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Comment on Gun background checks: Fool me twice … by Jane H. Dominguez

Jane H. Dominguez — Sun, 19 May 2013 19:40:33 +0000

These polls are likely the result of dems’ lies that voting against Manchin/Toomey is synonymous with voting against background checks. I wonder how the results would differ if the respondents were informed up front that there was an alternate background check amendment introduced by Sen. Coburn (Manchin’s original putative co-sponsor, with whom he refused to compromise) that was blocked from even being voted on by Senate Democrats.

Comment on Does Louis Gohmert have brain damage? by Mac Léinn

Mac Léinn — Sun, 19 May 2013 12:16:34 +0000

Haha this was seriously funny! woke up w a laugh! thanks for including my article

Comment on A dog, a monkey and a lollypop by Tanya Kiesha Thompson

Tanya Kiesha Thompson — Sun, 19 May 2013 01:33:39 +0000

So cute!

Comment on So how’s Republican outreach doing? by Melanie Eaton

Melanie Eaton — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:49:21 +0000

The complete disregard of those who are in disadvantage is also palpable. We are not looking at an isolated incident of rhetoric or research. Others subscribe to motivating people to action by stating, “In California, a majority of all Hispanic births are illegitimate. That’s a lot of Democratic voters coming.” The discourse that moves the Republican Party is filled with this anti-immigrant movement and overall radicalization that is far removed from reality. Another quick example beyond the immigration debate happened during CPAC this year when a supporter shouted ““For giving him shelter and food for all those years?” while a moderator explained how Frederick Douglass had written a letter to his slave master saying that he forgave him for “all the things you did to me.” I think you get the idea.

Comment on Democrats are being spineless weasels again by mhasegawa

mhasegawa — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:21:21 +0000

On the other hand, there is there Mohammud Ali method of letting your opponent just tire themselves outl

Comment on ‘The Great Gatsby’: Joyously over the top by Young Maxwell

Young Maxwell — Sat, 18 May 2013 05:57:11 +0000

This third film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic 1925 novel was one of the most hyped movies of the summer of 1974. Robert Redford stars as self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby who uses his vast (and implicitly ill-gotten) fortune to buy his way into Long Island society. Most of all Gatsby wants to win back the love of socialite Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow) now married to old money Tom Buchanan (Bruce Dern). Calmly observing the passing parade is Nick Carraway (Sam Waterston) Gatsby’s best friend who narrates the film. Francis Ford Coppola’s screenplay is meticulously faithful to the original novel but Theoni Aldridge’s costume design and Nelson Riddle’s nostalgic musical score won the film its only Oscars. The huge supporting cast includes Howard da Silva who played Tom Wilson in the 1949 Great Gatsby and a very young Patsy Kensit as Daisy’s daughter.

Comment on Gun background checks: Fool me once … by Ginger G. Barron

Ginger G. Barron — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:31:16 +0000

Flake said the only reason he voted no was because of his concern that the requirement for background checks on internet sales is too costly and inconvenient, given the way guns are often sold among friends in his state of Arizona and others.

Comment on ‘The Great Gatsby’: Joyously over the top by The Great Gatsby : Movie Review | One in a LA Million

The Great Gatsby : Movie Review | One in a LA Million — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:05:34 +0000

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Comment on Kidnapped and forgotten by Amparo I. Mcleod

Amparo I. Mcleod — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:59:04 +0000

Michelle Knight’s grandmother, Deborah Knight, said she had not yet heard from police but was waiting for some kind of verification that one of the women is really her granddaughter. Although Michelle Knight was reported missing more than a decade ago, family members concluded that she probably left on her own because she was angry that her son was removed from her custody, the grandmother said. She said her daughter believed she had last seen Michelle Knight several years ago in a van with an older man at a shopping plaza on West 117th Street.

Comment on Taxes and Tea Baggers by hoboduke

hoboduke — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:33:46 +0000

Obama sounds stupid but of course he is brilliant. He learned about the problem in the news last week. Is he the chief executive for us dumb folk. No way he can manage the country after sequester cuts. So he reads newspapers to discover what his staff is doing. Incompetence nobody can attain except our brilliant ceo.