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Yay, I actually did think of that line but half an hour after rot becuase I was too busy working and now some poor secretary is gonna get BTKed in pennance nominated the winner this week.
COMMENTS OF THE WEEK 2008
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Its beginning to look like that and that a few years of socialist 'pennance' is ahead of us to pay for our past sins ...
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She (and the inevitable hordes that will follow) are looking for some cheap pennance and a place to hang out … … …. .until the next groovy thing comes along.
These ‘I regret my 2008 vote’ pieces are going to be excruciating… | RedState 2010
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I'm certain the guilt I feel is pennance enough for whatever 'bad mothering' I commit on a regular basis.
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Prayer pennance and continuing to spread accurate information about abortion is the slower path but slavery was once legal and gradually people came to realise what a gross abuse of human rights it was and change was achieved.
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We have a custom between us of knocking on cottage doors in the new towns that grew up after their death, and practicing on who lives there whatever new expressions of pennance we have recently devised.
Book of Genesis 2010
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Obama, like Carter in 1976, may be our pennance for having re-elected Bush in 2004.
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Temperature averaging of this type can be physically meaningless, as explained at pennance. us/?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Temperature averaging of this type can be physically meaningless, as explained at pennance. us/?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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He needs to do some sort of pennance for what he did to the president.
Joe The Nerd Ferraro: Joe Wilson: Don't Censure - Take His Time 2009
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