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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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    10/16/09

    In reply to Balloon Boy: 'We Did This for the Show'
    Appalled! Shocked! Comedy! #boyintheballoon
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    10/16/09

    In reply to Balloon Boy: 'We Did This for the Show'
    Out of the mouths of babes and fools... #boyintheballoon
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    10/16/09

    In reply to Balloon Boy: 'We Did This for the Show'
    Once a long time ago a strange gent hooked a series of weather balloons to his lawnchair and rose higher and higher until the pilot of an in-coming flight reported him as a hazard to navigation. He carried with him an air rifle, and descended by popping balloons.

    And all he got out of it was a lousy Timex ad. #boyintheballoon
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    10/16/09

    @Tremonius: did he also get a darwin award? #boyintheballoon
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    10/16/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: I think maybe it was the William Jennings Bryan medal for devolution. Cat was sure strange. #boyintheballoon
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    10/16/09

    @Tremonius: was that a silver cross? #boyintheballoon
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    10/17/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: Good one. Or was that gold?

    "I'd rather be right than be - wrong."
    [Corrected quote]
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    10/17/09

    @Tremonius: you were right xxoo #boyintheballoon
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    10/17/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: My favorite Gold Standard quote of all time was from ol' Bertram Russell. See, the Brits during the Great War thought to suspend shipment of gold from their African plunder base because of the danger of U-boats. So it was understood that, in principle, every pound note would continue to be honored on (delayed) demand by its weight in gold, only the gold would remain in South Africa, see? I see, said Sir Bertram, and why not go one further and simply leave the gold in the ground? #boyintheballoon
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    10/17/09

    @Tremonius: and every battleship made is humanity hanging on a cross of iron [www.youtube.com] #boyintheballoon
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    10/17/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: Love that one. Ol' Ike, the pacifist. Born in Denison, TX, thirty miles from my own cross of horse manure. But the cross is supposed to signify ressurection, innit? They stage 'em in front of churches as if they're positive or something ... #boyintheballoon
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    10/17/09

    @Tremonius: [www.youtube.com]

    Well the preacher kept right on saying that all I had to do was send
    Ten dollars to the church of the sacred bleeding heart of jesus
    Located somewhere in los angeles, california
    And next week theyd say my prayer on the radio
    And all my dreams would come true
    So I did, the next week, I got a prayer with a girl
    Well, you know what kind of eyes she got

    So if youre down on your luck
    I know you all sympathize
    Find a girl with far away eyes
    And if youre downright disgusted
    And life aint worth a dime
    Get a girl with far away eyes #boyintheballoon
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    10/19/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: Tremendous! I've never seen this before. The Stones doing country. In the okie bars where I grew up, part of the whining and tears in beers was all about how anybody can do Okie and Okies can't do nuthin' else. Depressing. #boyintheballoon
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    10/19/09

    @Tremonius: okies=sadness #boyintheballoon
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    10/19/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: Yeah, a sad lot, and you ain't heard sad until you've heard my Daddy's favorite song, with a chorus that goes:

    I've got tears
    in my ears,
    from lying on my back;
    cryin' over you

    Sad. #boyintheballoon
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    10/19/09

    @Tremonius: epic. if u play it backward u get out of jail and your dog comes back #boyintheballoon
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    10/19/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: Great! Now whatta I get for this one?

    Feature a Tammy Wynette mournful screech.

    Ah cain't sleep with you -

    chucka-chucka-chim-cham
    chom-chom-choom

    - on my mind. #boyintheballoon
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    10/19/09

    @Tremonius: oh man #boyintheballoon
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    10/16/09

    In reply to Balloon Boy: 'We Did This for the Show'
    Love 'em. We were looking at a house up in the hills one fine summer, and hearing from the owner how her husband was just so weary of the drive to work and all, although they really love it up here with the mountains and the seasons, and on the way off the property the lovely little daughter was with a friend, and we asked, "Why're you moving?" and she said just one word which in this region is well understood.

    "Floods." #boyintheballoon
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    10/16/09

    In reply to Balloon Boy: 'We Did This for the Show'
    Great thing about kids and that honesty thing. #boyintheballoon
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    10/16/09

    In reply to Balloon Boy: 'We Did This for the Show'
    Oh, wow. This whole time I thought those dismissing it as a hoax were cynical, judgemental jerks.
    MY BAD, INTERNET. #balloonboy
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    10/16/09

    In reply to Balloon Boy: 'We Did This for the Show'
    Geezus, I hope the kid never falls down a well, because America's reservoir of sympathy (and belief) is now officially bone-dry. #balloonboy
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    10/16/09

    In reply to Balloon Boy: 'We Did This for the Show'
    The thought that this was a hoax flashed through my mind for a second but I dismissed it.

    No wonder I'm so effing cynical. #balloonboy
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