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McCain Faces Backlash Over Rabid Crowds | Huffington Post
acitrano, 7 likes, published: 7:17pm, October 10th, ff
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  • acitrano "I don't trust Obama," a woman said. "I have read about him. He's an Arab." ... "No, ma'am," McCain said several times, shaking his head in disagreement....
  • jasonw22 Oh, so pandering to the lowest common denominator can backfire? Never would have guessed.
  • ultrasur1 who knew, right jason?

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
steveisaacs, 30 likes, published: 8:20am, October 10th, ff
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  • steveisaacs "t's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a critically-acclaimed and very popular animated television special, based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. It was the third Peanuts special (
  • isthisstupid LOVE!!!
  • mindy Just watched this the other day. It's a seasonal staple.
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Friday Night - "You Made it Through a Tough Week" Reward!
christopherwelle, 12 likes, published: 5:33pm, October 10th, ff
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  • coffeenated I want chunky monkey though.
  • jilibrarian Cinnamon Buns is full of awesomesauce. kthx
  • coffeenated Cinnamon buns sounds a little dirty, Jill. It makes me giggle.
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What is your favorite SQL database?
possible248, 7 likes, published: 5:08pm, October 10th, ff
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  • christopherwelle MySQL is high on the list.
  • rahsheen MySQL, only because it's one of 2 I've set up and managed by hand. Apparently it took off more than PostgreSQL did.
  • possible248 Interesting. So far, it's just MySQL. Christopher, what makes MySQL better in your mind?
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Do you believe that one of our candidates for president is a terrorist? Is in any way affiliated with or funded directly by terrorists? Do you believe this type of campaigning, trying to strip him of
rahsheen, 8 likes, published: 4:47pm, October 10th, ff
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  • ultrasur1 of course not. i would really like to see who on ff does see things that way. be honest folks. step up
  • itblogger No, no, and heck no!
  • webomatica no
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McC is finally showing mensch-like behavior. Very pleased to see it. http://bit.ly/3edHve
davew, 8 likes, published: 4:43pm, October 10th, ff
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  • tropology perhaps too little too late .. he should have stopped the first hint of this nonsense
  • seanmcbride He showed some basic decency and sanity only after it became clear that the nasty smear tactics were backfiring.
  • wlh +1 Sean
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What an amazing turn of events. McCain is forced to defend his opponent and gets trashed by his own supporters.
davew, 11 likes, published: 5:12pm, October 10th, ff
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  • seanmcbride Again: the Republican Party is self-destructing.
  • loungeflyx amusing to see some of that negative ad karma come back around and bite them.
  • cma3 any footage available?
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Tough times. Tough decisions.

loic, 9 likes, published: 2:16pm, October 10th, ff
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  • pjournel Wow, I salute your courage to post this video. Kudos to you and good luck to weather the current storm.
  • charlieanzman If every CEO was this transparent the world would be a better place. Leave it there
  • loic thank you
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Buttons
glenc, 12 likes, published: 6:50pm, October 10th, ff
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  • jilibrarian LOL! Fake?
  • akiva If you only knew...
  • rochelles Fake.
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Yanko Design >> Protecting your iPhone, invisibleSHIELD
susanbeebe, 7 likes, published: 1:37pm, October 10th, ff
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  • susanbeebe "If you’re one of the 10 million people with an iPhone then you understand there’s a huge market for protective covers and cases for it. Even the tiniest scratch somehow totally ruins Apple’s mi
  • sparktography I love my InvisibleShield - it gets hella dingy on the white one though - it's kind of a sickly brown. It's saved my iPhone from several nasty encounters with the pavement though - that material is am
  • forian Must be a bitch to put on though?
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Double dinner time
louisgray, 9 likes, published: 6:47pm, October 10th, ff
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  • louisgray They were a lot less cute a few minutes ago when they were begging for food. Whiners.

I thought we had been over this already, but it bears repeating: Stop fucking telling people what to post or not post in their main feed. If you don't want to see it, scroll by real fast, hide it or
coffeenated, 7 likes, published: 6:32pm, October 10th, ff
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  • akiva Monique, you should not have posted this. Etc.
  • eclipse115 lmao @ Akiva
  • coffeenated Akiva, don't post anything for the rest of the night.
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I think it's very sad that people have certain beliefs and opinions that they are afraid or ashamed to state out loud. It's almost like you are suffocating a piece of yourself.
rahsheen, 15 likes, published: 5:20pm, October 10th, ff
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  • christopherwelle Rahsheen, it would be wonderful to just be you and say what you want regardless of what effect it has on others. We don't live in that type of world. We have to consider what the consequences of your
  • djinn1973 I think that not every thing should be said out loud, nothing wrong with having secrets or keeping a personal belief well, personal...
  • itblogger Is this referring to something specific on friendfeed or just out of life in general?
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LOL
monasfeed, 14 likes, published: 6:09pm, October 10th, ff
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  • isthisstupid That cow stole my haircut!!!
  • ultrasur1 ha ha
  • monasfeed hahhahahahha TINA!!!
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Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org
jim, 7 likes, published: 11:02am, October 10th, ff
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  • jim "While most political blogs are extremely partisan, their biases aren't immediately obvious to outsiders like me. I wanted to see, at a glance, how conservative or liberal the blogs were without click

Earth to @corvida. Come in @corvida. No auto-tweets since Oct. 2. No FriendFeeding since Sept. 28th. Wake up and tell us all is well.
louisgray, 7 likes, published: 5:11pm, October 10th, ff
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  • louisgray I mean non "non auto-tweets". D'oh. Where is that Corvida?
  • maverickny That's sweet of you to think of her, Louis
  • louisgray I e-mailed her and didn't get a response. I'm taking this ladyhunt public.
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YouTube - McCain Supporter: "Obama is an Arab"
voxefx, 7 likes, published: 4:53pm, October 10th, ff
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  • voxefx What Faux News, Hannity, Limbaugh, and the GOP hath brought forth! The cows are already out the barn, gonna be mighty difficult gettin' em back in John
  • aburd More from this rally. How can McCain flip an Obama state while fighting his base? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf6YKOkfFsE&feature=user
  • ultrasur1 i saw this earlier today on chris matthews and felt like slapping my tv. such damn over the top ignorance. it's abominable. mccain tried to come with that "he's an honest, good man" talk after dispara
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Color inspiration from Rainbows | Abduzeedo - design inspiration & tutorials
koltregaskes, 7 likes, published: 2:13pm, October 10th, ff
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  • koltregaskes Some nice photography!
  • christopherwelle I love the Photos that are shared here. My Background folder is growing every week.

[Grand Rapids Ne]: Former governor Milliken backs away from McCain
newsjunk, 7 likes, published: 12:03pm, October 10th, ff
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  • newsjunk ""I saw what Bush and Cheney did. They came in with a (budget) surplus and a stable world, and look what's happened now. In eight short years they've taken one peaceful and prosperous world, and they'
  • seanmcbride The worst presidential administration in American history nicely summarized in three sentences.

Midget Tropical Storm Marco now the smallest Atlantic storm on record
chrisbaskind, 7 likes, published: 7:22am, October 8th, ff
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  • chrisbaskind Marco was a real tropical storm -- a strong one, in fact -- but tropical force winds only extended out ten miles from its center. Midget storms are fairly common in the Pacific, but are almost unheard
  • sggottlieb Isn't the politically correct term "little storm?"
  • chrisbaskind +5 Seth. I'm sorry to have exhibited storm sizeism here. ;-)
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