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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 03:30 PM
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Year of the Rat: OK, ***NOW*** I'm Freaked about Clinton/McCain
Edited on Thu Jan-31-08 04:25 PM by CorpGovActivist
Are you http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=&q=year+rat">freakin' kidding me?!? It's going to be the Year of the Rat?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Astrology">Feb 07 2008 marks the beginning of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_rat">Year of the Rat. Glad Tsunami Tuesday squeaks in under the wire, of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_(zodiac)">Year of the Boar, when piggy contractors' and media types' influence was felt. (On edit: Hillary and I were both born the Year of the Boar. Ack. See #13 downthread below for details.)



- Dave
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rinsd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 03:31 PM
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1. Really? I figured your dozen anti-Clinton threads a day was a sure sign of freakout
:eyes:
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 03:32 PM
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2. But the Pro-Hillary Threads Are Sane, Holy, and Pure, Right?
:eyes:

- Dave
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 03:32 PM
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3. can you be more specific about the reason for your freak out??
:shrug:
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 03:33 PM
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4. Yes
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thoughtcrime1984 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 03:41 PM
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5. Ohhh, I thought you meant Clinton/McCain was the Repub ticket
That'd be a winner! Just kidding, folks...
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 03:42 PM
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6. Big Tent?
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 03:42 PM
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7. I'm a libra... who should I vote for?
:wtf:
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 03:58 PM
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9. A Libra-al
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 03:59 PM
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11. *rimshot*
:hi:
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 04:26 PM
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15. Bu-duhmp-buhmp!
Edited on Thu Jan-31-08 04:27 PM by CorpGovActivist
Thank you, I'll be here all primary season, and right on thru to the General.

:hi:

- Dave
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Gidney N Cloyd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 03:42 PM
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8. Here are the previous rat years: 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996
Edited on Thu Jan-31-08 03:44 PM by Gidney N Cloyd
(edit: just going back through the last century)

How'd we make out most of those (election) years?
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 04:21 PM
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13. You Just Scared the Crap out of Me!
Edited on Thu Jan-31-08 04:33 PM by CorpGovActivist
:rofl:

It's bad enough that:

1. I'm an http://typelogic.com/intj.html">INTJ. Hillary's apologists like to point out that she is a "http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=misunderstood+intj+hillary">misunderstood INTJ," neglecting that it's her fault for not learning how to use 60 years of life experience to figure out how to relate.

2. Every friggin' political compatibility test I take shows me slightly closer to her, with either Edwards or Obama a very close second. I explain that to myself as: she's where I've been, they're where I'm evolving to.

3. Now, I see my birth year in your list. WTF?!? Except, it occurred to me that Chinese New Year encompasses January. I'm the tail end of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_%28zodiac%29">Year of the Boar, which included January 1972. Boars and Rats are incompatible.

But I'll be a lemur's stepchild, if she's not also born in the Year of the Boar (October, 1947).

She is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_%28classical_element%29#Chinese_Tradition">Fire Pig. I am a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_%28classical_element%29">Metal Pig.

Greater schisms have occurred over finer distinctions, and the Fire/Metal thing is just gonna hafta do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHd3ck6fHBw">My Dirty Little Secret may be found at 1:24, apparently (though a few of the other signs are wince-makers, too).

On edit: I think I have to start cutting her more slack on the http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=hillary+clinton+eleanor+solarium">Eleanor in the Solarium with the medium thing from now on, just to be fair.

:rofl:

- Dave
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Buttercup McToots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 05:11 PM
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28. Bloody Hell...
:eyes:
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 05:16 PM
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29. Buttercup!
See #13.

:rofl:

- Dave
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Buttercup McToots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 05:33 PM
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32. Aye
'sluagh ghairm'
How ye being, bonny laddie?
:pals:
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 06:15 PM
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33. Cain't...
Edited on Thu Jan-31-08 06:15 PM by CorpGovActivist
... complain. Won't, anyway.

And ye, mirthful Mom? How be the Mister and them weed-growing lads?

:pals:

:hug:

- Dave
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Buttercup McToots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 07:29 PM
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34. So verry big
they be gettin`...
The wee one towers ov`r me now...
I do love them so...
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 07:56 PM
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35. Let Me Tell Ye...
... there is something heartwarming for a son, to be able to rest his chin or jaw, on his mom's head. Cain't explain it. But it's one of the best gifts in the world for loving sons.

- Dave
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 03:58 PM
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10. oh, no, astrology!
(insert joke about shallow, flaky Obama supporters here)

nancy? is that you?

you know, of course, that the Year of the Rat is associated with prosperity? that Rats are organized, leaders, intelligent, caring, charismatic and effective at problem solving?

can I quote you that this is your opinion of Hillary Clinton? I got it off your link, after all.
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 04:00 PM
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12. Sure! Just Include All the Others...
"Controlling, obstinate, back-stabbing, resentful, lacks-a-sense-of-humor, manipulative, cruel, vengeful, power-driven, critical, possessive, stingy, bossy, fickle, defensive, quarrlesome, dishonest"

Off the same link.
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 04:25 PM
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14. Is this a political discussion?
Or a Chinese restaurant placemat reading?
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 04:28 PM
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16. Lighten up, Francis!
Does everything in GDP have to be intense spin and mudslinging?

- Dave
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 04:30 PM
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17. I thought it was the rule
Unless somehow connected to Lee Mercer, Jr.
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 04:35 PM
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20. Fine. We'll Do Mercer's Star Chart in This Thread Then!
:rofl:

- Dave
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 08:22 PM
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36. Dr. Lee L. Mercer, Jr. Is a...
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Whisp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 04:33 PM
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18. is jumping ship listed too?
:rofl:
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 04:34 PM
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19. If You Mean...
Edited on Thu Jan-31-08 04:36 PM by CorpGovActivist
... I should've lashed myself to the mast of the S.S. Edwards as it gurgled toward the bottom, I think you'll find the type is a pragmatic one, that makes the necessary leaps to continue to be influential.

:rofl:

A lot of Edwards supporters are grateful for the rescue operation mounted by the U.S.S. Obama.

- Dave
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Whisp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 04:49 PM
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24. wasn't toward you.
rats leaving the ship seems to be a popular phrase to describe neocons.
and she's a neocon.

:)
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 04:50 PM
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25. Neo-Lib, Neo-Con...
Edited on Thu Jan-31-08 04:51 PM by CorpGovActivist
... the political spectrum does a reacharound. "I'll scratch yours, you scratch mine," is their alliance's motto.

- Dave
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 04:57 PM
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26. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to...
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 05:18 PM
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31. Rotate-o...
... the Oval.

- Dave
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 04:59 PM
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27. Prosperity... in China. nt
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 05:17 PM
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30. BWAH!
:thumbsup:

NICE!

- Dave
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 04:36 PM
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21. you're damn right its the year of the rat
THIS rat, anyway.
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 04:37 PM
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22. Magic Rat and SwampRat...
... as the Year of the Boar winds down, here's the torch, guys.

:toast:

- Dave
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 04:47 PM
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23. McCain: Born in the Year of the Rat
Edited on Thu Jan-31-08 04:49 PM by CorpGovActivist
He's a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_%28zodiac%29">Rat, of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_%28classical_element%29#Chinese_Tradition">Fire variety: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_mccain">born August 1936.

Rats and Boars are incompatible. Hillary is a Boar, John McCain is a Rat, we're exiting the Year of the Boar, and entering the Year of the Rat.

Lovely.

- Dave
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