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"Perón is the heart, the soul, the nerve, and the reality of the Argentine people. We all know that there is only one man in our movement with his own source of light. We all feed off of that light. And that man is Perón!" — 1951 speech by Eva Perón
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sick of this soundtrack
- my friends, tell me about who made this********
- cause they are going to gitmo********
- we are so fuckedfooler2
- my friends, tell me about who made this
- ukit0
Fu*k this!
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Lehman Sees $3.9 Billion Loss and Plans to Shed Assets
- my friends, that's alot of red lipstick********
- I fuckin hate when mccain says "my friends" and his artificial smile like a pile of shitMirpour
- my friends, that's alot of red lipstick
- mikotondria30
At least Obama doesn't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunts.
Eh ? EH!!??
- my friends, I dream about Max Factor and Enron...heh Revlon********
- "Plastered over my cuntish wife..what? Obama is sexist ? - is he one of my friends ?"mikotondria3
- my friends, I dream about Max Factor and Enron...heh Revlon
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Bin Laden, a 51-year-old Saudi, has thwarted the U.S. government's attempts to catch him since 1998, when he signed a fatwa calling for attacks on Americans and ordered the bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa.
Today, seven years after he masterminded the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, bin Laden is believed to wear disguises routinely and takes extreme care to avoid electronic communications, relying on human couriers to pass messages, officials said.
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He kept photos of al-Qaeda leaders in his desk and showed how he had crossed through the pictures with a large "X" as each suspected terrorist was killed or captured. He explained: "One time early on, I said: 'I'm a baseball fan. I want a scorecard.' "
He confidently laid out grand goals. "We're going to root out terror wherever it may exist," he said. He talked of achieving "world peace" and of creating unity at home. "The job of the president," he said, "is to unite the nation."
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Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan's room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses.
This is the world of Building 18, not the kind of place where Duncan expected to recover when he was evacuated to Walter Reed Army Medical Center
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- My friends, pain is just weakness leaving the body, democracy is just weakness leaving the country********
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On September 7, 2008, FHFA director Lockhart announced he had put Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under the conservatorship of the FHFA.[10][3] The action is "one of the most sweeping government interventions in private financial markets in decades".[11] U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson , appearing at the same press conference, stated that placing the two GSEs into conservatorship was a decision he fully supported, and said that he advised "that conservatorship was the only form in which I would commit taxpayer money to the GSEs." He further said that "I attribute the need for today's action primarily to the inherent conflict and flawed business model embedded in the GSE structure, and to the ongoing housing correction.".[12]
- My friends, if this were private the market would have corrected it long ago just like Bear Stearns.********
- My friends, Charles Keating would never have let this happen********
- i have to say i agree w/cap. this is what happens when you let the gov't run something like this...sputnik2
- ...and give people loans which they definitely couldn't otherwise afford.sputnik2
- My friends, if this were private the market would have corrected it long ago just like Bear Stearns.
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From 1995 to 2007, the number of jail inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents rose from 193 to 259.
- mikotondria30
please let someone else post something on this page, cap ?
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you are not the decider
- mikotondria30
No, you are, that's why I directed my question to you...
It's not difficult.
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why should he not post these angry-making facts?
- mikotondria30
Yeh, I totally agree with him.
They just made me so angry I needed to lash out, and I'm afraid cap was unjustly targetted. Im no better than those I would seek to destroy.
I'm sorry, Cap, can't we get back to being friends, or at least people whose name we read next to posts on a website ? Shake ?- everything makes me angry these days********
- my friends********
- I'll keep it to a low howl, no hard feelings,********
- everything makes me angry these days
- Mirpour0
"she didn't come with a list of topics that we weren't allowed to touch. Nope, that's because she has nothing to hide."
FUCK is she sayin?? that they could ask michelle whatever they wanted on their show?
- nadnerb0
Anyone hear about the "lipstick on a pig" thing today? Fucking ridiculous.
"Obama argued that McCain's policies were similar to those of President George Bush even though Republicans were trying to repackage themselves as agents of change, an Obama theme. Obama said it was like putting lipstick on a pig, a reference that the McCain camp said was a sexist dig at GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin."
