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DahlELama
12/09/09

In reply to Healthcare Opponents Using Scammy Social Gaming to Get People to Spam Congress
Please tell me someone else here plays this game and noticed that MW changed the "Milk and Cookies" gift to "Santa's Helpers." (The "gift" is a black bodyguard and a white bodyguard, standing back to back.)
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Mount_Prion
12/09/09

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So what we need is a social networking "Death Panel" game where you and your friends get points for deciding which of those too old to be on facebook without being creepy friends you have gets denied health care.
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Lymed
12/09/09

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Next thing you know these gamers will get their claim for a repetitive stress injury denied as a pre-existing condition as of the day they started playing social games.
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Swifter
12/09/09

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Thr government has been printing fake money since the 1860's and doesn't want the competition.
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Island of Misfit Toys
12/09/09

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Excellent post. Yeah, I noticed that Farmville took away all of those "intelligence tests", etc. as a way of accruing FV cash.
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DahlELama
12/09/09

In reply to Healthcare Opponents Using Scammy Social Gaming to Get People to Spam Congress
Wow, going from Mafia Wars directly to this post was really trippy.

Oh, and suckers, if you're paying for the game's currency, you're not playing right. Don't worry--Don Lama will help set you straight.
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hotpinklovesofa
12/07/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Advertiser: Pundits 'Say What You Pay Them to Say'
So what you're saying is I can go ahead and laugh even louder at the people who watch Fox News, especially now that I know they're getting their just desserts? Awesome.
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benjwah004
12/07/09

@hotpinklovesofa: One side of me thinks "Fox News viewers, getting what they deserve!", then another says "Those poor fools, they're being taken advantage of...".
This is the problem with progressives: Compassion for the (ideological) enemy.
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hotpinklovesofa
12/08/09

@benjwah004: My compassion started withering away in '94 when the republicans took over the Congress but the 8 years under Cheney, I mean Bush, were the last nail in the coffin. I no longer feel bad for their willful ignorance. You get what you deserve but the only problem is that while they're voting against their best interests we're getting screwed along with them, only we're aware of it and, a lot of times, unable to stop it.
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benjwah004
12/08/09

@hotpinklovesofa: Hmmm, you might be right. I sometimes forget those 8 years, mostly because I'm trying my hardest to.
At the same time, when I see people like Glenn Beck and his supporters start carping about the government, I want to yell: "Where the fuck were you!? You people WERE in government and that is PRECISELY why we are as fucked as we are now".
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hotpinklovesofa
12/09/09

@benjwah004: It's not real. If they didn't have the govt to carp about now they'd find something else as long as it disparages anyone that isn't buying the republican agenda. They're in the business of disseminating false information, scaring the crap out of people and turning them against each other all to keep them distracted from the truth of how royally fucked over we are each and every day by these same people who pretend to fight for the 'little guy'.
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lobstr
12/07/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Advertiser: Pundits 'Say What You Pay Them to Say'
Another hilarious fear-based advertiser you'll hear during Hannity and Rush is "Carbonite!" .. They pitch this product that backs up your entire harddrive to the internet so you can retrieve it anywhere!. Cuz, you know, these people are sucker enough to click on the flapping penguin to win free AA batteries and have their whole hd aped...
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crazy_prophylactics
12/07/09

@lobstr: "Carbonite: Put Your Data in Our Hans!"

"Carbonite: Don't Go Solo With Your Important Data!"

"Carbonite: We'll Freeze You and Sell You to Jabba the Hutt!"
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deitybox
12/07/09

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Perfect pic to go with the post here.
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MyNameIsChris
12/07/09

@deitybox: Absolutely. That scene still gives me chills.
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Lilah
12/07/09

@MyNameIsChris: What's it from? I can't identify the photo.
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MyNameIsChris
12/07/09

@Lilah: Ned Beatty in the boardroom scene from "Network." He was nominated for supporting actor despite this pretty much being his only scene.
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TheSometimesWhy
12/07/09

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I'd say the term "fool's gold" has been updated and redefined. And just in time for the holidays!
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The Real JR
12/07/09

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As Smerconish put it to POLITICO, "Those who are most concerned about government growth are increasingly dubious about the value of a dollar and look at gold as something they can see, feel, touch, appreciate."

