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Guess The Politician... And Follow The Money

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A few days ago we presented a roster of the top contributors to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign as reported by OpenSecrets. Today we have done the same for two other candidates, representing two previous election cycles: 2008 and 2004. The first table shows Romney's key contributors to date. The other two are the blacklined candidates. We are confident everyone can guess who they are, but just in case they are presented unredacted below the chart. It is ironic that nothing really changes at the end of the day in terms of whose bidding is ultimately performed by the president, whoever it may be. We have highlighted those Romney donors who are identical to previous campaign cycles.

For the 3 confused people out there, here is the same chart but unredacted .

Source: OpenSecrets here, here and here.

And due to popular request, here is John McCain '08, whom Goldman liked about 75% less than O'Bama.

Here are some relatively pertinent words on the matter from Jon Stewart from circa 4 years ago (h/t nolsgrad).

 

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Tue, 01/17/2012 - 01:49 | 2070257 forexskin
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ummm,

in the version i heard at my daddy's knee, lincoln used the emmancipation proclamation to keep england out of the war, calculating the english would not stand behind an effort with the overt effect of saving slavery.

talk about pragmatic...

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:54 | 2069918 francis_sawyer
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If I had to pick a favorite president who grew up in a log cabin, Andy Jackson would get my vote a lot quicker than Lincoln.

Lincoln hated the bankers as much as he hated the idea that the Union would dismember on his watch... So he caved to the bankers (though he despised them as Jackson did)...

The bankers tried to kill Jackson (but failed), they succeeded with Lincoln (& later JFK)...

When the FED was later established in 1913, they "mocked" both Jackson & Lincoln by putting them on the $20 & $5 bills... Then you have GRANT on the $50...

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 00:27 | 2070155 palmereldritch
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And Sherman only got a tank-you

Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman's 'March to the Sea' in November/December 1864 destroyed the resources required for the South to make war. Sherman is considered[by whom?] one of the first military commanders to deliberately and consciously use total war as a military strategy. General Ulysses S. Grant and President Abraham Lincoln initially opposed the plan until Sherman convinced them of its necessity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 01:26 | 2070229 Fred Hayek
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The people of Carthage would probably laugh at the idea that the advent of total war took another 2000 years after the romans knocked over every stone of every building in their city and poured salt into the fields to prevent them from growing again.

Total war's been around a long time. It took some years off in medieval times with silly ass ransoming of captured nobles but it sure didn't first happen in 1864. And I think plants grew at Tara right after 1864, too.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 01:54 | 2070265 palmereldritch
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Curiously enough the Federal Reserve has chosen Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus to be on the new $3 bill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage

The legend that the city was sown with salt is not mentioned by the ancient sources; R.T. Ridley suggested that the story originated from 1930 in section of the Cambridge Ancient History written by B Hallward whose influence might be an account of Abimelech's salting of Shechem in Judges 9:45.[15][16] Warmington admitted his fault in repeating Hallward's error but mentions an example of the story that goes back to 1299 when Bonaface VIII destroyed Palestrina.[17

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:36 | 2069862 mick_richfield
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Hey, you took the child out of Rothschild !

Now what will they have for dinner?

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:56 | 2069928 mess nonster
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Where's that bitch Romney's white horse, Spidey? Please go back to your Mo-cave.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 20:55 | 2069776 Clycntct
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Oppps

John McCain

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:06 | 2069796 xela2200
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This is insane. why is the University of California donating to the government when it is a public entity? Or the department of defense for that matter. Now they are wasting our tax money in political campaigns. No scruples left in this country.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:33 | 2069855 LongBalls
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Now you know why the government backstops all student loans. Remember how this too was slid into the Health Care Bill? The education system can charge whatever they want without running credit checks and fear a default! Yea.....more funding for college....yea, yea.....  Wait. I need to pay this $100K loan that didn't teach me how to think for myself? HOLY COW. This field does not pay me enough!?!?!?

