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Senate Passes 9/11 Heath Bill as Republicans Back Down
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By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
Published: December 22, 2010
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Climate Change Deniers Set To Freeze Progress In Congress
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Friday 05 November 2010
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Bill Moyers: "Welcome to the Plutocracy!"
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Wednesday 03 November 2010
by: Bill Moyers, t r u t h o u t | Speech 
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
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Iowa Republican Says Gay Marriage Will Lead To Children 'Raised In Warehouses'
Rep. Steve King, Republican Moron From Iowa
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Rep. Steve King, Republican Moron From Iowa
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Rand Paul Supporter Tim Profitt Wants His Stomping Victim To Apologize
by Nick Wing 10-27-10 10:30 AM
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Unified Left In France Stands Up To Corporate Plutocracy
by Rick Wolff of Truthout
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by Rick Wolff of Truthout
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Zynga valued more than EA in latest estimates :(
By: Molly McHugh October 26, 2010
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
A Note to The Outlook, 10/23/10
10/23/10
To Dan Lozzi and Contributing Writers of The Outlook,
Greetings! I was referred to your website via Facebook invite by several of my friends. These are people I've known for a long time; persons of quality with whom I've had the pleasure of associating for many years. I greatly enjoyed reading your articles, and 90% of what you are advocating I support. I agree with your views regarding the current "society of sickness" paradigm forced upon the populace through rampant consumerism and the subjugation and manipulation of the natural world, achieved conscience free in the eyes of many for it is cloaked in the noble veil of globalization and conscientious capitalism. Anti-consumerism, environmentalism, feminism, conservation, animal rights, cessation of domestic violence, recycling, and respect for fellow occupants of this planet are all ideals I support and aspire to champion, and it is refreshing to see them so plainly and furtively enunciated. There is, however, one glaringly offensive statement that your group has made, and I wanted to take the time to make you aware of it because, for the most part, I appreciate what you and your contributors are advocating.
In your article "Progression Through Quantum Calculus Motions" there is a short paragraph dedicated to the recently conspicuous fight over the recognition of the human rights of gay persons, specifically gay marriage, by the LGBT community and their supporters in Congress. In this article, and forgive me if I have somehow misinterpreted, you imply that the current battle over legislation to legalize gay marriage is part of "an extension of loose attitudes we have in general when dealing with relationships" and then presume to speciously correlate it with "junior high girls kiss[ing] each other to get attention from boys" and "people [who] decide that they are going to try being homo or bi-sexual for a little while just to see how it feels" and then assert that the battle over the inalienable human rights of gay persons to marry "does absolutely nothing to help gain acceptance for the very tiny segment of the population who are actually born gay." The contrived logic of this statement is obviously flawed, marring the righteous message of so many other admirable remarks in your essays.
The struggle for equal recognition under the law by gay community should not be capriciously associated with such non sequitur, anecdotal, and obviously pejorative social commentary. It could be inferred that the author's obvious disdain for the subjects of reference seeks to, implicitly rather than explicitly, diminish and discredit the true and just cause for which many people, including myself, continue to fight for daily. It is also curious that the author would choose to preface the paragraph by stating, "I not only have nothing against those who are gay, but I am also offended by mean spirited attitudes towards them," for any other purpose than to obfuscate a congruently mean spirited anti-gay marriage message and to coat the author's socially conservative stance on this "controversial issue" in a medium palatable enough to be overlooked by gay readers. Of course, if I have somehow misinterpreted the position of The Outlook and its contributors, I entreat you to enlighten me with a less confusing and more thoroughly reasoned interpretation of your views regarding this crucial and highly visible human rights issue.
Recently, I came across a back-and-forth between Dan Savage, a prominent author, journalist, and gay rights activist and "L.R.", a politely bigoted Christian person commenting on Savage's comments regarding the bullying of gay youths and how it is perpetuated by intolerance in the home. I'll let you read the short conversation yourself as opposed to trying to distill it for you:
Gay Kids Are Dying, Fuck Your Feelings
October 14, 2010
Dear Dan: I was listening to the radio yesterday morning, and I heard an interview with you about your It Gets Better campaign. I was saddened and frustrated with your comments regarding people of faith and their perpetuation of bullying. As someone who loves the Lord and does not support gay marriage, I can honestly say I was heartbroken to hear about the young man who took his own life.
