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    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    05/09/09

    In reply to Mia Farrow Quits Darfur Fast, Gets Weak Sauce Milkshake Drunk
    Well, I guess the publicity stunt didn't work out like she hoped, i.e. nobody cared and it certainly wasn't helping Darfur, so she quit. What a pompous ass. "If you don't help those people in Darfur I'm going to starve myself!"


    Fasting for starving people is like skipping your nap to help insomniacs.

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    05/09/09

    In reply to Mia Farrow Quits Darfur Fast, Gets Weak Sauce Milkshake Drunk
    Mia Farrow got replaced by Richard Branson. And when Richard Branson falls out and needz a cheesburger, Michael Des Barres is going to take over.
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    05/09/09

    In reply to Mia Farrow Quits Darfur Fast, Gets Weak Sauce Milkshake Drunk
    Considering how this crisis has been mishandled to mangled, the last person to ciritcize is Farrow. Is it celebrity grandstanding? I suppose, as is any famous folk support for good causes.


    Try going without food for 12 days. Hell, try being patient in the line in Starbucks. Most of the world doesn't live like we do.


    Believe me, I love filthy, sarcastic, dark humor, but this is just dopey.

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    05/09/09

    In reply to Mia Farrow Quits Darfur Fast, Gets Weak Sauce Milkshake Drunk
    That is her child? He's sooo cute!!!
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    05/09/09

    In reply to Mia Farrow Quits Darfur Fast, Gets Weak Sauce Milkshake Drunk
    Q: "Maybe this is the easy party line, but doesn't the island-owning Branson have the coin to simply foot some of the bill in Darfur? Or to send a private security force in to help the situation?"


    A: Yes.


    The problem is that without permanent stabilization in the region with emergency stimulus and eventually foreign investment, Darfur will wind up the way it currently is in a relatively short period of time. They need an economy. It's the same problem with a lot of Africa. Enormous resources, but just too dangerous a place in which to sink money. This is a Catch 22. A government can not survive without an economy and an economy can't survive without a stable government. In the meantime, Darfur is dependent on the anemic UN to give them security and food when it can.


    Farrow did a good thing to keep the crisis in the papers.

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    05/09/09

    @ChillbearLatrigue: Jesus Christ. I agree with you. This feels... strange.
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    05/09/09

    @ChillbearLatrigue: It took 15 years, but they did it (are still doing it) in Rwanda: [www.newyorker.com]
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    05/09/09

    In reply to Mia Farrow Quits Darfur Fast, Gets Weak Sauce Milkshake Drunk
    Just in time for swimsuit season.
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    05/09/09

    In reply to Mia Farrow Quits Darfur Fast, Gets Weak Sauce Milkshake Drunk
    General Charles "Chinese" Gordon, Mia. Live like him.
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    02/18/09

    In reply to Refugees in Chad Could Have Used That Soup, Twitter Lady
    how the hell does Ann Curry have a connection to Twitter anything from fucking CHAD, the poorest most resourceless country on the planet??


    oh, the NBC Satellite van's equipment must have been put to good use..

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