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	<title>Comments on: Obama signs first major piece of legislation: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act.</title>
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		<title>By: markbaland</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/29/obama-sign-ledbetter/comment-page-2/#comment-5467412</link>
		<dc:creator>markbaland</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s no wonder that Conservatives hate him; because of him, the rich will have to settle for being slightly less rich, increasing their wealth slightly less slowly, while life becomes much better for many working people, who are the machines making the rich richer in the first place!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s no wonder that Conservatives hate him; because of him, the rich will have to settle for being slightly less rich, increasing their wealth slightly less slowly, while life becomes much better for many working people, who are the machines making the rich richer in the first place!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5467412', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/29/obama-sign-ledbetter/comment-page-2/#comment-5467214</link>
		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dynamo Says: 

YOu are a lying fool. You dont challenge ANYTHING. You dont even TRY you pathetic loser. YOU. ARE. A. TROLL. All you come here for is to annoy us. You are far to stupid to actually challenge us and you know it so you play the petulant child. Throwing a fit in the back seat and touching your sister to annoy your parents or in this case your betters because you didnt get your way. You dont discuss. You puke your provocations on the site. You STILL want to pretend you are engaging and actually talking to us instead of trying to tweak us. You dont. You poke, you try to annoy and dont get you are too stupid to even pull that off. You got this talking point from the screechmonkey that does your thinking for you and you are trying to shoehorn it into this context but its doesnt fit because you dont even TRY to challenge us with any thoughts of your own or insight. I know you are too stupid to have an actual insight but dont pretend you are even TRYING to do that. You TROLL. You dont deserve to be treated as anything other THAN a troll. You are a punk. I know it, you know it, everyone here knows it. Grow up enter the discussion and we will see but dropping your little dogturd provocations then snivelling like the juvenile punk you are that you are treated like someone who drops conversational dogturds instead of engaging in actual discourse is just plain ignorant. You are trying to get through emotional blackmail that which you havent even TRIED to earn. Stop being a punk. Stop tossing ignorant rightwing talking points like landmines and talk to us and we will see until then you are just a punk and that is how you deserve to be treated. You wont fool anyone by snivelling like a fool that we treat you the way you are treating us. WWWWWWWAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH sure I just come in and attack liberals and Obama who I call the names I was programmed with by my Limborg masters but why wont you treat me with respect WWWWWAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH. I wouldnt have thought it possible but you are being even MORE pathetic. A six year old girl would be embarassed to snivel half as much as you</description>
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<p>YOu are a lying fool. You dont challenge ANYTHING. You dont even TRY you pathetic loser. YOU. ARE. A. TROLL. All you come here for is to annoy us. You are far to stupid to actually challenge us and you know it so you play the petulant child. Throwing a fit in the back seat and touching your sister to annoy your parents or in this case your betters because you didnt get your way. You dont discuss. You puke your provocations on the site. You STILL want to pretend you are engaging and actually talking to us instead of trying to tweak us. You dont. You poke, you try to annoy and dont get you are too stupid to even pull that off. You got this talking point from the screechmonkey that does your thinking for you and you are trying to shoehorn it into this context but its doesnt fit because you dont even TRY to challenge us with any thoughts of your own or insight. I know you are too stupid to have an actual insight but dont pretend you are even TRYING to do that. You TROLL. You dont deserve to be treated as anything other THAN a troll. You are a punk. I know it, you know it, everyone here knows it. Grow up enter the discussion and we will see but dropping your little dogturd provocations then snivelling like the juvenile punk you are that you are treated like someone who drops conversational dogturds instead of engaging in actual discourse is just plain ignorant. You are trying to get through emotional blackmail that which you havent even TRIED to earn. Stop being a punk. Stop tossing ignorant rightwing talking points like landmines and talk to us and we will see until then you are just a punk and that is how you deserve to be treated. You wont fool anyone by snivelling like a fool that we treat you the way you are treating us. WWWWWWWAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH sure I just come in and attack liberals and Obama who I call the names I was programmed with by my Limborg masters but why wont you treat me with respect WWWWWAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH. I wouldnt have thought it possible but you are being even MORE pathetic. A six year old girl would be embarassed to snivel half as much as you<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5467214', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: wiley</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/29/obama-sign-ledbetter/comment-page-2/#comment-5467146</link>
		<dc:creator>wiley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One more thing about Rosa Parks---she didn&#039;t sit in the front of the bus. She was sitting in the &quot;colored&quot; section. There was a rule that if the bus was full the &quot;colored&quot; people were supposed to give up their seats to whites. A white man asked her for her seat, and she refused.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One more thing about Rosa Parks&#8212;she didn&#8217;t sit in the front of the bus. She was sitting in the &#8220;colored&#8221; section. There was a rule that if the bus was full the &#8220;colored&#8221; people were supposed to give up their seats to whites. A white man asked her for her seat, and she refused.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5467146', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/29/obama-sign-ledbetter/comment-page-2/#comment-5467036</link>
		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dynamo Says: 