If your message is that we should not judge people based on their sexual preference, how do you justify judging entire groups of people for any other reason (including their faith)? There is no part of me that took any pleasure in what happened to that young man, and I know for a fact that is true of many other people who disagree with your viewpoint.
To that end, to imply that I would somehow encourage my children to mock, hurt, or intimidate another person for any reason is completely unfounded and offensive. Being a follower of Christ is, above all things, a recognition that we are all imperfect, fallible, and in desperate need of a savior. We cannot believe that we are better or more worthy than other people.
Please consider your viewpoint, and please be more careful with your words in the future.
—L.R.
Savage:
I'm sorry your feelings were hurt by my comments.
No, wait. I'm not. Gay kids are dying. So let's try to keep things in perspective: Fuck your feelings.
A question: Do you "support" atheist marriage? Interfaith marriage? Divorce and remarriage? All are legal, all go against Christian and/or traditional ideas about marriage, and yet there's no "Christian" movement to deny marriage rights to atheists or people marrying outside their respective faiths or people divorcing and remarrying.
Why the hell not?
Sorry, L.R., but so long as you support the denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples, it's clear that you do believe that some people—straight people—are "better or more worthy" than others.
And—sorry—but you are partly responsible for the bullying and physical violence being visited on vulnerable LGBT children. The kids of people who see gay people as sinful or damaged or disordered and unworthy of full civil equality—even if those people strive to express their bigotry in the politest possible way (at least when they happen to be addressing a gay person)—learn to see gay people as sinful, damaged, disordered, and unworthy. And while there may not be any gay adults or couples where you live, or at your church, or in your workplace, I promise you that there are gay and lesbian children in your schools. And while you can only attack gays and lesbians at the ballot box, nice and impersonally, your children have the option of attacking actual gays and lesbians, in person, in real time.
Real gay and lesbian children. Not political abstractions, not "sinners." Gay and lesbian children.
Try to keep up: The dehumanizing bigotries that fall from the lips of "faithful Christians," and the lies about us that vomit out from the pulpits of churches that "faithful Christians" drag their kids to on Sundays, give your children license to verbally abuse, humiliate, and condemn the gay children they encounter at school. And many of your children—having listened to Mom and Dad talk about how gay marriage is a threat to family and how gay sex makes their magic sky friend Jesus cry—feel justified in physically abusing the LGBT children they encounter in their schools. You don't have to explicitly "encourage [your] children to mock, hurt, or intimidate" queer kids. Your encouragement—along with your hatred and fear—is implicit. It's here, it's clear, and we're seeing the fruits of it: dead children.
Oh, and those same dehumanizing bigotries that fill your straight children with hate? They fill your gay children with suicidal despair. And you have the nerve to ask me to be more careful with my words?
Did that hurt to hear? Good. But it couldn't have hurt nearly as much as what was said and done to Asher Brown and Justin Aaberg and Billy Lucas and Cody Barker and Seth Walsh—day-in, day-out for years—at schools filled with bigoted little monsters created not in the image of a loving God, but in the image of the hateful and false "followers of Christ" they call Mom and Dad.
Clearly, Savage is angry, but rightfully so in this case. The LGBT community is sick and tired of listening to straight people try to justify their homophobia with statements about how their children will be negatively affected by exposure to openly queer relationships. There is no way that legislation allowing gays to marry could possibly warp the minds of children more than religious intolerance, television, commercialism, or chemicals will, and to suggest that teenage girls kissing each other in hallways and people experimenting with homosexuality is somehow associated with the moral rot of society is ignorant and pathetic. Everyone has the power to choose their own actions, and considering the sheer volume of mockery and hatred heaped upon openly gay people, why would anyone "choose" such a difficult path if it was not somehow ingrained in their very being? What really screws with kids' minds is the implication that if they have feelings of a homosexual, bisexual, or gender-queer nature, they are somehow sinful, damaged, disordered, and/or unworthy of love. When they are forced to deny their innermost selves because they know exposing it will lead to ridicule, rejection, violence, and bigotry, these strong natural feelings are suppressed, often leading to self-hatred, substance abuse, and even suicide. I guarantee you that LGBT people constitute much more than a "very tiny segment of the population." Many reputable studies have shown that approximately 10% of the population is LGBT, but the real question is: What percent of the population is still afraid to admit their true sexual identities to themselves, let alone someone else?
