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    07:53 AM

    In reply to I Spot a Conspiracy Theory — Who Really Shot the Fort Hood Shooter?
    None of this would matter if we (no wait, the media) weren't always so quick to create hero narratives in the first place. #kimberlydenisemunley
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    07:30 AM

    In reply to I Spot a Conspiracy Theory — Who Really Shot the Fort Hood Shooter?
    Ah, the notorious "unnamed witness"--and by all means, let's focus on this instead of Hasan and the morons who let him slip through the system again and again because they were afraid to make a negative comment about a Muslim. #kimberlydenisemunley
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    07:33 AM

    @Novaload: I'm so glad the lesson we're all going to learn from this wretched incident is it's okay to say bad things about Muslims. #kimberlydenisemunley
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    07:35 AM

    @Mediahohoho: Yes; that would be a very important lesson, that political correctness--as revealed by the sources at Walter Reed--interfered with honest judgment. #kimberlydenisemunley
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    07:25 AM

    In reply to Carrie Prejean Attempts to Storm Off Larry King, Is Foiled by the Siren Call of Rolling Cameras
    Jesus, let her walk. She's gone from being an everyday run of the mill bigot to major asshole in a few short months and the only reason anyone has ever cared about her at all is that her face is symmetrical and she's the kind of girl people like to watch spank her kitty. That's it.
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    07:19 AM

    In reply to I Spot a Conspiracy Theory — Who Really Shot the Fort Hood Shooter?
    If we've learned anything from CSI, some dummies with some laser pointers and some ballistic matches will clear this up, but only after taking off your sunglasses to the strains of a Who song. #kimberlydenisemunley
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    07:08 AM

    In reply to I Spot a Conspiracy Theory — Who Really Shot the Fort Hood Shooter?
    But wait...wouldn't the current administration just naturally favor the African American man over the plucky Caucasian woman? #kimberlydenisemunley
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    05:27 AM

    In reply to This Is What $11,716 Funeral Invitations Look Like
    The whole thing looks cheap, and the calligraphy average and without character. Applying an existing template is not "designing."

    However, whether the cost is reasonable depends on the quantity of invitations involved and the content of the service. If the service provider was also responsible for mailing out the invitations and therefore had to be given the personal information of the guests, it's possible that she was chosen because she had a reputation of being discreet.

    Just guessing.

    As for the price for fancy calligraphy, just check out any issue of Martha Stewart Weddings or ask the people there.
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    Edited by TANUKIII at 11/12/09 5:28 AM TANUKIII was starred TANUKIII was unstarred
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    03:27 AM

    In reply to Carrie Prejean Attempts to Storm Off Larry King, Is Foiled by the Siren Call of Rolling Cameras
    It's the smiling and holding up her book while being morally superior that makes it art. #carrieprejean
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    03:06 AM

    In reply to "Stripper-mobile" Proves Every Las Vegas Stereotype Correct
    I really, REALLY want these strippermobile girls to get their own tv show where they drive around the country, stripping and playing rock music and solving mysteries. Who's with me? #lasvegas
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    02:37 AM

    In reply to Carrie Prejean Attempts to Storm Off Larry King, Is Foiled by the Siren Call of Rolling Cameras
    In this interview, she also fingered Sarah Palin as a role model.

    Take that however you like. #carrieprejean
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    02:54 AM

    @RandomLunatic: I think the real question is, how does a role model finger...?

    I'll stop there. #carrieprejean
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    02:57 AM

    @Poop Cooper: With instructional videos, that's how. #carrieprejean
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    02:30 AM

    In reply to Carrie Prejean Attempts to Storm Off Larry King, Is Foiled by the Siren Call of Rolling Cameras
    Carrie Prejean didn't take that call because she's a vicious, hateful idiot who has been propped up by gay men and women her entire pageant career and then totally sold them out for a shot at pathetic, fifteen-minute, fried American fame. And now she has to pay the piper for her devil's bargain and she's typically fucking unwilling to deal with it.

    She is as stringent and wholesale an example of the Christian Right's despicable doublespeak and hatred that has been poisoning our country for too long as there is in modern American society. She's an avatar, she's a monster.

    Carrie Prejean is a hateful bigot who will not tolerate being called on her shit. And we should not give her any amount of credence for it. That any member of the media, old Triceratops Larry King included, would give her any kind of due is just another shameful and sad example of the fact that rhetoric against gay people in this country is tacitly tolerated by popular media, because some wingnut idiots who believe that someone lived inside a whale for a few months threaten righteous rage if said media doesn't give lip service to their ridiculous, completely untrue, ancient assertions about what makes people's sexuality.

    The tyranny of religion in this country MUST END if we expect to get anything good and decent and progressive done in this fucked up swamp of a nation we live in. I've had it with this spectacular waste of life, and I've had it with people like Larry King putting up with her bullshit to meet a bottom line.

    I'm fucking done. I'm outraged. Say "Who cares about Carrie Prejean??" all you want, I CARE. This woman is an enormous example of why gay teenagers across this country kill themselves in droves every year. Gayness is equated with ugliness in every arena. Figures it was a beauty queen who should point this out.
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    Image of RandomLunatic RandomLunatic
    02:34 AM

    @Richard Lawson: Dude, if I was gay, I'm pretty sure I'd be stalking you. You're awesome. #carrieprejean
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    02:46 AM

    @Richard Lawson: His name is Richard and he's here to recruit you. #carrieprejean
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    03:35 AM

    @Richard Lawson: And let's not pussyfoot around this anymore. This is the same. exact. thing. as racism. Carrie Prejean and her brethren are the reason why the majority population of Maine and California were able to take rights away from a minority.

