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    04:47 AM

    In reply to Link Between Homicidal Cartoon Rage and Psycho Terrorist Status Grows Stronger
    The same people who go ape shit over Muhammad cartoons cheer Arab-language editorials saying Jews use the blood of Muslim babies as an ingredient in matzo soup.
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    12/07/09

    In reply to Yahoo Puts a Price on Your Privacy: $10
    That's hilarious. I was just reading a book about wiretapping in Canada in the early 80's and Bell Canada charged the police $50 a day per tap. Now we really know who's behind the surveillance society: greedy Canuck utility companies!
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    12/07/09

    In reply to Joe Bruno Found Guilty of Running New York Senate
    Shelly's next.
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    Image of Zira Zira
    12/07/09

    @daveyjonesisdead:

    Do you mean Sheldon Silver? Who exchanges huge law firm fees for favors in Albany? That snake has done more harm to New York than every other politician in the State put together.
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    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    12/07/09

    In reply to Joe Bruno Found Guilty of Running New York Senate
    So, when can we prosecute the rest of the New York State Senate, oh and the United States Senate too, especially that walking phlegmatic turd Joe Lieberman?
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    12/07/09

    In reply to Joe Bruno Found Guilty of Running New York Senate
    When Senate attorneys are telling ALL the Senators to hand deliver their financial disclosure forms to avoid federal mail fraud charges, that is some shady business.
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    Image of El_Gato El_Gato
    12/07/09

    In reply to Joe Bruno Found Guilty of Running New York Senate
    Hate this guy. Hope he rots in prison.
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    Image of crookedE crookedE
    12/07/09

    @El_Gato: Apparently failing to do consulting work for which you have been paid is a far worse crime than face-slashing.
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    12/07/09

    @crookedE: Indeed. Or being Client #9, caught on a wiretap
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    12:34 AM

    @Bottle_by_the_Scrivener: Hiram Monserrate should be sentenced to twenty lashes with a cane and sent to Singapore. Fuck him. Odds are though, Bruno will get off with little or no jail time, just like plenty of other law-breaking politicians, including Spitzer.
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    12/07/09

    In reply to Joe Bruno Found Guilty of Running New York Senate
    Good. Lying homophobic turd.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    12/07/09

    In reply to Yahoo Puts a Price on Your Privacy: $10
    I've got like 1700 unread messages in my Yahoo! mailbox. You'd think I'd be worth more than $35.
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    12/07/09

    @Magister: No one wants to see your Half.com Wish List Update.
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    12/07/09

    @paxcincinnatus: You'd think that I'd quit paying $20 a year to have a place to send it.
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    Image of intime intime
    12/07/09

    In reply to How Not to Get Arrested When You're Abroad: A Foxy Knoxy-Inspired Guide
    Yes, it's best to keep a low profile if you like to drink and smoke pot while abroad. If you do find yourself in a threatening situation, like I did once - while drunk: Hide in your hotel room. Lock the door, go into the bathroom - lock that door - and don't make a sound while the nutcase/possible narco (who you met in a local nightclub and who tried to sell you dope - but you said no) who is also bombed bangs on your door repeatedly and calls out your name (and badly mispronounces it - Thank God).

    Yeah, it was scary.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    12/07/09

    In reply to How Not to Get Arrested When You're Abroad: A Foxy Knoxy-Inspired Guide
    I'm going to go one better and just not leave my house.
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    12/07/09

    @Mama Penguino: Soulmate.
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    12/07/09

    @Mama Penguino: but what if trouble comes to your house?!?!?
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    12/07/09

    @tigolbitties: In America, its OK to shoot it.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    12/07/09

    @tigolbitties: I forgot that you and your bosom bring trouble wherever you go!
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    12/07/09

    @Mama Penguino: 'tis true!!! but also what seattlesue said! i hear you're pretty good with a sawed off shotgun!
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    12/07/09

    @tigolbitties: Wanna run away, Thelma?
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    12/07/09

    In reply to How Not to Get Arrested When You're Abroad: A Foxy Knoxy-Inspired Guide
    Hey, kiddies, remember: The Talented Mr. Ripley is NOT a how-to guide (it's harder than it looks).
    Or, for safety's sake, always travel in groups of three. That way you can frame your unknowing third wheel for your own mischievous, homicidal highjinks.
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    12/07/09

    In reply to How Not to Get Arrested When You're Abroad: A Foxy Knoxy-Inspired Guide
    I always try and follow this one: "Do your best not to be near the scenes of any vicious felony murders." But then I always run smack into the gentle misdemeanor sort.
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    12/07/09

    In reply to How Not to Get Arrested When You're Abroad: A Foxy Knoxy-Inspired Guide
    I thought the Fay case went down in Singapore, not Japan. Or maybe I'm just confused and you didn't mean to insinuate that all these events happened in the same country.

