Saddam was well hanged.
stan |
12.30.06 - 1:55 pm | #
Dare I hope...
Oh, you're one of those hopeful bloggers.
spinoza |
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12.30.06 - 1:55 pm | #
OK, now that that's out of the way, on to read the link...
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
12.30.06 - 1:55 pm | #
Well, I WOULD read the link if it ever materialized in my browser.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
12.30.06 - 1:57 pm | #
It seems unfair to Ralph Wiggum to compare him to Jeff Goldstein.
Buzz Bomb |
12.30.06 - 1:57 pm | #
I get "waiting for students.washington.edu"?
Echidne of the snakes |
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12.30.06 - 1:57 pm | #
Future White House tours will feature the lovely Saddam-skin rug on which President Bush would roll around and frolic with his daughters.
warOnBullshit |
12.30.06 - 1:58 pm | #
I'm sure this has been beaten to death here (just arriving for a drive-by), but how in the high holy fuck could Chimpy have slept during the execution?
He has no conscience, no mental stability whatsoever.
Sinfonian, leaving Indiana |
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12.30.06 - 1:58 pm | #
The Bush family's love/hate relationship with Saddam has cost America dearly.
It's not a failed policy. It's a potential future success.
The official WPE spin of the week begins its distribution process.
thebewilderness |
12.30.06 - 1:58 pm | #
Are the punditocracy really representative of Americans? Are we really that dumb, collectively?
Dr. Pedant |
12.30.06 - 1:58 pm | #
OK, finally got to it.
Here's a Goldstein quote: "the fault of a military strategy that has been too introspective and politically circumspect."
Obviously, we need to adopt the good old "10 Iraqis, selected at random, die for every 1 American killed" strategy which served other countries engaged in wars of aggression so well in the past.
After all, if we're going to reenact Stalingrad but do it along the banks of the Tigris, why do it half way? Let's go all out!
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
12.30.06 - 1:59 pm | #
Let them, for one brief moment, bracket their partisan aggressions and reflect on what the US and its allies have done in removing this butcher from power
—which, contrary to received wisdom, has made Iraq a far better place, if only for the moment potentially.
Just shoot me, please, or else hand me res ipsa's big knife.
Tena |
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12.30.06 - 1:59 pm | #
I'm potentially dead.
NTodd, No Smileys, No Peace |
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12.30.06 - 1:59 pm | #
Goldstein needs a copy of Strunk & White shoved up his ass.
spinoza |
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12.30.06 - 2:00 pm | #
What I believe:
Bush didn't sleep during the execution. White House people lied.
Rumsfeld didn't "offer his resignation" to Bush. White House people lied.
Reporters who write or say: "The president slept" rather than "According to the White House, the president slept" are shitheads.
warOnBullshit |
12.30.06 - 2:00 pm | #
I am gay, potentially.
stan |
12.30.06 - 2:00 pm | #
Here's a Goldstein quote: "the fault of a military strategy that has been too introspective and politically circumspect."
Obviously, we need to adopt the good old "10 Iraqis, selected at random, die for every 1 American killed" strategy which served other countries engaged in wars of aggression so well in the past.
It's just deja vu all over again. I remember this argument from Vietnam. It raged for a couple of years at least - "If the dirty hippies would just let us kill them all, problem solved and we win!"
Tena |
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12.30.06 - 2:01 pm | #
NTodd doesn't even have the potential for a potential blog.
spinoza |
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12.30.06 - 2:01 pm | #
Somebody wanted Saddam dead before all the dirt about where the WMD came from came out. So convenient.
JJF |
12.30.06 - 2:01 pm | #
Can anyone point me to a resource about how many people Saddam is claimed to have killed? Someone has just asked me that question.
Litz | Homepage | 12.30.06 - 1:52 pm
Well, the number claimed to have killed depends who is doing the accusing.
No, that's too much of a stretch.
warOnBullshit |
12.30.06 - 2:01 pm | #
Reporters who write or say: "The president slept" rather than "According to the White House, the president slept" are shitheads.
No, not shitheads.
Stenographers.
