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Ho hum, Robert Byrd dies

Jun 28, 2010 2:16AM PDT

Seems upcoming legislation won't get past cloture now.

(am i the only one having a problem posting here today? I have to Preview and then Post, since Submit Post button alone won't do it)

I did make some software changes this weekend and maybe that affected me only.

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The King of Pork...
Jun 28, 2010 5:58AM PDT

He was like a vampire sucking public money instead of blood. I wonder if the Klan will give the ex-Kleagle a funeral parade.

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Robert Carlyle Byrd [November 20, 1917 ? June 28, 2010]
Jun 29, 2010 2:47AM PDT
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It would have been nice if this thread had been locked
Jul 2, 2010 9:15AM PDT

rather than the other far more neutrally worded one.

Rob

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what?!
Jul 2, 2010 10:05AM PDT
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"ho hum" is about as neutral
Jul 2, 2010 11:38PM PDT

BUT not "ho hum" enough to not post (express YOUR feelings) about the event?

"ho hum" might be neutral...posting about "ho hum" events...isn't

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(NT) ho hum
Jul 3, 2010 3:51AM PDT
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3 posts by you, (and counting) about a "ho hum" event
Jul 3, 2010 4:12AM PDT

no money for fireworks this weekend?

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More air for me to breath
Jul 3, 2010 5:12AM PDT

As much as they try to down play it,the man was a recruiter for the KKK.

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60 years ago, he was.
Jul 3, 2010 5:54AM PDT

Why don't you slam him on Flip Flopping instead. First he's a racist, and then he isn't... first he voted against civil rights and then he voted for them...

I thought conservatives hate flip floppers... or did y'all flip flop on that?