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‘They’re a Tool of the War Machine’: See the Recall Rant That Gives the Crying Guy a Run For His Money

Jun. 18, 2012 9:45pm Mytheos Holt

Remember the crying guy who screamed about how “Democracy died” the night Scott Walker won the recall election? Well, if you thought that was funny, you haven’t seen anything yet. Meet self-described anarchist Thistle Pettersen:

Pettersen was first interviewed in a video released by the MacIver Institute, which became so popular that calls emerged for the full, unedited tape of her interview to be released. See the original video containing her appearance below:

Well, wait no longer. The MacIver Institute has released the full tape. Watch it below:

This raises a very important question – why wasn’t this woman interviewed sooner? Clearly, hers is the kind of sober political analysis desperately needed to raise CNN’s profile.

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Molly_Pitcher
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 11:12pm
Kudos to the interviewer for a great balancing act….He could have easily gotten his cameraman attacked if he had wanted, I’m sure.

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- KevINtampa
  Posted on June 18, 2012 at 11:33pm
  Well, she is right. Something isn’t right in America. She has the solution. The fix starts with us. She just doesn’t have a grasp at all at what independence is because frankly, she was intentionally never shown what it was. Unfortunately, her confusion and anger has made her irrational because she hasn’t prepared herself, she is only acting out like a spoiled child in a supermarket line. She needs some inward thinking, calm inward thinking, like prayer or meditation, and she will find the right answer.
  
  She was also right about people getting upset and violent with them, the “anarchists”. She’s right when she says they turn their violence and anger into a their own weapon; it is indeed useful to the DC power grab. Of course in the end the greatest weapon will be the psychological scar of those left after these “occupiers” are stomped on by the very people they are wanting to give power to; for once they have power they will squash any descent starting with the likes of her. And when the rest of us watch what happens to them, we will learn to truly the fear our government. It’s what makes her ilk useful, it’s what makes her ilk idiots.
  
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- wdittgasn
  Posted on June 18, 2012 at 11:42pm
  She needs her head thumped on the pavement a few times, I think that would help her to feel better.
  
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- Zer0
  Posted on June 18, 2012 at 11:43pm
  CNN LIES! CNN LIES! CNN LIES!
  
  Where does the Left find these people?! Is this the result of closing all those state-run mental institutions back in the 80′s? LOL
  
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- napoleansolo
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 12:11am
  All that’s missing is the clown suit.
  
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- Therightsofbilly
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:42am
  Hey JZS,
  
  She’s one of yours. Why don’t you be nice and give her your clown suit.
  
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- lukerw
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:55am
  This is the Face & Voice of INSANITY… Blaming an Invisible Spector of a Military, Industrial, Media, Political Complex… Espousing Anarchy is about Organizing & Caring to support Chaos & Revolution,,, where Facts are ignored to support a Self Made Ideology.
  
  If Ignorance is Bliss… What is she not happy?
  
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- FstEti
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:36am
  Wow! The vast military industrial military complex, huh? The only intelligent thing she said was how difficult it is to be an Anarchist in America. Thank God, she’s right. I also liked that she complained that CNN was in front of HER house, in HER State, in front of HER capital and they don’t even LIVE there, then she proceeds to tell us that she went to Chicago to protest against NATO! Also, evidently, somehow the military torturing somebody affected the Wisconsin recall.
  In closing, “You’re sexy, you’re cute, take off that riot suit”. Uh, huh, great. I wonder if she has either one of the following…A) a job, and/or B) A steady boyfriend who has a job? I wonder if we can get the crying guy and her hooked up?
  What a prime example of moronic behavior and the inability to express an intelligent thought. It would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic.
  
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- lookatthefactsjack
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 4:40am
  hey Thistle….Count your marbles
  
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- old white guy
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:04am
  you know there is just no cure for stupid. these people don’t seem to grasp the fact that they do not speak for the people, only themselves.
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:11am
  She walks a fine line between her unicorn fairyland and trying to patch a few semi-coherent words and phrases together. It appears she is one that bought the lies she was told in public school (speculation) about everyone being equal in ability and how things should be “fair” for everyone. I do see anger in her and wonder what a couple hundred of her would look like in my burg…..like Greece I suppose. One thing I would bet on is that she does not know God. Maybe she would she wouldn’t be so angry if she did…..
  
