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WiseButAngrySara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:19 PM
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"Help is on the Way!" Has anyone else noticed this phrase with irony?
The media keeps emphasizing this quote: "Help is on the Way", and it reminds me so painfully and poignantly of election 2004. Just imagine if Kerry Edwards "hope is no the way" had become reality! We would not currently be in a death trap quagmire in Iraq or NOLA and the Gulf States. Messopottamia and MessoGulfCoast! It makes me bitter.
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orpupilofnature57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:24 PM
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1. HOW DID THOSE HOTEL GUESTS MAKE THEIR WAY?
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WiseButAngrySara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:44 PM
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6. How did all of the private hospitals make their way? Not Charity....n/t
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:25 PM
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Every time I hear it, I think of
Andy Kaufman on an early SNL lip-synching "Here I come to save the daaayyyy!" from the Mighty Mouse theme song.
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:25 PM
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2. "Duck Soup" springs to mind.
Edited on Sat Sep-03-05 04:25 PM by mcscajun
Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania.

"Help is on the way!" (followed by trumpets)
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:47 PM
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10. LOL! I forgot about that
"We got guns, they got guns, all god's chillun got guns."
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:25 PM
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3. "The check is in the mail"
Every it as applicable.
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BQueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:36 PM
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4. I thought Edwards should get a bus with
Edited on Sat Sep-03-05 04:43 PM by BQueen
the "Hope..." slogan on the side and lead a caravan down there so we could DEMAND to be allowed in to help/feed/evacuate people (I really did post this last night before Gore flew in today, honest...)

edit for spelling
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WiseButAngrySara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:43 PM
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5. I wish Edwards would...glad that Gore is.......n/t
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BQueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:47 PM
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11. At least SOMEone's acting Presidential...sigh...n/t
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WiseButAngrySara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:50 PM
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12. Sigh is right! What kind of photo op is B* Bast...going to have when
we have an actual body count of this? He is a MURDERER!
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:44 PM
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7. Hell is on the way.... and has been for 5 years now.
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WiseButAngrySara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:53 PM
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13. Really! These people seem to get what they wish for as in "Apocalypse
Now!"
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CityZen-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:45 PM
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8. As In...
the check is in the mail/
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:46 PM
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9. If people would have been smart (in 2004), help would have been there
and, quite possibly, could have minimized much of the damage . . .
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WiseButAngrySara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 04:55 PM
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14. I believe that, though judging from the sarcasm of most of the remarks,
I think that's a minority view here!
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