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    Image of J. Frank Parnell J. Frank Parnell
    09/28/09

    In reply to How Your Porn Addiction Enriches Eastern Europeans
    Is she checking her pockets for her misplaced cellphone?
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    Tremonius promoted this comment J. Frank Parnell was starred J. Frank Parnell was unstarred
    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    09/28/09

    @J. Frank Parnell: Mechanics call this cross-threading.
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    Image of Mike Byhoff Mike Byhoff
    09/28/09

    In reply to How Your Porn Addiction Enriches Eastern Europeans
    All that viagara did was lower my cholesterol. What a sham.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    09/28/09

    In reply to How Your Porn Addiction Enriches Eastern Europeans
    And so, getting back to the title of the item, I thought my porn addiction enriched Eastern Europeans because they represent the lion's share of on-camera talent.
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    09/28/09

    @BadUncle: Beat me to the punch. (I make the Czech out to whom?)
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    09/28/09

    In reply to How Your Porn Addiction Enriches Eastern Europeans
    One suspects that a lot of the proceeds go less to plucky entrepeneurs than to various national and transnational Mafi(y)as.
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    Edited by Smitros at 09/28/09 12:58 PM Smitros was starred Smitros was unstarred
    Image of NinaHagen NinaHagen
    09/28/09

    @Smitros: Nice use of "plucky."
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    Image of Anthony De Rosa Anthony De Rosa
    08/17/09

    In reply to Barack Obama Pledges to End Controversial Nazi-Spam Program
    I was outraged to find Fox News on my television while I was flipping channels. I did not invite Fox News into my home, I was simply trying to tune to VH1 to watch Rock of Love Bus.
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    08/17/09

    In reply to Barack Obama Pledges to End Controversial Nazi-Spam Program
    If you're afraid of a harmless little email from the White House, you deserve government health care.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    08/17/09

    In reply to Barack Obama Pledges to End Controversial Nazi-Spam Program
    I still say that I think it should be mandatory that the president should have to send out e-mails about his policies to everyone.
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    braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. was starred braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. was unstarred
    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    08/17/09

    @braak: EVEN TO PEOPLE THAT DON'T WANT THEM.
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    08/17/09

    In reply to Barack Obama Pledges to End Controversial Nazi-Spam Program
    Telling us to click an unsubscribe link? How Hitlerian!
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    Edited by onebadclam at 08/17/09 11:55 AM onebadclam was starred onebadclam was unstarred
    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    08/17/09

    In reply to Barack Obama Pledges to End Controversial Nazi-Spam Program
    It's so amazing that in this country corporations are allowed to poison our food and our environment, then lobby our government to make us fight over whether we deserve to be healed. USA! USA!
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    Image of ZeemanBarracuda ZeemanBarracuda
    08/14/09

    In reply to Everything You Need to Know About Obama's Spam-Gate
    has anyone considered the possibility that perhaps a friend signed these people up without their knowledge? i.e. the following scenario:
    - Person A sends Person B an annoying forwarded "hate" email.
    - Person B gets back at Person A by signing them up for White House emails.
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    Image of LeeMarvinsPants LeeMarvinsPants
    08/14/09

    In reply to Everything You Need to Know About Obama's Spam-Gate
    Wow. The Obama admin clearly overstepped on collecting email addresses, and Gawker is trying to spin it as 'people don't know what they did, or what they're doing, so it's their fault'.

    Just call BS, people.
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    Novaload Wants the Jez 9 Back promoted this comment LeeMarvinsPants was starred LeeMarvinsPants was unstarred
    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/14/09

    In reply to Everything You Need to Know About Obama's Spam-Gate
    It's coming from inside the White House???
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    Image of Sergio Hernandez Sergio Hernandez
    08/14/09

    In reply to Everything You Need to Know About Obama's Spam-Gate
    I don't remember where I read/heard this theory (I happen to be the video intern who caught the Garrett/Gibbs thing go down, so maybe I heard it on FOX, in which case, take it with a grain of salt), but...

    Anyway, some of the talking heads pointed out the possibility that, to avoid violating the 1974 Privacy Act by collecting citizens' contact information itself, the Obama White House could be relying on contact information that was collected during the Bush administration and which, thanks to the Presidential Records Act, remains on file.

    Personally, I think that theory is a little far-fetched, but I'd be interested to know if anyone with more knowledge about federal law can say whether this is a plausible scenario.

    Obama's crew may not be guilty of anything more than bad Internet etiquette and some clever legal maneuvering here, but I'm obviously not too suspicious about their motives.

    I'd see some cause for concern, however, if whatever information Obama's camp does collect will also remain available for (god forbid) a George Bush, 3.0 to use however he pleases.
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    John Cook promoted this comment Edited by Sergio Hernandez at 08/14/09 3:16 PM Sergio Hernandez was starred Sergio Hernandez was unstarred
    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    08/14/09

    In reply to Everything You Need to Know About Obama's Spam-Gate
    The White House is buying spam email lists.

    Just so you're aware, the gathering and selling of email lists isn't a spam thing, but is a pretty standard way to make money for most websites. They sell their subscriber lists to marketing firms.
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    Image of John Cook John Cook
    08/14/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Fair point. I was employing an expansive and pejorative sense of the word "spam." I think of all e-mail marketing messages as spam. Kind of like derisively calling a press release "flackery."
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    Image of Gregoire Gregoire
    08/14/09

    In reply to Everything You Need to Know About Obama's Spam-Gate
    I get emails from Obama's Nigerian cousins all the time.
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    Novaload Wants the Jez 9 Back promoted this comment Gregoire was starred Gregoire was unstarred
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