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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/19/09

    In reply to The Incredible Shrinking AOL
    Eeerily close to a decade since AOL swallowed Time-Warner
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    11/19/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: I was really hoping that this thread would turn into a funeral commemoration about the good-olde days when AOL gobbled up Time Warner. I was working for the Fortune Group (which is part of Time Inc.) in 2000, at the precise moment when the merger hit, and I have some incredible stories.

    We all had stock options as part of our employee package, and were gleefully monitoring the skyrocketing stock prices. Also, in the spring of 2000, the Fortune mag publisher whisked ALL the national staff--editorial, ad sales, the whole crew, including assistants and such--on a one-week, all-expenses-paid vacation to Hawaii. (That was because the Fortune Group overtook People in ad revenue at the height of the dotcom boom, and the publisher wanted to celebrate that.)

    We all stayed in $500 rooms at the Four Seasons Manele Bay Hotel on the island of Lana'i. Everyone had rooms with an ocean view and got comped spa treatments. It's only 9 years ago, but it feels like it happened in some kind of mythical, fairy tale realm.
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    11/19/09

    In reply to The Incredible Shrinking AOL
    There's a "You've got Mail!" joke in here somewhere. There always is.
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    Image of garbanzo314 garbanzo314
    09/05/09

    In reply to More Online Talent Departs the L.A. Times
    When did LAT become a viable competitor of CNN, which is 10x its traffic? Amusing that Stanton inserted this subliminal auto-back-pat.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    09/04/09

    In reply to More Online Talent Departs the L.A. Times
    Universal praise my assfoot. Blech.
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    09/04/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: yeah i feel like i'm reading the fucking place mat at ihop. like they're proud of their newly found total lack of stories. i wish i had just saved papers from 10 years ago on days i didn't read it. la times was the shit back then.
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    07/25/09

    In reply to CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
    Yeah, but this turning undocumented migrants into pariahs thing? Still has legs.
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    07/25/09

    In reply to CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
    The part I don't understand is where the eeeevil Kenyan gov't, gifted with the prescience to plant an extra-terrestrial, vat-raised alien clone, lo 40 years ago, whilst using time travel to insert birth notices in two HA newspapers and using sleeper HA civil servants to slip in a "short" birth certificate, then just for giggles, naming it "Barack Hussein", can't also use their Witch Mountain technology to also put the "long" birth certificate.
    Because all the time-traveling, Area-51 using, human clone raising, sleeper agent staffing, Kenyan Secret Service agents that I know are professional enough to go the final mile and take care of such details.
    We really should give them their due. They may be Kenyan civil servants, but they're hard-working Kenyan civil servants.
    It's because "Birthers" hate The Government, isn't it?
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    Edited by Trai_Dep at 07/25/09 12:48 PM Trai_Dep was starred Trai_Dep was unstarred
    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    07/24/09

    In reply to CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
    This story was always dead.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    07/24/09

    @Mediahohoho: And as long as we stick to our archaic belief that standardization across our country = too much power for the feds, then our elections, our records, every damn point of comparison we have in our country will always be held up to scrutiny. Case in point: Gore v. Florida, 2000.
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    Image of fisheyevision fisheyevision
    07/24/09

    @Mediahohoho: But WHERE is the death certificate?
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    07/24/09

    @fisheyevision: Y'all are just trying to bait me into making a joke about a stillbirth, which will get me bitched out by a certain humorless commenter.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    07/24/09

    In reply to CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
    "it can't release a paper copy of the president's original birth certificate because they say the state government discarded the original document when the health department records went electronic some eight years ago."

    Poppycock. If true, then why didn't they say this in the first place? And why can't they produce the microfilm or scan? Slim chance some Hawaiian administrator didn't farm the document archiving to their brother-in-law.
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    07/25/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: THEY HAVE BEEN SAYING IT. Only moron republicans haven't been listening.

    NJ is the same way, go get your birth certificate, its a ELECTRONIC copy they print and put a seal on now. There is no original paper anymore.
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    07/24/09

    In reply to CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
    What about his faith certificate? You know, the one that proves he's not a Muslim.

    BARACK OBAMA, WHY WON'T YOU RELEASE YOUR FAITH CERTIFICATE????
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    Edited by MisterHippity at 07/24/09 6:30 PM MisterHippity was starred MisterHippity was unstarred
    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    07/24/09

    @MisterHippity: I thought he was Muslin. And a half-breed muslin at that.
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    Edited by BxgrlJeri at 07/24/09 6:33 PM BxgrlJeri was starred BxgrlJeri was unstarred
    Image of Dot Dot
    07/25/09

    @BxgrlJeri: Is a half breed muslin both cotton and silk? Forgive me, I know so little about fabric.
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    Image of SultanaEleusis SultanaEleusis
    07/24/09

    In reply to CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
    CNN used to be a place I went to to get the news. Now it seems like mostly a channel for right wing blowhards. Sounds kind of like Fox, in fact. How about a little diversity on our channels?
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    Image of Dickens_Ghost Dickens_Ghost
    07/24/09

    In reply to CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
    It used to be that Americans could usually agree upon what reality was and perhaps what the country's issues, strengths, weaknesses or problems may have been.

    Some disagreement in how to deal with these are where parties, philosophies and individual politics would divert.

    It seems these days most sides can't even agree on what reality is.
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    Edited by Dickens_Ghost at 07/24/09 5:57 PM Dickens_Ghost was starred Dickens_Ghost was unstarred
    Image of Mr. Bar Mr. Bar
    07/24/09

    @Dickens_Ghost: Whatever, Mexican!
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    Image of Mr. Bar Mr. Bar
    07/24/09

    In reply to CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
    "Shut your Flan-hole, Dobbs!"
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    07/24/09

    In reply to CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
    Also, G.G. Liddy is dead. For all intents and purposes.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    07/24/09

    In reply to CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
    Lou's fallback will now be to close his eyes, clasp his hands together and pray that a North Korean nuclear missile will strike Hawaii and wipe out everything including any and all certifications of live birth.

    Someone check his dressing room - this is exactly what he's doing RIGHT NOW.
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    Image of Dot Dot
    07/25/09

    @Aaron Altman: Only he fell over and impaled his head on a knickknack, without his praying hands to catch him. Increase his IQ? Couldn't hurt.
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    Image of deardearfriend deardearfriend
    07/24/09

    In reply to CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
    Poor Lou, going home to the wife: "They laughed at me, mother. They laughed."
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