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Sat Jul 14, 2012, 11:12 AM Jul 2012

The DUzy Awards for Friday, July 13, 2012

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[center][font size=7]WELCOME to the DUZY AWARDS![/font][/center]

Welcome, sleepyheads, to a very special episode of The DUzy Awards, starring Chris Rock as Dr. Cliff Huxtable, Marc Maron as Engineer Brett, Larry David as Sgt. Phil Fish, and Andi MacDowell as Lt. Tawny Madison. Special guest Mary Kate Olsen stars as Punky Brewster.


How it works:

You see a funny post and you want to put it in contention. Great! Send a private-message to “The DUzy Awards” and include a link to the original post and the # of the reply you want to nominate, and then copy-and-paste the OP and the nominated post into the message. That’s in case of a self-deletion or an edit or something.

If a member’s name is in [font color=#800080]purple text[/font], then that member has won a DUzy for the week.

If text is in [font color=#FF0000]red italicized text[/font] that’s a comment from me.

All past DU3 DUzies are in this account’s Journal for your enjoyment. If you want the older ones, go find JeffR’s Journal on DU2… if you can!!! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by trumad
[font size=+1] Fuck Ann Romney and the horse she rode in on.[/font]
Nuff said.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Lionessa [/font]
[font size=+1] 1. You really want to bone her and her horse? EWWW. [/font]
Please improve your taste.

GD, 8 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002916873


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] Major Nikon [/font]
[font size=+1] Batcrab[/font]


The Lounge, 9 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018150883


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] UTUSN [/font]
[font size=+1] Forget making up a "scientology," they made up a language, too: "my Dynamics" and "hatting"[/font]
If the dude's "Dynamics" is affected, does he lose his Clear card?!1 Is "hatting" something involving Greek fisherman's caps, preferably in cotton-poly because wool is too hot?!1

My flailing at humor here belies my true fear.


*************QUOTE*************

http://gawker.com/5924273/scientologist-leader-urges-censorship-of-media-stand-up-and-defend-our-religion

[font size=+1]Scientologist Leader Urges Censorship of Media: ‘Stand Up and Defend Our Religion’[/font]

by Louis Peitzman

.... The email was sent to Ray McKay, whom Rathbun calls "a well-known OSA operative." In the email, the author, Daniele Lattanzi, refers to the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce and the negative attention it has brought to Scientology.

“I am not a big fan of media, but you may have glanced the news of the split between TC and Holmes and all the speculations around. While this is a personal matter, when people start to bring our religion into the middle and a bunch of uninformed people start to spread false datum, rumors and defame our religion it became a matter that does affect my Dynamics and I believe that affects yours as well.

“Well, I am not somebody that I am going to simply stand and watch a bunch of uninformed people putting my religion under the carpet. So here is a simple hatting on how you can causative fight back and at the same time stand up and defend our religion on the internet.”


What follows is a step-by-step guide to censoring coverage of Scientology on the internet by reporting "abuse." Lattanzi suggests scanning TomKat articles for comments that "defame or degrade" Scientology. This concerted effort, he believes, will have an impact on stopping the spread of negative information. ....


On his blog, Rathbun has spent years documenting these attempts at censorship and subterfuge by Scientology — all of which are denied by Church officials. The harassment Rathbun has faced is supposedly the work of individual Scientologists and not condoned by the Church, something Rathbun is certain isn't true. ....

*************UNQUOTE*************

GD, 9 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002920585


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] Junkdrawer [/font]
[font size=+1] Thought Bubbles needed....(Photo from Romney's NAACP speach)....[/font]


ON EDIT:

struggle4progress's Winner:



[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] dionysus [/font]
[font size=+1] 2. . [/font]
< ( W... )
( T... ) >
< ( F... )
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] nc4bo [/font]
[font size=+1] 9. Asshole? Naw girl - he's the whole ass! [/font]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] DainBramaged [/font]
[font size=+1] 12. Yep [/font]

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] malaise [/font]
[font size=+1] 21. Whatthefuckever!! [/font]
Freakingpriceless
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] spanone [/font]
[font size=+1] 33. 'he's not white, he's clear' [/font]

GD, 11 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002931454


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] Amerigo Vespucci [/font]
[font size=+1] MARTIN BASHIR IS SPANKING LUKE RUSSERT'S ASS LIKE A SANTANA CONGA SOLO [/font]
BASHIR: "Are John Boehner and Mitch McConnell fighting for the top 3 percent?" (Their assertion that not extending the Bush Tax Cuts would stifle "job creation&quot .

