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Primary 2012: Romney Wins Debate By Saying Nothing, Having Nice Hair
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Not to make you feel like you were just born and still have your placenta attached but South Park's writers used 2 live crew's "Shake That Ass" as the entire basis of their song.
Doesn't change that they used the South Park parody of the song.
It's like using a Weird Al song just because you don't know the original. (Full disclosure: I didn't know "I Lost on Jeopardy" was a parody until a couple of years ago)
Given all the stuff they added in post-production it wouldn't be hard to pitch it to a couple of desperate actors as a parody piece or an audition thing.
It's great because it's self-policing. If they try and come out and say they were misinformed they're still going to get painted as "The actors from that propaganda video" and they'll never get work.
Something similar happened to me. I got $50 to "audition" into the camera, reading a prepared speech saying that I was a concerned citizen opposed to such-and-such who ran the food bank in Totem Lake, WA where I've lived my whole life and there should be an investigation.
You think they sampled and looped the southpark parody rather than the original?
You're right. The song on South Park was "Let's see you daaaance, sucka you got nothin' on me!" etc.
They just did their own lyrics for the ad.
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
If 95% of oncologists tell you that a certain food will cause cancer, do you eat it anyway, because fuck those guys. 5% totally disagree with you!
Eh, it's a little bit of both. Corruption is more rampant and more severe on the local level, but on the federal level, it causes a hell of a lot more damage.
I don't know much, but I do know about booty bass and ghetto tech.
Or that 3 separate external investigations (that I know of), one requested by Jim "it's God, stupid!" Inhofe, completely absolved the University of East Anglia of any wrong doing. But then again, liberals!
Oh holy shit, I wasn't prepared for that. I was expecting the NORMAL sort of subversive racism that I've come to expect, but holy shit.
Here's a link: http://www.scpr.org/news/2011/06/15/anti-janice-hahn-web-ad-denounced-sexist-democrats/
What.
No, really. What.
The stripper is giving money to the rappers? That's violating every law of the universe.
And it's butt money, too.
Wait, strippers don't do that for you?
I must be more good looking than I thought.
Its more that you hear about federal corruption more. If its more "damaging" its because its important.
Here's the thing - let's say you're a talented, bright, educated person and you want to serve society in politics/government/civil service. Do you work for the federal government, servering the United States of America, or do you serve your local town, where its likely the position is part time and there's little in the way of advancement?
Local government is largely incompetent and amateurishly corrupt. Sheriff Joe is local government.
State government is more competently corrupt and might actually be a career path. This varies wildly from state to state - Alabama and Connecticut are going to have wildly different qualities of people running the state government. Governors Wallace, Barbour, and Palin are examples of Governors. Federal government is huge and so there's going to be corruption, but its where a vast majority of the competent wonks and administrators work.
State's Rights isn't an issue in this primary (to get back on track). No one cares about States Rights. Its always been a reference to federal interference in segregation, and more recently for gay rights and any other liberal concept. That's why during the debate when asked about a conservative issue such as gun regulation or gay marriage, its a federal matter when convenient.
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what.... i mean.... what...
You have to fight through some bad days, to earn the best days of your life.
The governor's power in Mississippi is pretty laughable compared to other states
ed: wait, not vernon jordan. Who in the hell is that congressman from SC or something that I'm thinking of
my unofficial autobio will be accompanied with tips on how to smile
cause I've found that when they don't see you frown, they never know that you're a threat
and they don't sweat you when you came around
As a reminder of what we're up against.
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