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Every time McCranky says "my friends," me and my boyz do another round of Jagerbombs. Fu**in excellent right? I am gonna be totally fu**in wasted before that a-hole shuts his pie-hole.
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The surviving Republican members of Congress will do their best to make Obama's life miserable.
Obama Triangulates and Won't Go Where Other Great Americans Will on Hamas
Obama, in my view, has tarnished his foreign policy credentials here. If he can't embrace what great Americans have been able to do -- and what Sen. Chuck Hagel has suggested be done with Hamas -- then what use is his new vision?
Crawford: Filmmaker David Modigliani on Bush-Era Political Stagecraft (Watch the Movie in Full Here!)
A hit on the festival circuit, Modigliani's film offers a poignant view of the small Texas town that was transformed overnight when George W. Bush bought his 1,500-acre ranch on Prairie Chapel Road back in 1999.
What Georgia Got Wrong: Iran
The violence in Georgia has revealed just how extensively Washington has realigned its interests in central Asia. The Bush administration has no desire to let Georgia burn, yet that's exactly what it's doing.
Georgia and the Push for Cold War
Outside of the U.S., the utterances of Bush and McCain on Georgia are greeted with laughter, for they betoken a hypocrisy so ingrained it suggests insanity. The U.S. looks in the mirror and what do we see? Russia.
Happy Thanksgiving, Mr. President-Elect!
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In Russia, gas production just needs less corruption, not funds for exploration... they know where it is, they just can't get it out of the ground and into distribution because of the need to pay off the thugs in government. Always was the basis for communism... bribes.
Peak Oil.
It won't matter much: very few people over there own cars.
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