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:34 | 2069857 slewie the pi-rat
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no dollar left behind

maybe they are some sorta fictitious persons in some judge's mind so they can't be fuking discriminated against

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:41 | 2070007 knukles
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slewie da man...

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:46 | 2069889 Vlad Tepid
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These are not the entities themselves that are donating, they are the people who file their FEC contributions with their employer listed as required by law for large donations...basically divide the number by $2000 (per individual; $4000 for a couple...my numbers may be a bit off) and you get roughly the number of people in that organization that donated to that candidate.  Hence Ron Paul with Army, Navy etcas contributers, but the equation doesn't work quite right for him becuase he gets tens of thousands of small donations instead of the big chunk-a-roonies that Mitt et al get.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:12 | 2069967 slewie the pi-rat
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is the same true for the other entries?  these other totals are from employees of these companies who "reported"? 

what the hell is going on, here?  L0L!!!

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:06 | 2069953 azusgm
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...employees and students of the University of California.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:06 | 2069797 Silver Dreamer
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I want to see Obama's list for 2012.  Anyone have that list?  He's getting way more than Romney, right?  Romney is the candidate of choice to lose.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:16 | 2069819 Freddie
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The meida was and is 100% behind the islamic because they made about $400 million in advertising money in 2008.  TV, radio, print, web banners and endless other ad buys.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:08 | 2069958 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Islamic?  What is he, a calender?

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:23 | 2069832 xela2200
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Obama has mostly unions. Microsoft and Google, I think. I noticed Microsoft and Google gave money to both sides. I guess they need government to really do a job on intellectual property in the whole world (China).

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:06 | 2069799 williambanzai7
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MODERN CARPET BAGGER

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:25 | 2069824 akak
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I doubt Mitten's pants could ever appear that skinny --- I hear that magical underwear he wears to ensure his nomination is rather bulky.

It's a very appropriate cartoon for Mittens anyway -- the parallels between Joseph Smith the religious carpet-bagger and Shit Zombie the political carpet-bagger are too numerous to mention.  And they have the nerve to call Ron Paul supporters "kooks"!

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:30 | 2069849 Jendrzejczyk
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Mittens.....it's too perfect.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:35 | 2069861 palmereldritch
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Cut him some slack.  Wasn't Smith a goldbug?

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:51 | 2069906 akak
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Not unless you are referring to those supposed golden tablets that he unearthed on his OWN farm in upstate New York .... the golden tablets that supposedly contained the Book of Mormon, describing how the American Indians are really the Lost Tribes of Israel .... the same tablets that NOBODY else ever saw, and that God just happened to conveniently take up into Heaven after Joseph Smith translated them into English with magical viewing stones .....

The Church of Scientology has NOTHING on this shit!  I couldn't make it all up if I tried.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:52 | 2069914 palmereldritch
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LOL  I love Scientology.  The gold standard for the 'church of the absurd'.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:20 | 2070068 Hephasteus
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And to complete the mindfuck the creepy denver internatinal airport has people being biological weaponed and nazi'd over a dead indian baby and a dead jew baby.

I'm also pretty sure that tablet says lost slaves of israel. Meaning they ran away.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:22 | 2070070 twotraps
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Friends and their father were dis-invited from the daughters wedding because the Elders of the Church did not deem them worth.   They were not allowed into the actual ceremony.......they did have the option of course to take night classes and come before the board to show they are back in line with the proper thinking but declined.  Today, that shit goes on.  Not in the HBO series....today.  Mindblowing cult bullshit, not to mention the Church is advertising again, check it out, little commercials here and there with all sorts of people claiming 'Im normal, I'm Mormon...and you can be too'.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 01:23 | 2070224 akak
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"I'm normal, I'm Mormon ... come visit Stepford anytime!"

 

As for myself, I'm abnormal, I'm non-Mormon ... and I have free will.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 01:34 | 2070239 Boxed Merlot
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The Church of Scientology has NOTHING on this...

Well maybe not to the extent of the golden tablets, but you got to admit Mary Baker was quite a charlatan in her own rite.  Her use of copyright law is still a marvel and model today.  Her finely honed skills of marketing ether world psycho baloney even left Mark Twain awestruck.

