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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:03 PM
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what will it take to bring this corrupt administration to justice? predictions anyone?
Edited on Sun Jun-24-07 07:04 PM by greenbriar
just take a guess on what finally will bring them down?







guess I am really asking for hope to an end of this putrid bunch
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:09 PM
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1. Banging pots and pans in the street
in a mass demonstration all over the country? I don't know, but I think it will take something loud and noisy like that.
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Nitrogenica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:13 PM
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2. It seems all that matters to a lot of Americans is money.
A large downturn in the economy, which would be unfortunate for all of us, might just be what would finally take them all down.
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:13 PM
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3. With all that is known, they should have been out of there years ago.
But yet they are still there openly committing crime after crime. They're never going down. They'll all walk away with their money. It seems like nobody wants to do anything about it. Nobody who can anyway.
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:14 PM
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4. that is what depresses me
greatly


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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:54 PM
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21. Mr. Slayer, I am optimistic for the first time
The Washington Post is posting a 4 part series starting today regarding Cheney, showing him in a negative light. The fact
that the Press is now objectively reviewing Bush and Cheney will make a big difference. Their strategy has always been
to hide everything and attack anyone who asks questions. Once the facts come to light, I have hope.
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 08:01 PM
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22. thanks
for that
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 09:17 PM
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35. Well, I hope you're right.
I haven't seen anything about it on the "news" and I fear that this will go the way of every other "nail in the coffin" that has come and gone.
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 09:23 PM
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39. MSNBC announced it Sat. night before it was published
You should go read it, it says that Cheney has a man-size safe that he keeps his documents in, even his daily correspondence
is kept there and considered top secret classified. It's worth a trip to the Washington Post to read it, it's 4 part series
starting today.
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 09:33 PM
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41. Oh, Mr. Slayer, I forgot the rumor about the article
The rumor is that the information is coming from Libby becuz there are a number of details from top level meetings that Cheney
attended, and Sec. Rice, Mr. Hadley, Bush and Libby, now which one of them would be the most likely to be talking to
the Washington Post. My bet is that it is not Cheney or Bush.
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:18 PM
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5. Impeachment of Bush and Cheney, have Nancy Pelosi assume the presidency
...fire everyone in the present Bush cabinet and install ALL democrats and competent advisers who will tear down all the wrong things done in the last 45 years, close the Federal Reserve Bank and have the federal government take over the banking system, stablize the U.S. dollar making it the world standard again and begin an FDR style New Deal economic recovery program to get the country working again.
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 09:26 PM
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40. Righto, and No. 1 priority jobs and rebuild the Gulf Coast
make a civillian job corps and let them rebuilt the Gulf just like the WPA built the roads, libraries, dams throughout our
country that are still in use today. There are 500,000 homes destroyed, still sitting down there.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:19 PM
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6. Justice for Cheney will take a Wooden Stake
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:20 PM
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8. as long as he's tied to it and set ablaze
I'll even PAY to watch it live via pay per view. :grr:
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:24 PM
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11. No, not Cheney steaks, Cheney kabobed thru the heart
Vampires rise from the ashes like the Phoenix.
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:25 PM
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14. stake thru the heart would finish it TOO fast
Considering what he's done to the country, he needs to be a live, shrieking crispy critter for awhile.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:31 PM
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15. Perhaps then, a bodysuit of garlic?
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 08:12 PM
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23. not enough.
first, electrocution with high powerlines directly from Chernobyl. Then, chop up the parts in the deluxe French made version of the Cuisinart, followed by spreading the remains in front of a field of diarrhetic stampeding elephants (for the GOP flavor).
Then rake up all the bits (can't let any go to waste), toss them into a standard US Navy industrial sized microwave oven (their largest size is 6ft by 6ft by 8ft), then take the parts and mix them gently in a bath (1/3 sulphuric, 1/3 nitric, 1/3 glycerine) being careful not to make any sparks, then pour gently into a pre-formed mix of portland cement with rebar, then covered in a welded hardened case of stainless steel, covered with asbestos spray, covered again in a three inch pour of Galena's finest lead, and finally encased in the latest generation plastic, impervious to any natural or artificial energy source.

Then take the oldest shuttle, retrofit it to work on remote, attach four powered modules to it, and blast it into orbit. Use the robot arm to attach the Power Modules, then send it off, using the moon's gravity well to accelerate it directly into the sun.

That may not be enough either.
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 10:02 PM
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43. Well day-um son!
I thought I was being nasty thinking of burning at the stake! I did want to add drawing and quartering, but if we go with your post - mine seems pitiful. :rofl:
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 09:59 PM
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42. for him or us?
He is a corporate vampire of the worst kind.
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sutz12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:19 PM
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7. An act of god.....? Seriously, god is on his side. nt
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:23 PM
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9. Nah, Gott Mitt Uns, is just Cheney's favorite belt buckle
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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:24 PM
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10. the next bunch....
will be more of the same! They're already bought and paid for!
The zeitgeist will continue!
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:40 PM
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20. we had better have this world enter a spiritual revolution
if we are to counter the amount of corruption embedded within the many nation's governments...
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:24 PM
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12. That ship sailed with 2 Presidential elections & countless Congressional...
... We're better off speculating on how to put the broken shards of our nation back together after they finish trashing it next year. And also how to get a smarter electorate, so this doesn't happen again.

My $.02.
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:25 PM
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13. Having a criminal Attorney General is not helping
I think Gonzo has to go first, and then Congress must really pressure the DOJ to enforce the law.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:34 PM
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16. Now we know how the truly good Germans felt
But what chocolate eaters will bother to come to liberate us?
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:35 PM
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17. This congress does not even have the spine to Impeach
Gonzo. I have lost hope for America. Fascism is upon us.
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Rosemary2205 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:37 PM
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18. An act of God
short of that, none of them is leaving office prior to Jan 20, 2009.

