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I Endorse Everything Said At This Link

by John Cole

I am laughing after reading this. What else can you do?

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68 Responses to “I Endorse Everything Said At This Link”

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January 7th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Dreggas

what a douche-nozzle.
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January 7th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
R-Jud

I LOL’d, but then found this linked in the comments:

10 am – Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Full Committee briefing entitled, “Investing in Green Technology as a Strategy for Economic Recovery.”
Witnesses:
Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer Prize winning author

I am grinding my molars into powder.
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January 7th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
TenguPhule

What else can you do?

Find a new Senate Leader.
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January 7th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
TenguPhule

If Harry Reid was dragged out behind the barn, shot and processed into glue, he still wouldn’t stick to anything for long.
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January 7th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
The Grand Panjandrum

After Reid’s little press conference conference saying how much he like’s Burris and he is NOT a racist I just wonder why he left out the part where in he says, "but some of my best friends are black." Pafuckingthetic.

Yoo hoo … Jane, can I sit in too? I need a little folding money.
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January 7th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Brian J

I’m tempted to give some of these guys more leeway than most are. I don’t like to judge anyone’s performance without the idea that I have no idea what it’s like unless I’ve been in the same position. Of course, I have no idea what’s it’s like to be an elected official on a local level, let alone on a national level where I’m in a leadership position.

With that in mind, I’m getting increasingly fed up with Harry Reid.

Exactly who is going to hold a grudge against him, Obama, or any other Democrats for not seating Burris besides Burris? Are blacks really going to consider this a huge insult? Are people in Illinois really going to turn against the new administration? Hell, outside of the Beltway, who is following this story besides the people who follow politics closely?

I can’t see an upside to giving in so easily. Really, I can’t.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
DustPuppyOI

http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2.....-that.html
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Keith

Is it too late for HRC to stay on as Senator and run for MajLeader?

OT, but for those who can’t get enough of Joe the Dude, BJ sponsor PajamasTV has hired him on as…war correspondent in Israel. Words fail me.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
South of I-10

@keith: Damn, you beat me to it! I just heard that on the radio. Has the world gone mad?
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
JL

@Keith: Where’s Krista? She could definitely interpret this move for us. By the way has he paid his back taxes and who’s going to watch his child?
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
AkaDad

That was a slap in the face to Doyle Brunson.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
The Grand Panjandrum

@Keith:

OT, but for those who can’t get enough of Joe the Dude, BJ sponsor PajamasTV has hired him on as…war correspondent in Israel. Words fail me.

The blogging gods love us and have lobbed John Cole a softball. I look forward to the endless mocking of the guy formerly know as JTP.
@JL:

... and who’s going to watch his child?

I hear Sara Palin’s future son-in-law is out of work.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
maya

This is the net result of Reid’s reliance on the Rope-a-Dope technique one too many times.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Doctor Science

Keith:

Their reality has lapped my satire.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Zifnab

Is it too late for HRC to stay on as Senator and run for MajLeader?

I’m just floored that Reid has managed to keep his position. If all you have to do is say, "I’ll do what I want and you can stick your head in an oven", why hasn’t any other Dem stepped up and told Reid to move over because he/she is becoming Majority Leader and there’s nothing Reid can do to stop’m. Hell, with Reid’s political skills, I’m a little surprised McConnell didn’t twist it out of him. It’s a comedy of errors and no one should be laughing.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
rawshark

The right really believes anyone can do anything. Experience and expertise mean nothing to them. Joe the Plumber as war correspondent, why not? The people he’ll be speaking to already know the score over there and Joe will tell them what they’re expecting to hear. He doesn’t even need to go to Israel. He can commentate from Hannity’s basement and still get the story ‘right’.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
John Cole

@The Grand Panjandrum: Actually, blogging about Palin and JTP is harder than you think. What can you say that is funnier than the things they utter themselves?
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
gypsy howell

Fine, fine… but what would the "Jane Hamshers of the left" say?
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Harry Reid = political dunce, continued « tangents and digressions

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January 7th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Ninerdave

@Brian J:

I can’t see an upside to giving in so easily. Really, I can’t.

