willwriteforfood willwriteforfood
    11/23/09

    @heykoukla: You just had to, didn't you? Damn, it's only Monday. You could have spared us at least til later in the week when we're full of stuffing and turkey to blunt the impact.
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    Image of heykoukla heykoukla
    11/23/09

    @willwriteforfood: I've just given everyone an excuse to start drinking early.
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    Image of Maritsa Maritsa
    11/23/09

    @heykoukla: A sad fact of life, appropriately analyzed by the Onion:

    [www.theonion.com]
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    Image of heykoukla heykoukla
    11/23/09

    @Maritsa:
    "It's a real shame, ain't it, that all that time you spend in real careful considerin' don't count for nothin', once my vote runs y'all's right off the road. "

    God, I love The Onion.
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    Image of willwriteforfood willwriteforfood
    11/23/09

    @heykoukla: "Pops open the wine bottle."

    Want some? I've got lots!
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    Image of heykoukla heykoukla
    11/23/09

    @willwriteforfood: Yes please...keep pouring...I'll say when...
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