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tek79 posted:Why DID Michelle leave home after they went to France? This is an interesting question I regularly ask random ARAB strangers whenever I get a chance. Any ideas? Maybe hang out at Blockbuster later and ask some random Arabs, they're sure to know.
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# ? May 11, 2024 14:58 |
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You spelt it wrong, it's not Arabs, it's ARABS ARABS
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# ? Mar 9, 2010 07:21 |
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They should be easy to find though, just look for the video called "Obama".
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# ? Mar 9, 2010 15:21 |
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wormil posted:This one made the news:
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# ? Mar 10, 2010 03:45 |
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Childlike Empress posted:Glad to see that the guy who sent that got fired over it. It's a little sad though. He probably didnt think it was a big deal and is now more than likely blackballed from any employment in his field for the forseeable future . The email was a loving stupid thing to forward though
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# ? Mar 10, 2010 04:21 |
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Well, when's the last time you forwarded something like that? I limit my pity to putting myself in another person's shoes. Cute 20-something intern coming on to me in the Oval Office? I'd be an rear end if I didn't admit that I wouldn't at least be tempted. Contractor wants to meet me in my Senate office with a suitcase full of cash in exchange for favorable legislation? Ditto. But forwarding a racist e-mail to professional partners? A lot of liability for no payoff and a whole lot of stupidity.
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Econosaurus fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Oct 24, 2010 |
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I think the tomato selling almost-janitor one deserves considerable meditation. The part that jumps out at me the most is that our hero is now supporting lots of people and making millions selling tomatoes ... that someone else grew. He isn't producing, creating, building, inventing ... he is trading. Now presumably, before he showed up, people were still able to obtain tomatoes as needed. A certain amount of convenience dollars for moving things from the fair to the roadside might be deserved for providing a service of transportation .. but the size of the business described? Only way he could do that is if he started buying up all the local tomatoes so folks have no choice but to pay his mark up. So we'd all be better off with him as a janitor =D
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# ? Mar 10, 2010 05:27 |
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Econosaurus posted:Yeah but still, kinda sucks for him. I've made really dumb decisions before that I didnt think through and came back to bite me in the rear end in a big way. I guess not on this level but still. I get why you wouldnt feel sympathy, but i'm a very empathetic person i guess Ah the guy should have known better. There have already been several such incidents in Tenn as well as elsewhere that got public officals removed from office or heavily reprimemanded. The state decided to cut the doofus loose since he made Tenn look bad and would have likely cost them a lot of business money. First rule is for a PR company not to embrasses themselves by being blatantly racist. Second rule is you get a stupid forwarded email telling you to forward you don't forward it to several hundred people or forward it all.
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Econosaurus posted:I get why you wouldnt feel sympathy, but i'm a very empathetic person i guess
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jackpot posted:He was fired for telling a joke where the implied punchline is "See, niggers are just like monkeys." It's hard to feel bad for a dumb fuckwit like that. Yeah, that's the sad part. Rather than being horrified over the idiot sending it to him, he thought it was funny and immediately wanted to send it out to everyone he knew. Firing him is appropriate, as he has revealed a rather ugly side of his character.
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# ? Mar 10, 2010 06:23 |
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quote:"Thursday night I spontaneously forwarded -- to a small group of people -- an email that had been sent to me as political humor. As I forwarded it, I did not think or consider its implications, other than that it was political humor. I am saddened that anyone misinterpreted the sentiments behind the email. I deeply apologize to anyone who is offended by this action. I hope that those who know me realize that the message was not intended to be malicious or hurtful in any way and can find it in their hearts to forgive me."
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# ? Mar 10, 2010 07:15 |
I love how Obama can be the mastermind of an international cabal that forges documents and pays off thousands of people to keep silent, but even with those omnipotent powers he can't fix the economy using green poo poo in a day therefore he's going to allow the Muslims to take over due to low birthrates. Or something. Makes you wonder...........
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# ? Mar 10, 2010 07:31 |
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quote:ESPN.com Helps Launch False "Obama Wants To Ban Fishing" Rumor Thanks, mainstream sports media!
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# ? Mar 10, 2010 20:58 |
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chesh posted:
Oh, god. Is there any way to counter this which would get through to a teabagger?
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# ? Mar 11, 2010 03:26 |
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Nope. The damage is done.
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# ? Mar 11, 2010 04:19 |
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Toad on a Hat posted:I love how Obama can be the mastermind of an international cabal that forges documents and pays off thousands of people to keep silent, but even with those omnipotent powers he can't fix the economy using green poo poo in a day therefore he's going to allow the Muslims to take over due to low birthrates. Or something. Because that would involve strengthening the true AmeruhCAN patriots, the rich white man, who will be able to stop the islamofascistcommunazi plot.
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# ? Mar 11, 2010 11:40 |
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This is one I got today from a friend on Facebook: ------- I'm 63 and I’m Tired" By Robert A. Hall I'm 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired. I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it. I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money. I'm tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Christian people of Iran, and the freedom of speech of Venezuela. I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to. I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of Obama, when it's all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S. Senators from Illinois. I think it's very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government. I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama's, at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush's military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004. I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America, while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance. I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're greener than Gore, you're green enough. I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don't think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I drat sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I'm tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana. I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," especially the ones who aren't working, but are living on welfare or crime. What's next? Calling drug dealers, "Undocumented Pharmacists"? And, no, I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I'm willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn't have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military.... Those are the citizens we need. I'm tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are? Not even close. So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear. I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in Illinois, where the "Illinois Combine" of Democrats has worked to loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama's cabinet. I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor. Speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing. I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems. Yes, I'm drat tired. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter. Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. There is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on. This is your chance to make a difference.
