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Americans Suddenly More Interested In "Government Shutdown" Than In "Miley"

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When, according to Google trends, Americans are suddenly more interested in the "Government Shutdown" than perrential sources of distraction such as "Miley", "Kardashian" and "Bieber", it may be time to panic.

Then again, maybe not: after all the great unwashed masses still have their "iPhone."

 

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Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:01 | 4028021 FieldingMellish
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If you are going to panic, panic early.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:07 | 4028041 Careless Whisper
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The headline should be: People Are Finally Waking Up

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:10 | 4028048 FieldingMellish
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He who panics early, panics best.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:13 | 4028051 macholatte
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This is transitory.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:16 | 4028059 TeamDepends
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Anecdotal.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:24 | 4028079 Arius
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must be something wrong with google ....

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:28 | 4028094 macholatte
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so what happened to the black girl the DC pigs murdered?

 

Police review shooting of woman killed in DC chase

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11135776

 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:30 | 4028100 TeamDepends
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Apparently, she thought the world of Barry, so down the memory hole....

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:31 | 4028107 macholatte
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Where's racist pig Al Sharpton on this one?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:40 | 4028125 macholatte
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- Her name was Miriam Carey

      - Her name was Miriam Carey

                     - Her name was Miriam Carey

 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 16:58 | 4028290 heinrich6666
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Surely you mean Mariah Carey.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:35 | 4028113 Harbanger
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What black girl in DC?  The MSM perception manipulators are busy spinning the shutdown and blaming the radicals.  That explains the sudden interest by the public.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:14 | 4028331 The Alarmist
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What? Didn't you hear about the poor woman who was so driven to despair by the shutdown forced on her by the mean-spirited Tea Party extremists that, at wits end, had no choice but to drive into a hail of bullets from the DC PD, who were only looking out for the best interests of the children, who will nevertheless die because the mean-spirited Tea Baggers intend to starve them to death?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:32 | 4028390 Keyser
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And zero MSM sources have mentioned the man that set himself on fire on the mall. Can't have the world see these little indiscretions.  

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:44 | 4028133 prains
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must be something wrong with google ....

 

they're probably just looking up the location on google maps....where is "government shutdown"? just like they did two weeks ago for "where is Syria"


Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:12 | 4028053 Careless Whisper
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Yes indeed. It's the career politicians who answer to the criminal global corporations who are clearly in a panic. The American public, for the most part, says, shut 'er down. 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:50 | 4028448 PlausibleDenial
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Maybe off topic and not meant to ignite any bellocosity, but here is a statement I just read by Ray on another site..... 

"Americans will not do a damn thing but trash talk and bluster on the internet. IF they ever fight back , it will be a tiny minority engaged in a hopeless fight with no support . Americans are fat lazy slobs who will never stand up no matter the provocation. The “government” bully boys tazer children for sport-and you do nothing-they confiscate guns without reason and you do nothing, they rape, they murder, they rob, they lie and forbid men going into battle holy worship-and you do nothing-have done nothing and will do nothing in the days to come but flame people who call you on this and bitch uselessly. Say what you will but until now none of you has done S*** but stroke your AR and your ego . THATS why Obama is winning"

Poignant.....

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:04 | 4028305 jimmytorpedo
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I've been panicking since 2008.

I still don't feel very good at it.

And I'm tired of practising it.

"He who practises early gets worn down and starts thinking about Miley's ass instead."

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:45 | 4028429 Crash Overide
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DON'T PANIC!

Don't forget your towel...

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:17 | 4028515 Parrotile
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If planning an overseas trip, a Babel Fish might come in useful too!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:12 | 4028052 freewolf7
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Wake me when they enter "Fukushima".

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 16:34 | 4028187 20-20 Hindsight
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Interesting new development re: Fukushima: "Japan open to overseas help to contain Fukushima water leak: prime minister."  http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/japan-open-to-overseas-help-to-contain-fukushima-water-leak-prime-minister-1.1485609

This, from CTV news!  When even the MSM are starting to pay attention, then you know that the panic button has just been pressed.  Fascinating times ahead...

