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		<title>By: nvsrg511</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/61249/smearing-sen-al-franken/comment-page-1#comment-258432</link>
		<dc:creator>nvsrg511</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 02:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These simple designs are <a href="http://www.rosettastone2011.net/" rel="nofollow">Rosetta Stone Spanish</a>masterpieces!! Like one said above, there <a href="http://www.discountchristianlouboutinshoes-online.com" rel="nofollow">Christian Louboutin Shoes</a>is a lot of creativity that goes into<a href="http://www.rosettastone2011.net/" rel="nofollow">Rosetta Stone French</a> a simple yet beautiful design. I also enjoy the humor that some <a href="http://www.discountchristianlouboutinshoes-online.com/christian-louboutin-shoes-christian-louboutin-sandals-c-37_133.html" rel="nofollow">Christian Louboutin Sandals</a>of the designs show, it lets everyone know that <a href="http://www.discountchristianlouboutinshoes-online.com/christian-louboutin-shoes-christian-louboutin-slingback-c-37_134.html" rel="nofollow">Christian Louboutin Slingback</a>designs don’t always have to be serious.</p>
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		<title>By: jupitersuite</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/61249/smearing-sen-al-franken/comment-page-1#comment-85893</link>
		<dc:creator>jupitersuite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ah yes: Brendan M.  That&#039;s your last name, M?  Or is your name Bren Danm?  Quite courageous of you.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;My name is Ryan Tetrick, for what it&#039;s worth.  And while I forthrightly admit that maybe I was more vituperative than may be necessary in some spots above, I stand by the my remarks.  That is, I think my original post is instructively playful and I think my detestation of the race-baiters is warrented.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Why do you insist on *finding* a racial aspect here?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Bren Danm, please do me a favor and go through my post and find these &quot;code&quot; words that you refer to.  Really, it would be instructive to me know what signals it is I am inadvertently sending to all the klansmen out there.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Again, now that you know what my name you might have some clues, but what race am I?  Do you know?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Further, I live in Chicago and have voted for Obama twice, once in the Democratic primary last year (though not in the general).  I also donated several hundred dollars to his campaign during the primaries (google for my name and &quot;donation&quot; and you can verify this).  So what do you think happened, did I notice he was black sometime during the summer of 2008??&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Brendan M, you are either a coward for playing the race card, or you&#039;re cerebrally challenged.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah yes: Brendan M.  That&#39;s your last name, M?  Or is your name Bren Danm?  Quite courageous of you.</p>
<p>My name is Ryan Tetrick, for what it&#39;s worth.  And while I forthrightly admit that maybe I was more vituperative than may be necessary in some spots above, I stand by the my remarks.  That is, I think my original post is instructively playful and I think my detestation of the race-baiters is warrented.  </p>
<p>Why do you insist on *finding* a racial aspect here?</p>
<p>Bren Danm, please do me a favor and go through my post and find these &#8220;code&#8221; words that you refer to.  Really, it would be instructive to me know what signals it is I am inadvertently sending to all the klansmen out there.</p>
<p>Again, now that you know what my name you might have some clues, but what race am I?  Do you know?</p>
<p>Further, I live in Chicago and have voted for Obama twice, once in the Democratic primary last year (though not in the general).  I also donated several hundred dollars to his campaign during the primaries (google for my name and &#8220;donation&#8221; and you can verify this).  So what do you think happened, did I notice he was black sometime during the summer of 2008??</p>
<p>Brendan M, you are either a coward for playing the race card, or you&#39;re cerebrally challenged.</p>
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		<title>By: brendanm</title>
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		<dc:creator>brendanm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe cut down on the racial code words and racial resentment and you won&#039;t get called out on it, okay, scumbag?  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And who is the coward, again?  I&#039;m using my name, at least, and am not resorting to paragraphs of petty insults; I kept it short, simple, and accurate.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe cut down on the racial code words and racial resentment and you won&#39;t get called out on it, okay, scumbag?  </p>
<p>And who is the coward, again?  I&#39;m using my name, at least, and am not resorting to paragraphs of petty insults; I kept it short, simple, and accurate.</p>
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		<title>By: jupitersuite</title>
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		<dc:creator>jupitersuite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>crisjay, since you enjoy my child&#039;s play so much, a handful more, just for you sweetheart:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;ACORN: Associated Congressmen Ought to be Replaced in November 2010&lt;br&gt;ACORN: Anyone Can Observe that this is Rank Nonsense&lt;br&gt;ACORN: Ascent by Creepy Operation / Resented in the Nation&lt;br&gt;ACORN: Almost as Commendable as an Outflow of Rectal Necrosis</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>crisjay, since you enjoy my child&#39;s play so much, a handful more, just for you sweetheart:</p>
<p>ACORN: Associated Congressmen Ought to be Replaced in November 2010<br />ACORN: Anyone Can Observe that this is Rank Nonsense<br />ACORN: Ascent by Creepy Operation / Resented in the Nation<br />ACORN: Almost as Commendable as an Outflow of Rectal Necrosis</p>
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		<title>By: jupitersuite</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/61249/smearing-sen-al-franken/comment-page-1#comment-83334</link>
		<dc:creator>jupitersuite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>First, thank you for setting such an adult example and demonstrating how far beneath you name calling is.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Second, I&#039;m having a ball here with you irritated defenders of the indefensible.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Third, &quot;it&#039;s essence&quot;??  So you&#039;re defending the race-baiter too?  Seriously, what happened to your brain as a child that taught you to see race in all things?  Are you so bigoted that you believe anyone criticizing a liberal sacred cow is a racist?  (And again, as you make this charge do you have clue what race I am?  Not a clue?)  You&#039;re a coward and a bigot for defending that charge.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I challenge you to find a trace of anything racial in my original post--go for it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Again, crying &quot;racism&quot; is the last refuge of the liberal scoundrel.  Nice work, coward.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First, thank you for setting such an adult example and demonstrating how far beneath you name calling is.</p>
