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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/19/09

    In reply to Santa Gives Up on America, and Vice Versa
    Meanwhile, the Canadian Santa is still going strong. (insert socialized medicine joke here)

    [www.canadapost.ca]
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    11/19/09

    In reply to Santa Gives Up on America, and Vice Versa

    Happy Holidays everyone! Well, off to make orphan stew.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/19/09

    In reply to Santa Gives Up on America, and Vice Versa
    Reading that AP-wire story about Santa's letters is lot like putting together a puzzle. Because the author didn't go in a straight line or due to poor editing, you're forced to think about the way the program works and then, you can't be certain that you're getting it right.
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    11/19/09

    @Magister: AP is just being passive-aggressive and doing shitty reader-mean editing for a few days.
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    11/19/09

    @Rozelle’s Bagman: It must be the layoffs.
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    11/19/09

    @Magister: Phew, I thought it was only me.
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    09/08/09

    In reply to In Speech to Bored Children, Barack Obama Destroys Reality TV Business
    And here are thoughts on today's speech from a self-proclaimed huge Glenn Beck fan. For those of you who can't imagine the the type of people Beck reaches, here it is.
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    09/08/09

    In reply to In Speech to Bored Children, Barack Obama Destroys Reality TV Business
    Are the kids socialist muslins now?
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    Image of WackoJacko WackoJacko
    09/08/09

    @onebadclam: Good heavens! I certainly hope his speech wasn't boring/powerful enough to turn them into MUSLINS!

    [en.wikipedia.org]
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    09/08/09

    In reply to In Speech to Bored Children, Barack Obama Destroys Reality TV Business
    A&E's reality TV stars missed the president's speech because they were too busy hoarding broken record players, discount groceries and/or neighborhood cats.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    09/08/09

    In reply to In Speech to Bored Children, Barack Obama Destroys Reality TV Business
    You think it's easy being a reality TV freak show, you try pooping 8 brats out of your ass, mister.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    09/08/09

    In reply to In Speech to Bored Children, Barack Obama Destroys Reality TV Business
    "next to of course god america i
    love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth oh
    say can you see by the dawn's early my
    country 'tis of centuries come and go
    and are no more what of it we should worry
    in every language even deafanddumb
    thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
    by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
    why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-
    iful than these heroic happy dead
    who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
    they did not stop to think they died instead
    then shall the voice of liberty be mute?"

    He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    09/08/09

    In reply to In Speech to Bored Children, Barack Obama Destroys Reality TV Business
    Conservative fictitious, bruhaha dumbfuckery part 8.

    What is the big fucking deal? The president, who is a former professor, and the leader of our country, wanted to speak to kids about education. It's not like he wanted to hold a prayer session or run a Sunday school gathering. AND, by Jaga, he selfishly wanted to attach lesson plans that would emphasize his points, and ask that school children take ownership of their right to an education, use some skills they've learned, as well as put some equity into their civic education as well. Surely this meant he was proposing another Holocaust. Yes, certainly this is more objectionable than a VP who can't spell "potato" or a President who can't read or speak during a press conference and coined a new phrase called "Bush-isms," a VP candidate who speaks some form of winky, mish-mash of gobbledy-gook syntax and grammar mangled Eng-wasilla-ish. So yeah, I'd not want my child to hear anything the current president, who holds a juris doctorate, has to say.

    On to the educated, lyrically dynamic stylings of one Daffy Duck, instead of this wholly partisan attack on our children's minds! If they listen they may end up, I don't know, smart.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    09/08/09

    @Spirit Fingers: I'm sorry? Was that a Thundercats reference? Will you marry me?
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    09/08/09

    @The Real JR: Yes it was. As in what exclaim wouldn't be perfect without a "by Jaga?"

    Surely, we can get hitched, but I'm no Sue-Ellen. I fancy myself a Victoria Principaled "Pam." Just sayin.
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    09/08/09

    In reply to In Speech to Bored Children, Barack Obama Destroys Reality TV Business
    "And then there’s Edward Chaffee III, from Greenwich, a little town in Connecticut. Edward was disadvantaged from the start, growing up in a neighborhood with the highest rate of shopping addiction in the country. His family was torn apart when his father’s hedge fund collapsed last year and he was forced to leave Exeter Academy. But rather than give up on education, he spent months re-establishing contact with an old uncle who was disowned after choosing art school over Harvard but who is now on the faculty at Cornell University. Thanks to Edward’s hard work and diligent networking, the remaining year spent at a public high school won’t hurt his college application, and he has been assured that come next September he will have a guaranteed spot at Psi Upsilon, where he can work towards his dream of being a world champion squash player."
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    Image of God God
    09/08/09

    In reply to In Speech to Bored Children, Barack Obama Destroys Reality TV Business
    The only good thing about this speech is that I got a mention. And that too only at the very end! Has this man no shame?? Anyway kids, thanks to My grace, the storm has passed and the cloud of muslin socialistic propaganda has dissipated from the anus of Satan from when it was begotten.

    Soon my special child Sarah Palin will deliver a truly maverick rebuttal speech where she speaks of her dreams for an America where any non-elitist Real American, like Trig, can become President. All it takes is a dream. And a prayer. And a hatred of arugula. And children: school is for suckers, homosexuals and elitists. Real hard-core kids drop out, join Blackwater and learn how to kill muslins. And girls, get pregnant already. My armies aren't going to replenish themselves.
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    Image of KentuckyBabe KentuckyBabe
    09/08/09

    In reply to In Speech to Bored Children, Barack Obama Destroys Reality TV Business
    I can't believe people are complaining about this speech being boring. Little kids haven't heard him speak as much as we have and he has plenty of life lessons to share with them.

    Who cares if the majority of kids wont be inspired I'm sure there are a few who were and honestly that counts for something.
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    Image of not2techy not2techy
    09/08/09

    In reply to In Speech to Bored Children, Barack Obama Destroys Reality TV Business
    I swear, though, for the first part of the speech where he was hitting the "responsibility" notes with the grim determination of a high school principal, I kept thinking to myself: "What did I do wrong? Am I being grounded?"
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    09/08/09

    In reply to In Speech to Bored Children, Barack Obama Destroys Reality TV Business
    [snicker] He said AIDS!
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    Image of Leah Marie Leah Marie
    09/08/09

    In reply to In Speech to Bored Children, Barack Obama Destroys Reality TV Business
    Lately some of Barack's swoony shine has worn off for me, but this speech has perked me back up. Even if those kiddos weren't listening at all, how huge is it for them to see a bi-racial person raised by a struggling single parent who can (and will, despite ridiculous protests) TRULY, AUTHENTICALLY SPEAK TO THEIR EXPERIENCES AND RELATE TO THEM as their president? (I'm looking at you, every other president in history. Especially you, Ronald Fucking Reagan.)

    Also, this line love-killed me: "There were times when I was lonely and felt like I didn't fit in."
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    Image of KentuckyBabe KentuckyBabe
    09/08/09

    @Leah Marie: yeah man. I agree. I don't expect him to be perfect all the time but it was nice to see him glimmer a bit :-)
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    09/08/09

    @Leah Marie: I'm 42 and I still feel that way!
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