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September 18th 2008, 01:50 MSD by Jamie We're getting into the thick of the election season. This will keep it all in once place. Even all you foreigners are welcome to come in. |
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I will be very glad when the election is over. Invention is the Green Goblin of Necessary Lemonade.
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RON PAUL! "That's not to say that games shouldn't have stories, I just think the story should be the player's story, and find more ways to celebrate and promote that, rather than the game designer's story that you're imposing upon them." - Will Wright
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So, Palin email-gate. This is not the way to get dirt on people. <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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oh, c'mon, enjoy the scandal! "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" - "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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I'll enjoy it, but I'd like a good old fashion insider leak and not some hacker. It'll enter the court of public opinion, but it'll be tainted and not affect negatively affect the McCain-Palin ticket and definitely won't enter any court of inquiry against her. <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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I will be very glad when Obama wins. The alternative is a grim prospect. Although with the markets in their current state, everything looks like it's going to be grim for a while. "I buy Captain Crunch because I like a man in uniform." - BobJustBob
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I agree with what Ergo wrote. As for the hacked e-mails, it's pretty damn funny. It's already been revealed that her staff discussed doing government business on private accounts to avoid subpoenas, so I have little sympathy for them. I haven't seen what leaked out, so I don't know how damning it is. I'm sure the right wingers will suddenly become very concerned about the privacy of people's personal e-mails. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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The privacy of their personal emails, maybe. |
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O/b/ama ! Sabrina Poirier, a student at Pensacola who withdrew in 1997, was disciplined for what is known on the campus as "optical intercourse" — staring too intently into the eyes of a member of the opposite sex. This is also referred to as "making eye babies."
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Ahh, I love conspiracy theorists. They're saying the hack was staged so she could delete the e-mails in a "panic". Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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They're hacking into the power grid! |
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This just fits so perfectly into the John McCain can't use computers but invented the blackberry and has a VP who conducts govt business on private emails to skirt the law but those 14 year olds from /b hacked her yahoo because al Gore invented the internet while Clinton was getting a blowjob thing. Sabrina Poirier, a student at Pensacola who withdrew in 1997, was disciplined for what is known on the campus as "optical intercourse" — staring too intently into the eyes of a member of the opposite sex. This is also referred to as "making eye babies."
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What? Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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It's one thing to use a personal email address to avoid official record retention as required by law, but it's strikes me at very amateurish to use yahoo email. It would only be worse if it was aol.com. <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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People made fun of al Gore because he "invented the internet". Yesterday a McCain aide more or less said McCain invented the BlackBerry. The current administration was using RNC.org email addresses to avoid the hatch act, and Palin was doing the same, only being retarded and using Yahoo. Then /b/ tards hack her email account and get into a fight over it, but more or less expose the fact that she has been breaking the law. People's reactions to this are very confused and highly amusing. Sabrina Poirier, a student at Pensacola who withdrew in 1997, was disciplined for what is known on the campus as "optical intercourse" — staring too intently into the eyes of a member of the opposite sex. This is also referred to as "making eye babies."
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Obama isn't going to win. |
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I've seen /b/ boil over with a few things, but never self-satisfaction. Also the "is this sexist?" picture is awesome. "I buy Captain Crunch because I like a man in uniform." - BobJustBob
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lwf (#17): Obama isn't going to win. You shut your filthy mouth. "I buy Captain Crunch because I like a man in uniform." - BobJustBob
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Since g-man is to busy posting the deficiencies in jamie's reading list, I read this bit from what sounds like an attorney on another forum: And the exclusionary rule doesn't apply here, because the state of alaska has the fully legal recourse of subpoenaing Yahoo! to get access to the e-mails. The existence of the e-mails was revealed through an illegal private action, but that does not taint the evidence (it is no different from an informant providing evidence that an individual is involved in criminal activity, and the police using that information to secure a warrant). So though I too don't like the idea of hacking into e-mail, intentionally using private e-mail to thwart an investigation is known as obstruction of justice, and is a crime (though I don't know if the investigation into Palin was a criminal investigation). So it looks like this could get some traction. <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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The fact that evidence is stolen (or obtained through other illegal or unethical acts) doesn't necessarily exclude its use in a civil case. Even if it was done at the direction of the lawyer or client who wants to use the evidence. |
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You know, except for the obviously gay gladhandling bit at the end the Maddow show is pretty good. Nice to see some research on TV. Sabrina Poirier, a student at Pensacola who withdrew in 1997, was disciplined for what is known on the campus as "optical intercourse" — staring too intently into the eyes of a member of the opposite sex. This is also referred to as "making eye babies."
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suck my nuts u twats |
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Goodness gracious, Tom Chick sure does have a potty mouth these days. |
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It's cute and all to try to get Palin in trouble over this, but isn't it just a wee bit hypocritical to attempt to prosecute her when we let the president and his ilk do exactly what people want her to get into trouble for? I don't remember them going to trial... "some of those words want to be other words." - LP
"the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum |
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I really dislike Palin. |
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Anyone who has half a brain does. "some of those words want to be other words." - LP
"the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum |
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Odd that it took a total financial meltdown for these retards to finally realize that letting giant corporations do whatever the hell they want to all the time might not work out very well, especially when it comes to leveraging things against imaginary money. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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Also the whole "Government should not interfere with the private sector! Oh, look at that. The market just went kaput. Mommy, come bail us out?!" A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab?