But I digress, I do agree with and enjoy 90% of what The Outlook has to say. I've decided to send Outlook Massachusetts a friend request on Facebook. Aside from what I've read, I like what most of my old friends are saying about your group, and I especially like the fact that the notorious gentleman and scholar, R. Gregory Frazier, is now one of your contributors... or at least that's what I've been told. As I mentioned in the beginning, the people who referred me to your group are people of quality. Running the numbers on what I've liked versus what I've disagreed with on your website, I approximate a ratio of 90% to 10%, and I'm guessing I can tolerate that 10%, given that it's such a "very tiny segment" of your work, and clearly, 90% > 10%.
Regards,
John Buckley
crushercub81@gmail.com
http://indigentsia.blogspot.com/
The Outlook's article, "Progression Through Quantum Calculus Motions" can be found at the following URL: http://www.outlook-site.org/calculus.html
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To Dan Lozzi and Contributing Writers of The Outlook,
Greetings! I was referred to your website via Facebook invite by several of my friends. These are people I've known for a long time; persons of quality with whom I've had the pleasure of associating for many years. I greatly enjoyed reading your articles, and 90% of what you are advocating I support. I agree with your views regarding the current "society of sickness" paradigm forced upon the populace through rampant consumerism and the subjugation and manipulation of the natural world, achieved conscience free in the eyes of many for it is cloaked in the noble veil of globalization and conscientious capitalism. Anti-consumerism, environmentalism, feminism, conservation, animal rights, cessation of domestic violence, recycling, and respect for fellow occupants of this planet are all ideals I support and aspire to champion, and it is refreshing to see them so plainly and furtively enunciated. There is, however, one glaringly offensive statement that your group has made, and I wanted to take the time to make you aware of it because, for the most part, I appreciate what you and your contributors are advocating.
In your article "Progression Through Quantum Calculus Motions" there is a short paragraph dedicated to the recently conspicuous fight over the recognition of the human rights of gay persons, specifically gay marriage, by the LGBT community and their supporters in Congress. In this article, and forgive me if I have somehow misinterpreted, you imply that the current battle over legislation to legalize gay marriage is part of "an extension of loose attitudes we have in general when dealing with relationships" and then presume to speciously correlate it with "junior high girls kiss[ing] each other to get attention from boys" and "people [who] decide that they are going to try being homo or bi-sexual for a little while just to see how it feels" and then assert that the battle over the inalienable human rights of gay persons to marry "does absolutely nothing to help gain acceptance for the very tiny segment of the population who are actually born gay." The contrived logic of this statement is obviously flawed, marring the righteous message of so many other admirable remarks in your essays.
The struggle for equal recognition under the law by gay community should not be capriciously associated with such non sequitur, anecdotal, and obviously pejorative social commentary. It could be inferred that the author's obvious disdain for the subjects of reference seeks to, implicitly rather than explicitly, diminish and discredit the true and just cause for which many people, including myself, continue to fight for daily. It is also curious that the author would choose to preface the paragraph by stating, "I not only have nothing against those who are gay, but I am also offended by mean spirited attitudes towards them," for any other purpose than to obfuscate a congruently mean spirited anti-gay marriage message and to coat the author's socially conservative stance on this "controversial issue" in a medium palatable enough to be overlooked by gay readers. Of course, if I have somehow misinterpreted the position of The Outlook and its contributors, I entreat you to enlighten me with a less confusing and more thoroughly reasoned interpretation of your views regarding this crucial and highly visible human rights issue.
Recently, I came across a back-and-forth between Dan Savage, a prominent author, journalist, and gay rights activist and "L.R.", a politely bigoted Christian person commenting on Savage's comments regarding the bullying of gay youths and how it is perpetuated by intolerance in the home. I'll let you read the short conversation yourself as opposed to trying to distill it for you:
Gay Kids Are Dying, Fuck Your Feelings
October 14, 2010
Dear Dan: I was listening to the radio yesterday morning, and I heard an interview with you about your It Gets Better campaign. I was saddened and frustrated with your comments regarding people of faith and their perpetuation of bullying. As someone who loves the Lord and does not support gay marriage, I can honestly say I was heartbroken to hear about the young man who took his own life.
If your message is that we should not judge people based on their sexual preference, how do you justify judging entire groups of people for any other reason (including their faith)? There is no part of me that took any pleasure in what happened to that young man, and I know for a fact that is true of many other people who disagree with your viewpoint.