Russert wouldn;t answer and started giggling. He said "I'm not John Boehner or Mitch McConnell! Yoi have to have them on your show!"

Bashir said "We've asked, they won't come on."

The closest Russert would come to answering the question is to say that it's a "talking point."

At the end of the segment Russert called it a "tough interview."


GD, 9 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002922287


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Major Nikon
[font size=+1] Brilliance in ergometry[/font]


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] HopeHoops
[font size=+1] 1. A condom next to the computer is trouble waiting to happen, well, unless you're watching porn. [/font]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] Major Nikon
[font size=+1] 2. You use condoms while watching porn? [/font]
Isn't that taking safe sex a step too far?
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] rug [/font]
[font size=+1] 3. He doesn't want to catch a virus. [/font]

The Lounge, 10 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018151337


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] graywarrior [/font]
[font size=+1] I do not like this Romney Mitt[/font]


Politics 2012, 10 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125153805


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] Are_grits_groceries [/font]
[font size=+1] Great letter from Michigan resident on behalf of beavers living behind his house:[/font]
STATE OF MICHIGAN

JOHN ENGLER, Governor
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
December 17, 1997

CERTIFIED

Mr. Ryan DeVries
Dear Mr. DeVries:

SUBJECT: DEQ File No. 97-59-0023-1 T11N, R10W, Sec. 20, Montcalm County

It has come to the attention of the Department of Environmental Quality that there has been recent unauthorized activity on the above referenced parcel of property. You have been certified as the legal landowner and/or contractor who did the following unauthorized activity:

Construction and maintenance of two wood debris dams across the outlet stream of Spring Pond. A permit must be issued prior to the start of this type of activity. A review of the Department's files show that no permits have been issued.

Therefore, the Department has determined that this activity is in violation of Part 301,. Inland Lakes and Streams, of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Michigan Compiled Laws annotated. The Department has been informed that one or both of the dams partially failed during a recent rain event, causing debris dams and flooding at downstream locations. We find that dams of this nature are inherently hazardous and cannot be permitted. The Department therefore orders you to cease and desist all unauthorized activities at this location, and to restore the stream to a free-flow condition by removing all wood and brush forming the dams from the strewn channel. All restoration work shall be completed no later than January 31, 1998. Please notify this office when the restoration has been completed so that a follow-up site inspection may be scheduled by our staff. Failure to comply with this request, or any further unauthorized activity on the site, may result in this case being referred for elevated enforcement action. We anticipate and would appreciate your full cooperation in this matter.

Please feel free to contact me at this office if you have any questions.

Sincerely,
David L. Price
District Representative
Land and Water Management Division

------------------------------------------

Reply: 1/6/98
Dear Mr. Price:

Re: DEQ File No. 97-59-0023; T11N, R10W, Sec 20; Montcalm County

Your certified letter dated 12/17/97 has been handed to me to respond to. You sent out a great deal of carbon copies to a lot of people, but you neglected to include their addresses. You will, therefore, have to send them a copy of my response.

First of all, Mr. Ryan DeVries is not the legal landowner and/or contractor at 2088 Dagget, Pierson, Michigan — I am the legal owner and a couple of beavers are in the (State unauthorized) process of constructing and maintaining two wood "debris" dams across the outlet stream of my Spring Pond. While I did not pay for, nor authorize their dam project, I think they would be highly offended you call their skillful use of natural building materials "debris". I would like to challenge you to attempt to emulate their dam project any dam time and/or any dam place you choose. I believe I can safely state there is no dam way you could ever match their dam skills, their dam resourcefulness, their dam ingenuity, their dam persistence, their dam determination and/or their dam work ethic.

As to your dam request the beavers first must fill out a dam permit prior to the start of this type of dam activity, my first dam question to you is: are you trying to discriminate against my Spring Pond Beavers or do you require all dam beavers throughout this State to conform to said dam request? If you are not discriminating against these particular beavers, please send me completed copies of all those other applicable beaver dam permits. Perhaps we will see if there really is a dam violation of Part 301, Inland Lakes and Streams, of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Michigan Compiled Laws annotated.