He took an indefensible, illegal position. He has to backdown.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Ninerdave

@John Cole:

Actually, blogging about Palin and JTP is harder than you think. What can you say that is funnier than the things they utter themselves?

No, no. That’s what makes it so easy, all you have to do is blockquote.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
sgwhiteinfla

Re Joe the War Correspondent.

I wonder if that has anything to do with this post from Paul Mulshine directed at Glenn Reynolds

But that’s not what really ticks me off about this particular parasite. Reynolds has made a career of criticizing real journalists who risk their lives reporting from the Mideast. And he has also made a career of arguing that amateurs like himself can perform the job of journalists.
To which I say: Get off your fat ass, Glenn, and go cover the war. If you think you can make a better war correspondent than, say, Tom Ricks of the Washington Post, well just hop on a plane and prove it.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
John S.

He took an indefensible, illegal position. He has to backdown.

That never stopped a Republican.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Krista

@Keith: Where’s Krista? She could definitely interpret this move for us.

No, no she can’t. This is only one step up from giving a United Nations post to that chick on Maury who had 15 guys go through a paternity test to find out which one was the daddy.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
JL

If JTP went to Gaza, he could be war correspondent and do some plumbing work on the side. Talk about the American dream.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Keith

That never stopped a Republican.

Correct. Republicans don’t back down from indefensible and/or illegal positions; they double-down.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Terri

Joe the plumber=the Kato Kaelin of the far right.

My grandfather, a pipefitter, who was a 65yr member of Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 72, always said the only 2 things a plumber really knows is that shit floats, and payday is on Fri. I guess he was wrong.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Michael D.

Can I ask an un-related question?

How many, if any, of you own an Amazon Kindle? And what do you think of it? I’m likely going to buy one, but I think a lot of people who own Kindles are dittoheads. At least here, I know there is someone who’ll tell me it’s a piece of shit if it’s a piece of shit.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Brian J

He took an indefensible, illegal position. He has to backdown.

Has it been run through a variety of legal authorities?
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
gex

@Krista: Okay, maybe you can’t interpret it, but you sure as hell can find an apt analogy.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
John Cole

Has it been run through a variety of legal authorities?

We don’t need to even to do that, because Reid is willing to negotiate to seat him. If the law was on Reid’s side, he wouldn’t need to negotiate. If the law wasn’t on Reid’s side, he would be BREAKING IT by negotiating in an attempt to set the terms by which Buriss is seated.

Reid is a fucking moron.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
JL

No, no she can’t. This is only one step up from giving a United Nations post to that chick on Maury who had 15 guys go through a paternity test to find out which one was the daddy.

I suppose it depends on whether they were foreigners.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
JasonF

The question I have about Harry Reid is this: is he the least competent leader in the history of the Senate, or is he the least competent leader in the history of the world?
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
John S.

they double-down

And they usually win, because in Washington the ‘house’ always loses.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
JR

The hell with that, I thought you were talking about THIS hilarity: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....55950.html

Please tell me this will appear as a webad on Balloon-Juice sometime very soon!
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Grumpy Code Monkey

@JasonF:

Depends; do we consider George W. Bush to be a leader?
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Jennifer

@Terri:

My grandfather, a pipefitter, who was a 65yr member of Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 72, always said the only 2 things a plumber really knows is that shit floats, and payday is on Fri. I guess he was wrong.

Well, actually, there’s one more: don’t chew your fingernails.

Think about it.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
TR

In other news, it looks like Michelle Malkin was right that conservative bloggers do real reporting.

Just look at who Pajama Media is sending to Gaza.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Tsulagi

I am laughing after reading this.

Shit to laugh at to the left of us. And…

PajamasTV has hired him [JTP] on as…war correspondent in Israel.

Shit to laugh at to the right of us. Balance. And I thought Jon Stewart was going to have a lack of material during the Obama years. I didn’t see the big picture.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
linda

if you want to see something really funny, check out this latest development:

joe the plumber in his next starring role:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/.....ml?showall
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
John

Exactly who is going to hold a grudge against him, Obama, or any other Democrats for not seating Burris besides Burris? Are blacks really going to consider this a huge insult? Are people in Illinois really going to turn against the new administration? Hell, outside of the Beltway, who is following this story besides the people who follow politics closely?

