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Have any of my fellow Freepers read Lee Child's Reacher novels, and if so, did you feel like he had a political agenda? The first two I read seemed to have a definite bias against mid-America, but I thought maybe it was coincidental. The one I'm reading now -- "Echo Burning" -- goes out of its way to slam white people, Protestants, and Texans. If Child is a liberal bigot, I want ditch his novels. Anyone here have a feel for the guy?

Earlier today a cherry-picked quote by The Hill made it appear that future House Speaker Boehner had just said he wanted to compromise with Barack Obama. The quote was actually taken out of context from an April interview. Here is what was on Boehner's Facebook page this week: "With two weeks to go before Election Day, let me be clear: if we win a new Majority in Congress, Republicans will not compromise on the will of the people. We will uphold our pledge to focus on cutting spending & stopping the tax hikes, bailouts, & takeovers. We will help create...

Where in the h*ll were the Repubs in Congress when the Dems inserted the 4% tax on homes sold into the government health care takeover bill? I'm so angry about this that I am spitting nails. Where were all of the bold new young gun GOP House leaders? Where was His Ladyship McConnell who bowed to Reid's every whim? Couldn't just one of these negligently nefarious hired hands have read the bill and ferreted out this outrage. It could have been a game-breaker. It could have stopped the bill and exposed the Dems for the greedy, grasping, anti-middle class vultures...

Did anybody else catch that SOB Rove's vicious, vile assault on O'Donnell just now? The Dems are going to be able to pull about 10 TV ads out of that repugnant assault by that repulsive little tub of caca.

I just hit a massive bump on 495 and my car CD stopped working. Won't play. Won't even eject. Do any of my fellow Freepers know what the problem might be? Thanks.

I have a Pit Bull (Duke) who has asked me to help him start "Pit Bulls for Palin." Any other pit bull owners out there who would like to put them in the club?

Does anyone recall a cartoon that appeared over the weekend that showed a newspaper with a headline akin to: "Newspapers Fight Back Against Internet" and a subhead reading "See online edition for full details"?