To that end, to imply that I would somehow encourage my children to mock, hurt, or intimidate another person for any reason is completely unfounded and offensive. Being a follower of Christ is, above all things, a recognition that we are all imperfect, fallible, and in desperate need of a savior. We cannot believe that we are better or more worthy than other people.
Please consider your viewpoint, and please be more careful with your words in the future.
—L.R.
Savage:
I'm sorry your feelings were hurt by my comments.
No, wait. I'm not. Gay kids are dying. So let's try to keep things in perspective: Fuck your feelings.
A question: Do you "support" atheist marriage? Interfaith marriage? Divorce and remarriage? All are legal, all go against Christian and/or traditional ideas about marriage, and yet there's no "Christian" movement to deny marriage rights to atheists or people marrying outside their respective faiths or people divorcing and remarrying.
Why the hell not?
Sorry, L.R., but so long as you support the denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples, it's clear that you do believe that some people—straight people—are "better or more worthy" than others.
And—sorry—but you are partly responsible for the bullying and physical violence being visited on vulnerable LGBT children. The kids of people who see gay people as sinful or damaged or disordered and unworthy of full civil equality—even if those people strive to express their bigotry in the politest possible way (at least when they happen to be addressing a gay person)—learn to see gay people as sinful, damaged, disordered, and unworthy. And while there may not be any gay adults or couples where you live, or at your church, or in your workplace, I promise you that there are gay and lesbian children in your schools. And while you can only attack gays and lesbians at the ballot box, nice and impersonally, your children have the option of attacking actual gays and lesbians, in person, in real time.
Real gay and lesbian children. Not political abstractions, not "sinners." Gay and lesbian children.
Try to keep up: The dehumanizing bigotries that fall from the lips of "faithful Christians," and the lies about us that vomit out from the pulpits of churches that "faithful Christians" drag their kids to on Sundays, give your children license to verbally abuse, humiliate, and condemn the gay children they encounter at school. And many of your children—having listened to Mom and Dad talk about how gay marriage is a threat to family and how gay sex makes their magic sky friend Jesus cry—feel justified in physically abusing the LGBT children they encounter in their schools. You don't have to explicitly "encourage [your] children to mock, hurt, or intimidate" queer kids. Your encouragement—along with your hatred and fear—is implicit. It's here, it's clear, and we're seeing the fruits of it: dead children.
Oh, and those same dehumanizing bigotries that fill your straight children with hate? They fill your gay children with suicidal despair. And you have the nerve to ask me to be more careful with my words?
Did that hurt to hear? Good. But it couldn't have hurt nearly as much as what was said and done to Asher Brown and Justin Aaberg and Billy Lucas and Cody Barker and Seth Walsh—day-in, day-out for years—at schools filled with bigoted little monsters created not in the image of a loving God, but in the image of the hateful and false "followers of Christ" they call Mom and Dad.
Clearly, Savage is angry, but rightfully so in this case. The LGBT community is sick and tired of listening to straight people try to justify their homophobia with statements about how their children will be negatively affected by exposure to openly queer relationships. There is no way that legislation allowing gays to marry could possibly warp the minds of children more than religious intolerance, television, commercialism, or chemicals will, and to suggest that teenage girls kissing each other in hallways and people experimenting with homosexuality is somehow associated with the moral rot of society is ignorant and pathetic. Everyone has the power to choose their own actions, and considering the sheer volume of mockery and hatred heaped upon openly gay people, why would anyone "choose" such a difficult path if it was not somehow ingrained in their very being? What really screws with kids' minds is the implication that if they have feelings of a homosexual, bisexual, or gender-queer nature, they are somehow sinful, damaged, disordered, and/or unworthy of love. When they are forced to deny their innermost selves because they know exposing it will lead to ridicule, rejection, violence, and bigotry, these strong natural feelings are suppressed, often leading to self-hatred, substance abuse, and even suicide. I guarantee you that LGBT people constitute much more than a "very tiny segment of the population." Many reputable studies have shown that approximately 10% of the population is LGBT, but the real question is: What percent of the population is still afraid to admit their true sexual identities to themselves, let alone someone else?