And of course they are not "journalists" by any stretch of the imagination. They are merely stenographers.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
12.30.06 - 2:02 pm | #
After all, if we're going to reenact Stalingrad but do it along the banks of the Tigris, why do it half way? Let's go all out!
It was the Germans who lost one soldier for every ten defenders killed.
And the Germans lost Stalingrad.
Kids, do not eat paste; it rots the brain.
Snow, Ordinary Thinker |
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12.30.06 - 2:02 pm | #
Are the punditocracy really representative of Americans? Are we really that dumb, collectively?
Dr. Pedant
No and
No.
Fortunately and unfortunately.
Tena |
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12.30.06 - 2:02 pm | #
I'm having a potential orgasm.
NTodd, No Smileys, No Peace |
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12.30.06 - 2:02 pm | #
Goldstein needs a copy of Strunk & White shoved up his ass.
spinoza
I would recommend Funk & Wagnalls.
Diane C. Barking-Mad |
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12.30.06 - 2:02 pm | #
Let them, for one brief moment, bracket their partisan aggressions and reflect on what the US and its allies have done in removing this butcher from power—which, contrary to received wisdom, has made Iraq a far better place, if only for the moment potentially.
Aha! Another success that hasn't happened yet!
I'm just astonished at all the Bush potential successes--just fucking astonished.
Shaw Kenawe |
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12.30.06 - 2:03 pm | #
Angelina's coming over later today, potentially.
warOnBullshit |
12.30.06 - 2:03 pm | #
I'm sure this has been beaten to death here (just arriving for a drive-by), but how in the high holy fuck could Chimpy have slept during the execution?
Good training while Governor of Texas.
General Zod |
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12.30.06 - 2:03 pm | #
Excuse me while I whip this out.
And slap Jeff Goldstein with it.
jac |
12.30.06 - 2:03 pm | #
"The president slept"
As if. They had Saddam's execution on the widescreen in Crawstuck.
Nur al-Cubicle |
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12.30.06 - 2:04 pm | #
Il Pastino: Let them, for one brief moment, bracket their partisan aggressions and reflect on what the US and its allies have done in removing this butcher from powe--which, contrary to received wisdom, has made Iraq a far better place, if only for the moment potentially.
Frances Townsend, our government's chief terrorism expert: Capturing Osama is just a victory that hasn't occured yet.
So they're all on the same page, at least.
Jim |
12.30.06 - 2:04 pm | #
Aha! Another success that hasn't happened yet!
I'm just astonished at all the Bush potential successes--just fucking astonished.
Shaw Kenawe
It's all about the victory that exists; we just can't find it. It got lost.
Or something.
Will someone just go ahead already and shoot me?
Tena |
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12.30.06 - 2:04 pm | #
Hey, a whole new Wayne's World series can come out, with the characters saying "you're _____,.....
....POTENTIALLY!"
They'll make a mint.
warOnBullshit |
12.30.06 - 2:04 pm | #
Bonjour! Are canadians still welcome on Eschaton? Atrios didn't say in his earlier rant. But i'm a good canadian! I go to demonstrations once in a while, i am a member (and give money) of the NDP and Québec solidaire, the left wing federal and provincial parties. I'm ready to marry an american who need political asylum (and free healthcare). So can i still come here and post in the threads, please?
Plum P |
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12.30.06 - 2:05 pm | #
Oh, it's Pasty boy. Haven't seen him here in a while
pie |
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12.30.06 - 2:05 pm | #
"The president slept"
Nah, he had a ski mask on, and used a Wii to simulate being the executioner.
spinoza |
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12.30.06 - 2:06 pm | #
OMG, the wankers are wanking in massive numbers at Pajamas Media over Goldstein's triumphant "return" to blogging.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
12.30.06 - 2:06 pm | #
I'm sure this has been beaten to death here (just arriving for a drive-by), but how in the high holy fuck could Chimpy have slept during the execution?
It's of absolutely no consequence to me... if anything I prefer to hear that he slept through it rather than sitting up late listening to the play-by-play or watching via closed circuit.
But mostly it's irrelevant.
