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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 11:38 AM
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The Halloween Party
This year when the spooky goblins and monsters show up at your door, it might not just be your neighborhood kids looking for handouts of Snickers and Reeses candy.

Nope. This bunch of ruffians will be dressed in robes and fake beards, trying to convince you that the scariest thing on the block is the Islamic Terrorist. Frankenstein's monster has been replaced by Osama Bin Laden and Dracula by a gun-toting Iraqi insurgent.

And they won't be begging for candy. They're going to "trick or treat" you into voting for the Republican agenda one more time.

"Vote for US or this might be the last face you see," they'll be saying.

Unfortunately for them, they've been wearing the same costumes for the past several years and they've grown rather threadbare. After a while, they're just not that spooky anymore. Like a teenager who's watched more than his or her share of horror movies, the American people have become pretty jaded. Osama Bin "Who?" just isn't all that frightening anymore.

So they're going to have to fall back on their secondary option, which is to T.P. the houses of those who don't buy their scare tactics. Maybe by doing the political equivilant of throwing rotten eggs and stringing rolls of ideological bathroom tissue all over the place, they might accomplish their goals. Or at least fool enough people to trick the election away from us once again.

The scariest masks we're likely to see this Halloween are going to be on our television sets--the faces of all those Republican candidates who will be doing their best to lie their way into office...one way or another.

So settle back, grab your popcorn, and treat it like the psychodrama it is. Because one way or another the masks are going to be coming off this November, and we'll get to see who the REAL monsters are.

As if we didn't already know.
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-24-06 05:52 PM
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1. YAY!!! For once I got to be Rec No. 1 on a Mythsaje thread!
Election night questions:

What kind of champagne goes well with popcorn?

Should I just watch FAUX coverage, where ALL of the winners will have (R)s beside their names, even though they are Democrats? (thinking of the laugh factor here)

Where do I find the bylaws re allowable celebratory noise levels after midnight in my neighbourhood?

Just wonderin' ...

:party: :popcorn: :toast:
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