My first concern is — aren't the dam beavers entitled to dam legal representation? The Spring Pond Beavers are financially destitute and are unable to pay for said dam representation — so the State will have to provide them with a dam lawyer. The Department's dam concern that either one or both of the dams failed during a recent rain event causing dam flooding is proof we should leave the dam Spring Pond Beavers alone rather than harassing them and calling their dam names. If you want the dam stream "restored" to a dam free-flow condition — contact the dam beavers — but if you are going to arrest them (they obviously did not pay any dam attention to your dam letter — being unable to read English) — be sure you read them their dam Miranda first.

As for me, I am not going to cause more dam flooding or dam debris jams by interfering with these dam builders. If you want to hurt these dam beavers — be aware I am sending a copy of your dam letter and this response to PETA. If your dam Department seriously finds all dams of this nature inherently hazardous and truly will not permit their existence in this dam State — I seriously hope you are not selectively enforcing this dam policy — or once again both I and the Spring Pond Beavers will scream prejudice!

In my humble opinion, the Spring Pond Beavers have a right to build their dam unauthorized dams as long as the sky is blue, the grass is green and water flows downstream. They have more dam right than I to live and enjoy Spring Pond. So, as far as I and the beavers are concerned, this dam case can be referred for more dam elevated enforcement action now. Why wait until 1/31/98? The Spring Pond Beavers may be under the dam ice then, and there will be no dam way for you or your dam staff to contact/harass them then. In conclusion, I would like to bring to your attention a real environmental quality (health) problem; bears are actually defecating in our woods. I definitely believe you should be persecuting the defecating bears and leave the dam beavers alone. If you are going to investigate the beaver dam, watch your step! (The bears are not careful where they dump!)

Being unable to comply with your dam request, and being unable to contact you on your dam answering machine, I am sending this response to your dam office.

Sincerely,
Stephen L. Tvedten
cc: PETA
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/07/regarding-your-dam-complaint.html

Ha!

GD, 12 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002935022


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Ian David
[font size=+1] Boston Globe To Team Romney: Sorry, No Dice[/font]
Boston Globe To Team Romney: Sorry, No Dice

The Boston Globe will not be issuing a correction to its report on Mitt Romney’s departure from Bain Capital, according to Politico. The Romney campaign formally demanded a retraction earlier today, maintaining Romney was CEO in name only, delegating all day-to-day operations to 26 managing directors at the firm from February 1999 on.

“We received your request late this afternoon for a correction regarding this morning’s Globe story,” wrote Globe editor Martin Baron to Romney communication director Gail Gitcho. “Having carefully reviewed that request, we see no basis for publishing a correction. The Globe story was entirely accurate.”

More:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/boston-globe-to-team-romney-sorry-no-dice



[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] tanyev [/font]
[font size=+1] 10. Well, this week has been an unMITTigated disaster for Team Rmoney. [/font]

GD, 12 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002937850


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by cynatnite
[font size=+1] The Edifi Christian tablet will bring you closer to God...[/font]
If you've been wanting a tablet but thought the options currently out on the market are just too heathenish for your tastes, your wait is over. A group called Family Christian announced the sale of Edifi, which it claims is the world's first Christian tablet. Edifi features a web browser with a built-in "safe search" and options for Christian radio stations. It also runs the company's Holy Bible application, which contains 27 different English translations of the Bible; who knew there were that many to choose from?

The device is made by Cydle in South Korea, and the Android tablet's specs are very similar to those of the Kindle Fire. Brian Honorable, a technology supervisor at Family Christian, said the Edifi was designed to be a direct competitor to the Amazon product. "It goes along with our mission," Honorable said in an interview with FoxNews.com, "Trying to get people closer to God… through a tablet." We're pretty sure that your tablets aren't getting you into trouble with any higher powers. Although those Apple fans do have a near-religious devotion to their favorite products.

Honorable didn't give details about how many Edifi tablets have been sold, just that the numbers were "strong" thus far. Probably not as strong as the new iPad, which might have sold more than 1 million units on its first weekend alone. But who's counting?