 

I still smile when I think of the descriptions given by Mr. Twain in attempting to experience healing using Mary’s Matrix-esque manipulations of language, reality and greed. 

Reminds me of Chevy Chase in Caddyshack:   Danny. Danny, I'm going to give you a little advice. There's a force in the universe that makes things happen; all you have to do is get in touch with it. Stop thinking...let things happen...and be...the ball.”

 

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:11 | 2069965 Fred Hayek
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Joseph Smith was a low life con man.
Imagine believing that a much much seedier version of Paul Newman's character from The Sting suddenly professes to have been spoken to by god . . and a ton of idiots believe him.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:21 | 2069983 francis_sawyer
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I suppose the best I can hope for is that if he gets elected I might not be sent to GITMO for having more than 5 days of food stored in the pantry...

After all... I was planning a dinner party this weekend...

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 00:43 | 2070183 WonderDawg
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Not so fast. The repubs pushed the NDAA 2012 through. Shameful, but true. I used to be a republican. Now I'm just an American who wants his country back.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:30 | 2069992 palmereldritch
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Yeah...but at least he was a LITTLE BIT country

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR_1aq0m9bI

 

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:19 | 2069827 brewing
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unfortunately, it's 4 more years if this carpetbagger is the gop nominee...

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:32 | 2069851 chunga
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You're right.

Many Democrats do not like Obama and might vote for Ron Paul.

I don't think many Republicans would vote for Obama even if he adopted the entire GOP plank.

Whatever the hell that is.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:56 | 2069925 slewie the pi-rat
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something between god bless america and god prefers the republicans here

same as the democrats, really

p.s.  we're BK

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:08 | 2069996 chunga
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I don't dispute there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the two.

Not everybody agrees; but they still get to vote.

Because Paul is shunned and declared "unelectable" by the "mainstream" GOP Apparatchiks he may be seen in a better light by the disillusioned hopey changers.

If they are disillusioned enough some of them might vote for Paul. Those same voters would NEVER vote for Mittens, Santorum, Gingrich, etc.

They'd stay home before that. Then again, there are two sides to the coin. I held my nose and voted for McWhatshisname...so it's hard to predict, you know.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:43 | 2070095 francis_sawyer
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Because Paul is shunned and declared "unelectable" by the "mainstream" GOP Apparatchiks he may be seen in a better light by the disillusioned hopey changers.

Not likely... The worst thing in the world for a "hopey changer" is to think they DON'T BELONG to something... That tribe won't support an outcast...

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 01:18 | 2070217 Boxed Merlot
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That tribe won't support an outcast...

 

Maybe if it became known he has a neck tatoo, likes the Grateful Dead, had a weekly seat at The Rocky Horror Picture Show and attended burning man 5 years running?  These would surely identify him as anything but an outcast, no?

 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 10:00 | 2070743 chunga
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Not arguing...just throwing this out there.

Ron Paul #2 in NH … Democratic Primary!

"Everybody already knows that Ron Paul placed second in the New Hampshire 2012 Republican Presidental Primary.   But, at 7 o’clock tonight, the New Hampshire Secretary of State published the full results of the primary, including write-ins, and Ron Paul also won the #2 spot in the Democratic Primary."

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:31 | 2069850 shinola
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Is it just me? Why would big universities contribute to political campaigns?

 

WTF

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:38 | 2069871 LongBalls
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Obama slid government take over of student loans into the Health Care Bill. Universities can charge what ever they want now with no fear of default and fuding issues.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:48 | 2069900 Vlad Tepid
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See my above comment.  It's not the universities, it's their individual employees.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:25 | 2069988 francis_sawyer
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So all those $5 donations came from Berkely potheads?... It's all making some kind of crazy sense now...