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- BELIEVER N CHRIST
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:30am
  lol shouldn’t a anarchist be apart of the war machine secondly she complains that she wants to see things as they were when she violated the law in the WI. rotunda, so much helpfulness ooohhhh.org.as.im……then spouting eco things not even noticing the hair pins she has bought or the dental fix that she has hhhmmmmm…im just pAUSING TO THINK ABOUT THAT
  
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- hypnos
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:42am
  Why don’t you organize your thoughts along with your hair.
  
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- AMENDMENT
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:42am
  Iran, Syria, Russia, China plan naval drill in Mediterranean. 90,000 soldiers from the four countries will take part in the large-scale maritime war games http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4244395,00.html
  
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- AMENDMENT
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:46am
  Britain stops Russian ship carrying attack helicopters for Syria http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9339933/Britain-stops-Russian-ship-carrying-attack-helicopters-for-Syria.html
  
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- kadster01
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:52am
  I hate to tell you Thistle, honey, but anarchy is the absence of organization.
  “A state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority.”
  
  She looks like she smells really bad. And I might be mistaken, but I thought I caught a glimpse of pit hair. I ain’t sayin’, I’m just sayin’….
  
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- @leftfighter
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:17am
  Thistle? Thistle?!
  
  I think I’ve found her problem. She was raised by brain dead, doped up hippies.
  
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- Bum thrower
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:14am
  Where are the ‘men in the white coats’ when you need them?
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:25am
  This is one of your allies isn’t it JZS?
  
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- TexasHunter
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:29am
  Her view of being organized is chanting in a group “Your sexy, Your cute, Take off that riot suit.” LMFAO America does have life and hope after seeing her video!
  
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- AZRACISTBIGOT
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:00pm
  My idea of hell is to be locked in a room with this woman, together on a dirty mattress while she was laying on my arm and talking to me afterwards.
  
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- SoCaLCapitalist
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:17pm
  A rebel without a clue…
  
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- conservativejon
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:49pm
  poor girl needs her methadone. she is coming off something way to hard.
  
  it must be the media,military,industral,medical,disney,industral….complex that set her up for this interview
  
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- Sparky101
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:49pm
  Just more proof that thistles are ugly, worthless weeds,
  
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- Goodforall
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:57pm
  I am just wondering when she was released from the State Mental ward-the woman hasn’t got a clue! People like her are part of the problem-I guess if we had a better educational system she would have learned what America really is all about, and the Wisconsin elections helped prove that it really is all about we the people. I hope they can just keep showing loons like this-helps to reinforce just how wacked out the left really is.
  
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- getalong
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:28pm
  According to Webster dictionary: Thistle: any of various tall prickly composite plants with often showy heads of tightly-packed tubular flowers. Her parents could not have picked a better name for this woman.
  
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- RajCaj
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:39pm
  @ KevinTampa
  
  Fair analysis……the woman in the interview is angry at the same things (in the most general terms) that many TEA Party folks are angry at. Unfortunately, her camp takes a VERY different method at getting that change.
  
  Change doesn’t come from channeling your rage & anger into a beautiful & poetic chant. Change doesn’t happen when you attempt at setting the Guinness book of world records for the most people holding hands while “Ooomming”.
  
  Change happens when you work with the system you’ve been given, and petition your representatives. If they aren’t “Representing” what the majority in your district are advocating for….then put someone else in that does. IF what you’re advocating for isn’t an ideal held by the majority of your district….then you need to work on the delivery and persuasion of your cause so that the majority DOES agree with you. (BTW…THIS is where the magic of democracy manifests itself, in the back & forth debating of ideas)
  
  There is one other flaw in the OWS / Activist way at going about change. It doesn’t acknowledge the right of others to disagree with their world, nation, or state view of how things should be ran. Their way is the RIGHT way….despite the majority of voters in Wisconsin electing to put Walker in that position of power TWO TIMES.
  
  The problem isn’t the system….it’s your delivery, or ideas.
  
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- SELECT
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:06pm
  have you noticed the liberal pundits say the American people believe as we, the liberals/obozo, do? they are always speaking for us and never getting it right.
  