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/rejoice-edifi-first-christian-tablet-190513571.html

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] jberryhill [/font]
[font size=+1]1. Early versions were impressive [/font]

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Initech [/font]
[font size=+1] 2. Why not? Moses carried a tablet. It was called the iCommand. [/font]
*rimshot*


GD, 12 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002938717


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Scuba
[font size=+1] Jury system gets another one right[/font]
At Sat Jul 7, 2012, 12:50 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

People Just Don't Get IT
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=160920

REASON FOR ALERT:

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate. (See <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=aboutus#communitystandards" target="_blank">Community Standards</a>.)

ALERTER'S COMMENTS:

Homophobe. Please revoke posting privileges.

JURY RESULTS

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Sat Jul 7, 2012, 12:56 PM, and the Jury voted 6-0 to HIDE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT and said: he cast his net wide, but he's in water way over his head. what a twit.
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT and said: Smh
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT and said: I agree with the alerter. This type of post (person?) shouldn't be HERE.
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT and said: Ridiculous and hurtful and homophobic.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] NYC_SKP [/font]
[font size=+1] 21. The former member was on to us libruls: I one day hope to marry a tree. [/font]
(sarc)

I lovely loquat, much younger than I but unbelievably beautiful.

I know, people would talk, but...


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] scarletwoman [/font]
[font size=+1] 22. Me too! We could make it a treesome! [/font]

M-D, 7 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240120975


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by EarlG
[font size=+1] Pic Of The Moment: Thank Goodness For Business Experience[/font]


Romney: I Didn't Even Know About That Bermuda Company!

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Blue Owl [/font]
[font size=+1] 14. Get a BRAIN Morman [/font]
n/t

Video & Multimedia, 10 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101739896


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by FarLeftFist
[font size=+1] The Newsroom is making the MSM look like FOOLS.[/font]
When a fictional tv show does more hard hitting investigative & truthful journalism about the radical right-wing in 3 episodes than the entire MSM has done in the past decade you know the MSM has reached a new loooow.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] dipsydoodle [/font]
[font size=+1] 12. Spoiler [/font]




GD, 10 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002925706


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Kadie
[font size=+1] Romney addresses the NAACP annual convention in Houston, Texas - pics[/font]


































US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addresses the NAACP annual convention in Houston, Texas on July 11, 2012.



pics from news.daylife.com

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] tk2kewl [/font]
[font size=+1] 1. Whatcha talkin' 'bout Willard!!??11?!! [/font]

The looks he is getting from the audience are priceless!

Video & Multimedia, 11 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101740171


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by kpete
[font size=+1] You Know Who Else Has or Had Swiss Bank Accounts?[/font]
THU JUL 12, 2012 AT 11:52 AM PDT
You Know Who Else Has or Had Swiss Bank Accounts?
by Dave the pro


Kim Jong-il
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/7442188/Kim-Jong-il-keeps-4bn-emergency-fund-in-European-banks.html

Hosni Mubarak
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/f5c8422e-3631-11e0-9b3b-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Ff5c8422e-3631-11e0-9b3b-00144feabdc0.html&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2012%2F07%2F12%2F1109101%2F-You-Know-Who-Else-Has-or-Had-Swiss-Bank-Accounts#axzz20QzGtU7j

Bahsar Assad
http://www.mesop.de/2012/06/04/switzerland-issued-an-asset-freeze-on-20-million-swiss-francs-in-bank-accounts-belonging-to-relatives-of-bashar-assad/

Saddam Hussein
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2742/is_344/ai_n25086978/

Omar al-Bashir
http://www.sudantribune.com/Sudan-President-stashed-billions,37328

Islam Karimov
http://www.uznews.net/news_single.php?lng=en&cid=30&nid=19271

Robert Mugabe
http://www.theweek.co.uk/people/37637/how-mugabe-lost-his-swiss-bank-account

Osama bin Laden
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/09/11/060911ta_talk_coll

Augusto Pinochet
http://www.redorbit.com/news/international/374757/pinochets_daughter_freed_on_bail_in_tax_fraud_case/

Slobodan Milosevic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/jun/27/balkans3

Ferdinand Marcos
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-03-13/news/mn-19580_1_swiss-bank-account

for info:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/12/1109101/-You-Know-Who-Else-Has-or-Had-Swiss-Bank-Accounts

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] aikoaiko [/font]
[font size=+1] 10. The Swiss? [/font]


GD, 12 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002938332


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002938332 [/font]
[font size=+1] Romney to fire campaign spokespeople and outsource lying to Chinese firm[/font]
Faced with the growing expense of having his US staff keep up with the calvalcade of daily bullshit, Mitt Romeny today announced that he would be firing his US campaign staff and instead directing all pesky media inquiries to Prevarico Heavy Industries, a public relations company in the Fuqyu Province of China.

