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So wrong on so many levels; yet so common.
Topic Started: Jul 19 2008, 02:34 AM (365 Views)
lb1
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Hat tip to George.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...toryId=92592545

My position is simple: you jumped to an unwarranted conclusion and slung mud on an issue where none was deserved. Quirt 03/08/09
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jon-nyc
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Cheers
How do people get so large? I really don't get it.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
I sure don't understand how they maintain it at $102 a month.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Jeffrey
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Carbs. :)

"Instead, they eat a lot of starches like potatoes and noodles."
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lb1
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Mikhailoh
Jul 19 2008, 04:12 AM
I sure don't understand how they maintain it at $102 a month.

Click on this section

Nunez Family Economic Snapshot.

It looks like they spend $250 per month on top of the food stamps.

How could a media outlet pick someone as ridiculous as this to portray in an article. The Onion couldn't have dreamed up someone like this.

lb
My position is simple: you jumped to an unwarranted conclusion and slung mud on an issue where none was deserved. Quirt 03/08/09
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The American dream. Starve to death whilst weighing 400 pounds.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Red Rice
HOLY CARP!!!
lb1
Jul 19 2008, 04:24 AM
How could a media outlet pick someone as ridiculous as this to portray in an article. The Onion couldn't have dreamed up someone like this.


Agreed.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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Horace
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That's a very very large culture. Walking through the mission district in san francisco, which is sort of a Latinotown, there is nary a thin person to be seen.
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Horace
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HOLY CARP!!!
But yes NPR runs anecdotal "news" stories like that all the time. If you have a sob story and it has a tangential relationship with something that's the government's fault, they'll treat it like a news story.
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Aqua Letifer
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Horace
Jul 19 2008, 07:29 AM
But yes NPR runs anecdotal "news" stories like that all the time. If you have a sob story and it has a tangential relationship with something that's the government's fault, they'll treat it like a news story.

How's that make them any different than any other news source?

They all do that. It's called a human interest story.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Horace
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HOLY CARP!!!
Aqua Letifer
Jul 19 2008, 07:48 AM
Horace
Jul 19 2008, 07:29 AM
But yes NPR runs anecdotal "news" stories like that all the time. If you have a sob story and it has a tangential relationship with something that's the government's fault, they'll treat it like a news story.

How's that make them any different than any other news source?

They all do that. It's called a human interest story.

Human interest stories should be squirrels waterskiiing. They should never be anything other than squirrels waterskiing.

I heard Bush intentionally drowned a waterskiing squirrel yesterday. Just for the fun of it. :(
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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Aqua Letifer
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Horace
Jul 19 2008, 08:13 AM
Human interest stories should be squirrels waterskiiing.  They should never be anything other than squirrels waterskiing.

I heard Bush intentionally drowned a waterskiing squirrel yesterday.  Just for the fun of it. :(

You heard that from a treehugging liberal rag. Completely untrue.

He merely tried to give it a bath.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Aqua Letifer
Jul 19 2008, 12:17 PM
Horace
Jul 19 2008, 08:13 AM
Human interest stories should be squirrels waterskiiing.  They should never be anything other than squirrels waterskiing.

I heard Bush intentionally drowned a waterskiing squirrel yesterday.  Just for the fun of it. :(

You heard that from a treehugging liberal rag. Completely untrue.

He merely tried to give it a bath.

But he did so without first obtaining the squirrel's informed consent or a proper court order, hence violated the Constitution.
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Horace
Jul 19 2008, 12:13 PM
Aqua Letifer
Jul 19 2008, 07:48 AM
Horace
Jul 19 2008, 07:29 AM
But yes NPR runs anecdotal "news" stories like that all the time. If you have a sob story and it has a tangential relationship with something that's the government's fault, they'll treat it like a news story.

How's that make them any different than any other news source?

They all do that. It's called a human interest story.

Human interest stories should be squirrels waterskiiing. They should never be anything other than squirrels waterskiing.

I heard Bush intentionally drowned a waterskiing squirrel yesterday. Just for the fun of it. :(

He didn't do it just for the fun of it. He did it because his sources told him it had nuts of mass destruction.


When I say 'sources', I actually the mean the voice in his head he thinks is Jesus.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Horace
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John D'Oh
Jul 19 2008, 05:13 PM
Horace
Jul 19 2008, 12:13 PM
Human interest stories should be squirrels waterskiiing.  They should never be anything other than squirrels waterskiing.

I heard Bush intentionally drowned a waterskiing squirrel yesterday.  Just for the fun of it. :(

He didn't do it just for the fun of it. He did it because his sources told him it had nuts of mass destruction.

He calls the left one "mass" and the right one "destruction".

(If you squint, you can see that the left one hangs lower, proving his claims.)

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(I just knew Google Image Search for "squirrel nuts" wouldn't disappoint.....)
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:lol:
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Horace
Jul 19 2008, 09:29 PM
(I just knew Google Image Search for "squirrel nuts" wouldn't disappoint.....)

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Squirrel Nut Zippers kick ass!! :thumb: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, too! :sing:
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Frank_W
Jul 21 2008, 11:35 AM
Squirrel Nut Zippers kick ass!! :thumb: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, too! :sing:

Royal Crown Revue > Squirrel Nut Zippers >> Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. :smile:
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Cherry Poppin' Daddies>Royal Crown Revue > Squirrel Nut Zippers >> Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
A guide to GKSR: Click

"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

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Brian Setzer Orchestra, too. Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller... I love all that stuff. Big Band and Swing is the shiz.... :) I flip the cable box over to the Big Band music channel, when I'm shooting pool. :thumb:
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We feel like frickin Jesus when we swing!

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(btw, Backdoor Coeds > Cherry Poppin Daddys. giggity giggity...or maybe thats a different sequence...)
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