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rising-hegemon.blogspot.com - 8/25/2008
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If not the year, via the good Roger Aisles : The McCain campaign keeps emphasizing that McCain was a prisoner in Vietnam, as proof of his qualification for the Presidency. Well, so was Gary Glitter , and I'm not voting for him either.

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The Sideshow — ... in one of the country's two most important newspapers with very bad fanzine articles that regurgitate Village gossip (and call the rest of us "communists" for disagreeing with him). Diane explains that the reason the FBI's warnings about the likelihood of increased financial fraud (that is now destabilizing our economy) were ignored was because it was more important to go after pornography and brown people. Roger Ailes puts McCain's stay in Vietnam in perspective (via). FrenchDoc joins Stephanie Coontz in celebrating the 45th anniversary of The ...

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