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The City of Chicago, led by Mayor Daley and a vast and tumorous army of aldermen and bagmen and yesmen and opportunists and spineless, parasitic political-machine halfwits of forms never seen outside the roiling cesspool of governmental slop-trough greed, has proven itself unworthy of something as potentially delicious and fulfilling as the 2016 Olympic Games.
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The City of Chicago, led by Mayor Daley and a vast and tumorous army of aldermen and bagmen and yesmen and opportunists and spineless, parasitic political-machine halfwits of forms never seen outside the roiling cesspool of governmental slop-trough greed, has proven itself unworthy of something as potentially delicious and fulfilling as the 2016 Olympic Games.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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When the teabaggers float dreams of becoming a new party, what they fail to realize is that Bob Barr, Ron Paul* and the Libertarian party are already out there, having laid the local political-machine groundwork for decades and crafting a self-consistent platform that really is what they claim to be for: actually advocating smaller government and stronger individual rights.
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Cory Booker, on the other hand, has eschewed this kind of old-school, political-machine fundraising.
Archive 2007-02-01 Dan 2007
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Cory Booker, on the other hand, has eschewed this kind of old-school, political-machine fundraising.
Hiring during a hiring freeze...and fundraising tactics Dan 2007
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Bored Federal Government meat inspectors and itchy-fingered political-machine patronage kibitzers from the City Department of Health oversaw this market, which supplied most of the meat and produce that reached the tables of three million Brooklynites every day.
Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003
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Bored Federal Government meat inspectors and itchy-fingered political-machine patronage kibitzers from the City Department of Health oversaw this market, which supplied most of the meat and produce that reached the tables of three million Brooklynites every day.
Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003
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Bored Federal Government meat inspectors and itchy-fingered political-machine patronage kibitzers from the City Department of Health oversaw this market, which supplied most of the meat and produce that reached the tables of three million Brooklynites every day.
Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003
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Bored Federal Government meat inspectors and itchy-fingered political-machine patronage kibitzers from the City Department of Health oversaw this market, which supplied most of the meat and produce that reached the tables of three million Brooklynites every day.
Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003
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Her force of game wardens is not a political-machine force.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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