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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    09:59 AM

    In reply to Outrage-Off: Tennessee Mayor Charlie Brown Jesus vs. Fox News
    I am amazed that no one has mentioned that Arlington is the home of the largest developmental mental health facility in West Tennessee.

    There is this thing called 'founder's effect'. Look it up.
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    12/04/09

    In reply to Outrage-Off: Tennessee Mayor Charlie Brown Jesus vs. Fox News
    Somebody please, remind me why I live in Tennessee. Come on, there's gotta be something good here.
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    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    12/04/09

    @senatormayer: Nashville, BBQ and Jack Daniel's.
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    12/04/09

    @senatormayer: Pigeon Forge.
    Mmm, fudge factores.
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    Image of Mrs. Beeton Mrs. Beeton
    12/04/09

    @senatormayer: Dolly Parton, Snowbird, and we'll always be better than Alabama.
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    12/04/09

    @senatormayer: Hatch Show Print
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    Image of Balsa Wood Balsa Wood
    12/04/09

    @senatormayer: The Arrested Development song...?
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    Image of Mrs. Beeton Mrs. Beeton
    12/04/09

    @Balsa Wood: No question mark needed.

    Dixie Carter, Bettie Page, Tina Turner and Dinah Shore are all from Tennessee.

    And cigarettes are still cheap.
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    12/04/09

    @senatormayer: ELVIS!

    His spirit, anyhoo.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    12/04/09

    In reply to Outrage-Off: Tennessee Mayor Charlie Brown Jesus vs. Fox News
    Just as I thought, the voting's not even close.

    The Fox outrage was actually committed years ago, when they lambasted the guy for telling the truth. What they did more recently is perfectly fine. I mean, hypocritical in context, but not particularly outrageous, especially since it's just so par for their course.

    Whereas if this TN mayor is actually for real, Jesus is hurling as we speak.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/04/09

    @MissNormaDesmond:
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    Image of Btwbfdimho Btwbfdimho
    12/04/09

    @Lysergic Asset: "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." Mahatma Gandhi
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    12/04/09

    In reply to Outrage-Off: Tennessee Mayor Charlie Brown Jesus vs. Fox News
    Prevented from watching the Peanuts Xmas Special, I must conclude that Jesus wasn't The Son O' God. If the news pre-empts the Year Without a Santa Claus , I might even lose faith in the existence of a Heat Miser.
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    12/04/09

    In reply to When Local Reporter Pops the Trunk, Hit the Deck
    Will Dallas Morning New reporters now be told not to advertorialize in their stories?
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    12/04/09

    In reply to Outrage-Off: Tennessee Mayor Charlie Brown Jesus vs. Fox News
    The surname Wiseman, in this instance, is hilarious on so many levels.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/04/09

    @AzureTexan: It blows the whole Christian supremacy thing and the literal translation simultaneously.
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    12/04/09

    @AzureTexan: I am pronouncing it as in German, Weissmann, meaning “white man.” Yes?
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    12/04/09

    @iplaudius: @Lysergic Asset: Great calls. And yet there's so much more! — there's the Magi connection (I mean, is the mayor bringin' the myrrh?) and the fact that Wiseman is typically a Jewish surname, is it not?

    I swear, this is just comedy gold. And comedy frankincense.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/04/09

    @AzureTexan: Yep, that's what I meant about "blowing the Christian supremacy thing" - I had a good friend with that last name and I attended her bat mitzvah. Of course, now I see that this troglodyte is also blowing the Christian supremacy thing with his abject stupidity.

    Of course, what he really meant to say was, "I resent this brilliant black man who somehow became President, because he doesn't have a slave name, he's half white and he demonstrates the best "practice what you preach" principles of the God I pretend to follow. His excellence constantly reminds me that I am noting more than a self-loathing Jew who will never amount to more than mayor of a town made up of 3000 card carrying members of the KKK."
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    12/04/09

    @Lysergic Asset: Yes, I read your "Christian supremacy" comment slightly differently than you had intended, but the point — both points, re: supremacy — still hold.

    As for the KKK: I'm sure Arlington, like any place, has some great people, but yes indeed, it's just a couple hundred miles from Pulaski, Tennessee, birthplace of the Klan.

    I keep hoping we've left that history behind, but it keeps rearing its pointy-white-hooded head, doesn't it.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/04/09

    @AzureTexan: As I said, I think the fact that Obama's mother is white and the fact that he has an African name - in other words, his family was not owned by any of the ancestors of the white right-wingers who so loathe him - are the things that are most viscerally agonizing to the racists.

    Please check this out for some comic relief: it's The Daily Show's Larry Wilmore talking to kids about the fact that whites will be a minority in the U.S. by 2050. Sooo funny! [www.thedailyshow.com]
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    12/04/09

    @Lysergic Asset: Agreed indeed. Great insight. And thanks for the link, I will check it out. Wilmore could read a phone book and crack me up.
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    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    12/04/09

    In reply to Outrage-Off: Tennessee Mayor Charlie Brown Jesus vs. Fox News
    The Faux News thing is irritating, ironic and kind of hilarious, but Wiseman's a goddamn elected official, for Jeebus sake.
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    12/04/09

    @Go Like Hell Machine: Double blasphemer! (Damn, I agree with you.)
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    12/04/09

    @Lysergic Asset: Heh, I consider myself to be a world-class, champion-level blasphemer and swearer.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/04/09

    @Go Like Hell Machine: Get the fuck out of here! Me too! (Now I'm being silly.)
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    Image of MyNameIsChris MyNameIsChris
    12/04/09

    In reply to Outrage-Off: Tennessee Mayor Charlie Brown Jesus vs. Fox News
    Everybody knows it's actually the Jews who are constantly trying to kill xmas. Maybe the Muslims and them can finally bond over trying to stop Charlie Brown.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    12/04/09

    In reply to When Local Reporter Pops the Trunk, Hit the Deck
    EXCELLENT BEATNUTS REFERENCE.
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    12/04/09

    @The Real JR: Thank you. You're listening to the world famous.
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    11/21/09

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    11/21/09

    [www.msnbc.msn.com]

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    11/20/09

    In reply to The Chinese Had Obama's Name Wrong the Whole Time
    My nephew is in a Mandarin Chinese immersion school- he is 5- and last year in pre-k he was given his Chinese name and it does not sound anything like his name so I am doubting this translation. There are 60,000+ characters and they are for words not the consonants and vowels.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to The Chinese Had Obama's Name Wrong the Whole Time
    The funny thing is that some news outlets were rejecting the standard transliteration of his name ("Aobama"), and using an alternative, "Oubama". This is hilarious because the Chinese character they used for "Ou" translates to "Europe"; these same news outlets were thus talking about a visit to China by president Eurobama.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to The Chinese Had Obama's Name Wrong the Whole Time
    Hu said that
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    11/10/09

    In reply to North Korean Journalists Are Like Romantic Poets
    I shall gird my loins for further developments. #northkorea
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