I don't understand this. Gold's value appreciates and depreciates much like legal tender does, just on a bigger scale. You would need a friggin doubloon just to be big willie with the gold unless you're Mr. T with crazy truck jewelry even though even that form is highly diluted by that point.

Meanwhile, i have all my money in orange juice futures.
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AzureTexan
12/07/09

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This Friday, after I cash my check at Cash America in order to assist a needy Nigerian prince, I'm totally gonna buy me some Goldline gold.
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misslinda
12/07/09

@AzureTexan: I'm splittin my savings between Goldline and SarahPac. That li'l lady is gonna save us, but in case she don't, I gots my gold. Dunkin Wilbur (yup, after the doughnut and the pig from that movie, both very tasty), go get me mah pokin stick, I think I sees me a varmint and ah don't know if it's sleepin or ready for eatin.
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AzureTexan
12/07/09

@misslinda: Classic.

P.S. Your 'Dunkin Wilbur,' in addition to making me very hungry, reminds me of the notorious Luther Burger, invented in Decatur, Ga., and responsible for myocardial infarctions everywhere, which, in place of the standard bun, used a grilled glazed donut.

"USA! USA!"
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jacobestes
12/07/09

@AzureTexan: I've been trying to remember what the hell that thing's called. We got a doughnut place here recently that serves burgers (I seem to be the only person that noticed) and we debate daily about whether they have burgers on doughnut buns on the menu. No, we haven't actually checked with the doughnut joint yet.
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AzureTexan
12/07/09

@jacobestes: Yep, the Luther Burger — supposedly named for its biggest fan, Luther Vandross.
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The Real JR
12/07/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Advertiser: Pundits 'Say What You Pay Them to Say'
This is actually highly illegal and violates FCC standards. You can have Ads bumpering segments but if you're doing a segment specifically pushing a product for pay, you have to disclose that relationship within the segment. Much how in magazines you'll have paid-for pages that looks like articles but they're actually long-form Ads so the magazine has to indicate on the top of each page that it's an advertisement even though it's mimicking the writing and style of the rest of the mag.

I used to work in Continuity in radio and this was a huge deal. Stations would get severe fines and lose licenses over stuff like that... hint, hint.
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Magister
12/07/09

@The Real JR: Do FCC rules apply to cable?
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The Real JR
12/07/09

@Magister: You know what? Good question. I had no idea so i did a quick google and I hope this is it.

[www.fcc.gov]

Where the cablecast advertises commercial products or services, a mention of the corporate or trade name is usually considered sufficient. Sponsorship identification announcements must also be made before and after certain material if inducements are given to the cable system in exchange for cablecasting the material.

I wonder if this is the application or do I have research further? Prob the latter.
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Mediahohoho
12/07/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Advertiser: Pundits 'Say What You Pay Them to Say'
This explains a lot. If we can follow Mr. Epstein's remarks to their logical conclusion then I guess the idea that Obama's socialist spending is going to crash the dollar, cause super inflation and a collapse of the social order is, well, bought and paid for bullshit.

But wouldn't a thinking person have reached that conclusion a long time ago?
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Claire Buoyant
12/07/09

@Mediahohoho: "Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!"
"That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!"
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Claire Buoyant
12/07/09

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When did advertising shift from people who want to buy your gold to people who want to sell you gold?
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PaisleyPajamas
12/07/09

@Claire Buoyant: Probably after those horrible ads were revealed as a huge scam. There were reports that they were not weighing the gold fairly and adding insult to injury by paying significantly less than it was worth anyway. They gotta make their ill-gotten gains somehow!
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