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P. J. O'Rourke
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts To Explain The Entire U. S. Government
Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991
1 posted on 12/08/2001 1:22:36 PM PST by EveningStar (k3w@earthlink.net)
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To: EveningStar
The quid pro quo is the vote of the recipient of the “gifts” that were taken from under my tree.
2 posted on 12/08/2001 1:31:21 PM PST by Kay Soze
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To: EveningStar
Your God is too small.
3 posted on 12/08/2001 1:35:55 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin
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To: EveningStar
pjorourke.com
4 posted on 12/08/2001 1:38:56 PM PST by Deadeye Division
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To: EveningStar
The W.F. Buckley for those of us who loved Lampoon in the 70's and then grew up an got jobs and voted for Mulroney/Reagan/Thatcher.

P.J. is a national treasure.

Please don't drive fast on drugs while not spilling your drink. If you haven't read the following you've never seen the whole P.J.

P.J.'s Geatest

5 posted on 12/08/2001 1:44:35 PM PST by mitchbert
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To: EveningStar
Santa A Democrat huh?

Santa works one day a year.

Santa confines small unpaid Polar American servants to do his biding and tells them he is helping them.

Santa takes advantage of a rare species of draft animal to pull his load and allow those animals free reign on your property.

Santa wants small children to sit on his lap.

Santa makes promises to children he knows have little chance of being kept.

Santa sneaks into peoples houses and slinks into the children's rooms.

Santa claims that all the gifts under the tree each year are from him.

Maybe he is a Democrat.

6 posted on 12/08/2001 1:54:13 PM PST by HighWheeler
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To: EveningStar
ON THE RISE OF WOMEN: "Women are successful in the business world because the business world was created by men. Men are babies. And women are…Good With Kids."
7 posted on 12/08/2001 2:00:07 PM PST by billorites
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To: EveningStar
I'm tired of paying the milk and cookie tax!
10 posted on 12/08/2001 2:20:14 PM PST by arielb
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To: EveningStar
I visualize God as a gigantic muscular man with the head of an Eagle. Now there's a God you have to respect. :^)
11 posted on 12/08/2001 2:21:17 PM PST by Eternal_Bear
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To: EveningStar
. He gives everyone everything they want without the thought of quid pro quo.

At least we know now that Bill Clinton ain't Santa Claus!

13 posted on 12/08/2001 2:52:42 PM PST by ladyinred
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To: EveningStar
PJ bump! Santa used to be a tough guy. Kids around the world really did try to behave near Christmas so they'd get a present and not the dreaded lump of coal.

I mentioned coal at the drug store the other day, said my brother deserved a lump, and the 20ish cashier had never heard of Santa giving coal for the "naughty" kids on his list.

My brother sent me a Christmas card that sums up my thoughts re. Santa: There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe in Santa, and Communists! (^:

17 posted on 12/08/2001 3:50:01 PM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl
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To: EveningStar
Why God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat..could you translate this into chingbolo, please
18 posted on 12/08/2001 3:53:43 PM PST by exmoor
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To: EveningStar
From an old /usr/games/fortune/fortunes.dat file [posting from memory]: Santa wears a read suit. Must be a communist. And that beard--must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe he's smoking?
19 posted on 12/08/2001 8:02:20 PM PST by supercat
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To: EveningStar
He has little apparent concern for the material well being of the disadvantaged.

Must be an Old Testament God. Jesus Christ showed great concern for the poor.

22 posted on 12/08/2003 4:20:24 PM PST by Looking for Diogenes
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"and he's famously generous to the poor"

PJ has Santa Claus mixed up with Robin Hood, I think. Santa Claus gives way more stuff to rich kids than he does to poor ones.

'Come to think of it, maybe I'm wrong, the Democrats don't give stuff to poor kids either, they give it to rich bureaucracies, the ultimate rich entity.

24 posted on 12/08/2003 4:51:06 PM PST by Sam Cree (democrats are herd animals)
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Bumping an oldie but timeless goodie. :)


25 posted on 07/02/2008 9:11:00 AM PDT by Matchett-PI ("It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." - Voltaire)
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26 posted on 12/14/2011 8:41:34 PM PST by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger than yours)
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To: FBD

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27 posted on 12/14/2011 8:41:51 PM PST by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger than yours)
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28 posted on 12/24/2012 11:23:36 AM PST by Matchett-PI (Obama's Shuck and Jive Ends With Benghazi Lies ~ Sarah Palin)
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29 posted on 12/24/2012 11:24:50 AM PST by Matchett-PI (Obama's Shuck and Jive Ends With Benghazi Lies ~ Sarah Palin)
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To: EveningStar
There's nothing new under the sun.

Merry Christmas!

30 posted on 12/24/2014 6:30:21 AM PST by Disambiguator
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