SteveLG, pre 9/11 to the bone |
12.30.06 - 2:06 pm | #
He goes to bed at 10pm?????????? The President of the United States???? That must be when PAX TV signs off for the night.
stan |
12.30.06 - 2:07 pm | #
Let them, for one brief moment, bracket their partisan aggressions and reflect on what the US and its allies have done in removing this butcher from powe--which, contrary to received wisdom, has made Iraq a far better place, if only for the moment potentially.
If I had a student write like that I would go through red pencils by the gross.
spinoza |
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12.30.06 - 2:07 pm | #
Let them, for one brief moment, bracket their partisan aggressions and reflect on what the US and its allies have done in removing this butcher from powe--which, contrary to received wisdom, has made Iraq a far better place, if only for the moment potentially.
If I had a student write like that I would go through red pencils by the gross.
spinoza |
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12.30.06 - 2:07 pm | #
I'm ready to marry an american who need political asylum (and free healthcare).
Do you have large breastesess?
Dr. Principius Gonadz |
12.30.06 - 2:07 pm | #
I wish the best to all of you. I'm not doing so well, blood from my ear. Hope to see you tomorrow night
Draco |
12.30.06 - 2:07 pm | #
Here's a Goldstein quote: "the fault of a military strategy that has been too introspective and politically circumspect."
It was "full speed ahead, fuck you and everyone else. You're weither with us or against us."
Really introspective.
Jeff, you're an asshat.
pie |
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12.30.06 - 2:07 pm | #
But mostly it's irrelevant.
SteveLG,
Word.
That mind is diseased. Who cares how he reacts?
Tena |
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12.30.06 - 2:07 pm | #
So did Blair watch the execution. His foreign minister hi-5ed the hanging?
Nur al-Cubicle |
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12.30.06 - 2:08 pm | #
Draco, for heaven's sake, if you are bleeding from your ears, don't tell us - call 911.
Tena |
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12.30.06 - 2:09 pm | #
which, contrary to received wisdom, has made Iraq a far better place, if only for the moment potentially.
Now that's a resounding endorsement if I ever heard one.
Good grief.
pie |
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12.30.06 - 2:09 pm | #
"the fault of a military strategy that has been too introspective and politically circumspect."
And that's why they initially called it "Shock and Awe."
Central Scrutinizer |
12.30.06 - 2:09 pm | #
Looks like Macaca-boy won't be the only one with a noose hanging in his office.
warOnBullshit |
12.30.06 - 2:09 pm | #
Ntodd: your latest bunch of cats pics is adorable! And you have normal feet! I always thought you had hobbits feet for some reason?
Plum P |
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12.30.06 - 2:09 pm | #
It must suck to be a Saddam executioner. You want to boast about it to your friends, but if overheard (or betrayed), you'll be tortured with power drills till you say the names of the other executioners, and then die yourself.
Mike |
12.30.06 - 2:09 pm | #
Aznar was probably down in Crawstuck, too, as well as Rumsfeld and Ollie North.
Nur al-Cubicle |
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12.30.06 - 2:10 pm | #
Do you have large breastesess?
Dr. Principius Gonadz
It matters not what we think about Saddam's execution,it matters what the Iraqipeople think. I'm waiting to see if the violent subsides or takesoff.
anonymous |
12.30.06 - 2:11 pm | #
Bob Woodward did an embargoed interview with Saddam in which Saddam claimed to have fathered the twins.
warOnBullshit |
12.30.06 - 2:11 pm | #
Bush's Saturday address is all about Gerald Ford, how he made tough decisions that were unpopular at the time, but proved to be teh right thing for America.
Yep, it's all about Gerald Ford.
What did Atrios say about Narcissists?
Jim |
12.30.06 - 2:11 pm | #
Credit where credit is due. "If only for the moment potentially" is sheer genius.
Jim Harrison |
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12.30.06 - 2:11 pm | #
Brown, Ford, Hussein:
Hung, Clung and Swung
stan |
12.30.06 - 2:11 pm | #
Jeff Goldstein moved from paste to airplane glue long ago.
JR, kerosene and a match |
12.30.06 - 2:12 pm | #
Fuck I want to kill it's in my blood I'm a god damn proud American
BUSH RULES |
12.30.06 - 2:12 pm | #
Let them, for one brief moment, bracket their partisan aggressions and reflect on what the US and its allies have done in removing this butcher from powe--which, contrary to received wisdom, has made Iraq a far better place, if only for the moment potentially.
