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• • 08 Jan 08
  • 7:37 pm

  This story is just plain sick on so many levels it's hard to know where to begin. Classifying information for "national security" purposes is one thing. I think many people would even agree that it is necessary to keep the public in the dark on some matters (although as a proponent of open government, I would not be one of them). But classifying random information just for the sake of classifying random information is so freaking Orwellian, it's not funny. And it's definitely NOT a game. Maybe the government thinks it is, but for many freedom-loving Americans, the stakes are all …

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• • 08 Jan 08
  • 7:54 pm

  By the way, does anybody know how to change the little flag in the lower left corner of the comments? Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch, aber ich bin Amerikaner. (My apologies to any speakers of that great precursor to the English language. I'm sure I butchered that sentence pretty badly.)

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• • 31 Dec 07
  • 2:09 pm

  "They win occasionally by outright theft..." You must mean like Bush in 2000? Or maybe Bush again in 2004 (betcha didn't know that certain Ohio Republicans are going to jail over that election)? You have clearly studied at the Joseph Goebbels School of Propaganda, just like Rudy Giuliani and most other Republicans. Fear of milk lines? Please.

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• • 01 Jan 08
  • 7:02 pm

  Scorp-- Check out http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen. I'm sure you'll probably turn typical right-wing lunatic and start screaming "LIBERAL MEDIA!" but the article is impeccably sourced and should put to rest any doubts you have regarding the true nature of the lying, cheating, full-of-their-own-feces Repugnicans. Exit-poll statistical impossibilities, the misdeeds of Ken Blackwell, "caging" of minority voters, illegal disenfranchisement of ex-felons, barriers to registration in violation of the Voting Rights Act, illegal orders preventing the distribution of provisional ballots, eliminating precincts in Democratic-leaning areas without providing additional voting machines, even a faked terrorist threat that allowed Blackwell's Repugnican cronies to perform the recount without …

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• • 01 Jan 08
  • 10:21 pm

  I never said anything about the Supreme Court's decision. 13 paragraphs down in the Blade article for the statement about Dreamer's party affiliation. Gramsci was an Italian socialist, communist, and anti-fascist in the early 1900s, you elitist jerk. I won't even dignify the ridiculously framed questions in the rest of your comment.

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