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Perky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 01:58 PM
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Al Haig passes away at 85
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 02:10 PM
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1. I bet God just told him, "As of right now, I am in control here."
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3waygeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 03:41 PM
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4. God?
I think you mean Satan. No way would Haig end up in heaven.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 03:43 PM
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5. I spoke to Satan just a moment ago.
He wants nothing to do with him. :)
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 05:23 PM
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8. Satan is more concerned about how his Yankees are going to do this year,
Edited on Sat Feb-20-10 05:23 PM by madinmaryland
than to worry about Al Haig.
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Yavin4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 05:55 PM
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11. *sigh* Hatred of the World Champions Doesn't Make Up For the Futility of Your Cowboys
Focus on your upcoming draft.

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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 05:22 PM
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7. Actually, I think Satan is a Yankees fan.
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damonm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 05:31 PM
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10. Satan fripping OWNS the Yankees...
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Yavin4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 05:55 PM
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 10:30 PM
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13. "Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets" --Damn Yankees
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Ferret Annica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 02:34 PM
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2. He was an apologist for Chinese human rights violations
He was active right up to the end working to help NATO expand and his influence on our collective history will always be underestimated.

RIP, General. and we believe you when you said you never submitted the letter of resignation as Sec. of State Reagan accepted when they eased you out. Raygun was never one to let facts or details like that get in the way of doing what thee idiot wanted to do.
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Uzybone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 03:32 PM
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3. Nice line from the NY Times story on his passing.
"He was brutally candid about his own run for office and his subsequent distaste for political life. “Not being a politician, I think I can say this: The life of a politician in America is sleaze,” he told the authors of “Nixon: An Oral History.”

“I didn’t realize it until I started to run for office,” he said. “But there is hardly a straight guy in the business. As Nixon always said to me — and he took great pride in it — ‘Al, I never took a dollar. I had somebody else do it.’ ”"


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/politics/21haig.html?pagewanted=3&hp


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Guy Whitey Corngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 04:24 PM
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6. Must...... try..... to stay...... classy. Must.... try ..... Nt
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damonm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 05:30 PM
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9. So now, who's "in charge here"? n/t
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