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white, evangelicals dominate turnout in AL & MS primaries -- (link) - pixitude Mar 13, 16:14 1
- Source: The Duhington Post. -- nm - Reagen Mar 13, 16:15
Hey Kansas City, Google's wiring you with fiber for high speed internet. So why not just toss in TV service, too? -- (link) - Mop (199 lbs) Mar 13, 16:10
Did Doonesbury get pulled from your paper? (does anybody here get a paper?) you know, that roll of wood pulp someone gets paid to throw on your lawn? -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 13, 16:07 3
- Don't know, I get it in my email so if I don't get the paper I always get what gets run. - the liioulu with Mar 13, 16:17
- The Oregonian will only run it on their online paper -- nm - Bacon Mar 13, 16:09
- I'm sure CY does. He's probably saving them all. -- nm - mara Mar 13, 16:08
I got a robocall today from Romney's campaign attacking Santorum's record on "No Child Left Behind" - the liioulu with Mar 13, 16:07 2
- No Robocaller Left Behind. - Beryllium Mar 13, 16:09
- 90% of them go to college? What snobs. -- nm - Santorum Mar 13, 16:09
Bye Bye Greg Oden or what fans on Facebook are calling...Mr. Glass - Bacon Mar 13, 15:59 2
- The average penis length in Portland just went down half an inch. -- nm - nubby Mar 13, 16:23
- poor Portland -- nm - Beaker Mar 13, 16:14
Groiny's Chix is in da pot! 14 hours - low and slow - and the office Dip War Trophy shall be mine! Muahahahahahahaha -- nm - JenBro Mar 13, 15:58 5
- did you use pepper rings too? - groiny Mar 13, 16:00 4
  - Hee - just saw your bb post - I'm making it a dip dammit! :D -- nm - JenBro Mar 13, 16:09
  - I put in pepperocini rings - banana peppers thingys - about 1/4 cup as well as the oinion and garlic :) -- nm - JenBro Mar 13, 16:05 2
    - don't forget groiny's secret ingredient -- nm - pixitude Mar 13, 16:08 1
      - This batch is going to have to be sans secret ingredient I'm afraid! -- nm - JenBro Mar 13, 16:14
Josh Morgan to the Skins. 2 years, $6M-per -- nm - Stephen Mar 13, 15:57 1
- Same deal for Eddie Royal -- nm - stewie Mar 13, 16:08
Try SWTOR for free this weekend -- (link) - J Mar 13, 15:57
Ooh, here's a gif that ST will like. -- (link) - St.Vermin Mar 13, 15:52 [Image] 1
- Meh. -- nm - Beryllium with *green* text speeding by Mar 13, 15:53
Encyclopedia Britannica to stop printing books -- (link) - Bacon Mar 13, 15:44 2
- Starts collecting encyclopedias, dictionaries, medical books, classic novels, etc. for when the Internet is hacked and destroyed. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 13, 15:47 1
  - It's being handled already, by the archive.org people. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 13, 15:48
FB ad....Pixie Chick Auctions -- nm - Bacon Mar 13, 15:35 2
- JD post in 3...2...1... - David Mar 13, 15:55
- too rich for my blood -- nm - pixitude Mar 13, 15:39
Bracket question. What is your highest advancing play in team? - Bacon Mar 13, 15:33 1
- Iona, and whoever wins Cal/USF. - TFox Mar 13, 15:47
I'm fairly sure that a friend posting *facehoof* is an excuse to unfriend them right? -- nm - Qale Mar 13, 15:30 10
- Unicorn? -- nm - mara Mar 13, 15:43 1
  - brony -- nm - loosilu Mar 13, 15:47
- huh? -- nm - MDH Mar 13, 15:43 2
  - I figured it was a take on facepalm... oh, so much more than that. nm but: -- (link) - b. Mar 13, 15:44 1
    - It's like the Sour Man from the Skittles commercials sits somewhere on the internets just coming up with stupid stuff to meme. - Qale Mar 13, 15:57
- Jennifer Garner? -- nm - peglegpete Mar 13, 15:32 1
  - GRRRRRRRR! -- nm - Bacon Mar 13, 15:33
- KILL IT!!! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!! -- nm - znufrii Mar 13, 15:31
