did my heart good

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consolation prize

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i've lost track

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So many of our diplomats have been booted out of South American countries now, that I can't keep them all straight anymore, but, man, I am SO glad it's happening, and that it is so widespread. As long as one guy isn't doing all the richly deserved booting of diplomats, there is a real chance, we might just give up our meddlesome and oppressive shit, and start acting like decent people down there... for fucking once.

buy it!

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should be headlines across the globe

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damn

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Joe's been at it thirty years, finding affordable heating for the old and infirm. Chavez just cut him off, hopefully temporarily, but it really is a wonder he has been willing to help this long. The pain and trouble we have inflicted on his people, on him, on people all over the world, and now on Gaza, must surely try the generosity of even the greatest people....

who should live forever

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For those of you who have only ever known the damned and benighting PC, you really only have the vaguest idea of the way life could be. I am an authority on this. Having succumbed to the desire to sync with other legal professionals two decades ago, I went against my nature and bought a hotrod PC. The agonies of that completely mistaken concession to How Things Are Done shall and should not be listed, as you are aware of them, acutely aware of them, even as you know not what your life could actually be. I, at least, recognized my silly error, and am made to rue it all over again every time I visit my mother or others so completely computer illiterate that I can be of service to them. They are in hell. You are in hell. We all are in hell, but maybe it is only those of us who use Macs who truly know the dimensions of it, since we are spared the worst of it and also having to deal with those of you not this fortunate every day. Steve Jobs should live forever.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!

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Was he being nice because he knew he was in trouble?

Or are the fascists playing hardball?

I'm going to start freaking for real once I've had enough coffee.

I went to bed at 6:30pm last night, and except for getting up a couple times to check on things, slept straight through until 10:15am. I was tired and the ice pick in my ear was making me miserable, and goddammit! I can't get any rest with this shit going on everygoddamwhere! STOP IT!

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It seems, to Firedoglake anyway, that the governor was dirty and so his pristine act of solidarity with the workers may just have been him trying to get some sympathy....

I still don't like it. I don't like how they let them do all kinds of bad stuff and only bust them when they're displeased, and I don't like how Firedoglake accuses anyone who finds this fishy of conspiracy theorizing.

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The fact that it's Fitzmas, who never fucking delivered our gifts, by the way, makes it tighter that Blago is really guilty, but I'm still fuming that this comes ONE motherfucking day after Blago did something transcendental. If Fitzgerald weren't a fascist, he'd have waited at least a week.

give this guy a medal -- UPDATED

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Better yet, make him president. [I'll have to strike this if he's really guilty of trying to sell Obummer's Senate seat.]

Shit. This is the first truly decent action by a politician I can remember. Our SoS Bowen comes close, but this is lightning fast and pristine in its sensibility. Perfect.

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Outrages Breaking News, 9 December 2008: I don't know if he already knew Rahmbo was going to turn him in when he did this pristine thing, or not, but I have gone from knowing fuck-all from this governor to already too much in the space of one day. Even if he's dirtier than mud, this IS unmistakably about retribution for his insolence toward Bank of America.

rockin' poll numbers

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Highlights of his speech at Constitution Hall on MLK Day 2006 [ten minutes]:

You can see and hear the full monte by clicking on his picture on my sidebar.

Assault on Reason speech [34 minutes]:

hooray!!!!!

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i want to marry barry scheck

Yet another innocent man exonerated by his efforts.