    "Do not be a terrible person whilst traveling or working abroad" might be excellent advice as well in either case, I suppose.
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    Image of QADude QADude
    12/07/09

    @She_of_the_Socks: I think that simply "Don't be an asshole" would be the best advice.

    Fay was dealt with in Singapore, where they don't screw around with people. I remember the Singapore embassy in SF being overrun with phone calls from people offering to cane Fay.
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    12/07/09

    @QADude: Sometimes being an asshole is helpful, though! For example, in dealing with employees at JFK, re: a friend's lost luggage. No one would listen to me until I began getting terribly impolite and causing a scene, screaming, "Suitcases don't dissolve into thin air. That luggage is somewhere in this fucking airport and I am not leaving without it. So stop talking on the phone with your boyfriend, summon the strength to keep your eyes from rolling each time I address you, do your fucking job, and I'll be out of your face forever." And then the luggage was found within five minutes.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    12/07/09

    @She_of_the_Socks: Ohhh yeah. I'm guilty of pulling the unhinged b*tch card once while in transit through the Frankfurt airport, when Lufthansa misplaced one of my luggage pieces and routed it erroneously to JFK instead of LAX. I made such as spectacle of myself at the Lufthansa counter--banshee-like wailing, tears, guilt-tripping ("Your incompetence is going to make me miss my flight!"--strategically hitting the Germs where it hurts them most)--that the horrified Lufthansa staff retrieved my luggage stat and put it on the correct flight just to be rid of me. I remember feeling quite ashamed afterward, and thinking, "Thank God I'll never see these people again."
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    12/07/09

    In reply to How Not to Get Arrested When You're Abroad: A Foxy Knoxy-Inspired Guide
    I visited Italy shortly after those douche shits from the US Military flew their plane too low fucking around trying to "see if they could fly it underneath a cable car wire" and ended up shearing the wire, sending a gondola full of Italian skiiers (20!) to their deaths. As this was fresh in their minds, needless to say, I felt compelled to be on my best behavior...

    [en.wikipedia.org]
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    12/07/09

    @lobstr: There is definitely a sense of entitlement for gringos abroad. Probably we are the most hated visitor to any land. (In Julio's that year, that was generally agreed, but one said the Canadians are pretty bad too.) I know my pals and I always avoided them in Mexico, and we wuz them! Obnoxious, demanding asses.

    On another note, just why was it the Iraquis didn't greet Our Boys with roses and sunshine?
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    12/07/09

    @Tremonius: 'Iraqis' is what I think you mean, and as I recall, the ones who weren't trying to kill us were indifferent or trying to see what we would give them. I think nationalism is a moot point when you're getting fucked on both ends.

    In most of my travels, nobody seems to give a shit that I'm an American. However, I also do my best to speak the native language and not start talking jingoistic shit every twenty minutes. You're right about the sense of entitlement, though. It's the assholes who think that they are superior to other people simply by virtue of where they were born that make us look like ass.
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    12/07/09

    @Tremonius: Actually most people in the tourist industry rate Germans and Israelis as the worst tourists abroad.
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    12/07/09

    @StabbyRipStabStab: "'Iraqis' is what I think you mean, - "

    No, the Iroquois, actually, as Elton John invites us to sing with him about that great ravaged race to the north ...

    Oh, great father of the Iroquois
    Come put on your breeches, bois ...
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    12/07/09

    @Tremonius: Haha, well done.
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    Image of notsofresh notsofresh
    12/07/09

    In reply to How Not to Get Arrested When You're Abroad: A Foxy Knoxy-Inspired Guide
    I only know what I see on Locked Up Abroad, but American embassies don't seem to be as helpful as I was always told. *Maybe* they'll help get you an english-speaking lawyer, but that's about it.
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