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He got a ticket.

That will help – at least there won’t be much opportunity to argue over who’s at fault.

If you haven’t already done so, talk to a lawyer. Do NOT depend on your insurance company to represent your interests. Insurance companies represent their own interests, not yours, and will happily sell you out if they think they can save a buck or two.

Excellent advice. My car was t-boned by a driver who sailed through a stop sign. My car was totalled, I got $500 after *mucho* screaming and yelling. Mrs. K* has a serious prior condition, so getting rammed can be more damaging than for a healthy person. Lawyer, good idea.

The wingers have done their best to make hatred socially acceptable, even laudable. The more threats and venom Maniacal Malkkkin spews the more the wingers look up to her.

I can’t help but think these people are so full of self-hatred that they can’t bear it. The only way for them to ignore it is to direct their hatred and rage toward others.

Is Ann Coulter falling down on the job? Did she lose her only little black dress? Is Malkkkin replacing her as Vicountess of Vicious?

Here’s the most recent story on Annie C. from Editor & Publisher… http://www.editorandpublisher……1003531258

That will help – at least there won’t be much opportunity to argue over who’s at fault.

If you haven’t already done so, talk to a lawyer. Do NOT depend on your insurance company to represent your interests. Insurance companies represent their own interests, not yours, and will happily sell you out if they think they can save a buck or two.

Tell him to make sure and get a tetanus shot before he goes on Fox News.

After the invasion as I was driving through a bank deposit window and listining to a report about dead Americans (of course the report was not mentioning the dead Iraqi’s) the woman teller with her cross around her neck said “we should just nuke all of them, the whole middle east, every one of the scum”. Now there’s a Christian for you.

AND WE WONDER WHY PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD FEAR AND HATE US!

One of the Stewart letters featured a “picture of a recently deceased tsunami victim with a condition known as Priapism, an erect penis on a cadaver.” Handwritten on the picture were the words, “Jon Stewart, Fuck Your Wife.”
Stay Classy, Katherine Harris supporters!
Here are some of Castagana’s other white-powder MASH notes:
To Olbermann: “There are too many demagogues in America. All of you are poisoning the well! Time to give your kind a taste of your own medicine.”
To Redstone: “Fuck You Mr Monopolist [sic]”
To Letterman: “more then one way to frag a demagogue… your kind are the real poison [sic]”

To Pelosi: “CUNTFACE. IMPEACH THIS.”

Notice that the woman gets the nastiest note?

What does that tell you about Chad Castagna?

Helpless Dancer @ 148

newspaperbrat @ 144

What do you think of a new El Norte CA republic from Big Sur to the Canadian border?

I would have to say from Point Conception to the Canadian border. You don’t want to give up the central valley and all the other agricultural lands.

Much better – living so close to the Salinas Valley I’m embarrassed I neglected the great the central valley. Clearly time to stagger to bed.

Allow me to propose Arianna and Digby and FDL pups south enjoy dual citizenship. I’d enjoy encouraging denial of a passport for Dirty Harry until and unless he withdraws his million dollar plus campaign to game and thwart the preservation of the fragile old growth Del Monte Forest.

And so to sleep with good nite to all.

FiniFiniTOOBZ! @
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daCascadian @ 84

FiniFiniTOOBZ! >

“…decided between ourselves there would likely be no less than 5 different republics and maybe as many as 9 or 10 depending…”

“The Nine Nations of North America” by Joel Garreau (1981) is a recent book that started many people thinking about the possibilities. It is an interesting read.

Maybe you know of it.

“A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.” – Aldous Huxley

I actually had not ever heard of that book until now, but am gonna go order it from Amazon ASAP. That map is roughly what we considered would be a future map of N America. Shockingly close actually.

Love the Huxley quote too.

Sounds like a lot o’ Firepups will be in Ecotopia….

fortunate pups……