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:17 | 2070061 Rama V
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Damn Yankee.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:08 | 2069800 palmereldritch
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Rehypothelection

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:09 | 2069806 Outlaw Of The W...
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jews set up. jews knock down.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:26 | 2069839 Outlaw Of The W...
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same shit.  Hitler was right.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:15 | 2069818 MsCreant
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OT: PMs taking off a bit here...

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:21 | 2069828 bob_dabolina
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Every commodity is taking off a bit sans cocoa, coffee, and natgas

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:21 | 2069830 Freddie
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What do you see?

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:37 | 2069866 MsCreant
Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:09 | 2069960 erg
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Still surging, through 1650. The battle for Ag still seems to be at 30. Hope it breaks free.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 01:03 | 2070201 MsCreant
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$1658!

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:24 | 2069834 Jendrzejczyk
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Straight line up....WTF?

 

Totally OT-Laughing about you today as I blew off work and went hiking instead.

Ended the day tracking a wounded deer with a crossbow hunter that almost shot me too.

Always check if hunting season has ended before you hike.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:34 | 2069856 Hulk
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Wear orange and for gods sake, take off those antlers!

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:38 | 2069870 Jendrzejczyk
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The antlers were a mistake?

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:42 | 2069880 mick_richfield
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I believe that hunting, competition, and natural selection will someday necessarily produce blaze-orange deer.

 

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:53 | 2069915 tekhneek
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Would you like to donate to the Deer Obesity fund?

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:56 | 2069926 mick_richfield
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Fat chance!  It's bad for my hart!

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:01 | 2069942 MsCreant
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Nice work there mick.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:08 | 2069957 Hulk
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Up 12 bucks, not bad, not bad at all!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 01:06 | 2070205 MsCreant
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When the real take off happens, we won't believe it for a while because of all the head games we have lived through.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:02 | 2069946 Hulk
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Or a third eye on their forehead to avoid getting hit from drunk hunters falling out of tree stands...

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:29 | 2069990 francis_sawyer
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I believe that hunting, competition, and natural selection will someday necessarily produce blaze-orange deer.

That's funny, because I was just thinking that hunting, competition, and natural selection would someday produce a dollar-green TOTUS... Amazing!

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:51 | 2070023 knukles
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...blaze orange deer that smells of beer, farts and belches loudly with the occasional "What the fuck?" thrown in.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 10:12 | 2070776 mick_richfield
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ha!  That must be the bucks on their way to a stag party.

And the does will be able to ring your cell phone and impersonate your wife's voice.

Ah, dark visions of the future, man.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:25 | 2069833 Printfaster
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The Obama 08 campaign belies the huge amount of money involved in the Obamacare program.  The university of California is raking in 100s of millions for its hospitals, it DOE green energy programs, and federal loans.  Same for Harvard.  Hard to look past the Obama history with the University of Chicago and Michelle's $300,000 salary as diversity advisor which appeared when the earmark for a new hospital pavilion appeared, and job for diversity advisor disappeared when Michelle disappeared.

The money to GS and the investment banks, also followed the smell of healthcare and energy programs.

It is time to reduce the tax authority of the federal government.  Too much money in too few hands.  The 16th amendment must go.  The power in Washington is so great that it cannot be contained.

 

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:40 | 2070003 francis_sawyer
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The University of Chicago is a 'Rothschild's Holdings' school...

On a larger scale... There are now only 5 nations on the world left without a Rothschild controlled central bank: Iran; North Korea; Sudan; Cuba; and Libya... (and that's changing fast)...

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:54 | 2070026 TheSettler
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Venezuela....???

 

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:02 | 2070039 palmereldritch
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North Korea is their primary laboratory for oligarchic atavism so technically, it doesn't count.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:41 | 2069877 MsCreant
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There is a joke in here you know. 

Let the punishment commence...

"She offered to blow his nuggets, for some nuggets."

That was lame. You all can do better.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 00:56 | 2069894 non_anon
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instead of chockin' the chicken, she offered to gobble the cock to bust a nut for her nuggets

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:55 | 2069922 erg
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"She will gobble for nuggets?"