- with extreme prejudice. -- nm - Reagen Mar 13, 15:30 1
  - Excellent! -- nm - Qale Mar 13, 15:34
Allan West, he of the "why does it cost $100 to gas up my Hummer" fame, says the future Republican president should get credit for stock market gains - Reagen Mar 13, 15:23 2
- So in......2024? -- nm - eag Mar 13, 15:30
- without deregulating things into a financial implosion there would have been no rally -- nm - stewie Mar 13, 15:27
i like this quote from a band who did SXSW for the first time last year. .. - Andie Mar 13, 15:23 1
- Some people just call that Saturday -- nm - con_carne Mar 13, 15:39
Not sure how many people here use Swagbucks.com but I just took a survey that hinted they're thinking of going to a pay membership plan. :/ -- nm - Qale Mar 13, 15:17 2
- yuck. two of my sisters have done them - one limited use at least some after they reduced their reward thingies, though. -- nm - b. Mar 13, 15:20 1
  - I've been doing it for years and just chug right along picking up about 10 bucks Amazon a month. Not sure how a 'pay' reward system would work. -- nm - Qale Mar 13, 15:21
Here's the republican scenario I find interesting, and I don't think it's way out there. - pmb Mar 13, 15:09 12
- if they go to convention without a nominee isn't there some nonsense that says Palin could just show up and try to take it? - stewie Mar 13, 15:18 2
  - I'm not sure "trying to take it" is accurate, but a brokered convention could mean anyone. -- (link) - mara Mar 13, 15:23
  - exactly, after the first round of delgate voting, it's an open field, iinm. -- nm - znufrii Mar 13, 15:19
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  - heh -- nm - znufrii Mar 13, 15:21
- 8:00? is that when we start reporting? -- nm - jones Mar 13, 15:15 2
  - AL at 7pm, MS at 8pm, iirc -- nm - znufrii Mar 13, 15:16
  - excuse me. eastern. or is it 9:00? it's 9:00, isn't it? -- nm - jones Mar 13, 15:16
- Gingrich has already said he isn't dropping out regardless on tonight's outcome, he's planning on going all the way to the convention. -- nm - znufrii Mar 13, 15:11 3
  - His cash might dry up. Unless he's being funded by Romney at this point. -- nm - pmb Mar 13, 15:15 1
    - he's got his pet billionaire funding his Super PAC... -- nm - znufrii Mar 13, 15:17
  - all is proceeding as Sarah has foreseen -- nm - pixitude Mar 13, 15:12
I have also decided that tru is to blame for various and assorted things. nm but: -- (link) - b. Mar 13, 15:09 6
- We had snow today and I was like WTF... is this fucking Fairbanks Alaska? - Bacon Mar 13, 15:38 2
  - Yeah my friend was telling me about it last night - eag Mar 13, 15:39 1
    - Yeah, by Noon I was in the clear -- nm - Bacon Mar 13, 15:39
- its ok, blame me. - tRuMaN Mar 13, 15:36
- like, all of them -- nm - pixitude Mar 13, 15:11 1
  - I regret that before blaming him, I meant to say this to him: congratulations!!! :) - ::returns to blaming:: -- nm - b. Mar 13, 15:19
Eddie Royal to the Redskins - stewie Mar 13, 15:09
Bery...this twitpic is right up your alley -- (link) - Remlik Mar 13, 15:05 1
- neechay. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 13, 15:08
this whole thing goes away if you go single-payer. just sayin'. - Reagen Mar 13, 14:58 9
- I would *love* single payor. We're a good 30 years (or more) from there. -- nm - spamlet Mar 13, 15:01 7
  - A lot has happened in the past 30 years. A lot will happen in the next 30 years. - Beryllium Mar 13, 15:03 6
    - (Also, it just occurred to me that you guys are lucky GHWB was noble enough not to pull a Putin ...) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 13, 15:04 5
      - There's still Jeb waiting in the wings -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 13, 15:09 4
        
