12/22   What the deal with flyng a confederate flag?  I always assumed
        it was a symbol of racism, but some people seem to do it so
        casually that I'm not sure that's it anymore.
        \_ it's a southern heritage pride thing, which oftens involves
           the flag waver ignoring how pissed off a brown person might
           get about it.  whatever, i don't care, i'll never live anywhere
	...

8/3     I have lived in N Cal all my life and have had a very sheltered
        and liberal life. Actually it's pretty deprived as well. I've
        never been to the South, and I'm wondering how accurate the
        portrayal of the hicks are in the movie Sweet Home Alabama?
        \_ No. Hollywood is exaggerated.
           \_ What does North Hollywood have to do with it?
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6/3     Clinton 'open' to joining Obama
        http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7432696.stm
        \_ That would be pretty funny if this happened and then Obama was pres
           but then died somehow and then HRC was president.
           \_ At least we would know that it wasn't the Ku Klux Klan who
              assasinated Obama.  http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/?c=117&a=1227
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6/2     Obama is willing to ditch his own church in order to win the election.
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080601/ap_on_el_pr/obama
        How faithful.
        \_ After hanging out with the Klan for 20 years, he decides it's
           politically expedient to leave.
           \_ Yeah, the Klan.  That's right.  What an apt analogy.  I mean
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5/31    Obama resigns from controversial church
        http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/31/obama.church/index.html
        Ha ha!
        \_ I thought he disavowed Wright long ago?
           \_ He disavowed Wright a few weeks (month?) back, but Wright
           \_ He disabowed Wright a few weeks (month?) back, but Wright
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10/31   Fred Phelps gets $11 million spanking.
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071031/ap_on_re_us/funeral_protests
        \- are naive "force or fraud" libertarians outraged?
           \_ This verdict is absurd and will be overturned. Phelps clearly
              has free speech protection here. Plus, isn't Phelps like the
              best troll ever?
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5/3     So I watched "Frontline/American Experience" this week. The topic
        was "The Mormons". I always knew the Mormons were a cult, but
        they are even more cultish than I thought. I especially liked
        the part about baptising dead Holocaust victims, which for
        some reason Jewish people are not too happy about. I wonder why.
        \_ Hi troll.  This is the same PBS which refuses to show the special
	...

10/29   Mark Steyn op/ed in the Chicago Sun Times.
        http://www.suntimes.com/news/steyn/114966,CST-EDT-steyn29.article
           The invaluable Brussels Journal recently translated an interview
           with the writer Oscar van den Boogaard from the Belgian paper De
           Standaard. A Dutch gay "humanist" (which is pretty much the
           trifecta of Eurocool), van den Boogaard was reflecting on the
	...

3/17    Gotta love it:
        "NEW YORK - Protesters joined bagpipers, marching bands and thousands
        of flag-waving spectators at the St. Patrick's Day parade Friday after
        the parade's chairman compared gay Irish-American activists to
        neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and prostitutes."
        \_ what do gay people have against prostitutes?
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11/30   Lieberman has visited Iraq four times in 17 months. He said there are
        signs life is returning to normal, including a profusion of cell phones
        and satellite TV dishes on rooftops.
        "About two-thirds of the country is in really pretty good shape," he
        said, noting most attacks are in the so-called "Sunni Triangle" region.
        "Overall, I came back encouraged."
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6/20    Curiosity got the best of me, and I read the Lancet study, too.  It's
        quite thorough, undeceptive, and straightforward.  Responding to
        emarkp's post (http://csua.com/?entry=38170
        RE: Confidence Intervals. (1)Assuming a normal(it's not, it's
        skewed), there's a 90% certainty there were over 40k dead, 85%
        certainty over 51k dead, 75% certainty over 68k dead. (2) this CI
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1/23    Amusing TNR aticle on far-far-lefties
        http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=frank012105
        qwertyuil/dsfghjk
        \_ Frothing lefties is more like it. Gyah. Why can't we liberals as
           a whole just jettison these tinfoil hatters once and for all? Is
           it because they have all of the phone bank lists? Gyah!
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9/16    (Brought up with update)
        Interesting old NYTimes article.  It seems Bush tried to overhaul
        Fannie and Freddie regulation 5 years ago, but was blocked by Dems.
        http://csua.org/u/mdc
        \_ Thanks, this renewed my faith in McCain
        \_ How was it blocked by Dems if the GOP had a majority of both
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6/6     Did you guys get a load of Obama's victory speech?  This guy really
        does think he's the messiah.
        "I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own
        limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of
        the American people. Because if we are willing to work for it, and
        fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that
	...

