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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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I just learned that Justice Kennedy has no relation to the Kennedy family.
And that Governor Cuomo and Arnold Schwarzenegger do.
edited 29th Oct '12 10:41:30 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016@death: The mayor stopped by my high school once. I lobbied him to lobby people to get us a dairy queen. My civics teacher was not amused.
edited 29th Oct '12 11:07:44 PM by thatguythere47
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?@theWeirdKiddoKun: I actually thought you were talking about Nick Perry, the Trojan and Packer
at first. And I'm like, what does a football player have anything to do with this?
Trump has kindly extended his $5 mil offer in light of the hurricane. Obama may exploit this tragedy to flood the states with dirty government money, but don't be fooled!
It's a tradeoff between exploiting one man's ego for free cash and appearing 'weak' to give in to conspiracy theorist demands as president of the United States. Since he's in campaign mode, Obama is likely more concerned with the latter than the former.
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.NJ Gov. Christie praises Obama for helping him out with starting up disaster relief.
Watch out its got a video if you don't like that sort of thing.
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."![]()
in before "chris christie isn't a real conservatuive"
Good to know that Obama's and christie both are already coordinating like mad to get relief efforts going. From what I've been hearing New Jersey got absolutely demolished.
So its rather heartening to see a big name conservative willing to utterly ignore partisanship in favor of getting relief to his constituents in their time of need. And to know Obama was willing to call Christie all night (I believe the weather channel said christie and obama talks a whole 12 times overnight) on coordinating aid efforts asap.
edited 30th Oct '12 9:45:08 AM by Midgetsnowman
Bush's FEMA director thinks Obama acted too quickly in dealing with Sandy
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/30/1110901/bush-fema-director-katrina-hits-obama-sandy/
He's trying to score political points in the cheapest way possible.
Yeah, you can go fuck yourself, buddy.
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.

...I did not know there was a politician whose name is so unfortunately close to Rick Perry...
edited 29th Oct '12 10:36:46 PM by deathpigeon