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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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    04/23/09

    In reply to Susan Boyle Is Everyone's Fault
    Maybe I'm immune to looks, but I think she is a decent singer, certainly better than many on those reality singing shows, but i wonder what people would think of her voice if they were told that a beautiful woman were singing whatever it is she sings? I think she benefits from the looks vs voice gap because we expect people with good voices to look good and people who do not look good to not be able to sing.


    And it was about time for something heartwarming to happen on a Simon Cowell show. Because the fact is that she tried out on other shows before and didn't make it. If her voice is that great, then why not?


    She's actually kind of a cute thing in that way that unsophisticated I wanna be in show business high school drama queens and kings way there is. Am I the only people who have met people like her before?

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    04/23/09

    @Tart of Darkness: I expect people who look good to use auto-tune and/or lip sync and not really be able to do anything but the fact that they are beautiful nonetheless will outshine their lack of talent and earn them fickle praise but it doesn't matter because in the world "hotness" rules supreme.
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    04/23/09

    In reply to Susan Boyle Is Everyone's Fault
    Richard, I'm sorry but what-EVER. She's awesome and orchestrated or not, it pleases me muchly to see people fawn over someone who ACTUALLY. CAN. SING. Who ACTUALLY. IS. SOMETHING. A BRITISH IDOL instead of some over caffeinated American one. Someone who IS. NOT. A. GOSSIP. GIRL. RECAP. OR. HILLS. RECAP. OR LADY GA.GA. Or BRITNEY'S. "COMEBACK." Or LINDSAY'S. E-HARMONY. SPOOF. Or any of the millions of other swirls of cold semen floating atop the rivers of sludge down the drains in our brains these days via hulu or VH1. Man! Let the people dream a dream of Susan Boyle. It'll blow over soon enough and some hairless Jonas Brother will slaughter her and rightfully assume his throne once more. Don't you worry that, petal. It will. It will. It will.
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    04/23/09

    In reply to Susan Boyle Is Everyone's Fault
    why is this SUCH a big deal? I don't see why it's so "moving" and "shocking" that a kind of heinous looking woman has such a great voice...at the end of the day, it's just another chick that can sing. whatever.
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    04/23/09

    @somethingsfishy: Why does everyone think she's so "heinous looking?" Now Marguritte Perrin? THAT'S heinous looking:

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    04/23/09

    In reply to Susan Boyle Is Everyone's Fault
    Admit it, Richard. You don't have a heart, because Susan Boyle stole it.
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    04/23/09

    In reply to Susan Boyle Is Everyone's Fault
    What a fucking hateful piece of shit this piece is.


    Let me Ask you something Mr. Lawson; Do you sing in the shower and think to yourself that you have talent and thats it's not fair that it goes unnoticed...Then you see a recording of this Brit bitty waddle on to a stage and sing like a fucking bird, and it drives you bananas..
    You turn in to a hate volcano, sitting in your big city apartment. all alone. on a crate & barrel couch you paid too much for. ranting and raving to no one.
    I'll bet you're a sad little hater, arn't you?

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    04/23/09

    @stanhalen: I think you have a lack of reading comprehension skills. And also, I think Richard got his couch at Ikea.
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    04/23/09

    @CodePink: Pottery Barn's got some deals but I don't care for their fabric options.
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    04/23/09

    @stanhalen: Huh? Did you not read the part where I said I teared up with joy when I watched her sing?
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    04/23/09

    @Richard Lawson: (I don't think the person is very good at reading.)
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    04/23/09

    @stanhalen: I do a much better impression of a hate volcano. Richard's is weak, at best. He always falls down at the ''SPEW LAVA NOW!!!!'' part.


    P.S What's a '' Brit bitty ''? I

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    04/23/09

    @Calraigh: he meant to write "Brit's titties", i am assuming he thought this was about ms. spears...?
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    04/23/09

    @stanhalen: And no, I don't smoke weed.
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    04/23/09

    In reply to Susan Boyle Is Everyone's Fault
    She does have real talent and putting aside the way she looks- she makes me uncomfortable and embarrassed when I see her interacting with people. It's like the Napoleon Dynamite scene where the jocks are grilling him about how he spent his summer and laughing at his awkward remarks. I think it's sad that people like the mayor of her village "suddenly" found time to pay attention to her or the stories about how the village teens who made fun of her now flock to her door for hugs and autographs. Not unlike when the Elephant Man went from being a freak to socially in demand.
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    04/23/09

    In reply to Susan Boyle Is Everyone's Fault
    Mama always said: "Never judge a book by its cover."


    She also always said: "Never trust a spinster with facial hair."

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    04/23/09

    In reply to Susan Boyle Is Everyone's Fault
    I talk with real live people as much as I read websites, and it seems everyone I meet from all walks of life eventually bring up - without being cued -watching that video and crying their eyes out.
    There is something about that moment and the person that struck a chord with people and I don't believe Simon or anyone else in reality television has the vision or senvitivity to have planned it.
    Maybe on the inside, most people feel a little like Susan Boyle - an ugly duckling who could have been... well, almost anything.
    And we lived a dream come true through her in our little beige cubicles.
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    04/23/09

    @ScottieB: WE ARE ALL SUSAN BOYLE.


    /fixed.

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