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:01 | 2069944 pakled
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Yeah. Like Dialin' for Dollars. Only not.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:03 | 2069947 pakled
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WTF? Did you know you can vote on your comment? Just did it by mistake. That's kind of like smelling your own farts. Weird.

 

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:45 | 2070015 francis_sawyer
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Yeah...

Not only can you vote GREEN, but then you can change your vote from green to red (so you can say you voted "for" it, before you voted "against" it & have the whole John Kerry experience)...

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:28 | 2070076 pakled
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When someone who I have taken notice of, or their handle, speaks directly to me, I like to say hello. I saw a reference to "lighten up Francis", many many threads ago. Took me right to Stripes. Didn't even remember his last name.

Great character. Friggin great movie. It's in my trapped-on-a-desert-island box.

 

Oh. Francis. Just a warning... You ever fuck with me.... and I'll kill you.

 

/sarc

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:11 | 2069966 erg
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Or bobbin' for apples.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:02 | 2069945 mick_richfield
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This is so sad.  What's the world coming to?

When she offered sex to the McDonald's employee in exchange for Chicken McNuggets, the young man replied...

"Would you like fries with that?"

 

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:09 | 2069961 ozziindaus
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Guys guys before you pass judgement.....was she hot??

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:18 | 2069976 mick_richfield
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If she was really hot ... and hanging around McDonald's ... I think she would have to wear a warning label, right?

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:54 | 2070031 knukles
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McSkank

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:26 | 2070075 ozziindaus
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Is it true that you can order a McGangbang off of a secret menu?

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 01:47 | 2070254 MsCreant
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You're thinking of central bankers. Honest mistake.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 05:38 | 2070413 falak pema
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only if you have a Mc-Ipad. And it plays Mc-Itunes.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 01:27 | 2070228 akak
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McHerpes, with a side of crabs McNuggets.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:49 | 2070018 francis_sawyer
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better question...

Were THE MCNUGGETS hot? (& did they come with hot sauce)?...

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:12 | 2070053 Jena
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No way, I bet  the McDonald's employee   said "Would you like to supersize that?"

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:27 | 2069843 Cabreado
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The only thing that's making sense to me is National Amusements, Inc. in 2008.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:35 | 2069860 YesWeKahn
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Obama, Kerry.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:42 | 2069878 pakled
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R my eyes bad or is there no Monsanto on these lists? Who do they surogate through?

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:51 | 2069910 Vlad Tepid
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Monsanto isn't evil. *sarc*  They look for things.  Things to make them go.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:01 | 2069940 centerline
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Funny how a seed company owns an army of mercanaries (i.e. Blackwater).  *extra-sarc*

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:53 | 2070101 palmereldritch
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McThuggets

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 00:58 | 2070193 Hephasteus
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I wonder how evil burpee is.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:11 | 2070051 francis_sawyer
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Monsanto doesn't support democratic elections...

Instead ~ they prefer to throw their support behind DICK TATERS...

http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/0901/dick-tater-demotivational-poster-1230859247.jpg

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:00 | 2069939 erg
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It has to be the Ferengi. Rule of Acquisition 158: Exploitation begins at home.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:05 | 2069950 mick_richfield
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No need for Monsanto to donate cash.

They sent food to all the candidates while they were campaigning, then offered them the antidote in exchange for their support.

Mondiablo.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:10 | 2069963 pakled
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Speaking of sci-fi.... that's got a real DUNE tone to it. ;>

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:19 | 2069979 Dr. Engali
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There's a movie I haven't seen in a long time. Great reference.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:25 | 2069989 mick_richfield
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The Monsanto Third Stage Navigators can bend truth.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 00:35 | 2070118 palmereldritch
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MonSatan [?]

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 05:36 | 2070410 falak pema
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monsatan with ONE big toe...

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:05 | 2069952 blindman
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Monsanto
Monsanto
"Public relations & lobbying
Monsanto spent $6,560,000 for lobbying in 2010. $1,030,000 was to outside lobbying firms with the remainder being spent using in-house lobbyists.[36]
Center for Consumer Freedom
Monsanto has donated to the front group Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF). CCF runs attack campaigns against health, food safety, animal rights and animal welfare advocates." ..

