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So, did i say that giving $700B to the Bush Administration looked like a kleptocratic smash-and-grab for the immediate friends of people in the administration, before the store burns down?

If i didn't... well, there you go.

some videos from the friend's list

If John McCain had publically used the n-word as extensively as he has used the slur "gook" over the last several decades, he would have been disqualified as a presidential candidate immediately (from debunkingwhite):

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Jim Cramer's latest advice to stock market investors: take as much money out of the stock market as you think you would need to live on for five years if you became unemployed today (and i guess put it under your mattress) (from the_recession):

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And, saving the most cheerful for last: an argument by Naomi Wolf that there was a coup in the United States on October 1, the day a military brigade was deployed on US soil for law enforcement (just in time for the election!) This is ostensibly so there will be a unit on-hand in case of some disaster like Katrina, but hurricane season is almost over, why do it now? (from a locked post):

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