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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    12/10/09

    In reply to Deadly Gun Battle Wows Appreciative Tourists
    "The 25 year-old victim"

    Calling a guy who whips out a Mac-10 and starts shooting at cops a "victim" is charitable to say the least.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    12/10/09

    In reply to Deadly Gun Battle Wows Appreciative Tourists
    I guarantee you this was better than "Wicked."
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    Image of OliversArmy OliversArmy
    12/10/09

    @Perhaps Not: And almost certainly made less of a din.
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    Image of fatmonalisa fatmonalisa
    12/10/09

    In reply to Deadly Gun Battle Wows Appreciative Tourists
    I hope his estate pays off the Columbia House bill
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    12/10/09

    In reply to Deadly Gun Battle Wows Appreciative Tourists
    Suicide by cop?

    or

    Pirated CDs, indeed.
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    12/10/09

    In reply to Deadly Gun Battle Wows Appreciative Tourists
    Just as he thought, the fools kept steppin.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    12/10/09

    In reply to Deadly Gun Battle Wows Appreciative Tourists
    When he started shooting with the mac-10, did he jump sideways in the air in slow-motion as the bullets grazed past? That's what I'd anticipate said Aussies and Irish tourists would be expecting to see...
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    12/10/09

    In reply to Deadly Gun Battle Wows Appreciative Tourists
    "A tourist from Australia, Suzanne Davis, 42, stopped to take images with a video recorder. "It’s my first day in New York, so it makes very real what you see in the movies," she said."

    Actually her comment makes very real what I've always suspected about Australians.
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    Image of AngriestGeek AngriestGeek
    12/10/09

    In reply to Deadly Gun Battle Wows Appreciative Tourists
    NYC, bitchez! Represent! We're taking Times Square back inch by bloody inch!
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    12/10/09

    @AngriestGeek: I think we just lost a few inches.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/10/09

    In reply to Deadly Gun Battle Wows Appreciative Tourists
    Manhattan got nuthin' on Disneyland:
    (That doesn't sound convincing coming from an 83 year old anti-lentite, does it)

    [gawker.com]
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    Image of goetz goetz
    12/10/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: What do you have against lentils?
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/10/09

    @goetz:

    Lentils in a well-prepared soup with a little lemon is wonderful. But on their own... pheh.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    12/10/09

    In reply to Deadly Gun Battle Wows Appreciative Tourists
    It should be noted that Emer was wearing a t-shirt that said "Michael Collins is my president." Not much phases her.
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    12/10/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Except, apparently, lost luggage at the Port Authority.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    12/10/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Exactly.
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    Image of limber limber
    12/10/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Is Emer the same name as Eimear, basically? Or is it considered totally different?
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    Edited by limber at 12/10/09 3:51 PM limber was starred limber was unstarred
    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    12/08/09

    In reply to The Public Option is (Tentatively) Dead
    "U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said his party had reached a compromise that will unite liberals and centrists, a report from Dow Jones Newswires said. Reid, however, offered no details on the deal, but did say reports that senators dropped the public option were "not true," according to Reuters."

    according to marketwatch
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    12/08/09

    In reply to The Public Option is (Tentatively) Dead
    Are you people ever going to start talking about moving towards a multi-party system like they have in every other democratic country in the world? What will it take? Elitists my ass.
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    Edited by Niko Bellic at 12/08/09 11:40 PM Niko Bellic was starred Niko Bellic was unstarred
    Image of Helio Helio
    12/09/09

    @Niko Bellic:
    We'll have to get rid of he Federal Electoral Commission which continues to allow corporate money to flow freely to both parties and restricts the number of parties allowed to participate. Not sure how to do that, exactly.
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    Image of JacquesPaysan JacquesPaysan
    12/09/09

    @Niko Bellic: Lots of angry people armed with guns, just like last time. Unfortunately this time all the gun-bearing folks are pretty fucking crazy. I'd rather not be part of their revolution.
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    Image of JacquesPaysan JacquesPaysan
    12/08/09

    In reply to The Public Option is (Tentatively) Dead
    So...hope and change are now both officially dead, no?
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    12/08/09

    @JacquesPaysan: No, just some of the people that voted for hope and change and don't have any health insurance.
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    Image of JacquesPaysan JacquesPaysan
    12/09/09

    @Atilla the Bun: So that's how they're paying us back for voting them into office. Thanks guys!
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    12/08/09

    In reply to The Public Option is (Tentatively) Dead
    Fuck you Democrats. Fuck you very much.
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    Image of registered registered
    12/09/09

    @Atilla the Bun: Amen. I hate to say it, but they have let me down big-time on the health care plan. It seems to me that every politician with an awesome health care policy just does not give a flying fuck about people like me. Or you. What a surprise.
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    Image of garbanzo314 garbanzo314
    12/08/09

    In reply to The Public Option is (Tentatively) Dead
    Obama unfortunately has to take baby steps on health care reform due to intense political pressure against it. First, get insurance for more Americans. Then construct a viable public option. Then take the fight to the folks who are driving up costs so quickly: drug companies, doctors, and insurance companies. And then give us a viable single-payer public option decoupled from employers, like every other industrialized nation has.
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    Image of Zira Zira
    12/08/09

    @garbanzo314: Or maybe its because he's just a total wuss.

    With the Democrats controlling both houses....even with the blue dog democrats....this would have been much easier if he had taken the lead instead of sitting back and let the three dunces (reid, frank and pelosi) run the show.
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    fatmonalisa promoted this comment Edited by Zira at 12/08/09 11:13 PM Zira was starred Zira was unstarred
    Image of fatmonalisa fatmonalisa
    12/08/09

    @Zira: I have a huge problem with Pelosi. I think she's so wrapped up with being the "First Woman Speaker of the House! Look at all my power!" then actually wanting to do something of importance. Her putting the gavel down on the Stupak amendment in the house without a peep really annoys me as a woman and a citizen. Roe vs Wade was decided years ago there was no need to drag it into this as a some sort of booby prize for voting for reform. People will not look back at her with praise at all. Obama has been sitting back, writing speeches and been basically on one big PR campaign for months now and letting everyone else do shit that he should be IN CHARGE OF. It's like he's promoting his biopic and not being a president. It's time for him to use some of his clout for something other than saving face and making the United States look like less of an embarrassment to the world. Oh wait he failed at that too. Change we can believe in!
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    Image of Zira Zira
    12/09/09

    @fatmonalisa: Its very frustrating to me to see how badly Pelosi has screwed things up. But I think Obama could have recognized this and pushed harder on health reform.

    Obama's initial strategy appeared to be to sit back and wait for the house and senate to figure it out to avoid getting dirty himself but that strategy backfired and we have no public health option as a result.
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