What ISNT suprising is how pathetic you are. You offer nothing but troll idiocy. Talk MEAN? HA. Your posts are inane. Studies in stupidity. To actually be mean they would need some hint of substance. What you do is the conversational equivalent of vomiting on the screen. How pathetic a loser are you anyway. You are a troll. You KNOW you are stupid so you come here to provoke and annoy us then pretend we have some obligation to treat your dogturds like pearls? Get a grip. You are a moronic loser. IT would never occur to me to go to a site to annoy people. Then again I have a functional brainpan and you have the IQ of bellybutton lint. You KNOW you are far too stupid to play in this league so pathetic moron that you are you just try to screw with the game. What you dont get, and this is particularly pathetic, is that you are too stupid to be taken seriously so you dont even accomplish that. You are like a housefly. Swatting you provides only amusement and batting practice. IF you for one second realized just how pathetic you were you would die of embarassment.</description>
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<p>What ISNT suprising is how pathetic you are. You offer nothing but troll idiocy. Talk MEAN? HA. Your posts are inane. Studies in stupidity. To actually be mean they would need some hint of substance. What you do is the conversational equivalent of vomiting on the screen. How pathetic a loser are you anyway. You are a troll. You KNOW you are stupid so you come here to provoke and annoy us then pretend we have some obligation to treat your dogturds like pearls? Get a grip. You are a moronic loser. IT would never occur to me to go to a site to annoy people. Then again I have a functional brainpan and you have the IQ of bellybutton lint. You KNOW you are far too stupid to play in this league so pathetic moron that you are you just try to screw with the game. What you dont get, and this is particularly pathetic, is that you are too stupid to be taken seriously so you dont even accomplish that. You are like a housefly. Swatting you provides only amusement and batting practice. IF you for one second realized just how pathetic you were you would die of embarassment.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5467036', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ElBruce</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/29/obama-sign-ledbetter/comment-page-2/#comment-5467018</link>
		<dc:creator>ElBruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Selkirk Says: 

Before anyone starts congratulating the President for this bill, perhaps we should first give an honest evaluation of the predicate offered for it.&lt;/em&gt;

Your screed seems to complain that since there&#039;s no such thing as gender discrimination in the workplace, there&#039;s no need to allow people to sue for gender discrimination in the workplace.  I disagree with your premise, but that&#039;s really beside the point.  People have the right to sue if they&#039;re being discriminated against.  Whether they are or not is for a court to decide, not you.

Also in the future, please make your case here instead of linking to your blog.  It&#039;s very ugly.

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&lt;em&gt;Dynamo Says: 

He’s got to throw a bone to the lawyer community.&lt;/em&gt;

Anybody who complains that &quot;trial lawyers&quot; are behind everything are really only trying to justify disenfranchising citizens from access to the court system.  There should be somewhere you can sign up to volunteer to have your rights to equal protection under the law stripped from you, in the name of not giving money to bloodsucking trial lawyers.  I bet we could get a lot of wingnuts to sign up.  Then we could do whatever we wanted to you legally.  That&#039;d be neat.

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&lt;em&gt;Dynamo Says: 

Aren’t these laws already in place?&lt;/em&gt;

Unless you didn&#039;t find out you were being paid unfairly for more than six months after it started.  As it stood, the SCOTUS said that you couldn&#039;t have the disparity rectified back to when you started being discriminated against.  This fixes that.