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:29 | 4028098 ziggy59
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..and often

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:35 | 4028112 thunderchief
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Samsung Galaxy phones are far superior to I-phones. Go see for yourself, or keep eating rotten apples.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:45 | 4028136 U4 eee aaa
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Phones that track my eye movements give me the creeps

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:26 | 4028697 WillyGroper
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Who cares? Tie wrap it to your ankle for Pete's sake. Might as well.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:02 | 4028807 TheMerryPrankster
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only in merica do we  purchase our own leg irons and pay for own guards .

 

yew ess hay

yew es hay

 

can i get a chant of patriotic propganda

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:43 | 4028130 Millivanilli
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Pentagon will order almost all furloughed civilian employees back to work

 

 

The Pentagon announced Saturday that it would order almost all of its 350,000 furloughed civilian employees back to work this week, a surprise move that could substantially reduce the impact of the government shutdown.

Shut down?  What shut down?  Man you'd think with all this help they'd be able to release more than the 5 frames of the "plane" hitting the pentagon on 911.   The MIC is laughing at the proles.
Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:36 | 4028399 Keyser
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I guess we were mistaken. When they said shutdown, they meant to say they are only going to shutdown services that would piss off the general public. 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 16:07 | 4028192 Freddie
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Kardashian and Bieber's popularity are really starting to sink.   I think they need a bailout.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:01 | 4028027 Everybodys All ...
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That reminds me ... I need to go to the bank.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:10 | 4028050 TeamDepends
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Be sure to withdraw 100% MOAR!!!!!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:04 | 4028029 TeamDepends
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Better late than never, yes?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:07 | 4028037 I am Jobe
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Sure they are they are now watching NFL . Gove shut down and the Debt Show is all about EBT. 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:06 | 4028040 I am Jobe
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Sheeples are preparing for Black Friday Sale. Nuf said

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:09 | 4028043 DoChenRollingBearing
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Why are they suddenly interested now, so late to the party and all?  Threats of checks not going out?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:17 | 4028068 U4 eee aaa
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Yes. 800,000 government workers and their various and sundry dependents clicking google looking for hope

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:33 | 4028082 TruthInSunshine
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MANY more government workers than that. More than 23 million at the federal state & local levels of government (and ratio works out to close to 1 government t worker for every 5.5 Americans deemed "employed," - NOT INCLUDING ENLISTED MILITARY PERSONNEL OR GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS).

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

American taxpayers should firmly insist that government "rightsize" itself very quickly, which would mean 30% to 45% of government employees (mostly unionized) be let go, the remaining ones become as efficient/productive as private sector workers, and not only would government services ACTUALLY IMPROVE, but the American Taxpayers would save a minimum of 1 trillion USD annually.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:50 | 4028148 scraping_by
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Actually, that number of unemployed workers would crash the economy and send tax receipts into the sub basement.

Not to mention to knock-on effects of no government services, many of which are both short and long term economic needs.

They're more efficient that private workers, esp. health insurance and pensions.

God, the Big Lie again.

Blowhard. Please say you work for the Koch brothers. They can afford it.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 16:03 | 4028179 booboo
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So much bullshit in one post could only come from a .gov scrotum licker. Must be one of the non essentials, don't worry, you will get your back pay for doing what you normally do, sitting on your ass and making life miserable for the producers.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 16:24 | 4028227 scraping_by
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The strange idea that you can be one of the kleptocrats by repeating their groundless propaganda, or at least be one of their friends, or at least have a chance at getting their attention, is almost a religion.

I assure you, nothing's further from the truth. Suck up to any billionaire and all you'll get rug burn on your lips. Suck up to all of them, and you'll just be a useful idiot.

Once again, spreading their lies has value to them. Anyone who does it needs to be paid. That's only common sense and simple justice.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:30 | 4028718 TrulyBelieving
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Seems like you know a great deal about rug burns, but not much else.  

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:36 | 4028398 A Lunatic
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Jack Lew, is that you.......?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 21:32 | 4029057 Lednbrass
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Tax receipts from government workers? Really?

OK, I'm going to play along here just for giggles as it seems yet another idiot has taken the wrong exit on the information highway and wound up at ZH instead of DKos.  Lets talk math for just a moment. I know its scary, and those numbers are big, and math has no pity or remorse(and is no doubt a racist, paternalistic construct) but let's do some thinking here...mmmkay Sparky?