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:28 | 2069970 pakled
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Nice find blindman. U C OK.

 

BTW - not 15 minutes ago I stumbled on an enormously awesome viral youtube video related to your handle.

here is link
There is a voice annoated link I can give you if you actually are sight impaired. no sarc.
Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:57 | 2070034 blindman
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that was great. wimpys smart advertising!
but , i'm still a no beef eater. as you
probably know my blindness does not refer
to the conventional use of the term. thanks
for the link and lack of sarcasm.
it is inspirational, that link, as you can
see! the simple joy associated with comprehension,
communication, understanding ! visionary !
understanding. it is that simple
.
if you haven't seen
Whole Lotta Live: Nick Lowe - What's So Funny 'Bout Peace Love and Understanding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h86cAobGHTk

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:19 | 2070059 pakled
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Being a big Zeppelin fan I had to look.

 

Nice. I dial you in as a fellow red pill'r. Well, of course though. Any blue pillr's here are only trolling for trouble, eh?

wait. RED PILLr.... red piller... red pillar. Today's red pill people, the red pillrs, are tomorrows pillars... the foundation for a new civilization based on truth.

 

Hmmmm. Just playin around here...

Hey... at least I didn't say TRUTH, JUSTICE, and THE AMERICAN WAY!

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:37 | 2070089 blindman
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today all language is ruined almost. as ideas and
concepts are built on words they too are corrupted.
stories are built on these so they too, the narratives
of life, time and the mind and culture ... all
distorted and loaded with deadly and self destructive
devises ! re the matrix meme. i was thinking about that
dystopian epic. the colored pills. but if you notice
the ending of the third movie, the people of zion live,
are not imminently destroyed by the machines, but they never
gain the surface of the planet. the light of day. they
compromise as servants to the matrix. neo gains their survival
but not their freedom. (hence dystopian epic).
the character that would have destroyed the machines was ....
mr. smith, neo's enemy. we were had by another action love story !
and i say hmmm.. brilliant.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 00:08 | 2070109 pakled
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The Matrix? You're soaking in it.

 

;>

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 00:08 | 2070124 palmereldritch
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Brilliant Revelation of the Method?

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 00:17 | 2070137 blindman
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yup

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 00:42 | 2070181 palmereldritch
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I think I missed that sarc tag at the end of Matrix 3..oh wait, it sucked so bad I didn't sit through it...I bought the shades though...they're really gonna pop at the FEMA camp!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 00:59 | 2070195 blindman
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first off, you will look marvelous with the shades,
but you ain't going to no fema camp. it won't play
that way, you are in the wrong minority. this i have
faith in.
second, i don't know why everyone always hates the third
in the epic series. like the matrix or the godfather.
i think it is because the first two remove the novelty
of the narrative, the mood, the style. the third godfather
was great imo. the third matrix, no sarc, was also great
but you had to sit thru it and then think, this movie
sucked. but, the thing is, the makers of the movie knew
what the score was and they hid the movie in the audiences
preconceived notion of watching the movie. it was great because
it sucked so bad that no one understood that dystopia is in the
mind of the audience. they turned it around on us.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 01:36 | 2070243 palmereldritch
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Those ignorant of the past will certainly lack the vision to prepare for the future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uK3wYrl3aU&feature=related

I hate when I get pulled back in...

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 01:32 | 2070237 blindman
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when you say "method" i took that as method of
controlling the thought process of the audience
through narrative, story telling. if you were referring
to the method as in acting, that is different and
yes the acting was pretty lifeless. but that works
in a movie like that. cartoonish or marvel comics
style? i guess it was a hacker movie more than anything?