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&lt;em&gt;Dynamo Says: 

What a surprise! A liberal resorting to child like behavior when someone talks mean about their messiah? HAHAHAHAHAHA. Is that all you got?&lt;/em&gt;

I love it how whenever you cons are almost about to make a good point regarding other people&#039;s posts, you proceed to do the same thing in the same post.  It&#039;s like fouling out in sports.  So far I&#039;ve seen y&#039;all do it with homophobic jokes, sexism and racism; now I can add childish behavior to the list.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Selkirk Says: </p>
<p>Before anyone starts congratulating the President for this bill, perhaps we should first give an honest evaluation of the predicate offered for it.</em></p>
<p>Your screed seems to complain that since there&#8217;s no such thing as gender discrimination in the workplace, there&#8217;s no need to allow people to sue for gender discrimination in the workplace.  I disagree with your premise, but that&#8217;s really beside the point.  People have the right to sue if they&#8217;re being discriminated against.  Whether they are or not is for a court to decide, not you.</p>
<p>Also in the future, please make your case here instead of linking to your blog.  It&#8217;s very ugly.</p>
<p>.</p>
<p><em>Dynamo Says: </p>
<p>He’s got to throw a bone to the lawyer community.</em></p>
<p>Anybody who complains that &#8220;trial lawyers&#8221; are behind everything are really only trying to justify disenfranchising citizens from access to the court system.  There should be somewhere you can sign up to volunteer to have your rights to equal protection under the law stripped from you, in the name of not giving money to bloodsucking trial lawyers.  I bet we could get a lot of wingnuts to sign up.  Then we could do whatever we wanted to you legally.  That&#8217;d be neat.</p>
<p>.</p>
<p><em>Dynamo Says: </p>
<p>Aren’t these laws already in place?</em></p>
<p>Unless you didn&#8217;t find out you were being paid unfairly for more than six months after it started.  As it stood, the SCOTUS said that you couldn&#8217;t have the disparity rectified back to when you started being discriminated against.  This fixes that.</p>
<p>.</p>
<p><em>Dynamo Says: </p>
<p>What a surprise! A liberal resorting to child like behavior when someone talks mean about their messiah? HAHAHAHAHAHA. Is that all you got?</em></p>
<p>I love it how whenever you cons are almost about to make a good point regarding other people&#8217;s posts, you proceed to do the same thing in the same post.  It&#8217;s like fouling out in sports.  So far I&#8217;ve seen y&#8217;all do it with homophobic jokes, sexism and racism; now I can add childish behavior to the list.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5467018', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/29/obama-sign-ledbetter/comment-page-2/#comment-5466830</link>
		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dynamo Says: 

Why do you drop your ignorant dogturds here you worthless piece of garbage? We already know you are stupid. Proving again and again just how stupid you are is boring me to tears. Take a long walk off a short cliff you moronic twit</description>
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<p>Why do you drop your ignorant dogturds here you worthless piece of garbage? We already know you are stupid. Proving again and again just how stupid you are is boring me to tears. Take a long walk off a short cliff you moronic twit<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5466830', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: freeman</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/29/obama-sign-ledbetter/comment-page-2/#comment-5466632</link>
		<dc:creator>freeman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This long overdue bill and the first signed into law by Obama is a piece of history that I  hope will define the next 4 years of the new administration , much as torture , death and the trashing of the constitution will ALWAYS define the previous one .
 Bravo !</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This long overdue bill and the first signed into law by Obama is a piece of history that I  hope will define the next 4 years of the new administration , much as torture , death and the trashing of the constitution will ALWAYS define the previous one .<br />
 Bravo !<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5466632', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Selkirk</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/29/obama-sign-ledbetter/comment-page-2/#comment-5466582</link>
		<dc:creator>Selkirk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Before anyone starts congratulating the President for this bill, perhaps we should first give an honest evaluation of &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.politicalcastaway.com/2009/01/29/fair-pay-act-much-ado-about-what.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the predicate offered for it&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before anyone starts congratulating the President for this bill, perhaps we should first give an honest evaluation of <a href="http://blog.politicalcastaway.com/2009/01/29/fair-pay-act-much-ado-about-what.aspx" rel="nofollow">the predicate offered for it</a>.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5466582', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: avchavis</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/29/obama-sign-ledbetter/comment-page-2/#comment-5466534</link>
		<dc:creator>avchavis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow progress without the repugnant Republicans! Go President Obama!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow progress without the repugnant Republicans! Go President Obama!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5466534', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ucsbclassics53</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/29/obama-sign-ledbetter/comment-page-2/#comment-5466340</link>
		<dc:creator>ucsbclassics53</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;barack obomber Says:

surprise surprise. another way for someone to get easy free money.&lt;/em&gt;