Just MHO.
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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:39 PM
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19. They appear to be 'teflon untouchables'. The real question is HOW.......
and WHY do THEY continue to be untouchable. There is a serious flaw in our governmental system when the corrupt WH perpetrators are summoned and subpoenaed to answer questions, then completely ignore and stonewall the requests and subpoenas. The Constitutional crisis continues and grows more severe with each day.
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 10:06 PM
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44. I have come to the conclusion that the ones that need to stand up
are NOT doing so because they may want to have the leeway (in the future) that this horrendous WH is trailblazing for them. It's an awful thought - but what REAL reason do they have for NOT going after them? Not enough time? Uhh -- here's a thought -- do it ANYWAY. If only to prove to the American public that you are listening.

We've been disrespected for far too long by this WH. Do SOMETHING god damn it!
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 08:13 PM
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24. A stupid mistake and a seemingly harmless person.
If I win, what do I get?
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 08:16 PM
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27. our country back?
hope for the future?
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 08:26 PM
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31. I'll take 'em. When's the drawing? - n/t
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 08:13 PM
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25. a BIG QUESTION. WHERE DO NANCY AND HARRY STAND?
with them and against us,
-or-
ready to start impeachment proceedings?

We really need an answer from Madame speaker, that is, if she wants to maintain her office.

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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 08:14 PM
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26. Two words: martial law.
I'm waiting for Bush to declare martial law. Then and only then will people get up off their asses and realize just how corrupt this administration is. Martial law will definitely be the line-crosser.
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 08:19 PM
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28. possibly, but not if they link it with some terra act. even if they
have to manufacture it themselves.

come on, they have never been serious about homeless scruti oops. homeland security.
taking our shoes off in airports? taking away our tweezers and swiss army knives?
yet every container from china comes in with little or no inspection, even though they replaced glycerine for FOOD products, with glycol?

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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 08:25 PM
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30. You don't think Bushco would try to manufacture another 9/11?
For starters it took an event like 9/11 to bring his approval ratings out of the toilet in the first place. People were pissed off at the way he and his crew slimed their way into the presidency.

And now it seems like nothing can stop them... even though their approval ratings are in the shitter, and even die-hard GOPers are jumping ship... having another event as catastrophic as 9/11 would make sure these scumfucks would keep their jobs for a long time, and martial law is just the tip of the iceberg.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 08:20 PM
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29. Don't know, they might just run out the clock.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 08:39 PM
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32. nothing. it's NOT going to happen- so get over it.
we're stuck with them until january 2009 at the earliest.
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blues90 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 08:40 PM
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33.  I have no idea anylonger , all I know is
They have been in there far to long and like a cancer the longer it remains the more it eats away at life .

They seem to get away with things that would never go by before .
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 08:46 PM
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34. When they are out of office
It will take the Democrats showing the roadblocks to everything they try to do with the slim majority in Congress to the voters before the 2008 elections.
Then it will require the voters to see where the corruption is and vote a larger Democratic majority.
After they all leave office, the newly elected Democrats could still prosecute them for their crimes and lock them up.
No Impeachment required.
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 09:17 PM
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36. in mathematical terms, IFF
nt
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 09:21 PM
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37. creative accounting
I remember hearing Bush say that there were only 14 people detained in "secret prisons" and it turned out there were over 14,000.
It's like that all the time with them. Remember when they fired the man about the cost of the prescription drug bill. I seem
to remember Michael Chertoff saying after Katrina when he flew over the Gulf Coast that there were probably thousands dead. Does
it seem reasonable to anyone that the body count went from "thousands" to approx 1300+. The same way with Iraq, there
have been close to 1 million Iraqis dead but our own casualties are less than 4,000.
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Marblehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 09:21 PM
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38. my guess is
5 million people on the mall in DC, short of that nothing will work.
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 10:07 PM
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45. someone testifying against them, implicating them in some outside prosecution
like Watergate . . .
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sweetladybug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 10:18 PM
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46. The only way they will be impeached is if they receive a BJ
Edited on Sun Jun-24-07 10:18 PM by sweetladybug
Don't ya know that nothing else matters. They have taken OUR country straight down the shitter. So only a BJ is worthy of impeachment.
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buzzard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 11:31 PM
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48. That is what I have been thinking all along, a pretty sad state of affairs.n/t
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lutefisk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 11:20 PM
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47. My guess is that nothing is going to bring them down
The next President will treat Bush and Cheney with a great deal of undeserved respect and move on "for the good of the country." He or she might even dismiss those calling for action against Bush as divisive- and that will be the end of that. There won't be any sort of "purge" of the thousands of federal government Bush loyalists, either, imho.
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 11:32 PM
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49. An act of God
I strongly suspect that god moved to another galaxy in disgust after viewing what humans were doing to each other, the animals and plants and the planet. He/She won't return for a few thousand years for a brief visit to see if anything has improved or the planet is destroyed.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 12:55 AM
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50. Torches, pikes, and pitchforks
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ReadTomPaine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 01:58 AM
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51. All it will take to bring the Bush administration down is a powerful Democrat willing to do the job.
Democrats will take back the White House when they want the executive branch more than the GOP wishes to keep it. The party knows what to do and how to accomplish that goal, it has simply chosen to do otherwise.
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newbievids Donating Member (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 05:25 AM
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52. I have an idea
Out with the old and in with the new!
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