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 01:42 | 2070249 palmereldritch
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It was a reference to the purported technique of psyops or pop media mind control

http://www.whale.to/b/revelation_method_q.html

Important as a required ritual to those who practice the black arts before they attack

c.f.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwK_3SUQ0DI

 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 09:30 | 2070644 blindman
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yup,
the advertisement and then this bit ..
The Matrix: Agent Smith Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOi6v5DD_1M
.
there is another agent smith soliloquy
Agent Smith tells us about Purpose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRmRxL8VvCg&feature=related
.
and more along the line of the method.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:58 | 2069902 RussAbbott
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For those of you still confused about what these lists really mean and whether they mean anything at all, here is what OpenSecrets (the source of the information) says about them.  

 The organizations themselves did not donate , rather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families.Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.

 

It's hard to believe that listing, say Goldman Sacks and the US government in the same sort of list makes any sense at all under those circumstances.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:04 | 2069949 January Jones
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Maybe everyone should get off their asses and use the drop down on the Romney List to select Obama’s 2012 contributors to date…..or just go here.  http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?id=N00009638.   

 

Does the fact that Obama’s YTD 2012 contributors list of 20 includes 7 law firms and 4 Universities with enormous endowments, as well as  the US Department of Appeasement , pique your interest.  Or does the lazy apples-to-orange, 2012 - 2008 comparison just screw up the narrative.

 

Everybody pay attention when you’re spoon fed this shit instead of regurgitating cute.  Please, more critical thought from zero hedge readers.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:17 | 2069975 Dr. Engali
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I don't see the 1.2 billion that Corzine secured for him through MF Global. I'm sure that's an oversight.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:19 | 2069980 centerline
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Realistically it is hard to tell what the hell is playing out.  On the surface it appears the bankers are setting up for Republican push rather than back Obama again.  Considering they know the next debt ceiling increase is going to hit like a hurricane in late 3Q2012 (estimate)... it makes one think... is it "throw under the bus" time soon?  Are there problems in paradise?  Seems kind of obvious that bankers have been stationed all around Obama.  Is it a lack of trust?  Got to keep him close?  Quite a risk regarding public perception even if you own the MSM.

The more interesting alliance is the apparent military backing of Ron Paul.  Not that this is a good or bad thing... but the way things are going I would think that at some point it could come down to a MIC versus Bankster deathmatch... and I really don't think sharp pencils and martini glasses are going to stand up so well to bunker busting smartbombs and cruise missles.  Not saying that RP would lead that at all... but rather just pointing out what appears to potentially different interests / mindsets.

 

 

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:50 | 2070011 Outlaw Of The W...
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I believe the military has the obligation to arrest the kenyan, CONgress, all members of the UN and every employee of every bank on US soil.

If they do not, they join the side of the problem that will be attacked and eliminated.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:22 | 2069982 mick_richfield
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You want some critical thought?

OK.  Your avatar sucks.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 00:17 | 2070014 erg
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There's nothing wrong with interjecting a little levity along the way as we slog through the ichor of shit together. I agree though that we must guard against becoming inured to the treachery around us.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:24 | 2069986 fonzannoon
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China GDP.

Tomorrow is gonna suck to be short.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 04:26 | 2070385 ebworthen
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Those Chinese learn fast from the BLS and the FED.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:39 | 2070004 Asher88
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At this rate Dr. Paul should get a good 2 min. 21 sec. To convince Americans to vote for him!

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:50 | 2070019 DarthVaderMentor
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Does this include the SuperPac money? Doesn't look like it. 

SuperPac money would skew these results dramatically. I'd be interesting to see how the banskter monies flowed into different candidates as they fortunes changed during the progression of the campaign so far. I'll bet some are giving money to all and concetrating as the winner becomes apparent.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:51 | 2070020 vegas
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And so, the point of this post is what? That politico's get shitloads of money from asshats like the Vampire Squid? Really, I'm shocked that presidential candidates get money cycle to cycle from the same sources.

 

http://vegasxau.blogspot.com

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 03:45 | 2070370 Alpha Monkey
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Someone has to say it for those that don't already know it.  Unless you think the MSM is going to shine some decent light on this?