GD, 12 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002939578


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by HereSince1628
[font size=+1] OMG!!! I haven't had a thread hidden in 90 days![/font]
I gotta fix THAT!!!!!!!!!!!

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Warren DeMontague [/font]
[font size=+1] 8. And to think, you've been here since 1628. [/font]


M-D, 8 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240121469


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE][font color=#800080] Mayberry Machiavelli [/font]
[font size=+1] "I did NOT have financial relations with that company!"[/font]


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] eridani [/font]
[font size=+1]23. So where are all the photoshoppers when we need them? n/t [/font]

Politics 2012, 13 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125155232


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by ProSense
[font size=+1] Oh for God's sake, it isn't a swiftboating.[/font]
[div clas=excerpt] Oh for God's sake, it isn't a swiftboating.

by Sarge in Seattle

Romney got caught telling a lie. Period. That isn't a swiftboat job, as CNN is implying. Romney was legally and factually sole owner, President, and CEO of Bain Capital between 1999 and 2002, and was paid a salary of at least six digits (maybe more, we don't know) as compensation for his services as president and CEO. These are FACTS.

Romney's position that he had no "responsibility" for the operations of Bain while he was sole owner, president, CEO, and being paid a big salary for performing the job of president and CEO is a lie. By definition, the salaried president, CEO, and sole owner of a company is responsible for the management of that company. Whether or not we can prove he actually did anything to earn his salary is irrelevant. He owned the company and was its top executive. This isn't a "quirk" of law or a technicality. He, and he alone was entirely responsible for the management decisions made while he was owner and self appointed head of the company. There isn't any wiggle room here. None!

Keep in mind that as sole owner, Mitt Romney, and only Mitt Romney had the authority to appoint a president and CEO of the company, and set the salary. Mitt Romney picked Mitt Romney to be president and CEO, and decided that he, Mitt Romney, as president and CEO, should be paid a salary north of $100,000 per year (we don't know how far north, it could have been $20 million).

Seriously, can this be any more black and white? Mitt Romney was sole owner of Bain, selected himself as president and CEO, paid himself at least a $100,000 salary, and claims absolutely no responsibility whatsoever for what took place while he was the sole owner and salaried top executive.

And CNN paints him as a victim of "swiftboating"? Give me a break!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/13/1109788/-Oh-for-God-s-sake-it-isn-t-a-swiftboating

It's fascinating that CNN is shilling for Romney by claiming this is "swiftboating." Let's remember back to 2004 when there was real swiftboating. What did CNN do? The MSM, including CNN, became shills for the Swift Liars.

By the time the Swift Boat story had played out, CNN, chasing after ratings leader Fox News, found time to mention the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth–hereafter, Swifties–in nearly 300 separate news segments, while more than one hundred New York Times articles and columns made mention of the Swifties. And during one overheated 12-day span in late August, the Washington Post mentioned the Swifties in page-one stories on Aug. 19, 20, 21 (two separate articles), 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31. It was a media monsoon that washed away Kerry’s momentum coming out of the Democratic convention.

http://tinyurl.com/7vmyxfl (Google Books, page 177)


Nearly eight years later, CNN wants to admit that swiftboating is nasty, deceptive and destructive personal attacks by falsely equating factual reports about Romney and Bain to the despicable practice it previously perpetuated. They're chosing to defend Romney against the facts when they sided with the liars against Kerry.

Is This the Silliest Thing Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post Has Ever Written?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002942909

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Coyotl [/font]
[font size=+1] 18. When you run your own flag ship into an iceberg, it is called a Titanic disaster, not swiftboating [/font]
And rearranging the deck chairs while the M$M band plays on does not deter the inevitable

GD, 14 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002946401






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This very special graphically intense DUzy episode was brought to you by: The McDonald’s McD-LT, Crystal Pepsi, Sony BetaMax, the Atari 2600, the letter E, and the number ?. I apologize for the excess pictures of Mittens, but remember… if he wins, we have to look at him for FOUR FUCKING YEARS!!!!!!!!





