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Naomi Novik, author of Temeraire novels

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You see, an economy built to last is one where we encourage the talent and ingenuity of every person in this country. That means women should earn equal pay for equal work.

It means we should support everyone who

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You're right, that was stupidly trolly. Must be working too late.

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Not in California, which is the definitive place

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and anybody offended by the name "Black & Tan" should be taken out and shot with out trial.

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how the hell do you know it isn't an irish car bomb? Did you taste it? I could photograph an Irish car bomb and tell you it was a black and tan, would you be hopping up and down hollering "Oh no! That's a totally different drink! I can tell by looking at it!!"  I think somebody photographed the car bomb and labelled it something else

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FDR didn't order a moratorium on drilling oil, or order the closure of moneymaking car dealerships, or try to harvest sunshine, or declare we needed more work permits for illegal aliens, or pay Mexican truckers so they could kick the ass of American truckers, or declare war on coal


so that's somebody else who would have done better than Obama if hit with a global crisis

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Bush failed to stop the Muslim assault on the Democrat nomination <rimshot>

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before 9/11 if anybody in DC stood up and said "We need the FBI to wiretap so the CIA can assassinate or else illegal aliens will do a kamikaze stunt on skyscrapers with hijacked jets" that guy would have been crucified as an example to the others

that's why I'm not very hard on Clinton for not stopping it.  in the 1990s "CIA + FBI = Watergate" and there's no way Slick Willy would have got away with it

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there I said "tl;dr" in fewer characters

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^ x2

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im glad we're more respected

not like the Bush years when our ambassadors weren't murdered

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i for one welcome our new overlords

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I say we take the most essential 1% of the US population - the Reagan conservatives, into mineshafts and then detonate America's nuclear arsenal 100 miles above both Poles.  When we emerge in 200 years we'll have the deserts and seas to ourselves.  Pity about the bears.

No fair putting us in mineshafts and then not detonating !

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?

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He was awake in history class?

I dunno about dominating them but who can say that aint an area of deep and chronic FUBAR

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"PvdA = Centre left socialist lead by Samson
VVD = Centre right liberals lead by Rutte

Both seem to be heading for about 35 seats in parlement (150 seat total), so its gonne be a 3 party coalition atleast."

Your country splits 3 ways over centrism???

if Feds can't set standards then Feds should refuse to invest

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>The scent of a skunk is horrendous. Imagine 2 Frenchmen in a sweat box for a month without bathing. That would be roses compared to a skunk.<

And it can travel a kilometer, and it's basically musk oil that stanks like a feedlot at noon.  Soap wont take it off. Ya gotta bathe in turpentine or tomato sauce to get it out.

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technically no... the grounds are still host territory, just the ambassador and all staff are immune from anything but deportation

2 Marines were killed, they had to fight their way in

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thats' why you get a beer helmet prepped the night before

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we should spray Benghazi with skunk essence


you Europeans don't know what that means


be grateful

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This guy ran for President in 2008 and this speech about "mad, sad, security beefed up" should have been in a drawer with blank spaces for the names since November 2008

instead of being something he had to work on overnight

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No a deal gone bad involves corpses, this is just f'd up

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East you barbarian its mimosa not strait Brut at a brunch