Open Thread

12 Comments

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   esquimaux on May 20, 2008 at 4:38 pm

   here’s one of the funniest and oddest things I’ve seen in a long time.

   not safe for work, as you might guess from the title

   Gary Kasparov and the Flying Penis

   As he was addressing the gathering of more than 500 delegates, he was buzzed by a remote-controlled flying phallus.

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   BooMan on May 20, 2008 at 4:50 pm

   Here is some bullshit.  No wonder Obama is polling so badly in Kentucky.

   Voting early in the day appeared to be going smoothly, with a few calls from people who could not vote because they changed their party affiliation after Dec. 31. Fugate said the approximately 14,000 people who did that had been sent letters explaining the statute.

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     boran2 on May 20, 2008 at 4:56 pm

     Punish those flip-flopping party-changers.

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     fabooj on May 20, 2008 at 5:16 pm

     Are the two or three people interviewed who were voting for Clinton because of her husband.  That’s bullshit.  That ain’t even trying to get informed.  Mr. “I am Not a Racist” even said it blatantly:

     …But Hillary has been there eight years — and besides she’s got a little backing if she needs it.

     Just. Fucking. Gag. Me.

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     on May 20, 2008 at 6:41 pm

     I think the statute reads “December 31, 1947.”

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   fabooj on May 20, 2008 at 5:03 pm

   Ticker scroll across the bottom of the screen identified Rep. Fossella of NY as a Democrat instead of a Republican.

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     budr on May 20, 2008 at 5:40 pm

     Just a slip of the D.  Could happen to anyone…

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       eeblet on May 20, 2008 at 6:01 pm

       You’de dight, deally.

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         budr on May 21, 2008 at 3:03 pm

         Uh, for some reason my snark tag didn’t show up.

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           eeblet on May 22, 2008 at 4:18 pm

           Oh, I figuded.  I just tdied to take it too fad.  😉

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   dada on May 20, 2008 at 5:36 pm

   the wheels of karma grind slowly but surely: Conviction in the Murder of Victor Jara — 35 Years Late:

   In 1973, Victor Jara was Chile’s leading singer/songwriter, the local equivalent of Bob Dylan and more.

   When Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s coup came — September 11th, 1973 — tens of thousands of people considered threats to the regime — activists, union organizers, teachers, playwrights, and many who had nothing to do with politics at all but were just rounded up by mistake — were arrested. The country’s biggest football stadium became a giant internment camp.

   Less than 24 hours into the coup, Victor Jara was arrested in a mass round-up at the university where he was working…
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   …Jara was machine-gunned to death…

   bob harris

   u.s. foreign policy in action.

5. 

   ask on May 20, 2008 at 9:17 pm

   Via HuffPo.

   Trolling for McCain

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