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	Tu Betchus!

debbyski

10-12-2008 8:28 AM

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10-13-2008 12:30 PM

citizenbfk

I've been enjoying the upgrade of rhetoric and ideas of many sources searching for words to describe our current times and substantial issues.

We're certainly in deep *hit and going down the tubes.

Uh....Vote Obama.

10-13-2008 12:35 PM

ratilfar

Obama vs. McCain and the Future of the Empire

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