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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/08/the-great-unskewer-does-the-right-thing/#comment-20137</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have never knowingly insulted your family. I know absolutely nothing about them, except that your wife must be a saint.

If I have done so unwittingly, then I apologize.

Yeah, if you want to pull some up, go right ahead. I can use the publicity. Just no editing, please.

I have insulted you, but you’ve called me a Statist, Socialist, Communist, fool, traitor, useful idiot, fellow traveler, liberal buttmonkey and a bunch of other slurs, or at least, they are insults for conservatives. In Conspeak, even “moderate” is an insult these days. I don’t appreciate being insulted, especially by the likes of you.

I have never called all conservatives Nazis, although I proudly admit I have called some conservatives Nazis. And they deserved it.

As for my rants being long, I plead guilty. But I’m a writer and I come here to write, so you’ll forgive me if I indulge myself. At least, I don’t come here to preach and lecture and bore the shit out of everyone with my entrepreneurial and patriotic homilies. I bore you with nostalgic anecdotes and sea stories, but they are at least ideologically neutral.

I can see none of your friends has emailed you yet.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have never knowingly insulted your family. I know absolutely nothing about them, except that your wife must be a saint.</p>
<p>If I have done so unwittingly, then I apologize.</p>
<p>Yeah, if you want to pull some up, go right ahead. I can use the publicity. Just no editing, please.</p>
<p>I have insulted you, but you’ve called me a Statist, Socialist, Communist, fool, traitor, useful idiot, fellow traveler, liberal buttmonkey and a bunch of other slurs, or at least, they are insults for conservatives. In Conspeak, even “moderate” is an insult these days. I don’t appreciate being insulted, especially by the likes of you.</p>
<p>I have never called all conservatives Nazis, although I proudly admit I have called some conservatives Nazis. And they deserved it.</p>
<p>As for my rants being long, I plead guilty. But I’m a writer and I come here to write, so you’ll forgive me if I indulge myself. At least, I don’t come here to preach and lecture and bore the shit out of everyone with my entrepreneurial and patriotic homilies. I bore you with nostalgic anecdotes and sea stories, but they are at least ideologically neutral.</p>
<p>I can see none of your friends has emailed you yet.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/08/the-great-unskewer-does-the-right-thing/#comment-20133</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There&#039;s a few of your rants still on file here.

Want to pull up a few?

Last I recall, you personally insulted me and my family, called conservatives Nazis, and dove out the window.

At least my rants are short.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s a few of your rants still on file here.</p>
<p>Want to pull up a few?</p>
<p>Last I recall, you personally insulted me and my family, called conservatives Nazis, and dove out the window.</p>
<p>At least my rants are short.</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/08/the-great-unskewer-does-the-right-thing/#comment-20132</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure you all remember the knight on Monty Python who gamely keeps on fighting as his limbs are being methodically lopped off.

Go right ahead, TB.  Rave on, MacDuff.  You&#039;re really giving us an insight into your tortured, scarred, soul.  

You won&#039;t listen to me, but maybe one of your friends here will email you privately and tell you what an ass you&#039;re making of yourself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure you all remember the knight on Monty Python who gamely keeps on fighting as his limbs are being methodically lopped off.</p>
<p>Go right ahead, TB.  Rave on, MacDuff.  You&#8217;re really giving us an insight into your tortured, scarred, soul.  </p>
<p>You won&#8217;t listen to me, but maybe one of your friends here will email you privately and tell you what an ass you&#8217;re making of yourself.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/08/the-great-unskewer-does-the-right-thing/#comment-20129</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wny should Republicans react any differently than Democrats did when they lost an election?

They will, of course.  So will I. It&#039;s a rhetorical question.

Even the 2004 election is still considered &quot;stolen&quot; by the lunatic left although Bush&#039;s popular vote margin was larger than Obama&#039;s just was.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wny should Republicans react any differently than Democrats did when they lost an election?</p>
<p>They will, of course.  So will I. It&#8217;s a rhetorical question.</p>
<p>Even the 2004 election is still considered &#8220;stolen&#8221; by the lunatic left although Bush&#8217;s popular vote margin was larger than Obama&#8217;s just was.</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/08/the-great-unskewer-does-the-right-thing/#comment-20125</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Four More Years.  Deal with it, pal.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Four More Years.  Deal with it, pal.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/08/the-great-unskewer-does-the-right-thing/#comment-20124</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You actually have the incredible brass balls to raise the concept of an &quot;election tantrum&quot; to me?  Who had to sit through a psychotic liberal screaming fit that lasted eight fucking years?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You actually have the incredible brass balls to raise the concept of an &#8220;election tantrum&#8221; to me?  Who had to sit through a psychotic liberal screaming fit that lasted eight fucking years?</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/08/the-great-unskewer-does-the-right-thing/#comment-20121</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>substituting &quot;Inconceivable&quot; for &quot;Shocking&quot;. And the dig was not at Republicans, it was at pollsters and overeliance on them, as I&#039;m sure you perfectly well know. Your whining has degenerated into a desperate grasping at straws.