Barack Obomber hates women...and he supports discrimination in the workplace...

hell, this GOP shell game of attacking their opponents by distorting their positions is so fun! Although I&#039;m not sure I&#039;m distorting Obomber&#039;s positions...</description>
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<p>surprise surprise. another way for someone to get easy free money.</em></p>
<p>Barack Obomber hates women&#8230;and he supports discrimination in the workplace&#8230;</p>
<p>hell, this GOP shell game of attacking their opponents by distorting their positions is so fun! Although I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m distorting Obomber&#8217;s positions&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5466340', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Hoodathunk</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/29/obama-sign-ledbetter/comment-page-2/#comment-5466294</link>
		<dc:creator>Hoodathunk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For one who has carped about a lack of positive posts, mea culpa.  I almost missed this one.

WAY TO GO,FOLKS.  Keep it coming!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For one who has carped about a lack of positive posts, mea culpa.  I almost missed this one.</p>
<p>WAY TO GO,FOLKS.  Keep it coming!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5466294', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: bentley1</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/29/obama-sign-ledbetter/comment-page-2/#comment-5466254</link>
		<dc:creator>bentley1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m not saying our trolls are stupid, or even idiotic-their lack of coherent logic says it for them. Or as Fred G. Sanford would say ; Do a pig love slop.
tony and lido</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not saying our trolls are stupid, or even idiotic-their lack of coherent logic says it for them. Or as Fred G. Sanford would say ; Do a pig love slop.<br />
tony and lido<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5466254', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Jim Wolf359</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim Wolf359</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Ralph,
     Lets make Bush the Commish of that Troll Farm Leauge. I also nominate &lt;strong&gt;JOHN KERRY&lt;/strong&gt; as director of scouting and Troll development.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Ralph,<br />
     Lets make Bush the Commish of that Troll Farm Leauge. I also nominate <strong>JOHN KERRY</strong> as director of scouting and Troll development.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5466178', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: hussein toasterhead</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/29/obama-sign-ledbetter/comment-page-2/#comment-5466126</link>
		<dc:creator>hussein toasterhead</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Jackie Says: 

This is an example of what I saw during the 60’s. A President, a Preacher and a Lady who set in front of the bus because she was just tired and that was change too.

January 29th, 2009 at 12:19 pm&lt;/em&gt;
____________

I realize that we have a bit of nostalgic mythology surrounding Rosa Parks as a sweet old lady who was too tired to give up her seat, but I believe this does a it of disservice to the actual person.  Rosa Parks was not just some random woman who happened to become a central figure in the Civil Rights movement, she was an activist and NAACP member long before her arrest, and had begun her campaign of civil disobedience against the Montgomery bus system almost a decade before.  

And she was neither old nor tired on that day in 1955.  In her own words:
&lt;blockquote&gt;People always say that I didn&#039;t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn&#039;t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
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<p>This is an example of what I saw during the 60’s. A President, a Preacher and a Lady who set in front of the bus because she was just tired and that was change too.</p>
<p>January 29th, 2009 at 12:19 pm</em><br />
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<p>I realize that we have a bit of nostalgic mythology surrounding Rosa Parks as a sweet old lady who was too tired to give up her seat, but I believe this does a it of disservice to the actual person.  Rosa Parks was not just some random woman who happened to become a central figure in the Civil Rights movement, she was an activist and NAACP member long before her arrest, and had begun her campaign of civil disobedience against the Montgomery bus system almost a decade before.  </p>
<p>And she was neither old nor tired on that day in 1955.  In her own words:</p>
<blockquote><p>People always say that I didn&#8217;t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn&#8217;t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: ralph the wonder llama</title>
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		<dc:creator>ralph the wonder llama</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Dr. Hussein Matt Says:
&lt;em&gt;drive by troll Says:

Its 2009 and its time for you racist punks to grow up and stop being such ignorant morons&lt;/em&gt;

The Democrats elect a black president, and the reich-wingers call the left “racist”. If Obama doesn’t get elected, then the reich-wingers would still claim we are “racist” because we didn’t elect the man. Jebus, you are sorry losers.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Excellent point, Dr. Matt.