    I've called these anti-gay-marriage laws Jym Crow laws before and I've gotten dinged for it. But what else can we call it? There is legislation on the books in Washington State right now that fits, to a T, the definition of "separate but equal."

    The argument that it's not akin to racism or Jim Crow is, what? That JC laws were far more strict? Of course they were, but we've evolved since then. And forget marriage. Let's talk about the military. People of all skin colors are allowed to serve openly in the military. And yet gays are not. Both traits are something beyond the individual's control. Thus discrimination based on those lines is undeniably bigoted and disgusting.

    There is no difference at work here. I know that sex is taboo, and especially the idea of two guys butt-fucking is absolutely heinous and repulsive to many people, but it is a fact of humanity. To self-righteously deny the fundamental right to equality of 30 million Americans (and counting), because you find the idea of two penises touching, is to cast this country in a public light of immaturity and ignorance. Is that really the face we want to present while going forward in this globalized world?

    I'm so ashamed of America and Americans--of Californians, of Maineiacs, of harpies like Carrie Prejean and those that give her airtime.

    Your grandchildren are going to look at you with deep shame. What pockmarks on history you are. What dumps. What wrecks. What fucking relics. #carrieprejean
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    Image of Colander Colander
    04:08 AM

    @Richard Lawson: Aw, dude, for real--don't regret saying this in the morning! I agree completely. People have no idea how alienating it is not being able to accept the shit people do/say/condone/laugh-off everyday. I know sex, for many generations, had to be THIS SPECIFIC THING, but it's not that thing. We know better now. If not, google it.

    It's a lot of things. Fighting for that 'in your living room/at the bar/at your parent's house/at work' gets old after awhile. Wake up, yawn, I am a faggot, how can I be good today. #carrieprejean
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    Image of howYOUdoin howYOUdoin
    04:42 AM

    @Colander: Homophobia is not the same exact thing as racism. It's the same thing as needing/having civil rights. The prisons are not filled with men who were convicted because they are gay. The police are not gunning down gay citizens because they are gay. There is not a ludicrous difference between the financial potential of gay white people and all black people. Gay people are not redlined by financial institutions and followed around in stores, and have not been denied the right to vote. My father was forced to served in a segregated army, was wounded (a 100% disabled vet), and watched white POWs treated better than he was. It's not the same.

    When Hilllary ran for POTUS, she did so wanting white women to claim the under-privileged status of all women. Then she winked and said, "Vote for me, I'm white." It's one of the main reasons she lost. The Clintons had enormous sympatico from many black voters. It ended there.

    Racism is a horrible thing to wrangle in the world. So is homophobia. So is sexism. But they're not the same things.

    That said, I feel you, Richard Lawson. I hate the Christalibans claiming their gawd supports their hate. I hate the politicization of gaydom as if it were a choice. And I will not stand silent in the face of that fuckery. But I won't let that struggle get twisted, either. There are black gays and lesbians whose struggles are something that would make yours seem merely inconvenient, in comparison.

    I say this with love. L O V E. #carrieprejean
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    Image of kappakappaspankme kappakappaspankme
    07:42 AM

    @howYOUdoin: Maybe not. Prisons are not filled with people because they are ghey. But people who are ghey have been murdered for being so. Not unlike those who are of colour.

    At the risk of sounding like a sycophant, Richard Lawson is right. This "referendum" on ghey marriage is Jim Crow 2009. #carrieprejean
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    02:03 AM

    In reply to Carrie Prejean Attempts to Storm Off Larry King, Is Foiled by the Siren Call of Rolling Cameras
    What a spoiled, bratty little bitch! I'm sure the book is just riveting and you've done enough press for it already. Just go away! #carrieprejean
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    01:44 AM

    In reply to "Stripper-mobile" Proves Every Las Vegas Stereotype Correct
    This is PROOF that Al Qaeda lost! #lasvegas
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    01:46 AM

    @Maxichamp: Also, this should be cross-posted on Jalopnik. #lasvegas
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    01:42 AM

    In reply to Carrie Prejean Attempts to Storm Off Larry King, Is Foiled by the Siren Call of Rolling Cameras
    You know, for a political party that's so Of The People, they sure get parsnicky every time they run across them in an unscreened format. #carrieprejean
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    01:34 AM

    In reply to Carrie Prejean Attempts to Storm Off Larry King, Is Foiled by the Siren Call of Rolling Cameras
    OH. MY. GOD.

    You know what I just realized this reminds me of?

    Specifically the erratic "I think you are being... extremely... inappropriate right now" part?

    Kelly Bensimon's epic sit down with Bethenny Frankel at the Brass Monkey on The Real Housewives of New York. #carrieprejean
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    01:29 AM

    In reply to Carrie Prejean Attempts to Storm Off Larry King, Is Foiled by the Siren Call of Rolling Cameras
    Typical, always blaming someone else. "You're being inappropriate" instead of "I'm just not going to talk about it."

    Also, morality or politics aside, I think she disqualified herself as Miss California by just sounding like an airhead, both here and with Hannity a few days ago. Not that beauty contestants are expected to possess Nobel-caliber intelligence, but we do (I do, anyway) expect them to be polished, even if the content of their replies are vapid.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    01:35 AM

    @Claire Buoyant:
    ...especially if they're selling a book. #carrieprejean
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