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I don't get chain emails. In the past, any time someone sent one to me, I would reply all and point them to the article on snopes about how the email is bull****. After a while, people got tired of being embarrassed and stopped sending me their waste.

03-15-2012 , 04:37 PM

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Riverman

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because people like to be angry. 20 million people listen to rush limbaugh yo.

i mean it kind of makes sense, would you rather blame your ****ty life on 'the liberals' or nod along to rush/hannity/levin/malkin/coulter?

03-15-2012 , 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Riverman

but my point is, as best I can tell, angry chainmails seem to be largely dominated by the right. So either they're angrier the left or there's something else different about the two cultures that has one side generating more of this crap then the other.

03-15-2012 , 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

So of course he's blocking all oil production in this country where ever he can, which is directly leading to higher gas prices. This will make everyone dependent on the govt, which will allow him to usher in full-blown communism.

I don't need no fancy book-learnin' to tell me that's what's going on. Hannity said it. I believe it. That settles it.

I have been listening to a lot of Republican talk radio lately. It's high comedy. The oil issue is one of my favorite contradictions that I hear repeated relatively constantly, especially from Hannity. These guys are hardcore free market, get your hands off my economy, etc etc obviously.

A huge talking point is that US public oil production is at its lowest in some period of time, maybe ever. But private US oil production is at its highest point ever. Which you would think would be a Republican's wet dream. But no, this is bad! More government in my oil please sir.

03-15-2012 , 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by kurto

Maybe it's because the American left doesn't attract and produce nearly as many crazies as the right does.

03-15-2012 , 06:04 PM

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Im pretty sure the left wing equiv of chain emails is retweeting about how something should be done about Kony and that its a conspiracy that they have never heard of him before.

03-15-2012 , 06:32 PM

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joeyDizzle

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Oh, is this another my side isn't as bad/dumb/evil/reptilian as your side?

Both sides are scum of the earth.

03-15-2012 , 06:46 PM

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DVaut1 made a post suggesting the reason right-wing chain letters are more common than left-wing ones is that email is often the only part of the internet old white people understand, and many of his [and our] relatives are old white people.

03-15-2012 , 06:55 PM

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DVaut1

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Originally Posted by Nichlemn

THIS

03-15-2012 , 06:59 PM

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Riverman

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Drudge tho

03-15-2012 , 08:17 PM

#21236

hadrian_x

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General Match-ups

Rasmussen

Obama 45% Romney 47%
Obama 46% Santorum 45%

Fox News

Obama 46% Romney 42%
Obama 51% Santorum 39%

State Match-ups

Florida (Rasmussen)

Obama 46% Romney 43%
Obama 45% Romney 43%

Pennsylvania (Quinnipiac)

Obama 46% Romney 40%
Obama 46% Santorum 45%

N. Carolina (PPP)

Obama 49% Romney 46%
Obama 49% Santorum 44%

03-15-2012 , 08:26 PM

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DVaut1

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http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/14/vi...th-pants-down/

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Santorum says in a statement posted to his website, “The Obama Administration has turned a blind eye to those who wish to preserve our culture from the scourge of pornography and has refused to enforce obscenity laws.”

If elected, he promises to “vigorously” enforce laws that “prohibit distribution of hardcore (obscene) pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite TV, on hotel/motel TV, in retail shops and through the mail or by common carrier.”

GTFO, it's like he's not even trying to win imo.

03-15-2012 , 08:30 PM

#21238

MrWookie

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Yeah, he was ringing that bell last month, too. LOL Santorum.

03-15-2012 , 08:32 PM

#21239

ikestoys

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Originally Posted by Riverman

Drudge tho

Drudge is about the simplest website ever

03-15-2012 , 08:33 PM

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DVaut1

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I'm more convinced than ever he's just going for some kind of post-election conservative Christian pundit gig, like I don't see how you can win political battles promising to restrict access to America's favorite and most popular online content.

03-15-2012 , 08:33 PM

#21241

joeyDizzle

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Nichlemn

ok, sorry, i just read from the start of this page

been in extra overdrive waaf mode

03-15-2012 , 10:28 PM

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Low Key

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Originally Posted by Nichlemn

Quote:

Originally Posted by DVaut1

THIS

did you just agree with yourself?

03-16-2012 , 12:01 AM

#21243

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Theory is more solid than quantum mechanics IMO.

03-16-2012 , 12:00 PM

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Sarah Palin may be available to run. Oh joy.

http://thepage.time.com/2012/02/15/available/

03-16-2012 , 12:30 PM

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NameOnTheCake

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watched the julianne moore palin move this weekend. it was pretty good!

03-16-2012 , 01:02 PM

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I dunno what is less likely, Palin being chosen in a brokered convention or Obama being ruled a Kenyan usurper unable to compete for the presidency.

03-16-2012 , 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by [Phill]

I dunno what is less likely, Palin being chosen in a brokered convention or Obama being ruled a Kenyan usurper unable to compete for the presidency.

Weird proposition since the 2nd one is very likely.

03-16-2012 , 01:55 PM

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Newt:
“And our political system is so methodically and deliberately stupid – and I use that word deliberately, the willful avoidance of knowledge -- that it’s astonishing,”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/..._election-2012

03-16-2012 , 02:06 PM

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Dids

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Rick Santorum seems to be doing an excellent job of appealing to voters who were already going to vote for Rick Santorum and chasing away anybody who wasn't. I have no idea how, but I'd love to see somebody try and figure out some sort of dollars spent to voters swayed calculation for him. I feel like in the end he's going to have spent millions of dollars to bring less than 5000 people onto Team "That guy hates the **** the most- he's for me".