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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 09:20 AM
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George Puts on Military Costume to Call the Troops from His Living Room >>
Edited on Sun Dec-25-05 09:33 AM by Stephanie


And he's lit up brighter than the tree.




U.S. President George W. Bush speaks to members of the U.S. Armed Forces
during Christmas Eve phone calls at Camp David December 24, 2005.
REUTERS/Eric Draper/The White House/Handout

http: //news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/051224/ids_photos_india_wl/ra1724197035.jpg




http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051225/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_7

The first family's menu for a Christmas Day lunch includes herb-roasted free range turkey, corn bread dressing, mashed potatoes and giblet gravy, green beans, sweet potato souffle, pumpkin and pecan pies and red velvet cake.
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deminks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 09:25 AM
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1. LOL, I just saw that one.
Trying to read insignia, looks like the word "parachute" but can't make out the rest.

I hope his Christmas goose is cooked. Was this overseas call monitored? or data mined?

Happy Holidays, Stephanie!
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No Exit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 10:53 AM
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15. Oh my God... you're right! HE'S one of those people who calls
those Arab countries all the time!!

I hope the calls are being monitored! Plots could be in the making!!
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 06:48 PM
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34. It's a Golden Knights sweatshirt
The US Army Parachute Team, the Golden Knights, uses a logo bearing a knight's helmet under an arch reading "US Army Parachute Team."

You're seeing the very top part of the logo.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 11:05 PM
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43. Thank you!
He's such a poser.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 11:06 PM
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44. I have always meant to ask you -
what is jmow?
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 06:51 PM
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62. It's something I started doing in the 101st
In the platoon I was in, there were five men named Jim. (Worse: two of them were named Jim Smith.) When we tapped phones, we wrote our names on the tape jacket and on the call records so the analyst would know who was the operator. Fortunately, only three of us could serve as operators because of our MOS. Staff Sergeant Smith always marked his work as "Swing" (he was a professional sax player from NOLA before he got drafted to go to Vietnam), Sergeant Freshour used Jim and I used jmowreader, or jmow depending on how fast the calls were coming in.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 08:49 AM
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67. oh wow!
so jmow is your initials?
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 07:23 PM
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68. JAM are my initials
jmowreader is the first letter of my first name run into my last name, all in minuscule.
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Ouabache Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 02:33 AM
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47. maybe he* is planning a jump with the knights?
another photo op
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 09:25 AM
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2. What I'm thinking right now is so mean and uncharitable I'll keep it to
myself. But believe me it is truthful and totally justifiable.

But part of it involves being a coward who sits safely...
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SkiGuy Donating Member (451 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 09:48 AM
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8. I'm with you there
Being Christmas day, I'll hold back
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 09:30 AM
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3. Why does it crack me up that hey're eating red velvet cake?
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MadisonProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 10:43 AM
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14. I don't know, but please tell me - I need a good laugh!
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 04:56 PM
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29. I wonder if Bar paid $350 for the recipe?
(the "red velvet cake" urban legend ...)

http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/cookie.asp
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LiberalPartisan Donating Member (844 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 06:13 AM
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52. Beacause it's what trailer trash thinks is a 'classy' menu item. n/t
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 12:21 PM
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59. Having been raised in a trailer...
Edited on Mon Dec-26-05 12:22 PM by hootinholler
I would like to take this opportunity to point out that you're using a very wide brush there. It's a financial thing, not a political ideology thing. Would you use the term Public Housing trash? I thought not.

Blessings.

-Hoot

On Edit, welcome to DU
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 06:58 PM
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63. You can live in a trailer without being "trash"
Conversely, you can be trailer trash without ever having set foot in one.

--jmowreader, who grew up in a 50x17 Magnolia
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Retrograde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 02:33 PM
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61. Red Velvet Cake!? That is so retro
Red Velvet Cake? Where's the jello salad? And the coke-glazed ham? (That's coca-cola, of course. I would never imply....) And all those other yummy dishes from the Crawford Ladies' Auxiliary Cookbook?

Maybe someone on the staff has a sense of humor after all: http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/cookie.asp
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 01:02 AM
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66. it just means he's high and biting into the furniture
again
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marylanddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 09:31 AM
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4. Was he really calling "troops" over that phone?

while wearing his macho "parachute" sweatshirt. What bullshit. Safe at Camp David, 10 eggnogs to the wind & narry a care in the world.
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 09:32 AM
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5. Glowing with the Christmas spirits!
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 09:43 AM
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6. WTF does "herb-roasted" mean anyway? That they seasoned
the fucking bird rather than just throwing some salt on it? Fidel says that Condi is eating shit, are they going to put the menu our for that too? "Turds from a free ranging asshole who likes spicy food." Fidel also called Condi a pubic hair. He's got some good writers.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 09:49 AM
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9. gotta link to Fidel's comments?
I must have missed that...:toast:
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bear425 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 09:57 AM
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10. He didn't call Condi a pendejo...
Last week, a top aide to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva said Castro had called him a pendejo -- literally a pubic hair but also an epithet for a sniveling coward.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5684812

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13479366.htm

Although, she does come mierda ;)
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 11:07 AM
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19. Thanks for the correction. n/t
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bear425 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 11:32 AM
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22. no problem rzemanfl!
Although, I would have thought it an appropriate moniker. Come mierda is pretty good for her, too!
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 11:34 AM
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23. No, that was me.
Pendeja!
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 11:06 AM
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18. Discussed at DU here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5684812