2/20    Is Obama anti-Asian-American?
        \_ link:tinyurl.com/26zx2v
        \_ Are you an idiot?
        \_ No, but I sure met a lot of Asian-Americans while canvassing that
           seemed to be vehemently anti-Obama. Funny, they would never explain
           *why* though.
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10/8    Bush diplomacy comes to its logical conclusion:
        Threatening three countries, labeling them the "Axis of Evil" and
        then invading one of them for no real reason causes the other two
        to pursue nuclear weapons to defend themselves. Good job, neocons,
        are you actually double agents out to destroy America or are you just
        that stupid?
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9/8     http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/washington/09intelcnd.html
        NY Times reports that there is no evidence that Hussein had ties to
        al Qaeda - but liberals fail to understand that not finding the
        evidence may result in mushroom clouds over one or more major American
        cities
        \_ Honestly, do you really believe the Administration line? Or is this
	...

4/13    Support bipartisan Senate bill S.678!
        http://www.redstate.org/story/2005/4/13/164333/833
        http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/13/172939/078
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10/4    bipartisan name calling contest. I'll start:
        Republican: red-neck, suv lovers, blue-blooded deficit-spending elites
                \_ motherfucker (implied by red-neck)
                   \_ spend and spend, free-labor conservative
                \_ trigger happy bible thumping earth rapers
                \_ drunk driving, draft dodging, bible-thumping morons
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10/4    bipartisan name calling contest. I'll start:
        \_
        Republican: red-neck, suv lovers, blue-blooded deficit-spending elites
        \_ motherfucker (implied by red-neck)
           \_ spend and spend, free-labor conservative
        Democrat: hippy, tree-hugger, tax-and-spend liberal, baby killer,
	...

8/3     Oh wow, a politics purge.  You're an asshole.
        \_ I second that.
        \_ The politics on the motd are something like 95% noise 5% signal.
           Everytime someone tries to point out the truth (at any place in the
           political spectrum) he's drowned out by inanity.  It's truly sad,
           IMO.  But as a result, I'm not crying when the political threads get
	...

3/26    Things I learned from History: Lincoln was photographed with
        killer. Lincoln had 3 male lovers (he was bisexual!).
        Kennedy had an affair with a Nazi spy. Elenore Roosevelt
        was a lesbian!!!  Nerdy looking Ben Franklin was a suspected
        killer and quite a ladies man. WTF???
        \_ Did it mention anything about Washington and the cherry tree?
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1/18    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100118/ts_nm/us_quake_haiti
        Two contrasting remarks:
        '"We do not have the capacity to fix this situation. Haiti needs help
        ... the Americans are welcome here. But where are they? We need them
        here on the street with us," said policeman Dorsainvil Robenson,
        deployed to chase looters in the capital.'
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8/17    http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/17/the-best-and-worst-cities-to-look-for-a-job
        San Jose and San Francisco... not a surprise. Northern Cal
        is still the best place to live.
        \_ What are you talking about? San Jose was 6th (above SF) and
           SF was 15th. If you rate "best place to live" as "best place
           to find a job" (which I don't) neither of these qualify and
	...

5/28    "China volcano may have caused mass extinction"
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090528/ap_on_sc/us_sci_volcano_extinction
        "WASHINGTON - A mass extinction some 260 million years ago may have
        been caused by volcanic eruptions in what is now China, new research
        suggests."
        It's all ChiCom's fault!
	...

5/28    Washington Post Correction:
        The May 27 editorial "The President's Pick" incorrectly referred
        to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as the daughter of
        "immigrant" parents. Judge Sotomayor's parents were not immigrants
        but were born in Puerto Rico after passage of a 1917 law that
        automatically conferred U.S. citizenship on island-born residents.
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2/27    CA unemployment increases from 9.3% to 10.1% for Jan
        \_ Good thing the legislature passed the biggest tax increase in
           history!  That should solve it.
           \_ because cutting taxes has done such a great job so far!
                \_ it has.. giving mortgages to poor folks did us in
                   \_ 100% horseshit.
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