Let's say we are looking at 1 billion Benniebux that come to Uncle Sugar from the extortion of income tax recepits amongst the idiots who work in productive fields. Uncle Sugar hires 20,000 people at 50K per year to dig holes, because ol' Uncle has all manner of shovel ready projects upon which his new hires can commence to shovelin'.

Just for the sake of arugment let's say that these people pay an effective Federal tax rate of 15% (in reality I know it's a little lower on an income that size but not too much, I'm using this to illustrate a point).  Across all 20K of our new shovelers, Uncle Sugar now receives back 150 milliion of the 1 billion Unc spent.

In what universe it it mathematically possible to start with a number, reduce it by 85%, and then claim it is somehow a net gain to have 15% of the original number left?  How is it not a net tax gain for Uncle and those he is shaking down to not spend that billion in the first place?

I await your comedic and no doubt ad hominem response on how math works on your planet and how your claim of lowered tax receipts due to the loss of government workers is mathematically possible. This oughta be a hoot.

 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 16:59 | 4028289 Hubbs
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And that belies the real reason why HSA, and other paramilitaries have the numbers to intimidate and enforce; They can't get jobs in the regular civilian sector so they rely on the government. It was bad enough when these were just lazy bureaucrats who sat at desks,  but now they are strapping on boots and toting AR-15s and playing tough guy.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:23 | 4028532 Parrotile
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And you are paying for them, whether you like it or not.

 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:32 | 4028555 Parrotile
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The remaining (and dwindling) "Taxpayer Base" would be in for a nasty shock if all of these "non-essential employees" became unemployed.  Don't think any "savings" would appear as a reduction in taxes - the "savings" would be "reallocated" to "deserving causes" within the hierarchy, whilst the newly unemployed would be facing an interesting time (seeing as workforce participation isn't exactly rosy).

Seeing as "The Devil finds Work for Idle Hands" there  would be quite an incentive to redeploy these people, and fast (since they certainly have inside knowledge of how the system operates).  Wonder whis will be the next ME Country accused of using "Weapons of Mass Destruction" on their populace??

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:30 | 4028710 WillyGroper
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When Feinswine flies.

Nice fantasy tho.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:15 | 4028058 Devotional
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<----- Bring the default on bitchez!!!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:28 | 4028093 DoChenRollingBearing
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Cheap trick to get lots of greens!  Smile,,,,

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:14 | 4028060 U4 eee aaa
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Call the Pope. This is a miracle

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:17 | 4028061 involuntarilybirthed
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She put her clothes back on.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:16 | 4028063 Careless Whisper
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For those of you who ignore America's biggest pop icon, I suggest you pay attention. His latest tattoo says: Psalm 119:105: "Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path."

http://www.christianpost.com/news/justin-bieber-new-tattoo-2013-bibles-p...

 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 16:13 | 4028206 Freddie
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The kid is actually Canadian and seem like a decent kid. I don't listen to his crap or watch TV or any of that sh*t. 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 16:22 | 4028224 Deo vindice
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If a person puts a tattoo of a rose on their body it doesn't make them a botanist.

Jesus says a Christian is known by his deeds. Not by some tattoo.

Bieber's actions stand as stark evidence against him being one.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:59 | 4028792 TheMerryPrankster
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blow me

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:39 | 4028921 Tijuana Donkey Show
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Uh, Iluminati joke? Too easy. 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:21 | 4028073 GoldRetriever
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Wrong. Go check out Yahoo's "Trending Now" - the top 10 searches. The "Debt Debacle" is nowhere to be found.

This country is still all about "Bread and TWERKuses."

 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:39 | 4028922 Tijuana Donkey Show
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Uh, on Yahoo. Google has better NSA searches.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:23 | 4028077 BobbyBazooka
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At least there's a correlation between the 'Bieber-trajectory' and the US economy

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:26 | 4028089 ziggy59
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If true, bring out more KardASSian and Lowlife Lohan to keep the sheeple distracted!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:30 | 4028095 Wakanda
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Sheeples stirring during operation "Remove Liberty and Enslave".  Quick, more "TWERKuses".  (Thanks GoldRetriever : - ))

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:31 | 4028102 Shrapnel
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Just call 1-800-FUCKYO and all will be well...

