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- Any idea what conservatives thought about Rosa Parks at the time?
- My two cents.
- re: Any idea what liberals thought about Rosa Parks at the time?
- They hated her...Yeah sure.
- Yup, "Brownie, You are doing a heck of a job!"
- Sorry. Political weapon no longer has any bullets in it.
- Because he couldn't do the job, he is no longer the director of FEMA
- E-mails
- Be careful about questioning sources.
- He was CLEARLY unqualified for the job...
- Am I going to have to make a denizens arrest?
- :) So you right wingers STILL want to claim that Brown had ANY business heading FEMA?
- "I got it at Nordstroms. ... Are you proud of me?"
- The emails between Brown and a poor flunkie...
- "Please roll up the sleeves of your shirt, all shirts. Even the president rolled his sleeves to just below the elbow. In this [crisis] and on TV you just need to look more hard-working."
- Utterly depressing
- What is going on in Paris?
- The reaction to this will be mass deportation of immigrants. (n/t)
- Another day of riots, but they seem to be calming down in Paris. They are, however spreading outside of Paris.
- More news. I hope Raoul stays safe and away from all this.
- Comments from Belmont Club
- Riots! Why? Because they are fun. Sort of like American OSU Football Riots. (n/t)
- re: What is going on in Paris?
- Just when you think Bush can't drag the country any lower, - - -
- "Senate votes to ban torture"
- Word on the street is that we have a secret prison located inside of a pork processing plant.
- Despicable
- If it is true then undoubtedly some honorable people will leak it to the press.
- What rot. We have known for a long time that
- "Someone tell me again how the US is now differs from Stalinist USSR and Hitlers' Germany"
- RightWing bloggers don't take their marching orders from the DNC?
- Just watched a clip of the US UN representative at the start of the Korean War.
- re: RightWing bloggers
- RNC?
- Ohmigod, I said "DNC"....you all know I meant "RNC", right? (n/t)
- U.S.Senate entering closed session.
- I love it
- BTW. Not the first one in 21 years. (n/t)
- Now, when the politically-loaded leaks of classified info start pouring into the media...
- Leaks of classified material is against the law. (n/t)
- I'm told the Democrats attemted to discuss the SC nomination in the closed meeting.
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