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:54 | 2070027 reutersanalyst
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http://fnn24.com/?p=38934

 

Chinese data released first at FNN24

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:01 | 2070040 Hephasteus
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I went and fucked with some of the mumbo jumbo spiritualists yesterday cramming some logic down them.

I get a dream when I wake up yesterday and the dream is just some kind of bullshit stupid ass doesn't mean anything story. But the energy behind it reconfigures me and makes me stumble onto all these stupid ass videos of strange noises all over the world. Half of them you can't hear the noise. Half of them sound like a noise from a movie and all the comments are crazy as hell or funny.

Go check them out. The crazy shit hit last fall. Most of them dated around july to september. The strange noises before earthquake in Denver one is a real one. Somoene blew up some of the deep underground bunkers and it caused this weird ass hiss whirring noise on a baseball game video. The others are just some kind of strange campaign to bury it in weirdness.

Oh and fuck mitt romney. You piece of shit low life scum and fuck bush and cheney and hilary and all the other rats you are in bed with.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 02:12 | 2070287 palmereldritch
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Oh and fuck mitt romney. You piece of shit low life scum and fuck bush and cheney and hilary and all the other rats you are in bed with.

Now THATS a fucking hiss!

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:03 | 2070041 DaylightWastingTime
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posted on the market ticker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67nE9erMcFI

and for shits and giggles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHyGCCZzG2o

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:05 | 2070043 penisouraus erecti
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http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/

Seems Romney a piker compared to the big O........

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 00:02 | 2070116 blindman
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is it true that the president can have anyone arrested
without charges, killed even, with no investigation
even if it is just for failing to contribute enough
money, to his satisfaction and standard, to his
reelection campaign to assure that
you are not a terrorist? that could happen? and
if it does happen who would know? or ..who would care?
whatever. crazy world, time for my crazy pills !

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 04:24 | 2070383 ebworthen
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Just wait until Romney is nominated by the GOP.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:09 | 2070047 bnbdnb
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I'm so tired of these warmongering fucking morons.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:25 | 2070073 lolmao500
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These cocksuckers cheered when Romney said he would have signed the NDAA.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:29 | 2070077 PsYcK
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They are the worse of the scum sheeple to graze the unitelligent brainwashed suicidal plains of the totalitaritism states of america!  FFFFF them!

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:37 | 2070088 PsYcK
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The one thing I will enjoy about the collapse they bring upon us will be watching there desperate squirming peabrains ask why is this happening to me.  Everthing else is gonna suck.  Man i wish i wash a shareholder of the FED.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:33 | 2070082 Catflappo
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What a wonderful and uncorrupted political system the USA has.  It's all so transparent and above-board.   No wonder it's so keen to roll it out around the world with great fanfare and fanaticism.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:33 | 2070084 Catflappo
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.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:39 | 2070092 blindman
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campaign finance reform? nahhh

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 00:23 | 2070149 BlackholeDivestment
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...what they really meant was, McCain find gold. Lol. That worked out well. Lol. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWNuOAuUVk8

 

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 23:52 | 2070100 BlackholeDivestment
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...don't you just love it when these evil pandering politicl putzes talking about how they must ''compromise'' to get things done their way? Lol http://www.mybudget360.com/kabuki-financial-theatre-congress-net-worth-up-15-percent-from-2004-to-2010-median-net-worth-americans-down-8-percent/ What they mean is how compromised our Republic, life, freedom, liberty, independence and justice stands as a result of the fact that they have forsaken the Constitution for their new world order. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gm9q8uabTs 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 00:16 | 2070136 diesheepledie
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And the sheeple will do what loyal little mindless sheeple do. God bless them. Just need to step up the animalistic fear a notch and we can get them 100% on board with another middle east war. Won't be difficult. And it is almost coming time that the greedy little hoofed and horned critters will fall for another bubble. Not sure what exactly, but maybe we can get the dummies to horde some more silver coins on credit. Although that one is pretty worn out this last 6 months.

Die Motherfuckers!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 00:20 | 2070145 jmaloy5365
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WTF, the govment gives MY money to some i dont even want to be prez.............wow.... i want my money back.

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