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TPM cAFE:tHROTTLING DIALOG AT EVERY TURN...

By jollyroger on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 6:55pm |
Not content with transforming relatively functional (if admittedly slow)  forum interface into a lumbering travesty that makes it impossible even to track ones own posts back more than a few days, the stalwarts at TOM Central, apparently, have imposed a...
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The REALLY Great Escape, 2008 (Steve McQueen as Mullah Omar, James Garner as Baitullah Mehsud

By jollyroger on Fri, 06/13/2008 - 7:01pm |
Are you kidding me?  In this version of the movie (Oliver Stone, pick up the phone...) everyone gets clean away.Freedom's on th' march fer sure...What kind of government is susceptible to this sort of evidence of  open irrelevance?  Someone who...
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Let's raise the gas tax $2.00/gallon and pay directly to the wealthiest.

By jollyroger on Thu, 05/01/2008 - 2:12pm |
*"We are the laughing stock of Europe because we keep [gasoline] taxes so cheap," notes Matthew Simmons, chairman of a Houston-based investment bank for the energy industry, Simmons & Co. InternationalA modest proposal:Jumping off from a suggestion broached by (!)...
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Michael Corleone to Hyman Roth::"In MY HOME! In MY BEDROOM!...IN THE FUCKIN' GREEN ZONE!"

By jollyroger on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 2:30am |
Am astonishing yawn has greeted the *first death of American soldiers by rocket fire in the Green Zone on Sunday.Not the insinuation into general commerce of a stealthy suicide bomber, not the furtive emplacement of a booby trap (IED), but...
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Roger Stone: Punk. Sets up prick prosecutor, makes cool blind brother Gov...

By jollyroger on Wed, 04/02/2008 - 6:00am |
If we wanted any better proof that the great right wing conspiracy is a caravan of clowns, consider this:Assuming (<i>arguendo,/i>) the truth of the story crediting Republican bad boy Roger Stone with letting the dogs out, so to speak, and...
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OBAMA!! BECAUSE BRAINS MATTER

By jollyroger on Sun, 03/23/2008 - 1:30am |
Geraldine Ferraro 's appreciation of Obama's DNA was merited, if misplaced:  Daddy was a Harvard PhD.(economics--yeah, it was news to ME too) and, of course, Editor in Chief, Harvard Law Review is a famous affirmative action slot... Which is offered in support of Michelle Obama's wry remark that the American people don't get a shot at president's...
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QUERY: Who was the genius behind Fred Thompson's kamikaze run? McCain?

By jollyroger on Wed, 01/23/2008 - 3:42pm |
His mission accomplished, the man who, famously, "campaigned as if he really didn't want to be president" (hint: he didn't), gratefully returns to private life. Assuming (as we may without excessive cynicism) that the sole purpose of his run was...
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Middle aged men rejuvenated by steroids and growth hormone; Can I please have some?

By jollyroger on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 2:34pm |
As the shitstorm swirls around yesterday's Boys of Summer, now the goats of Fall, may we not pause a moment in wonder at the miracles of chemistry? Just because teenage boys (already suffering from testosterone poisoning...) ought not bump their...
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FORTNEY RACE HEATS UP; SCHUMER, FEINSTEIN STELLAR IN SENATE SET-TO

By jollyroger on Sat, 11/03/2007 - 10:31am |
Profoundly betraying principle and party, the hands that held the dagger have struck it into the back of the constitution. Only someone extorted by the most exquisite blackmail could be so base as these two. (Help me, Jesus, Dianne is...
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Mukasey replied, “I don’t know what is involved in the technique.”

By jollyroger on Wed, 10/31/2007 - 10:58am |
Mukasey appears to be the only person over the age of 5 in the entire country who doesn't know what waterboarding is. As we reflect on the astonishing sequel to that preposterous assertion, viz: an additional several days to come...

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