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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    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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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    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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    10/29/09

    In reply to Cleaning Lady Hints at Plastic Diet
    Eat Your Makeup #news
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    10/29/09

    In reply to Cleaning Lady Hints at Plastic Diet
    Crowley as in Crowley Maritime? #news
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    10/29/09

    In reply to Cleaning Lady Hints at Plastic Diet
    Earth 2.0 = Earth + Plastic (I think it was George Carlin who said we're stupid for worrying about it and Earth will figure out a way to integrate plastic into itself long after our insignificant human selves are all gone) #news
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    10/29/09

    @homoviper: I see. And the collapse of whole current period ecologies are absolutely nothing to be alarmed about.

    I love Carlin, but his take on certain subjects, including anorexia ("Rich cunt don't wanna eat? Fuck her!") was not particularly useful.
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    10/29/09

    @homoviper: I, for one, would like a clean planet that's still a home for us. However, you're right. Bacteria have already been found that use plastic as a food source. #news
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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    10/29/09

    @RollsRoyceRevenge: I understand, but he has a point: the planet will heal itself eventually. Yeah the fact that all life on this planet will likely cease before that happens is shitty, but we made it that way, didn't we? #news
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    10/29/09

    @homoviper: Well if 'all life' will ceases before that happens earth would be a barren rock and nothing could heal. I think just human life will cease before that happens. And yeah we (and by we I mean America) led the downward spiral - for everyone!
    [www.carbonfootprint.com]
    from the site ( UK spelling) :
    "The average carbon footprint for people in United States is 20.40 tonnes, The average for the industrial nations is about 11 tonnes, The average worldwide carbon footprint is about 4 tonnes, The worldwide target to combat climate change is 2 tonnes." #news
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    10/29/09

    In reply to Cleaning Lady Hints at Plastic Diet
    What the world needs now is a giant Brita filter. #news
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    10/29/09

    In reply to Cleaning Lady Hints at Plastic Diet
    The oceans also used to be teeming with life. So we're over fishing to the point where there are huge swaths where you can't find any life AND dumping our garbage in the ocean, making it harder for the life forms left to thrive and reproduce. The oceans currently produce something like 25% of the food humans eat. When that source is depleted, while more and more humans live on the planet, then what? We've got to have a serious conversation about how much human life this planet can support. We're probably closer to the tipping point than we think. #news
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    10/29/09

    @markscottmusic: Soylent Green. #news
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    10/29/09

    In reply to Cleaning Lady Hints at Plastic Diet
    True facts, I'm an oceanography graduate student who has been to the North Pacific Gyre on research cruises three times in the last three years. We always get tons of plastic in our net tows. I've also attended dissections on open ocean sea birds, who spend very little time near shore, whose stomachs are packed full of tiny pellets of plastic.
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    10/29/09

    @SwapnasundariFazoo: Have you seen these pictures? It's so awful to see what is actually happening out there.

    [www.chrisjordan.com] #news
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    10/29/09

    @SwapnasundariFazoo: It's all those exfoliation scrubs being used by teenagers and metrosexual douchebags everywhere. awesome! #news
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    10/29/09

    @mainesqueeze: The albatross chicks, dutifully fed by their parents, die of bellies filled with plastic, brought to them across the open ocean by devoted parents foraging and mistakenly grabbing bright colored bits of poison
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    10/29/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: [www.chrisjordan.com] #news
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    10/29/09

    @Art_Yucko: All the worse because a simple and biodegradable loofah would work just as well. #news
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    10/29/09

    @Smitros: My grandad was a lifelong waterways conservationist, and grew loofah gourds. He knew what was up with plastic. #news
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    10/29/09

    @Art_Yucko: Thanks. I live by the loofah in a non O'Reillian way, as even conventionally gendered men need to exfoliate. #news
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    10/29/09

    @mainesqueeze: Wow those are DEVASTATING. Thank you. Damn. #news
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    Image of GuyBitchy GuyBitchy
    02/04/09

    In reply to Harry Markopolos Rips SEC for Missing Madoff Warnings
    And now, via The Treasury and Federal Reserve, those very same folks are in charge of the country--completely.


    Yes, the individuals who created the disaster have been given, in direct response to that disaster, total control over how to deal with it.


    And they are merely dealing as they dealt all along--self-dealing.


    America is over.

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    02/04/09

    In reply to Harry Markopolos Rips SEC for Missing Madoff Warnings
    Financial illiterates at the SEC! Intelligence illiterates at the CIA! Disaster illiterates at FEMA! Wow, the Bush administration really was one for the record books.
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