Great minds think alike...
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/arch...ives/
002250.php
Five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden is still at large -- but that's not a failure of White House policy, says Frances Fragos Townsend. As she explained to CNN's White House correspondent Ed Henry last night:
HENRY: You know, going back to September 2001, the president said, dead or alive, we're going to get him. Still don't have him. I know you are saying there's successes on the war on terror, and there have been. That's a failure.
TOWNSEND: Well, I'm not sure -- it's a success that hasn't occurred yet. I don't know that I view that as a failure.
Richard |
12.30.06 - 2:12 pm | #
As Samuel Johnson famously noted, nothing so concentrates the mind like the prospect of a hanging.
The prospect of potential sex can do that, too.
Lime Rickey |
12.30.06 - 2:12 pm | #
Edwards thought the neck-tie party was groovy. I don't anticipate becoming an Edwards fan.
larry, dfh |
12.30.06 - 2:13 pm | #
"the fault of a military strategy that has been too introspective and politically circumspect."
Well, this is exactly what Colonel Kurtz was trying to tell us!
So what did we do? We sent Captain Willard to terminate him with extreme prejudice! And now we're paying for it. We are so fucking stupid sometimes...
Little Brøther |
12.30.06 - 2:13 pm | #
How much do you suppose Gannon charged last night? I'm sure bidding was off the hook.
warOnBullshit |
12.30.06 - 2:13 pm | #
As Samuel Johnson famously noted, nothing so concentrates the mind like the prospect of a hanging.
The prospect of potential sex can do that, too.
I'll be in my bunk.
NTodd, No Smileys, No Peace |
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12.30.06 - 2:14 pm | #
Edwards thought the neck-tie party was groovy. I don't anticipate becoming an Edwards fan.
I do not anticipate accepting this as an accurate description of the comments.
Snow, Ordinary Thinker |
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12.30.06 - 2:14 pm | #
TOWNSEND: Well, I'm not sure -- it's a success that hasn't occurred yet. I don't know that I view that as a failure.
Richard
" a success that hasn't occurred yet"
WHAT THE FUCK!
Then, I'm Keith Obermann's (or George Clooney)wife but it hasn't occured yet!
Plum P |
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12.30.06 - 2:15 pm | #
TOWNSEND: Well, I'm not sure -- it's a success that hasn't occurred yet. I don't know that I view that as a failure.
I can tell you one place OBL isn't - Iraq.
pie |
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12.30.06 - 2:15 pm | #
"the fault of a military strategy that has been too introspective and politically circumspect."
Well, if we'd just surrender ourselves to the inner barbarian, we'd do much better.
If you can't beat the enemy, join him!
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
12.30.06 - 2:15 pm | #
Oh, that was t3H FunnAy!
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.30.06 - 2:15 pm | #
Do you have large breastesess?
Dr. Principius Gonadz
oui!
Plum P - 2:10 pm
Um, not to cut in here-- but before I kneel down on my torn right meniscus... do you mind if I ask how many?
Little Brøther |
12.30.06 - 2:16 pm | #
Obviously, we need to adopt the good old "10 Iraqis, selected at random, die for every 1 American killed" strategy which served other countries engaged in wars of aggression so well in the past.
It's just deja vu all over again. I remember this argument from Vietnam. It raged for a couple of years at least - "If the dirty hippies would just let us kill them all, problem solved and we win!"
Tena | Homepage | 12.30.06 - 2:01 pm
Dear fucking gods and godesses. After all, what could go wrong? It worked so well for the Nazis.
Saddam is still dead potentially.
NTodd, No Smileys, No Peace |
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12.30.06 - 2:16 pm | #
Maybe we shouldn't have invaded Iraq and left the potential victory intact.
warOnBullshit |
12.30.06 - 2:16 pm | #
YouTube drapes.
Buckeye, Blue State |
12.30.06 - 2:17 pm | #
" a success that hasn't occurred yet"
I have a lunch that hasn't occurred yet.
NTodd, No Smileys, No Peace |
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12.30.06 - 2:17 pm | #
See, here's proof of my thought to change the honorarium from wanker to mayors of toontown.