But I digress, I do agree with and enjoy 90% of what The Outlook has to say. I've decided to send Outlook Massachusetts a friend request on Facebook. Aside from what I've read, I like what most of my old friends are saying about your group, and I especially like the fact that the notorious gentleman and scholar, R. Gregory Frazier, is now one of your contributors... or at least that's what I've been told. As I mentioned in the beginning, the people who referred me to your group are people of quality. Running the numbers on what I've liked versus what I've disagreed with on your website, I approximate a ratio of 90% to 10%, and I'm guessing I can tolerate that 10%, given that it's such a "very tiny segment" of your work, and clearly, 90% > 10%.
Regards,
John Buckley
crushercub81@gmail.com
http://indigentsia.blogspot.com/
The Outlook's article, "Progression Through Quantum Calculus Motions" can be found at the following URL: http://www.outlook-site.org/calculus.html
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
AVG Anti-Virus Free 2011 Inserts Ads in Your Facebook Posts Without Asking
September 30th, 2010 by Avram Piltch
My first quibble in history with AVG Free has been whisked away easily. Thank you Laptop Magazine!
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September 30th, 2010 by Avram Piltch
My first quibble in history with AVG Free has been whisked away easily. Thank you Laptop Magazine!
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Aging Military Aircraft Could Drop 900,000 Tree-Bombs a Day For Reforestation!
by Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, NY on 10/19/2010
A righteous application of yesterday's weaponry!
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by Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, NY on 10/19/2010
A righteous application of yesterday's weaponry!
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Nobel Physics Prize For Ultrathin Carbon Discovery
By KARL RITTER and LOUISE NORDSTROM, Associated Press Writers Karl Ritter And Louise Nordstrom, Associated Press Writers – Tue Oct 5, 11:05 am ET
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By KARL RITTER and LOUISE NORDSTROM, Associated Press Writers Karl Ritter And Louise Nordstrom, Associated Press Writers – Tue Oct 5, 11:05 am ET
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A Letter To Taco Bell About Homophobia
Dear Sirs,
My partner and I visited STORE #004456 in Seekonk, MA tonight and from a far corner of the dining room we heard a male employee talking to two of his friends (non-employees) at the front counter. They were discussing how much a "quarter" of marijuana would cost the employee. We also heard the employee use the Spanish word "maricon" which translates to "faggot" in English. We were extremely offended by this homophobic statement and believe reparations should be made/disciplinary action should be taken. We were as far from the counter as we could have been in the dining room and still heard this outwardly homophobic employee discussing his illegal drug purchases. I am sending this email in order to bring this egregious ignorance to your company's attention.
Sincerely,
John Buckley
Yeah... weedspeak is ok but homophobia results in letters.
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My partner and I visited STORE #004456 in Seekonk, MA tonight and from a far corner of the dining room we heard a male employee talking to two of his friends (non-employees) at the front counter. They were discussing how much a "quarter" of marijuana would cost the employee. We also heard the employee use the Spanish word "maricon" which translates to "faggot" in English. We were extremely offended by this homophobic statement and believe reparations should be made/disciplinary action should be taken. We were as far from the counter as we could have been in the dining room and still heard this outwardly homophobic employee discussing his illegal drug purchases. I am sending this email in order to bring this egregious ignorance to your company's attention.
Sincerely,
John Buckley
Yeah... weedspeak is ok but homophobia results in letters.
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GOP Senate Nominee Joe Miller Says Unemployment Benefits Are Unconstitutional
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| Joe Miller, another wacko from Alaska |
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Glenn Beck Lashes Out At Elmo's Marxist Ways
I despise Elmo, but still!
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| Be Aware: The Friendly Face Of American Marxism |
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Gulf Well Permanently Plugged... Finally
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| A Coast Guard photo shows the failed blowout preventer being raised from the Macondo well site on September 4 |
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Michael Bloomberg Calls Tea Party A Fad, Supports Moderates in 2010 Elections
By Michael Barbaro
Published September 18, 2010
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By Michael Barbaro
Published September 18, 2010
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Chilean Miners Demand Explanation Over Rescue Setbacks
By Associated Press
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| One of the drills that will dig down to the 33 miners trapped underground in Chile. Photograph: Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images |
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Monday, September 13, 2010
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The Best Fake Teabagger Signs at the Boston Common Rally
Matt Stopera - posted about 4 months ago
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Matt Stopera - posted about 4 months ago
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Governor Terminator Mocks Partial-Term Governor Mama Grizzly Pit Bull
Posted by: Boston Bravery | September 10, 2010
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Posted by: Boston Bravery | September 10, 2010
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