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LoneScrappler
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2 weeks ago @ Big Government - State Needs More Reven... · 0 replies · +1 points
Now my advice for those who die, (Taxman !)
Declare the pennies on your eyes. (Taxman !)
'Cause I'm the taxman,
Yeah, I'm the taxman.
And you're working for no one but me.
Taxman !
2 weeks ago @ Big Government - Thursday Open Thread: ... · 0 replies · +1 points
You thought the last time was fun? Wait ‘til they have nukes !
Tick ... tick ... tick ...
Grandmas sit in chairs and reminisce
Boys keep chasing girls to get a kiss
The cars keep going faster all the time
Bums still cry "hey buddy, have you got a dime"
And the beat goes on, the beat goes on
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain
La de da de de, la de da de da
3 weeks ago @ Big Government - Evidence-Based Health ... · 1 reply · +1 points
Oxymoron ...
4 weeks ago @ Big Government - Harry Reid: Obama 'Lig... · 1 reply · +3 points
“I mean, you got the first main-stream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy … ”
~ Joe Biden, describing Barack Obama, in an interview (dated February 4, 2007) with Jason Horowitz of The New York Observer.
1 week ago @ ScrappleFace - State of the Union Spe... · 0 replies · +1 points
“Whenever we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”
-- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) ; from Common Sense (1776)
2 weeks ago @ ScrappleFace - Obama: Coakley Victori... · 0 replies · +1 points
“Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.”
-- Lord Chesterfield (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield) ; letter to his son,
dated November 29, 1745
2 weeks ago @ ScrappleFace - Obama: Coakley Victori... · 1 reply · +1 points
“The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.”
-- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
3 weeks ago @ ScrappleFace - Reid Adds 'Skin Lighte... · 0 replies · +1 points
But for right now, it's gonna stay there.
Just exactly how that all fits in with an earthquake 219 years later is another question.
3 weeks ago @ ScrappleFace - Reid Adds 'Skin Lighte... · 0 replies · +1 points
A brief excerpt taken from another blog ...
On August 14, 1791, a group of houngans (voodoo priests), led by a former slave houngan named Boukman, made a pact with the Devil at a place called Bois-Caiman. All present vowed to exterminate all of the white Frenchmen on the island. They sacrificed a black pig in a voodoo ritual at which hundreds of slaves drank the pig’s blood. In this ritual, Boukman asked Satan for his help in liberating Haiti from the French. In exchange, the voodoo priests offered to give the country to Satan for 200 years and swore to serve him. On January 1, 1804, the nation of Haiti was born …
4 weeks ago @ ScrappleFace - C-Span Ban Protects Pr... · 0 replies · +1 points
Hear, you must hear what the people say.
You know there's something goin' on around here,
that surely, surely, surely won't stand the light of day.
And it appears to be a long,
appears to be a long,
appears to be a long
time, yes, a long, long, long, long time before the dawn.
-- David Crosby
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