John Kenneth Galbraith once said,&lt;em&gt; &quot;The modern conservative is engaged in one of man&#039;s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;

I think the modern conservative&#039;s second oldest exercise is the search for the angle that will make liberals look as bad a s possible.

And they&#039;ll take some pretty narrow angles to get there, too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Dr. Hussein Matt Says:<br />
<em>drive by troll Says:</p>
<p>Its 2009 and its time for you racist punks to grow up and stop being such ignorant morons</em></p>
<p>The Democrats elect a black president, and the reich-wingers call the left “racist”. If Obama doesn’t get elected, then the reich-wingers would still claim we are “racist” because we didn’t elect the man. Jebus, you are sorry losers.</p></blockquote>
<p>Excellent point, Dr. Matt.</p>
<p>John Kenneth Galbraith once said,<em> &#8220;The modern conservative is engaged in one of man&#8217;s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>I think the modern conservative&#8217;s second oldest exercise is the search for the angle that will make liberals look as bad a s possible.</p>
<p>And they&#8217;ll take some pretty narrow angles to get there, too.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5466080', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: The Republic of Stupidity</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Republic of Stupidity</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>shoeless Says:

Easy, free money? What kind of job do you have?
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Free-lance fluffer for AM radio talk show hosts.</description>
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<p>Easy, free money? What kind of job do you have?<br />
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<p>Free-lance fluffer for AM radio talk show hosts.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5465988', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: The Republic of Stupidity</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Republic of Stupidity</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ralph the wonder llama Says:
 
Plus I still can’t get used to that metallic “clink” that they make when the mallet meets the troll.
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Heh... agreed, ralph, agreed...  that&#039;s why I&#039;ve never been completely comfortable w/ graphite mallets, even though they&#039;re lighter and far less likely to shatter on contact.

There&#039;s just something about the meaty THWACK of hickory or ash on solid head fat that is so satisfying.  Call me old-fashioned...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ralph the wonder llama Says:</p>
<p>Plus I still can’t get used to that metallic “clink” that they make when the mallet meets the troll.<br />
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<p>Heh&#8230; agreed, ralph, agreed&#8230;  that&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve never been completely comfortable w/ graphite mallets, even though they&#8217;re lighter and far less likely to shatter on contact.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s just something about the meaty THWACK of hickory or ash on solid head fat that is so satisfying.  Call me old-fashioned&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5465976', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Perry logan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Perry logan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And he didn&#039;t even sneak off to write a signing statement indicating he intended to disregard the new law.  It works so much better when we elect them ourselves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And he didn&#8217;t even sneak off to write a signing statement indicating he intended to disregard the new law.  It works so much better when we elect them ourselves.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5465978', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: shoeless</title>
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		<dc:creator>shoeless</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;barack obomber Says:

surprise surprise. another way for someone to get easy free money.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Easy, free money? What kind of job do you have?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>barack obomber Says:</p>
<p>surprise surprise. another way for someone to get easy free money.</p></blockquote>
<p>Easy, free money? What kind of job do you have?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5465958', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ralph the wonder llama</title>
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		<dc:creator>ralph the wonder llama</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, TRoS, those robotrolls just don&#039;t cut it. They have no emotional investment, so you can&#039;t make them cry or lose their shit. Plus I still can&#039;t get used to that metallic &quot;clink&quot; that they make when the mallet meets the troll.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, TRoS, those robotrolls just don&#8217;t cut it. They have no emotional investment, so you can&#8217;t make them cry or lose their shit. Plus I still can&#8217;t get used to that metallic &#8220;clink&#8221; that they make when the mallet meets the troll.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5465948', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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