PCIntern
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Sun Mar-28-10 07:56 AM
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I feel like I'm living in the middle of a Tom Clancy novel... |
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Middle-of-the-road minority President manages somehow to get a corporate-friendly somewhat populist Healthcare bill through both Houses of Congress, Minority Party rebels and is abusive to the individual and the process, problems in the Middle East, and apparently a militia-bust in which there are rumors of stadium attacks or worse, right during the Passover/Easter Holiday.
Wow...
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annabanana
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Sun Mar-28-10 07:58 AM
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too contrived, even for Clancy.
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Sun Mar-28-10 08:00 AM
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2. Try reading Clive Clussler "Dirk Pitt" novels. N/T |
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Sun Mar-28-10 08:11 AM
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I thought you meant everyone around you was speaking in simple declarative sentences at a third-grade vocabulary level.
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Sun Mar-28-10 08:14 AM
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4. and gushing, adoring aw-shucks-ism with characters with cardboard depth |
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A person can get rich doing stuff like that, just look at L. Ron Hubbard.
And Clancy's writing is Shakespeare compared to the first-grade scribblings of Hubbard.
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Sun Mar-28-10 08:16 AM
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Sun Mar-28-10 08:23 AM
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6. The all time classic was Jack Higgins. (snip) |
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"Oui," he said, in rapid and fluent French.
:wow:
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Sun Mar-28-10 08:40 AM
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10. Try the new Bourne novels |
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Sun Mar-28-10 08:24 AM
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7. All we need is a submarine involved. n/t |
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Sun Mar-28-10 08:32 AM
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8. Are you surrounded by shallow unbelievable characters |
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spouting fantastic and bad dialogue?
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Sun Mar-28-10 08:38 AM
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9. Come to my dental practice and hear! |
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you have no idea...or, as they say in rapid and fluent French, Idee!
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Sun Mar-28-10 09:42 AM
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11. I'm thinking Hunter S. Thompson |
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Fear and Loathing in Searchlight
Simply replace the psychoactive drugs with brain-addling ideology.
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