- they're desperate and americans will unfortunately believe anything that they're fed within 10 second clips without putting it into context...patrykbot5000
- into context.patrykbot5000
- robotron3k0
meanwhile, on the other side of the world...
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.asp…
hidden well out of the American press...
- 21 US soliders in mass suicide.robotron3k
- there needs to be another source for this??lowimpakt
- suicide is not new to the military...
http://www.alternet.…robotron3k - I know it's not new - in service and on return but I need more evidence of a mass suicide event. i'm picky....lowimpakt
- yes, it could be propaganda..robotron3k
- not to detract from the very real problem of army suicide..lowimpakt
- Is that an Iranian site? Grain of salt a boulder wide.TheBlueOne
- thats an iranian site ..they usually copy stuff like the entire BBC news site LOLMirpour
- do you need a second source for the massacres of families?KwesiJ
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"Jonathan Weisman at WaPo has a story about the damn lying:
From the moment Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin declared that she opposed the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere," critics, the news media and nonpartisan fact checkers have called it a fabrication, a distortion or, at best, a half-truth. But yesterday in Lebanon, Ohio, and again in Lancaster, Pa., she crossed that bridge again.
"I told Congress: 'Thanks but no thanks for that Bridge to Nowhere up in Alaska,' " Palin told the crowds at the "McCain Street USA" rallies. "If we wanted a bridge, we'll build it ourselves."
Palin's position on the bridge that would have linked Ketchikan to Gravina Island is one example of a candidate staying on message even when that message has been publicly discredited. Palin has continued to say she opposed a project she once campaigned for -- then killed later, only after support for it had collapsed in Congress.
I maybe detect a wee bit of an exasperated tone, in those opening paragraphs -- or perhaps it is just wishful thinking. But it's not all that often that you can see a report that pretty much says "yep, it's a lie," and even in this article Weisman bends over backwards for "balance" against lies coming directly from the Republican candidates' mouths.
So then, what's the Republican response?
John Feehery, a Republican strategist, said the campaign is entering a stage in which skirmishes over the facts are less important than the dominant themes that are forming voters' opinions of the candidates.
"The more the New York Times and The Washington Post go after Sarah Palin, the better off she is, because there's a bigger truth out there and the bigger truths are she's new, she's popular in Alaska and she is an insurgent," Feehery said. "As long as those are out there, these little facts don't really matter."
Yeah -- piss off, all you media truth thugs. Palin's an insurgent, and to insurgents facts don't matter. Only themes. (Since when were we using the word insurgent as a good thing, by the way? Somebody needs to go back to their Newspeak manual.)
Honestly. I know I keep repeating myself, in recent posts, but is this really what we have devolved to? That, quote, "these little facts" are secondary, in elections, and there's not a damn thing we can do about it? Candidates for the presidency can simply lie through their teeth, and it is a good thing, because the ability to affect the narrative via a repeated lie is much more useful than any possible blowback for telling that lie?
Then what do we have elections for? If I can simply stand up and say "so-and-so's tax policy will cost you all one million dollars each," when it won't, or "so-and-so is a supporter of infanticide," when he isn't, or "so-and-so wants to show your children dirty pictures," when it's not true, or "I was against this bad thing" when we've got freakin' film of you supporting it -- what's the point? It is impossible to have a democracy without informed voters, and it is impossible to have informed voters when you are going out of your way to lie to them.
I said it yesterday, and I'll say it again. Crooks. That's the only word for it. There's no noble or higher purpose here, there's nothing admirable about it, not even in the most brutal, Machiavellian sense. They're liars. They're crooks. It is taken as a Republican given that anything that can gain power is justifiable, regardless of how loathsome it is or how depraved the fabrication.
If we welcome open, direct lies into our political discourse, it's not political discourse anymore -- just the oratorical equivalent of an organized crime ring. McCain knows he can lie through his teeth and almost nobody will truly call him out on it -- at least, not compared to all the people who will hear the lie. That's been the strategy for every election involving the old Nixonites, from then until now, and there's no chance it's going to go away until there is a price to be paid for being a nationally televised liar. So when's that going to be?"