        and George P. Bush -- nm - Remlik Mar 13, 15:09 3
        
        yes, but were either of them Director of the CIA? - Beryllium Mar 13, 15:10 2
        
        true. but they're all Skulls and Bones and Freemason members so they get all that info CIA has anyway. -- nm - Remlik Mar 13, 15:11 1
        
        Meh. That's just for the parking. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 13, 15:13
- Rip off that dirty old bandaid! -- nm - Beryllium Mar 13, 15:00
wha? - tRuMaN Mar 13, 14:57 1
- the game ends when one person uses all their letters silly. - loosilu Mar 13, 14:57
so, Who've you got for the AL and MS GOP primaries tonight? - znufrii Mar 13, 14:51 15
- He's got a pubic index of 8.6 -- nm - Max Mar 13, 16:00
- nobody and everybody -- (link) - pixitude Mar 13, 15:02 1
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- Romney sweeps. -- nm - spamlet Mar 13, 14:58 1
  - This. -- nm - Stephen Mar 13, 15:00
- If he sweeps the republican race will go plaid -- nm - eag Mar 13, 14:54 4
  - plaider. -- nm - jones Mar 13, 14:55 3
    - plaidist is if Newt wins one and Santorum wins the other. -- nm - Reagen Mar 13, 15:00
    - skank plaid -- nm - pixitude Mar 13, 14:58
    - I know, right? -- nm - znufrii Mar 13, 14:58
- what's the opposite of "society"? -- nm - Reagen Mar 13, 14:53
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  - This. Newt's got his ego to sustain, and Santorum's got his 2016 reputation to think of. - con_carne Mar 13, 15:19
  - Nate Silver was hilarious today. - znufrii Mar 13, 15:00
- i think i agree with the im -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 13, 14:52
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- He gets more money, you found that ç key. Win-win! -- nm - con_carne Mar 13, 14:47
- Wow. Guess they are fighting the penalties form yesterday, eh? -- nm - Spawn - The Blood Feud God Mar 13, 14:40 3
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  - No actual details on the guaranteed money in the contracts that I've seen - stewie Mar 13, 14:43
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Josh Morgan close to signing with the Redskins - stewie Mar 13, 14:38 1
- Oh for fucks sake. - Stephen Mar 13, 14:39
CB Jacob Lacey, a former unsigned free agent for the Colts, was not tendered a contract as a restricted free agent. -- nm - Remlik Mar 13, 14:37
That'll teach me to jump on the outrage bandwagon with you Lefties! - Stephen Mar 13, 14:35 28
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- Honestly I don't understand why it's less bothersome. If we're going to go down this path, why don't employers who are Jehovah's witnesses have the - pmb Mar 13, 14:39 23
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    - I'll admit to not reading the details, but the first thing that came to mind was - MojaveMeg Mar 13, 15:20 3
      - oh, employers can have access to your medical information. you have to sign away your rights to it, but they can get it. - b. Mar 13, 15:32
      - She's only required to disclose the information if she wants to be reimbursed. -- nm - mara Mar 13, 15:29 1
        
        but not to the employer. -- nm - loosilu Mar 13, 15:31
    - Anyone who a) saw who posted it, b) saw the blog header, c) read it, and d) still got took.... - TFox Mar 13, 14:50 9
      - *hangs head* multitasking/exhausted-brain fail! -- nm - b. Mar 13, 15:03 1
        
        er, please note, I didn't get past a and the comments here. -- nm - b. Mar 13, 15:03
      - I dunno, man. That's a *lot* of reading. -- nm - St.Vermin Mar 13, 14:58 2
        
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        It was meant to be posted with a 'dawson si' handle. -- nm - St.Vermin Mar 13, 15:37
      - I saw the blog header. Clicked through to the original link. Saw that blog header. Immediately googled the bill. - spamlet Mar 13, 14:57
      - What if you completely missed b), but if you hadn't you would have looked more closely? - Stephen Mar 13, 14:54 1
        
        yes -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 13, 14:54
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    - ya got zeitgot! -- nm - pixitude Mar 13, 14:46
  - that's my objection to the whole idea. -- nm - loosilu Mar 13, 14:43
  - Because while I don't believe that non religious institutions should have the right to deny coverage, that's a far cry from "if you take birth control - Stephen Mar 13, 14:43
  - saracasticly, i will say its because they arent a power in the religious right - tRuMaN Mar 13, 14:42
  - This. -- nm - Mop on Evo Mar 13, 14:41
  - /sues for having an office birthday party in my presence -- nm - Verminous Witness Mar 13, 14:41 1
    - *eats a donut in front of you* -- nm - znufrii Mar 13, 14:42
  - exactly. -- nm - b. Mar 13, 14:41
- Can we still vote people to New Zealand? That sounded like fun. -- nm - spamlet Mar 13, 14:38 2
  - Sure, but not Australia. I hear they don't like the Irish there very much. -- nm - Stephen Mar 13, 14:44 1
    - That's because the Irish were all convicts! -- nm - Roger More Mar 13, 15:12
Why bother legislating it if you're just going to puss out? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 13, 14:34 1
- because we're willing to accept the idea that the pill could, as it were, transubstantiate into a noncontraceptive drug? -- nm - loosilu Mar 13, 14:35
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- didn't you guys learn about picking up former All Star but now old and wounded QBs the first time? -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 13, 14:46 1
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- Poor ML - eag Mar 13, 14:36
- a viking at getting teams to kiss his feet -- nm - pixitude Mar 13, 14:35
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  - With clearing cap space - the speculations in Miami are maybe Peyton and Wayne would replace Marshall - Capstern Mar 13, 14:39 3
    - if i am the current miami HC, i wouldnt want peyton to come. - tRuMaN Mar 13, 14:41 2
      - Alot better than having an untested FA or a journeyman run the offense -- nm - eag Mar 13, 14:45 1
        
        no it isnt. - tRuMaN Mar 13, 14:48

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