That is exactly the wrong way of looking at it. In fact, that way of looking at it is what got Reid into this mess in the first place. The problem is that this isn’t simply a political question – arguably, it’s not a political question at all. It’s a legal question.

And it’s quickly becoming apparent that Reid has absolutely no legal grounds for refusing to seat Burris. They are relying on White’s refusal to certify, which White himself admits has no legal force and will not prevent Burris from taking the seat.

The fact is that, whatever the political results of any response to this crisis, Reid has no plausible way to prevent Burris from eventually being seated, as is becoming more and more apparent. So now he has to back down and look like an idiot.

Tough talk first, thoughts about whether one can actually back it up afterwards, apparently.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
JL

CNN just had a teaser about "Say it ain’t so, Joe".
FYI, Keith linked to the Joe the Plumber article at 1:00 so he’s now my go to commenter for breaking news stories.
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January 7th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
AnotherBruce

So let me see if I have this down. Non-Joe the non-plumber is about to become Joe the non-Journalist? There are not enough drugs in the universe to grasp this conceptually.
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January 7th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Josh Hueco

Tough talk first, thoughts about whether one can actually back it up afterwards, apparently.

Plus ça change…
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January 7th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
gex

@Grumpy Code Monkey: We don’t like what he accomplished, but he generally got what he wanted. Unlike Reid.
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January 7th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Keith

Non-Joe the non-plumber is about to become Joe the non-Journalist?

On the plus side, he’s been in the shit before, so you could say – in a Palin sorta way – he already has combat experience.
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January 7th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
John S.

So let me see if I have this down. Non-Joe the non-plumber is about to become Joe the non-Journalist?

And he’s the featured speaker at CPAC 2009: We Still Don’t Get It.

This tendency for Republicans to take a national joke like Sarah Palin or Joe the Plumber and exalt them is as sad as it is funny.
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January 7th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Napoleon

This tendency for Republicans to take a national joke like Sarah Palin or Joe the Plumber and exalt them is as sad as it is funny.

Personally I love it. They just keep pointing out to the population at large what a bunch of nuts they are.
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January 7th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Sad_Dem

She summed it up rather nicely. Reid just tripped and fell into a big puddle of fail, in public, wearing white.
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January 7th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Ninerdave

@John Cole:

Reid is a fucking moron.

+1
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January 7th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Svensker

@Michael D.:

Re: the Kindle. I don’t own one, but a good friend has had one for over a year. She likes it—easy to read, nice size, light, etc. Only problem she has is trying to find a remembered page—she hasn’t figured out how to "leaf" through a book yet.
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January 7th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Incertus

@Napoleon: Don’t overestimate the intelligence of the American public. We glorify ignorance all the damn time.
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January 7th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
JR

We don’t like what he accomplished, but he generally got what he wanted. Unlike Reid.

Why do people continue to believe without a shred of evidence that these traitor Dems have the same agenda as The People? Because they should? Is it a faith-based thing? Is it simply to keep from admitting that maybe Ralph Nader told the truth?

Clue: There is a species of humans, politicus horribulis, that seeks power and money over society, and will pretend anything, say anything, do anything to increase their power and money. These kinds are easily bought and become traitors, because being a traitor is very lucrative.

It just doesn’t make you many friends, and keeps the few you have from defending you. And Reid has fewer and fewer…
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January 7th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
The Moar You Know

Is it simply to keep from admitting that maybe Ralph Nader told the truth?

@JR: I was smoking a shitload of pot one night back in late 2005 and Ralph Nader came to me in a vision. He said the following:

My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I liked to take a minute
Just sit right there
I’ll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air

In west Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground was where I spent most of my days
Chillin’ out maxin’ relaxin’ all cool
And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys
Who were up to no good
Started making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
She said ‘You’re movin’ with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air’

I begged and pleaded with her day after day
But she packed my suite case and send me on my way
She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket.
I put my walkman on and said, ‘I might as well kick it’.

First class, yo this is bad
Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass.
Is this what the people of Bel-Air living like?
Hmmmmm this might be alright.

