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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
04:57 PM

IRS files tax lien against Der Gropenfuhrer:

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Tits_LaRue
04:16 PM

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"Sometimes it's just best to let older relatives be racist for a little while..."

Thanks for the questionable advice, but how about: "No."

Hasn't this kind of thing gone on long enough? I have no interest in allowing racists to continue to "be racist," whether I'm related to them or not. Fuck them. If non-racists don't challenge the vile ideas of racists then they are giving de facto permission for it to continue. It cannot continue. Anyone who tries to disseminate that kind of disgusting hate while I'm around will be challenged, and some bullshit Hallmark™®© holiday isn't going to stop me from defending what is right.
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Mike D.
11:30 AM

levi

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gawkimo
05:03 AM

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The last time I pointed out to a teabagging wackadoodle that Czars come from Imperial Russia not Communist Russia he looked at me like I was speaking Chinese.
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MisterHippity
12:55 AM

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When the relatives get you down, just close your eyes and imagine "Turkey Lurkey Time" in your head. Before you know it, a smile will slowly spread across your face, and then your head will start to bob rhythmically ...
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BadUncle
11/26/09

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When it comes to healthcare, I just tell my GOP relatives that my most-recent doctor has opted out of all HMOs. He sent a letter telling everyone he can't make a living off of denied coverage, and is now going on a "consierge" system. Ha! If he gets me theater tickets and a hooker, I'll agree to the $1000 a year price.
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Steve Holt's Mother Part Deux
11/26/09

oprah

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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
11/26/09

Felix and Gawker sittin' in a tree, l-i-n-k-i-n-g

[blogs.reuters.com]

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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
11/26/09

"California has the nation's largest death row population, with 685 sentenced to die by lethal injection. Yet only 13 executions have been carried out since capital punishment resumed in 1977 and none of the condemned have been put to death since a moratorium was imposed nearly four years ago. "

[www.latimes.com]

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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
11/26/09

Vivi Nevo and Zhang Ziyi have already split?

Probably 'cause Vivi couldn't take all that talk about how he's so old and creepy and carrying on with the young chinese girl. (Rimjobs on the beach, etc)

[www.geishakitten.com]

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Mediahohoho
11/26/09

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Had I gone home to the heartland, I would have been surrounded by 25 family members, including some from the family my nephew married into, the matriarch of which availed herself of the sanctuary movement after Reagan-sponsored death squads assassinated her boss, RC Archbishop Oscar Romero. She brought 2 kids, had another once she arrived -- illegally -- in Ann Arbor. The daughter she had after she arrived here is married to my brother's middle son; the daughter she left El Salvador with is engaged to his older brother.

Now...those nephews older step-brother is Michael, who came under another person's identity from the killing fields of Cambodia, also during the 80s, also illegally. He and his wife have 4 kids and a growing -- due to immigration -- extended family. He is a small business owner, the class of people Republicans have now nominated as The Most Important People In America. He makes a Pad Thai that will burn your eyebrows off.

Without illegal immigration, that party would be half empty.
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Lysergic Asset
11/26/09

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The Burroughs Thanksgiving Prayer is awesome, if deeply and unapologetically cynical. It's a great complement to this comment thread.
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flossy
11/26/09

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At my Thanksgiving dinner we had, among others: my quasi-aunt who loves Jesus so much she writes Bible verses on everything, like wrapping paper and grocery lists, my cadre of Jewish relatives, some so observant they show up after dinner because we don't keep kosher, my aunt from Mali, who just loves Obama, as well as my Lebanese aunt who is happy to tell anyone who will listen that Hezbollah gets a bad rap.

And nobody fought about politics! Probably because despite all our differences, we are all pinko fags at heart.
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Lysergic Asset
11/26/09

@flossy: Can I come to next year's dinner? I play well with others and this sounds like my dream family.
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Swifter
11/26/09

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On Thanksgiving days of yore, the officers would wear their dress blues and bring their families to the mess hall to eat with the troops. Politics were not discussed, but the various attributes of the officers' daughters were debated at length and with vigor among we young enlisted men.

Then, I became an officer, wore my dress blues and ate at the mess hall where the various attributes of the senior officers' daughters were debated at length and with vigor among the young lieutenants. And then we would ship out and kill people.

Happy Thanksgiving!
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Mediahohoho
11/26/09

@Swifter: Now that's civilized.
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Atilla the Bun
11/26/09

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Have your relatives over to your house and cook them a vegan Thanksgiving dinner. They'll be bitching about the food so much they won't have the time or the energy to talk about politics.
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