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Skallagrimsson posted:I'm real tired of people who are different from me.
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Skallagrimsson posted:I’m Tired"
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I'm tired of ignorant fuckheads.
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freebooter posted:I'm tired of ignorant fuckheads. I went to the Minnesota State Fair this year and Al Franken was there. Al Franken is loving awesome and I spent a long time listening to him. He was trying to talk to everyone personally, as best he could, to explain why we need health care reform (I believe there are some videos of this on YouTube). Anyway, this crazy lady started yelling at him, without having listened to anything he said about medicare, about how welfare is just stealing her tax money and giving it to lazy bums (you could sense she truly meant "others..."). He said something to the extent of: 'We need to realize exactly how much money is being thrown away or stolen by health care and military waste. When you realize that, you'll see that you're arguing about someone taking too many pennies from the take-a-penny jar while someone is making off with the store's safe behind you.' I now use that analogy all the time on people who bitch to me about how welfare is destroying our tax dollars more than anything else on the planet.
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Skallagrimsson posted:This is one I got today from a friend on Facebook: I await another blockbuster from Robert A Hall, "I'm 65 And Now I'm Collecting Social Security"
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# ? Mar 11, 2010 17:03 |
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Got an email from Grandma this morning asking me to please watch this video and sign the petition: http://www.mrcaction.org/550/petition.asp Tea Partiers. Christ.
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Maybe you guys can help me make sense of this:stupid loving family members posted:March 9, 2010: Most Offensive Health Care Argument Yet? I always respond to these types of emails, but I'm trying to wrap my head around the fact that it says "...honest and insulting argument in favor of the Democrats' health care bill..." Isn't this saying the 'fog of controversy' sentence is a supporting argument for the bill while damning to the lies and misinformation that's been spread about it? I'm either off, or my Republican family members didn't even read the forward correctly.
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# ? Mar 11, 2010 18:26 |
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It involved Nancy Pelosi, therefore it's obviously a Democratic Plot to make us all worship Maollah.
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Skallagrimsson posted:This is one I got today from a friend on Facebook: If you've worked since you were 18, and you're now 63 and -as stated- make a good salary, the only way I can see not being able to retire is because of your own lack of financial responsibility, or circumstances unrelated to anything the gubbamint did. But hey, don't let that stop you from blaming those vast swathes of welfare queens! edit: I just saw this quote at the bottom: "I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems." Contradict much? tek79 fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Mar 11, 2010 |
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The best part is at the end of his rant complaining about the government...he says he is tired of people complaining about the government That whole thing is just
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# ? Mar 11, 2010 20:05 |
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It's an old person rant in text form. I bet it was transcribed from a recording, which means we're missing out on the random changes in tone and inflection.
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# ? Mar 11, 2010 20:48 |
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I got this one from my mom. Whoever originally wrote it used Comic Sans for added tastelessness.quote:FW: 545 People
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Terrorist Fistbump posted:I got this one from my mom. Whoever originally wrote it used Comic Sans for added tastelessness. It's true! We had absolutely no national debt in 1836! Also I like the "mom stayed home to take care of the kids" because, you know, females aren't equipped like them menfolk. They get all confused by these fancy "voting machines" and "political positions"!
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# ? Mar 11, 2010 22:05 |
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Yes because the industrial revolution and global events have nothing to do with the national debt.
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# ? Mar 11, 2010 22:07 |
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Man I totally forgot about that time 100 years ago when 545 insane people stormed washington DC and set up a new monarchy handing down tax codes solely designed to mess up the lives of 300 million slave workers and destroy the Eden they were all living in.
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# ? Mar 11, 2010 22:13 |
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Apparently those 545 people have always been the same people and never disagree on anything. Also, all our problems are caused by taxes and nothing else.
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# ? Mar 11, 2010 22:20 |
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Whenever people complain about taxes, I always ask them how they would pay for every public resource in a 1st world country (schools, running water, libraries, roads) without taxing the income of the citizens. I can never get a good answer.
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Gripen5 posted:Apparently those 545 people have always been the same people and never disagree on anything. Also, all our problems are caused by taxes and nothing else. I refer you to Genesis 36:14 (conservapedian translation)... God posted:And yea the snake approached Eve and spake "Hey why don't we like, collect money from everyone so we can fund cool things that benefit everyone that otherwise would be impossible" and Eve took this idea to Adam who also thought it sounded reasonable, but when the Lord looked upon them he declared them each Communists and they were exiled from the beautiful garden
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Phenwah fucked around with this message at 22:36 on May 5, 2023 |
# ? Mar 11, 2010 22:32 |
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I see emails like that all the time (Government officials are the devil etc) and always end with encouraging people to start a change. What do they want? An armed rebellion to instate Ron Paul as God-Emperor?
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# ? Mar 11, 2010 22:41 |
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Skallagrimsson posted:Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. If only this little everyman were in some sort of position where he could effect change...
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Email posted:I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist. Hanlon's Razor posted:Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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