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I guess it's only bad if the government gets involved in healthcare, not stupid financial companies. |
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Obama should be elected just to get us a step closer to fucking UHC. Why people think that companies who care about their bottom line should be providing health care blows my goddamn mind. \"Making love to a woman is like working on an assembly line. No matter how good you are at it, you\'ll eventually be replaced by a foreigner or a machine.\"
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Dethstryk (#31): Why people think that companies who care about their bottom line should be providing health care blows my goddamn mind. Because a fair number of people are convinced that not only do we live in a free market, but that the market will balance it self. Why do they think that? Because the people who own the politicians tell them to say that... "some of those words want to be other words." - LP
"the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum |
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In Spain & Germany, everybody gets healthcare. "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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We know. Invention is the Green Goblin of Necessary Lemonade.
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And that's the same Spain and Germany you can't find a job in, right? |
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Matt Perkins It's cute and all to try to get Palin in trouble over this, but isn't it just a wee bit hypocritical to attempt to prosecute her when we let the president and his ilk do exactly what people want her to get into trouble for? I don't remember them going to trial... Because the people going after Palin, including some members of her own party, are state reps and having nothing to do with the national government? It's only hypocritical if it's the same people. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" - "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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Because a fair number of people are convinced that not only do we live in a free market, but that the market will balance it self. Well, the market will balance itself. All those companies that took on too much risk would go bankrupt, all those houses people couldn't afford would be foreclosed, all those pension funds that invested in CDOs or companies that were exposed to CDOs would get wiped out. The market can work out anything and reach a new equilibrium, but that equilibrium might be a new depression. Witnesses in the house heard Jones say "why did you pee on me Pooh Bear?" A few moments later, the witness heard the son say "Mama you done stabbed me."
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Woohoo, for the first time in weeks I'm all caught up on my 'crapping! No more little yellow icons mocking me from the archive page. It does look like I missed some Ng Yo fun though, which is a shame but I'll survive. Okay, carry on. MP3 Of The Week: Alton Ellis - Bless You.mp3 (?)
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#25 by Matt Perkins It's cute and all to try to get Palin in trouble over this, but isn't it just a wee bit hypocritical to attempt to prosecute her when we let the president and his ilk do exactly what people want her to get into trouble for? I don't remember them going to trial... The difference is that Palin is involved in an ethics investigation and it appears her yahoo emails are relevent to it. The only time I can remember the same happening to the Bush administration was with the AG scandal and they used executive privilege to avoid giving up information so it never got to a point where haveing email archives or not mattered. Don't forget garnishes such as: Fish shaped solid waste.
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The difference is that Palin is involved in an ethics investigation and it appears her yahoo emails are relevent to it. The only time I can remember the same happening to the Bush administration was with the AG scandal and they used executive privilege to avoid giving up information so it never got to a point where haveing email archives or not mattered. I believe that's still on the Impotent Democratic Congressional Investigation to-do list with regards to actually enforcing subpoenas instead of just letting these assholes laugh at them. Granted, that'd requre them to invoke their inherent contempt powers, but still...I wish I could just tell the courts to go fuck themselves if I ever get a subpoena. As for her, she's already invoked executive privilege for those e-mails, but I beleive that was in response to an FOIA request. Not sure if she's invoked it with regards to the current investigation. It doesn't really matter, anyway. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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The difference is that Palin is involved in an ethics investigation and it appears her yahoo emails are relevent to it. The only time I can remember the same happening to the Bush administration was with the AG scandal and they used executive privilege to avoid giving up information so it never got to a point where haveing email archives or not mattered. I believe that's still on the Impotent Democratic Congressional Investigation to-do list with regards to actually enforcing subpoenas instead of just letting these assholes laugh at them. Granted, that'd requre them to invoke their inherent contempt powers, but still...I wish I could just tell the courts to go fuck themselves if I ever get a subpoena. As for her, she's already invoked executive privilege for those e-mails, but I beleive that was in response to an FOIA request. Not sure if she's invoked it with regards to the current investigation. It doesn't really matter, anyway. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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The fuck? I only pushed it once. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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Jibble (#42): The fuck? I only pushed it once. lies Yeah, our government, or Rove's, however you want to look at it, used the RNC.org email address (and others) so they didn't have to have everything tracked. And then when asked for it, the entire state that the server lived in burned down. Damn freak accidents. "some of those words want to be other words." - LP
"the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum |
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What a weird font. "Braid breaks one of my personal most fundamental rules of games design within minutes of starting - they have timed puzzles."
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Oh, Photobucket is blocked here at work. Great. Now the Eye of Sauron (AKA the IT Department) will turn its blazing gaze upon me. blog | photoblog | PlanetCrap Flickr group
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Yeah, our government, or Rove's, however you want to look at it, used the RNC.org email address (and others) so they didn't have to have everything tracked. Presidential Records Act? What's that? Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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G-Man And that's the same Spain and Germany you can't find a job in, right? You know, your snark doesn't really deserve an answer, but let me tell you that I had zero-none-keinen-ningun days of holidays during the five years I worked at my last job, except the 15 days leave the company had to give me by law when I got married. So it's not like I'm too lazy to work or whatever your idea might be. But I got sick of that shit and came here, to see if I could find something nice. Yes, it's proven more difficult than I thought to get a decent job over here, and that will probably be a reason for me to go back to Spain, where I know I WILL get a job in under a month. And to tell you even more, I am not enjoying my time here, I don't enjoy living on welfare, I don't enjoy not being able to buy most stuff I wanted like I used in Spain, I hate the cold weather, and all that shit is really depressing me. As in, I'm taking antidepressants. There, I said it. Happy? Not everybody is a college graduate. I'm happy for you that you achieved more in life than I have, and I have more difficulties on the German employment market than someone like you would have, but that doesn't make it cool to piss on me. I'm not the kind of person you think I am. "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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FoRmat, for shame. You have just fed G-Man. Invention is the Green Goblin of Necessary Lemonade.
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I had to get that off my chest. "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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