<p>Second, I&#39;m having a ball here with you irritated defenders of the indefensible.</p>
<p>Third, &#8220;it&#39;s essence&#8221;??  So you&#39;re defending the race-baiter too?  Seriously, what happened to your brain as a child that taught you to see race in all things?  Are you so bigoted that you believe anyone criticizing a liberal sacred cow is a racist?  (And again, as you make this charge do you have clue what race I am?  Not a clue?)  You&#39;re a coward and a bigot for defending that charge.  </p>
<p>I challenge you to find a trace of anything racial in my original post&#8211;go for it.</p>
<p>Again, crying &#8220;racism&#8221; is the last refuge of the liberal scoundrel.  Nice work, coward.</p>
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		<title>By: chrisjay</title>
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		<dc:creator>chrisjay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>JupSweet: I love how you pivot from a posting which is quite simply a juvenile waste of everybody&#039;s time (you really ran that acronym schtick into the freakin&#039; ground), then to the heighth of righteous indignation that someone should reduce your interminable infantalia to its essence---then from jowl wiggling indignation into a marathon name-calling tirade. Give it a rest, clown.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JupSweet: I love how you pivot from a posting which is quite simply a juvenile waste of everybody&#39;s time (you really ran that acronym schtick into the freakin&#39; ground), then to the heighth of righteous indignation that someone should reduce your interminable infantalia to its essence&#8212;then from jowl wiggling indignation into a marathon name-calling tirade. Give it a rest, clown.</p>
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		<title>By: jupitersuite</title>
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		<dc:creator>jupitersuite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s so sweet of you, friend.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#39;s so sweet of you, friend.</p>
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		<title>By: Articulate Guy</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/61249/smearing-sen-al-franken/comment-page-1#comment-83201</link>
		<dc:creator>Articulate Guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just find you entertaining. Have fun with your earnest crusade.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just find you entertaining. Have fun with your earnest crusade.</p>
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		<title>By: jupitersuite</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/61249/smearing-sen-al-franken/comment-page-1#comment-83200</link>
		<dc:creator>jupitersuite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Articulate Guy, baloney.  bredanm was not trying to probe an ironic point, he was trying to insinuate that conservatives, and myself in particular, are racist.  Mr. Articulate, what is the sense of irony that I am missing that his pokes fun at?  Please, enlighten me.  A cop-out along the lines of &quot;you&#039;re just a wingnut and will never get it&quot; will be taken as an admission that you had no idea what you were talking about.  If you&#039;re right about his purpose he surely did not make it clear.  Do you even know what irony means?  Your suggestion about bredanm&#039;s post is nonsensical.  Doofus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Also, I&#039;ve posted the same list of acronyms on numerous comment threads reading about this scandal.  It&#039;s hard to encapsulate all the problems with this group, it&#039;s much easier just to share the list in the hopes that people can remember one or two and share them with others.  It gets a nice reaction...look at how irritated all you protectors of the corrupt got on just this comment thread.  It&#039;s been most enjoyable!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But, way to defend the race-baiter.  It must be hard for you Articulate Guy, knowing you&#039;re a coward.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Articulate Guy, baloney.  bredanm was not trying to probe an ironic point, he was trying to insinuate that conservatives, and myself in particular, are racist.  Mr. Articulate, what is the sense of irony that I am missing that his pokes fun at?  Please, enlighten me.  A cop-out along the lines of &#8220;you&#39;re just a wingnut and will never get it&#8221; will be taken as an admission that you had no idea what you were talking about.  If you&#39;re right about his purpose he surely did not make it clear.  Do you even know what irony means?  Your suggestion about bredanm&#39;s post is nonsensical.  Doofus.</p>
<p>Also, I&#39;ve posted the same list of acronyms on numerous comment threads reading about this scandal.  It&#39;s hard to encapsulate all the problems with this group, it&#39;s much easier just to share the list in the hopes that people can remember one or two and share them with others.  It gets a nice reaction&#8230;look at how irritated all you protectors of the corrupt got on just this comment thread.  It&#39;s been most enjoyable!</p>
<p>But, way to defend the race-baiter.  It must be hard for you Articulate Guy, knowing you&#39;re a coward.</p>
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		<title>By: Articulate Guy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Articulate Guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>brendanm was just trying to prove a point. And that point is:  conservatives have no sense of irony. I mean really, just a sense. It would be a sign of life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, Jupiter has posted the exact same comment on a similar citypages article: &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/09/kerstens_franke.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/09/kers...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So, not only is jupter&#039;s reply to Brendan proof of a lack of sense, but the original post is evidence of a lack of spontaneity. Jupiter has no life, no sense, no spontaneity, and as a troll deserves to be dragged under a bridge and left there. Have fun arguing your talking points, idiot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>brendanm was just trying to prove a point. And that point is:  conservatives have no sense of irony. I mean really, just a sense. It would be a sign of life.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Jupiter has posted the exact same comment on a similar citypages article: </p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/09/kerstens_franke.php" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/09/kers&#8230;</a></p>
<p>So, not only is jupter&#39;s reply to Brendan proof of a lack of sense, but the original post is evidence of a lack of spontaneity. Jupiter has no life, no sense, no spontaneity, and as a troll deserves to be dragged under a bridge and left there. Have fun arguing your talking points, idiot.</p>
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