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mikebri517
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 11:09pm
This woman is stupid and delusional! An anarchist who’s in favor of organization? That makes no sense at all. A true anarchist wants NO government, therefore NO organization! She has no idea what she’s talking about but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised; most people on the left don’t know what they’re talking about but they still talk a lot!

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- wdittgasn
  Posted on June 18, 2012 at 11:44pm
  Quote from the scarecrow, ” some people without brains do an awful lot of talking”. This girl is proof.
  
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- Therightsofbilly
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:48am
  This is what happens when two old hippies name their love child……….”Thistle”
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:01am
  If there was ever any doubt about liberalism/progressivism being a mental disease, it has been sandblasted away by the mouthing of this freak. This is a perfect example of the type of wierdo that inhabits the Democrat party. I am afraid that the only way we are going to get America back is if we physically get rid of these idiots.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:29am
  You noticed that too RIGHTSOFBILLY? Look on the bright side…the drug addled Haight Ashbury refugees could have called her “Briar Patch” (and I just realised after writing that how applicable it is to female hippy grooming standards).
  
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Molly_Pitcher
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 11:08pm
Probably Bath Salts.

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- DIR
  Posted on June 18, 2012 at 11:51pm
  It’s worse than bath salts, It’s liberal methane, the kind that stinks. How would you like to be them and smell that all the time. It’s driven them nuts, not to mention made them light headed. If I were a doctor I tell this nut job to take extra strengh gas x tables and give it a rest. She’s clearly lost it.
  
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Magnum1
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 11:03pm
One could easily watch this clip and conclude that we’re doomed as a society.

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- Quack Addict
  Posted on June 18, 2012 at 11:16pm
  That’s kind of blasphemous they use a Christian song during their loser ‘sing along’. This woman is a toad and was probably told by her mother to get out of the basement and go do something. So she went downtown to moan about life not being fair. meh.
  
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- Belchfire V-8
  Posted on June 18, 2012 at 11:24pm
  We are, read Revelations.
  
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- Southernguy
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:03am
  I agree. It’s just a matter of time.
  
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scout n ambush
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:54pm
Is that a hospital gown she has on if so that explains it all.

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TexasKnight
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:43pm
Remember, she votes. Any more questions on how we got B.O. as president, and if we do not work hard, we will have him for four more.

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- West Coast Patriot
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:14pm
  If you nominate Mitt Romney, you WILL get Obama for four more. The only ones that are going to vote for Mitt are the brainwashed Republicans. There is still time to nominate a true Conservative.
  
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cookcountypatriot
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:42pm
easy thistle…….next time use a clean crack pipe

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Conservative Hippy
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:38pm
Sounds like she hasn’t had a good orgasm in years.

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- paperpushermj
  Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:58pm
  Let me guess …She was a cheerleader in High School before she dropped out.
  
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Superchunk
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:35pm
Was any part of that coherent?

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RebelPatriot
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:34pm
What is sad, there is 70 years of public education and public colleges that will be left after the generation x ers are gone. The greatest generation of freedom fighters and workers will die out and be replaced by socialist brainwashed dimwits like this.

Born in 1965 I will unfortunately be witness to the downfall of our Republic.

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- Southernguy
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:04am
  Born in 59, and I agree. I see it everyday.
  
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- BadgerBenson
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:14am
  @REBELPATRIOT I doubt she’s GenX though. Technically GenX is now in their 30′s and 40′s. Thistle is likely GenY or a Millennial. The Xers once thought to be very liberal are turning out to be libertarians and conservatives – Reagan and Rush babies that have good memories of 80′s. It’s GenY that’s addicted to video games, welfare, drugs, and into all this new age spiritualism and anarchy. Of course, there’s exceptions and you are correct about the disaster of public education on all generations.
  
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QC Ghost
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:33pm
To all leftists, occupiers, union thugs and malcontents
Thank you fellow Wisconsin patriots! What an election!

We couldn’t have done it without you. Without your tantrums, outbursts and boorish behavior we might have stayed home for this election. Without your filthy, pot smoking hemp -headed minions occupying, dirtying and damaging our Capitol we might have been complacent. Without your obnoxious protests, boycotts and other actions from your union playbook, we might have sat this one out.

