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Would the DNC or OFA or any organization have to spend a nickel of their money to refute this imbecile's "bought book" i. e paid ghost written, if CNN didn't spend their time putting a picture a day of her ontheir website?
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The legality of openly carrying firearms to a Presidential appearance should serve as a warm consolation to the armed imbecile's family when a backfiring automobile prompts a Secret Service sherpshooter to put a round into his brain stem.
When 1st and 2nd Amendment Conflict: Protests, Guns and Double Standards 2009
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The legality of openly carrying firearms to a Presidential appearance should serve as a warm consolation to the armed imbecile's family when a backfiring automobile prompts a Secret Service sherpshooter to put a round into his brain stem.
When 1st and 2nd Amendment Conflict: Protests, Guns and Double Standards 2009
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It is quite common that when things carry on for a while, one loses sight of their origins because there are always imbeciles in the two opposing trenches to stir up the flames: in the western trench, the imbecile's award goes to Calderoli, a minister in Berlusconi's government, who announced that he was going to wear shirts with the cartoons printed on them.
Totem And Task 2006
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But in that hell of golden, agonizing sound I could hear nothing -- I could only see his gaping mouth and his frothy, flaccid lips, loose and writhing like an imbecile's.
The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005
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He seemed shackled with mighty chains and his limbs responded sluggishly, like an imbecile's.
The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005
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The next statement seems to fortify suspicions that if you shine a beam of light through this imbecile's left ear, it travels unimpeded and exits through the right.
Transcript of a Phil Donahue Show about Hackers from P-80 Systems 1985
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Her nature was so eager and so active, and seemed to be so perpetually fretting her body and mind, that anyone seeing her in middle life would have been inclined to prophesy that such agitations must wear her out prematurely and that she had only a short life before her, or else an imbecile's end.
The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922
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It was one of those head-gears of composite order, in which we can find traces of the bearskin, shako, billycock hat, sealskin cap, and cotton night-cap; one of those poor things, in fine, whose dumb ugliness has depths of expression, like an imbecile's face.
Madame Bovary 1902
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Had the imbecile's talk of voices got on to his nerves?
Thoroughbreds William Alexander Fraser 1896
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