But wait I hear they’re prissy, wine all that
Is Bel-Air the type of place they send this cool cat?
I don’t think so
I’ll see when I get there
I hope they’re prepared for the prince of Bel-Air

Well, the plane landed and when I came out
There was a dude who looked like a cop standing there with my name out
I ain’t trying to get arrested
I just got here
I sprang with the quickness like lightning, disappeared

I whistled for a cab and when it came near
The license plate said ‘FRESH’ and it had dice in the mirror
If anything I can say this cab is rare
But I thought ‘Now forget it’ – ‘Yo homes to Bel Air’

I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8
And I yelled to the cabbie ‘Yo homes smell ya later’
I looked at my kingdom
I was finally there
To settle my throne as the Prince of Bel Air

Then he kicked me in the junk and called me a faggot. I swore I’d never vote for him again.
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January 7th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
rawshark

@The Moar You Know:

Was he wearing socks?
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January 7th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Brien Jackson

Given my quasi-defense of Reid yesterday I suppose I should say that, by far, his biggest problem is his total lack of tact. He can’t help but shoot his mouth off, and usually he has no way to back it up.
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January 7th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
oh really

This is the net result of Reid’s reliance on the Rope-a-Dope technique one too many times.

Ace pugilist Harry "The Dope" Reid missed the class on the Rope-a-Dope technique, which is too bad since it seems to be only tactic he knows.

Ali let Foreman punch himself out by allowing George to deliver hundreds of body shots, all of which Ali absorbed.

Harry, too, thinks that his opponents will punch themselves out, except it’s his head, not his body, that he offers up for pummeling. The outcome of every "bout" is a foregone conclusion, Harry gets knocked out.

The ultimate loser in every case is not really Reid, it’s the Democratic Party and their agenda. If the Republicans have any sense at all (they don’t) they won’t even run a candidate against Reid in 2009. They’d also be smart to vote for Reid for Majority Leader, since as long as Reid is running the show, Democrats are going to fail—with the added benefit that they will look like buffoons on their way to failure.
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January 7th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
The Moar You Know

@rawshark: No. And his pants were pulled up way too high.
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January 7th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Bob In Pacifica

I said before that the Dems should have been shooting for 75 senators instead of 60. But really, they should just be shooting at Harry Reid. Reid is too incompetent to be a politician.
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January 7th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
The Moar You Know

Let me just state for the record that I find Jane pretty cute.
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January 7th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Ash Can

Re Joe the Plumbing Tool: Maybe he made himself too obnoxious even to the PJ Media people, and they decided that giving him a plane ticket to Tel Aviv and marching orders to get his ass into the middle of the shitstorm there would be a win-win—the right-wing wackos get a martyr, and PJ Media gets him out of their hair.
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January 7th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Grumpy Code Monkey

@gex:

Point.
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January 7th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Gregory

@The Grand Panjandrum:

Yoo hoo … Jane, can I sit in too?

Shoe money tonight!
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January 7th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Brandon

Wait, John…..are you saying that you endorse Jane Hamsher…

"of the Left"?

Oh, memories ;-)
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January 7th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Brandon

For those of you who don’t know the context:
http://firedoglake.com/2006/03.....heyve-got/

Let’s just say John didn’t use to find Jane’s commentary so appealing :-P
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January 7th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Cat G

Michael D – I’ve had a Kindle for about 9 months and really like it. Yes, it’s awkward to leaf through, but it remembers your last page read in each book. You can bookmark any page you want. You can search for words or terms, annotate, and save pages in a clipping file etc. There are thousands of free, out of copyright books avail in addition to the competitively priced books at Amazon. I have a variety of books on it, so I can read according to my mood. Word documents and PDFs can also be added. It’s much easier on the eyes than a computer screen, and you can change font sizes easily. You can download sample book chapters from Amazon for free before you purchase a book. Amazon has made it very easy to buy books..too easy. I’m reading more and can’t imagine traveling without one.
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January 7th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Shawn in ShowMe

Harry Reid: "You’re not going to have Harry Reid to kick around anymore." Stomps off indignantly.

Returns five minutes later. "Okay, maybe I was a little hasty .."
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January 8th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Sad_Dem

Where’s a smelly sockless tourist to blame when you need one?