1watt Annoying person |
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12.30.06 - 2:17 pm | #
Edwards thought the neck-tie party was groovy. I don't anticipate becoming an Edwards fan.
larry, dfh
Source? Link? Or are we just supposed to take your word for that?
Tena |
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12.30.06 - 2:17 pm | #
TOWNSEND: Well, I'm not sure -- it's a success that hasn't occurred yet. I don't know that I view that as a failure.
Richard
" a success that hasn't occurred yet"
WHAT THE FUCK!
Then, I'm Keith Obermann's (or George Clooney)wife but it hasn't occurred yet!
Plum P
I'm still alive, so I'm a death that hasn't occured yet.
I guess this reassures me.
shawk |
12.30.06 - 2:18 pm | #
Damn. Looks like I missed my chance to get out and about. The rain is heading in.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.30.06 - 2:18 pm | #
do you mind if I ask how many?
Little Brøther
last time i checked...two!
Plum P |
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12.30.06 - 2:18 pm | #
Kurtz: Did they say why, Willard, why they want to terminate my command?
Willard: I was sent on a classified mission, sir.
Kurtz: It's no longer classified, is it? Did they tell you?
Willard: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.
Kurtz: Are my methods unsound?
Willard: I don't see any method at all, sir.
Kurtz: I expected someone like you. What did you expect? Are you an assassin?
Willard: I'm a soldier.
Kurtz: You're neither. You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.
Richard |
12.30.06 - 2:18 pm | #
Or are we just supposed to take your word for that?
I was wondering who "Patsy" was!
Little Brøther |
12.30.06 - 2:29 pm | #
It was the Germans who lost one soldier for every ten defenders killed.
And the Germans lost Stalingrad.
Kids, do not eat paste; it rots the brain.
Snow, Ordinary Thinker
It was the Nazis who practiced this in Serbia.
At the Kragujevac Massacre, they killed 100 Serbs for every Nazi soldier killed and 50 for every wounded.
Tread |
12.30.06 - 2:35 pm | #
Edwards thought the neck-tie party was groovy. I don't anticipate becoming an Edwards fan.
I'm sure John will be devastated by your lack of support.
Terry C, Gore/Clark 08 |
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12.30.06 - 2:44 pm | #
Me having hot sex with Uma Thurman.
Another success that hasn't happened yet...
Barton Keyes |
12.30.06 - 4:39 pm | #
I got lots of potential ponies for christmas.
AnotherBruce |
12.30.06 - 4:46 pm | #
Good for Jeffy! He can aim for and hit the keys again! I guess he found the right balance of meds.
tb |
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12.30.06 - 6:16 pm | #
Oy vey. Random thoughts on the Jeffness and our great triumph over yet another pissant dictator:
1.) Am I the only one who thinks of warblogger spooge when I read the words "protein wisdom?"
2.) The Daily News, having followed The New York Post down into the rightwing sewer, isn't giving up the chase now. They've got the exact same cover yet again.
3.) Actually, pathetically, the Daily News's headline is slightly better than the Post's (Saddam Swings -- vs. Saddam Hangs). It's a sad day when a paper known only for frothing wingnutism and great headline writing loses out to its Winger-come-lately crosstown rival.
Septic Tank |
12.30.06 - 6:52 pm | #
Holy shit, goldstein is one dumb motherfucker.
ice weasel |
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12.30.06 - 7:03 pm | #
I WILL DESTROY YOU ALL!!
BWAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!
(If only for the moment potentially.)
Newport 9 |
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12.30.06 - 7:26 pm | #
Stupidity of that order has to be considered genius.
AA |
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12.30.06 - 9:25 pm | #
"They were also the sort of war crime that people like Ralph Peters and a hundred other pundits and parapundits think the United States should be committing."
parapundits? Are those the airborne forces of the 101st fighting keyboarders?
Cy Guy |
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12.30.06 - 11:28 pm | #
Did Jeff make your butt sore, again?
thor finklestein |
12.31.06 - 8:16 pm | #
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Johnny Drama:Edwards/hope? |
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Johnny Drama:Edwards/Feingold |
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