Besides.  Who cares?  Does it really matter? C&#039;mon, go ahead, tell me what Kerry said 8 years ago, what possible difference can it make now? Have you actually been carrying that around inside you for the last 8 years? Get a life, for Chrissake.

You just got (to use Buck&#039;s elegant phrase) your electoral ass whupped Tuesday night.  Who cares now about your breathless gotchas and ahas!?  Are you going to continue this pointless tantrum for the next four years? Do you have any idea how you&#039;re humiliating yourself?  How pathetic this Civil War renactment is starting to look?

In a few days the rest of us will quit our childish crowing and endzone celebrations (please forgive us, but I&#039;m sure you would have done the same)if your man had won.  Are you going to continue your whining indefinitely?  Your man lost.  Are you going to be reminding us daily why he shouldn&#039;t have?  It may make you feel justified, somehow, but we really aren&#039;t going to be moved all that much.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>substituting &#8220;Inconceivable&#8221; for &#8220;Shocking&#8221;. And the dig was not at Republicans, it was at pollsters and overeliance on them, as I&#8217;m sure you perfectly well know. Your whining has degenerated into a desperate grasping at straws.</p>
<p>Besides.  Who cares?  Does it really matter? C&#8217;mon, go ahead, tell me what Kerry said 8 years ago, what possible difference can it make now? Have you actually been carrying that around inside you for the last 8 years? Get a life, for Chrissake.</p>
<p>You just got (to use Buck&#8217;s elegant phrase) your electoral ass whupped Tuesday night.  Who cares now about your breathless gotchas and ahas!?  Are you going to continue this pointless tantrum for the next four years? Do you have any idea how you&#8217;re humiliating yourself?  How pathetic this Civil War renactment is starting to look?</p>
<p>In a few days the rest of us will quit our childish crowing and endzone celebrations (please forgive us, but I&#8217;m sure you would have done the same)if your man had won.  Are you going to continue your whining indefinitely?  Your man lost.  Are you going to be reminding us daily why he shouldn&#8217;t have?  It may make you feel justified, somehow, but we really aren&#8217;t going to be moved all that much.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/08/the-great-unskewer-does-the-right-thing/#comment-20117</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anybody remember &quot;President Kerry&quot; after the exit poll fiasco in 2004?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anybody remember &#8220;President Kerry&#8221; after the exit poll fiasco in 2004?</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/08/the-great-unskewer-does-the-right-thing/#comment-20116</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I mention several times how I had trouble believing the polling results myself.  I can&#039;t help it if it was for a different reason, one that didn&#039;t involve a conspiracy.

As for the alternate universe where Mitt Romney won, I would not be hanging around here calling attention to myself. On the contrary, I would be making myself as scarce as possible, or trying desperately to change the subject, not making an ass of myself by refusing to accept what happened and trying to rewrite history about it. Besides, wasn&#039;t it the Democrats who were supposedly &quot;getting the excuses ready in case they lose?&quot;

The election is over.  It is the metaphorical Monday Morning. The next Presidential contest won&#039;t be for another FOUR MORE YEARS.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I mention several times how I had trouble believing the polling results myself.  I can&#8217;t help it if it was for a different reason, one that didn&#8217;t involve a conspiracy.</p>
<p>As for the alternate universe where Mitt Romney won, I would not be hanging around here calling attention to myself. On the contrary, I would be making myself as scarce as possible, or trying desperately to change the subject, not making an ass of myself by refusing to accept what happened and trying to rewrite history about it. Besides, wasn&#8217;t it the Democrats who were supposedly &#8220;getting the excuses ready in case they lose?&#8221;</p>
<p>The election is over.  It is the metaphorical Monday Morning. The next Presidential contest won&#8217;t be for another FOUR MORE YEARS.</p>
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		<title>By: alcaray</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/08/the-great-unskewer-does-the-right-thing/#comment-20115</link>
		<dc:creator>alcaray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here is the rundown on the best, publicly-available prediction services: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57546778-38/among-the-top-election-quants-nate-silver-reigns-supreme/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is the rundown on the best, publicly-available prediction services: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57546778-38/among-the-top-election-quants-nate-silver-reigns-supreme/" rel="nofollow">http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57546778-38/among-the-top-election-quants-nate-silver-reigns-supreme/</a></p>
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