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:30 | 4028104 Diogenes
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We grow too soon old and too late smart.

       -old Dutch saying

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:30 | 4028106 heinrich6666
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Results for "Boehner Twerk": 0

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:40 | 4028925 Tijuana Donkey Show
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BBBBBAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:34 | 4028116 NOZZLE
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The Kum KunTrashian watching public is suddenly gonig to start forming opinions about whether its wize to print and spend, I'd rather they go back to what they were doing before.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:36 | 4028118 The man with po...
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THE HORROR... THE HORROR...

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:36 | 4028120 dexter_morgan
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Seems like time for some major distraction away from this shutdown stuff.........though had the woman assassinated by the DC goons for taking a wrong turn earlier in the week (what happened to that story) and the guy setting himself on fire. Who was he and why did he do it?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:42 | 4028928 Tijuana Donkey Show
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They were both warnings to Barak by the powers to be. Like shooting a dog at his feet, it's a message not to deviate from the plan. Also, your Ricky dope avatar is killer. Don't break the laws of supply and command. 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:40 | 4028128 scraping_by
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In the Big Three of distraction, Miley and the fake fuck dance are only part of the process.

War -

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/07/world/africa/american-raids-in-africa....

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/world/africa/Al-Qaeda-Suspect-Wanted-i...

Sex -

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20131006_ap_e09c7b5b2e1749a8a...

Race -

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/president-obama-says-id-think-about-...

Sorry I can't find the Barrycentric sex story. But he's being coy about staying in the closet.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:46 | 4028137 dirtyfiles
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NSA can influence trending so...

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:45 | 4028139 I Write Code
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What do you mean, Miley is our queen and our muse and our prophetess, what part of "wrecking ball" don't you understand? 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 15:47 | 4028141 Polymarkos
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REPENT! THE END IS NIGH!!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 16:09 | 4028196 cabtrom
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Yea maybe if you got rid of those fucking ads on the side of the screen I could actually look at it for fuck sakes.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 16:15 | 4028213 q99x2
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The biggest whore takes precedence.

Long live the revolution.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 16:25 | 4028232 Jason T
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When you're hungry, you'll work ... and give a fuck.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 16:30 | 4028241 DOGGONE
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Where's YOUR head?

The Public Be Suckered
http://patrick.net/forum/?p=1223928

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 16:46 | 4028272 Hubbs
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At least the masses know one thing. The government is where they get their free shit. If the government shuts down, may be no more free shit.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 16:51 | 4028282 Hubbs
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oops. Make that 2 things.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:24 | 4028362 f16hoser
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What government shutdown? Barry Soetoro is spending more money pretending the government is shutdown than actually doing it. Only 15% of government is staying home while the little-fag spends money keeping-up the illussion. Fucktard is barrycading the WWII Memorial which was built by private funds. Park Rangers/police that serve Obama need to be confronted. Level of Confrontation I will leave up to them. Too bad you can't carry a concealed weapon in DC. The one place you really need to carry. Fuck Them!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:40 | 4028413 Abaco
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Thta bug-eyed chihuaha bitch Obama had his storm troopers shut down the JN Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island. Two armed guards out front where, before the shutdown, nobody was ever stationed. Big pre-printed sign saying it is because of the government SHUTDOWN. 83% of those peckers still "on the job." He needs a one way visit to the vet.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:41 | 4028422 robnume
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Americants are just buying into more lamestream media bullshit. These people cannot read, write or speak their own native language properly. God forbid they should pick up a fucking book and read it, you know, from cover to cover. No, the Americant sheeple get the government that they deserve.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:20 | 4028688 WillyGroper
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LOL.

The way certain demographics around here blame every ill on the boomers & wish them a speedy death, one could assume that the younger demographic is more enamored of Miley, Bieber & Kardashian than the ongoing theft.

Ha ha ha ha ha

Google analytics - yea!

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 00:58 | 4029494 rosiescenario
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The ones who should be frightened are all elected Fed. reps.

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