But you couldn’t hold back. You couldn’t restrain yourselves and behave like adults. You couldn’t accept the 2010 election results. We sat and watched as you erupted in a juvenile hissy fit that embarrassed Wisconsin. The spectacle you created is what motivated us. And thanks to your pathetic behavior, we won. We turned out. Big time!

And now we are organized and energized. Committed. “All in”. And we aren’t going away. We now have our own organizations (no dues required), an army of volunteers and the means to communicate. And countless new sources of funding, including a donor base from all 50 states. And we have “I verify the recall” to ferret out your infiltrators in our future local elections.

(Read the rest at: http://www.qcghost.blogspot.com )

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thedirtmover
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:27pm
Sure she isn’t from Berkeley? This loon could pass for any typical Progressive
in Nevada City Ca.

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- pudssweetie
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 12:01am
  No she is just a student of Joel Rogers who is a professor at UofW.
  
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- pudssweetie
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 12:48am
  Sorry meant that she probably was a student of Joel Rogers who is a professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison. If you don’t know who Joel Rogers is, he is the co-founder of the New Party, a Marxist coalition who endorses and helps elect left wing political candidates. He also helped create the Apollo Alliance and now is the co founder of COWS and are funded through the back door by George Soros.
  
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MrButcher
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:26pm
Anarchists for organization!

hear, hear!

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- StevenNarbonne
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:31pm
  Athiests for God!
  
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Fonz777
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:25pm
anger riding off in all directions

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70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:19pm
Looks like they had a meth party before they went to vote. Liberals are the best anti drug message ever. Don’t do massive drugs for years and expect to have normal children.

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froggy19510
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:11pm
Yak, yak, yak, yak, yak. Poor me. Yak, yak, yak Take over. Yak, yak, yak, Military industrial media complex.Yak, yak, yak Hurt mother earth. Yak, yak, yak, I’m angry. Yak, yak, yak eat McDonalds. Yak, yak, yak, still talking, still talking Yak, yak, yak………………………….poor me…………Yak, yak, yak!
brethe yak some more…………………………fade to black Yak, yak, yak do you hear me? Yak, yak, yak!
These people are so dumb you almost want to feel sorry for them if they wern’t trying to take our rights away.

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Reeferman
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:10pm
Good grief!!!!

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Vanbars
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:03pm
With a name like “Thistle” and a mug like that, I just can’t get myself to open the video. Nothing good could come from it. Doubt even her parents have the nerve. Yikes!!!!

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The Goldsmith
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:02pm
Pippi Longstocking looks like she could use a good bath these days :)

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- demokratikhundscheisse
  Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:25pm
  Ahem, someone needs to tell “Thistle” about under-arm etiquette…..Nair possibly?
  
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country_hick
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:02pm
NOBULL14;

Please don’t insult the Cenobites that way!

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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:17pm
  Alright, I’ll give you credit for the “Hellraiser” reference.
  
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Seth Patriot
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 9:59pm
If we were all anarchists we could shut her up with a good right hook.

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barber2
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 9:57pm
What a sorry group of misfits. Obama’s real base. The angry, the drugged, the “outsiders.” Would be interested to know more about this one woman. She seemed to have some “issues,” some of which , were probably not related to politics. The Democrats seem to be forging an alliance with such “tool ” people. Hopefully, the danger will be visited upon the Democrats for using such people. Sad mess.

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- froggy19510
  Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:13pm
  Usefull idiots.
  
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Tulsa-time
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 9:57pm
She said what she had to say. I reckon. Kinda pretty too.

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- nelbert
  Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:36pm
  She really seems to care…about what, I have no idea.
  
  Tulsa-Time, you’ve got to get out more.
  
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- RLTW
  Posted on June 18, 2012 at 11:09pm
  What a pathetic group of guttersnipes, she claims to have looked at herself and yet somehow I don’t see it. It and her ilk only look to what will make there pathetic lives easier, and if that means sucking off the tax payer in hippie speak it’s just owed them.
  
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mharry860
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 9:56pm
Wow, I cant believe I just wasted 7 minutes of my life.

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nobull14
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 9:54pm
What a major PINHEAD.

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- rukidnme
  Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:09pm
  Pathetic
  
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- RLTW
  Posted on June 18, 2012 at 11:10pm
  Pig face!
  
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