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UNDER THE INFLUENCE

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                         THE INFLUENCE (By Nast)

Grandpa died last week and now he’s buried in the rocks. Everybody still talks about how badly they were shocked. But me, I expected it to happen. I knew he lost control. When he built a fire on mainstreet and shot it full of holes. BDylan

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DANA MILBANK & THE MORMONS

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                            GLENN BECK IN UNIFORM

Talk about Jewish fatigue. ahahahah (Q thinks if I mention Jewish Fatigue I get extra reads. hahahahah)

Dana Milbank used to be a favorite pundit of mine. Then he got into some scuffle with Keith Olbermann and kind faded away.

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KING PERRY

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                                  THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

Frank Rich in describing O’Donnell the candidate for Biden’s old Senate seat in Delaware gave the best description of the Republican Party I have come across in some time:

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MONSTER MASH


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THE END IS NEAR!!

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A week from tomorrow, it will be 10/10/10.

The tenth day of the tenth month of the tenth year of the new millenium.

Ominous?

I am sure God is attempting to tell me something.

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A little over four years ago I decided to prepare for the end of things.

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CONFESSIONS

 

 

This entire narrative is taken from my own vague memories. I cannot access archives of the Minneapolis Tribune partly because it costs money and partly because the archives available only go back to 1986.

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AMERICAN PIE

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                      THE NEW WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION

 

I am having trouble concentrating today because my attention has been redrawn to the first year of the previous Presidential Administration.

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MILLER'S MALICIOUS MILITIAS & CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS

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                               DOMESTIC TERRORIST

 

 

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