-Krispos42

ETA: I changed the font to "Georgia". Fuck Arial![/font]

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Only 12 hours late krispos42 Jul 2012 #1
If the Duzys were to run on a Sat. you would be on time!!! dixiegrrrrl Jul 2012 #6
Oh the things I have missed. liberal N proud Jul 2012 #2
K&R Wounded Bear Jul 2012 #3
Awesome (as usual). My hat goes off to the wit of my DU brothers and sisters and to coalition_unwilling Jul 2012 #4
Surely has one of the best dam DUZY award ever! eom chknltl Jul 2012 #5
double tip of Duzy hat to Greywarrior! dixiegrrrrl Jul 2012 #7
Hahaha..."Whatcha talkin' 'bout, Willard?" txwhitedove Jul 2012 #8
Most spectacular DUzzies since Rmoney lonestarnot Jul 2012 #9
Started in on the bourbon earlier than usual, eh? Ikonoklast Jul 2012 #15
Bourbon, hugh ugh. lonestarnot Jul 2012 #25
HaHa I received my first DUzy since they returned malaise Jul 2012 #10
Congratulations! Yes, this is a dam fine bunch of DUzys! scarletwoman Jul 2012 #14
There are some signs in here worthy of paint! lonestarnot Jul 2012 #11
Absolutely just love turtlerescue1 Jul 2012 #12
"I changed the font to "Georgia". Fuck Arial!" scarletwoman Jul 2012 #13
Comic sans should be dragged out into the street and shot krispos42 Jul 2012 #24
I figured that would get a rise out of you. scarletwoman Jul 2012 #26
All san-serif fonts should be banned. krispos42 Jul 2012 #27
I do quite a bit of design work at my job. Sometimes sans-serif is exactly what's needed for scarletwoman Jul 2012 #28
Pshaw krispos42 Jul 2012 #29
LOLs! nc4bo Jul 2012 #16
Kinky ! eppur_se_muova Jul 2012 #17
kick surrealAmerican Jul 2012 #18
What you talking about Willard? Initech Jul 2012 #19
Saturday evening kick. Since no one ever knows anymore when to expect the DUzys... scarletwoman Jul 2012 #20
I missed a lot of these this week...thanks Curmudgeoness Jul 2012 #21
Worth reading for Graywarrior's post lovemydog Jul 2012 #22
Kick eridani Jul 2012 #23

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
6. If the Duzys were to run on a Sat. you would be on time!!!
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 11:37 AM
Jul 2012

Maybe that would work better with your busy schedule????
Duzys on Sat and SCE's LOLcats on Sunday..a nice weekend.
Jus' suggesting..with so much appreciation for you taking on the Duzys for us.

 

coalition_unwilling

(14,180 posts)
4. Awesome (as usual). My hat goes off to the wit of my DU brothers and sisters and to
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 11:27 AM
Jul 2012

you for compiling.

'A Titanic disaster, not Swiftboating'

Priceless.

 

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
9. Most spectacular DUzzies since Rmoney
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 11:49 AM
Jul 2012

became a mexican morman. Book mkng. Bookmarking/bookmaking whatever.

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)
28. I do quite a bit of design work at my job. Sometimes sans-serif is exactly what's needed for
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 01:04 AM
Jul 2012

adding "punch" to a message. It all depends on the mood one wants to convey, and how well the message will come across in a quick scan.

I am a font pedant.

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
29. Pshaw
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 01:13 AM
Jul 2012

San serif was devised by evil bastards that want to get "1", "I", and "l" confused


EVIL BASTARDS!!!!

nc4bo

(17,651 posts)
16. LOLs!
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 01:35 PM
Jul 2012

Good stuff - you guys crack me up I think any photos of Mittens will become eternal classics much like Sister Sarah

and thanks!

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
21. I missed a lot of these this week...thanks
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 09:32 PM
Jul 2012

for keeping me updated.

My favorite is the last one by coyotl, but so many are great.

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