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  • June 16th, 2009 11: 53 am ET b-b-b-but who is going to protect those innocent, helpless, and powerless Credit Card companies if we consumers are actually given rights? katiec

    Obama wants shield for consumers 2009

  • It is a world in which a person cannot simply say, b-b-b-but a man can't marry a man.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Dr. Sanity 2009

  • Honey, "she continued, in a troubled voice," co'se you know I ain't got educatiom, an 'I ain't claim knowledge; b-b-b-but ain't you better study on it good' fo 'we goes ter dis heah new country?

    Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

  • Monday, April 20, 2009 at 4: 48 pm b-b-b-but I thought pirates were those "sixteen or seventeen year old Black kids" that our newest Black Activist cum Leader of the Conservative movement cum, well, just plain come, when it comes to teabagging, if you know what I mean, said when he accused Obama of killing 'em simply because they were Doing Whatever it Was they Were Doing While Black.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2009

  • Newspaper letters to the editor pages can be so predictable; Obama this, b-b-b-but Bush that, old ...

    Latest News - UPI.com 2009

  • Newspaper letters to the editor pages can be so predictable; Obama this, b-b-b-but Bush that, old ...

    Latest News - UPI.com 2009

  • I concur, so bring home the troops, all of them. (and the cries of b-b-b-but it's not safe yet, it will be chaos if we bring them all back, in 5, 4, 3, 2, ....) some14some at 07: 54 AM JST - 11th September

    Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion 2008

  • "My heart was teched f'om de fus't, baby," said mammy, presently, wiping her eyes; "b-b-b-but look heah, honey, I'd -- I'd be wuss'n a hycoprite ef I let dat noble ole black 'oman, de way you done specified

    Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

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