Link to a newspaper article.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 01:46 PM
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25. thanks all.....
:7
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 11:09 AM
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20. See correction below, too late to edit my post . He only called
Edited on Sun Dec-25-05 11:09 AM by rzemanfl
her a shit-eater, my mistake.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 11:30 AM
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21. Does not mean same as 'herb baked'
In that case, the bird got some bad seed and volunteered for the job.
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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 09:46 AM
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7. The presidential runway model, what a poser, King Photo-Op. n/t
Edited on Sun Dec-25-05 09:46 AM by Snotcicles
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 10:05 AM
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12. "Poser" was the first word that came to me as well. thanks. eom
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peaches2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 09:57 AM
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11. Outer Space
He is completely out of touch with reality and his mind is in outer space somewhere. You put on your 'costume' to make phone calls? I'm surprised he didn't have a few soldiers in to stand behind him. He is now 'dangerous' and not just a joke.
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kaygore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 10:21 AM
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13. At least it's Columbia Sportswear from true blue Portland, OR
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 10:54 AM
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16. What? He's shopping in Little Beirut?
;-)
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Dervill Crow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 01:08 PM
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24. ..
:rofl::applause::rofl:
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kaygore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 03:46 PM
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28. Looks that way!
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 11:00 AM
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17. Opershatur...Ah need to playsh a long distansh call.....uh....Wishconshin?
:beer:
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 01:48 PM
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26. The writing on his chest says "impeach me now"
At least thats what it looks like to me. :shrug:
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 01:49 PM
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27. When the man's on the phone the country is in danger!
Run for your lives!!

http://timorrowblog.blogspot.com/
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kliljedahl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 05:01 PM
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30. That's a Photoshopper's dream
Just replace the X-mas tree with the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoner & you're done.



Keith’s Barbeque Central
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 05:07 PM
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31. I hate to say it, since many have very little to eat,
but that menu sounds disgusting!
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AgadorSparticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 05:10 PM
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32. well, he does have to meet his photo-op quota for the week, ya know!
how can ANYONE believe any of these super cheesy and fake photo ops anymore. it looks and sounds ridiculous.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 05:19 PM
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 06:53 PM
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35. We actually don't know that he *does* get the military vote.
The military vote was run through the Pentagon, and the results were never disclosed.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 09:42 PM
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Twist_U_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 11:03 PM
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42. Happy Holidays Saint
:eyes:
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 05:26 AM
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51. Wow! You must have access to info that nobody else does!!
The results of the '04 military vote have never been released.

Post a credible link or retract your statement. By credible I do not mean freepland like you did in your nasty thread trashing Cindy Sheehan.
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 07:00 PM
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36. His mommy told him that he is an astronaut
and needs to take golden parachute lessons. Don't forget, Boosh is a grizzled vet from The Nam. He served in the Texas ANG 'Champagne' brigade as a fighter pilot to 'busy' to show up for work. Not that he knows that, I'm sure his drunk ass's been told all kinds of lies to keep em happy! To bad no one has the balls to tell him the truth.
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 07:00 PM
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37. dup
Edited on Sun Dec-25-05 07:00 PM by Rex
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Dunvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 08:01 PM
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38. Best Kept * Administration Secret: They ALL Like to Dress Up...
Bush, Cheney, Rice, Abramoff, Rumsfeld, and DeLay.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 09:51 PM
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40. When this fake cowboy falls it gonna be hard and its gonna be fun to watch
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Ouabache Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 02:35 AM
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48. if half of us aren't dead...
nt
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insane_cratic_gal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-25-05 10:58 PM
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41. he's lit up alright!
loaded
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 12:12 AM
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45. Costumes with the presidential seal rate big when talking to troops
An ever-present reminder as to "who's boss."
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 12:17 AM
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46. The things he does are so stupid, it's getting difficult to notice.
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newspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 02:37 AM
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49. wow, a free range turkey
sure he doesn't want to include some Monsanto GMO monster salmon or GMO green beans?
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 04:09 AM
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50. Oh, I'll bet he LOVES talking with his soldier-boys.
The tales he can tell J/J.
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Gin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 08:52 AM
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53. Sounds like a new game...What Costume will he wear today?
"Costume" as in acting, is perfect. Why not dress for the part?
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 09:02 AM
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54. Heil to the Chimp!
Some folks are born
Made to wear the flag
Whooo they're red white and blue.

And when the band plays
Heil to the chimp
Whoo they point that cannon at you, son, son, son.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 09:09 AM
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55. I wonder if Condi was under the table while junior was on the phone.
A Bill and Monica thing.
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Clara T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 10:51 AM
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56. A little red velvet cake for the baked criminal chimperor


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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 11:54 AM
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57. More * photoops for Corporatistas to discuss instead of substance
Thank you KKKarl
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 11:58 AM
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58. Man, he looks like crap!
Those creepy eyes of his continue to sink into his skull.

Either that or he's soused.
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newspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-26-05 01:09 PM
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60. I know a couple of other people who liked to dress up
Let's see, Hitler and Mussolini looked absolutely manly, studly in their costumes--NOT! And then, Saddam absolutely loved that stylish, I'm the dictator look.
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Dunvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 12:52 AM
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64. Dead on, newpeak...
...totalitarians ALWAYS dress up in military uniform.

It's just one of those clues....
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 12:54 AM
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65. no-necked turkey-chinned geek
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